Union leaders are harassed and trade union repression makes up most of the human rights violations in the urban areas. A lot of women are forced to take jobs abroad for lack of opportunities to earn income in their own countries. The labour export policy continues, despite so many cases of physical and sexual abuse of women, because OCW remittances are a major source of revenue for Third World governments whose balance of payments is usually in the negative. Trafficking of women, whether for slave labor or prostitution, is unabated. Opening up of land ownership to foreign mining, logging and other TNCs intensifies landlessness of the peasantry and the indigenous peoples.
Education is commercialised and tailor-fit to the needs of monopoly capital.
Even the professionals and local entrepreneurs reel from the impact of trade and investments liberalisation, deregulation and privatisation. We have to fight globalisation until it is totally discarded. We have to rout completely the monopoly capitalists and the retinue of neoliberal apologists who have been discredited by the global recession and are at a loss on how to save the sick global economy. But as Jose Maria Sison wrote, we should diagnose the fatal disease not only of free market globalisation but also of the entire capitalist system, whatever policy stress it adopts. Let us protect our economies and patrimony from the insatiable multinational firms and banks.