From Fair Trade to Global Justice

Global Justice Manchester campaign on Fairtrade Fortnight for #SheDeserves and #StopISDS

How corporate lawyers plan to milk Labour’s nationalisation plans

London corporate law firm, Clifford Chance is touting for business among transnational corporations who will be planning to get the best deal they can out of Labour's plans to renationalise companies delivering public goods.  The railways, water and energy companies, and private finance initiative (PFI) companies who currently own many NHS facilities may be on...

Fairtrade in Stockport, report

The Stockport Fairtrade group’s annual pre-Christmas FT fair on 24th. November provided a chance for fairtraders from near and far to do their thing to support disadvantaged producers in the Global South. GJN’s agriculture campaigning is dormant and with the Trade Bill paused in the Lords we decided not to participate but I went along...

Solidarity with Assam tea workers

Assam is one of the poorest states in India, with 1 in 3 living below the Indian poverty line. Dramatic reductions in poverty between 1994 and 2005 have now slowed almost to a standstill and Assam is lagging behind other Indian states. Tea estate workers are in a particularly bad position, being subject to the...

Make Christmas fair

One of the things we can do to oppose corporate power and make markets fairer is to buy fairly traded products whenever we can.  Doing so not only gives direct support to working people and their communities, it also sends a clear signal to the big corporates that we want the goods we buy to...