The government is refusing to say how many Syrian refugees it has relocated to Britain in a move campaigners say may mean the number is “embarrassingly low”. Great Britain – The Home Office has refused a Freedom of Information request to disclose the number of Syrian refugees brought to Britain under its Vulnerable Person Relocation programme. Luke Cooper, of the […]
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In Ukraine, the US is dragging us towards war with Russia
Washington’s role in Ukraine, and its backing for the regime’s neo-Nazis, has huge implications for the rest of the world Why do we tolerate the threat of another world war in our name? Why do we allow lies that justify this risk? The scale of our indoctrination, wrote Harold Pinter, is a “brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis”, […]
Read more ›People, environment and democracy before profit and corporate rights – Joint statement of European Civil Society groups working against the TTIP threat, March 2014
1. Who are we? We are an EU-wide coalition of civil society organisations who share a deep concern about the various threats posed by the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership TTIP (also known as Transatlantic Free Trade Agreement or TAFTA). We represent a wide range of public interests including environmental protection, public health, agriculture, consumer rights and protection of food […]
Read more ›Report from the “Workers’ Economy” international meeting, January 31 and February 1, occupied factory of Fralib, Marseille.
Fralib is a herb processing and packaging factory located 20-odd kilometres away from the southern French port city of Marseille. The previous owner of the factory, chemical and agri-food giant Unilever, decided 3 years ago to move production of Lipton tea abroad to save on labour costs. The 80 workers, through protest and boycott campaigns, have demanded that the factory […]
Read more ›Debate: Social resistance to neo-liberal policies in Serbia – on 3rd February, in Paris
A l’initiative de l’Assemblée Européenne des Citoyens, Attac, l’Association pour l’Autogestion, Information-débat sur les résistances sociales aux politiques néo-libérales en Serbie Avec Milenko Srećković LUNDI 3 FEVRIER, à 18h, CICP, 21 ter rue Voltaire, Paris 11è. Pendant plus de deux décennies – après le démantèlement de la Yougoslavie – la Serbie a subi des crises permanentes accompagnées de guerres, de […]
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