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Corporate capture of our food systems: the importance of language
Corporations are co-opting the language of peasants' and environmental movements to press their agenda of profit over people and planet.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The Corporate Capture of Food Systems
The UN Food Systems Summit 2021 will achieve nothing meaningful while its agenda is shaped, and its language defined, by the very corporations that have engineered our current — broken — food systems.
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Make Amazon Pay
Amazon is amassing power in ways that threaten a future of inequality, poverty and irreversible climate change.
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Rana Plaza Never Again
War on Want joins with trade unions in Bangladesh and the Clean Clothes Campaign to demand that the Rana Plaza disaster never happens again.
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Food Sovereignty: the struggle for a fair global food system
The global food system is in crisis. Food being treated as just another commodity to be traded, rather than as a fundamental human right.
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Why union-busting must go out of fashion at Next
Garment workers at a Next-owned factory in Sri Lanka have formed a trade union. Next has not accepted the union and won't engage in negotiations.
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Myanmar coup: Brands must respect the workers’ strike
War on Want and 16 other organisations stand in solidarity with the workers in Myanmar
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UK food poverty: The right to food is a human right
Imogen Richmond-Bishop from Sustain discusses the fight for the right to food in the UK
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Seventy years fighting against global poverty
Labour Research magazine covers our 70th anniversary
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What the Indian farmers’ protest can teach us all
They are on the frontlines of the fight against corporate control of food
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The UK labour movement stands in solidarity with farmers in India
Statement from UK trade unions in solidarity with the millions taking action
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Next UK reports huge profits yet denies Sri Lankan garment workers their ‘bonus’
‘Bonus’ pays for basic necessities garment workers cannot afford with their poverty wages