📢 56 academics warn corporate lawsuits threaten UK climate action As the UK is sued over the blocked West Cumbria coal mine, academics warn that ISDS lets investors challenge climate action in private tribunals. 📄 Read the open letter 👇

"If the government wants to show it cares about our nation’s health, investing in the staff that help keep the NHS running looks a better bet than bulking up the profit margins of corporate giants." Our campaign manager Tim for @lbc.co.uk 👇🏽 www.lbc.co.uk/article/gove...

The trade ‘deals’ with the US are based on nothing more than Trump’s word, which means nothing at all. They are a tool for repeatedly bullying us. And they exist in a democratic vacuum. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Trump is pushing for more and more concessions from the UK. It's time we stand up to Trump! Take action now: act.globaljustice.org.uk/node/4305

"Starmer's desire to appease Washington means he’s handing over our sovereignty and eroding our rights. "Unless we stop it, we’ll become no more than a US vassal state." Our director @nickdearden.bsky.social in @theguardian.com today www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

My letter in the Guardian today 👇 The Pharma deal is just latest example of of Starmer’s submission to Trump. His desire to appease Washington means he’s handing over our sovereignty & eroding our rights. We’re becoming no more than a US vassal state. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

🚨BREAKING 🚨 Trump has put previously-agreed investment in the UK tech industry on hold. Why? Likely to strong-arm the UK into dropping taxes on US big tech firms. 🧵Here’s what you need to know about the tax Trump wants scrapped & why we need to hold firm…

Trump is pushing for more and more concessions from the UK. It's time we stand up to Trump! Take action now: act.globaljustice.org.uk/node/4305

First take on the S Korea deal: it’s great for big business. Of particular concern: There’s a new ISDS! In the year the UK gets sued *twice* under ISDS, the government is busy creating new ways to get sued in these secretive corporate courts 🤦‍♂️ 1/2 www.theguardian.com/business/202...

🇬🇧🇰🇷 The UK and South Korea have signed an upgraded trade deal. We are concerned about what this means for the UK’s ability to regulate fast-moving technologies like #AI, and for its exposure to corporate lawsuits through #ISDS. Full response 👇 tjm.org.uk/uk-south-kor...

"Why have changes which will fundamentally affect the NHS been agreed in a deal with Washington without MPs being allowed a debate?" Our director @nickdearden.bsky.social in @financialtimes.com on the UK's decision to hand over billions more to big pharma 👇🏽 www.ft.com/content/884c...

My letter in the FT today on the US-UK Pharma deal: The government has made an open-ended commitment to gradually dismantle the price control system put in place from the late 1990s. MPs need to ask ministers some hard questions. www.ft.com/content/884c...

The news that the US is seeking even more concessions should be a wake up call for those in government who think we can appease our way out of tariff wars with Trump. The more we concede, the more corporate America will demand. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/b...

The UK is being sued by a billionaire Russian oligarch in a secret court - and taxpayers are on the hook for costs. Why? Because of Investor State Dispute Settlement, written into the UK's trade and investment deals. It's time we get rid of ISDS - for good. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

The UK's Critical Minerals Strategy has failed to seize the moment. That means it’s now up to all of us to push for meaningful transformation – and win. Our trade campaign manager @cleodierickard.bsky.social for @theecologist.org

I just don’t believe Wes Streeting on the Trump- Starmer Pharma deal. Here’s some fact checking:

Britain's Critical Minerals Strategy fails on its own terms – and on the necessity of global resource justice. Latest analysis from @globaljusticenow.bsky.social theecologist.org/2025/dec/11/...

The government say its deal to pay big pharma even higher prices won’t damage the NHS. But here's the reality 👇🏽

NEW: 200+ health and economic experts have written to the prime minister to warn that the UK's decision to funnel billions to big pharma would be a "catastrophe for all NHS patients" We need transparency - and a change of course NOW. www.globaljustice.org.uk/news/nhs-pha...

"An organisation devoted to saving lives is now being used as part of trade deals, its precious resources and structural integrity haggled away to multinational companies and foreign bullies." Brilliant and harrowing from Aditya Chakrabortty in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The UK is being sued by a billionaire Russian oligarch in a secret court - and taxpayers are on the hook for costs. Why? Because of Investor State Dispute Settlement, written into the UK's trade and investment deals. It's time we get rid of ISDS - for good. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Last week we were joined by Dr @andrewmeyerson.uk as we delivered a clear message to the UK government: protect the NHS and stop handing billions more to Big Pharma. Share if you think the government should protect the NHS and change course‼️

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. www.tickettailor.com/events/globa...

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. www.tickettailor.com/events/globa...

❌🤑 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/...

📣 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

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. www.ft.com/content/e087...

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...

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! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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...

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 www.reuters.com/business/ene...

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...

"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 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... act.globaljustice.org.uk/node/4490

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...

"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. 🧵

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

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

Beyond buzzwords, the UK’s Critical Minerals Strategy fails to lay out a plan for fair and reciprocal partnerships with resource-rich countries in the global south. Our reaction and analysis of the UK Government's new critical minerals strategy 👇🏽 www.globaljustice.org.uk/news/uk-crit...

Ahead of the UK budget we demand the UK Gov take action to tax the obscene wealth of the super rich and polluting corporations - and make them pay! We stood today at Parliament Square as campaign groups and trade unions united in our demands ✊🏽 Photo credit: David Mirzoeff

This weekend, the UK Government published its new Critical Minerals Strategy. Mining affected communities have spoken out against this strategy, saying it will fuel global injustices. londonminingnetwork.org/2025/11/uk-c...

Thanks to everyone who joined us over the weekend for our A-Z book launch! 🤩 You can order your copy here: act.globaljustice.org.uk/order-a-z-of...

Thoughts on #COP30: 1/ This is the first time in years delegates have been brought face to face with those on the frontline. The indigenous communities are the heroes of this COP. They refused to be silenced. www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...

Once again, governments didn’t make change at COP, but movements did. Over decades, activists and workers globally have forced a just transition from fossil fuels onto the UNFCCC’s agenda. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

As #COP30 negotiations look set to stretch on into the weekend, our climate campaign manager @izziemcintosh.bsky.social reports back from Belém 👇🏽

This is huge! 🇨🇴Colombia and 🇳🇱the Netherlands will co-host the first International Conference on the Just Transition Away from Fossil Fuels in Colombia - in April 2026.

Great to support the #StopRosebank rally outside the Scottish parliament today. 'We are urging the government to speak up against the continued destruction of our environment to increase the profits of these greedy corporations... let’s leave fossil fuels in the past' bit.ly/4pm6FU7

"The fact that the Scottish Government has still not vocally opposed Rosebank shows it is not treating the climate crisis with the seriousness it deserves." Our activist Jean from Global Justice Dundee quoted in @scotnational.bsky.social 👏🏼 www.thenational.scot/news/2563836...