ABSTRACT
The rich are consolidating global wealth. The world’s richest 1% owns half of global wealth and the richest 10% owns 88% of global wealth. At the same time, the poorest 50% of the world’s population owns below 1% of global wealth. But, even in the context of neo-liberal globalisation, poor people have made important gains. Radical antipoverty organising emerges out of the understanding that oppressions are interlocked. Fellows and Razack write that this ‘means that the systems of oppression come into existence in and through one another’. They argue that sexism and racism enable class exploitation; would also add that disablism, heterosexism and cissism are interlocked with and enable class exploitation. The ‘Ontario Coalition Against Poverty model’ combines mass mobilising with direct action casework as way of hooking the collective and individual, the systemic and specific, into one another. Antipoverty organising work is slow, it is tedious and it is difficult.
