Category: economic justice

Billionaire Brain

To Bill Gates, overthrowing the power of the ultra-wealthy seems to be – literally – unthinkable.

Austerity costs us a fortune.

It’s a cast-iron relationship: the more unequal a society becomes, the better the far right does. Here’s why.

Labour’s housing strategy makes a dysfunctional system bigger. We need systemic change.

Elon Musk threatens to do to democracy what he did to Twitter.

Tax the billionaires or their oppressive power will only grow.

The obscene thing I witnessed was like a parable of the madness of extreme wealth.

Here’s why the government should tax the rich and tax them hard.

Thanks to neoliberalism, government in the UK feels like one long trick played on the people.

How economic power leads inexorably to environmental destruction.

I try to work out how much money would be needed to restore a functioning state.

Our forthcoming film about the undisclosed interests trashing our lives.

How our lives came to be dominated by a few dozen plutocrats and their thousands of concierges.

An obsession with economic growth is driving us towards catastrophe.

Liz Truss promises to double down on policies that have been completely discredited.

This could be how the fight against climate breakdown reaches critical mass.

The government’s attempt to hide a toxic waste disaster heralds a new bonanza for organised crime.

Why do we tolerate the massive environmental impacts of the very rich?

Destroying the world’s living systems and draining its wealth are not perversions of capitalism. They are capitalism.

Brexit isn’t about Europe, and isn’t about the UK. It’s the outcome of a civil war within capitalism.