Social responsibility
While it is reducing the number of its workers in France, Michelin is preparing to open up a new tyre factory in India. Tax and labour legislation exemptions are at the heart of the project, (...)
Russia
A formal complaint for corruption against Vinci Concessions Russie SA, and against X, was filed in France on 24 June, 2013 by a coalition of European and Russian groups (Sherpa, Russie-Libertés, (...)
Remunicipalisation
This article was originally published in French and was translated by Gillian Morris.
Veolia has left Berlin. The French water giant publically announced this week that it had come to an (...)
Re-industrialisation?
It almost resembles a gold rush. Dozens of requests for licences have been filed by several mining companies with Australian, Singaporean and Egyptian capital to explore the French subsoil and (...)
Argentina
In Argentina, it’s the Mapuche’s turn to oppose the exploitation of shale gas and tight oil. More than 5000 people demonstrated in Neuquén, Patagonia, against the ratification by the provincial (...)
United States
U.S. local authorities spend fortunes in order to attract factories and big scale industrial projects. A report reveals how these "mega-deals" fare in terms of number of jobs created. The happy (...)
Land conflict
This article was originally published in French. Translated by Laura Voicu.
In the morning of the 2nd of June, 2013, under the protection of security guards, the American multinational Chevron (...)
Bangladesh
This article was originally published in French. Translation by Darius Barik.
A month and a half on after the Rana Plaza tragedy, what is the state of play regarding the compensation of its (...)
A Degrowth Project
«We have successfully created misery and ill-being in our opulent materialistic societies», declares Vincent Liegey. The engineer and spokesperson for the Degrowth party (Parti Pour La (...)
Welfare cuts
Atos, a French company run by Thierry Breton and an official sponsor of the London Paralympic Games, is at the same time leading a crackdown against handicapped benefit receivers and workers (...)
Action
Ils sont entre 400 et 500, résidant en Belgique depuis cinq, dix ou quinze (...)
Multinationales
Basta ! vous en parlait il y a quelques mois : le Traité international sur (...)
Prison
Cesare Battisti, militant de la lutte armée italienne dans les années 1970 au (...)
Utopies concrètes
C’est un sursis bienvenu et une victoire pour le Laboratoire écologique zéro (...)
Paix
4,7 milliards d’euros. C’est la somme que l’État français a dépensée en 2020 (...)
Santé
Suspendues depuis 2018 par crainte d’un danger toxique, les machines de (...)
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