Economic democracy
We expect political democracy. Why not economic democracy too?
Peter Tatchell argues that Britain is an economic dictatorship. It’s time the economy was democratised to bring it into closer democratic alignment with the political system: employee & consumer directors on the boards of private and public institutions, employee control of pension funds, employee share issues for increased productivity and the legal right of employees to buy out their companies and turn them into cooperatives.
About Peter Tatchell:
Peter was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1952. He has been campaigning since 1967 on issues of human rights, democracy, civil liberties, LGBT equality and global justice. His human rights inspirations include Mohandas Gandhi, Sylvia Pankhurst, Martin Luther King and, to some extent, Malcolm X and Rosa Luxembourg.
In 2009, he co-proposed a UN Global Human Rights Index, to measure and rank the human rights record of every country – with the aim of creating a human rights league table to highlight the best and worst countries and thereby incentivise governments to clean up their record and improve their human rights ranking.
He coordinated the Equal Love campaign from 2010, in a bid to challenge the UK’s twin legal bans on same-sex civil marriages and opposite-sex civil partnerships. The following year, he organised four gay couples and four heterosexual couples to file a case in the European Court of Human Rights, arguing that sexual orientation discrimination in civil marriage and civil partnership law is unlawful under Articles 8, 12 and 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
He has proposed an internationally-binding UN Human Rights Convention enforceable through both national courts and the International Criminal Court; a permanent rapid-reaction UN peace-keeping force with the authority to intervene to stop genocide and war crimes; and a global agreement to cut military spending by 10 percent to fund the eradication of hunger, disease, illiteracy, unemployment and homelessness in the developing world.
We will meet at 8pm in:
Elephant And Castle
White Hill
Lewes
BN7 2DJ