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

(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL - Tafta, Tisa, Ceta:
capitalist dream, nightmare of the people! (fr, it, pt) [machine
translation]

April 18 is the international day of action against the free trade agreements being 
negotiated (Tafta, Tisa, Ceta). 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 trade and investment partnership (or Tafta), negotiated with 
the United States, and Ceta, negotiated with Canada. To this is added the Tisa Treaty, 
which affects 50 countries around the world and aims to sell public services. ---- 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 skip health 
protection standards (eg health regulations on GMOs or chickens treated with chlorine) 
quality standards (AOC, organic) or environmental standards (on shale gas in particular).

The ultra-liberal measures that seek to impose these texts are not new: many countries in 
Latin America and elsewhere are already experiencing such dramatic trade agreements. The 
novelty of these agreements is that they are trying to tackle everything at once. If 
capitalists are now trying to impose agreements as disastrous for the people, it is 
because they feel that the resistance is not up and have for now hands free. If we want to 
prevent them from doing harm to us to show that we still have the ability to resist!

A weapon of war for multinationals

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

These treaties are also trying to impose a dispute settlement system between 
multinationals and the states that totally escapes the traditional justice. When companies 
deem that a rule violates their interests, they will attack the state and ask for massive 
damage and interests. And this is not even a court of justice but a group of arbitrators 
who will decide, without possibility of appeal. This system has already been imposed in 
other countries where multinationals such fact condemn states for increasing the minimum 
wage, or banned shale gas ...

Organize resistance

For now, governments show no reaction to these treaties that may completely change the 
rules of the capitalist game worldwide. National parliaments (like the National Assembly 
in France) or the European Parliament remain silent while they have the opportunity to 
reject the draft agreements. To prevent large multinationals to 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 the relentless law of profit.

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