Only in July did international pressure force the Mexican government to release these prisoners. A representative of the Bangladeshi workers told how they are resisting privatization of the jute industry and are fighting for a modest wage increase. The government of Bangladesh has met their demands with deadly violence. This is the true face of global capitalism. Behind the smiling, utopian rhetoric of free trade hides a savage beast eager to destroy anything that gets in the way of its profits.
Money knows no morality and today money holds nearly complete sway over international affairs.
Transnational corporations look to squeeze every last possible drop of profit out of an enterprise and then some. Global financial institutions push privatization as a means to take away people's power over their local economic institutions. These global institutions, like the World Trade Organization or the World Bank, also want to break the power of workers, reducing people to burnt-out machines, so that nobody will have the guts to resist their New World Order. One way to do this is to take total control of the work environment. A union means not only higher wages but also an ability for the workers to control the conditions under which they labor.