Finance and debt

世界の最貧国の一部では、政府の多額の債務のせいで公共サービスが枯渇しつつあると、ジュビリー債務キャンペーンが警告しています。

We now need transformative policies able to open a new horizon, without poverty, with less inequality, without destroying our natural environment. Our new situation requires an urgent reflection on power relations and concrete alternatives, central to which is the reconceptualisation of social protection in terms of commons.

Since the financial crash of 2008, followers of mainstream economic dogma haven't changed their tune much. But an ever-growing legion of dissenting economists are challenging these cherished myths, as summarised by the New Internationalist in a classic edition of the magazine from December 2015.

World Basic Income (WBI) is a campaign organisation with a proposal to achieve greater social justice through the provision of unconditional cash transfers. World basic income differs from national-level basic income initiatives in that it would gather money at the global level, and distribute it to every person worldwide.

The route to reducing inequality is not through generating more philanthropic endeavour, but rather through transformative solutions that rely on sacrifice and sharing—hence altering the production and distribution of wealth and power in fundamental ways, argues Michael Edwards in openDemocracy.

私たちがどう軍事的脅威を優先しそれにどう対応するかについての深い再考が必要です。もし私たちが健全な地球、正義、平和及び民主主義を望むなら、現代の紛争の原因に対処し、協力と外交を促進し、尊厳ある健康的生活を探求するすべての人を支持する２１世紀の安全保障のアジェンダが必要であると、デビッド・コーテンは語ります。