Global Inequality
UNICEF report: Half a million women die from pregnancy complications each year
By Oliver Richards, January 20, 2009
A report by UNICEF finds that women living in the least developed countries of the world are 300 times more likely to die as a result of childbirth or pregnancy-related complications than women living...
Faces of foreclosure in Pittsburgh
Working class families feel brunt of housing crisis
By Samuel Davidson, December 22, 2008
The WSWS spoke to homeowners threatened with foreclosure at a recent meeting in Pittsburgh.
Nearly 1 billion of world’s people face chronic hunger
By Oliver Richards, December 13, 2008
The number of undernourished people in the world has increased from 923 million in 2007 to 963 million in 2008.
Michigan GM worker answers attack by New York Times columnist
By Jerry White, November 27, 2008
The WSWS spoke to GM worker Kandy O’Neil, inviting her to respond to a New York Times column criticizing her for insisting that auto workers should not be forced to pay for the crisis in the industr...
Death toll, public outrage rise in aftermath of Haiti school collapse
By Naomi Spencer, November 11, 2008
At least 94 school children have been killed, and at least 150 more injured, as a result of last Friday’s collapse of a school in Petionville, Haiti. Rescue workers continued to search through the r...
Britain: Labour, the Conservatives and the oligarchs
By Julie Hyland, October 25, 2008
A row over relations between Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska, Labour’s Peter Mandelson and Conservative Party shadow chancellor George Osborne has brought to light the intimate relations between ...
Ethiopian famine significantly worsens as Western powers fail to respond
By Barry Mason, October 11, 2008
Oxfam has reported that the number of Ethiopians needing emergency food assistance has jumped to 6.4 million from 4.6 million in June.
Britain: Forty percent of children live in poverty
By Peter Reydt, October 3, 2008
More than 40 percent of children in the United Kingdom are living in poverty, according to the latest research. That is some 5.5 million children.
WHO report discloses extent of global health inequality
By Barry Mason, September 25, 2008
In August the World Health Organisation (WHO) published a report, “Closing the gap in a generation: Health equity through action on the social determinants of health.”
Germany: Right wing seizes leadership of the SPD
The role of the Left Party
By Ulrich Rippert, September 17, 2008
The early appointment of Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier as the SPD candidate for chancellor in next year’s federal elections, and the hurried change of party leader from Kurt Beck to F...
Germany: New study shows “upturn” only benefits the wealthy
Wage-dumping
By Dietmar Henning, September 16, 2008
At the end of May this year, employment minister Olaf Scholz (Social Democratic Party, SPD) presented the federal government’s report on poverty and wealth, based on data up to 2006. The report ...
Stockholm conference told 1 billion people without access to safe water
By Barry Mason, September 10, 2008
World Water Week, attended by around 2,500 scientists, government and civil society representatives from 140 countries, took place in Stockholm last month. It was held under the auspices of the Stockh...
