Public & common wealth
Bringing energy, water, rail, housing and broadband back into democratic ownership — with governance models that answer to users, not shareholders.
Economic policy for the many
An economy built on equality, not extraction.
Samata Institute is an independent think tank producing the research, fiscal models and ready-to-file legislation for a democratic socialist economy — public ownership, worker power, and universal provision.
2026
Founded
100%
Open access
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Independent & unfunded
Our programme
Four pillars of a democratic economy
Redistribution alone leaves the underlying machinery untouched. Our research programme targets who owns, who decides, and who is guaranteed a floor beneath them.
Worker power
Sectoral bargaining, board-level codetermination, and a legal architecture that makes unionising the default rather than a fight.
Universal basic services
Healthcare, childcare, transit, housing and higher education delivered as public goods, decommodified and free at the point of use.
Just green transition
Decarbonisation financed publicly and planned democratically, with wage guarantees and retraining for every displaced worker.
Samata — समता
“Equality is not a levelling down. It is the removal of the arrangements that made some people's security depend on others' precarity.”Samata Institute — founding statement
How we work
Research that arrives as legislation, not commentary
Most think tanks stop at the white paper. We treat a policy as unfinished until it has a cost model, a legal draft, a coalition, and a legislator willing to file it.
Every brief here carries a full fiscal note, distributional analysis by income decile, and an implementation timeline. Where a policy needs statutory language, that language gets drafted rather than left as an exercise for the reader.
Read our methodologyFiscal modelling
Open, replicable models. Every assumption documented; every dataset cited and downloadable.
Legislative drafting
Bill text, amendments and regulatory language ready for committee — free to any aligned office.
Candidate support
Briefings, debate prep and costed platforms for candidates running on a socialist programme.
Where things stand
Newly founded, and saying so
Samata Institute launched in 2026 and is currently one person. There is no back catalogue to point at yet, and inventing one would undercut the whole premise of the place.
What already exists
The policy platform — ten positions across ownership, labour, provision, transition and tax, each with the reasoning and the objections set out.
What comes next
Each platform entry becomes a fully costed brief in turn — fiscal note, distributional analysis, draft statute. Published as they are finished, not before.
Get involved
The research is free. The movement needs you.
Whether you're a legislator looking for costed policy, a researcher with a paper, or an organiser who needs numbers to win an argument — we want to hear from you.