Restoring our shared humanity isn’t easy, not least because powerful interests – from media outlets to politicians – relentlessly seek to undermine it. But it is the only hope for a troubled world. Owen Jones Read Quote
Turkey’s regime is fast degenerating into outright dictatorship, emboldened by the imminent ascent of Donald Trump to the most powerful position on Earth. Owen Jones Read Quote
Democracy is a bundle of rights and freedoms wrestled from the powerful. Our rulers only surrender their power when compelled to – when the cost of resisting pressure from below becomes greater than the cost of giving ground to it. Owen Jones Read Quote
Our social model means economic growth all too often involves concentrating wealth produced by the many into the bank accounts of the few, without improving the lives of the majority. Owen Jones Read Quote
So much of our lives is surrendered to subordinating ourselves to the needs and whims of others, turning human beings into cash cows rather than independent, well-rounded individuals. Owen Jones Read Quote
Increased public ownership of the economy should be structured to create more worker self-management and control. Owen Jones Read Quote
From a genuine living wage to a mass housebuilding programme and strong workers’ and trade unions rights preventing a race to the bottom, our answers to the grievances that help drive anti-immigrant sentiment must be front and centre. Owen Jones Read Quote
Britain’s police force is institutionally racist. This was the judgement of the 1999 Macpherson report, and it remains the case. Owen Jones Read Quote
