Les mouvements d’opposition au libre-échangisme dans les Amériques et la constitution d’une Alliance sociale continentale

Abstract

Résumé L’article offre un tour d’horizon des oppositions montées par les organisations syndicales, sociales, environnementales et autres des trois pays de l’Amérique du Nord contre l’Accord de libre-échange nord-américain, l’ALENA, avant de présenter les oppositions et coalitions mises en place contre le projet de création d’une Zone de libre-échange des Amériques (ZLEA). Il s’agit de rendre compte des stratégies auxquelles le mouvement syndical et les autres mouvements sociaux ont eu recours afin de mettre en place une opposition sociale et politique à l’ALENA, plus tard, au projet de ZLEA, et de mettre en relief les pratiques et les alternatives qui visent à consolider le projet d’Alliance sociale continentale.

Emerging Visions of Another world? Tensions and Collaboration at the Quebec Social Forum

“…In Quebec, protests against free-trade began as early as 1986, shortly before the adoption of the first free-trade agreement with the US. But, the Coalition québécoise d'opposition au libre-échange, composed mainly of unions, did not have much success at the national level before the mid-1990s (Brunelle and Deblock 2000). Confronted with a consensus of the elite on the subject of free-trade, and with an absence of clear allies on the political Left, the coalition developed differently from its Canadian counterpart (the Action Canada Network), which was formed mainly around the left nationalist movement.…”

“…Confronted with a consensus of the elite on the subject of free-trade, and with an absence of clear allies on the political Left, the coalition developed differently from its Canadian counterpart (the Action Canada Network), which was formed mainly around the left nationalist movement. The Quebec coalition became the Réseau québécois sur l'intégration continentale (RQIC) in 1994 and would become an active partner of Common Frontiers Canada and an active member of the Hemispheric Social Alliance, officially founded in 1999 (Brunelle and Deblock 2000).…”