Blogs
Here’s what a trade deal with Trump could mean for our NHS
By: Heidi Chow
Date: 7 June 2019
Campaigns: Trade
This week the unacceptably high price of trading with Trump was laid bare as he declared that the NHS would be ‘on the table’ for a future trade deal. He […]
Read moreThe UK government has blatantly chosen to side with big pharma over patients
By: Heidi Chow
Date: 28 May 2019
Campaigns: Pharma
The UK government has recklessly blocked global efforts to tackle big pharma secrecy this week in Geneva. But across the world, people are mobilising to give a strong message that it’s time governments put people over the power of big pharma.
Read moreWhy is the UK trying to delete all mentions of high drug prices at the World Health Assembly?
By: Heidi Chow
Date: 21 May 2019
Campaigns: Pharma
This week in Geneva a resolution is being voted on which could help make drugs more affordable around the world. Yet we’ve discovered that the UK government is trying to undermine […]
Read moreWhy we need a global fightback against corporate courts
By: Heidi Chow
Date: 11 February 2019
Campaigns: Trade
With just weeks to go before Brexit day, we want to let the government know that corporate courts have no place in UK trade and investment policy.
Read moreStop the bullying tactics of big pharma
By: Heidi Chow
Date: 2 March 2018
Campaigns: Pharma
The Swiss pharmaceutical giant, Novartis holds it AGM today in Basel, Switzerland and different groups across the world are joining forces to protest its bullying tactics that were exposed in a recently leaked letter.
Read moreIt’s #WorldCancerDay, lets fight for affordable cancer drugs
By: Heidi Chow
Date: 4 February 2018
Campaigns: Pharma
Access to cancer drugs plays a big part in the fight to save millions of preventable deaths each year. But as our chronically underfunded NHS buckles under pressure this winter, […]
Read moreMy week with La Via Campesina
By: Heidi Chow
Date: 27 July 2017
It’s not every day you get the opportunity to spend a few days with one of the world’s largest social movements. La Via Campesina represents 200 million small-scale food producers, […]
Read moreA Peoples Food Policy – a vision for a better food system
By: Heidi Chow
Date: 26 June 2017
After his failed backstabbing leadership bid, Michael Gove’s sudden return to the frontbench in the recent cabinet reshuffle was a shock to many. His controversial role in the education and […]
Read moreThe long, hard fight against food speculation
By: Heidi Chow
Date: 23 February 2017
It has been almost a decade since the global financial crisis where financial traders and banks played fast and hard with excessive risk and burnt the global economy. The global […]
Read moreStep up and reject weak rules on food speculation
By: Heidi Chow
Date: 2 February 2017
Its been a long fight to stop corporations from treating food as a gambling chip in the financial markets. Back in 2008, prices for staple foods like wheat and corn […]
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