What is the WTO

Set up in Geneva, the WTO's aim is very simple: to sweep away anything and anyone that gets in the way of big business and its blinkered obsession with global 'free trade'.

Made up of 135 member governments, the WTO polices international trade rules, and is continuing to set an agenda that places profit above people and planet. Trade disputes between countries are decided by a panel to which the public has no access. Incredibly, this panel consists of only three people!

Something this ruthless cannot be reformed. It must be dismantled. It's up to all of us - not our elected 'superiors' - to do this.

'Free trade' is the freedom for multinational corporations to act like they please. In the developing world, these multinationals exploit cheap labour and unprotected natural resources.

Here in the UK, this same greed is celebrated as more and more public services are privatised, resulting in their collapse and an ever widening gap between the haves and have-nots.