(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL France, Alternative Libertaire AL Tafta, Tisa, Ceta: capitalist dream, nightmare of the people! (fr, pt)

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Several free trade agreements are being negotiated on a global scale. These agreements, 
intended to serve the interests of multinational companies are a major threat to all 
social rights (right to work, right to health) and the environment. ---- Two agreements 
are negotiated in secrecy by the European Commission: the transatlantic partnership on 
trade and investment (or Tafta), negotiated with the United States, and Ceta, negotiated 
with Canada. Added to this is the Tisa Treaty, which affects 50 countries around the world 
and aims to sell utilities for. ---- The stated objective of these treaties is to phase 
out all tariffs but also all the rules that prevent the capitalists to make even more 
profit. What this amounts to maintain standards of health protection (eg health 
regulations on GMOs or chickens treated with chlorine), quality standards (AOC, organic) 
or environmental standards (on the exploitation of shale gas in particular).

The ultra-liberal measures that try to impose these texts are not new: many Latin American 
countries and elsewhere are already experiencing such dramatic trade agreements. Novelty 
of these agreements is that they are trying to tackle everything at the same time. If 
capitalists are now trying to impose agreements as disastrous for the people, it is 
because they feel that the resistance is not up to scratch and they have yet hands free. 
If we want to prevent harm to us to show that we still have the capacity to resist!

A weapon of war for multinationals

With treaties being negotiated, all that can be seen as an obstacle to trade could be 
attacked. Utilities, which still escape the law of the market, are directly targeted and 
multinationals hope to force governments to privatize limitless. Among the services in 
focus: education, but also health, social security, distribution of gas or electricity, 
water supply, etc.

These treaties also try to impose a system of settling disputes between multinationals and 
states entirely beyond the traditional justice. When companies deem a rule violates their 
interests, they can attack the state and seek damages and huge interest. And this is not 
even a court of law but a panel of arbitrators who will decide, with no possibility of 
appeal. This system has already been imposed in other countries where multinationals have, 
for example condemn states for increasing the minimum wage, or banned shale gas ...

Organize resistance

For now, governments do not show any reaction to these treaties that may completely change 
the rules of the capitalist game globally. National parliaments (like the National 
Assembly in France) and the European Parliament are silent when they have the opportunity 
to reject the draft agreements. To prevent large multinational firms act above the law, so 
we call to participate in the international campaign against CETA and join the group "Stop 
Tafta" that multiply.

We do not want this partnership negotiated by economic and political elites, far from the 
eyes of the people. We do not want this great transatlantic market for maintaining healthy 
capitalist system and to satisfy the greed of European and American investors. We do not 
want this system where only account relentless law of profit.

Tract download
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/IMG/pdf/2014-10-08_Reve_des_capitalistes_cauchemar_des_peuples.pdf