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Kier: Building controversy
Kier is a multinational construction company and the principal contractor building the new mega-prison in Wellingborough that will lock up more than 1,600 people. The prison has received planning...
View ArticleComing Soon: WORLDS END!
d Doom, despair, denial, depression, IT’S THE END OF THE WORLD!!!! These are common reactions when people learn about the reality of climate change. Similarly, sometimes when people think about...
View ArticleThe Zombie Technofix
Relying on unproven technologies such as Carbon Capture and Storage is a dangerous distraction from the systematic changes required to tackle climate change. (also published on The Ecologist) The idea...
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Tidemill update: the trees come down, the battle for Deptford continues
🔊 Listen to this Corporate Watch has been glad to support Deptford people fighting the destruction of council homes at Reginald House and of the Old Tidemill community wildlife garden. Back in...
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It’s here: Worlds End!
🔊 Listen to this Doom, despair, denial, depression, IT’S THE END OF THE WORLD!!!! These are common reactions when people learn about the reality of climate change. Similarly, when people think about...
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Resisting the gold rush: Dalradian Resources and the struggle against gold...
Communities in County Tyrone in Northern Ireland have been resisting proposals by the US-owned company Dalradian Resources to build a gold mine in the county. The company promises jobs and investment...
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Yara: the fertiliser giant causing climate catastrophe
Next month a group of people will try to close down one of Europe’s biggest fertiliser plants. Called ‘Free the Soil’, the action aims to expose the devastating practices of the industrial agricultural...
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Energean: Israel-backed Greek oil company hungry for Mediterranean gas
In Greece, as the economy returns to “business as usual” after the financial crash, the government is selling off massive new oil and gas fields in the Ionian sea and on the country’s western coast....
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Save Greek Seas: fighting the oil companies’ plans to devastate the...
If governments and corporations get their way, the bright blue seas of western Greece will be turned into oil fields. From Corfu in the north to Crete in the south, the Greek government has sold off...
View ArticleWreckers of the Earth: London company directory
Our new “Wreckers of the Earth” map of London identifies planet-killing companies based in the city, giving their addresses and short descriptions. This directory, accompanying the map, presents all...
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Wreckers of the Earth: a map of ecocidal capitalism in London
“The earth is not dying, it is being killed, and those who are killing it have names and addresses.” Utah Phillips London is one of the main worldwide hubs of ecocidal capitalism. This city is home to...
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#CoronaCapitalism: six ways capitalism spreads the crisis
Are people sunbathing in parks the real villains of the corona crisis? What about the corporations pushing industrial agriculture, Big Pharma companies locking up drug research, or the investment funds...
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Jim Ratcliffe: billionaire boss of INEOS
Earlier this year, in what seems like a different era, Corporate Watch produced a profile on Jim Ratcliffe as part of the European Network of Corporate Observatories’ ‘Know your Billionaires!‘ project:...
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Coming Soon: Corporate Watch Guide to Technology
Corporate Watch will soon publish a new book: ‘TECH: A Guide to the Politics and Philosophy of Technology’, continuing our long standing focus on technology. For as long as Corporate Watch has been...
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MSC: a profile of one of Europe’s worst polluters
The European Network of Corporate Observatories, of which Corporate Watch is a member, has released a new report: The Corporate Silk Road: A New Era of (e-)Infrastructure in Europe? It looks at the...
View ArticleVaccinating Capitalism: corporate pharma raids the commons and leaves the...
by David Whyte Telling the story of the search for the COVID-19 vaccines puts capitalism under the microscope. It is a story that helps us to zoom in on why the pharmaceutical industry is set for one...
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Animal farming & COVID-19: from China’s wildlife trade to the European fur...
We look at COVID-19’s potential origins in intensive animal farming, and how governments and the industry in China and Europe are responding to this. In view of the known links between factory farming...
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The Fur Industry: a corporate overview
Fur production is banned in the UK, and the industry has been on the decline in Europe for years. Yet fur can still be readily bought and sold here, whether from niche London boutiques, or major online...
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Georgia: guardians of the Rioni Valley face off the dams
“My struggle has become to take back the land” by Mariam Shengelia and Pierre Bonnevalle. A previous version of this article was published in French in the journal CQFD See also: key facts on ENKA, the...
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ENKA: key facts about the Turkish megacorp behind the Rioni Valley dams
See also: article here on the struggle against the Rioni valley dam projects in Georgia. The hotly resisted dam project in the Rioni valley, Georgia, is being built by a company called ENKA Renewables....
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