Basic Income: progressive cloak and neoliberal dagger

Basic Income: progressive cloak and neoliberal dagger

The UK economy in the aftermath of the financial crisis. Photo: Gresham College BI is not an answer to inequality under neoliberalism – social transformation will come through collective struggle, argues John Clarke

For almost three decades, the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) has been fighting against neoliberal austerity, especially that aspect of it that has involved systematically degrading systems of income support. The underlying motive in this attack has been to render benefit provision as inadequate and precarious as possible so as to create the desperation that can drive people into the expanding low wage sector.

In this situation, […]

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