In 2021, despite the force of the pandemic, the planet’s wealthiest inhabitants accumulated 45.6 per cent of global wealth. The amount of money concentrated in the hands of the richest 1 per cent was up on the year before, thanks to the volume of assets hoarded and the addition of […]
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The fight for agricultural workers’ rights in Spain
More than half of Europe’s fruit and vegetables are grown in southern Spain. Much of the produce grown goes to UK and European supermarkets. But for many years workers from the region have protested against serious exploitation. Clare Carlile / Ethical Consumer* UK-based organisations Ethical Consumer and The […]
8 October: A human chain to save Asssange
A human chain surrounding the British Parliament is the symbolic act of a group of defenders of the Wikileaks founder. They seek to show how thousands of people surround him and demand that he is not extradited to the United States. They know that silencing Assange means silencing freedom of expression, intimidating journalists, burying the truth.
Who, or what, is being mourned?
Whether you are a royalist or a republican, the sheer numbers of people willing to queue for hours and overnight to have some small part of the lying-in-state and funeral of Queen Elizabeth requires an explanation. Graham Douglas It has been estimated that four billion people tuned in […]
Jair Bolsonaro, clinging to his dying power
Bolsonaro will not accept the outcome of the elections in Brazil if he is defeated and is seeking to mobilise his supporters now to try to repeat in Brazil a violent movement of fanatics and lumpens, inspired by the invasion of the Capitol in Washington by supporters of the then […]
















