‘Enough is Enough’: Hundreds of Thousands March Across the UK

‘As wages fall while profits soar, our message is clear… We are here to win.’

Source: ‘Enough is Enough’: Hundreds of Thousands March Across the UK

Wall Street’s Commodity Traders on Track to Break Profit Records

The world’s biggest banks are on track to make a killing in commodities this year, surpassing the record sums they made in the financial crisis.

Source: Wall Street’s Commodity Traders on Track to Break Profit Records – Bloomberg

How the World Trade Organization chose profits over vaccinating Earth’s population against COVID-19

Source: How the World Trade Organization chose profits over vaccinating Earth’s population against COVID-19 – Alternet.org

The Great British Privatization Heist

The UK is going through an energy crisis, with rising prices forcing people to use candles for lighting and unable to turn on their electric cookers when preparing meals. There are calls for a windfall tax on soaring energy company profits, which the Tory government has refused to implement. Predictably, the CEO of National Grid warned that such a tax would “harm reinvestment”.

Source: The Great British Privatization Heist, Some Notes – CounterPunch.org

Progressives Rip Corporations for ‘Using Inflation as a Cover Story to Jack Up Prices and Pad Profits’

“If our nation’s leaders are serious about addressing inflation,” said one union leader, “they’ll hold these big corporations accountable for their price gouging.”

Source: Progressives Rip Corporations for ‘Using Inflation as a Cover Story to Jack Up Prices and Pad Profits’

The NRA Exists to Keep Weapons Profits Booming and Guns in the Hands of the State and Right Wing – Left Voice

The NRA is holding its annual convention just days after the Uvalde school shooting. The group exists to protect gun industry profits and the state’s monopoly on violence, and keep guns in the hands of right-wingers.

Source: The NRA Exists to Keep Weapons Profits Booming and Guns in the Hands of the State and Right Wing – Left Voice

Rising CEO pay stands in stark contrast to the grim economic realities that ordinary workers are facing nationwide as inflation—driven in large part by corporate profits—erodes modest wage gains and expiring pandemic aid leaves vulnerable families without a safety net.”While most of America struggles to put gas in the tank and pay the grocery bills, price-gouging, excessive-profit-taking CEOs used their captive boards to award themselves record pay,” Jennifer Taub, a professor at Western New England University School of Law and an expert on corporate governance, tweeted in response to the Journal’s findings

Source: Median Pay of Top CEOs Hits Record $14.7 Million as Workers Strike Over Starvation Wages

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