The Privatization of Education and Plunder of Common Goods
What happens when basic public goods become a private, paid for service, education becomes a profit-turning treadmill and meanwhile millions...
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Muskism: How Big Tech Is Reshaping Power, Politics, and Democracy
This week on EQUALS , we explore “Muskism” — the growing power of tech billionaires and what it means for democracy, inequality, and the fut...
War, Oil, and Inequality: Who Wins and Who Loses
In this episode, Adam Hanieh explains why crises like war, financial shocks, and pandemics don’t stay where they start. They move through th...
The Inequality Emergency: The Case for an International Panel on Inequality
In this episode, we move beyond measuring inequality to examine how it is lived and experienced by people who are affected by it and why tha...
The Making of the International Panel on Inequality
From rising billionaire wealth to dying public services, the gap between who has and who doesn’t is widening almost everywhere. Costs are cl...
Is Norway Really Equal? The Truth About Wealth Inequality
Norway is often seen as one of the most equal countries in the world. But is it really? In this episode Trine Østereng unpacks the reality b...
Capitalism vs Socialism: What’s Better for Women’s Rights?
Why do women’s rights advance in some societies — and decline in others? In this episode, historian and gender scholar Kristen Ghodsee expla...
Beyond the Political Noise: How Migrants Are Used as Scapegoats for the Real Crisis
Is the immigration debate really about borders — or is it a political smokescreen? In this episode, we unpack how migrants are often turned...
Who Pays When Countries Fall into Debt?
When countries fall into debt, who actually pays the price? In this episode, we talk to Matthew Martin, a passionate advocate for debt relie...
Resisting the Rule of Repression
Most activists don’t wilfully choose a life of protest. But sometimes, we are left with no other option. In this episode we speak with three...
Gary Stevenson on Wealth Inequality and Falling Living Standards
“What you have here is a long-term systemic transfer of wealth away from middle classes, away from rich governments and towards a small supe...
The Great Global Wealth Transfer — Thomas Piketty on Inequality
Did you know that governments in Europe are able to spend 40 times more per child on education than governments in Sub-Saharan Africa? In th...
Health Apartheid | Private Profit vs Public Health — How South Africa Is Fighting Back
What happens when healthcare becomes a financial asset? In this episode, Anna Marriott and Dr. Aquina Thulare break down the dangers of heal...
From Typhoon Haiyan to COP30: Marinel Ubaldo on Climate Justice and What COP30 Must Deliver
When Super Typhoon Haiyan tore through the Philippines, 16-year-old Marinel Ubaldo watched her world wash away and learned a truth million o...
A Hopeful Tipping Point: The Legal Win That Could Stop New Fossil Fuels
When an oil site was approved near her home, Sarah Finch didn’t just protest, she took her fight to the UK Supreme Court. And won. In this p...
Do We Need Billionaires? Can Private Money Serve the Public Good?
Can finance be part of the solution to inequality? Following philosopher Dr. Ingrid Robeyns’ call to ask “How much wealth is too much?” , we...
The War on Women: Gaza, Genocide, and the Fight for Peace
Around the world, peace talks too often exclude the very people holding communities together. In this powerful episode, Max and Grazielle si...
How Much Wealth Is Too Much? Ingrid Robeyns on the Case for Limitarianism
Can a society survive when a few own everything? Philosopher Ingrid Robeyns joins EQUALS to make the case for limitarianism , the radical ye...
A Force for Good: Trade Unions Fighting for Dignity and Democracy.
From the trenches of war in Ukraine, to strikes against austerity in the UK, and the struggle for migrant workers’ rights in South Korea, tr...
Workers vs. the Billionaire Coup – Conversation with Luc Triangle
EQUALS is back with a brand-new season! We open our 8th season with Luc Triangle, General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confede...