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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 #64 by Phil Ramsey

Digital Citizenship and Inclusion: A Social Democratic Agenda

Thinkpiece #63 by Håkan A Bengtsson

The Red Green Coalition in Sweden

Thinkpiece #62 by Stewart Lansley

The Wage Squeeze and the Crash

Thinkpiece #61 by Danny Dorling

Ideas in Place of Fear: reducing inequality and fermenting justice

Thinkpiece #60 by Victor Anderson

Responses To Recession

Thinkpiece #59 by Dr. Annabelle Lever

Democracy and terrorism

Thinkpiece #58 by Adam Lent

The patterns of history and the return of progressive economics

Thinkpiece #57 by Jonathon Hopkins

Electoral Reform and the Left

Thinkpiece #56 by David Lammy MP

Risk

Thinkpiece #55 by Mark Perryman

We’re all in this together - Towards the political practice of a Plural Left

Thinkpiece #54 by Vittorio Trevitt

The importance of the Welfare State under globalisation

Thinkpiece #53 by Bill Kerry

Taking Equality Out of the Left Ghetto

Thinkpiece #52 by Jonathon Rutherford interviews Carlota Perez

Financial bubbles and economic crises

Thinkpiece #51 by Oliver Penrose

How to beat the recession: public enterprise, not fiscal stimulus

Thinkpiece #50 by Adrian Bua

Realising Online Democracy: A Critical Appraisal of “Online Civic Commons”

Thinkpiece #49 by Peter Beresford

Whose Personalisation?

Thinkpiece #48 by Beatrice Barleon

Making Politics Work for Women – Changing the way we vote

Thinkpiece #47 by Chris Edwards

The Private Finance Initiative and the National Health Service – time to buy out the contracts?

Thinkpiece #46 by George Irvin

Reykjavik-on-Thames?

Thinkpiece #45 by Gerry Hassan and Anthony Barnett

Breaking out of Britain’s Neo-Liberal State

Thinkpiece #44 by Lucie Stephens and Josh Ryan-Collins

The New Wealth of Time: How Timebanking can help people build better public services

Thinkpiece #43 by Richard Corbett MEP

20 years after Delors, the future for Social Europe

Thinkpiece #42 by Vera Baird MP

Parity for the party – before 2033

Thinkpiece #41 by Colin Crouch

After privatised Keynesianism*

Thinkpiece #40 by David Byrne and Sally Ruane

The UK tax burden: ‘can Labour be called the "party of fairness"?’

Thinkpiece #39 by George Irvin

Understanding ‘leveraging’ and the Financial Meltdown

Thinkpiece #38 by Ann Pettifor

The Credit Crunch and the Green New Deal

Thinkpiece #37 by Andrew Permain

Recession, the Left and Cultural Politics

Thinkpiece #36 by George Irvin

A Robin Hood Lesson for New Labour

Thinkpiece #35 by Duncan Bowie

Housing and the Credit Crunch - Government and Market Failure

Thinkpiece #34 by Dr Jim Moher

Raising the workers’ equity

Thinkpiece #33 by Jonathan Rutherford

Capitalism and social recession

Thinkpiece #32 by Paul Skidmore

Lessons for the Left from the Everyday Democracy Index

Thinkpiece #31 by Andrew Watt

Bruges bis

Thinkpiece #30 by Clive Hamilton

Social Democracy: Dead, or pining for the fjords?

Thinkpiece #29 by Craig Berry

Public service broadcasting in the digital age

Thinkpiece #28 by Christian Kellermann, Thomas Rixen and Susanne Uhl

Europeanizing Corporate Taxation

Thinkpiece #27 by Pat Devine, Andy Pearmain, Michael Prior & David Purdy

Feel-bad Britain

Thinkpiece #26 by David Lammy MP

Making space for children

Thinkpiece #25 by Charles Seaford

Education: a model for public service reform

Thinkpiece #24 by Kate Bell

Welfare to Work...

Thinkpiece #23 by Paul Skidmore

Polls Apart: democracy in an age of inequality

Thinkpiece #22 by David Byrne and Sally Ruane

Proportionate Tax Take from Gross Household Income - The Rich Pay Less

Thinkpiece #21 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