Trade Justice Movement

📅 There's still time to register! Our webinar starts today at 3pm UK time. Join us to discuss how a future UK-US digital trade deal could affect AI safety, children's online safety and the UK's ability to regulate Big Tech. 👉 Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/who-gets-t...

ISDS lets corporations sue governments over policies that threaten profits – even when they protect people and the planet. Together with @friends-earth.bsky.social @globaljusticenow.bsky.social and @tradejusticemov.bsky.social we're sending the UK government one clear message: end ISDS now.

Big business is using secretive tribunals to threaten our collective future. The cases are all around the world. Which is why we're taking action globally. Join the global days of action to #stopISDS and let's act together for an #isdsFree world stopisds.global/en/

Today marks the start of the ISDS Global Days of Action ✊🏽🌍⛓️‍💥 ISDS allows corporations to hold us to ransom. It undermines democracy, threatens human rights and blocks climate action. But we can win an ISDS free world together: stopisds.global/en/ #ISDSDaysOfAction

🔥 The UK is fuelling the climate crisis. It says it wants to move away from fossil fuels. Yet its investment treaties give fossil fuel companies powerful tools to challenge climate action. Our report, Fuelling the crisis, exposes the UK's role. 📘https://tinyurl.com/485zyurs #ISDSDaysOfAction

🤖 WEBINAR: Who gets to regulate Big Tech? Could a UK-US trade deal make it harder to regulate tech giants? Join us on 27 October, 3–4pm UK time, as Daniel Rangel presents findings from forthcoming TJM research. Register 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/2002944160...

📬 Our latest newsletter is out! An oligarch used ISDS to challenge EU sanctions. Is the UK next? Plus: UK-US tech trade, Trump's trade deals, illegal Israeli settlements and the Global Days of Action to End ISDS. Read more here: mailchi.mp/b59a6d88da9e... Sign up to future editions: tjm.org.uk

ISDS is a clause in trade deals that lets corporations sue countries in secret 'corporate courts' over policies that threaten their profits – even when they protect people and planet. Join us on 15 October outside UK parliament to demand an end to ISDS: www.tickettailor.com/events/globa...

Good to see our call on the UK’s Digital Services Tax covered in @theregister.com. We joined @taxjusticeuk.bsky.social and 20+ orgs calling on the gov to resist US pressure to scrap the tax, strengthen it and protect the UK’s ability to set its own tax policy. www.theregister.com/public-secto...

The UK should not cave in to US pressure over its Digital Services Tax. We have joined @taxjusticeuk.bsky.social and 20+ civil society organisations calling on the government to strengthen, not scrap, the tax and protect the UK’s right to set its own tax policy. tjm.org.uk/dont-cave-in...

6 parliamentary committee chairs write to the National Audit Office to demand details on how much the Trump-Starmer Pharma deal will cost taxpayers 👏 www.politico.eu/article/brit...

ISDS lets corporations sue governments over policies that threaten profits – even when they protect people and the planet. Join us to paint a banner ahead of the Global Days of Action against ISDS. We’ll drop it from Westminster Bridge on 15 October. Register: secure.waronwant.org/page/199489/...

Can trade rules tie Labour’s hands? At the Labour Conference, @thomaswills.bsky.social joins Liz McKean @waronwant.bsky.social & Martin Rhodes MP to discuss what trade & investment rules mean for Labour’s climate and economic security plans. 📅 28 Sept, 5-6pm 🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/can-trade-...

UK-Turkey trade talks resume later this month. The current deal has no provisions on human or workers’ rights. The upgraded deal must change that: workers’ rights should be a condition of closer trade, backed by strong and enforceable protections. Our response 👇 tjm.org.uk/uk-turkey-tr...

The UK ban on trade with illegal Israeli settlements is welcome, but long overdue. For years the UK recognised settlements as illegal while allowing trade that helped sustain them. TJM has long called for action. The measures must be comprehensive and enforceable. tjm.org.uk/uk-ban-on-tr...

As pressure for deep-sea mining grows, Pacific governments should be free to protect people and the environment without facing investor claims. New research from PANG shows how #ISDS could constrain that freedom, including through longstanding UK investment treaties. pang.org.fj/pacific-sove...

If the government stands behind its medicines deal with Trump, why is it doing everything possible to evade political and public scrutiny? Is it because they know potentially forking over BILLIONS from our NHS to big pharma would be deeply unpopular? www.thetimes.com/business/com...

📬 Our latest newsletter is out! Can Andy Burnham break with Starmer on trade and give Parliament and the public a meaningful say in how the UK responds to Trump? Plus: new TJM research on trade and climate, ISDS updates and much more. Read and subscribe: mailchi.mp/f742c9b1d11c...

In an opinion piece for the Land and Climate Review, Director of @tradejusticemov.bsky.social Tom Wills argues that Investor-State Dispute Settlements are a major barrier to meaningful climate action. Read the full article: landclimate.org/isds-tjm/

The UK–India trade deal comes into force today. It offers just 0.13% additional GDP in the long term, with weak protections for workers, human rights and the climate. Will Burnham continue this failed approach or choose trade deals that protect the public interest? tjm.org.uk/uk-india-tra...

The UK-US trade agreements must be subject to proper parliamentary scrutiny. The Business and Trade Committee warns that UK-US trade commitments are being implemented in a way that “limits opportunities for parliamentary scrutiny”. committees.parliament.uk/publications...

Missed the London #ClimateActionWeek session on #ISDS and climate action? @thomaswills.bsky.social joined Eunjung Lee, Lise Johnson and Helena Norberg-Hodge to discuss how ISDS can protect fossil fuel investors and make a just transition harder. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KYM...

The public is up to the challenge of participating in trade policy. Our research shows that people can engage with complex trade and climate questions when given clear information and a real chance to deliberate. Trade policy must not be negotiated behind closed doors. tjm.org.uk/online-commu...

Trade policy is not too technical for public debate. Our new research found that people are surprised by how closely trade and climate are connected. When explained clearly, people engage quickly and want the UK to do more. tjm.org.uk/online-commu... #ClimateChange #Trade youtu.be/vcxOgFitwag

Meta is using the US-Australia FTA to push back against Australia’s plan to make BigTech pay for journalism. The UK is now looking at under-16 social media restrictions using Australia’s model. As trade talks with the US deepen, the UK must be careful what it signs. www.reuters.com/legal/transa...

The UK is being threatened with a £1bn claim by Jingye, the Chinese owner of British Steel. It is invoking the UK-China investment treaty, not UK courts. This could lead to a private tribunal process only available to foreign investors. Read our response: tjm.org.uk/british-stee... #ISDS

The UK is being threatened with a £1bn compensation claim from Chinese steelmaker Jingye after the move to nationalise Scunthorpe steelworks. Not through UK courts, but through private corporate courts. This comes on top of 2 #ISDS cases already facing the UK. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

📬 Our June newsletter is out. This edition looks at the UK-Gulf trade deal, critical minerals, ISDS and climate action, and Trump’s trade pressure on the NHS. Trade deals are not just about tariffs. They shape rights, climate and public services. Read and subscribe: mailchi.mp/43bd326aa1ca...

Coal investors suing the UK for £300m, a bill that could fall on taxpayers. Also covered in The Times. www.thetimes.com/uk/environme... #ISDS #ClimateJustice #TradeJustice #StopISDS

British taxpayers face a £300m bill because the UK stopped a coal mine on climate grounds. The investors sued. The company's own accounts describe the lawsuit as its "primary asset". @thomaswills.bsky.social said: #ISDS is an insurance policy props up the old order. landclimate.org/westcumbria

The UK’s net zero ambitions cannot be built on extractive trade deals. @thomaswills.bsky.social writes for @sustainableviews.bsky.social on why critical minerals agreements must uphold rights, respect policy space, and support reuse and recycling. www.sustainableviews.com/uks-net-zero...