Owen Jones: Labour must be bolder – only a wealth tax can defeat inequality

The economic plan behind the EU was convergence. As this article demonstrates, this is not happening on the Eastern and Southern peripheries. No wonder the Romanians keep taking to the streets in protest – or […]

A newspaper expose has reignited debate over the ongoing legacy of debts that Haiti was forced to pay to former colonial ruler France in the 19th century — but the country’s elites are surprisingly keen […]

Here is another case of “Lies, damned lies, and statistics”. A constant Gini coefficient (a statistical representation of the income or wealth distribution of a nation’s populace) does not necessarily mean poverty is not increasing, nor […]