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Freedom Socialist Party, New Freeway Hall, 5018 Rainier Avenue South, Seattle, WA 98118 FILE COpy Quebec may soon fly So what's there to I8.ugb· / its own flag as an about in a world that's -~ independent nation all too serious? Page 3 Page 6 Freedom Socialis 'kite q, /?e¥()/vtiffltJ'! 'fd.1iN':Jltt . October-December 1995 Volume 16, Number 3 (£.75 UK) $1.00 Push for privatization and free trade - no good for workers, no cure for economy BY STEVE HOFFMAN Encouraged to borrow money American Free Trade Agreement to develop an export capacity, (NAFT A)-a far cry from Clinton's The high priests of Wall Third World countries then must promised gain of 100,000 jobs. Street have declared a reli­ pay exorbitant interest rates, fall­ Free trade has landed in less gious revival to worship ing further into debt as they bor­ developed countries, such as Mexi­ the twin gods of free trade row money to pay the interest. co, like social napalm. Mexico's and privatization. Though Ultimately, they lose their ability currency chaos illustrates the hair­ the crisis-pitted economic to feed and clothe their people, as trigger instability caused by the landscape looks like Armageddon, fi­ export production chokes off pro­ unregulated flow of capital that nance capital assures us that a resurrec­ duction geared to domestic needs. accompanies free trade. tion is at hand. The double jihad of free trade Following the IMF creed, Big money automatically reacts to a and privatization is meant to re­ Mexico floated short-term bonds slump or a crisis by trying to maintain sanctify a global economy in de­ to payoff long-term debts, in ef­ its gigantic profits above all. It thrives cline by producing more of what fect manufacturing money with­ by sacrificing workers, either by ship­ capitalism creates best: inequality out the backing to maintain its ping their jobs to lower-paid workers between rich countries and poor value. The consequent plunge of abroad. qr by acquiring public services countries, and between rich and the peso devastated its economy. ~d mdusttiesand then laying off work­ poor in~v~ry cou~try. At least a half-Jr.~l1ion workers have ers, busting their unions, and intensify­ lost their jobs, and the govern­ ing speedup. Or it sacrifices workers by Free profiteering. Multi­ ment predicts even bigger waves sacrificing production, closing plants national corporations use free of layoffs in the coming months. and making its money instead by ma­ trade to pit workers of different Inflation is expected to reach 42 nipulating the flow of money itself. countries against one another, in Rally of United Farmworken of Wash. State. percent, while the minimum wage The International Monetary Fund order to drive all wages and condi­ will go up only 10 percent. (lMF) and the World Bank, global tithe­ tions to the same low level. Demands lion U.S. manufacturing jobs have been After the peso disaster, Clinton had takers for the wealthier nations, orga­ for wage increases, health and safety moved overseas since the beginning of to bypass Congress and quickly cobble nize this plunder internationally. Their rules, environmental protections, or the last round of talks under the General together a bailout to the tune of 49.8 "stabilization programs" and "develop­ higher corporate taxes to pay for educa­ Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) billion dollars to avoid a meltdown of ment projects" are meant to insure that tion and social programs are met with in 1986. The government's own statis­ the global financial markets. Third World countries maintain the low­ the threat to move production abroad. tics show that 21,000 U.S. jobs disap­ Currency traders, who control two est pOSition in the global hierarchy. The AFL-CIO estimates that 1.2 mil- peared during the first year of the North to page 4 Dateline Australia International protests detonate against French nudear testing Thousands of demonstrators in Richter scale has not registered such workers won't deliver to French em­ Papeete, Tahiti's capital, dashed with mass upheaval since the movement bassies, and firefighters won't protect police lobbing teargas. They first against the Persian Gulf War. French government property. Many set the airport on fire and then In Australia, 25,000 demonstrators Australians are demanding an end to torche4French government offices. blocked streets in Sydney on the French uranium sales to France. ...... sident Aspapeete burned, protesters holiday Bastille Day onJuly 14. And on Through the summer, outrage was french pr... Itt across Europe chained themselves Hiroshima Day on August 6, huge an­ voiced by unionists in· PariS, rubber­ ,,,trae;· N!9~;:S~ to French embassies. gry crowds turned out for union-en­ tapper workers in Brasfiia, and surfers 7 sky, Au9·· , . _ At this writing, a general strike is dorsed actions in every capital city and in Hawaii and England. Israel, Japan, on in Tahiti; and .the union repre~ major town. South Africa, Germany, and Fiji were senting Polynesian technicians on Australian high-school students are all sites of protest. In Tahiti, a march BY ALISON THORNE Moruroa itself is threatening a walk­ in the streets in record numbers, postal to pGge 4 out. A strike by these workers could es.pitew.hite~.hot .• OPPOsitiOnOn directly affect France's ability to con­ New Freeway Hall .. every continent, French Presi~ duct the rest of its seven or eight S018 Rainier Ave. S. BULK RATE . dent Jacques Chirac on Sep~ intended tests. u.s. POSTAGE Seattle, WA 98118 tember 5 resumed under­ PAID groundD nuclear tests at· the Moruroa SEATTLE,WA Opponents meet at ground atoll in French-ruled Polynesia. zero. Well before the September 5 ADDRESS CORRECTION REQUESTED PERMIT NO. 1003 This blast, more powerful than the . blast lashed the Pacific;Chirac's plan one. that leveled Hiroshima,. bro lto renew testing just one month after morethanlheMoruroa lag60Jiin ...the>SOth· anniversary of the U.S. SOuthP~i,fic to a boiling point. It traIls;.. nuclear atta.cks on Hiroshima and fOnnedwhat had been a.~teadily gr~~ .··l\fagasa .was drawi~fire from envi­ ingptotestmoyementJnto anunCC?n+ .. ) ... andanti:"colo:nialt~ts·· trollabre~plo~.Qn.· .·.i············.i··.~k~,·ln~~:c~~~{tl1~Wli~caJ: YQOO 3Jli 2 Freedom SOcialist October -December 1995 In This Issue Vol. 16, No. 3 October-December 1995 Publishers play the game Zapatlstas ask the people 6 with two sets of rules A recent international BY SANDY NELSON A TNT story the next day dreds are signing postcards urg­ plebiscite supported the quoted both Gillenwater de­ ing direct state Supreme Court Zapatistas' demands. Our can't help but be amused fending Blethen's corporate review of Hogan's rulings. editorial advocates adding when media moguls argue giveaway and me attacking their Readers know that newspa­ with a straight face that a double standard. pers are run to make profits, "jViva el socialismo!" to reporter's political activi­ their program. En espanol I Incredibly, next to this ar­ and that's what causes bias. If ties off the job compromise a ticle was an outrageously self­ anything, people believe that yen ingles. newspaper' s II appearance of serving sidebar called "Worker's journalists are too detached and objectivity" while apublisher's Views Don't Represent News unfeeling. The last thing they activism does not. Tribune." It chronicled many of want is for reporters to become What isn't funny is that what the paper obviously con­ more removed from or igno­ What? Socialism In America? 7 many publishers use this argu­ siders my most provocative in­ rant of the communities they ment to disenfranchise news­ volvements as a radical, like my cover. Of course, why not, room employees. My employer advocacy for Black poli tical pris­ Readers want a press that is and here's how, says Clara is one of them. oner Mumia Abu-Jamal. Gillen­ informed, interested, respon­ Fraser. Everything you The News Tribune of Tacoma, water's political activities, sive and responsible. So do I. always wanted to know Washington banished me from which would merit a special That is the kind of reporter I but were too skeptical to reporting and transferred me to section, went unmentioned. was and that I intend to be ask about setting up a post­ copy editing in 1990. Why? Be­ In hearings in my case in again. cause management objected to Pierce County Superior Court Meanwhile, the mountain of capitalist society. my off-duty work for a city ini­ this year, TNT lawyers claimed hypocrisy grows. tiative protecting gay men and that when a reporter is an acti v- For example: Kelso Gillen­ lesbians from job and housing water agrees to chair the state International Economy discrimination. Higher Educa­ Dateline Australia 1 Global trends 1 TNT said I could tion Coordi­ Dateline Canada 3 Privatization stories 4 return to report­ nating Board - Obituaries 7 Public utilities 5 ing only if I but continues to dropped out of bar me from U.S. Editorial politics totally. public dem­ Zapatistas 6 I refused. onstrations. Sandy Nelson 2 How dare they And TNT repri­ Voices of Color: Features order me to re­ mands me in Blacks and Jews 8 Humor 6 linquish consti­ 1994 for pub­ Wall Street Journal 8 Letters 7 tutional rights licly testifying at Mumia Abu-Jamal 8 Clara Fraser 7 that they them­ a state Senate selves would committee on never give up! behalf of gay In 1993, with rights - and Next Issue backing from then in 1995 se­ State of U.S. education. Racism, sexism, ignorance and the American cretly lobbies. strife: why are the schools in such bad shape? Teachers, Civil Liberties the same legis­ students and parents discuss what can be done.
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