Publications: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung London Office

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Amardeep Singh Dhillon (December 2022): The 2019 election defeat of Corbyn’s Labour Party marked the beginning of a new era for the British Left, as the fragile coalitions which had cohered around the hope of a social democratic Labour government shattered. As the Left reoriented itself within Labour, trade unions and social movements, seismic events including the pandemic, increased state and police repression, and the so-called cost of living crisis presented challenges as well as opportunities for new modes of organisation. With levels of industrial militancy not seen in a generation, and glimpses of new organisational infrastructures having developed, among others, around COP, Kill the Bill and the cost of living crisis, there is evidence of a proactive, collective reorientation of the left beyond the defeat of Corbynism.

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Jeevun Sandher & Daniel Button (2023): Investing in our care workforce will address unmet care needs. It will also have other knock-on economic, environmental and equality benefits. Raising pay and conditions in this low-paid sector will lead to higher wages and employment, especially in more deprived areas. Care jobs are also green jobs, meaning they emit less carbon than other forms of work. As women undertake the majority of paid and unpaid care work, an expanded and better-paid care workforce will also help to reduce gender inequality.

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Daniel Allington, Harry Shukman, William Galinsky and Rachel Briscoe (2023): The spread of online misinformation is a key concern in a digitally-permeated society, prompting fears that engagement with it can lead, particularly among young people, to radicalisation and inter-group hate. This paper assesses the scale of the problem, and examines a range of tools and techniques intended to mitigate its impact, from online fact-checking services and content warnings to interfaith dialogue and state-mandated educational programmes. The most promising methods of confronting misinformation are likely those that engage people in the real-world and build lasting relationships across community divides beyond the internet. Interventions that take place solely online, on the other hand, are yet to deliver robust and easily scalable impacts.

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Seema Syeda & Titus Molkenbur (2023): The far right is organising internationally to build a globally connected movement of ethno-nationalists that share Muslim communities as a common target. The left and progressive response must also be international.

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Stephen Frost, Becca Massey-Chase, Luke Murphy (2022): At COP27 and COP15 global leaders had the opportunity to set out a new vision for transport, one that would protect and restore nature, rapidly reduce carbon emissions and be fair to all. By over emphasising the role of electric vehicles in the future of the transport system, they are limiting the progress we can secure this decade and making it harder to keep 1.5 degrees within reach. This blog shines a light on UK and Germany in particular and argues that both must show bolder leadership on this agenda and commit to a transformative, equitable vision for transport.

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Sam Alvis & Luke Murphy (December 2022): The UK drastically needs to reduce carbon emissions and address biodiversity

loss. Meanwhile, the public, staring down the barrel of soaring costs and economic headwinds are looking for tangible improvements to their everyday lives and local environments. This is why, last year, IPPR’s Environmental Justice Commission proposed a £300 billion 10-year package of investment, rooted in fairness to transform the environment, the economy, and wellbeing.

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David Baldock (2022): There are a number of possible paths for EU-UK cooperation on environmental regulation, including dynamic alignment with EU law at one extreme and systematic departure from EU standards at the other. The UK has duplicated some regulatory mechanisms, though little strategy on environmental policy had emerged until the publication of the Retained EU law (Revocation and Reform) Bill, which would repeal all EU law by the end of 2023. The creation of a dedicated forum for environmental EU-UK cooperation, or rejoining the EEA, could present steps towards a robust maintenance of environmental standards on both sides of the channel.

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Rosa Crawford (2022): The UK-EU Trade & Cooperation Agreement contained enforceable commitments for governments to maintain high standards of employment and social rights, and environmental and climate standards.

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Frances Foley (2022): Authored by Frances Foley, Deputy Director of Compass, and with a foreword by Lisa Nandy MP, the Shadow Levelling Up Secretary, this publication details the ways in which the UK can learn from Germany in order to rebuild and restructure the economy to ensure that it works for everyone.

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Yasser Louati & Seema Syeda (2022): From far-right politicians entering the mainstream to long-term systemic discrimination in employment, housing, education, sport and services, Muslims are one of Europe's most targeted populations. Laïcité, which is hailed as one of France's cornerstone values, has become an ideological tool to target the presence of Muslims in the French public space.

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A New Cycle of Struggle: The British Left Post-Corbyn

A Care Workforce Fit for Britain

Canaries in the Coalmine: Building Resilience to Online Misinformation among Young People in the UK

Mainstream and Far Right Islamophobia: A UK-Germany Comparison

Developed economies must be bolder to deliver a fair transition for transport

Green Investment: The Prudent Choice for Prosperity

Environmental Regulation in the UK after Brexit

Beyond Brexit: Promoting Workers' Rights, Decent Jobs, and Standards Through UK-EU Domestic Advisory Groups

We'll Have What They're Having: How Decentralisation in Germany Created the Conditions for "The Great Transformation"

Islamophobia in France: Lessons for the UK and Europe

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