Israel is exploiting the vacuum left by southern Syria’s sectarian clashes and a weak state: Several days of bitter sectarian fighting in the south of Syria has brought the fledgling government in Damascus dangerously close to direct conflict with Israel, after Israeli warplanes launched strikes against government buildings in the Syrian capital, Damascus, on July …
A ‘shadow economy’ of firms like hand car washes and nail salons is exploiting workers – and regulations are making things worse: elly johnson/unsplash, CC BY-ND Almost a million UK workers do not receive holiday pay and the UK continues to lag behind most European countries in tackling the exploitation of these workers. Our research …
Grand National protests: Animal Rising campaigners reveal how exploiting animals harms us too: Britain’s 175th annual Grand National horse race is set to take place on Saturday April 15. The protest group Animal Rising (formerly known as Animal Rebellion), an offshoot of the larger climate movement Extinction Rebellion, plans to disrupt it with direct-action tactics, …
Coronavirus and conspiracies: how the far right is exploiting the pandemic: Just as the global death toll from COVID-19 reached 250,000 at the start of May this year, a short film emerged that has since been called “the first true hit conspiracy video of the COVID-19 era”. Titled “Plandemic”, it featured a lengthy interview with …