How to achieve a “society of equals”

Graeme Cooke writes in Progress Magazine about Open Left’s new report about equality and how best to achieve it.

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Power to the people – and trust them too

Writing in today’s Times, James Purnell asks what it would look like if, when politicians talked about empowerment, they really meant – and how this “could inspire a radical Labour manifesto” in relation to schools, democracy and the economy.

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We mean power

What if when politicians talked about empowerment thay really meant it? We Mean Power: ideas about the future of the Left, edited by James Purnell and Graeme Cooke, and published today by Open Left, offers an answer to that question. It argues that the goal for the centre-Left should be a Britain of powerful people in a reciprocal society.

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Revisiting the market and state balance

Anthony Painter and Ali Moussavi look at why Labour’s opponents have misjudged the boundaries between the market and state and what the centre-left should consider in renewing itself after the financial crisis.

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A society of equals – Labour and equality

Labour needs to broaden and deepen its attack on inequality, by combining the state’s essential role in redistributing resources with the pursuit of ‘active equality’, where people have the real power to act together to bring about change. That’s the message from ‘A Society of Equals’, a new Open Left report published today.

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Back to Work Britain – Graeme Cooke

In the latest edition of Progress magazine, Graeme Cooke, Head of Open Left, sets out the arguments and ideas which Labour should use to demonstrate its commitment to reforming welfare and improving work in Britain.

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