WTO
Sugar workers in Guyana on strike for second day
Sugar workers in Guyana came out in thousands to demand wage increases.
The Guyana Sugar Worker's Union is demanding automatic wage increases for sugar workers to compensate for the introduction of a 16% value added tax starting in the new year. Around 14,000 Workers from sugar cane fields and factories, had their second day of strikes on Wednesday, and belong to the country's most powerful labour union.
Hong Kong Phooey - WTO conference ends with the usual promises
After its Hong Kong summit, at which thousands of people demonstrated and fought with riot police SchNEWS examines the differences between the WTO’s words and its practices.
“The rhetoric of the WTO [World Trade Organisation] may be free trade, but its key agreements promote corporate monopoly.” - Walden Bello, Focus on the Global South
On tap at the WTO: Private water
The focus of the Hong Kong round for rich western nations is to squeeze every drop of money they can by privatising public services. When it comes to water systems, that can be deadly.
Hong Kong – Activists gathered here say that no issue highlights the tension between the human values they advocate and the economic logic of the legion of corporate globalizers that have descended on this city more clearly than water.
Hong Kong: Hundreds fight police against global trade rules
Thousands demonstrated in Hong Kong against the conference of the World Trade Organisation.
Hundreds of people fought police, who used pepper spray and tear gas.
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