For a billionaire tax!
Peter Boyle | greenleft.org.au | 2021-05-28
Greens leader Adam Bandt announced in March that his party would campaign in the next federal election for a 6% annual tax on the net wealth held by Australia's 122 billionaires. | This, he explained, would raise about $40 billion a year. In addition, the Greens are campaigning for a super profits tax on corporations earning above $100 million a year. | As Australia's billionaires increased their wealth by 34% since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, while the wages share of national income dropped to a historic low, this would be a modest proportion of the growing inequality. | The personal wealth of Australia'…
greenleft.org.au/content/billionaire-tax

UK billionaire wealth explodes amid devastation of the working class
wsws.org | 2021-05-28
The richest 250 people on the Rich List increased their wealth by 16.3 percent, up to £658.1 billion. The 171 billionaires increased their combined wealth by £106.5 billion (21.7 percent) to £597.3 billion.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/05/28/strl-m28.html

How a Third Reconstruction Could End American Poverty
Jeffrey Sachs | zcomm.org | 2021-05-28
The Third Reconstruction should aim to end — once and for all — the oligarchy of rich Whites by creating an America in which all are equal at the voting booth, the school, the clinic and the workplace…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/how-a-third-reconstruction-could-end-american-poverty/

College Athletes Often Go Hungry. Sanders and Murphy Want to Fix That
Staff | truthout.org | 2021-05-28
Senators Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) and Chris Murphy (D-Connecticut) introduced a bill Thursday to grant college athletes the right to collectively bargain and organize. | The College Athlete Right to Organize Act, which was also introduced in the House by Representatives Jamaal Bowman (D-New York), Andy Levin (D-Michigan) and Lori Trahan (D-Massachusetts), could help shift the balance of power between college athletes, who are unpaid, and the often wealthy coaches and administrators who virtually co…
truthout.org/articles/college-athletes-often-go-hungry-sanders-and-murphy-want-to-fix-that/

The Paris Commune: 'In future we will turn the guns on you'
Jenny Farrell | peoplesworld.org | 2021-05-28
As we mark the 150th anniversary of the French proletariat's heroic first bid to set up La Commune in Paris, let us examine German playwright Bertolt Brecht's interpretation of this great event in his play The Days of the Commune. The Commune broke out spontaneously on March 18, 1871. War with Germany, hardship, unemployment, and …
peoplesworld.org/article/the-paris-commune-in-future-we-will-turn-the-guns-on-you/

Andrew Yang Doesn't Know What He's Talking About
Liza Featherstone | thenation.com | 2021-05-28
Andrew Yang Doesn't Know What He's Talking About…
thenation.com/article/politics/andrew-yang-nyc-mayor-race/

America Cannot Afford Another Lost Decade for Black Workers
Tanya Wallace-Gobern | counterpunch.org | 2021-05-27
Black workers have been hit hardest by the pandemic. We are more likely to lose income because of Covid-related layoffs and shutdowns, and by last August–five months into the pandemic–Black unemployment was nearly double that of white unemployment. But the impact is not just economic. We are three times more likely to be exposed to…
counterpunch.org/2021/05/27/america-cannot-afford-another-lost-decade-for-black-workers/

GOP offers inadequate infrastructure plan that lets the rich off free
John Wojcik | peoplesworld.org | 2021-05-27
WASHINGTON–Republican senators outlined a $928 billion infrastructure proposal Thursday that drastically slashes what President Joe Biden has proposed and sets things up so that the wealthy, unlike the rest of the country, will pay nothing toward fixing the nation's crumbling infrastructure. In fact, in what is perhaps the most unacceptable part of their "counter-offer" to …
peoplesworld.org/article/gop-offers-inadequate-infrastructure-plan-that-lets-the-rich-off-free/

What has the working class gotten from the Biden administration so far?
Joel Wendland-Liu | peoplesworld.org | 2021-05-27
Reports say Biden has dropped his limited proposals to cancel student loan debt. The most recent draft of the administration's budget eliminates key promises, including a public option for health insurance, important programs to address climate change, and a proposed wealth tax. The White House claimed that it took these steps to strengthen its position …
peoplesworld.org/article/what-has-the-working-class-gotten-from-the-biden-administration-so-far/

GOP offers inadequate infrastructure plan that lets the rich off free
John Wojcik | peoplesworld.org | 2021-05-27
WASHINGTON–Republican senators outlined a $928 billion infrastructure proposal Thursday that drastically slashes what President Joe Biden has proposed and sets things up so that the wealthy, unlike the rest of the country, will pay nothing toward fixing the nation's crumbling infrastructure. In fact, in what is perhaps the most unacceptable part of their "counter-offer" to …
peoplesworld.org/article/gop-offers-inadequate-infrastructure-plan-that-lets-the-rich-off-free/

Secret Documents Expose British Cloak and Dagger Activities in Lebanon
Kit Klarenberg | covertactionmagazine.com | 2021-05-27
Classified UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) documents released by hacktivist collective Anonymous raise serious questions about London's cloak-and-dagger activities in Lebanon, and whether they may have led to the ouster of the country's government. Due to Lebanon's position at the crossroads of the Mediterranean Basin and Arabia, and borders with Israel and Syria, …
covertactionmagazine.com/2021/05/27/secret-documents-expose-british-cloak-and-dagger-activities-in-lebanon/

Protests over struggling economy and unemployment in Oman enter fourth day
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2021-05-27
The police crackdown on protesters using British-manufactured tear gas has led a UK-based campaign group to demand the review of sale of arms and riot/crowd control equipment to the Gulf state by the British government…
peoplesdispatch.org/2021/05/27/protests-over-struggling-economy-and-unemployment-in-oman-enter-fourth-day/

The History of Publishing Is a History of Racial Inequality
Rosemarie Ho | thenation.com | 2021-05-27
The History of Publishing Is a History of Racial Inequality…
thenation.com/article/culture/richard-jean-so-redlining-culture-interview/