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China is making promises, but keeping them may be hard...

The global free trade system is being battered like never before. Can any good come of it, asks Vanessa Baird in the first of an eight-article exploration?

Last year, China announced a ban on imports of ‘foreign garbage’. The result? Western stockpiles of used paper and plastic have reached crisis proportions. Adam Liebman on why we need a less rosy notion of what actually happens to our recycling.

East-African campaigners are warning Brexit may hit some Global South economies by harming their ability to export to Britain – a key market for some. Nick Dowson reports

What is an internationalist to make of Donald J Trump’s vow to blow up the North American Free Trade Agreement? Mark Engler asks.

There are ways to change the irresponsible system of tax avoidance, as Niko Block demonstrates.

How new trade deals – and Investor-State Dispute Settlements in particular – are giving more power to companies to sue countries for lost profits.

Simon Trace on the skewed priorities of medical research.

Don't listen to the cynics - Mark Engler thinks activists should pat themselves on the back.

Chris Brazier remembers the editorial contributions of David Ransom.

Three million concerned Europeans signed a petition against a controversial new trade deal that will undermine human rights, explains Mark Dearn.

The financial lobby plugging the latest free-trade deal, discussed with Kenneth Haar.

Big private banks have been resurrected by the crisis they caused, says David Ransom.

Mark Engler draws lessons from marches past and present.

Hazel Healy looks at two monster US-led free-trade deals.