inequality

The Troublemaker

Pay for the privilege of your protest being ruled illegal

Crushing legal fees add to the repressive armoury
03 October 2023
Billionaires rule the City of London
Features

New report into billionaires reveals the ugly pyramids of wealth

A new report delves into the global rich
27 August 2023
UCU union members on strike hold a banner reading 'End the gender pay gap'
News

How the system ignores women’s labour

A new Oxfam report
03 August 2023
Truss, Rees-Mogg and other cabinet ministers sat round a table
Features

Tories’ tax turn—is this a new relationship for the state and capital?

Crises mean early neoliberalism doesn't fit
23 September 2022
Children in blue school uniform crowd around people serving lunch
News

Soaring numbers of children on free school meals shows poverty on the rise

Another sign of growing poverty
12 June 2022
Sir James Dyson, number two n the rich list, at a product launch
News

Rich List shows no cost of living crisis for super-wealthy

Rishi Sunak joins Sunday Times Rich List
21 May 2022
News

Superyacht industry is in ‘feeding frenzy’ as super-rich cash in on pandemic

Billionaires’ system has to go
02 March 2022
Thirty people with placards supporting bus driver Tracey Scholes
News

Protest over sacking of woman bus driver in Manchester

Bus driver Tracey Scholes is too short say bosses
12 January 2022
Pascal Soriot of AstraZeneca
News

Bosses have grabbed more in 2022 than workers earn in a year

Union leaders denounce fat cats’ plunder
07 January 2022
Graphic of a tax haven
The Troublemaker

Care home company ships profits to Cayman Islands

A round up of scandals and news of the week
13 December 2021
US billionaires grab over two trillion dollars in pandemic
News

US billionaires grab over two trillion dollars in pandemic

It’s right to demand wealth taxes on the billionaires—but the system that produces them also has to go. 
20 October 2021
Pandora Papers expose the greed of the system
News

Pandora Papers expose the greed of the system

Billionaires and politicians who claim there’s not enough money for higher pay and public services have been hoarding trillions away in tax havens
05 October 2021
Pandemic plunder leads to record number of billionaires worldwide
News

Pandemic plunder leads to record number of billionaires worldwide

For the first time ever, the world had more than 3,000 billionaires in 2020.
21 September 2021
‘Tax the rich’ is just the start of what’s needed
What We Think

‘Tax the rich’ is just the start of what’s needed

The Tories this week made workers pay more from their wages so the super-wealthy could protect their inheritances. No wonder that the alternative of taxing the rich is hugely popular.
07 September 2021
Leaked documents show US super-rich pay a pittance in tax
News

Leaked documents show US super-rich pay a pittance in tax

The richest 25 people in the US—including Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett—paid as little as 3.4 percent of their gains in wealth in tax between 2014 and 2018.
09 June 2021
New billionaires cash in on Covid-19 vaccine production
News

New billionaires cash in on Covid-19 vaccine production

Profiting from the Covid-19 vaccine has directly created at least nine new billionaires with a combined wealth of nearly £14 billion.
30 May 2021
Tim: Feckless fatcats
The Troublemaker

Tough year for rich with record rise in billionaires

 According to the The Sunday Times Rich List the combined wealth of Britain’s 250 richest people has grown by a sixth in the past year. It is up from £566 billion to £658 billion.
24 May 2021
Billionaires’ fortunes increase by over 60 percent despite coronavirus crisis
News

Billionaires’ fortunes increase by over 60 percent despite coronavirus crisis

Amid the horrors of the pandemic, the collective wealth of the world’s billionaires exploded by more than 60 percent last year from £5.8 trillion to £9.5 trillion.
08 April 2021
Jeff Bezos - prime suspect
Features

How billionaires grab our money

The world’s billionaires have amassed a fortune of £7.8 trillion through tax scams, inherited wealth—and the hard work of others.
16 October 2020
Billionaires are still cashing in on the Coronavirus crisis
The Troublemaker

Billionaires are still cashing in on the Coronavirus crisis

“Pandemic be damned”. That’s the message from Forbes, which calls itself “the defining voice of ­entrepreneurial capitalism.”
15 September 2020
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Socialist Review Archive

Executive pay rockets again

Bosses’ pay has risen by 21 percent in the past year, while average wages for workers have fallen in real terms. According to a new report from Incomes Data Services (IDS), top executives at the FTSE100 companies now “earn” 120 times as much as the average employee in Britain. Back in 2000 the figure was...
05 November 2014
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Socialist Review Archive

Feeling the squeeze: Workers’ living standards in the economic crisis

Working class living standards are being seriously hit as the economic crisis worsens. As inflation rises and wage repression continues, households' real disposable income is falling. Laura Cooke and Kevin Devine unpick the latest statistics that show the scale of the squeeze
01 November 2011
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Socialist Review Archive

Clearing the poor away

With the poorest set to suffer most from cuts, Danny Dorling looks at the damage the spending review will do to the lives of millions.
01 November 2010
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Socialist Review Archive

Brutal budget to entrench inequality

The first budget of the "progressive" coalition government saw George Osborne promise massive cuts for the poorest in society while offering tax relief for businesses, writes Danny Dorling.
01 July 2010