Make sweatshops history!
A month before the big Make Poverty History demonstration in Edinburgh on 2 July, the movement has been hit by a row about the wristbands it sells, for people to wear to show support, being made in non-union, low-wage, sweatshops. This fact was revealed in Solidarity (3/67) as long ago as February, but has now been highlighted in the Independent and the Guardian on 30 May. An audit requested by Oxfam, Christian Aid, and Cafod, three charities within the Make Poverty History coalition which had ordered silicon wristbands from Chinese factories in order to raise funds by selling them, has found...