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1 Pressure on Primark grows over tragedy 1 May 2013
2 UK move sparks ‘ban killer drones’ call 26 Apr 2013
3 Protest targets Primark over Bangladesh workplace disaster 26 Apr 2013
4 Campaigners demand action following Bangladesh building collapse 25 Apr 2013
5 'Ban killer drones' UK alert 22 Apr 2013
6 Pressure grows on G4S to end Israeli prison contracts 22 Apr 2013
7 Activists tell Foot Locker to give Adidas the boot 22 Apr 2013
8 Budget – Osborne’s tax anti-abuse rule “a hollow PR stunt” set to increase tax avoidance 20 Mar 2013
9 Osborne’s Budget ‘tax sham’ to give a green light to corporate tax avoiders 20 Mar 2013
10 G4S accused over links to Palestinian ‘torture’ death jail 25 Feb 2013
11 Protests planned across the UK against supermarket chain Sainsbury’s for trading with companies profiting from the occupation of Palestine 8 Feb 2013
12 G4S joins world’s worst company 'hall of shame' 24 Jan 2013
13 EU approval of financial transaction tax welcomed 22 Jan 2013
14 Olympic ‘shambles’ G4S up for wooden spoon 4 Jan 2013
15 UK aid ‘fuelling hunger in Africa’ 11 Dec 2012
16 Autumn statement - Osborne ‘turning a blind eye’ to tax avoidance 5 Dec 2012
17 Campaigners slam Osborne's hollow tax plans 3 Dec 2012
18 Report exposes Osborne tax plan ‘hypocrisy’ 3 Dec 2012
19 War on Want condemns Israel attack on Gaza 20 Nov 2012
20 War on Want supports ‘unprecedented’ austerity fight 14 Nov 2012
21 'Pay living wage everywhere' call to British firms 2 Nov 2012
22 Campaigners demand supermarket watchdog given teeth 17 Oct 2012
23 Nearly 50,000 people join to demand Adidas pay Indonesian workers US$1.8M 3 Sep 2012
24 Protest targets Vedanta mines ‘abuse’ 28 Aug 2012
25 Cameron hunger event branded a ‘distraction’ 9 Aug 2012
26 'Coe' dishes it out to Olympic partners 7 Aug 2012
27 Olympic projection spotlights Adidas factories ‘exploitation’ 5 Aug 2012
28 New Olympic protest targets Adidas 4 Aug 2012
29 Adidas chief slammed for denying 34p an hour wages 25 Jul 2012
30 G4S Olympics Games security row sparks call for mercenary regulation 17 Jul 2012
31 Adidas reels under Olympics ‘sweatshops’ protests 14 Jul 2012
32 Protestors say London summit pushing global land grabs and hunger 26 Jun 2012
33 Mines firm accused over deaths, abuse, corruption 14 Jun 2012
34 Hammond raises fears over ‘privatisation of war’ 7 Jun 2012
35 Adidas told ‘Exploitation. It’s not OK anywhere’ 7 Jun 2012
36 JCB 'complicit' in Palestinian rights violations 1 Jun 2012
37 'Back Zara poverty workers' call to Kate 15 May 2012
38 Charity claims victory over stores abuse 9 May 2012
39 Palestine human rights group raided 8 May 2012
40 Charity sets record to aid sweatshop workers 3 May 2012
41 Minchin aids sweatshop workers 18 Apr 2012
42 London 2012’s Coe pressed over Adidas sweatshops 5 Mar 2012
43 Redgrave plea for sweatshop workers 28 Feb 2012
44 JCB slated on Jerusalem playground demolition 20 Feb 2012
45 Banana union leader wins top award 15 Feb 2012
46 Geneva trade summit ‘must be WTO’s last’ 14 Dec 2011
47 Anti-poverty charity joins union action 30 Nov 2011
48 Radical gifts spark ‘true’ Christmas spirit 14 Nov 2011
49 Ministers warned: Get out of Libya 11 Nov 2011
50 G20 must ‘drop obsession with free markets’ – GMB, War on Want 3 Nov 2011

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