more crises proposals

·         We need to close the stock, futures, currency exchange and other markets for speculation
·         Rather than pouring more debt into the bottomless ocean, the profit-serving banks should be turned into mutually-owned, democratically controlled not-for-profit institutions
·         We should encourage communities to prevent repossessions and evictions and workforces to seize control of threatened  factories, offices, partially-completed building sites, and land
·         Existing mortgage debt should be cancelled. Future payments should be determined by a formula based on the cost of new building and ability to pay, to be agreed through the democratic process
·         Social rents should be determined by a democratically-controlled system of housing finance responsible for providing housing as a right.
·         Old and new forms of social ownership will have to be deployed locally, regionally, nationally and globally. The new owners will need to explore and experiment with ways to distribute the income from the operation of their organisations
·         Dealing with climate change, environmental degradation, inequality, hunger, and preventable disease requires a reorientation of the global systems of supply, production and distribution and their integration with locally-focussed systems
·         The mathematical modelling and distribution techniques developed by global corporations could be redirected to develop an intelligent scientific and web-based market based on fair-trade principles, socially-determined needs, and individual preferences.. This would enable the vast gulf of inequality within and between countries regions and hemispheres to be addressed, reduced and eliminated.  The relative weights accorded to parameters will be discussed and agreed by local, regional, national and global Assemblies.
·         New democratic structures must be devised to manage and extend the global communications infrastructure beyond the developed countries, together with scientific systems of management, and a step-change in the skilling-up of workers throughout the world.
·         Under new democratically-controlled management, a dramatic boost to the development of science and technology can be deployed to ensure that these components are driven by the satisfaction of need, and the restoration of the planet’s eco-systems.

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