Global Justice Now

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Learn about incredible struggles all around the world and plan the path forward for our movement - see you in Leeds!

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This year's speakers include:

💥 @rahilag.bsky.social chair of @sbsisters.bsky.social
💥 Pallavi Pundir, writer and researcher on gender and democratic movements in Asia
💥 @nickdearden.bsky.social director of Global Justice Now
💥 Alyssa Elliott, founder of @indivisiblelondon.bsky.social

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Young people are leading resistance to the far right, the genocide in Gaza and fossil fuels globally.

At We Rise we’ll hear from incredible international speakers on the front lines of these struggles - and plan how we can make 2026 a year of solidarity and global justice! ✊🏾

COMING SOON: our annual under 30's youth activist gathering 🤩

📢WE RISE
Sat 21 Feb 26, 12pm

📍 Leeds Cardigan Centre
🎟️ Travel subsidies available⁠

⁠We Rise is a FREE day of political education and workshops to inspire us to fight for a just world.

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Don't let Trump force the NHS to pay more for medicines Big Pharma and Donald Trump are holding the NHS to ransom. Under the threat of tariffs and withdrawal of investment, they are trying to force the NHS to pay more for our medicines. This risks our abil...

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Don't let Trump force the NHS to pay more for medicines

Sign our petition

act.globaljustice.org.uk/node/4650

Photo credit: David Mirzoeff

Photo credit: David Mirzoeff

Photo credit: David Mirzoeff

❌🤑 PHARMA GREED KILLS 🤑❌

This week the UK gave in to Trump’s bullying and agreed to give big pharma companies BILLIONS more from the NHS budget.

Diverting NHS funding could lead to 15,000+ excess deaths. We went to the Department of Business and Trade to call on the gov to change course NOW.

NHS drug deal to placate Donald Trump ‘will cost 15,000 British lives’

www.mirror.co.uk/news/health/...

Don't let Trump force the NHS to pay more for medicines Big Pharma and Donald Trump are holding the NHS to ransom. Under the threat of tariffs and withdrawal of investment, they are trying to force the NHS to pay more for our medicines. This risks our abil...

But the government appears to have given in to demands from Donald Trump and the big pharma lobby.

TAKE ACTION!

Tell health secretary Wes Streeting to protect the UK’s right to cap medicine prices

act.globaljustice.org.uk/node/4650

Text reads - BREAKING: Majority of British public say don't raise NHS medicine costs. 64% of the British public - more than 3 in 5 - agree NHS medicine costs should not be raised. Only 23% disagree. Voters from all major political parties oppose raising NHS medicine costs.

📣 New polling reveals a huge majority of the Brits don’t want to see the NHS pay for more for medicines.

💊 64% of people across the UK say the government should not raise the price the NHS pays for medicines - only 23% think the government should pay more

Donald Trump’s support for pro-AI proposal fuels Maga backlash US president endorses move to restrict regulation by states after lobbying from Silicon Valley

Trump moves to stop US states regulating his mates in the Big Tech oligarchy. Reminder -this is exactly what he’s trying to demand of governments around the world.

We can stop this. The American public hates it. Even MAGA hates it. Resist.

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Majority of British public don’t want to see the government increase the price the NHS pays for medicines, new polling reveals - Global Justice Now New polling comes as government announcement expected today on NHS drugs spend  The majority of the British public don’t want to see the government increase the price the NHS pays […]

Polling we've released today shows:

👉🏽 64% – more than 3 in 5 – of the British public agree that the government shouldn’t increase the price the NHS pays for medicines (23% for increase, 12% unsure)

Read more:

www.globaljustice.org.uk/news/majorit...

UK: Call Time on Corporate Courts The UK has just been sued, via corporate courts, for halting a controversial coal mine. It follows the government saying in its trade strategy that it would continue inserting Investor-State Dispute S...

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UK: Call Time on Corporate Courts! Sign our petition

act.globaljustice.org.uk/node/4490

Hello, foreign oligarchs and corporations! Please come and sue the UK for billions | George Monbiot The case of a planned Cumbrian coalmine shows how governments around the world are being threatened by litigation in shadowy offshore courts, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Thanks to @georgemonbiot.bsky.social for highlighting corporate courts in his column today for @theguardian.com

The UK is being sued by coal financiers and a Russian oligarch in these shadowy tribunals.

Get angry and join our campaign!

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Don't let Trump force the NHS to pay more for medicines Big Pharma and Donald Trump are holding the NHS to ransom. Under the threat of tariffs and withdrawal of investment, they are trying to force the NHS to pay more for our medicines. This risks our abil...

TAKE ACTION

Tell health secretary Wes Streeting to protect the UK’s right to cap medicine prices

act.globaljustice.org.uk/node/4650

Majority of British public don’t want to see the government increase the price the NHS pays for medicines, new polling reveals - Global Justice Now New polling comes as government announcement expected today on NHS drugs spend  The majority of the British public don’t want to see the government increase the price the NHS pays […]

Polling we've released today shows:

👉🏽 64% – more than 3 in 5 – of the British public agree that the government shouldn’t increase the price the NHS pays for medicines (23% for increase, 12% unsure)

Read more:

www.globaljustice.org.uk/news/majorit...

US and UK agree zero-tariffs on pharmaceuticals In return, the UK government has agreed to increase the baseline threshold used to assess if medicines are cost-effective.

Giving in to big pharma’s demands to hike the price of medicines spells disaster for our NHS, and for the lives of ordinary people.

We are being held to ransom.

Our government must stand up to big pharma and for our NHS by reversing course.

news.sky.com/story/us-and...

Britain withdraws $1.15 billion backing from TotalEnergies-led Mozambique LNG The British government has decided to withdraw its $1.15 billion backing for the TotalEnergies-led Mozambique Liquefied Natural Gas project, it said on Monday.

CAMPAIGN WIN 🎉

The UK is withdrawing funding from a massive gas power plant in Mozambique. Funding this carbon bomb would have been a climate and human rights disaster. Thanks to campaigners keeping up the pressure, today we can celebrate this huge win

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Oligarchs + fossil fuel companies can sue the UK govt in secret courts for literally billions of pounds if they impose laws that protect the climate?

If you’re not fine with this, @globaljusticenow.bsky.social have a petition:

act.globaljustice.org.uk/uk-call-time...

The UK Government is being sued by a billionaire Russian oligarch in a secret corporate court ⚠️

Learn more and take action

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Billionaire oligarch suing Britain over sanctions Mikhail Fridman was sanctioned by Britain after the invasion of Ukraine because of his investments in Russia’s largest non-state bank

"This latest case against the UK government highlights the huge threat that corporate courts pose not only to sovereignty and democracy, but to security" - our trade campaign manager @cleodierickard.bsky.social quoted in @thetimes.com

www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Today:
- Read @georgemonbiot.bsky.social piece on corporate courts
- Share it widely
- Take action 👇

#ExitISDS

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act.globaljustice.org.uk/node/4490

Hello, foreign oligarchs and corporations! Please come and sue the UK for billions | George Monbiot The case of a planned Cumbrian coalmine shows how governments around the world are being threatened by litigation in shadowy offshore courts, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Sovereignty? Democracy? Sorry, but we can't afford those anymore. We'll be sued if we try to defend them.
This week's column is about a massive but scarcely-covered scandal.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Israel still committing genocide in Gaza, Amnesty International says The NGO’s chief says last month’s ceasefire ‘risks creating a dangerous illusion that life in Gaza is returning to normal’

"While Israeli authorities and forces have reduced the scale of their attacks and allowed limited amounts of humanitarian aid into Gaza, the world must not be fooled. Israel’s genocide is not over."

BREAKING 🚨: The government has just announced that they are ending new oil and gas exploration in the UK and have started a plan for workers and communities to transition away from fossil fuels.

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Ahead of the budget, we called on the government to take bold, popular action to tax the wealth of the super rich and polluting corporations.

It's time that we fight for a society that works for the people who keep it running, not the super rich! #MakeThemPay

Prime Minister: It’s time to Make Them Pay Billionaires and polluting corporations are increasingly destroying lives and being rewarded with more vast wealth, while working people worldwide are left to pick up the pieces. If we don’t fight bac...

TAKE ACTION - sign our petition 👇🏽

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Ahead of the budget, we called on the government to take bold, popular action to tax the wealth of the super rich and polluting corporations.

It's time that we fight for a society that works for the people who keep it running, not the super rich! #MakeThemPay

UK Critical Minerals strategy "completely fails" to lay out plan for fair and reciprocal relationships with global south, campaigners say - Global Justice Now Cleodie Rickard, trade campaign manager at Global Justice Now said: “Beyond buzzwords, the UK’s Critical Minerals Strategy completely fails to lay out a plan for fair and reciprocal partnerships with ...

Read our full reaction and analysis from our trade campaign manager @cleodierickard.bsky.social here 👇🏽

www.globaljustice.org.uk/news/uk-crit...

If the government intends to use this list to prioritise resources, it must consider wider views on what kinds of growth we really need.

Front and centre should be areas of the economy that genuinely benefit people’s livelihoods and wellbeing and tackle the climate emergency.

Over half of minerals designated as ‘critical’ by UK play ‘no major role’ in green transition, new report says - Global Justice Now Campaigners say transition must not be hijacked by military industries or used to undermine the economies of developing countries   Huge amounts of critical mineral mining are ‘not essential’ for the ...

The new ‘growth minerals’ list lacks transparency on the political assumptions behind what sectors the government seeks to grow, esp in deliberately occluding estimates from defence sector – which our research has shown to be a large driver in demand.

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