Corporations
PFI: the worst of both worlds
Under PFI, big business has screwed the public sector, spawning a legacy of odious, off-the-books debt. Our national deficit would be around 25% greater if it was included by the Treasury
Mutiny presents Drugs on Trial
The Mutineers have devised a new evening for us all to attend, enjoy, explore and maybe even learn. Drugs are slapped in the dock and given the once over on 10 October.
PFI: No good for UK. Good enough for Palestine?
Rejected as an economically viable method of building at home, business leaders and government departments are insisting on exporting PFI wherever they can overseas.
Join the Vedanta AGM protest! July 27th, London
Call for protest at the Vedanta AGM 2011, 3pm on 27th July, Queen Elizabeth II conference centre, London, SW1P 3EE.
Vedanta get the no-no
The Indian government, under pressure from international campaigners, but primarily Orissa people in their relentless campaign to save their mountains and livelihoods, commissioned a report. The report has now been published.
Vedanta Take Body Blows
Times aren’t going too well for Vedanta at present and we couldn’t have wished it on a nastier corporation.
Vedanta protest, police and directors surprised.
GR’s first action for some time manages to hit the headlines.
Solidarity With the Ferrexpo Mineworkers – Poltava Ukraine
After the successful protest at the AGM of Vedanta at the end of July, we’re now presented with the dreadful plight of the Ferrexpo Mineworkersv
Vedanta – rich because they’re nasty
The scum always rises to the top, and the business world recognises this as they sit and admire the financial success of this UK registered, Indian owned business that’s wrecking lives in pursuit of profit.
BP – a history of environmental crime
It was always unbelievable, an oil company that posed as a forward thinking responsible corporation. Now the unprecedented oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is showing; any talk in the past about caring for this increasingly frail planet was
URALCHEM
Uralchem is Russia’s biggest fertilizer corporation. Like many similar sized operations in Russia it is looking to go global, and what better way for this to happen then looking towards a European operation and getting stuck into the financial markets
How is it that fifteen years of anti-sweatshop activism failed both consumers and workers so miserably?
The dramatic emergence of the sweatshop story could be described as a “global political economy” train-wreck. Just as the big-name brands and department stores began outsourcing all of their production to contractors, the industry was moving to the most corrupt