At the request of the House Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law, ILSR’s Co-Director Stacy Mitchell provided a comment letter outlining ILSR’s views on the state of antitrust law and making six recommendations for Congressional action.
In her letter, Mitchell explains that our antitrust laws, as written, are strong, but that decades of poor jurisprudence and anemic enforcement have left small businesses at a severe disadvantage and surrender large swathes of our economy to big corporations such as Amazon. Her letter advocates for Congress to reaffirm the purpose of our antitrust laws — to protect competition through legislation. Click the thumbnail to read the testimony.
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ILSR applauds the California State Assembly for passing the COMPETE Act, joining 45 other states that currently ban illegal monopolization.
To end predatory pricing abuses, state and federal officials can take steps to clarify the law and enforce predatory pricing bans already on the books.
Ron Knox reflects on the importance of state antitrust enforcement, both historically and today, and why it matters for more than just the Ticketmaster case.
Three ILSR staffers talked to Liberation in a Generation and The Forge about the many dimensions of fighting corporate power — and building local power.