Introduction to the WTO, and other information on how the WTO affects labor and working families.

Critical perspectives on corporate influence in the WTO.

Noam Chomsky analyzes and criticizes the World Trade Organization and other aspects of modern State-run markets.

Security plans intended to protect Western leaders attending a trade summit were posted on a Seattle-based web site. On Saturday night, FBI agents raided the offices of the Independent Media Center in downtown Seattle. [Seattle Post-Intelligencer]

An analysis of the WTO by a cooperative of policy institutes.

One of the foremost policy institutes analyzes the dangers and potential benefits of the World Trade Organization

Analysis of WTO and erosion of democracy, environmental safeguards, and labor protections. Written by Ralph Nader and Lori Wallach.

Provided by International Forum on Globalization, a NGO critical of the WTO.

A number of activists, educators and organizers expose and critique the WTO. Book edited by Kevin Danaher and Roger Burbach. Common Courage Press, 2000.

Dori Jones Yang looks at how the WTO became a lightning rod for protest. [U.S. News]

Simulation of trade negotiations within the WTO ruleset by about 60 students from all over the world.

A Seattle resident offers public apology to WTO countries for the allegedly spoiled and uncivilized activists who disrupted the city in 1999.

An Aesthetic Realism commentary defining economic freedom--what does it mean for the world and its wealth to be owned in a way that is free?

New comprehensive book about the law of subsidies under the GATT/WTO system.

Noam Chomsky introduces the WTO, and the drive to export American values through it.

Heritage Foundation article defending the WTO, addressing many criticisms like the loss of national sovereignty to an unalleged world government which keeps its hearings and "trials" secret.

Article by Stephen Van Esch looking at the arguments of "saner minds" concerning the WTO.

An outline of the structure and function of the WTO.

Articles offering an alternative view to the corporate media on the impact of the policies of the United States' democratic government.

Contains sample trade policy analysis articles about the WTO and international trading system.

Human Rights Watch believes that WTO membership won't itself reform the Chinese system or lead to political changes, but it could be an important catalyst over the long run if combined with consistent pressure from outside China.

Non-commercial site by independent journalist explaining how WTO principles subordinate other social and environmental values, including democracy, to maximizing trade with alternative proposals for fairer trade rules.

A book by Lori Wallach and Michelle Sforza, Public Citizen 1999.

Promoting free trade in light of resistance in Australia to the Sydney meetings in November 2002.

Historical note on a internet campaign promoting the Cross-Canada Caravan to the Seattle 1999 Protests.

A general introduction and evaluation of the WTO and Globalization with particular emphasis on economic analysis.

Critiques of press coverage of Seattle WTO meeting and links to information about WTO.