Campaigns

STOP THE WAR COALITION

"I have been surprised and extremely disappointed by Tony Blair's behavior. It's a shameful and pitiful state of affairs, and I hold your British prime minister to be substantially responsible for being so compliant and subservient." Jimmy Carter: Ex-US President.

MILITARY FAMILIES AGAINST THE WAR

You don't have to have any relation to the military to get involved. Take action and sign the petition: TROOPS HOME NOW!

NO TO TRIDENT

Trident is Britain's nuclear weapon system. It consists of four nuclear-armed submarines, one of which is on operational patrol at all times. Each Trident submarine carries 48 nuclear warheads, each of which can be sent to a different target. Each warhead has an explosive power of up to 100 kilotons, the equivalent of 100,000 tons of conventional high explosive and 8 times the power of the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima in 1945, killing an estimated 140,000 people.

KEEP OUR NHS PUBLIC

Across England NHS patients and local communities have been linking up with nurses, doctors and other health care workers to meet, march, protest and lobby as they fight to stop further closures and cuts in local NHS services.

CAMPAIGN FOR PEASE POTTAGE HOSPITAL

The Government say that we don't need a new NHS hospital but services in Crawley and Horsham are at crisis point. A plan has been commissioned and costed to provide a brand new hospital including accident and emergency.

NO2ID

Numbered, indexed and tagged, your identity subject to approval, the simplest things in life will no longer be under your control. Tony may have faith in the future, but who else will have that power? In 10 years? In 20? In what back room?

PROTECTING CIVIL LIBERTIES

The Human Rights Act has come under attack by journalists and politicians. It's is being blamed for bad management and serious mistakes by the Government. Freedom of speech, privacy, equality and human rights effects our lives and our children's lives. You owe your children and grandchildren to find out more and take a side!

WAR ON WANT - FIGHTING GLOBAL POVERTY

We believe that global poverty can only be eliminated by changing the things that cause it, like unfair trading systems and exploitative business practices. We tackle them head on, pioneering campaigns against issues such as the privatisation of public services in the developing world and the unfettered liberalisation of global trade policies, and we lead the way in bringing these injustices to a wider audience.

CAMPAIGN AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE

We are on the threshold of a frightening new era........ never before has humankind's abuse of the environment put the whole planet in danger.

WE CAN CUT CRIME

Violent crime is rising, anti-social behaviour is still a serious problem, and our prisons are overflowing. Labour have talked tough but have failed to deliver despite 10 years in power.

DEFEND COUNCIL HOUSING

The 'Fourth Option' would provide a long term future for council housing and benefit all areas retaining council homes, those in ALMOs opposed to two-stage privatisation and those facing transfer, PFI or ALMO in the coming year.

Charities

SPIRIT AID - A CELEBRATION OF HUMAN SPIRIT

Spirit Aid is dedicated to the Children of our World whose lives have been devastated by war; genocide; poverty; abuse or lack of opportunity at home and abroad.

Boycotts

SAY NO TO PEUGEOT

Amicus and the T&G unions went full stream ahead in June, with a £1m campaign against car marker Peugeot-Citroen with national newspaper adverts urging people not to buy Peugeot and Citroen cars if the company proceeds with the closure of its Ryton plant in Coventry.

TEXACO - CLEAN UP ECUADOR

Dumping billions of gallons of toxic waste in the Ecuadorian Amazon rain forest and failing to clean it up. Hiring a public relations firm Hill & Knowlton to cover-up the worst ecological disasters in history.

KILLER COKE - MURDER IT'S THE REAL THING

Seeking to stop the gruesome cycle of murders, kidnappings and torture of union leaders and organizers involved in the struggle at the Coca-Cola bottling plants in Colombia, South America.