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Profiting from ‘peanuts’: the DFID’s new plans in India
[responsivevoice_button] There has been a predictably indignant reaction to the news
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08 Feb 2012
Asylum seekers to be housed by prison guards
[responsivevoice_button] The UK Border Agency has announced that its preferred bidders
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22 Dec 2011
Tar sands latest
[responsivevoice_button] The Keystone XL Pipeline in the US is delayed in
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22 Dec 2011
Charitable exploitation: workfare in Barnardo’s
[responsivevoice_button] It’s not only multinationals that are benefiting from the free
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22 Dec 2011
Battle over fracking continues
[responsivevoice_button] A new report has found that exploiting shale gas reserves
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22 Dec 2011
Under the microscope: pathology gets the Serco treatment
[responsivevoice_button] GSTS Pathology, the joint venture between Serco, ‘the biggest company
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09 Nov 2011
The new trend of biomass plantations in Brazil: tree monocultures
[responsivevoice_button] Winnie Overbeek from the World Rainforest Movement (WRM) reports for
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09 Nov 2011
Resistance to fracking gains momentum
[responsivevoice_button] Last week saw a number of significant events in the
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09 Nov 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
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
Serco accused of negligence and assault in Australia
[responsivevoice_button] Events in Australia over the last month have shown outsourcing
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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