Absolutely loved doing this interview with three frontline union organisers from the UK, Korea and the Ukraine. Do have a listen- A Force for Good: Trade Unions Fighting for Dignity and Democracy. www.equals.ink/p/trade-unio...

I was honoured to be invited to today’s memorial service in Srebrenica, 30 years since 8,372 Muslim men and boys were slaughtered while the world looked away. In their memory, we speak out against Israel’s genocide in Gaza and governments — including our own — enabling it.

BREAKING: Israeli Settlers Kill American Citizen in Occupied West Bank, Family Says Sayfollah Musallet was visiting his family when settlers allegedly beat him unconscious and blocked an ambulance from reaching, @premthakker.bsky.social reports. Read the full story: zeteo.com/p/breaking-i...

While western authorities continue to hyperventilate about #DeathToTheIDF, the IDF just bombed a cafe where journalists are known to gather as part of their ongoing project to kill as many journalists as possible

As the #FFD4 Summit starts in Seville, we take stock of what's at stake. 📈 Inequality at record highs 🌍 A climate crisis accelerating 💰 $33.9 trillion gained by the richest 1% since 2015 The demand? #TaxTheSuperRich for people and planet. Let’s make this a turning point!

What does #ClimateChange have to do with #inflation? A lot, actually. Our researcher @jordischroeder.bsky.social breaks it down in the @equalshope.bsky.social podcast - from crop failures to rising electricity prices, and why it all hits the most vulnerable hardest. podfollow.com/equals/episo...

Ever wonder what role Central Banks play in fuelling inequality? Too important to be left to unelected bureaucrats- Banking on inequality www.equals.ink/p/banking-on...

Great new action in Washington DC: A long-term encampment of illegally fired federal workers & other concerned people set up yesterday in the shadow of the Capitol building. SOLIDARITY CITY aka "Muskville" invoking Depression era Hoovervilles. They've put out a call for supporters to join them.

“A recent YouGov poll found Ocasio-Cortez had a +61 approval rating among Democrats — the highest of any Democrat polled who hasn't run for president or vice president.”

"almost every night since Oct 2023, even during his hospitalization, Pope Francis made a daily phone call to the only Catholic parish in the Gaza Strip to check on their safety and offer words of prayer and support. His last public act, the day before he died, was to call for a ceasefire in Gaza."

Breaking News: The Trump administration said it would pause tariffs on cars coming into the United States from Canada and Mexico for one month.

Trump's "golden age of America" so far... -Inflation ⬆️ -Stock market ⬇️ -Thousands of layoffs -Consumer & worker protections gutted -Diseases spreading -Federal funding illegally frozen -$10 million+ spent on golf -An unelected billionaire lining his pockets at our expense

I wrote this over the weekend about the urgent need to defend life-saving aid, and some ideas about how we can do so. open.substack.com/pub/equals/p...

Join us on March 10th at 5.30pm for a our next DLD conversation on how inequality affects development and what can be done about it - with the brilliant @faizashaheen.bsky.social, @maxlawsontin.bsky.social and Ha-Joon Chang. Register here: soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

I had a very interesting chat with @maxlawsontin.bsky.social and Nafkote Dabi about the current chaos in the world economy! www.equals.ink/p/vulture-ca...

"No to ethnic cleansing": over 350 rabbis sign NYT ad assailing Trump’s Gaza plan I'm no rabbi but I signed it too. Grateful to the organizers. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"Do we govern global taxation or do we let the wealthiest few govern us?" Powerful messages from Pres Sanchez Pres Lula Former Pres Mbeki @abigaildisney.bsky.social @josephestiglitz.bsky.social @jayatighosh.bsky.social at @icrict.bsky.social's Vatican event today taxjustice.net/press/govern...

Sorted. 😉😎

BREAKING: In response to doctors' lawsuit, Judge John Bates, a George W. Bush appointee, orders CDC, NIH, and FDA to put back up websites and datasets cited by the doctors in their lawsuit as having been relied upon and pulled down without notice. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Declining trends in national #inequality blogs.worldbank.org/en/opendata/... If interested on #inequality, do not miss this post from the @worldbankgroup.bsky.social on the critical limitations one finds when measuring it! @maxlawsontin.bsky.social

“It’s simply not possible to have a functioning democratic system under these conditions.” Finally had a chance to listen to @jasonhickel.bsky.social's fantastic interview with @maxlawsontin.bsky.social & Nafkote. podfollow.com/1480735096/e... @oxfaminternational.bsky.social #TakersNotMakers

Billionaire Colonialism - how colonialism never ended. Brilliant - @maxlawsontin.bsky.social and @jasonhickel.bsky.social www.equals.ink/p/billionair...

2024 Throwback: How water ‘flows up’ to the rich. Nafkote and me discuss water inequality and how #ClimateChange impacts water access with Mandal Sushmita. Find out how wealth and power defy gravity by making water flow… upwards! Listen here: pod.fo/e/23a593

Meta and Amazon giving $1 million each to Trump's inauguration fund is a flagrant example of the ultra-rich bending the knee in exchange for outsized influence, and just another case of government for the billionaires, by the billionaires.

British police arrest environmental protesters at nearly three times the global average rate, research has found, revealing the country as a world leader in the legal crackdown on climate activism. Story by @damien.gayle.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“The tensions surrounding whose humanity matters to the powers that be, of what does and does not constitute murder abound. @premthakker.bsky.social writes about the contradiction between the fates of two young men who allegedly killed a homeless man and a CEO. zeteo.com/p/26-year-ol...

Another day another series of Israeli war crimes: "At least 7 Palestinians killed by Israeli attack on Gaza’s Nuseirat camp. Attack comes hours after 20 people from the same displaced family were killed in northern Gaza." www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/12...

Here’s your daily dose of good news: 23 states are set to raise their minimum wages in the new year! While we still need action from Congress, it’s reassuring that state officials aren’t afraid to take up the mantle in the fight for living wages for all. www.usatoday.com/story/money/...

#OtD 9 Dec 1947 the Rawagede massacre was carried out by Dutch colonial troops in Indonesia, who executed 431 people: nearly every male aged over 15 in the village of Rawagede (now Balongsari). None of the killers were prosecuted stories.workingclasshistory.c...

The Department of Labor has found that a Cleveland manufacturer failed to prevent two workers from suffering injuries that resulted in amputations. The company will be fined $182,000 incidents because the amputations could have been avoided with proper safety measures.

Have you noticed that, today, no one is talking about the ongoing genocide in Gaza? This is the greatest gift to Netanyahu and his merry genocide maniacs. Keep talking Palestine people!

In 2020, CEOs were paid 351 times as much as a typical worker. In their new book, Pay the People! Why Fair Pay is Good for Business and Great for America, our very own John Driscoll and Morris Pearl explain why companies thrive when they don’t have such gross disparities in pay.

💰Day 9 of the #TaxTheirBillions Advent calendar! 💰 The top 300 superyachts release almost 285,000 tons of CO2, more than the entire nation of Tonga. Share this post and join us in calling on national and global wealth taxes on the super-rich: 350.org/tax-their-bi...

💰 Day 7 of the #TaxTheirBillions Advent calendar 💰 "The wealth held by the world's billionaires jumped by about 17% over the past year" Share this post and join us in calling on national and global wealth taxes on the super-rich: 350.org/tax-their-bi...

Syria opposition forces have declared that the 24-year rule of President Bashar al-Assad has come to an end hours after fighters entered the capital, Damascus, following a lightning advance across the country ⤵️

💰Day 8 of the #TaxTheirBillions Advent calendar! 💰 The richest 1% produce as much carbon pollution as two thirds of all humans on earth. Share this post and join us in calling on national and global wealth taxes on the super-rich: 350.org/tax-their-bi... #WealthTax #TaxTheRich

Meanwhile, another day another Israeli war crime: 14-year-old Naji al-Baba, the Palestinian boy who wanted to be like Ronaldo, killed by Israeli soldiers. Along with his friends as they played in the woods near Hebron. www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

Imagine this. Its 1945. Allied troops uncovered evidence of a genocide against Jews in prison camps. News spreads. Then up pops a press release/statement from the Berlin ‘bunker’. The outgoing government denies evidence of a genocide. The independent, objective BBC faithfully repeats the denial.

Here is quite an interesting fact. A Belgian citizen has 204 times more voting power at the World Bank than an Ethiopian citizen.

Powerful new report from Amnesty International finds Israel has perpetrated 3 acts against Palestinians in Gaza which are prohibited under genocide convention. A full ban on UK arms sales is essential to prevent further complicity @amnestyuk.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

Four men - Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Larry Ellison, and Mark Zuckerberg - are now worth a combined $1 trillion according to Forbes. Tell me again that we don't have a billionaire problem. #taxtherich

Cool to see mainstream news outlets in India covering the outrage surrounding Bill Gates's casual colonialism economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/interna...

✈️ Day 4 of the #TaxTheirBillions Advent calendar! ✈️ A study tracking 19m private jet flights found almost half travelled less than 310 miles and 900,000 were used for trips shorter than 31 miles 🫠 Join us in calling on national and global wealth taxes on the super-rich: 350.org/tax-their-bi...

Very excited for this event on Vulture Capitalism with the LSE Inequalities Institute in January Tickets available now www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2025/...

Passengers hoping this marks the start of a great railway revival. That will need govt to go further and: 🚆 Take train leasing companies back into public ownership 💵 Invest to lower ticket prices and open new rail routes 📢 Give passengers a voice inews.co.uk/news/politic...

At least 10 Palestinians have been killed and dozens wounded in an Israeli strike on al-Mawasi in southern Gaza. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/01rafa

a short article for @fairness.bsky.social summarising the 'Charter for Fair Pay' published by @highpaycentre.bsky.social last week. The 'Charter' identifies policies that would raise pay for low and middle earners and reduce inequality. www.linkedin.com/pulse/charte...

The UK is one of the most unequal developed countries. The super-rich have taken huge amounts of wealth and power at our expense. It's time to do something about it: people in more equal countries live longer, healthier, happier lives in stronger communities. We can do that here!

I love Macrodose, so it means a lot to have our new report on bringing agroecologcial food sovereignty to Britain featured on this week's episode. Give it a listen.

This massive inequality isn't inevitable. The need for foodbanks has skyrocketed in the the UK – as has the number of billionaires and their wealth. These things are two sides of the same coin. Trussell do incredible, vital work, but this inequality shouldn't be how our country works.