News and Analysis

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

Berta Caceres. Photo Credit: COPINH

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

A tractor in a field, with houses and chimneys in the background. Thomas B. from Pixabay

The global food system and the expansion of corporate capitalism

Sustaining corporate profits rather than meet people’s needs.

24 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

Global Frontline Bloc representing indigenous people at the London Climate March on 29 November 2015. Photo by Tom Lebert.

Injustice and conflict in the Paris climate deal

System change is more urgent than ever

15 December 2015

A demonstration in which many people are holding "Don't Bomb Syria" placards, and one placard says "We are many".

Don't Bomb Syria

We call on UK MPs not to vote for the bombing of Syria.

02 December 2015

We remember the Ogoni Nine

20 years and still no justice

09 November 2015

Israeli settlements in Palestine. Credit: Jaime Jover

Israeli settler violence is Israeli state violence

And the UK is complicit

13 August 2015

'Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions' sticker on a lamp post. Credit: Turbulent London

Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions

A movement against racism and oppression

30 June 2015

Elbit Hermes 450 – an Israeli drone. Credit: Giles Thomas.

Killer drones

Drones are indiscriminate weapons of war that have been responsible for thousands of civilian deaths

13 May 2015

Life or death over seeds

A worldwide seed war is now raging

23 October 2014