The top 10 blogs of 2015
Date: 22 December 2015
From Greece to dodgy trade deals, from the Paris climate talks to the migrant crisis, 2015 was a momentus year. As 2016 approaches, we take a look back at most read blogs of this year. For an in-depth overview of the year, take a look at our Storify.
10) Let’s not do the “good migrants/bad migrants” thing
28 August
In the debate about immigration, there is a tendency amongst progressives and liberals to try to protect the reputation of refugees at the expense of (economic) migrants.
9) Who controls our food and how people are fighting back
19 October
When you start to apply a little bit of scrutiny to that pack of lettuce on the supermarket shelf, it’s like opening a Pandora’s box of issues.
8) Global Justice Now – our new name
15 January
We opened a new chapter in our struggle for social and economic justice. With a new name – Global Justice Now – we’re relaunched the World Development Movement.
7) Greece is for sale – and everything must go
19 August
It makes no sense to sell off valuable assets in the middle of Europe’s worst depression in 70 years.
6) Local councils are starting to tear strips off TTIP
28 August
An exciting new front is emerging in the battle against TTIP, harnessing the energy of grassroots groups to push opposition to the corporate power grab up the political food chain via the power of local councils
5) Things I have learnt since being at the Paris climate talks
3 December
The COP21 Paris climate talks were so big and complicated that it’s almost impossible to make a definitive statement of what’s going on.
4) So TTIP won’t stop public services being run in the interests of ordinary people? Tell that to Argentina
16 April
Another week, another victory for big business over a government in a secret pseudo-court. This time it was the turn of private water giant Suez, who successfully sued Argentina for reversing the privatisation of Buenos Aires’s water supply.
3) TTIP is a ‘revolution against international law’, says UN Expert
16 October
“Globalization cannot be allowed to become the grand global casino where investors rig the system to guarantee that they always win.” UN human rights expert Alfred-Maurice de Zayas didn’t mince his words when it comes to the new generation of trade deals like TTIP.
2) Why I’m standing with Greece in Trafalgar Square this evening
29 June
Caroline Lucas MP writes why she joined many others at the Greek Solidarity Demonstration in Trafalgar Square.
1) If you want to know why TTIP would be a nightmare, look what just happened in Canada
25 March
If anyone tries to convince you that the toxic trade deal TTIP is no threat to a government’s ability to protect its people, just point them to Canada.
