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Wealth inequality
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Oxfam’s ‘Profiting From Pain’ report: The best times” for billionaires
By James Fleming The coronavirus pandemic has been among “the best times in recorded history for the billionaire…
Oxfam report: Grotesque inequality exacerbated by pandemic
By Leon Fitzpatrick The latest Oxfam report forecasts good news and bad news for the world’s population as…
Billionaires profit from a pandemic!
By Haritha Olaganathan US billionaires saw their collective wealth increase by $282 billion in the first twenty-three days…
Why Covid-19 is not the “great leveller”
By Robert Cosgrave The horrific Covid-19 crisis has graphically exposed the multiple inequalities and forms of oppression that…
A creature of capitalism: Why you should march against Trump
By Monika Janas The pathetic toadies in government will be rolling out the red carpet the billionaire bigot…
The failed “American dream”- Support rising for socialism in The US
The following article is from the Summer issue of Socialist Alternative, the magazine of the Socialist Party. Decades…
Capitalism: A failing system
A new book, The Rise and Fall of American Growth, analyses the downward course of the US economy…
Panama Papers & tax havens: Super-rich hoard wealth
By Manus Lenihan Just 62 capitalists own as much wealth as the poorest 50% of the human race. …