Consumer Boycotts

About Boycotts

Find out more about the power of boycotts

For Ethical Consumer, boycotts offer campaign groups and/or individuals the chance to exert economic pressure on companies. They are particularly appropriate when governments are unwilling or unable to introduce reforms. We see them as a vitally important extension of our formal democracy.

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Current boycotts list

The most comprehensive English language list of active boycotts

Our boycott list is widely regarded as the most comprehensive English-language list of progressive boycotts. We regularly add boycotts to the list and you can help by emailing the news editor with any relevant information.

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Boycott Superdrug

Find out how the famous high street brand is invloved with the worlds worst enivonmental catastrophe.

A boycott of Superdrug will put pressure on one of the companies at the centre of the tar sands catastrophe to halt the disastrous 'Sunrise' development. Join our campaign and boycott the brand.

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Israel boycotts

Progressive boycott campaigns and news against the illegal occupation of the West Bank and Gaza

These pages provide a brief analysis of the approaches taken by some of the campaign groups involved in the BDS movement. The movement goes beyond simply boycotting Israeli goods.

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Latest boycott news

From the current issue of Ethical Consumer Magazine

Census 2011 plus Israel Update including: Art not Boycott; Pink Floyd's Roger Waters urges artists to join boycott.

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Successful Boycotts

The ones that won

Boycotts have a long and noble history of contributing to progressive social change, as well as succeeding in their more immediate goals. They have played a significant role in everything from the abolition of slavery to the curtailment of the fur industy.

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Boycott news archive

From the pages of Ethical Consumer magazine.

All the stories from the past 20 issues of Ethical Consumer magazine

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How to set up a boycott

A quick fire guide to starting your own campaign.

Are you fed up of hearing about a company behaving badly? Are you angry with a company for the way it conducts its business? Why not boycott it and encourage others to do the same?

Here's a quick guide to setting up your own consumer boycott. 

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