Dangers of the US trade deal – and how to fight it

JVL Introduction

The US trade deal is about much more than trade, as Nick Dearden explains in a new book, Trade Secrets, available for free download from Global Justice Now.

It is about importing the US economic and regulatory model.

In other words it is about enshrining neo-liberal assumptions and ways of regulating that are in the interests of corporate power against the possibility of democratic control.

It is not just our food standards that will be jettisoned, but our right to public services generally. Workers’ right will be undermined, our health threatened, our ability to cut carbon emissions severely curtailed.

The cynicism of a government which fought on a slogan of Taking Back Control is breath-taking…

Mike Phipps spells it out in his review of Nick Dearden’s book on Labour Hub. He also provides a model motion for taking the debate into the Labour Party.

This article was originally published by Labour Hub on Thu 3 Sep 2020. Read the original here.