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Defending sovereignty from corporate rule
Neoliberal trade deals are a real and present threat to workers' rights, environmental protection, even food standards — and if we don't remain vigilant, big business will set up parallel legal systems that bypass our own, warns ARTHUR WEST
TTIP

THE Trade Justice Scotland Coalition is a coalition of trade unions, campaigning organisations and local activists. The coalition came together in 2015 to campaign against trade deals that threatened to give new powers to big business while privatising public services and weakening the democratic rights of ordinary citizens.

One of the big successes of the coalition was stopping the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).

It was a trade deal which was conducted behind closed doors between the European Union and the US.

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