Towards Global Regulation on Human Rights and Business

In this study, the authors call on governments not to give in to the pressure of corporate lobbyists, but to challenge their demands. The Treaty process presents the opportunity for governments to prove that it is in their hands to put human rights above the interests of big business.

Jornal Vozes das Comunidades

O jornal é fruto do Curso Vito Giannotti de Comunicação Popular. Organizado pelo Núcleo Piratininga de Comunicação, a publicação apresenta várias denúncias, incluindo na edição atual as ameaças à educação e a outros serviços públicos; a cobrança desigual de impostos; a saúde das mulheres presas; transporte público.

Argentina says No to “Free Trade Agreements”

The overall objective is to build a national campaign against the agenda of liberalization. Alcira Argumedo denounced these treaties because they are negotiated in absolute secret and remembered that the FTA agenda implies the rupture of the regional integration processes achieved so far…

More of the same?

“In a broader context of capitalist accumulation, the BRICS are acting based on a logic of competition over natural resources and market access that is imperialist in nature and is taking colonialism back to Africa in modern times”

Socialist Parties in the EU

Let´s take a closer look at the European Left. Which parties are of particular relevance, and where do they stand politically? What is dominant: programmatic parallels or national differences? How was the Left able to organize on the European scale?