Can you swallow this?
War on Want’s innovative stand, focusing on water privatisation in the Global South, drew interest from everyone who saw it. We collected thousands more postcards – urging the UK government to stop making privatisation a condition of aid – and we won the best stand competition.
Justice for Colombia
Following last year's success, trade unionists crammed into the Brighton Centre to hear speakers from Colombia as well as leading trade unionists from the UK speak out about the horrors faced by Colombian trade unionists.
War on want and Justice for Colombia also staged a protest outside the Brighton Centre with many leading trade unionists locked in a cage.
Fighting Back – Stopping Violence against women across the world
A highly innovative fringe meeting, featuring Alzira Rufino, the director of The Black Women’s Centre in Brazil, a War on Want project partner. The meeting showed how capacity building and good campaigning can bring largely ignored issues to the front of people’s minds.
Watch this space for an interview with Alzira.
Privatisation – who can afford it?
A packed Belgrave hotel heard from War on Want partner, Luis Hernandez, about the fight on the ground for public services in Colombia. In a highly emotive speech, participants heard how right wing paramilitaries have murdered his friends and colleagues in pursuit of further privatisation of services.
John Fryer, formerly of Public Services International, spoke about his three months on secondment at the World Bank. In an amusing, anecdotal talk about working from the ‘belly of the beast’, John really did shed a light on the Bank’s attitude to public services and workers rights.
Check back for full-length interviews with John Fryer and Luis Hernandez. 
