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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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Global Green New Deal: 10 interventions to transform our world

The world is in crisis. Only a just transition to societies rooted in equality and harmony with our planet – through a Global Green New Deal – can ensure dignified lives for all.

03 October 2025

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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

An illustration of a crowd in black and grey, holding up a white banner with red type that reads 'PROTECT LOCAL DEMOCRACY'.

What does the government’s ‘boycott ban’ really mean?

The ‘boycott ban’ is a disturbing attempt to thwart BDS efforts by using scary language, but it does not ban boycotts

19 February 2016

A War on Want campaigner at a demonstration holds a placard that has an image of G4S CEO Ashley Almanza's face with the words "Still silent on child torture" over his mouth, and #StopG4S in the top-right corner. Credit: War on Want

Fuelling violence: G4S's 'red doors policy' is wholly in character

Fuelling violence against asylum seekers is indefensible

26 January 2016