Trump’s aggressive push to roll back globalisation

Since its negotiation, NAFTA has generated historic opposition. Trinational solidarity networks have been formed between workers in the city and the countryside, students and peoples in general. It has given rise to a global “altermundane” movement, stimulated by the Zapatista uprising of January 1, 1994, against the imposition of the neoliberal model of “free trade” dictated in Washington and imposed in Mexico by Salinas de Gortari. Since then,…

Trump has turned his back on the foundation of US economic might

What made the US step back from the system that it profited handsomely from for decades?

Trump’s aggressive push to roll back globalisation

The US president wants to unwind decades of economic integration. The risk of a 1930s-style global trade war is causing markets to panic

The US government is driving the world economy into crisis with its tariffs. Everyone else is defending free trade against Trump. But it was the left that has always criticized the injustice of globalization The US, which has been in charge of neoliberalism for many years, has passed a huge tariff package under the Trump administration – that raises questions. Is the criticism of free trade now right? And is it left to defend it today? At any ra…

“Trump wants the U.S. to be a productive power again and at the mercy of no one.” Mario Noya Trump believes that globalization has not been in the interest of the U.S. and now he wants to bring the situation back, because he believes it has not gone well. “Trump wants the U.S. to be a productive power again [...] The entry “Trump wants the U.S. to be a productive power again and to be at the mercy of no one.” Mario Noya first appeared on Busines…

Hassan Hardan Anyone who follows and scrutinizes US President Donald Trump's return to protectionist policies by raising tariffs on most imported goods and commodities from around the world is well aware that he is facing a comprehensive reversal of the globalization policies led by America following the collapse of the Soviet Union. This is to impose the American neoliberal model as the best recipe for the world, but with the aim of forcing gov…