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- Transforming Pathology, the Serco way

- Vince Cable: Minister for Shell

- King’s Cross Central: ‘a crude exercise in social engineering’

- Where now for international resistance to the corporate Olympics?

- Dear Corporation: A response to SodaStream

- Israeli court finds that Rachel Corrie’s death was a ‘regrettable accident’

- Manufacture of components used to fire cluster munitions challenged in court

- G4S Company Profile available in print

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Transforming Pathology, the Serco way

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, revealed in the Guardian today, has found.

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Vince Cable: Minister for Shell

What job does Vince Cable want? Chancellor? Foreign Secretary? Prime Minister? It’s the question everyone has been asking at this year’s Liberal Democrat conference. However, documents obtained by Corporate Watch and revealed in the Huffington Post UK show that it’s Dr.

Cable’s current role as “contact Minister for Shell” that should be under question.

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King’s Cross Central: ‘a crude exercise in social engineering’

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.

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Where now for international resistance to the corporate Olympics?

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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Dear Corporation: A response to SodaStream

For the last two weeks, demonstrations have been held outside SodaStream’s Brighton store by boycott divestment and sanctions activists who have been telling the public about the reality of SodaStream’s business. In response SodaStream has issued a bulletin, handed-out in front of their store during the protest last Saturday.

Here is Corporate Watch’s response:

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Israeli court finds that Rachel Corrie’s death was a ‘regrettable accident’

The judge in a civil case in Haifa over the death of Rachel Corrie, a US Palestine solidarity activist who was crushed to death by an Israeli army bulldozer while trying to prevent the demolition of Palestinian homes in 2003, has ruled that the Israeli state is not culpable.

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Manufacture of components used to fire cluster munitions challenged in court

Two anti-militarist activists were found guilty of aggravated trespass in Brighton today. The pair had glued themselves to the gates of the EDO MBM factory in the early hours of 27th April 2011 in protest at the sale of umbilical cables for use in Afghanistan and also to the Israeli military.

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G4S Corporate Profile available in print

Hard though it may be to believe, its failure to fulfil the terms of its Olympics security contract is by no means the worst example of G4S’ work “securing your world”. Corporate Watch takes a deep breath and delves into the murky world of a company profiting from bungling and brutality on a global scale. Now available as a printed briefing for just £2.

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http://www.corporatewatch.org.uk/