Climate Camp in the city took center stage at Bishopsgate, Central London at exactly 12.30. Dozens of tents were simultaneously pitched in the street and activists sat down on picnic rugs along the road, despite the efforts of a few police who had no option but to retreat to the pavement. Within minutes more tents were pitched, drum sounds and...

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On Wednesday 1st April, workers at a car parts factory occupied the building. The day before, they had been given six minutes notice of leave, with not a penny in redundancy pay and not a pension on the horizon. Some of the workers had served Ford for over 30 years, but now that US giant Visteon had taken over the plant, and despite assurances...

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A few weeks back, after years of relative stability, violence returned to the streets of Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, when clashes between the two main political parties left at least twenty people injured and several women raped.

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Saturday 4th April. No Sweat protest against sweatshop labour outside Primark, Oxford Street, London. Travelling on the bus through London, trying to cover the fancy-dress chains around some of our wrists, we probably looked a bit strange, but this wasn't some student prank; we were going to protest about an issue that a lot of people would rather...

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