The Compass Annual Gathering (AGM) is just around the corner (June 21st), and if you are planning on attending or want to get involved please give this post a read.…
04 Jun, 2014
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How would a Good Society look and feel? And how do we move towards it? Read our blog, comment, share and get involved in the debate.
02 Jun, 2014
Imagining a new peoples party
Its been an interesting couple of weeks in the UK. We’ve seen some of the world’s most powerful people get together to talk about something called ‘Inclusive’ Capitalism and we’ve…
30 May, 2014
Life After Work
This fascinating blog is from a roundtable discussion on work, precarity and gender. It is a cross-post from issue 56 of Soundings - click here for more information on the journal…
27 May, 2014
Post-election statement: Leaving the 20th century
The weekend’s election results reveal politics in a state of flux - change is in the air and we need to understand why and what we do about it. On…
09 May, 2014
A Different Europe
Click here to read 'A Different Europe' With European elections less than two weeks away and Ukip’s lead in the polls, we have to reframe the debate around Europe and…
08 May, 2014
Our social recession
Every day at the moment seems to bring another nagging question about exactly what sort recovery this is turning out to be. One day this week alone, my Guardian colleague…
08 May, 2014
My life below the minimum wage
My name is Sarah and I have been working on and off as a waitress for almost 10 years. I have worked in nine restaurants in Scotland: two in Glasgow,…
06 May, 2014
Our current projects
With our Gathering (AGM) fast approaching we thought we'd make sure that you are kept in the loop with all the projects we are undertaking. If you'd like to get…
15 Apr, 2014
The Bridge response – liberation or oppression?
Something big is happening. We have moved from a mechanical world based on manufacturing usually within national boundaries to a global economy based on the creation and distribution of knowledge.…
02 Apr, 2014
Collectivity in an Age of Individualism
Jeremy Gilbert introduces his new book Common Ground: Democracy and Collectivity in an Age of Individualism My book Common Ground tries to do a number of things at the same…
01 Apr, 2014
We need to talk about solidarity
‘We all belong to the same society, and we all have a stake in making it better. There is no “them” and “us”' - there is us. We are all…
26 Mar, 2014
Left Unity will recapture the spirit of ’45 for the 99%
Thousands lined the streets to pay tribute to the late, great Bob Crow on Monday. With even his opponents gushing praise for a trade union leader who fought hard for…