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By David Joyce, International Officer at the Irish Congress of Trade Unions.
Two major upcoming major international meetings will take place against a background of growing global unemployment and inequality and major set-backs on economic development in countries across the globe. High level Government delegates will gather for The United Nations Summit, to review progress on the...
Back at the beginning of October, we teamed up with Compass and the Cooperative Party to hold a packed fringe meeting at the Labour Party conference entitled: Ideas for a fairer Economy.
The panel included Chris Leslie MP (Shadow Financial Secretary to the Treasury), Polly Toynbee (The Guardian), Frances O’...
By former Conservative MEP Margaret Daly
The recession may be technically over but my concern is that the current austerity orthodoxy may be too narrowly focused.
Let's face it, the old status quo failed and was abused by the financial few at the expense of national exchequers and the tax-paying many. It's time to look at the wider issues behind the financial crisis and reflect on what radical new financial structures could...
By Avinash Persaud, Senior Fellow at London Business School and chairman of Intelligence Capital.
Before the end of 2012, it is likely that 9 EU Member countries will invoke the “Enhanced Co-operation Procedure” and move ahead with a Financial Transactions Tax (FTT), that, if...
