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US Billionaires Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates
THE 10 richest people on Earth have doubled their wealth during the pandemic — while 99 per cent of the human race has got poorer, Oxfam revealed in a devastating report today.
Labour leftwingers echoed the charity’s call for a wealth tax following the findings in the Inequality Kills study, which said 21,300 people die every day from inequality amounting to “economic violence.”
The grotesque fortunes of billionaire moguls including Amazon top dog Jeff Bezos and Tesla tycoon Elon Musk have grown more during the coronavirus crisis than in the previous 14 years, Oxfam said.
Climate justice and workers’ rights movements are uniting to make the rich pay for our transition to a green economy, writes assistant general secretary of PCS JOHN MOLONEY, ahead of a major demonstration on September 20
RICHARD BURGON MP points to the recent relative success of widespread opposition to the Labour leadership’s regressive policies as the blueprint for exacting the changes required to build a fairer society
