In November and December 1999, unprecedented demonstrations undermined the conference of the World Trade Organisation in Seattle. The eyewitness reports on the impressive co-operation between trade unions, environmentalist groups and civil rights movements.

The objective of the Seattle meting was to recolonise certain countries through peacful means, i.e. the so-called invisible hand of the markets. These peaceful means, however, have developed into a new type of warfare.The original article.

In the 1990s a struggle was carried out for the desctruction of national borders to abolish the restraints on the cross national flow of goods and capital. It was preached that this is the process of the inevitable globalisation. First, it was the IMF to promote this new faith and than the WTO become the main actor of the drama.

Living organisms have two basic and paradox feautures: they are able to reproduce themselves and also to change and develop. The first gave us agriculture, the second the posibility of perfection. According to the authors, the power over living organisms should be given back to agriculturists i.e. to ourselves. The article was first published in Le Monde Diplomatique.