{"id":96755,"date":"2026-11-02T07:11:33","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T07:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=96755"},"modified":"2026-11-02T07:11:33","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T07:11:33","slug":"the-world-is-saying-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/11\/02\/the-world-is-saying-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"The world is saying \u2018enough\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There were protests, led mainly by young people, reported over this weekend in:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>France \u2013 Paris, Lyon, Marseille and other cities.<\/li>\n<li>Germany \u2013 Berlin, Frankfurt, Munich, Cologne and other cities.<\/li>\n<li>Italy \u2013 Rome, Milan, Turin and Genoa.<\/li>\n<li>Portugal \u2013 Lisbon and Porto.<\/li>\n<li>Netherlands \u2013 The Hague.<\/li>\n<li>Spain \u2013 Various cities.<\/li>\n<li>United Kingdom \u2013 London and Edinburgh.<\/li>\n<li>Serbia \u2013 Student-led demonstrations and commemorations.<\/li>\n<li>India \u2013 New Delhi.<\/li>\n<li>Bangladesh \u2013 Dhaka and other industrial cities.<\/li>\n<li>Mexico \u2013 Mexico City and other locations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Is the world saying it has had enough?<\/p>\n<p>Are Gen Z saying that the neoliberal abuse they are suffering is intolerable and they will no longer accept it?<\/p>\n<p>It seems so.<\/p>\n<p>But there is no clarity as to the direction of travel. The need for a politics of care and an economics of hope is growing.<\/p>\n<p>Both would say enough for a reason. They make people, not profit and the planet, not meaningless consumption, the epicentre of their thinking. And they are radical concepts, as is a Courageous State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There were protests, led mainly by young people, reported over this weekend in: France \u2013 Paris, Lyon, Marseille and other cities. Germany \u2013 Berlin, Frankfurt,<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/11\/02\/the-world-is-saying-enough\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,239,16,224,106,223],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-economics-of-hope","category-ethics","category-neoliberalism","category-politics","category-politics-of-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96755"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96762,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96755\/revisions\/96762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}