Free trade requires labour norms and democratic control – by Jyrki Raina
Like FDR, who was able to overcome the complete weakness of US federal government over private banks and financial sector in general, when dealing with the Great Depression. Or Lincoln, who held the bipartisan country together with a grip of a mountain grizzly bear.
Investment Court System (ICS): The Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing
The Investor State Disputes Settlement (ISDS) system has become an icon of the shameless extent to which governments have pandered to corporate interests by giving foreign corporations rights that citizens do not have.
IndustriALL Resolution On the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement
The TPPA was negotiated behind closed doors away from democratic scrutiny, allowing
powerful corporate lobbies to advance their agenda without being subject to authentic
and rigorous democratic procedures. National Parliaments have been side-lined.
TUCA Trade Resolution Congress 2015
We reject the new generation of multilateral treaties such as the International Treaty Services (TISA), the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
(TTIP), the Comprehensive Agreement on Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA)