International

Shifting power from countries to corporations in trade negotiations hurts both people and the planet. Will the president’s trade agenda put workers’ rights ahead of profit and plunder?

A tribunal has ruled against a global company in a case over mining rights. Now we need to block trade deals that allow these investor-state lawsuits. 

The right wing that conspired openly against an elected president’s mandate insists on a wild capitalism and does not accept that black, poor, and indigenous people, women, homosexuals, and slum...

George Lakey's new book explains how the Nordic countries have achieved their egalitarian society and high standard of living

The head of international relations at the British labor federation explains the implications for workers of leaving the European Union. Post-referendum update: Read Owen Tudor's response to the June 23...

Two years after the April 24, 2013, collapse of the Rana Plaza building, Bangladesh has become a laboratory to test whether pressure from worldwide labor unions and NGOs in support...

As the Scots begin tackling their rising incarceration problem, America should learn from them.

  As President Obama scrambles to salvage his trade agenda this week, his top emissary to Japan is appealing to Democrats by lifting up one of the party’s most beloved...

The Third Plenary Meeting of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (the ‘Third Plenum’) took place November 9-13 in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing....