 | Fast Track Passage Won't Defeat the ''Seattle Coalition'' by Sarah Anderson and John Cavanagh, Institute for Policy Studies December 6th, 2001 Fast Track trade authority has squeaked through Congress. Analysts from the Institute for Policy Studies say it is one set back among many victories in a battle that is far from over. |
 | The Meaning of Doha by Walden Bello and Anuradha Mittal, Focus on the Global South and Food First November 15th, 2001 Two activist-scholars set the record straight on what was gained and what was lost at the recent WTO summit in Qatar. |
 | ENGLAND: The WTO's Hidden Agenda by Gregory Palast, Special to CorpWatch November 9th, 2001 Confidential documents show top corporate executives met secretly with government officials to set the pro-business agenda for the current WTO talks. This may be the smoking gun that proves corporate collusion in the WTO process. |
 | Prelude to Doha: Northern Countries Try to Ram Through Agenda by Martin Khor, Special to CorpWatch November 9th, 2001 WTO officials and delegates from the US and EU try to strong arm developing countries into accepting a new round of trade negotiations. |
 | War Profiteering: Bayer, Anthrax and International Trade by Kavaljit Singh, Asia-Europe Dialogue Project November 5th, 2001 US officials have refused to bust Bayer's monopoly on anthrax drugs, even though generic drugs would save $millions. Bayer's patent was protected under the WTO. Now those rights are challenged. |
 | WTO and the Fate of the World's Forests by Victor Menotti, Special to CorpWatch November 1st, 2001 At stake in upcoming WTO negotiations is the question of who will control and benefit from the world's forests. |
 | The WTO, Forests and the Spirit of Rio by Ricardo Carrere, Special to CorpWatch November 1st, 2001 Rainforest activist Ricardo Carrere argues that it's time to reject free trade and return to the environmental principles that guided the 1992 Earth Summit. |
 | ENRON: Washington's Number One Behind-the-Scenes GATS Negotiator by Tony Clarke, Special to CorpWatch October 25th, 2001 Tony Clarke, looks at how Enron, the largest service provider in the world, uses its clout to shape WTO talks on cross-border trade in services. |
| After Carlo Giuliani, Peaceful Protests Must Continue by Kenny Bruno, Special to CorpWatch July 25th, 2001 The highly publicized killing of Carlo Giuliani during the protests in Genoa on Friday, July 19th may mark a milestone for the anti-corporate globalization movement as significant as the Battle in Seattle. |
| G8: Are You Happy? by Susan George, Special to CorpWatch July 24th, 2001 The movement for a different kind of globalization is in danger. Either we expose what the police are actually up to and prevent the violence of the few, or we risk shattering the greatest political hope in the last several decades. |
| Quebec: One More Crack in the Wall by Sarah Anderson, Special to CorpWatch April 23rd, 2001 QUEBEC CITY -- ''Excuse me, but is this Canada?'' Scrawled on the ''Wall of Shame,'' a 10-foot high, 2 and a half mile long fence erected to keep protesters away from George Bush and 33 other leaders gathered at the Summit of the Americas, the slogan just about says it all. |
 | Zapatistas: Bad For Business by Martin Espinoza, Special to CorpWatch March 22nd, 2001 Are the Zapatistas winning the war of ideas against neoliberalism and free trade? |
 | This Is What Democracy Looks Like by Kenny Bruno, Special to CorpWatch January 28th, 2001 Thousands gather in Porto Alegre, Brazil to look towards a future in which corporations no longer rule. |
| The Promise of Porto Alegre by Ignacio Ramonet, Le Monde Diplomatique The new century is starting in Porto Alegre. All kinds of people, each in their own ways, have been contesting and critiquing neo-liberal globalisation, and many of them will be gathering in this southern Brazilian city on 25-30 January for the first World Social Forum. This time they won't just be protesting -- as they were in Seattle, Washington, Prague and elsewhere -- against the world-wide injustices, inequalities and disasters created by the excesses of capitalism (see the article by Bernard Cassen). |
| The Struggle for a Deglobalized World by Walden Bello, Focus on the Global South September 6th, 2000 In the mid-nineties, the WTO had been sold to the global public as the lynchpin of a multilateral system of economic governance that would provide the necessary rules to facilitate the growth of global trade and the spread of its beneficial effects. |
| US: Against China PNTR by Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman, Focus on the Corporation May 22nd, 2000 The debate over whether the U.S. Congress should grant Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR, formerly known as permanent most favored nation) status is about many things, but none more important than this basic question. |
| US: Don't Bash China by Walden Bello and Anuradha Mittal, Institute for Food and Development Policy/Food First May 1st, 2000 The anti-China trade campaign amounts to a Faustian bargain that seeks to buy some space for US organized labor at the expense of real solidarity with workers and progressive worker and environmental movements globally against transnational capital. |
| WTO: Watershed for Alternative Media by Julie Light, Media Alliance April 1st, 2000 There are watershed moments in which world events and popular perceptions of them are changed. The week of protests at the World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle last year was indisputably such a moment. |
| Where was the Color in Seattle? by Elizabeth (Betita) Martinez, Colorlines February 1st, 2000 In the vast acreage of published analysis about the splendid victory over the World Trade Organization last November 29-December 3, it is almost impossible to find anyone wondering why the 40-50,000 demonstrators were overwhelmingly Anglo. |
| The Historic Significance of Seattle by Vandana Shiva, Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology December 10th, 1999 The failure of the WTO Ministerial meeting in Seattle was a historic watershed, in more than one way. Firstly, it has demonstrated that globalisation is not an inevitable phenomena which must be accepted at all costs but a political project which can be responded to politically. |