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After the success of Corporate Watch's first publication in our Demystifying the Financial Sector series, the second looks at how the credit crunch came about as an inevitable result of the recent developments in the economic and financial system. It presents the different interpretations of several 'Crisis Stories' (Marxist, Keynesian and so on) and includes an interview with an insider. So is it possible to make sense of the crisis? We would like to think that it is. |
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As the legality of the government's 'workfare' schemes is again challenged in court, some companies appear to be making the most of the free labour on offer while they still can. |
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Since April 2012 Corporate Watch, and campaigners from the Brighton and Hove Palestine Solidarity Campaign, have been in correspondence with B&Q; over its sale of products manufactured by Keter Plastics, an Israeli company with a global reach which has a factory in the illegal Barkan settlement industrial zone in the occupied West Bank. |
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Corporate Watch looks at UK actions targeting corporations and organisations complicit in Israeli militarism, apartheid and occupation in response to the November 2012 attacks on Gaza. |
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Britain’s biggest private care home owners have combined debts of nearly £5bn raising fresh concerns about the financial health of companies looking after thousands of elderly and disabled people, an investigation by Corporate Watch and the Independent has found. |
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Suffolk County Council has agreed a multimillion pound deal with the private sector to take over its care homes amid fresh calls for financial regulation to protect elderly residents. |
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A new report report published by the UK Tar Sands Network, Corporate Watch and Pembrokeshire Friends of the Earth reveals that US energy company Valero is expecting to bring increasing quantities of oil derived from the controversial tar sands to locations around the UK, including Pembrokeshire, Wales. |
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Outsourcing giant Serco says it can play a “critical role” in helping the NHS achieve the efficiency savings demanded by the government. But the privatisation of pathology services in two London hospitals has led to increased clinical problems and financial instability, an investigation by Corporate Watch has found. |
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