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3 Aug 2023 3 minute read

What if…the West stopped exporting second-hand clothing?

Alice McCool imagines a world where countries are not left wearing the West’s cast-offs.

Men stand with a banner that reads ' Save our seafarers' and union flags

25 Mar 2022 5 minute read

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Scottish ship workers stand defiant

A recent wave of mass redundancies from P&O ferries has triggered outrage. Conrad Landin reports from...

Garment workers are seen at their desks during a shift in a clothing plant in Bangladesh. Photo : Marcel Crozet / ILO

5 Oct 2020 6 minute read

This article is almost three years old.

Can workers reset the system?

Tansy Hoskins on how garment makers could be better protected in future.

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19 Apr 2020 8 minute read

This article is more than three years old.

For a few cents more

The globalized garment industry is as ruthless as they come, creaming off huge profits while paying workers a pittance....

7 Jan 2019 7 minute read

This article is almost five years old.

Winners and losers

Vanessa Baird analyses how the Global South is affected by the current trade turmoil – and old patterns of...

7 Jan 2019 6 minute read

This article is almost five years old.

Is trade in turmoil a chance for justice?

The global free trade system is being battered like never before. Can any good come of it, asks Vanessa Baird...

7 Jan 2019 6 minute read

This article is almost five years old.

Investor rex

The beast that won’t lie down and die – the ISDS ‘investor protection’ racket is still with us, in all but name.

7 Jan 2019 6 minute read

This article is almost five years old.

Open China?

China is making promises, but keeping them may be hard…

7 Jan 2019 5 minute read

This article is almost five years old.

Pigs that cross...

In talks about trade, something vital is omitted: the environment.

7 Jan 2019 11 minute read

This article is almost five years old.

Just, open and green

Vanessa Baird concludes with 14 ways – at least – towards a better global trade.

27 Mar 2018 5 minute read

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Brutal forced deportations, globalization and human rights

The Stansted 15 have exposed the hypocrisy of Britain, Ann Pettifor argues.

2 Sep 2015 5 minute read

This article is more than eight years old.

Migration and the European push-factor

For decades we have exported a Western consumerist dream to the Global South; little wonder migrants now want to share our...

26 Nov 2014 4 minute read

This article is almost nine years old.

New trade agreements will TTIP us into powerlessness

And transnationals will take advantage, says Nick Dearden – just look at what’s happened in Canada.

22 Aug 2014 4 minute read

This article is more than nine years old.

America’s deadliest export

Oliver Williams decries the rise in obesity in poorer countries increasingly linked to US junk-food...

21 Nov 2013 4 minute read

This article is almost ten years old.

Brazil is on the edge of an 'internationalism revolution'

As the country continues to rise as a global power, encouraging younger generations to embrace an internationalist perspective...

25 Oct 2013 4 minute read

This article is almost ten years old.

NGOs must give up power

Aid organizations need to relinquish the clout that comes with money and bureaucracy, argues Oxfam’s Ben Phillips....

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