News Archive
Resistance against tar sands and Keystone XL pipeline growing stronger
[responsivevoice_button] In the two weeks up to 3rd September, 1,253 people
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25 Sep 2011
Fracking the UK
[responsivevoice_button] As Cuadrilla Resources and its corporate backers were getting excited
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25 Sep 2011
‘It’s exploitation and it’s repellent’: Retailers, councils and charities benefiting from workfare
[responsivevoice_button] TK Maxx, Wilkinsons, Savers and Matalan have been named as
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25 Sep 2011
Compulsory O2 mobiles for Yarl’s Wood detainees
[responsivevoice_button] New detainees arriving at Yarl’s Wood immigration prison, run by
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25 Sep 2011
Get out of town: Ledbury residents resist Tesco development
[responsivevoice_button] Few companies will have been celebrating the coalition’s proposed ‘reform’
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05 Sep 2011
Corporate engagement at Hopenhagen
[responsivevoice_button] Corporations have multiple strategies for dealing with criticism from grassroots
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30 Aug 2011
Unemployed people ‘bullied’ into unpaid work at Tesco, Primark and other multinationals
[responsivevoice_button] Unemployed people are being sent to work without pay in
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11 Aug 2011
‘I was a volunteer for six months and wasn’t given a job or paid any money’
[responsivevoice_button] “Karina” is 24 years old and lives in East London.
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11 Aug 2011
‘Making profits from the the unemployed is reprehensible’
[responsivevoice_button] Frank, a member of Islington Poverty Action Group, tells Corporate
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11 Aug 2011
The workfare go-betweens
[responsivevoice_button] The coalition government’s Work Programme, launched in early June, replaces
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11 Aug 2011
August 12, 2011 : News in Brief – Watching
[responsivevoice_button] – Olympic village sold to property developers – Pfizer
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11 Aug 2011
Serco dismisses self-harm in immigration prisons as ‘bargaining tool’
[responsivevoice_button] Two people have died from suspected heart attacks and a
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11 Aug 2011
Barnardo’s: We believe in (locking up) children
[responsivevoice_button] Britain’s largest children charity has become the latest target for
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14 Jul 2011
Riots in Bristol against Tesco and police repression
[responsivevoice_button] An attack on the radical community of Stokes Croft in
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09 May 2011
New detention phone system to keep detainees under control
[responsivevoice_button] A new phone system run by a private company will
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05 Apr 2011