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For months East Londonpeace campaigner Len Aldis has led the campaign against the Dow Chemical company

Exclusive from our correspondent with Syrian refugees in Turkey: As we were sitting in the lobby of our hotel, a man approached...

Just a couple of weeks ago, War on Want hosted a tour of Bangladeshi trade union organisers

Read this exclusive report by Human Aid in the Syrian Borders

  To sign this petition, visit http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/29410.  From the London Guantánamo Campaign: 14th February marked the tenth anniversary of the detention without charge or trial of Shaker Aamer, the last Londoner held in Guantánamo Bay. To mark this anniversary, Shaker’s ...

As the Olympics approaches, the campaign against Games sponsor Dow Chemicals continues, with the Indian team considering taking protest action short of a team boycott at the event. The latest news is that Len Aldis of the Britain-Vietnam Friendship Society ...

Mike Phipps of Iraq Occupation Focus: So, in 2011 the last US troops finally left Iraq? Well, not quite. Combat troops may have gone, but private military contractors remain in their thousands. The US will spend nearly $1bn in 2012 ...

Cyprus is a beautiful island now! No, we’re not talking about the exotic landmass in the Mediterranean – not this time. We’re talking about

More than 12,000 people have signed the e-petition urging the UK government to stop the extradition of British detainee Babar Ahmad to the U.S and put him on trial in the U.K instead. It is currently the highest ranked e-petition ...

A bomb blast has rocked the centre of the Turkish capital, Ankara, killing 2 wounding more than a dozen people. Turkey’s deputy prime minister said “there is information that a bomb was planted” on a vehicle. Thick smoke could be ...