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The Appellate Body’s paralysis risks creating a system of economic relations based on power rather than rules.

This is a period when on certain issues, massive, non-violent direct action is in order, as the demonstration in Seattle shows.

Our message to the world was clear: Corporate globalization and so-called “free trade” had gone far enough. We were ready to take a stand against the neoliberal agenda, for together we believed another world was possible.

So is Trump the worker’s hero? Will increased tariffs return jobs to the US? The left has been weak on this issue. The left lacks a real program to address the real concerns of those impacted by trade deals.

In a tit-for-tat trade battle between the US and India over solar power, what is certain is that the environment will be the loser.