CONCERN is growing about the prospect of “corporate courts” being set up after Brexit that could see companies sue the government for policies that harm their profits.
Parliament’s international trade committee published a report yesterday warning that the establishment of any investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) courts would prove “hugely controversial.”
The committee said it was alarmed that the government was “unable to set out even basic lines of policy” on how international arbitration will work after Brexit.
As the dollar falters and US power turns predatory, Britain and Europe must abandon transatlantic illusions and build a collectivist alternative before the system implodes, writes ALAN SIMPSON
From summit to summit, imperialist companies and governments cut, delay or water down their commitments, warn the Communist Parties of Britain, France, Portugal and Spain and the Workers Party of Belgium in a joint statement on Cop30
ANSELM ELDERGILL draws attention to a legal case on Tuesday in which a human rights group is challenging the government’s decision to allow the sale of weapons used against Palestinians
The US president’s universal tariffs mirror the disastrous Smoot-Hawley Act that triggered retaliatory measures, collapsed international trade, fuelled political extremism — and led to world war, warns Dr DYLAN MURPHY