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Latest Magazine # 52-53 Spring/Summer 2012


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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 attacks on Gaza over the last week.

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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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
One of Europe's biggest inner city regeneration projects, describes itself as an inclusive and sustainable development. But an investigation by Corporate Watch and The Independent has found people with a history of mental health problems are being excluded from the social housing built there while the developers and local council have also set quotas for the number of homeless and unemployed people.
 
The CEO of Soda Club, an Israeli company with a production facility in the settlement industrial zone of Mishor Adumim, has vowed to stop the protests happening outside its UK shop.
 
The International Counter Olympics Network (ICON) was established the day before the Games began in London. This article is based on testimonies by members of anti Olympics groups in cities in different parts of the world, and hopes to contribute to a discussion about how activists can move beyond campaigns against individual sponsors and best enact international solidarity with people struggling against the corporate Games in Sochi, Rio and beyond.
 
 
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