Over the past 100+ years a clear pattern has emerged: the more you have, the more you get. This data is adjusted for inflation and differences in living costs between countries.
Source: Our World in Data graphic based on World Inequality Report 2025: wir2026.wid.world/insight/exec...

🌹Hands Off Venezuela - Mass Call!

The Democratic Socialists of America are hosting a “Hands Off Venezuela” mass Zoom call on Tuesday, January 6 at 9pm ET/6pm PT. See: actionnetwork.org/events/hands... Pass it on!
More background on the DSA position here: www.dsausa.org/statements/d...

Today’s financial system drains companies and calls it growth. Investors enrich themselves not by generating new value, but by extracting existing value. It’s not just that wealth is failing to trickle down; it’s being actively siphoned up. substack.com/@graceblakel... #democraticsocialism

'Track AIPAC', a website that tracks money going to U.S. politicians from the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), is creating quite a stir in Washington! See: www.trackaipac.com #freepalestine #democraticsocialism #transparency More info here: israelpalestinenews.org/no-more-fear...

Interested in the co-op movement? The developing 'Preston Model' in the U.K. ain't revolution but it's a handy show of everyday resistance, and a natty alternative to disastrous public-private partnerships. #democraticsocialism #cooperatives #workplacedemocracy More: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfcK...

Happy 5th birthday to Progressive International! Launched in 2020, @progintl.bsky.social now unites 100+ organizations representing millions of people. Find out about joining up, as a group or an individual, here: progressive.international/join #internationalism #democraticsocialism #socialism

According to the United Nations ending world hunger by 2030 would cost about $93 billion per year (see news.un.org/en/story/202...). Bear that in mind as you read the numbers below. Source: www.visualcapitalist.com/19-trillion-... #democraticsocialism #socialjustice #peace

The world's richest 10% own 75% of wealth; the bottom 50% owns only 2%. The new World Inequality Report concludes: "Inequality is a political choice. It is the result of our policies, institutions & governance structures... The challenge is political will."
More: wir2026.wid.world/insight/exec...

Interesting. More than 5,000 people in the UK and US were presented with a full proposal for #ecosocialist transformation. In the US, 72% of people supported it. In the UK support was even higher at 82%. jasonhickel.substack.com/p/how-popula...

Votes are in: #YourParty is a democratic socialist party with the working class at the heart of the broadest possible social alliance. And an interesting collective leadership model. www.yourparty.uk/results/

A new survey suggests 51% of young Americans likely to vote in the next presidential election would like to see a democratic socialist in the Oval Office. Nearly 3 in 10 who voted for Trump in 2024 would prefer that a democratic socialist win this time.
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