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In 2021, let’s ring a global alarm on inequality that everyone can hear

Blog / 29th January 2021

As billionaire wealth soars during the pandemic, we may have seen the greatest ever single-year redistribution of wealth to the already wealthy. Influencers worldwide need to be sounding the alarm, writes Sam Pizzigati.

India just had the biggest protest in world history - will it make a difference?

Blog / 27th December 2020

In late November, what may have been the single largest protest in human history took place in India, as upward of 250 million people around the subcontinent participated in a 24-hour general strike in solidarity with farmers. 

Human Rights Day: The fight for rights goes on for food and housing

Blog / 13th December 2020

Campaigners are calling for a right to food and a right to housing to be given legal backing in the UK for the first time, writes Liam Geraghty for the Big Issue.

COVID-19 compounding inequalities

Blog / 20th November 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted many existing inequalities, and may worsen divergence among countries. While the poor have struggled to survive, the world’s billionaires have done “extremely well”, report Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury.