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The Commons Transition Primer

Article / 22nd December 2017

A new dedicated website by the P2P Foundation explains the meaning of and relationship between the Commons and peer-to-peer (P2P) frameworks, and details how a growing movement for a commons transition is poised to reinvigorate labor, politics, production, and carework – from both an interpersonal and environmental perspective.

"American Dream is rapidly becoming American Illusion," warns UN rights expert on poverty

Report / 18th December 2017

The United States, one of the world’s richest nations and the “land of opportunity”, is fast becoming a champion of inequality, according to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Philip Alston.

How Orwell used wartime rationing to argue for global justice

Blog / 15th December 2017

Innumerable observers have noted that the so-called developed world accounts for a disproportionate share of the world’s resources. Yet even those of us who find global inequality troubling and ultimately indefensible hesitate to raise the subject. Unlike George Orwell, that is, whose support for war-time rationing revealed his motivations towards justice at a global scale, writes Bruce Robbins.

World's richest 0.1% have boosted their wealth by as much as poorest half

Article / 14th December 2017

The richest 0.1% of the world’s population have increased their combined wealth by as much as the poorest 50% – or 3.8 billion people – since 1980, according to a report detailing the widening gap between the very rich and poor.

Half the world lacks access to essential health services, 100 million still pushed into extreme poverty because of health expenses

Article / 14th December 2017

At least half of the world’s population cannot obtain essential health services, according to a new report from the World Bank and the World Health Organization.