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Delivering justice in a Deliveroo world
Our case is the biggest in employment law in a generation, fighting for basic rights like paid annual leave and the minimum wage.
Changing power and local decision making in Newcastle: part 1
How can local communities have more control over the decisions currently made on their behalf? The first of three workshops.
Unilateral social responsibility from tech companies: enhancing democracy or benevolent dictatorship?
There’s no hiding the power that has accrued to tech companies. As they take action to temper the social issues arising from their platforms is self-regulation enough?
Britain, meet Bolivia: what can social movements learn from each other?
Bolivia has a deep history of resistance. After over 500 years of colonisation, it continues to be home to the largest and most diverse indigenous population in the continent, with 36 different indigenous peoples officially recorded. At the turn of the millennium movements successfully took on both a multinational corporation and a President – paving the way for the election of the incumbent Movimiento Al Socialismo (MAS) and the country's first indigenous President in 2005.
VIDEO: What became of the Big Society?
Who remembers the Big Society? Launched to great fanfare at the start of 2010, the Big Society was David Cameron’s big idea to create more social action, empower communities and open up public services. Seven years on, what is the legacy of the Big Society agenda, and what impact has it had in communities? In Sunderland, …
The gaping hole in the Trade Bill
Liam Fox announced a Trade Bill this morning, the day after a consultation on proposals to be included in the bill closed. What is most vital is what is missing from the bill – the absence of anything to ensure that trade policy is accountable to the public and parliament. Trade deals today have profound …
Reasons to be cheerful
THE NEW POLITICAL CLIMATE MEANS ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE All times are tough for the social sector; and so they should be. Charities don’t have a right to exist and we thrive on the tension that comes from living on the edge (I can say this now I’m no longer in daily charge of a charity). …
It’s time to rediscover Homo Cívica
Any discussion of the future of civil society needs to start by acknowledging the demise of Homo Cívica – the civic human and reduction of our societal roles to labour, voter and consumer. Any viable future needs to framed about rebuilding and re-expanding the role of citizen beyond the provision and capacity of labour, consumption …
The draconian Lobbying Act must be reformed. Here are three simple ways to improve it
It’s not often that you see the entire sector come together with a united voice. Yet on Tuesday, that is exactly what happened. What’s everyone reacting to? It’s the Lobbying Act. When the Act was brought into force in 2014, it was said that the aim was to tackle unfair lobbying by big corporations. But …