GUIDE TO THIS MONTH'S ARTICLES - January / February 2023
The Cost of Greed Crisis
Prices of everyday essentials are increasing really fast around the world.That increases poverty as people's wages are not increasing. But suffering for many people – from fuel poverty to forecasts of famine – means very big profits for the few. We look at what’s behind this crisis of inequality, and how we get out of it.
From this issue:
Prices are rising everywhere. People are suffering. Big companies are making big profits.The cost of living crisis, like the climate crisis, is a crisis of inequality. Now is the time to say enough is enough. Why are we in this crisis? What are the answers?
There is poverty and hunger in our world today. There is enough food for everyone. The problem is that food is there to make profits and not for people. Read about how we can do the opposite: we can build an economy for people and not for profit.
Indigenous communities win protests against big fossil fuel companies and there is more good news.
Thousands of women go to the Middle East to find jobs every year. Read about the problems migrant workers face in Arab countries and in the Gulf Co-operation Council states.
Mohamad Hafez is a Syrian-American architect and artist. He talks about how he is homesick for Syria and how his art is about that.
