Max Lawson
@maxlawsontin.bsky.social
Head of Inequality Policy at Oxfam. Co-host EQUALS podcast.
Absolutely loved doing this interview with three frontline union organisers from the UK, Korea and the Ukraine. Do have a listen- A Force for Good: Trade Unions Fighting for Dignity and Democracy. www.equals.ink/p/trade-unio...
A Force for Good: Trade Unions Fighting for Dignity and Democracy.
How Trade Unions are fighting for dignity and democracy in wartime, repression and austerity.
www.equals.ink
September 24, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Absolutely loved doing this interview with three frontline union organisers from the UK, Korea and the Ukraine. Do have a listen- A Force for Good: Trade Unions Fighting for Dignity and Democracy. www.equals.ink/p/trade-unio...
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I was honoured to be invited to today’s memorial service in Srebrenica, 30 years since 8,372 Muslim men and boys were slaughtered while the world looked away.
In their memory, we speak out against Israel’s genocide in Gaza and governments — including our own — enabling it.
In their memory, we speak out against Israel’s genocide in Gaza and governments — including our own — enabling it.
July 11, 2025 at 8:46 PM
I was honoured to be invited to today’s memorial service in Srebrenica, 30 years since 8,372 Muslim men and boys were slaughtered while the world looked away.
In their memory, we speak out against Israel’s genocide in Gaza and governments — including our own — enabling it.
In their memory, we speak out against Israel’s genocide in Gaza and governments — including our own — enabling it.
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BREAKING: Israeli Settlers Kill American Citizen in Occupied West Bank, Family Says
Sayfollah Musallet was visiting his family when settlers allegedly beat him unconscious and blocked an ambulance from reaching, @premthakker.bsky.social reports.
Read the full story:
zeteo.com/p/breaking-i...
Sayfollah Musallet was visiting his family when settlers allegedly beat him unconscious and blocked an ambulance from reaching, @premthakker.bsky.social reports.
Read the full story:
zeteo.com/p/breaking-i...
BREAKING: Israeli Settlers Kill American Citizen in Occupied West Bank, Family Says
Sayfollah Musallet was visiting his family in the village of Al-Mazra'a ash-Sharqiya when settlers allegedly beat him unconscious and blocked an ambulance from reaching him for hours.
zeteo.com
July 11, 2025 at 8:32 PM
BREAKING: Israeli Settlers Kill American Citizen in Occupied West Bank, Family Says
Sayfollah Musallet was visiting his family when settlers allegedly beat him unconscious and blocked an ambulance from reaching, @premthakker.bsky.social reports.
Read the full story:
zeteo.com/p/breaking-i...
Sayfollah Musallet was visiting his family when settlers allegedly beat him unconscious and blocked an ambulance from reaching, @premthakker.bsky.social reports.
Read the full story:
zeteo.com/p/breaking-i...
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While western authorities continue to hyperventilate about #DeathToTheIDF, the IDF just bombed a cafe where journalists are known to gather as part of their ongoing project to kill as many journalists as possible
June 30, 2025 at 2:32 PM
While western authorities continue to hyperventilate about #DeathToTheIDF, the IDF just bombed a cafe where journalists are known to gather as part of their ongoing project to kill as many journalists as possible
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As the #FFD4 Summit starts in Seville, we take stock of what's at stake.
📈 Inequality at record highs
🌍 A climate crisis accelerating
💰 $33.9 trillion gained by the richest 1% since 2015
The demand?
#TaxTheSuperRich for people and planet.
Let’s make this a turning point!
📈 Inequality at record highs
🌍 A climate crisis accelerating
💰 $33.9 trillion gained by the richest 1% since 2015
The demand?
#TaxTheSuperRich for people and planet.
Let’s make this a turning point!
June 30, 2025 at 3:19 PM
As the #FFD4 Summit starts in Seville, we take stock of what's at stake.
📈 Inequality at record highs
🌍 A climate crisis accelerating
💰 $33.9 trillion gained by the richest 1% since 2015
The demand?
#TaxTheSuperRich for people and planet.
Let’s make this a turning point!
📈 Inequality at record highs
🌍 A climate crisis accelerating
💰 $33.9 trillion gained by the richest 1% since 2015
The demand?
#TaxTheSuperRich for people and planet.
Let’s make this a turning point!
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What does #ClimateChange have to do with #inflation?
A lot, actually.
Our researcher @jordischroeder.bsky.social breaks it down in the @equalshope.bsky.social podcast - from crop failures to rising electricity prices, and why it all hits the most vulnerable hardest.
podfollow.com/equals/episo...
A lot, actually.
Our researcher @jordischroeder.bsky.social breaks it down in the @equalshope.bsky.social podcast - from crop failures to rising electricity prices, and why it all hits the most vulnerable hardest.
podfollow.com/equals/episo...
May 12, 2025 at 8:16 AM
What does #ClimateChange have to do with #inflation?
A lot, actually.
Our researcher @jordischroeder.bsky.social breaks it down in the @equalshope.bsky.social podcast - from crop failures to rising electricity prices, and why it all hits the most vulnerable hardest.
podfollow.com/equals/episo...
A lot, actually.
Our researcher @jordischroeder.bsky.social breaks it down in the @equalshope.bsky.social podcast - from crop failures to rising electricity prices, and why it all hits the most vulnerable hardest.
podfollow.com/equals/episo...
Ever wonder what role Central Banks play in fuelling inequality? Too important to be left to unelected bureaucrats- Banking on inequality www.equals.ink/p/banking-on...
Banking on inequality
Demystifying the relationship between decisions made at central banks and inequality.
www.equals.ink
May 19, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Ever wonder what role Central Banks play in fuelling inequality? Too important to be left to unelected bureaucrats- Banking on inequality www.equals.ink/p/banking-on...
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Great new action in Washington DC: A long-term encampment of illegally fired federal workers & other concerned people set up yesterday in the shadow of the Capitol building.
SOLIDARITY CITY aka "Muskville" invoking Depression era Hoovervilles. They've put out a call for supporters to join them.
SOLIDARITY CITY aka "Muskville" invoking Depression era Hoovervilles. They've put out a call for supporters to join them.
Home | Solidarity City
Solidarity City is a month-long organizing event in the heart of Washington, DC, taking place at Columbus Circle starting on April 20. Nicknamed "Muskville," this in-person organizing space will provi...
www.solidaritycity.org
April 21, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Great new action in Washington DC: A long-term encampment of illegally fired federal workers & other concerned people set up yesterday in the shadow of the Capitol building.
SOLIDARITY CITY aka "Muskville" invoking Depression era Hoovervilles. They've put out a call for supporters to join them.
SOLIDARITY CITY aka "Muskville" invoking Depression era Hoovervilles. They've put out a call for supporters to join them.
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“A recent YouGov poll found Ocasio-Cortez had a +61 approval rating among Democrats — the highest of any Democrat polled who hasn't run for president or vice president.”
AOC seizes the moment as Democrats seek a new identity
Tapping into the backlash against Trump, she's building her own progressive political machine.
www.axios.com
April 21, 2025 at 10:56 PM
“A recent YouGov poll found Ocasio-Cortez had a +61 approval rating among Democrats — the highest of any Democrat polled who hasn't run for president or vice president.”
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"almost every night since Oct 2023, even during his hospitalization, Pope Francis made a daily phone call to the only Catholic parish in the Gaza Strip to check on their safety and offer words of prayer and support. His last public act, the day before he died, was to call for a ceasefire in Gaza."
BREAKING: Pope Francis Dies at 88. Here's How He Should Be Remembered
The late pontiff was a progressive pope who was outspoken on Trump, Gaza, the climate, and more.
zeteo.com
April 21, 2025 at 5:36 PM
"almost every night since Oct 2023, even during his hospitalization, Pope Francis made a daily phone call to the only Catholic parish in the Gaza Strip to check on their safety and offer words of prayer and support. His last public act, the day before he died, was to call for a ceasefire in Gaza."
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Breaking News: The Trump administration said it would pause tariffs on cars coming into the United States from Canada and Mexico for one month.
Trump Live Updates: Supreme Court Rejects Foreign Aid Freeze and Latest Tariff News
www.nytimes.com
March 5, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Breaking News: The Trump administration said it would pause tariffs on cars coming into the United States from Canada and Mexico for one month.
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Trump's "golden age of America" so far...
-Inflation ⬆️
-Stock market ⬇️
-Thousands of layoffs
-Consumer & worker protections gutted
-Diseases spreading
-Federal funding illegally frozen
-$10 million+ spent on golf
-An unelected billionaire lining his pockets at our expense
-Inflation ⬆️
-Stock market ⬇️
-Thousands of layoffs
-Consumer & worker protections gutted
-Diseases spreading
-Federal funding illegally frozen
-$10 million+ spent on golf
-An unelected billionaire lining his pockets at our expense
March 5, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Trump's "golden age of America" so far...
-Inflation ⬆️
-Stock market ⬇️
-Thousands of layoffs
-Consumer & worker protections gutted
-Diseases spreading
-Federal funding illegally frozen
-$10 million+ spent on golf
-An unelected billionaire lining his pockets at our expense
-Inflation ⬆️
-Stock market ⬇️
-Thousands of layoffs
-Consumer & worker protections gutted
-Diseases spreading
-Federal funding illegally frozen
-$10 million+ spent on golf
-An unelected billionaire lining his pockets at our expense
I wrote this over the weekend about the urgent need to defend life-saving aid, and some ideas about how we can do so. open.substack.com/pub/equals/p...
Defending Aid
Why and end to aid is a terrible thing.
open.substack.com
February 19, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I wrote this over the weekend about the urgent need to defend life-saving aid, and some ideas about how we can do so. open.substack.com/pub/equals/p...
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Join us on March 10th at 5.30pm for a our next DLD conversation on how inequality affects development and what can be done about it - with the brilliant
@faizashaheen.bsky.social, @maxlawsontin.bsky.social and Ha-Joon Chang.
Register here: soas.ac.uk/about/event/...
@faizashaheen.bsky.social, @maxlawsontin.bsky.social and Ha-Joon Chang.
Register here: soas.ac.uk/about/event/...
February 17, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Join us on March 10th at 5.30pm for a our next DLD conversation on how inequality affects development and what can be done about it - with the brilliant
@faizashaheen.bsky.social, @maxlawsontin.bsky.social and Ha-Joon Chang.
Register here: soas.ac.uk/about/event/...
@faizashaheen.bsky.social, @maxlawsontin.bsky.social and Ha-Joon Chang.
Register here: soas.ac.uk/about/event/...
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I had a very interesting chat with @maxlawsontin.bsky.social and Nafkote Dabi about the current chaos in the world economy!
www.equals.ink/p/vulture-ca...
www.equals.ink/p/vulture-ca...
VULTURE CAPITALISM UNVEILED with Grace Blakeley.
Grace Blakeley on the Oligarchs' Grip on Our Economy
www.equals.ink
February 14, 2025 at 11:19 AM
I had a very interesting chat with @maxlawsontin.bsky.social and Nafkote Dabi about the current chaos in the world economy!
www.equals.ink/p/vulture-ca...
www.equals.ink/p/vulture-ca...
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"No to ethnic cleansing": over 350 rabbis sign NYT ad assailing Trump’s Gaza plan
I'm no rabbi but I signed it too. Grateful to the organizers.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I'm no rabbi but I signed it too. Grateful to the organizers.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘No to ethnic cleansing’: over 350 rabbis sign US ad assailing Trump’s Gaza plan
Jewish creatives and activists also sign New York Times ad after US president’s proposal to ‘take over Gaza’
www.theguardian.com
February 13, 2025 at 7:54 PM
"No to ethnic cleansing": over 350 rabbis sign NYT ad assailing Trump’s Gaza plan
I'm no rabbi but I signed it too. Grateful to the organizers.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I'm no rabbi but I signed it too. Grateful to the organizers.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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"Do we govern global taxation or do we let the wealthiest few govern us?"
Powerful messages from
Pres Sanchez
Pres Lula
Former Pres Mbeki
@abigaildisney.bsky.social
@josephestiglitz.bsky.social
@jayatighosh.bsky.social
at @icrict.bsky.social's Vatican event today taxjustice.net/press/govern...
Powerful messages from
Pres Sanchez
Pres Lula
Former Pres Mbeki
@abigaildisney.bsky.social
@josephestiglitz.bsky.social
@jayatighosh.bsky.social
at @icrict.bsky.social's Vatican event today taxjustice.net/press/govern...
‘Govern on tax, or be governed by the wealthiest’: global leaders, Pope, top economists call for taxes to protect democracy | Tax Justice Network
The Vatican is hosting today an event together with the Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation (ICRICT), where Pope Francis, along with current and former heads of s...
taxjustice.net
February 13, 2025 at 11:42 AM
"Do we govern global taxation or do we let the wealthiest few govern us?"
Powerful messages from
Pres Sanchez
Pres Lula
Former Pres Mbeki
@abigaildisney.bsky.social
@josephestiglitz.bsky.social
@jayatighosh.bsky.social
at @icrict.bsky.social's Vatican event today taxjustice.net/press/govern...
Powerful messages from
Pres Sanchez
Pres Lula
Former Pres Mbeki
@abigaildisney.bsky.social
@josephestiglitz.bsky.social
@jayatighosh.bsky.social
at @icrict.bsky.social's Vatican event today taxjustice.net/press/govern...
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BREAKING: In response to doctors' lawsuit, Judge John Bates, a George W. Bush appointee, orders CDC, NIH, and FDA to put back up websites and datasets cited by the doctors in their lawsuit as having been relied upon and pulled down without notice. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
![TOTE ASTRICT COLOR
DOCTORS FOR AMERICA,
Plaintiff,
Civil Action No. 25-322 (JDB)
OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT et al.,
Defendants.
ORDER
Upon consideration of [6] Plaintiff's motion for a temporary restraining order, [8]
Plaintiff's supplemental declarations, [9] Defendants' opposition, [10] Plaintiff's reply, the
hearing on February 10, 2025, and the entire record herein, and for the reasons stated in the
accompanying Memorandum Opinion, it is hereby ORDERED that
1. Defendants Department of Health and Human Services, Center for Disease Control, and Food
and Drug Administration (hereinafter "defendants") shall, by not later than 11:59 pm on
February 11, 2025, restore to their versions as of January 30, 2025, each webpage and dataset
identified by Plaintiff on pages 6-12 of its Memorandum of Law in Support of the Motion for
a Restraining Order [ECF No. 6-1];
2. Defendants shall, in consultation with Plaintiff, identify any other resources that DF A members
rely on to provide medical care and that defendants removed or substantially modified on or
after January 29, 2025, without adequate notice or reasoned explanation; and defendants shall,
by February 14, 2025, restore those resources to their versions as of January 30, 2025;](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreifoaihlyxzbiko32lmralzpicfxnzwfoxp3ki5w4wniiihonzxira@jpeg)
February 11, 2025 at 5:15 PM
BREAKING: In response to doctors' lawsuit, Judge John Bates, a George W. Bush appointee, orders CDC, NIH, and FDA to put back up websites and datasets cited by the doctors in their lawsuit as having been relied upon and pulled down without notice. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Declining trends in national #inequality blogs.worldbank.org/en/opendata/...
If interested on #inequality, do not miss this post from the @worldbankgroup.bsky.social on the critical limitations one finds when measuring it! @maxlawsontin.bsky.social
If interested on #inequality, do not miss this post from the @worldbankgroup.bsky.social on the critical limitations one finds when measuring it! @maxlawsontin.bsky.social
Declining trends in national inequality
Global inequality is declining, with high-inequality countries dropping from 74 in 2000 to 51 in 2020. However, survey data limitations may underestimate true inequality levels. Learn more in our anal...
blogs.worldbank.org
January 31, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Declining trends in national #inequality blogs.worldbank.org/en/opendata/...
If interested on #inequality, do not miss this post from the @worldbankgroup.bsky.social on the critical limitations one finds when measuring it! @maxlawsontin.bsky.social
If interested on #inequality, do not miss this post from the @worldbankgroup.bsky.social on the critical limitations one finds when measuring it! @maxlawsontin.bsky.social
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“It’s simply not possible to have a functioning democratic system under these conditions.”
Finally had a chance to listen to @jasonhickel.bsky.social's fantastic interview with @maxlawsontin.bsky.social & Nafkote.
podfollow.com/1480735096/e... @oxfaminternational.bsky.social #TakersNotMakers
Finally had a chance to listen to @jasonhickel.bsky.social's fantastic interview with @maxlawsontin.bsky.social & Nafkote.
podfollow.com/1480735096/e... @oxfaminternational.bsky.social #TakersNotMakers
EQUALS: BILLIONAIRE COLONIALISM: Jason Hickel on how colonialism never ended and drives today’s extreme inequality.
To coincide with the launch of Oxfam’s Davos 2025 report, Takers, not Makers, Naf and Max interview acclaimed author, academic and activist Jason Hickel.Find out how our world is still organised ...
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January 22, 2025 at 10:43 AM
“It’s simply not possible to have a functioning democratic system under these conditions.”
Finally had a chance to listen to @jasonhickel.bsky.social's fantastic interview with @maxlawsontin.bsky.social & Nafkote.
podfollow.com/1480735096/e... @oxfaminternational.bsky.social #TakersNotMakers
Finally had a chance to listen to @jasonhickel.bsky.social's fantastic interview with @maxlawsontin.bsky.social & Nafkote.
podfollow.com/1480735096/e... @oxfaminternational.bsky.social #TakersNotMakers
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Billionaire Colonialism - how colonialism never ended. Brilliant - @maxlawsontin.bsky.social and @jasonhickel.bsky.social www.equals.ink/p/billionair...
BILLIONAIRE COLONIALISM with Jason Hickel.
Tune in and get to know how colonialism never ended and drives today’s extreme inequality.
www.equals.ink
January 20, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Billionaire Colonialism - how colonialism never ended. Brilliant - @maxlawsontin.bsky.social and @jasonhickel.bsky.social www.equals.ink/p/billionair...
2024 Throwback: How water ‘flows up’ to the rich.
Nafkote and me discuss water inequality and how #ClimateChange impacts water access with Mandal Sushmita. Find out how wealth and power defy gravity by making water flow… upwards!
Listen here: pod.fo/e/23a593
Nafkote and me discuss water inequality and how #ClimateChange impacts water access with Mandal Sushmita. Find out how wealth and power defy gravity by making water flow… upwards!
Listen here: pod.fo/e/23a593
EQUALS: How water is ‘flowing up’ to the rich
In this episode of EQUALS, we talk about how wealth and power defy gravity by making water flow… upwards!Max and Nafkote interview Sushmita Mandal about water inequality and how climate breakdown...
pod.fo
January 4, 2025 at 6:44 PM
2024 Throwback: How water ‘flows up’ to the rich.
Nafkote and me discuss water inequality and how #ClimateChange impacts water access with Mandal Sushmita. Find out how wealth and power defy gravity by making water flow… upwards!
Listen here: pod.fo/e/23a593
Nafkote and me discuss water inequality and how #ClimateChange impacts water access with Mandal Sushmita. Find out how wealth and power defy gravity by making water flow… upwards!
Listen here: pod.fo/e/23a593
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Meta and Amazon giving $1 million each to Trump's inauguration fund is a flagrant example of the ultra-rich bending the knee in exchange for outsized influence, and just another case of government for the billionaires, by the billionaires.
Meta, Amazon and tech CEOs make $1 million investments in Trump's inauguration
Tech companies are sending big bucks to President-elect Donald Trump's nonprofit inaugural committee.
www.cbsnews.com
December 16, 2024 at 6:35 PM
Meta and Amazon giving $1 million each to Trump's inauguration fund is a flagrant example of the ultra-rich bending the knee in exchange for outsized influence, and just another case of government for the billionaires, by the billionaires.
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British police arrest environmental protesters at nearly three times the global average rate, research has found, revealing the country as a world leader in the legal crackdown on climate activism.
Story by @damien.gayle.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Story by @damien.gayle.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Britain leads the world in cracking down on climate activism, study finds
Research shows UK police arrest environmental and climate protesters at three times the average global rate
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2024 at 7:39 AM
British police arrest environmental protesters at nearly three times the global average rate, research has found, revealing the country as a world leader in the legal crackdown on climate activism.
Story by @damien.gayle.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Story by @damien.gayle.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...