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McDonalds, City of London

Demand HMRC investigates McDonald's

HMRC must launch a thorough investigation into McDonald’s tax affairs

Palestinian workers in Israel protest dehumanising conditions at checkpoints. A queue of people stand in a line in front of a tall wall at a checkpoint. Source: Wikipedia

Israeli apartheid factsheet

Why do we refer to Israel as an apartheid state?

31 August 2021

A food bank in Palmer's Green, North London. Credit: Mazur/cbcew.org.uk.

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

16 February 2021

McDonald's workers strike outside a London store. Photo: TUC/Jess Hurd

Seventy years fighting against global poverty

Labour Research magazine covers our 70th anniversary

11 February 2021

Man removing dried flowers from bunches of bananas on plantation in Ghana West Africa. Credit:Olivier Asselin / Alamy Stock Photo

Empire 2.0: UK trade deals squeeze wealth from the Global South

Trade deals show UK is not a ‘force for good’

04 February 2021

The Atacama Desert and the glacier under threat from mining. Photo: Delpixe

Green technologies for people and planet

Climate justice, supply chains and mining-industry violence in Chile

28 January 2021

Farmers protest in Delhi, sitting on a truck with fists raised in the air.

What the Indian farmers’ protest can teach us all

They are on the frontlines of the fight against corporate control of food

20 January 2021

Farmers, workers and allies in India take action against new unjust agriculture and labour laws.

The UK labour movement stands in solidarity with farmers in India

Statement from UK trade unions in solidarity with the millions taking action

14 January 2021

Jeff Bezos at Amazon Spheres Grand Opening in Seattle. Photo: Seattle City Council

Big Tech using trade to extract the world’s ‘most valuable resource’

Tech giants want a US-UK trade deal that restricts the ability of government to regulate them

12 June 2020

US-UK trade deal negotiations happening over video feed. Photo: Andrew Parsons / No 10 Downing Street

Arguments for a toxic US trade deal debunked

We urge the government to scrap this toxic deal

20 June 2020