Category: economic justice

Patent Nonsense

Nothing exposes the hollowness of the claims corporations now make to intellectual property as much as their own histories

Our global institutions are destined to fail. They need to be replaced.

Local economies will prosper only by cutting their global links

The Third World “debt” is simply an accounting device

We Need a Global Maximum Wage

It’s time for a global corporation tax

The countries least responsible for global warming will be hit hardest

By buying second homes all over Britain, the rich are preying on the lives of the poor

It’s the only way to bridge Britain’s disastrous divisions

The US government is trying to destroy South Africa’s AIDS prevention programme

The powerful enjoy immunity, while the law treats the powerless ever more harshly

Cutting benefits will undermine society

50 per cent of all the new homes in central and inner London are being sold to speculators in the Far East

Britain’s corporations are living off state handouts

New housing plans are shutting the poor out of the South-East of England

Hong Kong’s financial difficulties are partly due to land speculation. Britain has the same unhealthy patterns

The superstores are bigger criminals than the shoplifters

30,000 old people are dying of cold each year, and the Government does nothing

The thousands of extra deaths each winter are just one symptom of a massive national housing crisis