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  • 10 Dec 2012
    Business and human rights: challenging corporate power

    It is not just governments and political opposition movements who are accused of violating human rights, and who need to be pressed to uphold them. The corporate world, which is increasingly dominant in a globalised society, faces major issues in this area.

  • 8 Feb 2012
    Welfare politics and changing the power landscape

    The coalition can force its welfare changes through using procedural measures, minor concessions and ‘financial privilege’ to do so. But the long-term political fall-out from all of this could be immense, says Simon Barrow. The warfare over welfare has shown just how powerful citizens’ action and web-based crowd sourcing can be.

  • 1 Dec 2011
    Occupy target top CEO corporate greed, as pensions are cut

    Occupy London has targeted Britain's highest paid CEO to highlight endemic corporate greed in the UK, and to call for economic and social change.

  • 29 Nov 2011
    Japanese bishops release delayed anti-nuclear message

    Japanese Catholic bishops have released an anti-nuclear message delayed for six months, following pressure from business people.

  • 23 Oct 2011
    St Paul's and Occupy: the vertical and the horizontal

    It would be hard to imagine a more marked contrast of societal models than the one currently on display at the top of Ludgate Hill.

  • 16 Oct 2011
    Demonstrations against financial greed sweep the world

    Millions of protesters in 82 countries and across a thousand cities have taken to the streets to demonstrate against the bailing out of the rich.

  • 15 Oct 2011
    Violence on the steps of St Paul's

    Today (15 October) has seen a global day of action against corporate greed, financial mismanagement and government cuts, which has grown out of New York's 'Occupy Wall Street' demonstration.

  • 2 Apr 2011
    Facing up to (corporate) bribery

    In 2002 I was detained by police at Kochi airport in Kerala. It seemed I had failed to get a vital stamp on my passport. Having missed my flight back to the UK to attend my auntie’s wedding, I was told I had to, the next day, report to the police station, which I duly did.

  • 2 Jun 2010
    Indian police fire into crowds on steel plant protest

    Police in the Indian state of Odisha are reported to have fired into crowds demonstrating against UK-linked company TATA, which owns Jaguar, Land Rover, Corus and Tetley.

  • 23 Nov 2009
    Hundreds attend national student conference as activist revival continues

    Hundreds of student activists from across Britain have spent the weekend in Manchester exploring their response to climate change and corporate power, after a year that has seen a resurgence in student activism at universities around the country.