Yash Tandon told us how ‘free trade’ has destroyed the African Economies. In Uganda not only domestic industry has been destroyed, but agriculture has also been hit hard. In supermarkets in Kampala one buys European chicken legs, which are being dumped as a result of EU subsidies. Ugandan tea farmers receive only two percent of the final proceeds of their harvest. The refugee problem won’t go away as long as we cling to this ideology.
Global free trade is a sinking ship. We need to launch a thousand new ships: self-sufficient communities that trade on the basis of the actual value of goods and services. Through regional cooperation and with the combined strength of social movements around the world, we can bring about change.
