The European Union is veering full speed towards an antisocial model inside the union and towards a neo-colonialism vis-à-vis the poor countries. It must reconstruct itself for the people and by the people.
... All the reasons for joining Attac are united.
WHAT IS ATTAC?
Launched in 1998, following an editorial in the newspaper Le Monde Diplomatique, the Association for the Taxation of financial Transactions for the Aid of Citizens (ATTAC*) has very quickly developed a wide following. Today, this association for the creation of another world exists in almost all European countries, in Latin America, in Asia, Africa, and also in Quebec and British Columbia. It comprises approximately 100,000 members. In France, nearly 15,000 people were active members in 2007, distributed in over 200 local committees across the country.
WHY ATTAC?
The neoliberal policies of the past 30 years have consolidated the domination of international finance and the race for profits. These policies have led to making everything on the planet a commodity and are responsible for economic instability, a worsening of the ecological crisis, the lowering of salaries, social exclusion and the explosion of inequality in the world. This "casino capitalism" is today accompanied by a "capitalism of the army bases." Huge military forces are employed to protect the interests of major investors and transnational corporations. These developments are presented as inevitable in both the North and the South.
That is not true, there are alternatives! We are not condemned to suffer the ravages of neoliberal globalization. Attac, a movement of public education oriented towards active participation, aims at recapturing democratic rights that that have been lost to the profit of the financial world. It seeks both to denounce the workings of neoliberalism and to be a force in the huge proposition of creating another possible world.
* l'Association pour la taxation des transactions financières pour l'aide aux citoyens
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