The world’s largest ultra-processed food corporations are using lawsuits to obstruct public health measures, delay new regulations and protect the profits they make from unhealthy food. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the World Health Organization, has accused global food…
The chief executive of Thames Water has claimed that targets for reducing leaks and pollution are “not realistic”, after decades in which private owners and lenders drained billions from the company while its infrastructure deteriorated. Chris Weston told the BBC…
The United States has added more than 40 Chinese entities to its so-called “Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act Entity List”, extending its campaign of economic warfare against China under the familiar cover of concern for human rights. China’s Ministry of…
Rolls-Royce and BAE Systems have raised their profit forecasts as governments across the capitalist world prepare to pour even more public money into weapons, surveillance systems and nuclear submarines. Rolls-Royce now expects to make an underlying operating profit of between…
The British government is preparing to use AI-powered facial analysis at the border, despite warnings that the technology is racially biased and could condemn refugee children to detention, removal and unsafe accommodation alongside adults. Under the plans, facial age-estimation software…
The BBC has published another lesson in how bourgeois propaganda works: not by openly demanding that workers be made poorer, but by presenting attacks on living standards as the unavoidable conclusions of serious economic analysis. The article reports warnings from…
Campaign group Led By Donkeys has received £27,216 in compensation after Greater London Authority officials seized and destroyed a giant banner declaring “Yes It’s A Genocide” in Parliament Square. The 40-metre by 40-metre banner was unfurled on 4 December 2024,…
The Home Office is preventing dozens of women and children from leaving Gaza to reunite with relatives in Britain, even though the Foreign Office says it’s ready to evacuate them. Families with applications already in progress remain trapped under bombardment…
Capitalism doesn’t only control what we produce and who owns it. It also shapes how we understand ourselves. Its preferred image of society is a collection of separate individuals, each pursuing their own interests and responsible for their own fate….
Britain’s inflation rate fell to 2.6 percent in the year to June, helped by lower food and fuel costs. Ministers will present the figure as evidence that the cost-of-living crisis is easing. But slower inflation doesn’t mean prices have returned…
