23+ YEARS OF LOVE AND ACTIVISM .
‘Tis the season of love! What better way to celebrate Valentine’s on EQUALS than with a couple that met in the fight against equality and are still going strong over 23 years later?! Njoki Njehu and Soren Ambrose, a couple deep in the fight against…
The Radical Case for Care
For Jayati Ghosh – a world-leading rebel economist – “feminism is not only about promoting the rights of women, it’s about equality, empowerment for all and economic justice … this (neoliberal) economic model is blatantly against economic justice. It’s completely incompatible with feminism”. For Jayati…
Should we abolish billionaires?
We are kicking off 2020 with a new season of our Equals podcast, with a great interview with the person described as ‘the self-appointed scourge of well-meaning plutocrats everywhere’, Anand Ghiridharadas, the author of the brilliant book, ‘Winners take all: the Elite Charade of Changing…
Getting Even: Fighting Inequality in Asia
By Max Lawson Head of Inequality Policy at Oxfam International & EQUALS Podcast co-host Having spent much of my career studying or working on Africa, I remember the first time I went to East Asia with work. I remember thinking ‘so this is what development…
Patriarchy and Plutocracy
By Max Lawson Head of Inequality Policy at Oxfam International & EQUALS Podcast co-host Recent decades have seen millions of women participating in formal employment for the first time, which can often be an empowering and liberating experience. Yet all too often it seems to…
Kenya, Colonialism and British Brutality
By Max Lawson Head of Inequality Policy at Oxfam International & EQUALS Podcast co-host Together with slavery, colonialism was in many ways the original sin of today’s modern inequality, forcibly creating huge disparities of wealth across the world. Country after country lives with this legacy…
Fuelling or Fighting? Aid and Inequality
Aid does not have many friends. The right hate it as a wasteful giveaway to corrupt foreigners. The right-wing press in the never calls it ‘aid’ alone, but only ever ‘foreign aid’, with all the racist and pejorative implications that the word ‘foreign’ has. Those…
International Women’s Day and the Russian Revolution
By Max Lawson Head of Inequality Policy at Oxfam International & EQUALS Podcast co-host The history of International Women’s Day is fascinating. An international day for women was proposed by Clara Zetkin (pictured below with Rosa Luxembourg) and others at the International Socialist Women’s conference…
Can Ideas Get Us to a More Equal World?
By Max Lawson Head of Inequality Policy at Oxfam International & EQUALS Podcast co-host Dear Friends, ‘The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed, the world is ruled…