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Leaked negotiations from a key trade deal show radical plans to deregulate services in Australia, including aged care and childcare.

Days ahead of another round of secret international negotiations, WikiLeaks on Wednesday released what it described as "a modern journalistic holy grail: the secret Core Text for the largest 'trade deal' in history." Fifty-two-nation Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) uses trade regulations 'as a smokescreen to limit citizen rights,' says labor leader

Today, 1500 CEST Wednesday, 1 July 2015, WikiLeaks releases a modern journalistic holy grail: the secret Core Text for the largest 'trade deal' in history, the TiSA (Trade In Services Agreement), whose 52 nations together comprise two-thirds of global GDP.

Una nueva serie de filtraciones vienen a confirmar los temores de la ISP sobre las limitaciones que impondrá el Acuerdo sobre el Comercio Internacional de Servicios (TISA) al derecho de los gobiernos a legislar en interés público y a la falta de transparencia que rodea a su negociación.

Today, Wikileaks released the most updated draft texts on the proposed TISA, along with substantive analysis, on each of four cross-cutting annexes: Domestic Regulation, the “Movement of Natural Persons,” Transparency, and a previously-unreleased annex on Government Procurement. In addition they released the Core Text with accompanying analysis and the agenda for the negotiations next week. The negotiating texts are supposed to remain secret for five years after the deal is finalized or abandoned.

La mayor filtración de documentos de las negociaciones del controvertido Acuerdo sobre el Comercio de Servicios (TISA) desvela la locura del secretismo y no reconforta en absoluto a los usuarios de los servicios públicos.

The ITF warned that classified documents published today by Wikileaks on the Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) foresee consolidated power for big transport industry players and threaten the public interest, jobs and a voice for workers.

Classified documents published today by Wikileaks on the Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) foresee consolidated power for big transport industry players – and threaten the public interest, jobs and a voice for workers, says the International Transport Workers’ Federation.

WikiLeaks ha publicado 17 documentos secretos de la negociación en curso del Acuerdo en Comercio de Servicios (TISA por sus siglas en inglés) que cubren los Estados Unidos, la Unión Europea y otros 23 países, entre ellos Turquía, México, Canadá, Australia, Pakistán, Taiwán e Israel. En conjunto estos países comprenden los dos tercios del PIB mundial.