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  • 1 Oct 2011
    Faith groups challenge government on Robin Hood tax

    Faith groups associated with the Robin Hood Tax Campaign are urging the UK government to change tack on an EU financial transaction tax.

  • 22 Sep 2011
    Quaker conference to tackle economic justice

    Quakers in Britain says that people and society are being geared to supporting economic systems, rather than the other way round.

  • 22 Aug 2011
    Making finance ethical and sustainable

    Many economic commentators, and those working in banking and finance, thought that the worst of the global economic recession had gone away. They were wrong. It looks to be back with a vengeance.

  • 15 Aug 2011
    Faith in taxation?

    In most religious traditions there is a commitment to giving money to the poor, and more radically to various kinds of economic sharing within communities.

  • 8 Aug 2011
    Trade unions call for global economic summit to avert crisis

    Global union leaders have called on G20 leaders to convene an emergency Summit to regulate the markets and avert a world economic collapse.

  • 2 Aug 2011
    Greens say that the world economy is being 'held to ransom'

    The Green Party has questioned the viability and legitimacy of a world financial system that is being held to ransom by a few people in a single country.

  • 29 Mar 2011
    St Paul's Cathedral hosts Robin Hood Tax debate

    A debate on 29 March has asked how far banks have a responsibility to contribute to the common good, and if the proposed Robin Hood Tax is the solution.

  • 27 Mar 2011
    Cooperating around alternatives to a cuts-based economic strategy

    This short film by Oonagh Cousins highlights, in accessible terms, what 'the alternative' to the current recessionary government trajectory looks like - and introduces some of the key players - including political economist Ann Pettifor (who is involved in the 'Green New Deal' group, and writes for Ekklesia among others), UK Uncut, the Robin Hood Tax Campaign initiative, False Economy, and others.

  • 25 Mar 2011
    Cuts are about ideology, not the deficit

    The 2011 Budget offers useful cover for the central deceit of the government’s economic strategy, says Simon Barrow – which is that massive cuts in the public sector and in the local and national state are “unavoidable” and “necessary” to eliminate Britain’s massive deficit.

  • 23 Mar 2011
    A budget from another planet

    Those who have learned their lines as the government intends might think they have been dealt a good, or at least unavoidable budget yesterday. However, many of us are profoundly sceptical of the twin tropes which Messrs Cameron and Osborne have been repeating endlessly in the hope that they will somehow become the backdrop of our thinking.