Trade and Investment

A Decade of Grassroots Resistance to WTO and Free Trade

By Joseph Purugganan, Afsar Jafri and Jacques-Chai Chomthongdi

Several milestones in the  campaign against the World Trade Organization and free trade agreements will be marked this year as the struggle continues. Many of these key moments in the struggle involve major mobilizations in Asia spearheaded by peasant and fishers organizations working closely with other social movements to resist the onslaught of free trade and investment policies on agriculture, on jobs, on the environment and people’s rights. 

A Decade of Grassroots Resistance to WTO and Free Trade

By Joseph Purugganan, Afsar Jafri and Jacques-Chai Chomthongdi

Several milestones in the  campaign against the World Trade Organization and free trade agreements will be marked this year as the struggle continues. Many of these key moments in the struggle involve major mobilizations in Asia spearheaded by peasant and fishers organizations working closely with other social movements to resist the onslaught of free trade and investment policies on agriculture, on jobs, on the environment and people’s rights. 

The 46th AGM ADB: People’s Movements in the Struggle against IFIs

By Trisha Agawarla

The Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's in his speech[1] at the Inaugural Session of the 46th AGM of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) held from 2nd to 5th May in Greater Noida, Delhi said“India has set itself a target of over 8% annual growth in our Twelfth Five Year Plan, which runs from 2012 to 2017. This is the rate of growth that the country achieved over the past decade. We are initiating measures to spur investment and to make India more attractive to investors both at home and abroad.”

Call to Action: Deal a decisive blow to Neoliberalism. End the WTO and Stop the new wave of Free Trade Agreements. The time is now for Economic Justice!

The capitalist system is in a deep crisis. Since the 2008 financial crisis where the system nearly imploded, it has yet to fully recover. And instead, the crisis has spread and has deepened the food, economic, energy and climate crises. The deep systemic crisis is crystal clear evidence that the neoliberal regime must come to an end.

Civil Society Groups Kick-off Campaign to Scrutinize the Thailand-EU FTA Negotiation

“Speedy” and “careless”—this is how Thailand’s civil society organizations describe the negotiating framework the Ministry of Commerce has drafted in time for the official start of the negotiation on the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the European Union (EU) on March 6 and 7.

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