Transnational Companies

Transnational Companies

Cover of the magazine, corporate gulliver being tied down by the people

Transnational Capital vs People's Resistance

June 2012

How does transnational capital function? Where does it operate? What globalised logic does it follow? What is the magnitude of its abuses and its social, economic and environmental irresponsibility? And what challenge do we see emerge for us, the people?

 

Dismantle Corporate Power

June 2012

Call to International Action for the economic, political, cultural and environmental sovereignty of our peoples.
End the impunity of transnational corporations Now!

Nuclear Phase-Out put to the test

June 2012
Nathalie Bernasconi-Osterwalder & Rhea Tamara Hoffmann

Swedish energy company Vattenfall filed request for arbitration at the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), after Germany’s decision to phase out nuclear energy.

Video: The Dark Side of Investment Agreements

May 2012

An animation which exposes how people are paying the costs of corporate lawsuits under international investment agreements.

 

 

The EU Fiscal Pact and the Constitutionalisation of Austerity Forever

April 2012

Real World Economics/Transnational Institute invite you to the public debate:

The EU Fiscal Pact and the Constitutionalisation of Austerity Forever


Rising Powers and the Future of Global Governance

March 2012

An international conference to critically examine how the “Rising Powers of the Global South” are (or are not) seeking to reform, transform, or provide alternatives to the contemporary system of global governance.

 

The Apple Connection

February 2012

iPad and iPhone are engineering masterpieces, but they also epitomise the social relations of production today where capital is free and labour is repressed.

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State of Corporate Power 2012

January 2012

Who are the global 1%? What companies do they run? How do they escape accountability? Check out TNI's powerful infographic displays that expose the social and environmental costs of global corporate power.

The Davos Class

January 2012

The Davos class run our major institutions, know exactly what they want, and are well organized, but they have weaknesses too. For they are wedded to an ideology that isn't working and they have virtually no ideas nor imagination to resolve this.

RIO+20 and the greenwashing of the global economy

January 2012

Challenging the corporate co-option of the UN should be a major priority in the run-up to the UN Rio+20 Earth Summit in June 2012.