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Why are the US and Israel attacking Iran?

Why is the US-Israeli war on Iran impacting energy prices, what does it mean for people in Iran and beyond?

08 April 2026

Man holds a banner saying 'tax the rich'. He is surrounded by people.

Taxing extreme wealth for fairer, greener societies

The UK government must join global efforts to coordinate wealth taxes and urgently tax those with more than £10 million in assets.

06 June 2025

Israel’s illegal settlements destroy Palestinian homes, lives and rights

Not only is this illegal, systematically violating the rights of the Palestinian people causes devastating harm.

17 April 2025

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We will not falter in our commitment to the Palestinian people

Israeli policies are created to deliberately impoverish the Palestinian people

12 June 2017

Refugee camps near the city of Tindouf in the Algerian desert. Photo credit: War on Want

Western Sahara: Resistance in exile

Saharawi refugees cling to the hope

25 April 2017

Getting away with murder: the case of Berta Caceres

We remember her life and join the global call for justice

02 March 2017

Israeli embassy’s ‘take down’ tactics must not distract from the real issue

Undercover investigation shines light on ‘behind the scenes’ activities of the Israeli government in the UK

12 January 2017

Palestinian prisoner solidarity demonstration with a Palestinian flag in the foreground. Credit: War on Want/Rich Wiles

Palestinian political prisoners

A political prisoner is someone who is arrested and detained because of their beliefs or political activities.

29 November 2016

Over 100 Palestinian political prisoners on hunger strike

Prisoners declare mass hunger strike in solidarity with Bilal Kayed

03 August 2016

Protesters with a "UK Stop Arming Israel" sign. Credit: Rich Wiles.

Stop Arming Israel campaigners give Elbit a run for its money

Israeli arms company Elbit Systems announced that it is poised to expand in the UK

27 July 2016

Hands Off Iraqi Oil demo, 2008. Activists dressed as oil industry workers are outside of a Shell building, with a model of an oil drilling rig labelled "Iraqi oil", in front of a large caricature model labelled "Chaney".

Chilcot report: The heavy legacy of the Iraq war

History cannot be undone

05 July 2016

Protestors hold Palestine flags and a large banner that says "G4S: Human Rights Abusers out of our city".

G4S reneges on promise to exit Israel

A common thread runs through all G4S work: profiting from violence and abuse.

31 May 2016

A map showing the partition of land under the Sykes-Picot Treaty. Image: Royal Geographical Society

The Sykes-Picot legacy, 100 years on

The British people who need reminding of the human cost of our interventions

11 May 2016

Indigenous rights leader Berta Cáceres assassinated in Honduras

We call on the Honduran government to bring the assassins to justice

04 March 2016

Gilberto Torres with theatrical group 'BP or not BP?' inside the British Museum. Photo credit: Tom Lebert

“They’d kill me if I went back to Colombia”

Gilberto Torres was kidnapped and tortured by paramilitaries in 2002

02 March 2016