July 2017 It's Our Future TPPA Bulletin out today, available here and reproduced below.  Contains details of the  new It's Our Future election campaign: "A Trade Policy for the People" ___________________________________________________________ Kia ora koutou, I am...

June 2017 It's Our Future TPPA Bulletin out today, available here and reproduced below. Check it out for an update on where things are at with the Zombie TPPA, and what you can do to stop it. _________________________________________________________________...

Originally published in CTU Monthly Economic Bulletin No. 186 (February 2017) Summary With the Transpacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) in its death throes, it is time to think about what a good alternative – and what people-friendly globalisation – would look like....

Remember when the Auckland CBD got shut down last year because we were upset about opening our economy up to overseas corporates? Right now, New Zealand and Australia are forcing the Pacific Island economies to do the same thing under a trade agreement called...

Press release 16 May 2017 Nowhere for Labour to hide on TPPA in election year As Prime Minister Bill English heads off to Japan with trade minister Todd McClay in their quest to revive the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) minus the USA, ‘the silence from...

The latest It's Our Future TPPA Bulletin is out now.  View it here or in the reproduced text below:   The Zombie TPPA is creeping back to life When the last It's Our Future Bulletin came out in late February, the TPPA countries — minus the...

‘Ideological free trade dogma will hit new heights if New Zealand joins a rumoured plan to resurrect the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) without the US. If Trade Minister Todd McClay commits New Zealand to this path, he will guarantee that the TPPA...

Check out the latest edition of the It's Our Future TPPA Bulletin. This issue provides an in-depth update on what's been happening since the United States withdrew from the TPPA.  It also introduces a petition produced with our friends at Action Station to urge the...

The article below by Professor Kelsey was originally published on the Daily Blog on 5 February 2017. ___________ The governments and corporate lobbies that champion these deals are in a state of denial and desperately trying to rescue their bankrupt model. This year...

Read Professor Kelsey's op-ed on the demise of the TPPA here:  http://www.nzherald.co.nz/the-country/news/article.cfm?c_id=16&objectid=11749471