How much money has Birmingham City Council spent on agency bin workers. Probably a lot more than it would have cost to not cut bin workers pay by £8000. 14 months of strike breaking by a labour council! Unbelievable and shameful. 😤 @bhamcitycouncil.bsky.social @brumlabour.bsky.social

The facts are clear @bhamcitycouncil.bsky.social was breaking the law by using agency staff to try to break the strike. 1/3

I will be joining hundreds of NHS workers at parliament to protest against NHS cuts to jobs and services. Unite will be continuing to pressure the government into investing properly in our health service and not making the system and the service worse by cutting jobs and services. Join us. ⤵️

My column for Real Britain | Daily Mirror 💰'Trumpflation' and the profiteering crisis ✳️Net Zero - Workers must NOT be sacrificed ✍️Protect our pensions 📢Defend our right to protest

New @equalshope.bsky.social’s episode is out: The Making of the International Panel on Inequality Isobel Frye & Katy Chakraborty take us inside the International Panel on Inequality (IPI): how it was formed, what it aims to achieve, and the challenges it faces. www.equals.ink/p/the-making...

Hey, @brumlabour.bsky.social @bhamcitycouncil.bsky.social – have you seen our billboards across Birmingham? Your voters have. They want you to get back to negotiations and finally agree a fair resolution for the bin workers and for the people of Birmingham 👇 @unitetheunion.bsky.social

𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐄𝐐𝐔𝐀𝐋𝐒 𝐞𝐩𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐝𝐞: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐏𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐥 𝐨𝐧 𝐈𝐧𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 Isobel Frye & Katy Chakraborty take us inside the International Panel on Inequality (IPI): how it will be formed, what it aims to achieve, and the challenges it faces. 🎧 Tune in: www.equals.ink/p/the-making...

@channel4news.bsky.social's #DirtyBusiness has got people across the country up in arms over private equity ownership draining UK public services. Unfortunately, Thames water is just the tip of rotting refuse mound at the core public services👇 www.equals.ink/p/think-wate... @equalshope.bsky.social

Private equity is under fire for polluting water in #DirtyBusiness—but water isn’t the only thing being drained. In this blog, @hbignell.bsky.social shows how the same model is hollowing out care systems. Profits rise. Care suffers. Read more: www.equals.ink/p/think-wate...

Health friends! Join us - Weds April 22 - outside parliament to protest the cuts to our NHS that are gutting this crucial public service and creating a two-tier healthcare system across the UK. www.unitetheunion.org/nhsrally @globaljusticenow.bsky.social @justtreatment.org @oxfamgb.bsky.social

This weekend was a special one. #TogetherUK #ResistTheFarRight @unitetheunion.bsky.social @unitesharon.bsky.social

I often hear Norway described as a gold standard with regards inequality, but what is the reality? Inherited wealth, a housing system that locks young people out of home ownership and deepening food insecurity mean Norway is not quite the paragon of equality we have all been led to believe 👇

Had a fantastic time co-presenting to @unitetheunion.bsky.social’s retired members last week. Such a wealth of experience and energy in the room. More on the horizon - but for now enjoy this actual horizon snapped down in Eastbourne ☀️👊🏻 #RetiredFromWorkButNotTheFight

“This is yet another pathetic attempt to intimidate workers and it won’t work. Unite will not allow these workers to pay the price for the council’s failings in their pay packets...” www.unitetheunion.org/news-events/... @unitetheunion.bsky.social

Amazing energy on the picket line last week to mark a whole year that the Birmingham bin workers have been on strike. 7 months after the council walked away from negotiations and £30m spent on strike busting...still the workers stand strong 💪 @unitetheunion.bsky.social

🚨 BREAKING!! Unite slashes affiliation to Labour on anniversary of Birmingham bins strike. As well as an escalation of the strike, Unite has voted to cut its Labour affiliation by A huge £580,000 💰 “Workers are scratching their heads asking whose side are Labour on" @unitesharon.bsky.social

At every World Economic Forum annual meeting, Oxfam brings the data to ensure that inequality is a key part of the conversation. This year we are releasing our report on January 19th 2026, at one minute past midnight GMT. Don’t miss it.  #FightInequality #WEF26

Fear is a powerful tool. So is speaking up. 👉 www.oxfam.org/en/resisting... #RuleOfTheRich #FightInequality #TaxTheSuperRich #WEF26

3K billionaires control $18.3 trillion, and this concentration of wealth is reshaping democracy itself. Billionaire money changes who gets heard, who decides, and who gets left behind. Read the evidence: www.oxfam.org/en/resisting... #RuleOfTheRich #FightInequality #TaxTheSuperRich

New @equalshope.bsky.social’s episode! 🎧How Migrants Are Used as Scapegoats for the Real Crisis @zoejardiniere.bsky.social & Sharon Ekambaram unpack who profits from anti-immigrant narratives & how disinformation fuels division—while inequality worsens. Listen: www.equals.ink/p/how-migran...

The Manosphere and right-wing populism are turbo charging capitalism to the detriment of women everywhere. There are structural changes happening in our global economies and States are responding - as they always have - by forcing women into domestic, caring roles and out of the work force.

“This howling wind was seemingly coming from the centre of the earth. At that point I honestly thought that it was the end of us. Typhoon Haiyan made me realise that what was happening to us wasn’t just a natural disaster – it was the result of global injustice.” What is at stake this #COP30 👇

Democracy is under siege and billionaires are pulling the strings. We talk with @ituc.bsky.social's Luc Triangle about the fight against inequality & the threat of this ‘billionaire coup.’ 𝑾𝒐𝒓𝒌𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒗𝒔. 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑩𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒊𝒓𝒆 𝑪𝒐𝒖𝒑 out now. Listen: www.equals.ink/p/workers-vs...

"We shouldn't be pitting the poorest against the poorest. The 50 richest families in Britain are worth £500bn, the same wealth as half of Britain, why aren't we taxing the top 1%? This would raise £25bn!" @unitesharon.bsky.social #WealthTax

We're in London today with a big old bus to tell our Govt this country cannot afford cuts. Instead they should tax us, the super rich. A 2% wealth tax alone could raise up to £460mln a week. @Keir_starmer - invest in a fairer economy. Patriotic Millionaires say Tax Our Wealth

We shouldn't be pitting the poorest against the poorest. The 50 richest families in Britain are worth £500bn, the same wealth as half of Britain, why aren't we taxing the top 1%? It would raise £25bn. ⤵️

Defense spending through aid cuts has become the depressing answer to Trump's question: "How are you going to defend yourselves if I stop the US protecting you?" Brilliant, nuanced analysis from @oxfamgb.bsky.social Katy Chakrabortty on UK ODA cuts and how we got here blogs.lse.ac.uk/activism-inf...

Spent the weekend walking in the Cotswolds and got to try out my new camera. Same subjects, better quality.

'Balancing the books' on the backs of poor and disabled people was wrong when the Tories did it, and it would be wrong now. It’s a political choice - one that could push 700,000 households into poverty. Our government should instead tax the ballooning wealth of the super-rich.

“It is morally bankrupt to make people living in poverty at home or around the world pay the greatest price for Government spending decisions...when the extreme wealth of the UK’s super rich is skyrocketing but goes untouched.” @oxfamgb.bsky.social www.express.co.uk/news/politic...

As of today, a new term has entered our language. A “rubio” is a spineless lump of nothing. Example: Don’t be such a rubio.

Pouting, shouting at someone and declaring them "not very nice" whilst you tell them to give up their people's sovereignty, land and freedom is about as dystopian as it gets. US politics feels akin to watching a capricious small child swinging around a wrecking ball at present.

I think this is the closest many of us have ever got to seeing the real Trump. The only consistent thread in his entire unhinged rant was the love & praise for Vladimir Putin. Zelensky has more courage & dignity in his little finger than every member of Trump's regime & fan club combined.

It's been obvious since January 6 that he was an enemy of the USA, the UK & the whole of the free world. Everybody still in his camp understands this as completely as everybody against it. They just prioritise personal interest over the national & international. And they know it. They all know it.

"Missiles before medicine" - Our CEO @halimabegum.bsky.social on the British government cutting the international aid budget to fund defence spending. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

"This is for me, one of the most cynical and crass decisions I've seen the Prime Minister make for a very long time." Our director @nickdearden.bsky.social on @cnnipr.bsky.social this morning discussing this government's cuts to foreign aid ⤵️

The government has announced it will pay for more weapons and bombs by cutting support for the world's poorest people. A deplorable decision that will only create a more unstable and unequal world. What is the government doing to bring about peace?

This is as bleak as it is unsurprising from a govt that continues to seek to appease the right-wing who never voted for them in the first place. Labour will never beat them at their own game at it is beyond disappointing to see it trying to. An immoral, illogical move that will cost countless lives.

Watch RSC's #Kyoto last week. Seamlessly acted - what could have been a dry and inaccessible piece on climate bureaucracy, was actually an exciting and infuriating depiction of the insidious hold the oil lobby and its apologists have (then & now) on global climate negotiations www.rsc.org.uk/kyoto/

“More billionaires are now being created through inheritance than entrepreneurialism” – Anjela Taneja and @hbignell.bsky.social on Oxfam’s 2025 global inequalities report and the scale of unearned wealth #LSEInequalitiesBlog

"Govts in the global south must come to the realization that the prosperity of their people lies not in the hands of the US White House, but in their own agency, development and self-reliance." Call no Govts to react to USAID cuts by investing in local health systems www.nature.com/articles/d41...

“The world looks set to see five trillionaires by the end of the decade” – Oxfam’s Anjela Taneja and @hbignell.bsky.social in our latest blog post #LSEInequalitiesBlog

Grateful to recharge in Devon for a week after a busy time. Back at it now 🙌

Nazi salutes in week one. State-sanctioned ethnic cleansing in week four. But all the scumbag apologists who dared to talk about ‘over-reaction’ are still too bent and/or invested to row back.

Francesca Albanese, Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, "What President Trump proposes is nonsense, it's unlawful" "People talk of ethnic cleansing, no, this is worse" "He's inciting to commit forced displacement which is an international clime"

i don’t even know if crime is the right word for the illegal destruction of USAID. it is an autocratic power grab and a direct attack on the sovereignty of the american people

It’s important to know that a lot of productive activity is happening in person and offline, too. Not all of it can be broadcast online, but we’ve had hundreds of people showing up to our trainings, mobilizations, and more. Keep going. Tyranny is eroded by a sea of small acts. Everything matters.

"He...was – like me – subject to intense activity of the right-wing press who wished to smear his character. He was very much of the Left, and wanted a socially just and fair society."

Capitalism is evolving so fast, my dictionary is lagging behind. First, it's billionaires, now we're just casually adding trillionaire to the mix. Spellcheck's like, 'I can't even... 🤯💸 #FightInequality #TaxTheRich #TakersNotMakers

The 50 richest families in Britain are worth £500bn, the same amount of money that half of Britain is worth. @unitetheunion.bsky.social's plan is for a tax of 1% to be applied on the assets of those worth more than £4m, which would raise £25bn a year to fund investment in public services.