Redefining the Agenda for Social Justice

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 inthe 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.