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Amazon boss Jeff Bezos earned €44bn in 2020 in the EU — but paid no corporation tax (Photo: palomaleca)

May Day: Mega-rich blocking economic justice for workers

As the German playwright Berthold Brecht once said: "Two men—one rich, one poor—come face to face. Said the poor man with a twitch: Were I not poor, you wouldn't be rich."

The Covid-19 pandemic hasn't been bad for everyone. The wealth of billionaires increased more during the pandemic than in the past 14 years — the biggest surge in billionaire wealth since records began.

As we mark International Workers' Day

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The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author’s, not those of EUobserver

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Özlem Demirel is a German MEP with The Left.

Amazon boss Jeff Bezos earned €44bn in 2020 in the EU — but paid no corporation tax (Photo: palomaleca)

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Özlem Demirel is a German MEP with The Left.

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