Topic: Corporate power
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.
Wall Street giants set to smash profit records off global hunger, energy crisis
Blog / 14th September 2022Russia's war on Ukraine has wreaked havoc on global commodity markets, driving up energy and food prices and exacerbating hunger emergencies around the world.
Record profits for grain firms amid food crisis prompt calls for windfall tax
News / 25th August 2022Companies at the centre of the global grain trade have enjoyed a record bonanza amid soring food prices around the world, raising concerns of profiteering and speculation in global food markets that could put staples beyond the reach of the poorest.
Envisioning a better world without the WTO
Report / 30th July 2022The outcome of the 12th Ministerial Meeting (MC12) of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) is a big win for rich countries, but a massive defeat for the global South, explains a dossier by Focus on the Global South.
Just two weeks of food billionaire wealth gains could fund anti-hunger effort in East Africa
Blog / 19th July 2022While one person is dying every 48 seconds in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia alone, Oxfam report that food billionaires have increased their collective wealth by $382 billion since 2020.
‘Profiting from Pain’: Covid created a billionaire every 30 hours
Report / 24th May 2022As the cost of essential goods rises faster than it has in decades, billionaires in the food and energy sectors are increasing their fortunes by $1 billion every two days, according to Oxfam.