poverty
Trump makes more false promises to the working class

Former president Trump’s first speech following the attempted assassination against him was an appeal to workers from a pro-boss candidate

Milei’s unfinished promises: Argentina has the highest inflation in the world

Javier Milei’s right-wing government promised to stop inflation in Argentina, and has thus far failed

Los trabajadores migrantes enriquecen al mundo

Los inmigrantes son cruciales para la reducción de la pobreza y para generar riqueza en la sociedad, pero son tratados como criminales, abandonados por sus propios países que prefieren gastar cantidades vulgares de dinero para atraer inversiones de mucho menos impacto a través de corporaciones multinacionales.

Migrating workers provide wealth for the world

Migrants are crucial for poverty reduction and for building wealth in society, but are treated as criminals, abandoned by their own countries who would rather spend vulgar amounts of money to attract much less impactful investment through multinational corporations

White residents of Baton Rouge, Louisiana to form separate city in move termed “neo-segregationist”

A group of wealthy white residents of the Black-majority Louisiana city of Baton Rouge have been permitted to split from the city by the state’s Supreme Court

Argentine women unite against austerity and attacks on rights on International Working Women’s Day

Thousands filled the streets of the Argentine capital and cities across the country to reject Milei’s war on working women.

A mass grave of hundreds of poor and oppressed people found in Mississippi

The extent of the mass grave became widely known after a Black man was run over by a police vehicle and buried in an unmarked grave, unbeknownst to his family

Concerns grow over global cholera trends

The number of cholera cases worldwide continues to grow, with countries in eastern and southern Africa being the most heavily affected. Experts call for improving access to hygiene and clean water and are concerned about the shortage of vaccines

Carbon emissions from richest 1% pose fatal threat to humanity

The richest 1% of the world’s population has emitted the same amount of carbon as the poorest two-thirds. The emissions by the ultra-wealthy in 2019 alone were enough to kill 1.3 million people

When we speak about humanity we speak about socialism, says leader of South African shack dwellers’ movement

Thapelo Mohapi, General Secretary of Abahlali baseMjondolo, speaks to Peoples Dispatch on the eve of the International Dilemmas of Humanity conference

We can do better than the Sustainable Development Goals model

In this interview, Vijay Prashad points out how summits on sustainable development goals often end with only calls for increasing funding which serves merely as band-aid. Ending hunger, poverty, and the other crises of our time requires greater political will and structural changes

Dutch protests rising poverty Socialists in the Netherlands accuse government of failing to combat rising poverty

Proposals in the 2024 budget presented by the caretaker government on Prince’s Day have been deemed as inadequate to mitigate the rise in poverty amid a severe cost of living and housing crisis