Artists pull out of Latitude Festival over its sponsorship from apartheid-supporting Barclays
The Latitude Festival announced Barclaycard as its headline sponsor this year. A quick browse of its website shows the company's ...
Tag: Capitalism
Nuclear weapons firm AWE latest corporate criminal to seek membership of prominent sustainability body
The UK’s main manufacturer of nuclear warheads could soon become a corporate partner to a leading global sustainability organisation. The ...
BP and Shell have been lobbying the Scottish government under the guise of renewables
Campaign group Friends of the Earth Scotland has exposed how fossil fuel giants like BP and Shell have been lobbying ...
New report shows how EU seafood extractivism will continue its complicity in the colonial occupation of Western Sahara
An unlawful fisheries agreement is coming to an end, but a new report shows how the EU seafood industry will ...
Police turned up to a coal mine operating without a licence – to arrest protesters
On 5 July, Extinction Rebellion (XR) blocked access to Ffos-y-Fran coal mine in Wales. The mine is infamous for continuing ...
Thames Water avoids renationalisation with yet another cash bump
On 10 July, Thames Water announced a massive financial injection from its shareholders. This will, for now, keep the privatised ...
Activists descend on Lidl following ‘deception’ over ‘horror’ animal abuse
Activists from campaign group Open Cages protested outside 30 Lidl stores across the UK following the release of animal abuse ...
BBC shilling for the fossil fuel industry in latest example of media climate bias
The BBC has platformed the views of fossil fuel giant Shell's boss in the latest shocking example of media bias on ...
Thames Water fined more than £3 million for polluting our rivers
On Tuesday 4 July, Lewes Crown Court fined Thames Water £3.3m for polluting rivers. The company pleaded guilty to pumping ...
Trophy hunting and biodiversity credits are two sides of the same capitalist coin
What do trophy hunting and biodiversity credits have in common? It sounds like the start of some crass joke. Only, ...
Thames Water might need temporary renationalisation – but it should be permanent
Thames Water, Britain's biggest water supplier, might need to be temporarily renationalised by the government. At least, that's according to ...
UK government evades scrutiny over Rosebank as climate advisors say no to new oil and gas
In a debate in Westminster Hall, the UK government evaded scrutiny over its impending approval of the controversial Rosebank oil ...
No-one cares about poor Black and Brown refugees dying in the ocean, so why should we care about billionaires?
Throughout the week, the mainstream media have obsessively been giving us live updates about billionaires missing inside a submarine in ...
UK government funding environment-wrecking extractive projects with histories of human rights abuse
The UK government recently came under scrutiny for using development aid to fund projects which have violated the human rights ...
A new study quantifies the extent of extractive capitalism’s colonial violence against Indigenous Peoples worldwide
A new study has highlighted that extractive projects are disproportionately harming Indigenous Peoples across the world. Published in the journal ...
Guardian has “Mr Bean moment” with Atkinson electric vehicle article
The Guardian has had a Mr Bean moment over electric cars on 3 June. British actor and petrolhead Rowan Atkinson ...
Rainbow capitalism was always going to fold if anti-LGBTQ+ sentiment rose: now, we’re at that moment
The months running up to Pride have seen right-wing shitheads whipping themselves into a frenzy regarding rainbow branding - particularly ...
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