Concerns about economic injustice lie at the heart of Occupy London.
The economics working group (EWG) comprises an ideologically broad tent – socialists rub shoulders with free marketeers and libertarians.
We are all here because we believe our economic system is broken, that it is not serving the 99% and we need to fix it – we just all have very different ideas about how to achieve this. We accept and welcome the differences between us as we stand united against corruption and corporate greed.
Our aim is to explore in more depth the issues of austerity, bailouts and economic injustice, which feature in our initial statement. Using these as a springboard for further discussion, we hammered out five key areas of debate for further exploration and would welcome the input of Comment is free readers as we expand on these points and try to reach a consensus to take to the general assembly.
We welcome your ideas and your analysis and urge you to join with us in our debate.
The five key areas of debate
1. How can banks be held accountable to society and what does this mean?
2. Why current austerity measures are not the answer.
3. Why the current economic system is not sustainable.
4. How can we reduce economic inequality and what does this mean in terms of tax reform?
5. What constitutes independent and effective regulation?
We'll be discussing suggestions from this thread at our next working group meeting. May the discussion begin …
