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Redefining the agenda for social justice: voices from Europe and Asia

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Mestrum, Francine; Menon, Meena

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The book relates three years of history of social movements from Asia and Europe who work on social justice, as a rough overview. The work for the book is mainly done on the ground, day after day, working in villages and cities, with people and their organisations, organising resistance and preparing alternatives. It is based on the fact that European and Asian concerns are identical, in spite of divergent levels of development and wealth, and that the existing international initiatives, such as the ILO's social protection floors, or the UN's Sustainable Development Goals are perfectly compatible with neoliberal policies. The book goes beyond and sees social commons as a strategic tool for transforming societies. It is basically a project for the sustainability of life, of humans, of societies, and of nature. The book describes the ideas at the basis of the work in different sectors. It is not about the practice of social policies but about the ideas and discourses that can in the end shape the political practices. In sum, this book, presents a new social paradigm. It concretely shows how social justice and environmental justice do go hand in hand.

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Redefining the Agenda for Social Justice: Voices from Europe and Asia

Mestrum, Francine; Menon, Meena

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- About the authors -- List of Boxes -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Why Social Justice? -- The Recent History of Welfare States -- Neoliberal Globalisation and Its Setbacks -- Political Backlash -- Social Justice, Income and Redistribution -- Universalism -- Our Objectives -- 3 Global Charter for Universal Social Protection Rights: For All and by All -- Global Charter for Universal Social Protection Rights by All, for All -- 4 From Social Protection to Social Commons -- Rethinking Social Protection -- The Social Commons: What? -- Walking Along New Paths -- The Sun of the Future -- 5 Assuring Affordable, Accessible and Quality Public Services for All: Health, Education, Water, Transport and Energy -- From Health to Transport to Energy -- Water -- Transport -- Energy -- Education -- Alternatives -- Conclusion -- 6 Labour -- Asia, Europe and … China -- Productive Transformation -- What About Reproduction? -- How the Global Charter Can Help -- 7 The Right to the City and the Right to Housing -- Housing Is Part of Social Protection -- Informality for Profit -- Universal Health Care and Social Protection -- Housing Is Integral to Social Protection -- Housing as Asset -- Public, Social and Affordable Housing -- Housing-Related Services -- The Question of Land for Housing -- Goals of the SDGs -- Conclusion -- 8 Global Voices: The Way Forward -- Annexes -- Declaration of Ulaan Baatar, July 2016, AEPF Social Justice Cluster -- Assuring Affordable, Accessible and Quality Public Services for All -- Manila Conference, 13-15 February 2018 -- Political Declaration -- Barcelona Declaration -- AEPF12 in Ghent, September 2018 -- Contribution to Final Declaration from the Social Justice Cluster -- Context -- Demands -- International Conference on Universal Social Protection and Labour -- Kathmandu, 4-6 April 2019.