(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL #250 - Tafta: The
other world mobilizes (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
Saturday, April 18 took place the international day of struggle against free trade: the
opportunity to return to ecological issues, but also the economic and democratic Tafta.
---- On International day against free trade of 18 April, the French media have covered
less than national mobilizations from abroad, more massive, especially in Germany -
manifestation of 23,000 people in Munich. ---- The ideology of multinational ---- The
Paris march, however, gathered more than 2,000 people, part of which remained for the
evening flashmob, and 90 stocks were held in other cities. The meeting of Montreuil,
organized by Attac, has mostly made the connection with the climate negotiations scheduled
for late 2015, on which those of Tafta hover like a headwind. How incur States on reducing
greenhouse gases, if they work in parallel to encourage the most economic model
transmitter, and most consumer resource that regulate the climate?
Ideology inspired by and for multinationals, the "free trade" is the enemy of all climate
transition. The cult of competition leads to productivism and industrialization. Another
major aspect of the privatization of resources to the creation of environmental protection
(water, air, etc.), companies exploiting and wasting these common goods, free or nearly
so, and it was the One of the secrets of their profitability. The Tafta would come back,
attacking for "restraint of trade" environmental rules patiently obtained.
Finally, the global market including transnational need for profit and speculation opposes
the relocation of the economy. For energy production, for example, the WTO has prevented
many public programs of energy transition - Ontario, India - by dismantling subsidies to
local production and jobs in the name of "equal treatment" between companies domestic and
foreign.
Subversion of Democracy
The stop Tafta collective does not stick to the environmentalist approach. The subversion
of democracy through free trade is a high angle of attack, as well as the issue of
agriculture and therefore food and health, on which the Confédération Paysanne and its
foreign equivalents are campaigning against the Treaties.
But the least we can say is that the citizenists movements, environmentalists, farmers and
union (at the margin) that carry this fight are left well alone. The threats of treaties,
including the world of work and personal safety, deserve that other trade union and
political actors are mobilizing. But it is even more difficult than one key at the nodal
point of our balance of power with the capitalists: our dependence on their system.
Mouchette (commission ecology)
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Tafta-L-autre-monde-se-mobilise
