Topic: Corporate power
"Replacing hunger with malnutrition": Former UN official calls out African Green Revolution
Blog / 26th August 2020The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa is repeating the failed policies of the past and risks pushing back further the struggle against hunger and malnutrition, explains Timothy Wise for IATP.
The world needs a ‘people’s vaccine’ for coronavirus, not a big-pharma monopoly
Blog / 27th July 2020No private company should have monopoly rights over a Covid-19 vaccine; this is a public resource that should be contributed to the World Health Organisation’s Technology Access Pool and shared for the benefit of all, writes Helen Clark and Winnie Byanyima.
Financial markets can’t be trusted to solve pandemics
Blog / 11th March 2020If the coronavirus has any positive impact, let it prompt us to learn the limitations of the market and the urgent need for regulation, taxation and public services, says Nick Dearden for Al Jazeera.
Beirut and Santiago in the streets: Why multinationals should pay their fair share of taxes
Blog / 7th January 2020If multinationals—and the super-rich—do not pay their fair share of taxes, governments cannot invest in access to education, health care, and decent pensions, or take measures to mitigate and adapt to the climate crisis.
Read STWR's flagship book: ‘Heralding Article 25’
News / 1st January 2020Share The World’s Resources (STWR) have released a book version of the pioneering publication by Mohammed Sofiane Mesbahi, titled 'Heralding Article 25: A people's strategy for world transformation'.
Eine Einführung in das globale wirtschaftliche Teilen
Report / 16th November 2019In einer zunehmend ungleichen und nicht nachhaltigen Welt müssen die Regierungen dringend die restriktiven politischen und wirtschaftlichen Ideologien der Vergangenheit überwinden und Lösungen finden, die den gemeinsamen Bedürfnissen der Menschen in allen Ländern gerecht werden.
Much “foreign aid” Is taxpayer-funded plundering of the global south
Article / 25th September 2019In actuality, USAID has been a taxpayer-supported program for neocolonial exploiters requiring long-term protection at public expense, writes Barbara G. Ellis for Truthout.
We could eliminate extreme global poverty if multinationals paid their taxes
Article / 23rd August 2019If we recouped the annual global revenue losses due to multinational tax avoidance, we could literally eliminate extreme income poverty around the world, writes Alex Cobham for Truthout.
What happened to the WHO’s social justice project?
Article / 23rd May 2019The solution to the problem of resources for health is not for public bodies to go begging to the private sector or to celebrity philanthropists. The solution today, as it was at Alma Ata 40 years ago, is economic justice and an adequate tax base at national and international levels, writes Alison Katz for the People’s Health Movement.
The ‘green new deal’ supported by Ocasio-Cortez and Corbyn is just a new form of colonialism
Blog / 7th May 2019In the new energy revolution, we risk perpetuating the belief that rich countries are entitled to a greater share of the world’s finite resources irrespective of who we impoverish in doing so, or the destruction we cause. By Asad Rehman.