In the summer issue of the Existence magazine we decided to focus on TTIP – The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. This secretly prepared agreement between the United States and the European Union we perceive as one of the major attacks of the business and corporation world against the common people on both sides of the Atlantic.

Negotiating this treaty itself denies even the small part offered by bourgeois democracy in decisive processes. Neoliberal capitalism is almost absolutely hegemonic, therefore it has no more reasons to regard the will of people on its way to its interests. For the architects of global business relationships the people are mere consumers who can be offered anything, and people resources in production and depreciated working positions. TTIP is supposed to help corporations to protect their investments, to disregard the environment and the lives of the working people who will lose most of their rights which they had to fight hard for during the past two hundred years.

Besides the issues caused by TTIP we also pursue the related Investor-state dispute settlement – ISDS, the relation between TTIP and the national borders, but also the opposition to the agreement in Europe. We mention the topic in an interview with the social geographer Michal Kohout who emigrated to Canada from Czechoslovakia with his family as a child and now he works at University of California. He is also answering questions regarding his work, American primary election or his impressions from his stay in the Czech Republic. We also look into the imprint of the alterglobalization movement on the Czech activist environment. On the background of this local story we follow the global attempts of the world’s economic elites to enforce their interests.

From the up-to-date affairs we deal especially with the protests again xenophobia carried out by individuals to be found both in Neo-Nazi circles and the presidential chair; the fight for the autonomous social centre Klinika, and solidary campaign to support the anarchists prosecuted by the police in fabricated trials. An article about the social riots in France brings interesting foreign news.

We also commemorate several anniversaries. Voltairine de Cleyre’s portrait commemorates 150th anniversary of her birth. We decided to celebrate Johann Most’s 170th anniversary of his birth and 110th anniversary of his death with his renowned antireligious text. And also there is the 80th anniversary of the Spanish Social Revolution.

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1.7.2016 Nakladatelstvi AF

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