Sentences with phrase «economic democracy»

The most fundamental reform to bring about economic democracy is not in the realm of government spending, important as that continues to be.

While there has been cross-partisan interest in furthering economic democracy in these straightened times, within Britain these efforts have been relatively piece meal thus far.

And is it too much to say that we are seeing the end of economic democracy and the emergence of a financial oligarchy — a self - serving class whose actions threaten to...

Hers is a «better late than never» proposal: economic strength in Britain built on economic democracy.

Brandon King is an anti-authoritarian black radical engaged in the process of building economic democracy, defending human rights, moving towards social and cultural transformation.

Faced with the apparent absence of a functioning new economic paradigm, parties have been looking increasingly to the possibilities presented by economic democracy.

«Instead we need decent employment rights; strong unions with the freedom to organise, and a bit more economic democracy.

So long as we live under this corporate capitalist system we have little choice but to go along in this destruction, to keep pouring on the gas instead of slamming on the brakes, and that the only alternative — impossible as this may seem right now — is to overthrow this global economic system and all of the governments of the 1 % that prop it up and replace them with a global economic democracy, a radical bottom - up political democracy, an eco-socialist civilization.

Republicanism could provide the framework for such a move to bring economic democracy to scale.

Others suggest that «It's economic democracy in action.

They would build an ecological socialism based on economic democracy — cooperatives, public enterprises, public planning, and markets free of monopoly profiteering and predatory finance — in order to provide a decent standard of living for all on an ecologically sustainable basis.

«My goal is to launch a different argument about what kind of America we want to live in, what kind of New York we want to live in, not what kind of New York we will settle to live in,» Teachout said in her speech to the convention, stressing themes of economic democracy, checks on corporate power and support for family farms and small businesses.

If you leave things a lot better than you found it, if you build community and alliance, you can do a lot as far as inclusivity, diversity or social and economic democracy.»

To a late 20th - century church that speaks about «economic democracy» and «solidarity with the poor,» these may seem like modest goals, morally speaking.

In a pluralist system of political and economic democracy, each and every one may enter into the free competition of ideas, but he who claims an absolute truth threatens the foundations of the very system: he is a potential fascist.»

The second problem is not one of attitude but is rather a glaring and dangerous disparity that we act as if we are blind to.2 When our nation began there existed an economic democracy and equal opportunity because of the high value of labor and the availability of land for those willing to work it.

Again, the system never worked in practice as it was blueprinted in theory, in considerable measure because of the deficiency in economic democracy.

For adults, it is more likely to be praiseworthy but finite goods such as family values, racial justice and economic democracy.

O'Grady's commitment to economic democracy is welcome, as is her ability to act as a figurehead for women and the struggle against a feminized recession.

Howie is a socialist who believes self - organization, independent political action, and international solidarity by the working class and oppressed people for full political and economic democracy is the way to build a society of freedom, equality, solidarity, peace, and ecological sustainability.

The Green Party would use progressive taxation, public goods and services, and economic democracy to turn around the growing inequality of wealth, income and political power and the acceleration toward climate catastrophe.

Before the meeting I sent Miliband a document I entitled «Two Lanes on the Third Way» pdf (95.5 kB), in which I argued that since «when we increase the capacity of others to help themselves, we also increase their capacity to help us» the Labour government should embrace proportional representation and economic democracy.

Many in the CfS support federalism, and believe both the Scottish and UK parties need to use the opportunity provided by the constitutional hiatus (and Brexit) to, as one says, «put forward a serious proposal for a federal UK that should be directly connected to the economic democracy agenda».

The Green Party advocates for civil rights and liberties, participatory political and economic democracy, demilitarization and the abolition of war, and a sustainable environment.

It proposes a vision called Radical Ecological Democracy, with elements of direct political and economic democracy, localization embedded within ecoregional linkages and planning, sustainable and equitable provisioning of basic needs (water, food, shelter, energy, sanitation, learning and health), and other elements towards a sustainable and equitable future.

Credit unions are an economic democracy.

Credit unions are economic democracy.

Credit unions are economic democracies.