Corporate Power Articles & Videos

Susan George: The Story behind my new Book

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2 October 2013
Multimedia

Good news for Susan George fans: Her new political satire, “How to win the Class War”, is about to be published. In part one of this exclusive video interview, Susan George talks about the story behind the sequel to The Lugano Report.

Five years of crisis: little learning, continuing risks

27 September 2013
Article

Why has there been so little progress or learning from the world's biggest financial crisis? What solutions could really put people back in charge of finance?

A Peoples Treaty proposal for Binding Obligations on TNCs highlighted in series of events

18 September 2013
Article

The call for a Peoples Treaty on Binding Obligations on Transnational Corporations has been highlighted internationally in a series of activities during the past weeks.

States make historic call for UN to implement binding regulations on Transnational Corporations

18 September 2013
Article

Over 100 social movement and civil society organisations representing hundreds of thousands of workers, peasants, community groups and indigenous peoples have welcomed the historic call for binding obligations on Transnational corporations made by nine countries together with the African and Arab Groups of States.

Challenging Corporate Power in Brussels

18 September 2013
Article

From September 5th to 8th, several activities were held in Brussels to discuss an international call for a People’s Treaty and the establishment of a new regulatory regime to put an end to the impunity of transnational corporations.

Challenging corporate power

5 September 2013
Article

The International Call is out for a new regulatory regime that will end the impunity of Transnational Corporations (TNCs). This includes the demand for a World Court that will judge and sanction economic, political and ecological corporate crimes and ensure justice for affected communities and sectors. 

Activities 2012 Corporate Power

31 August 2013
Article

TNI seeks to expose  corporate abuses, while pointing out the structural reasons why they remain able to operate with impunity.

Democracy in danger: the rise of illegitimate authority

30 August 2013
Article

Transnational corporations have an unbalanced influence on global and domestic politics, and are dangerous to democracy. Ignore them at your own peril.

Marikana Massacre Anniversary - Time to end Corporate Impunity and State complicity!

16 August 2013
Article

On the one-year anniversary of the massacre of 34 striking workers at the Lonmin plc Marikana mine in South Africa, the members of the Global Campaign to Dismantle Corporate Power and Stop Impunity, of which TNI is part, express their ongoing solidarity with the Lonmin plc mineworkers, their families and the entire Marikana community.

Debt, austerity, devastation

29 July 2013
Article

As the creditors get fatter, the innocent are punished. Susan George laments a leadership subservient to big business.