The Green New Deal and automation

This letter was published in the Guardian on 4 May 2018: John Harris is right to say the left has articulated no comprehensive answer to the existing and future threats posed to employment by automation. Key to this must be prioritising labour-intensive sectors that...

Coming Soon: a Green New Deal 10 years after report

The Green New Deal group came together in 2007 because its members were all convinced that a huge economic downturn was imminent and that one answer to it would be a Green New Deal to fund green infrastructure that could help tackle climate change and generate, jobs...

Brexit offers an opportunity for the Green New Deal

Reposted from Tax Research UK and written by Green New Deal member Richard Murphy: The Guardian has something decidedly right in its editorial today, saying: When running for the Labour leadership, Jeremy Corbyn wanted a “people’s quantitative easing” to boost the...