Dear friends,
the warmest greetings of solidarity from Germany.
When these days the heads of governments from Asia and Europe will confer in
Seoul, free trade and pushing for a new WTO round will be prominent on the
agenda of the EU and the Germans as of many other governments. Trade and a
free market means development for everybody is their ever repeated
argument. But their monotoneous lithany of liberalism does not become true
just because being said ten times a day.
The fact remains that market economies have no where ever in the world -
neither between states nor within national states - levelled living
conditions and developed a well being for every body. The contrary is true:
Even in Westeurope and Northamerica the weakening of the working class has
led to the reoccurence of the working poors, this is a brought part of the
lower working class which lives now in dire conditions allthough working. But
in these
countries there are even people bad of then the working poors. In Germany
there are several hundred thousand homeless people. This is in one of the
richest countries of the world after twenty years of redistributing the
society's wealth to the top.
In the rest of the world the success of the free marketers is even more
devastating: Every sixth person on Earth is starving! And that is despite the
fact that there is enough food to nurish everybody. But instead of stopping
to destroy local farmer markets by their agro business and subsidised agro
exports (especially from the EU) they preach GMO as the
solution to the hunger problem, which most probably will - once spread world
wide - worsen the hunger rather than eradicate it. The beneficiaries will be
the same as in the whole neoliberal free trade game: The big transnational
operating corporations from the OECD countries.
That's what people are fighting against: In Seattle, in Washington, in
London, on Okinawa, in Cochabamba (Bolivia), in Lagos, in Prague and now in
Seoul.
Solidarity!
Wolfgang Pomrehn
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