Trade agreements put our right to water at risk

Trade agreements like the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) are designed to make it easier for foreign multinational corporations to...

NEWS

E-commerce negotiations being launched at the WEF are really about rules for digital colonisation: Call for action

The biggest bluff of global ecommerce rules is how they get sold in the name of helping micro, small and...

ARTICLE

HISTORIC NATIONAL GENERAL STRIKE IN INDIA: GLOBAL INTEGRATION HAS DEEPENED THE LABOUR CRISIS

On 8 and 9 January 2019, ten central trade unions and several independent federations across India will join together in...

Statement of Intent

#StopRCEP

The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership is Not in People's Interest

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#TPPnoWay

Trans-Pacific Partnership is a partnership of the elite to grab more wealth.

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Workers' Rights First

Investors are setting up a parallel court system dismantling democracies.

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#NoFTAs

No Free Trade Deals that are about Profits And Not People.

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CAMPAIGN NEWS

March 21, 2019

Trade agreements put our right to water at risk

Trade agreements like the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) are designed to make it easier for foreign multinational corporations to invest and do business. In...

March 4, 2019

Union voices at Asia RCEP trade talks highlight undermining of workers’ rights

The 25th round of negotiations for the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnerships (RCEP) concluded on February 28th in Bali, Indonesia. At a half-day consultation organized by...

January 13, 2019

Michael Whaites: Free Trade Agreements and the ratchet approach to regulation

The problems with the free trade agreements is this standstill and ratchet approach to regulation.

November 29, 2018

New North American Free Trade Deal Remains Weak on Labour Rights

Scott Sinclair from Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) writes in Behind the Numbers, about the weakness of the labour rights provisions in the USA-Mexico-Canada...

October 30, 2018

Rethinking the trade and investment agenda | Professor Jane Kelsey

We are in an interregnum. The old regime of international economic agreements is dying. We are surrounded by morbid symptoms of its demise. The new...

October 19, 2018