Citizen Debt Audits are Challenging Big Finance in the U.K. and Beyond

For citizen debt audits, the only way to challenge the power of banks is to reveal their crimes – then build a public movement that mobilizes around the injustice, demanding the public money be spent in the public interest.

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Activists Demand Climate Refugees Be Recognized

A 2015 tidal surge caused the sea to flood across the islands of Kiribati, the small Pacific island nation chain of atolls that could be the first national homeland lost completely to climate change.

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Escaping Assad: A Syrian Kurd's Story

“The revolution began as a peaceful civilian movement for all Syrians, Kurds, Arabs, everyone," says Sami. "And I look at where we are now and it is so depressing. The revolution has been stolen.”

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Notting Dale Reveals Britain's Slide Back Toward Victorian Levels of Inequality

The area around Grenfell Tower has long been a frontline in the fight against racism, as communities have organized against their exploitation with some long-lasting success stories that can serve as lessons for today.

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As Calls Grow for Grenfell Justice, Will U.K. Government Be Held To Account?

The British establishment is ignoring calls for an open and inclusive investigation into the Grenfell Tower fire, which could demonstrate how government and for-profit contractors helped turn 120 homes into a 24-floor death trap.

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The Corbyn Effect: Britain’s Election Just Rewrote the Rules of Parliamentary Politics

Jeremy Corbyn's win demonstrated that in the stale world of parliamentary politics, we need to tear up the rulebook. We need to be realistic about the systemic crises we face. And we need, above all, to demand the impossible.

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Greed Caused London’s Worst Fire Since WWII

The cause of the fire that engulfed Grenfell Tower on Wednesday morning remains unknown, but greed and neoliberalism explain its devastation. These deaths could have been avoided if life had been put above profit.

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Beset by Terrorism, a Resistance Builds Across Britain On Eve of Election

As Britain reels following its second terror attack in two weeks, and with only days to go before the General Election on June 8, voters here are on edge. But, terrorism aside, they're also mad as hell.

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The Life-or-Death Battle of Britain’s 2017 Election

The Conservative Party is tearing Britain apart – its imposition of Brexit and other English-centric policies for the richest have galvanized Scottish independence and Irish reunification as ever more attractive escape routes.

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Populism of the 1%: Why The Same Billionaires are Behind Trump and Brexit

Those who have profited hand over fist from decades of neoliberalism are now the ones sponsoring the populist, anti-immigration and climate denial regimes on both sides of the Atlantic.

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