THE European Parliament approved a toxic international trade deal with Canada yesterday, disregarding the will of millions of people who campaigned against it.
MEPs voted by 408 to 254 to ratify the Comprehensive and Economic Trade Agreement (Ceta) despite crowds protesting outside.
The EU-Canada deal gives transnational corporations the right to sue governments if they enact legislation that could hit profits, for example by setting a minimum wage or creating health and safety regulations.
Former Labour MP LAURA SMITH makes the case for The Many slate in the elections to Your Party’s new executive
International solidarity can ensure that Trump and his machine cannot prevail without a level of political and economic cost that he will not want to pay, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
Green Party MPs stand alone in Parliament in defending Palestine Action against Labour’s proscription of the group as a terrorist organisation — an outrageous move that the Tories supported and the cowardly Lib Dems abstained on, writes ELLIOT TONG
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


