ОВГ. increases inequality.
The reason easy to understand: if becomes a commodity, then that means care is available on the basis of your income and not how sick you are. 7. We are against this globalisation because it is unable to satisfy basic needs.
About half of humanity lives from agriculture. Traditional agriculture, instead of being given the means to function is brutally exposed to the products of hyper-productive (and subsidised) agribusiness.
The right of countries to protect these sectors from competition is denied.
A billion inhabitants of this planet do not have access to drinkable water. Instead of a planned response to this situation, we see today the systematic buying up of the water supply by a few multinationals which exert a terrible pressure (in particular through the WTO negotiations) to open up public and municipal services.
Access to water is increasingly dependent on whether you have money: the poor are deprived of it, while others see the bills they pay to these quasi-monopolies increasing regularly.
Lastly, anti-AIDS drugs are not distributed to those who need them but cannot afford them, because the pharmaceutical industry refuses to regard them as anything but commodities and places its profits before the objectives of public health. 8. We are against this globalisation because it is unable to deal with environmental threats.
Capitalism's claim that it can solve this problem with commercial solutions, like setting up a market in rights to pollute, does not correspond to the scale of the challenges.
It is incapable of establishing energy planning and the technology transfers which would be necessary to allow a sustainable development while meeting the needs of a world population which must
STORTHE HE WAR COALIT• BLAIR MUST increase still further during the decades ahead. 9. We are against this globalisation because it denies citizens who are not part of the ruling classes of any possibility of controlling their destiny and putting forward their priorities.
It deprives the dominated states of their sovereignty by forcing them to sign treaties that prohibit them from taking the slightest measure of control over capital.
It empties bourgeois democracy of any real meaning. 10. We are against this globalisation because inter-capitalist competition is transformed inevitably into wars against peoples.
The disorder which results, the refusal to satisfy non-profitable social needs, the marginalisation of countries and entire continents, deprive the people of any hope and make recourse to brute force the only means of controlling' a system which is in crisis.