fossil fuel companies to pursue cases
The thing about fossil fuel companies is that they are just so damn predictable. It’s only a week on from the Labour government’s decision to drop a legal defence in…
companies profit from mental health beds
Canary columnist and ardent anti-NHS-privatisation campaigner Dr Julia Grace Patterson has once again exposed the rot festering at the heart of the UK’s healthcare system. Creeping NHS privatisation is in…
Energy companies pocket nearly £20bn in profits this week
Dubbed ‘Profiteers Week’, this week will see interim results from five energy companies who have already banked over £240 billion since the start of the energy crisis as campaigners call…
new benchmark needed for companies
A new benchmark – like the Living Wage Employer standard – is needed to enable businesses to tackle the scale and depth of in-work poverty, think tank the Social Market…
Climate crisis law suits against companies are on the rise
Companies worldwide have faced mounting legal pressure to reduce their impact on global warming as activists use litigation to fight the climate crisis, according to a new report released on…
private companies make £10m a week profit
A new analysis of NHS contracts reveals that £6.7bn, or £10m a week, is estimated to have left NHS budgets in private profits on contracts given to for-profit firms between…
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…
Palestine Action target two companies overnight linked to Elbit
Palestine Action has targeted two companies complicit in Israel‘s ongoing genocide in Gaza in one night, due to their association with weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems. Palestine Action: two hits in…
ME Awareness Day set to disrupt UK media companies on 12 May
A campaign group will be targeting UK media outlets during global ME Awareness Day – calling out what it calls the corporate media’s systemic “mis-and-disinformation” relating to this chronic illness.…