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TTIP, TISA, CETA, TPP: acronyms abound when it comes to trade deals

What’s the current situation as regards TTIP, TPP, CETA, TiSA, and what’s the future for trade deals?

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It’s been a very confusing time for TTIP and other pro-corporate trade deals. There has been huge public opposition to them, often based around the fact that they would allow corporations to sue elected governments if they introduce policies that threaten their profits

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The Austrian Chancellor needs your help to block the CETA trade deal

How CETA will allow TTIP (RIP) in through the back door, and how you can help the Austrian Chancellor block it

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Here are two sources of information about CETA (Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement) – and both of them are completely biased. They are biased against the interests of the corporate sector and in favour of the interests of ordinary people and communities. That’s the kind of bias we like.

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Lean thinking is already alive and well in many indigenous communities

Reimagining progress: what we can learn about ‘lean thinking’ from indigenous communities

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Here’s a living example of a ‘lean’ economy (outlined by David Fleming in our last blog post), and how you can help to preserve it. The ‘unlean’ economy is encroaching onto the territory of the Kichwa and Sapara communities in the Ecuadorean Amazon, in the form of large oil corporations, and will destroy their communities, as

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NHS or private healthcare?

Should the NHS be allowed to sack doctors who work for the private sector ‘on the side’?

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There was a story on Radio 4 this morning about NHS doctors who work in private healthcare ‘on the side’ now having to declare their income from private work under plans from NHS England to ensure that they’re not short-changing taxpayers.

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My meeting with EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom and corporate representatives, and the rules they want to impose on us

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At the end of April, I went to a Trade Commission ‘civil society dialogue’ meeting Brussels in which Trade Commissioner Cecelia Malmstrom was seeking input on how to push forward the WTO globalisation agenda via the mechanism of the EU.

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