16 December 2020

Protests in solidarity with Indian farmers

Around 300 people from the city's Indian Sikh community turned out in Cardiff Bay on Saturday 12 December to protest in solidarity with farmers in Punjab, India, taking action against the brutal right-wing regime

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15 January 2020

TV Review: Apocalypse Cow

Environmental journalist and campaigner George Monbiot recently narrated a thought-provoking documentary on Channel 4 - Apocalypse Cow.

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28 August 2019

Amazon fires: Big business is destroying the environment

The Amazon rainforest in Brazil is battling massive forest fires. They are so extensive they can be seen from space.

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Climate change protesters in Newcastle, 24 March 2019, photo by Elaine Brunskill

16 November 2018

Climate change protest in London on 12.4.19, photo Mary Finch

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11 July 2018

Britain bakes as water pipelines leak

June was the driest month on record in south east and central southern England, while Scotland recorded its highest ever temperature of 33.2C in Motherwell.

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5 April 2017

What would a socialist food industry look like?

How to feed the world? That is a question that capitalism has never been able to solve, with one-third of the world's total population suffering malnutrition. Even in the economically advanced capitalist countries like Britain growing numbers are reliant on food banks.

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1 March 2017

The Socialist Inbox

Do you have something to say? Letters to the Socialist's editors. Worse-off women; farm fiends; Trotsky and Poland.

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27 February 2013

Should socialists support GM foods?

Debate over the genetic modification of crops raises questions for socialists and environmentalists as to the role of GM, as well as the wider issue of science under capitalism

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Meat being prepared at Smithfield market, photo Paul Mattsson

20 February 2013

Food adulteration - government cutbacks and capitalist profits

In the wake of the horsemeat scandal it's clear that food manufacturers, supermarkets and government ministers cannot be trusted to provide and ensure healthy food

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23 November 2010

Massive food price hikes spell disaster for poorest people

THE FINANCIAL speculators and hedge funds that so spectacularly contributed to the financial crisis resulting in the 'Great Recession' have now turned their attention to the international food market with devastating consequences, writes John Sharpe.

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4 May 2001

Foot and mouth disease outbreak: Crisis On Tony's Big Business Farm

THE FOOT and mouth disease (FMD) outbreak that started on 2 February has caused a major political crisis...

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30 March 2001

The deadly power of agri-business

THE GOVERNMENT'S 'Operation Cobra' policy to eradicate foot and mouth disease (FMD) is a failure. Parts of the countryside are knee-deep in slaughtered animal carcasses yet the disease shows no sign...

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9 March 2001

Foot and Mouth Disease: Government policy driven by agribusiness profits

The Government forms a 'war cabinet'; passenger checks at Channel ports; sporting events cancelled; public access to the countryside restricted...has the country gone to war?...

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2 March 2001

Foot and mouth disease: another crisis for agribusiness

THE RECENT outbreak of the highly infectious viral "foot and mouth disease" has discredited British farming and agribusiness once again, writes Amrita Huggins.

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