1. We are against capitalist globalisation because it ultimately expresses capital's demand to be absolutely free to do what it wants.
This is article 1 of the capitalist constitution of the world. All the summits we have mobilised against, all the institutions which we fight -from the WTO to the European Commission have, at the end of the day, only one objective: to lift all the barriers which prevent capital from circulating freely, investing wherever it wants to, withdrawing whenever it wishes.
Everything that stands in the way of the free movement of capital's is made illegal and declared to be ineffective and anti-economic.
The advocates of the system proclaim that this is the way towards a "happy
(as French globalisers call it). 2. We are against this globalisation because it is opposed to development which is in the interests of human beings.
The short-lived local successes emphasized by the international institutions do not compensate for the many crises which have for ten years ravaged those countries tiveness, the blackmail of moving factories overseas, the submission to insatiable economic constraints, result in a regression everywhere in terms of working conditions, social security and pensions. 4. We are against this globalisation because it is by its nature against the interests of the working class. Everywhere in the
what the Labour Organisation calls A billion 'economic insecu- inhabitants of rity' is widespread:
this planet do flexibility of labour, casual work, unem- not have ployment, declining access to incomes. drinkable
These combine water. with social austerity to project OLLU workers the "risk" that capitalists boast of taking on themselves.
For the first time in the history of capitalism, the prospects for young people have deteriorated compared to those for preceding generations. 5. We are against this globalisation because through it the wealth produced by the workers of the world is plundered.
Capital affirms openly that it prefers mediocre growth if it is necessary to preserve high rates of profit. But these profits are distributed between fewer and fewer people with less going to the workers who created them. 6. We are against this globalisation because it tries to make
everything into a commodity. Capital does not merely demand the right to move freely to where it expects high profits. It also aims to penetrate sectors of the economy which had, to an extent, escaped its influence. The territories it wants to conquer are not geographical: they are the public services which it wants to penetrate and "release" from the logic of social need.
The capitalists target
education, energy, transport, telecommunications, culture, and even living organisms.
For them, they represent nothing but possible fields of expansion. Each step taken in this direction automatically