Fracking the UK

[responsivevoice_button] As Cuadrilla Resources and its corporate backers were getting excited

‘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

Compulsory O2 mobiles for Yarl’s Wood detainees

[responsivevoice_button] New detainees arriving at Yarl’s Wood immigration prison, run by

Get out of town: Ledbury residents resist Tesco development

[responsivevoice_button] Few companies will have been celebrating the coalition’s proposed ‘reform’

Corporate engagement at Hopenhagen

[responsivevoice_button] Corporations have multiple strategies for dealing with criticism from grassroots

Unemployed people ‘bullied’ into unpaid work at Tesco, Primark and other multinationals

[responsivevoice_button] Unemployed people are being sent to work without pay in

‘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.

‘Making profits from the the unemployed is reprehensible’

[responsivevoice_button] Frank, a member of Islington Poverty Action Group, tells Corporate

The workfare go-betweens

[responsivevoice_button] The coalition government’s Work Programme, launched in early June, replaces

August 12, 2011 : News in Brief – Watching

 [responsivevoice_button]   – Olympic village sold to property developers – Pfizer

Serco dismisses self-harm in immigration prisons as ‘bargaining tool’

[responsivevoice_button] Two people have died from suspected heart attacks and a

Barnardo’s: We believe in (locking up) children

[responsivevoice_button] Britain’s largest children charity has become the latest target for

Riots in Bristol against Tesco and police repression

[responsivevoice_button] An attack on the radical community of Stokes Croft in

New detention phone system to keep detainees under control

[responsivevoice_button] A new phone system run by a private company will

April 6, 2011: News in brief – Watching the Corporations

 [responsivevoice_button] -G4S wins £100m Olympics security contract -BP to resume drilling