Common Wealth
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We design ownership models for a democratic and sustainable economy.
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@cmmonwealth.bsky.social
· Sep 16
Welcome to Rip-Off Britain.
A country remade by privatisation.
Our latest project — Who Owns Britain? — explores how a radical experiment transformed our society and shapes your life.
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A country remade by privatisation.
Our latest project — Who Owns Britain? — explores how a radical experiment transformed our society and shapes your life.
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“The path to explaining that new energy infrastructure needs to be built is through the experience of energy inflation.”
Green planning can deliver fairer, more secure decarbonization by overcoming the failures of market coordination.
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https://www.common-wealth.org/green-planning-commission
Green planning can deliver fairer, more secure decarbonization by overcoming the failures of market coordination.
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https://www.common-wealth.org/green-planning-commission
November 20, 2025 at 1:03 PM
“The path to explaining that new energy infrastructure needs to be built is through the experience of energy inflation.”
Green planning can deliver fairer, more secure decarbonization by overcoming the failures of market coordination.
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https://www.common-wealth.org/green-planning-commission
Green planning can deliver fairer, more secure decarbonization by overcoming the failures of market coordination.
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https://www.common-wealth.org/green-planning-commission
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"The military industrial complex tries to present the illusion that it serves working class interest." — @stephensemler.bsky.social
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November 20, 2025 at 11:46 AM
"The military industrial complex tries to present the illusion that it serves working class interest." — @stephensemler.bsky.social
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“War may be really good for business, but in reality it is much better for profits than it is for jobs.” — @lalehkhalili.bsky.social
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November 19, 2025 at 10:17 AM
“War may be really good for business, but in reality it is much better for profits than it is for jobs.” — @lalehkhalili.bsky.social
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@macrodosepod.bsky.social
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Our tech and energy systems being transformed. But how & in whose interests?
Read @iliasalami.bsky.social's Imperial State Capitalism to understand how the development of AI & the energy transition are being shaped by profiteering & geopolitical competition.
transitionsecurity.org/imperial-sta...
Read @iliasalami.bsky.social's Imperial State Capitalism to understand how the development of AI & the energy transition are being shaped by profiteering & geopolitical competition.
transitionsecurity.org/imperial-sta...
Imperial State Capitalism
A new geopolitics is shaping the development of AI and the energy transition.
transitionsecurity.org
November 18, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Our tech and energy systems being transformed. But how & in whose interests?
Read @iliasalami.bsky.social's Imperial State Capitalism to understand how the development of AI & the energy transition are being shaped by profiteering & geopolitical competition.
transitionsecurity.org/imperial-sta...
Read @iliasalami.bsky.social's Imperial State Capitalism to understand how the development of AI & the energy transition are being shaped by profiteering & geopolitical competition.
transitionsecurity.org/imperial-sta...
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Write for us!!
We're taking pitches for our third issue until December 5th
Send us your ideas for essays, dispatches, photojournalism, memoir, the works!
Full details at the link. 👩💻📚
We're taking pitches for our third issue until December 5th
Send us your ideas for essays, dispatches, photojournalism, memoir, the works!
Full details at the link. 👩💻📚
Submissions for ISSUE #3 – AIRBORNE, are now open!
We are accepting pitches exploring the importance of air in the climate and ecological crises, its role in environmental history and activism, and its future on a transformed planet.
More details 👇
We are accepting pitches exploring the importance of air in the climate and ecological crises, its role in environmental history and activism, and its future on a transformed planet.
More details 👇
Pitching
What We Publish We’re interested in original ideas and clear, compelling writing that breaks down complex subjects for an engaged but non-expert audience. The best guide to what we might like is to…
www.break-down.org
November 18, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Write for us!!
We're taking pitches for our third issue until December 5th
Send us your ideas for essays, dispatches, photojournalism, memoir, the works!
Full details at the link. 👩💻📚
We're taking pitches for our third issue until December 5th
Send us your ideas for essays, dispatches, photojournalism, memoir, the works!
Full details at the link. 👩💻📚
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We're now open for pitches for Issue #3 of @the-breakdown.bsky.social, AIRBORNE, on the importance of air in the climate crises, its role in environmental history and activism, and its future on a transformed planet.
If you have ideas for a piece, send them our way www.break-down.org/pitching/
If you have ideas for a piece, send them our way www.break-down.org/pitching/
November 14, 2025 at 1:44 PM
We're now open for pitches for Issue #3 of @the-breakdown.bsky.social, AIRBORNE, on the importance of air in the climate crises, its role in environmental history and activism, and its future on a transformed planet.
If you have ideas for a piece, send them our way www.break-down.org/pitching/
If you have ideas for a piece, send them our way www.break-down.org/pitching/
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Submissions for ISSUE #3 – AIRBORNE, are now open!
We are accepting pitches exploring the importance of air in the climate and ecological crises, its role in environmental history and activism, and its future on a transformed planet.
More details 👇
We are accepting pitches exploring the importance of air in the climate and ecological crises, its role in environmental history and activism, and its future on a transformed planet.
More details 👇
Pitching
What We Publish We’re interested in original ideas and clear, compelling writing that breaks down complex subjects for an engaged but non-expert audience. The best guide to what we might like is to…
www.break-down.org
November 18, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Submissions for ISSUE #3 – AIRBORNE, are now open!
We are accepting pitches exploring the importance of air in the climate and ecological crises, its role in environmental history and activism, and its future on a transformed planet.
More details 👇
We are accepting pitches exploring the importance of air in the climate and ecological crises, its role in environmental history and activism, and its future on a transformed planet.
More details 👇
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New @cmmonwealth.bsky.social paper from me on Medicaid’s political economy and the battle ahead.
Millions are to be kicked off of Medicaid.
Millions will see healthcare costs skyrocket as ACA subsidies expire.
In 2028, we must fight for universal healthcare.
Where should we concentrate efforts to build up working class power to advance this cause?
shorturl.at/1kQG4
Millions will see healthcare costs skyrocket as ACA subsidies expire.
In 2028, we must fight for universal healthcare.
Where should we concentrate efforts to build up working class power to advance this cause?
shorturl.at/1kQG4
Medicaid and the Struggle for Universal Health Care in the Trump Aftermath
How can organizers leverage the contradictions of Medicaid to build a movement for Universal Healthcare?
shorturl.at
November 18, 2025 at 12:32 AM
New @cmmonwealth.bsky.social paper from me on Medicaid’s political economy and the battle ahead.
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Millions are to be kicked off of Medicaid.
Millions will see healthcare costs skyrocket as ACA subsidies expire.
In 2028, we must fight for universal healthcare.
Where should we concentrate efforts to build up working class power to advance this cause?
shorturl.at/1kQG4
Millions will see healthcare costs skyrocket as ACA subsidies expire.
In 2028, we must fight for universal healthcare.
Where should we concentrate efforts to build up working class power to advance this cause?
shorturl.at/1kQG4
Medicaid and the Struggle for Universal Health Care in the Trump Aftermath
How can organizers leverage the contradictions of Medicaid to build a movement for Universal Healthcare?
shorturl.at
November 17, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Millions are to be kicked off of Medicaid.
Millions will see healthcare costs skyrocket as ACA subsidies expire.
In 2028, we must fight for universal healthcare.
Where should we concentrate efforts to build up working class power to advance this cause?
shorturl.at/1kQG4
Millions will see healthcare costs skyrocket as ACA subsidies expire.
In 2028, we must fight for universal healthcare.
Where should we concentrate efforts to build up working class power to advance this cause?
shorturl.at/1kQG4
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“Moving toward decarbonization will be a matter of tremendous economic decision making. New industries, new factories, new infrastructure.”
Governments must look beyond the market to address era-defining crises.
Find out more 👇
www.common-wealth.org/green-planni...
Governments must look beyond the market to address era-defining crises.
Find out more 👇
www.common-wealth.org/green-planni...
November 17, 2025 at 2:13 PM
“Moving toward decarbonization will be a matter of tremendous economic decision making. New industries, new factories, new infrastructure.”
Governments must look beyond the market to address era-defining crises.
Find out more 👇
www.common-wealth.org/green-planni...
Governments must look beyond the market to address era-defining crises.
Find out more 👇
www.common-wealth.org/green-planni...
“Moving toward decarbonization will be a matter of tremendous economic decision making. New industries, new factories, new infrastructure.”
Governments must look beyond the market to address era-defining crises.
Find out more 👇
www.common-wealth.org/green-planni...
Governments must look beyond the market to address era-defining crises.
Find out more 👇
www.common-wealth.org/green-planni...
November 17, 2025 at 2:13 PM
“Moving toward decarbonization will be a matter of tremendous economic decision making. New industries, new factories, new infrastructure.”
Governments must look beyond the market to address era-defining crises.
Find out more 👇
www.common-wealth.org/green-planni...
Governments must look beyond the market to address era-defining crises.
Find out more 👇
www.common-wealth.org/green-planni...
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It's universal public provision of healthcare in 2028 or bust...but where to start politically? We're really proud to publish @philiprocco.bsky.social 's answer to this question today!
Millions are to be kicked off of Medicaid.
Millions will see healthcare costs skyrocket as ACA subsidies expire.
In 2028, we must fight for universal healthcare.
Where should we concentrate efforts to build up working class power to advance this cause?
shorturl.at/1kQG4
Millions will see healthcare costs skyrocket as ACA subsidies expire.
In 2028, we must fight for universal healthcare.
Where should we concentrate efforts to build up working class power to advance this cause?
shorturl.at/1kQG4
Medicaid and the Struggle for Universal Health Care in the Trump Aftermath
How can organizers leverage the contradictions of Medicaid to build a movement for Universal Healthcare?
shorturl.at
November 17, 2025 at 1:10 PM
It's universal public provision of healthcare in 2028 or bust...but where to start politically? We're really proud to publish @philiprocco.bsky.social 's answer to this question today!
Millions are to be kicked off of Medicaid.
Millions will see healthcare costs skyrocket as ACA subsidies expire.
In 2028, we must fight for universal healthcare.
Where should we concentrate efforts to build up working class power to advance this cause?
shorturl.at/1kQG4
Millions will see healthcare costs skyrocket as ACA subsidies expire.
In 2028, we must fight for universal healthcare.
Where should we concentrate efforts to build up working class power to advance this cause?
shorturl.at/1kQG4
Medicaid and the Struggle for Universal Health Care in the Trump Aftermath
How can organizers leverage the contradictions of Medicaid to build a movement for Universal Healthcare?
shorturl.at
November 17, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Millions are to be kicked off of Medicaid.
Millions will see healthcare costs skyrocket as ACA subsidies expire.
In 2028, we must fight for universal healthcare.
Where should we concentrate efforts to build up working class power to advance this cause?
shorturl.at/1kQG4
Millions will see healthcare costs skyrocket as ACA subsidies expire.
In 2028, we must fight for universal healthcare.
Where should we concentrate efforts to build up working class power to advance this cause?
shorturl.at/1kQG4
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We are delighted to join over 100 organisations in endorsing this resolution.
tlaib.house.gov/posts/tlaib-...
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Tlaib Introduces Resolution Recognizing the Genocide of the Palestinian People in Gaza
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (MI-12), alongside 20 other Members of Congress, introduced H.Res.876 – Recognizing the Genocide of the Palestinian People in Gaza. This resolutio...
tlaib.house.gov
November 14, 2025 at 4:11 PM
We are delighted to join over 100 organisations in endorsing this resolution.
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tlaib.house.gov/posts/tlaib-...
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🚨 Transition Security Project is hiring a Researcher!
We're looking for a new researcher to join our transatlantic centre, working at the cutting edge of economic, climate and geopolitical analysis on militarism.
Find out more and apply below. 👇
www.common-wealth.org/vacancies/re...
We're looking for a new researcher to join our transatlantic centre, working at the cutting edge of economic, climate and geopolitical analysis on militarism.
Find out more and apply below. 👇
www.common-wealth.org/vacancies/re...
Vacancies | Researcher — Transition Security Project
UK (London, Manchester, Scottish Central Belt, Belfast)
www.common-wealth.org
November 13, 2025 at 1:22 PM
🚨 Transition Security Project is hiring a Researcher!
We're looking for a new researcher to join our transatlantic centre, working at the cutting edge of economic, climate and geopolitical analysis on militarism.
Find out more and apply below. 👇
www.common-wealth.org/vacancies/re...
We're looking for a new researcher to join our transatlantic centre, working at the cutting edge of economic, climate and geopolitical analysis on militarism.
Find out more and apply below. 👇
www.common-wealth.org/vacancies/re...
🚨 Common Wealth is hiring a Researcher to work full time on Transition Security Project.
@transitionsec.bsky.social is a research and policy centre that investigates the US and UK military industrial complexes as economic, climate and geopolitical threats.
Find out more 👇
@transitionsec.bsky.social is a research and policy centre that investigates the US and UK military industrial complexes as economic, climate and geopolitical threats.
Find out more 👇
🚨 Transition Security Project is hiring a Researcher!
We're looking for a new researcher to join our transatlantic centre, working at the cutting edge of economic, climate and geopolitical analysis on militarism.
Find out more and apply below. 👇
www.common-wealth.org/vacancies/re...
We're looking for a new researcher to join our transatlantic centre, working at the cutting edge of economic, climate and geopolitical analysis on militarism.
Find out more and apply below. 👇
www.common-wealth.org/vacancies/re...
Vacancies | Researcher — Transition Security Project
UK (London, Manchester, Scottish Central Belt, Belfast)
www.common-wealth.org
November 13, 2025 at 1:39 PM
🚨 Common Wealth is hiring a Researcher to work full time on Transition Security Project.
@transitionsec.bsky.social is a research and policy centre that investigates the US and UK military industrial complexes as economic, climate and geopolitical threats.
Find out more 👇
@transitionsec.bsky.social is a research and policy centre that investigates the US and UK military industrial complexes as economic, climate and geopolitical threats.
Find out more 👇
“One of the things most problematic about using the market to coordinate is that oftentimes it's only looking at the immediate period.”
Moments of crisis fail to build lasting capacity when the response is left to the market.
What's the alternative? 🔗👇
www.common-wealth.org/green-planni...
Moments of crisis fail to build lasting capacity when the response is left to the market.
What's the alternative? 🔗👇
www.common-wealth.org/green-planni...
November 13, 2025 at 11:08 AM
“One of the things most problematic about using the market to coordinate is that oftentimes it's only looking at the immediate period.”
Moments of crisis fail to build lasting capacity when the response is left to the market.
What's the alternative? 🔗👇
www.common-wealth.org/green-planni...
Moments of crisis fail to build lasting capacity when the response is left to the market.
What's the alternative? 🔗👇
www.common-wealth.org/green-planni...
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“It's a boon for shareholders. It's a boon for militarism. It's a clear negative for ecological & climate goals.” — @triofrancos.bsky.social
Listen back to the recording of our launch event via @macrodosepod.bsky.social!
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Listen back to the recording of our launch event via @macrodosepod.bsky.social!
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November 12, 2025 at 2:10 PM
“It's a boon for shareholders. It's a boon for militarism. It's a clear negative for ecological & climate goals.” — @triofrancos.bsky.social
Listen back to the recording of our launch event via @macrodosepod.bsky.social!
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Listen back to the recording of our launch event via @macrodosepod.bsky.social!
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NEW: £250m+ has been taken as profit over 3yrs, by private companies running social care services in 3 English regions. By:
⛴️ Private equity firms
🏝️ Orgs based in tax havens
Read our new #RORE report (Reclaiming Our Regional Economies) in today's @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
⛴️ Private equity firms
🏝️ Orgs based in tax havens
Read our new #RORE report (Reclaiming Our Regional Economies) in today's @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Private care providers in three English regions make £250m in three years
More than third of profits analysed went to firms owned by private equity or based in tax havens, research finds
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:07 AM
NEW: £250m+ has been taken as profit over 3yrs, by private companies running social care services in 3 English regions. By:
⛴️ Private equity firms
🏝️ Orgs based in tax havens
Read our new #RORE report (Reclaiming Our Regional Economies) in today's @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
⛴️ Private equity firms
🏝️ Orgs based in tax havens
Read our new #RORE report (Reclaiming Our Regional Economies) in today's @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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I have a new article out about US-China bloc formation, climate change, and war
🚨 NEW: Read @tobitac.bsky.social “Cold War on a Warming World” for sharp analysis of China’s economic development, its clean energy dominance and why Washington’s foreign policy response is a threat to global decarbonisation.
🔗👇
transitionsecurity.org/cold-war-war...
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transitionsecurity.org/cold-war-war...
Cold War on a Warming World
The US foreign policy response to China's economic development is a threat to the global climate transition.
transitionsecurity.org
November 6, 2025 at 10:32 PM
I have a new article out about US-China bloc formation, climate change, and war
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Read the fourth essay in a new geopolitics series from @transitionsec.bsky.social—a new research center cofounded with @cmmonwealth.bsky.social—on what the US-China conflict means for the world economy.
The US and China have agreed to a one-year truce in their trade war. What lies behind this conflict and what does it mean for the world economy?
Read @mona-ali.bsky.social on Washington’s assault on global trade and the alliances emerging in response.
transitionsecurity.org/rebalancing-...
Read @mona-ali.bsky.social on Washington’s assault on global trade and the alliances emerging in response.
transitionsecurity.org/rebalancing-...
November 10, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Read the fourth essay in a new geopolitics series from @transitionsec.bsky.social—a new research center cofounded with @cmmonwealth.bsky.social—on what the US-China conflict means for the world economy.
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Another outstanding contribution to our series on unsettling geopolitics in an era of climate crisis and warmaking. @mona-ali.bsky.social goes global and granular to tease out the causes and consquences of weaponizing trade and the potentials of multipolarity.
The US and China have agreed to a one-year truce in their trade war. What lies behind this conflict and what does it mean for the world economy?
Read @mona-ali.bsky.social on Washington’s assault on global trade and the alliances emerging in response.
transitionsecurity.org/rebalancing-...
Read @mona-ali.bsky.social on Washington’s assault on global trade and the alliances emerging in response.
transitionsecurity.org/rebalancing-...
November 10, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Another outstanding contribution to our series on unsettling geopolitics in an era of climate crisis and warmaking. @mona-ali.bsky.social goes global and granular to tease out the causes and consquences of weaponizing trade and the potentials of multipolarity.
🚨Read the latest in @transitionsec.bsky.social's geopolitics series — @mona-ali.bsky.social on the transformation of US trade policy and its effects on the world economy. 🚨
The US and China have agreed to a one-year truce in their trade war. What lies behind this conflict and what does it mean for the world economy?
Read @mona-ali.bsky.social on Washington’s assault on global trade and the alliances emerging in response.
transitionsecurity.org/rebalancing-...
Read @mona-ali.bsky.social on Washington’s assault on global trade and the alliances emerging in response.
transitionsecurity.org/rebalancing-...
November 10, 2025 at 3:34 PM
🚨Read the latest in @transitionsec.bsky.social's geopolitics series — @mona-ali.bsky.social on the transformation of US trade policy and its effects on the world economy. 🚨
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The US and China have agreed to a one-year truce in their trade war. What lies behind this conflict and what does it mean for the world economy?
Read @mona-ali.bsky.social on Washington’s assault on global trade and the alliances emerging in response.
transitionsecurity.org/rebalancing-...
Read @mona-ali.bsky.social on Washington’s assault on global trade and the alliances emerging in response.
transitionsecurity.org/rebalancing-...
November 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
The US and China have agreed to a one-year truce in their trade war. What lies behind this conflict and what does it mean for the world economy?
Read @mona-ali.bsky.social on Washington’s assault on global trade and the alliances emerging in response.
transitionsecurity.org/rebalancing-...
Read @mona-ali.bsky.social on Washington’s assault on global trade and the alliances emerging in response.
transitionsecurity.org/rebalancing-...
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ICYMI, good stuff from the folks at @cmmonwealth.bsky.social.
A Lucas Plan for the Twenty First Century: From Asset Manager Arsenal to Green Industrial Strategy
Building on the Lucas Plan, a new industrial strategy can redirect productive capacity and skills from the military industry towards the development of green manufacturing.
transitionsecurity.org
November 5, 2025 at 4:08 PM
ICYMI, good stuff from the folks at @cmmonwealth.bsky.social.