Category: economic justice

Enslaved by Free Trade

The West became rich by ignoring patent rules and protecting its industries. Poor countries should be allowed to do the same.

The figures which purport to show that the world’s poor are emerging from poverty don’t add up

The way to check American power is to support the euro

A humanitarian disaster is engulfing Africa as cash is poured into the war with Iraq and its aftermath

Capitalism is not even mathematically possible, let alone biologically viable

The richer we are, the more miserable we become.

African leaders will be forced to humble themselves at the G8 summit, by taking the blame for what has happened to their continent

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