Topic: Corporate power
Big business’ windfall profits rocket to “obscene” $1 trillion a year amid cost-of-living crisis
Report / 7th July 2023The world’s biggest corporations together raked in over $1 trillion in windfall profits each year for the past two years amid soaring prices and interest rates, while billions of people are having to cut back or go hungry.
Top five arms exporters hit yearly sales of $85 billion as 9,000 people die from conflict-driven hunger every day
Blog / 9th June 2023Global military spending reached $2.2 trillion last year, enough to cover the UN appeal for global humanitarian needs more than 42 times.
Food corporations paid shareholders $53.5bn while millions went hungry
Article / 2nd June 2023Without food sovereignty, private businesses will continue profiteering at the expense of the planet, writes Davi Martins.
War costs us the Earth: Global Days of Action on Military Spending
Blog / 22nd April 2023STWR joins the call for governments to change course and focus on rapid, deep cuts to military spending that are driving an arms race and fueling war. 'War costs the earth', says the Global Campaign on Military Spending.
‘Profiteering’ of Covid pandemic must never be repeated, world figures warn
News / 13th March 2023A scathing open letter from world leaders calls on governments to “never again” allow “profiteering and nationalism” to come before the needs of humanity in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
Unchecked, unregulated, unaccountable: how big agribusiness corporations get rich amid crisis
Report / 28th February 2023The world’s biggest agribusiness corporations made more in billion-dollar profits since 2020 than the amount that the UN estimates could cover the basic needs of the world’s most vulnerable, a new report has found.
The scramble to help Ukraine shows the need for more, better aid
Blog / 9th February 2023There is no shortage of money - only a shortage of political will to create a fairer world where prosperity is better shared, writes Gabriela Bucher.
Our Future is Public: The Santiago Declaration for Public Services
Article / 19th January 2023STWR join hundreds of organisations in signing the Santiago Declaration against the commercialisation and privatisation of public services.
Taxing super-profits to beat inflation and defend human rights
Blog / 16th December 2022Pandemics, wars and recessions do not exempt states from human-rights commitments. They must tax multinationals and the richest more to protect the most vulnerable, writes Magdalena Sepúlveda for Social Europe.
Where is the mass mobilized movement for Medicare for All?
Blog / 1st October 2022It wouldn't take more than 1% of the U.S. population to rise up and get organized behind key popular demands to make them a reality - and yet we continue to endlessly wait, writes Ralph Nader in Common Dreams.