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INFAMOUS EU-US trade deal TTIP could lead to a new financial crisis and fresh taxpayer bailouts if signed, anti-poverty campaigners warned yesterday.
An alliance of industrial giants, including British American Business and the Institute of International Bankers, is pushing for financial deregulation to be built into the deal.
But the set of rules it would replace, like the Dodd-Frank Act in the US, were designed specifically to prevent a new financial crisis.
Starmer sabotaged Labour with his second referendum campaign, mobilising a liberal backlash that sincerely felt progressive ideals were at stake — but the EU was then and is now an entity Britain should have nothing to do with, explains NICK WRIGHT
It is only trade union power at work that will materially improve the lot of working people as a class but without sector-wide collective bargaining and a right to take sympathetic strike action, we are hamstrung in the fight to tilt back the balance of power, argues ADRIAN WEIR
