Free trade

Time for Europe to put human rights above commercial advantage

March 2011
Cecilia Olivet
Paulina Novo

Free trade or slave trade? How the EU's free trade agreements in Colombia and Peru reward human rights abuses, destroy livelihoods, promote land grabbing and strip governments of their sovereignty to regulate capital flows.

The impact of free trade on the financial crisis … and vice versa

November 2010
Myriam Vander Stichele

Behind the currency wars and the worsening global economic crisis lies a largely unquestioned free trade model that both contributed to the crisis and, without radical reform, is a major obstacle to overcoming it.

Obama’s Trip to India: Don’t Rush into a Bilateral Investment Treaty

October 2010
Sarah Anderson

The U.S. and India should not sign a treaty that will only serve the short-term interests of large corporations, and undermine the authority of governments to protect their people from financial crisis.

The resistible rise of corporate power

October 2010
Hilary Wainwright

The massive concentration and growth of corporate power poses a major threat to what remains of public services, highlighting the ever-deepening crisis of democracy, and the urgent need for people to reclaim the state.

European retailers: threatening livelihoods in India

October 2010
Dharmendra Kumar

The role of major supermarkets like Tesco in wiping out small retailers across Europe is well known. Now the giants have India in their sights. For a country in which small-scale retail employs 33 million people, what kind of impact will this have?

The Lisbon Treaty: Workshop with Susan George at Enlazando Alternativas, 2010

May 2010
Susan George

Despite repeated democratic rejection of the Lisbon Treaty, the European Commission pushed ahead with it via the EU Constitution via a private, technocratic and non-democratic process. Susan discussed the treaty and its implications in a workshop at the EA4 summit in Madrid, 15 May 2010.

The Chicago Boys in Chile: Economic Freedom's Awful Toll

August 1976
Orlando Letelier

Deeply involved in the preparation of the 1975 military coup in Chile, the Chicago Boys convinced the Junta generals that they were prepared to supplement the brutality, which the military possessed, with the intellectual assets it lacked.