Thinkpieces
Compass thinkpieces are free to download. We publish two new editions every month and they tackle the big issues and challenges facing the democratic left in today's society.
Thinkpiece #74 by Steve Griffiths
Waking Up to the Cost of Inequality: A note for Labour’s Policy Review
Thinkpiece #72 by Colin Hines
Progressive Protectionism: the only effective challenge to neoliberalism
Thinkpiece #65 by Chris Handy & Kevin Gulliver
Mutualism Rising? Housing’s Vital Role in the ‘Big Society’
Thinkpiece #55 by Mark Perryman
We’re all in this together - Towards the political practice of a Plural Left
Thinkpiece #52 by Jonathon Rutherford interviews Carlota Perez
Financial bubbles and economic crises
Thinkpiece #51 by Adrian Bua
Realising Online Democracy: A Critical Appraisal of “Online Civic Commons”
Thinkpiece #47 by Chris Edwards
The Private Finance Initiative and the National Health Service – time to buy out the contracts?
Thinkpiece #45 by Lucie Stephens and Josh Ryan-Collins
The New Wealth of Time: How Timebanking can help people build better public services
Thinkpiece #40 by David Byrne and Sally Ruane
The UK tax burden: ‘can Labour be called the "party of fairness"?’
Thinkpiece #28 by Christian Kellermann, Thomas Rixen and Susanne Uhl
Europeanizing Corporate Taxation
Thinkpiece #23 by David Byrne and Sally Ruane
Proportionate Tax Take from Gross Household Income - The Rich Pay Less
Thinkpiece #21 by David Moon
Modernisation’ vs.‘Progressivism’: New Labour and the Progressive Tradition
Thinkpiece #20 by Karen Buck, Richard Burden, Colin Challen, David Chaytor, John Denham, Angela Eagle, Nia Griffiths, Helen Goodman, Joan Ruddock, Martin Salter, Mark Todd and Alan Whitehead



















