banks financed the industry to the tune of $470bn in 3 years
A new report released today shows commercial banks are still heavily funding coal, eight years on from the Paris Agreement. Since 2021 alone they have provided $470bn in support to…
protests to take place in Bristol over media complicity
On Saturday 4 May – the day after “World Press Freedom Day” – Bristol Palestine Alliance (BPA) will be organising the thirteenth mass protest march in Bristol. This one will…
UK using ‘special immunity’ to stop arrests under ICC
Former shadow justice secretary under Jeremy Corbyn, Richard Burgon, has obtained a list of all the foreign visitors granted so-called ‘special mission’ immunity. That’s since the Conservatives established the status…
Private health spending in the UK up nearly 9% in 2023
People in the UK spent a record £32bn on mostly private health care last year – up from £29.8bn in 2022. That included £8.6bn on medicines, vitamins, and supplements, and…
Universities occupations over Gaza are now spreading to the UK
As students in the US hold the line across multiple universities in their occupations over Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza, young people in the UK are now joining them –…
Palestine Action targets multiple banks funding Israel
On Wednesday 1 May, Palestine Action activists sabotaged the sites of numerous firms complicit in Israel’s genocide in Gaza, hitting companies and banks which invest heavily in the Israeli war…
Oil companies on trial over climate crisis knowledge from the 1950s
Oil giants have been spreading disinformation as part of a decades-long campaign to shut down important environmental policies. A new report from US congressional Democrats is the culmination of a…
cops nick disabled Charlie Chaplin outside parliament
I go on trial at Westminster Magistrate’s Court on May Day, having been nicked protesting the genocide in Gaza, blocking the entrance to parliament dressed as Charlie Chaplin. This is…
Rwanda plan and French detention centres expose racism
Once again, the violence of colonial ‘fortress’ Europe is on full display as the UK ramps up its racist refugee policies. Meanwhile, across the Channel, a new report has exposed…
Starmer being jubilant over Tory MP defector is hypocrisy
At Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs), Keir Starmer was jubilant over a Conservative MP defecting to Labour: I’d… like to welcome the member for Central Suffolk and North Ipswich to his place…
over 400 abuse allegations in Europe and Asia
Rampant extractive, exploitative capitalism is rearing its ugly head – but this time, it’s over the transition to greener, cleaner energy. As the world grapples with the transition away from…
lobbyists block motion on reducing it
This week, delegates at the INC dismissed a motion to reduce plastic production by 40% in the next 15 years. On Tuesday 30 April, negotiations wrapped up at the Intergovernmental…
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