It
will contribute to the significant deceleration of the global
neoliberal onslaught
Despite
the first deeply disappointing signs of Donald Trump by forming a
cabinet of plutocrats and former Goldman Sachs jackals, he finally
made a positive move through signing for the US withdrawal from the
Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal.
As
globalnews.ca
reports:
U.S.
President Donald Trump has signed a notice starting withdrawal from
the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal. Trump called the
move “a great thing for the American workers.” It remains unclear
if Trump would seek individual deals with the 11 other countries in
the TPP, a group that includes Canada and represents roughly 13.5 per
cent of the global economy, according to World Bank figures. Trump
has blamed past trade deals such as the North American Free Trade
Agreement and China’s entrance into the World Trade Organization
for a decline in U.S. factory jobs.
TPP is part of the international trade deals (TTIP,
CETA, TiSA and TPP) which seal the definite domination of the
corporate and banking mega-monsters over the states.
Across the Atlantic, we have seen over the last decades
a massive transfer of power from the public to private interests, a
push for economic and financial liberalisation, growing inequalities,
poverty and environmental destructions. TTIP, CETA, TiSA and TPP are
attempts to make these erroneous decisions irreversible.
While negotiations for these trade deals are taking
place under complete secrecy, various document leaks have shown that
these threaten democracy, public services, and social &
environmental standards, and jeopardise small-scale quality farming,
food and pharmaceutical standards, the indispensable energy
transition, and the right and ability of people to change society for
the better.
The beneficiaries of these agreements are the big
corporations who designed and lobbied for them, not citizens.
It is very disappointing that governments have
completely ignored the massive protests in Europe and elsewhere
against those deals and continued the 'negotiations' with the
lobbyists as planned.
It is possible that we have a multilevel internal war
inside and outside the US between the big capital on the context of
these international agreements and Trump is being used in this war.
It is also quite disappointing that a potential damage on
TPP (and hopefully on the other agreements) is not coming from the
power of the people whose voice has been completely ignored by the
corrupted politicians. It comes because of the war between the big
capital. And we had to wait someone like Donald Trump to make a first
move against these agreements. This is really a sad moment where
someone realizes how deeply democracy has been degenerated.
Nevertheless, the anti-neoliberal forces of the Left
should grab the chance and take advantage of such actions like
Trump's, to achieve more victories against these international
agreements, until their final destruction.
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