The gaping hole in the Trade Bill

The UK government's trade bill has nothing to ensure that trade deals are accountable to the public and parliament

Letter by leading academics calling for trade democracy

55 academics call on the government to amend the trade bill to include core scrutiny and accountability mechanisms

Parliament to be ‘shut out’ of post-Brexit trade deals

TJM's response to the UK Government's Trade White Paper

Big tobacco bullies the global south. Trade deals are their biggest weapon

Paul Keenlyside from TJM and Matt Bramall from Health Poverty Action on Big Tobacco's use of trade to force their products into new markets

Group letter to the next UK government on trade policy and climate change

Letter calling on the UK government to use its trade policy to reaffirm and strengthen a globally coordinated response to climate change

Responding to Trump, climate change and global delinquency

Paul Keenlyside from the TJM describes how trade policy should be repurposed to support action on climate change and deter free riding

We need to stop the financialisation of justice

Paul Keenlyside from the Trade Justice Movement describes how UK-based financial institutions are gambling on the outcome of ISDS cases

Workers’ rights are central to the UK’s post-Brexit trade deals

Rosa Crawford from the TUC describes the trade union fight for trade and investment agreements that support workers’ right in the UK and globally

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Can an ‘open relationship’ work after a UK-EU divorce?

EU-UK TRADE DEAL: The future relationship is likely to contain a trade agreement. For our NHS, environment and rights, there are three big problems

The trade bill has been dropped – and now MPs have no way to stop bad deals after Brexit

TRADE DEMOCRACY: The UK's process for agreeing trade deals means our MPs will struggle to stop a bad US trade deal

An NHS sell-off, lower food standards and secretive corporate courts: the battles facing Britain's new trade secretary

The new trade secretary will be tasked with negotiating new trade deals. Here are some fault-lines expected to emerge.

The Geopolitics of Trade Deals and How They Threaten Human Rights

Trade deals have less to do with trade and more to do with politics

Why May's "Net Zero" commitment on climate change won't survive her successor's trade policy

CLIMATE JUSTICE: How trade deals stand in the way of climate action, and put the UK's Net Zero ambitions badly at risk

Trade justice must recover steam

Campaigners should press for fairness in post-Brexit agreements

Customs union leaves everything to play for on trade justice

A customs union would still allow the UK to negotiate trade deals – so let's focus on how such deals affect our rights, and what say we have over them

Race to the bottom: How trade deals are undermining standards that protect us.

'Better regulation' isn't always better, and 'regulatory cooperation' is often cooperating to deregulate.

Theresa May is treating parliament like she’s a freewheeling PM of the 1920s

When it comes to Brexit and trade deals, MPs only get a say at the last minute. Our outdated system of treaty scrutiny needs to change.

ISDS - The big threat to human rights hidden in our trade deals

This human rights threat could be inserted into every post-Brexit trade deal and is already part of many exisiting UK investment deals.

The problem with CRAG: why Parliament’s processes for approving trade deals needs reform

How a genuinely democratic system for approving international trade agreements could look in post-Brexit Britain

Liam Fox rushing through Brexit trade deals would mean bypassing democracy

Although they will affect huge areas of society, many of these 'rollover' deals would pass through parliament without any debate or vote

We Won't Get A 'Meaningful Vote' On A UK-US Trade Deal – Here's Why That Matters

Post-Brexit we will return to an outdated way of approving trade deals despite the impacts on public policy, health standards and the environment

Civil society statement against CETA

UK Civil Society organisationa call on MPs to reject CETA, which could have significant negative consequences for UK public services and regulation

Liam Fox’s ‘new for old’ Brexit trade deals should not bypass parliament and democratic scrutiny

The Trade Bill could result in Britain doing trade deals which undergo less scrutiny than through the European Union. This is not taking back control.

Free trade is bad for women. A WTO declaration won’t change that.

Gendered exploitation is at the heart of the free trade agenda - a few tweaks to the edges won’t make it feminist.

The gaping hole in the Trade Bill

The UK government's trade bill has nothing to ensure that trade deals are accountable to the public and parliament

Letter by leading academics calling for trade democracy

55 academics call on the government to amend the trade bill to include core scrutiny and accountability mechanisms

Parliament to be ‘shut out’ of post-Brexit trade deals

TJM's response to the UK Government's Trade White Paper

Big tobacco bullies the global south. Trade deals are their biggest weapon

Paul Keenlyside from TJM and Matt Bramall from Health Poverty Action on Big Tobacco's use of trade to force their products into new markets

Group letter to the next UK government on trade policy and climate change

Letter calling on the UK government to use its trade policy to reaffirm and strengthen a globally coordinated response to climate change

Responding to Trump, climate change and global delinquency

Paul Keenlyside from the TJM describes how trade policy should be repurposed to support action on climate change and deter free riding

We need to stop the financialisation of justice

Paul Keenlyside from the Trade Justice Movement describes how UK-based financial institutions are gambling on the outcome of ISDS cases

Workers’ rights are central to the UK’s post-Brexit trade deals

Rosa Crawford from the TUC describes the trade union fight for trade and investment agreements that support workers’ right in the UK and globally

General Election 2017: What is TJM calling for?

International trade will be one of the defining issues of the next Parliament and the UK’s future. Read TJM's 2017 General Election manifesto asks

The Multilateral Investment Court - the plot that just keeps running

Matt Grady from Traidcraft describes how the EC's proposed Multilateral Investment Court is a repackaging of the discredited ISDS system

Post-Brexit, we should all be worried about our BITs

Post-Brexit, the UK will likely need to renegotiate its trade deals, including BITs. Ruth Bergan of TJM revisits the implications for workers.

How UK trade policies could help heal global health care inequalities.

One-third of the world cannot access essential medicine. Leaders must push for trade deals that drive down healthcare costs for the world’s poorest

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