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North American solidarity needed to navigate Trump’s trade wars
3-Jun-2025 Foreign Policy In Focus
An alternative to neoliberal trade policies is urgently needed, not Trump’s gunboat diplomacy and erratic deals.
Declaration of the third Continental Assembly of the Platform
28-May-2025 América Latina Mejor sin TLC
After two days of debate, the organisations and networks of the Latin America and the Caribbean Better Without FTAs Platform issued a declaration reaffirming their commitment to the sovereignty and protagonism of the peoples, social and environmental justice.
The false dilemma between protectionism and free trade
27-May-2025 TNI
The tariff policy of Donald Trump’s second term as president of the United States represents a reconfiguration of global trade and poses serious challenges for movements against free trade agreements worldwide.
Re-imagining trade for people and the planet
24-Feb-2025 rabble.ca
Progressive new trade policies and agreements driven by global environmental objectives, as well as decades-old attempts through the United Nations General Assembly to reshape the global trade system and decolonize it, offer some direction.
A new framework for trade based on food sovereignty
16-Sep-2024 Nyéléni
The current international trade order was established to support the expansion of transnational companies and to keep colonial powers in control of the world’s natural resources.
An EU trade policy fit for the future
30-Aug-2024 ETJC
It is time to move on from a worn-out, broken model of trade policy and create a new approach to trade that is fit for the future.
Free Trade Agreements are Failed Trade Agreements. An alternative is now urgent and necessary
27-Feb-2024 La Via Campesina
La Via Campesina’s Statement and Open call for Endorsement
Can existing international agreements on ‘investment facilitation’ advance sustainable development, climate action, and human rights?
1-Dec-2023 CCSI
Terminating investment treaties and withdrawing advance consent to ISDS would allow governments to clear the path from problematic treaties centered on investment protection and ISDS, which in practice benefit unsustainable investment.
La Via Campesina is determined to build an alternative framework for global trade in agriculture – written by the peasants, for the people
11-Sep-2023 La Via Campesina
The peasants, small-scale food producers, wage and migrant workers and indigenous communities of La Via Campesina will draft an alternative trade framework, leveraging our collective knowledge of agriculture and food trade to ensure no one goes hungry.
Solidarity, equality, cooperation and sustainable trade: an alternative to the EU-Mercosur trade agreement
10-May-2023 S2B Network
We firmly believe that the countries of the Mercosur and the EU need to improve and transform their relationship.
Latin American leaders should stand up for people, not corporate profits
10-Jun-2022 Inequality.org
As leaders gather in Los Angeles, a reflection on the past two decades of battles against neoliberalism and for a more just and equitable alternative in the Americas.
The EU’s path to trade sustainability
15-Oct-2021 Euractiv
As public support for EU free trade deals is waning, civil society groups are hoping to help tighten the bloc’s standards on trade sustainability as part of an ongoing consultation.
Pathways to just, equitable and sustainable trade and investment regimes
6-Aug-2021 SSRN
The paper suggests ten principles that fair trade movements could use when they think about their approach to international trade and investments.
Can we harness the power of trade agreements to achieve our climate ambitions?
20-Jul-2021 IATP
Figuring out how to address a worldwide climate crisis using institutions and instruments developed in the past century isn’t easy.
The interview: Michael Fakhri
30-Mar-2021 New Internationalist
The newly appointed UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food believes that trade reform may be the key to solving world hunger. He speaks to Hazel Healy about accountability, conflict and the meaning of ‘fair’.
From globalization to ecological and solidarity reshoring
12-Feb-2021 AITEC
In Brussels, the virus of free trade and the impunity of multinationals is far from receding. But social and ecological relocalization seems to us the only alternative that could embody a desirable collective horizon.
Alternative trade for the planet
18-Jan-2021 Trade Justice Movement
Tackling the climate and environmental crises is more urgent than ever and global momentum to do so is building rapidly. Yet international trade law lags behind and threatens to choke off serious action.
Human rights, environment and climate protection before profits
25-Nov-2020 S2B Network
Three principles to reshape trade and investment to overcome the crisis.
How trade policy failed US workers— and how to fix it
18-Sep-2020 Institute for Policy Studies
Over the last several decades, US trade policies have failed most Americans. Under the guise of “free trade,” special interests have captured trade policy to extract wealth at home and abroad and left working people to bear the costs.
Alternatives for the ‘Energy and Raw Materials Chapters’ in EU trade agreements
4-Jun-2020 Power Shift
How trade agreements could strengthen human rights and environmental protection in the raw materials sector.