Storm of resistance against globalization
Tens of thousands of people in various parts of the world launched protest actions during the World Trade Organization (WTO) meeting on December 1 in Seattle, Washington. The protests shook Seattle, London and other urban centers in Europe, Latin America and Asia, including Manila.
Reactionaries dealt with the protesters with an iron fist in a desperate bid to support and defend �globalization� and protect the interests of big monopoly capital.
Exemplary courage and militancy were manifested by the irate protesters, especially the American workers and people and the anti-WTO international delegation who stood their ground before the repressive US National Guards in Seattle. Despite having been bombarded with tear gas and pepper spray and shot at with Armalite and rubber bullets, the defiant demonstrators remained steadfast and even gathered strength through the four-day protest.
The anti-�globalization� actions signify the seething anger of peoples the world over. At the center of the anti-�globalization� and anti-WTO protests were workers from industrialized countries and the toiling masses of the Third World, all victims of low wages, liberalization, land use conversion, privatization and other policies attendant to �globalization�. Also among those resisting the WTO and �globalization� are the various middle forces and petty bourgeois groups who are railing against the gross disregard for education, environmental destruction, violations of human rights and other legitimate concerns.
The ongoing campaign of big monopoly capitalists to do away with all restrictions against their operations especially in semicolonial countries continues to create conditions that are disastrous to the toiling masses. The vacuousness of the muchvaunted �development� wrought by �globalization� is being rapidly exposed. The peoples of the world are also rapidly becoming aroused to stand up and resist liberalization, privatization, deregulation and denationalization and related policies that impoverish and oppress them.
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