Exposed: Illegal Weaponry, Torture Equipment, Proliferate U.K.-Sponsored Arms Fair

Activists and investigative researchers have revealed that arms dealers were selling weapons and equipment banned under international law. Those in violation were ejected, but no legal action was taken.

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Police Violence Spurs Britain's Student Movement Against Privatization and Higher Fees

Last week's occupation of the University of London's vice chancellor's office by 100 students was evicted by security guards working alongside police.

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Young Europeans Against Austerity Launch "Troika Party" to Run in 2014

“This type of campaigning will play a key role in bringing political messages to sectors of the population that are not yet politicized," says Spain's Emma Avilés, "contributing to the multi-level European struggle against the E.U. crisis regime.”

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Why Does Britain Want to Deport One-Time Protester Trenton Oldfield?

The 37-year-old was imprisoned for interrupting a boat race last year, which highlighted inequalities and Britain's rigid class system. Now, the government wants him out of the country. Their rationale: he may “threaten national security.”

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Royal Troubles: Amid Austerity and Inequality, Ire Is Growing Over Britain's 1% Monarchy

Inheritances of vast wealth and power position the British royals and aristocrats within the global 1%. So why do protests for democracy and equality rarely draw attention to them, focusing anger instead merely on bankers, politicians and corporate fat cats?

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Exclusive: Iceland's ALDA Movement Seeks A Roadmap Toward Systemic Change

Kristinn Már Ársælsson, a founder of Iceland's Association of Sustainability and Democracy, advocates measures that enable participatory decision making, democratize the workplace, protect the environment and restructure the financial system.

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EXPOSED: U.K. FRACKERS REPLICATE U.S. FRACKING INDUSTRY'S LIES AND MISINFORMATION

The oil and gas industry, along with stealth PR handlers, touted Britain's fracking future at last week's U.K. Shale Gas Environmental Summit in London — taking a page from American industry's playbook by sowing scientific doubt about the risks of fracking.

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Exposed: Major U.K. Financier and Conservative Donor Guilty of LIBOR Rigging

Financial authorities in Britain have uncovered that a major financial supporter of the U.K. government, ICAP's CEO Michael Spencer, is closely tied to the LIBOR rate rigging scandal affecting some $360 trillion worldwide.

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Reclaiming the Roadblock, UK Uncut Takes Direct Action Against Austerity

Complementing other British anti-austerity movements in recent years, UK Uncut has proved perhaps the most successful at mobilizing activists from across the country to challenge corporate evasion of taxes.

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Britains Remember Their Victims of Austerity

10,000 white flowers were placed on the green before the U.K. Parliament, each flower representing a person with disability who died within three months of assessment by Atos, a private British healthcare assessor.

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