Globalizing Resistance

The State of Struggle

François Polet

• Publisher: Pluto Press
• Year: 2004
• Print ISBN:
  9780745323558
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781849642651
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Political Advocacy
• Index: Politics & International Relations

From Bolivia to New Zealand, from South Africa to Russia and China, this is a round-the-world tour of resistance to neoliberalism. The anti-globalization movement is truly global, each region has its own specific groups and agendas, this book presents writers and activists from every continent to provide a truly international view of alternative social and political struggles. Struggles against capitalism, privatisation, social exclusion and exploitation are mobilising many thousands. This book examines what has been achieved so far. The authors examine the World Social Forums as a dynamic for moving things forward. They explore the global anti-war movement and the successful mobilisation for the protests of 15th February 2003; they analyse new media strategies; and they offer a disturbing account on new police arrangements to control demonstrators. Edited by Francois Polet, who is a member of the Tricontinental Centre and the World Forum for Alternatives -- a group that plays a prominent role in the World Social Forums -- the book includes contributions from Donatella della Porta, Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Verity Burgmann, Paola Manduca and Bernard Dreano.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Part One: The State of Struggle Around the World
• 1 Political Diversity, Common Purpose: Social Movements in India, by Vinod Raina
• 2 Resistance to Globalization in Rural China, by Lau Kin Chi
• 3 NGOs and Social Movements in Southeast Asia, by Francis Loh
• 4 Central Asia and the Southern Caucasus: US rearguard Bases? by Bernard Dreano
• 5 Resistance to Neoliberalism in Australia and Oceania, by Verity Burgmann and Andrew Ure
• 6 Social Movements in the Arab World, by Azza Abd el- Mohsen Khalil
• 7 Struggling and Surviving in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, by François L'Écuyer
• 8 Social Movements: Experiences from East Africa, by Opiyo Makoude
• 9 South Africa's New Social Movements, by David Coetzee
• 10 Neoliberalism and Social Confl ict: The Popular Movements in Latin America, by Clara Algranati, José Seoane and Emilio Taddei
• 11 Proletarian Resistance and Capitalist restructuring in the United States, by Pierre Beaudet
• 12 Europe: The Challenge for Social Movements, by Bernard Dreano
• Part Two: The Dynamic of Convergence for Another World
• 13 The World Social Forum: Towards a Counter- Hegemonic Globalization, by Boaventura de Sousa Santos
• 14 The World Social Forum: A Democratic Alternative, by Francine Mestrum
• 15 The African Social Forum: Between Radicals and Reformers, by Mondli Hlatshwayo
• 16 Convergences and the Anti- war Movement: Experiences and Lessons, by Paola Manduca
• 17 The Trade Union Movement and the Social Movement: Towards a New Dialogue? by Pierre Beaudet
• 18 The New Agrarian Issue: Three Billion Peasants Under Threat, by Samir Amin
• Part Three: The Strategic Challenge
• 19 The Alternative Movement and its Media Strategies, by Victor Sampedro
• 20 The European Union and the 'Internal Threat' of the Alternative World Movement, by Ben Hayes and Tony Bunyan
• 21 Police Measures Against the New Global Protest, by Donatella della Porta and Herbert Reiter
• 22 New Powers, New Counter- powers, by Raoul-Marc Jennar
• 23 International Law, a Decisive Issue for the Alternative World Movement, by Monique Chemillier-Gendreau
• Contributors
• Index