Energy crisis, housing shortages, food price rises – the many signs of today’s economic turmoil are redrawing the lines of solidarity within and between European societies. But if disruption harbours the notion of rupture within it, then alternative ways of providing for our needs are possible. This edition helps us understand the trends and choices that got us into the cost of living crisis. It argues that the pressures from today’s confluence of crises demonstrate the need for a different politics with the common good and social justice at its heart.