Hi everyone.

Attached are various documents associated with the debate around Basic Income. John Clarke of the ON Coalition Against Poverty is one of the names recommended for our roundtable, his position on Basic Income is for us to be careful what we wish for.

Fyi.

Paul

Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.   Original Message   From: Socialist Interventions info@socialistproject.ca Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2018 9:58 PM To: Paul Moist Subject: Basic Income In The Neoliberal Age

Socialist Interventions Pamphlet No. 16: ‎ Basic Income In The Neoliberal Age

Ontario Coalition Against Poverty

From the very first days of the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP), at the beginning of the 1990s, we have found ourselves on the front lines of a war on the poor that has been of central importance to the implementation of broader neoliberal austerity. In Canada, the undermining of these income support systems, both at the federal and provincial level, has continued to be vigorously pursued and the poverty and insecurity that this has generated has created the vulnerability and desperation needed in order to weaken workers’ bargaining power, reduce the capacity of unions to resist and to facilitate a veritable explosion of low wage precarious work. In light of this dogged pursuit of austerity based agenda over so many years, news that the Ontario government was likely to set up a Basic Income (BI) pilot, supposedly so as to put in place a measure that would decrease poverty and provide more adequate and secure income, struck us as a gift horse whose mouth we should carefully examine. While our particular concern was to look at what was unfolding in Ontario, a critical look at the whole BI concept was also in order. As we began to explore the various versions of this social policy that are put forward, it became clear that the neoliberal right has its own sense of the possibilities of BI.

This pamphlet explores the concept of BI and particularly its deployment as part of state welfare policies today, and the challenges being posed for the struggles of the anti-poverty movement in Canada.

https://socialistproject.ca/pamphlets/basic-income-neoliberal-age/

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