STWR - Share The World's Resources

Susan George calls for a convergence of the global justice, environmental and peace movements to exert democratic control over international politics - which is currently dominated by an un-elected minority from the corporate sector.

The future of the world’s water supplies is contested between campaigners that understand water as a basic human right, and corporations that see 'blue gold' as a profitable commodity - leading to a crisis that can only be resolved if water is reclaimed as a public trust and sustainably shared.

The G20 summit has provoked a mass mobilisation of campaigners for global justice, whose emerging coalitions may play a key role in shaping the politics of the post-crisis era. Some leading figures make their case.

The European Union response to increasing numbers of desperate migrants attempting to enter its borders has been to tighten security and close its borders. Would a better solution be to analyse the factors that made them move in the first place? By Susan George.

Water is the dream capitalist product, with inbuilt scarcity and rarity, indispensibility to human life, and no possible substitutes. All the more reason that this universal good should be placed under democratic control and allocated fairly, says Susan George.

The global financial crisis provides a unique opportunity to change, quickly and profoundly, the way the majority thinks and feels and acts. I can see only one way out: the coming together of people, business and government in a new incarnation of the Keynesian war economy strategy, says Susan George.

At a time when supposed “progress’ is controlled by transnational corporations, the struggle for human emancipation requires perseverance and transnational political organization to be able to control the corporations that seek to control us.

As we approach the fifth anniversary of the Iraq war, let us recognise concretely that our movements will either succeed together, or fail separately, says Susan George.

The lack of democracy at international level is giving capital a free reign and devastating the environment. Might Keynesianism, which became politically acceptable post World War II, be the only feasible way to save the planet, asks Susan George.

Now is the time to rediscover John Maynard Keynes’s revolutionary ideas for an international trade organisation and adapt them to rebalance the world’s economies in the 21st century.

The Basics: Proposals for a Currency Transaction Tax [CTT] have moved from utopian to mainstream in five or six years. Since James Tobin first made his proposal in the 1970s, much work has been done and many refinements added to the idea, which is why campaigners for the idea no longer refer to the "Tobin Tax" but to the CTT.

From water to peace, from knowledge to work, from the sea (the Mediterranean) to the coasts of the South, from energy to territory - these are the themes of an agenda that helps us to build an economy based on Common Goods.