Relatório da OXFAM America denuncia um aumento de 12,6% da riqueza dos bilionários, só em 2025

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Os 10 americanos mais ricos viram a sua riqueza aumentar colectivamente em 700 mil milhões de dólares desde o regresso do Presidente Trump ao cargo.

Um relatório da Oxfam America detalha que, em 2025, a parcela do total de activos dos EUA detida pelos 0,1% mais ricos dos americanos atingiu o seu nível mais elevado alguma vez registado, atingindo os 12,6%.

Abby Maxman, presidente e CEO da Oxfam America, afirmou: "Agora, a administração Trump e os republicanos no Congresso correm o risco de agravar ainda mais esta desigualdade, ao mesmo tempo que lançam um ataque implacável contra os trabalhadores e negoceiam os seus meios de subsistência durante a paralisação do governo."

Income Inequality Is Surging In The U.S., New Oxfam Report Shows

The October Revolution lives on!

We celebrate with great joy today the 108th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution in Russia.

This was the first successful revolution built on the foundations of Marxism, with leadership by V.I. Lenin and the Bolsheviks. The revolution brought food, housing, education, and healthcare to all the people of the new Soviet Union. But that isn’t all. It brought women’s emancipation and put into place special pro-equality measures dealing with the struggles of previously oppressed minorities. It ushered working and oppressed people, including women, into the exercise of political power.

The same struggles that propelled the October Socialist Revolution exist today. Working people continue to struggle in the United States for democratic self-determination and an end to economic exploitation for private profit. Peoples in Cuba, Vietnam, China, Laos, and elsewhere are already working collectively to meet their needs.

The United States is in the grip of a pro-democracy, anti-fascist struggle that is bringing peoples’ movements into motion. They are countering MAGA’s attacks on programs to help with food access, education, voting rights, and fundamental democratic participation in the national political dialog. All these rights are dramatically curtailed by the Trump–MAGA movement. The struggles to protect these rights build the foundation for a stronger, more organized U.S. working class.

The fightback includes the election of Communist Party USA candidates in various parts of the country. These candidates tend to be young. Their campaigns reflect a broad struggle, including those of organized labor, the fight to stop MAGA’s attack on working people and migrants, for peace in Gaza, and for a government that helps workers meet their subsistence needs to survive and thrive.

In 2023, 47.4 million people in the U.S.A. lived in food insecure households. Food insecurity has only deepened post-2023 due to the Trump–MAGA economic policies like the imposition of tariffs which raise prices, including food prices. Rental units and owner-occupied home ownership are likewise both growing in expense. There is an open war on the working class in the United States today. Workers are fighting back.

Over the past year alone, Oxfam noted, the wealth of the 10 richest U.S. billionaires soared by $698 billion.

“The data confirms what people across our nation already know instinctively: the new American oligarchy is here,” said Abby Maxman, president and CEO of Oxfam America. “Billionaires and mega-corporations are booming while working families struggle to afford housing, healthcare, and groceries.”

The fundamental contradiction between workers who sell their labor power to survive and exploiters who use that labor power to produce profit that they then seize for their own use is sharply drawn in a country where the wealth is so inequitably distributed.

U.S. workers’ experience is part of a global trend. Globally today, 700 million people live in extreme poverty, while 3.5 billion more struggle to survive below the poverty line. In contrast, just 3 thousand capitalists now control a total wealth of 16 trillion dollars.

Workers suffer deeply from this assault of impoverishment. While millions of workers live below the hunger and poverty thresholds, the ten richest capitalists have increased their wealth from 20.9 to 31.9 billion dollars in just five years.

Immense poverty feeds the insatiable greed of the capitalists, fueling the growth of their already boundless fortunes. To end this, workers in the U.S. are exercising their right to to engage in struggle for change, and winning. Communist candidates won in Bangor, Maine and Ithaca, N.Y.

The Russian October Revolution showed that building a society led by workers that meets workers’ needs is realistic. Building an organized working class movement in the United States to do the same for working and migrant peoples, indigenous folks, Black, Brown, Asian, and all oppressed peoples, and ending NATO and U.S. imperialism, are intertwined struggles. Move money from the U.S. military budget to meet human needs now!

The struggle for socialism is a global struggle. We salute our fraternal parties — all built from the same political “big bang” of the Russian Revolution. We join them, and all people in the United States who struggle for workers’ needs and power, in solidarity.

La lucha continua.

Inequality Kills: The unparalleled action needed to combat unprecedented inequality in the wake of COVID-19

A new report out today spotlights how inequality has only gotten worse during the pandemic.

According to Oxfam, a new billionaire is created every 26 hours. Meanwhile, inequality exacerbated by the pandemic contributes to the death of one person every four seconds, the report said.

One policy solution it floats is one you’re likely familiar with: Hiking taxes on the rich.

It’s hard to overstate just how much richer the rich have become during the pandemic.

Abby Maxman, the president and CEO of Oxfam America, said the world has never seen disparities grow at these levels.

“It’s really off the charts. We know that COVID-19 has really been a boon for billionaires. We know collectively, the 10 richest men have more than doubled their fortunes during the pandemic, while the majority of people are now poorer,” she said.

She estimates more than 160 million people have been pushed into poverty. This growing gap manifests in outcomes like more hunger and lack of access to health care – globally and here in the U.S.

However, Maxman said there are solutions.

“Governments have the ability to end this, we can tax the super-rich.”

And Oxfam proposes doing that not just country by country, but internationally. University of Connecticut Professor Steve Utke said on paper, that makes sense.

“Unless you can put a wealth tax on everything, essentially, globally, where there’s no way to globally avoid that, you’re going to end up with economic distortions,” he said.

Meaning, billionaires moving assets around the world to avoid taxation.

Some countries have tried, before giving up on the idea. Nevertheless, as challenging as wealth taxes are to implement, they hold perpetual appeal among the public, Utke said.

“Because you just say, hey, there’s all these billionaires … let’s take some of their money, right?” he said.

Indiana University Sociology Professor Fabio Rojas said, “I don’t lose a lot of sleep about billionaires.”

What does keep him up at night is what’s happened to people at the bottom of the socio-economic ladder during the pandemic, including some of his own students.

“When it started, they would say things like ‘I’m homeless now … You know, my parents are out of a job.’ It was very, very difficult to hear that.’” he said.

And the problem persists, even as the hard numbers on just how severe inequality has grown continue to trickle in.