Global Inequality
Apple’s sweatshop supply chain
By Ben McGrath, February 7, 2012
Apple’s Supplier Responsibility Progress Report is a cynical public relations exercise designed to whitewash the company’s image.
Mounting social struggles cast shadow over Davos economic summit
By Nick Beams, January 28, 2012
A new factor has entered the scene—the re-emergence of the international working class as exemplified in the Egyptian revolution and the ongoing social struggles around the world.
China’s list of billionaires expands again
By John Chan, September 17, 2011
The burgeoning list of billionaires has put China ever closer to the United States as the largest home of the super-rich, even as China’s average per-capita income ranks just 94th in the world.
Rising longevity masks growing life expectancy inequalities in Britain
By Simon Walker, July 21, 2011
The rich are living sometimes eleven years longer than workers in the poorest areas of Britain.
UN report hits German social policies
By Elizabeth Zimmermann, July 13, 2011
The government in Berlin comes in for sharp criticism in a United Nations report on the social situation in Germany.
Capitalism and the climate change crisis
By Patrick O’Connor, June 11, 2011
Record levels of greenhouse gas emission constitute a damning indictment of the capitalist system.
International food crisis due to agribusinesses and speculation
By Barry Mason, June 10, 2011
The international development charity Oxfam issued a report this month highlighting the growing global food crisis.
Chasm widens between UK workers and financial elite
By Simon Walker, June 7, 2011
It was only weeks ago that the Sunday Times Rich List revealed how the international super-rich who reside in the UK have over the past two years fully restored their levels of wealth to pre-2008 levels.
Behind the battle over new IMF chief
By Nick Beams, May 21, 2011
In the midst of the Strauss-Kahn crisis, a World Bank report pointed to vast shifts underway in the structure of the world economy, which indicate that the conflict over the IMF leadership is just one of many to come.
Shanghai: Grinding poverty amid corporate opulence
By Jean Shaoul, April 5, 2011
Amid Shanghai’s commercial opulence, there is grinding poverty and deprivation on an even greater scale in this city of 20 million people.
Hong Kong: A tale of two cities
By Jean Shaoul, March 17, 2011
Social discontent in Hong Kong has been fuelled by a sharp rise in home prices and rents, which have doubled in the last five years.
Budget that enriches financial elite sparks protest in Hong Kong
By Jean Shaoul, March 17, 2011
Protestors took to the streets in downtown Hong Kong on March 6 to oppose the government’s budget, which will further enrich the financial elite.
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