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Canada, EU Set To Announce ‘Sweeping’ New Partnership

October 1, 2026 News Desk, The Cradle. , , ,
The EU and Canada plan to announce a new economic and strategic partnership at their upcoming summit in October, according to a draft joint statement published by POLITICO on 30 September. “The world is rapidly changing with unprecedented geopolitical challenges as well as challenges across trade, energy, technology, climate, and resources,” the draft said, which was provided to EU ambassadors in preparation for the 29 October summit. “Canada and the EU, with our unparalleled trade access, shared values, and complementary economic strengths, can build a deeper and more integrated relationship,” the draft added.

Unions, Farmers Demand ‘Fair Trade For Working Families’ At G20

September 30, 2026 Trade Justice. , , ,
Milwaukee, Wis. — Union members, farmers and other Wisconsinites gathered near the site where the Trump administration is hosting the G20 Trade Ministerial today for a “Fair Trade for Working Families” demonstration expressing anger over broken trade promises and calling on the Trump administration and other officials to adopt fair trade policies that prioritize the interests of working people. “Like many places, Milwaukee is still suffering from the devastating economic impacts of deindustrialization and the ongoing race-to-the-bottom caused by corporate-driven trade deals that offshore jobs and drive down wages,” said Pam Fendt, President of the Milwaukee Area Labor Council.

Trump’s Colonial Ultimatum To Canada

September 23, 2026 C. J. Atkins, People's World. , , ,
When Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney walked away from the negotiating table with Donald Trump on the night of Aug. 21, it was because U.S. negotiators had slapped down a list of demands that read less like a trade agreement proposal and more like a colonial surrender treaty. Read individually, each item comes off as one more entry in the typical corporate wish list that accompanies any U.S. trade negotiation. Added together, though, they amount to something bigger: a demand that Canada hand over its economic sovereignty—control of its own resources, its own culture, its own foreign policy, and its own industrial base—to a foreign power.

Against Geopolitical Despair

September 20, 2026 Danny Haiphong, Substack. , , , ,
It makes sense why despair is spreading across the combined West, particularly in the United States. I’ve received comments and messages claiming that I mislead audiences by spreading optimism incongruent with reality. They go a little something like this: Stop promoting the notion that the US empire is dead. Stop saying it’s collapsing and has been defeated. How many times are you going to tell us that US hegemony has been destroyed when it so obviously has not? To those asking me these questions, the US empire is flourishing and its grip on global power increasing with every act of violence.

Trump’s Fraudulent Forced Labor Tariffs

September 20, 2026 John Miller, Dollars and Sense. , , , ,
The Trump administration has deployed tariffs, the most beautiful word in the dictionary according to President Donald Trump, to combat the scourge of forced labor in the global economy. But their stated concern about forced labor is nothing other than a cynical device that allows their administration to continue their policies that will make working conditions, including forced labor, in the global economy yet worse. Here’s how it happened. When those tariffs expired six months later on the morning of July 24, 2026, President Donald Trump announced yet another round of tariffs.

Pezeshkian Urges BRICS To Form Independent Payment Mechanisms

September 12, 2026 News Desk, The Cradle. , , , ,
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has urged BRICS members to push back against unilateral sanctions and to establish a “permanent secretariat” in an address to the BRICS summit in New Delhi, Tasnim News Agency reported on 11 September. The bloc currently runs on a chairmanship that rotates between member states each year, with no standing institution behind it. A permanent secretariat would give BRICS a fixed headquarters and a full-time staff to carry its agenda forward year-round.

International Day Of Action Against Free Trade Agreements And WTO

September 11, 2026 La Via Campesina. , , ,
Every year, during this month La Via Campesina reminds the world of the sacrifice of Korean farmer Lee Kyung Hae, who took his life in Cancun in 2003 outside the gates of the WTO Ministerial Conference venue. His action that day was among the loudest expressions of peasant despair, frustration, and resistance against a neoliberal global order; an order that since then has devastated rural food systems, captured our territories and seeds, and impoverished peasant families.  To state plainly, neoliberalism is about protecting capitalism from the peoples.

The Truth Behind Trump’s Trade War With Canada

August 26, 2026 Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy. , , , ,
Donald Trump has restarted his trade war with Canada, and it is likely that it will blow back on the US economy. This August, Washington and Ottawa participated in talks to negotiate a new trade deal, but Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney revealed that the US government made last-minute demands for control over Canada’s trade deals, critical minerals, and French language policies. “The US introduced at the last hours, in the last hours, efforts to restrict our ability to have other trade deals”, Carney explained in a press conference. “We’re the partner of choice in many respects for countries around the world and the Americans wanted to restrict that. They had language that what they wanted to restrict that. Unacceptable”.

Canada And Creeping US Isolation

August 26, 2026 Patrick Lawrence, Consortium News. , , ,
The thing I loved first and most about those evidently vicious trade talks the Canadians recently attempted with the Americans is how they blew up in the Trump regime’s faces at five minutes to 12 (almost literally) last Friday night.  The working assumption on the American side was that, money and profit being all that count anymore, they could pin those ever-understated Canadians to the wall and force them to sign a deal they couldn’t refuse. Then they refused, with other than their customary politesse. The thing I loved second most is how Mark Carney, who ordered his people to abort the talks an hour before the deadline for going to signature, bluntly told off the Americans in a nationally televised address last Saturday, Aug. 22. 

Canada-US Trade Talks Collapse As Ottawa Walks Away

August 23, 2026 News Desk, The Cradle. , , , ,
The US has imposed a 50 percent tariff on $20 billion worth of Canadian goods, after last-minute trade talks between Washington and Ottawa fell apart late on 21 August. The two sides had been close to a deal earlier this week, with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney congratulating negotiators on making "significant progress" in the trade talks. According to US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, the US was offering Canada the "best treatment" of any major US trading partner. However, the talks fell apart Friday evening when Carney sent a last-minute email rejecting the deal.

TAA Is A No-Brainer; Yet Here We Are Fighting For It

May 8, 2026 Roxanne D. Brown, Portside. , , , ,
Al King and other United Steelworkers (USW) activists spent much of the past year piecing together support for about 600 union miners in Minnesota laid off by Cleveland-Cliffs. He and leaders across the union collaborated to secure a 26-week extension of state unemployment benefits. King, the USW Local 6115 president, helped to search for training and part-time employment opportunities to give his co-workers options as the layoffs dragged on. He also threw his support behind the possible development of a manufacturing plant on the Iron Range with the potential to generate 200 jobs— one more potential alternative—for miners waiting to return to the Hibbing Taconite and Minorca mines.

Petition Triggers Formal Review Of EU–Israel Trade Deal

April 16, 2026 News Desk, The Cradle. , , , , ,
A European Citizens' Initiative calling for the full suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement surpassed one million signatures, just three months after its mid-January launch, organizers from the European Left Alliance announced on 14 April. “One million people have spoken: the EU must fully suspend its Association Agreement with Israel – the EU must stand for international law and stop its complicity with Israel’s genocide,” the organizers said in their statement.  The petition demands the full suspension of the agreement over “violations of international law and human rights,” as well as Israel’s “genocide, occupation, and apartheid.” 

Cross-Border Days Of Solidarity Against Rigged Trade Agenda

April 3, 2026 Days of Solidarity. , , , , ,
On July 1, trade officials from the U.S., Mexico and Canada will be meeting to consider changes to the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) — also known as NAFTA 2.0 — the largest and most consequential trade policy of either Trump’s terms in office. The Trump administration and others are pushing a rigged trade agenda that puts the interests of billionaires and corporations ahead of working people, family farmers and the environment in North America and beyond. In response, people are coming together across borders and across issue areas to say “Enough!”

Spanish PM Fires Back At Trump Over Threats To Cut Trade

March 4, 2026 News Desk, The Cradle. , , , ,
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez responded on 4 March to US President Donald Trump’s threat to cut trade with Madrid, doubling down on his country’s refusal to participate in the war on Iran.  Spain will “not be complicit in something that is bad for the world – and that is also contrary to our values ​​and interests – simply out of fear of reprisals from someone,” Sanchez said in a speech on Wednesday. “You can’t respond to one illegality with another because that’s how humanity’s great disasters begin.” “You can’t play Russian roulette with the destiny of millions … Nobody knows for sure what will happen now."

From Tariffs To Tribute: The $350B Price Of ‘Parity’

November 4, 2025 Atul Chandra, People's Dispatch. , , , ,
On October 29, 2025, the carefully scripted pageantry of the US-ROK alliance in Gyeongju and Seoul met an unwelcome counter-narrative from the streets. While US President Donald Trump was being feted with a Silla-era replica gold crown and Korea’s highest honor, thousands of workers, trade unionists, farmers, students, and women’s collectives converged near the APEC venues. They chanted a unified dissent: “No kings!” and “No to APEC for the 1%”. Organizers framed the protest as a demand for the restoration of national dignity against what they saw as an act of economic coercion.
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