With the dismantling of the social state, inequalities have exploded on a global scale as an effect of the globalization of the economy and financial capital and are at the root of the problems that threaten the future of democracy, peaceful coexistence and economic development: from hunger and misery to migrations of millions of people fleeing wars and poverty , from unemployment to the global exploitation of labour, from the crisis of political representation to threats to the environment and other common goods, from spaces open to crime and terrorism to stagnant economy.
The equality project forms the basis for a double recast of politics: from above and from below. From above, as a reformer programme, in the action of constitutional promises, through the introduction of limits and links not only to the public authorities but also to the private powers of the market, being guaranteed of both the rights of freedom and social rights. From below, as an engine of mobilization and political participation, being equality in fundamental rights a factor of unitary and solidarity recomposition of the processes of social disintegration produced by the savage powers.
In both respects, equality is presented not only as the political value from which all others derive and as the main source of legitimization of public institutions. Equality is first and foremost a principle of reason capable of informing an alternative policy to the current irrational policies.