Fighting FTAs: the growing resistance to bilateral free trade and investment agreements

January 2008

About this publication

1. FTAs: the big picture (bilaterals.org and GRAIN)

• Colonisation redux: new agreements, old games
• Today’s FTA frenzy
• FTAs and biodiversity
• What is going on where?
• Changing South-South trade and investment dynamics
• Social activism around FTAs

2. Impacts and fightbacks

Asia & Pacific

• Australia-US Free Trade Agreement - fair trade or foul? Jemma Bailey
• Fighting FTAs: the experience in Thailand FTA Watch
• Sealing JPEPA: Through stealth and by force Sandra Nicolas
• The struggle against neoliberalism in South Korea: history and lessons Korean Alliance against the Korea-US FTA
• “Free” trade killing farmers in India Devinder Sharma

Africa & Middle East

• Morocco’s FTA fever GRAIN
• Asking hard questions about the EU-ACP EPAs GRAIN

Latin America & Caribbean

• Fourteen years of NAFTA and the tortilla crisis Ana de Ita
• FTA resistance in Colombia interview with Aurelio Suárez
• Legal (un)certainty - over what? Margarita Flórez
• The opposition to CAFTA in Costa Rica: Institutionalisation of a social movement Maria Eugenio Trejos with the collaboration of Eva Carazo, Isaac Rojas, Silvia Rodríguez and Luis Paulino Vargas
• Two years of CAFTA: deep impacts in Central America and the Dominican Republic GRAIN
• Integration or free trade? Raúl Zibechi
• Resource colonialism and the Chile-Argentina Mining Treaty GRAIN
• Women versus CAFTA: declaration of the “Women of NO” Mujeres del NO

3. Strategic learnings (bilaterals.org, BIOTHAI and GRAIN)

• Learnings from the struggles

Glossary

Going further:

• download the PDF of the entire publication: high resolution (64Mb) or low resolution (14Mb)
• listen to the audio interviews
• watch the videos