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TRADE unions have welcomed the collapse of a deal they say could have wiped out Britain's beef industry.
The EU had been in talks with Mercosur, the South American common market, as part of a “mega-trade deal” that was expected to have been agreed by Christmas.
However the talks collapsed and general union GMB urged the government to reconsider its “slavish adherence to outdated free trade policies that are only of benefit to multinational corporations.”
Four decades on, the Wapping dispute stands as both a heroic act of resistance and a decisive moment in the long campaign to break trade union power. Lord JOHN HENDY KC looks back on the events of 1986
CHRIS HOOFE calls for support for GMB’s Potters’ Pledge campaign, aimed at making sure the historic pottery industry based in Stoke-on-Trent is supported over cheap, low-quality imports and counterfeits
US tariffs have had Von der Leyen bowing in submission, while comments from the former European Central Bank leader call for more European political integration and less individual state sovereignty. All this adds up to more pain and austerity ahead, argues NICK WRIGHT
