Blogs
Don’t let fossil fuel companies block climate action
By: Jean Blaylock
Date: 26 June 2021
Campaigns: Climate, Trade
When the world’s governments meet in Glasgow in November to discuss the climate crisis, the threat of legal action from big polluters in ‘corporate courts’ will lurk in the shadows. […]
Read moreFive problems the UK-Australia trade deal poses for the climate
By: Jean Blaylock
Date: 15 June 2021
Campaigns: Climate, Trade
How we grow, transport and buy and sell food is one of the key things for restoring our climate as well as for tackling inequality and creating a fairer society. […]
Read moreTrade Bill: Four years of demanding a say over trade deals
By: Jean Blaylock
Date: 23 March 2021
Campaigns: Trade
After four years of campaigning for trade democracy, today the Trade Bill has passed its final stage in the House of Lords, and will shortly become law. Over that time […]
Read moreGood news! The US-UK trade deal is on hold
By: Jean Blaylock
Date: 5 March 2021
Campaigns: Trade
We’ve got some good news. The US has kicked the US-UK trade deal into the long grass. Throughout last year Donald Trump and Boris Johnson wanted to do this high […]
Read moreHow trade deals are fuelling climate breakdown
By: Jean Blaylock
Date: 7 August 2020
Campaigns: Trade
The US-UK trade deal isn’t just a threat to our food standards and public services, it’s also a threat to our world. The whole model of corporate globalisation that drives […]
Read moreThe world against the virus: 7 things we’ve learned from talking to our allies
By: Jean Blaylock
Date: 15 June 2020
Campaigns: Pharma
During lockdown, Global Justice Now’s series of webinars, podcasts and interviews have been exploring what coronavirus means in the global south. Here are 7 things we’ve learned.
Read moreTrump in your trolley: how big business is pushing for lower standards through a trade deal with the US
By: Jean Blaylock
Date: 23 January 2020
Campaigns: Trade
Big business wants to use a US-UK trade deal as a way to get deregulation that they have long been pushing for. Transnational corporations try to justify this by saying […]
Read moreWhen Trump said climate change was off-limits, the UK didn’t even put up a fight
By: Jean Blaylock
Date: 4 December 2019
Campaigns: Climate, Trade
The US has banned mention of climate change from trade talks that Trump’s administration has been holding with the UK. Leaked documents show that the UK raised the issue of climate change only to be bluntly told it is off limits because it is too politically sensitive and a ‘lightening rod issue’.
Read moreTrade leaks show Trump has already pushed us into a more damaging Brexit
By: Jean Blaylock
Date: 3 December 2019
Campaigns: Trade
Boris Johnson knows his Brexit deal is worse for the UK economy – but Trump is calling the shots. That is clearly revealed in a set of leaked papers detailing trade talks between US and UK officials over the last three years.
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