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Amazon and the cost of Christmas

Siobhan McGuirk — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 08:00:00 +0000

Amazon’s Black Friday-January Sales consumerism juggernaut is uniting campaigners. Robbie Gillett charts the corporation’s varied crimes – and explains the necessary response

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Warfare’s waste is welfare’s loss

Gerry Hart — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 07:00:00 +0000

Labour claims that boosting military spending will produce employment growth. Far from it, argues Richard Norton Taylor, it funnels money to private contractors that should fund public services

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Anglo American and the greenwashed mineral rush

Gerry Hart — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 07:00:00 +0000

The British mining giant paints itself as a ‘climate leader’ but boasts a history of violent extraction. Activists from London Mining Network and We Smell Gas identify a critical target for anti-imperialist solidarity

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Thames Water and the failures of privatisation

Gerry Hart — Wed, 14 May 2025 07:00:00 +0000

More than any other privatised company, Thames Water has become a lighting rod for public anger. Eleanor Godwin and David Whyte explain why – and what we can do about it

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How Amazon workers can organise globally

Gerry Hart — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 07:00:00 +0000

Jonathan Rosenblum shows how Amazon workers can learn from previous actions to organise themselves on a global scale

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Crude injustice in the Niger Delta

Siobhan McGuirk — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 17:41:01 +0000

Transnational oil companies’ ‘divestment’ from Nigeria leaves behind a trail of destruction. Obiora Ikoku reports on the communities demanding reparation

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Fighting the dirty money behind art, sports and culture

Siobhan McGuirk — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 16:08:26 +0000

Paula Lacey traces efforts to wash out state and corporate influence on culture in the UK around the world

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Vulture Capitalism – review

Gerry Hart — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 07:00:00 +0000

Grace Blakeley's latest book is a vitally needed analysis of the rot at the heart of neoliberal capitalism, writes Harry Cross

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Hard truths in Brazil’s Lithium Valley

Siobhan McGuirk — Sat, 01 Jun 2024 22:17:31 +0000

Inhabitants of regions like Brazil’s Jequitinhonha valley are confronting the global forces turning their lands into sacrifice zones for the ‘green transition’. By Alex Shankland, Anabel Marín, Bruna Viana De Freitas and Fabiana Soares Leme

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The GKN workers’ fight continues

Kimon Daltas — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 18:27:30 +0000

The struggle for an ecological transition from below by Florence’s ex-GKN workers is alive, writes Lorezno Fe

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