Free trade is such a complicated issue.
The answer is not difficult. For years, our politicians and much of the media have been telling us that there is no alternative to the free trade agenda of cutbacks, privatization, deregulation, shrinking public services and bloating executive salaries, and more and more poverty in the middle of greater and greater wealth. Even our governments, we are told, can do nothing to stop the inevitable. Then there was Seattle. Seattle was the spark.