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Anti-globalization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Finally, critics assert that the anti-globalization movement uses anecdotal evidence to support their view and that worldwide statistics instead strongly support globalization, capitalism, and the economic growth they encourage, which in turn is responsible for many of the beneficial effects. The anti-globalization movement developed in the late twentieth century to combat the globalization of corporate economic activity and the free trade with developing nations that might result from such activity. The movement as it is known now was born from the convergence of these different political experiences when their adherents began to demonstrate together on certain occasions, especially international meetings such as the Seattle WTO meeting of 1999 or Genoa G/8 summit in 2001. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anti-globalization_movement

Anarcho-Syndicalism and the anti-capitalist movement While needing to remain active in the Anti-Capitalist movement, as many Anarcho-Syndicalist groups and unions are, we must not be blind to that movements shortcomings. Present day society is capitalist society, it is driven by the ruthless desire for profit for the few at the top, the IMF, World Bank and the WTO are capitalist organisations, instruments of the capitalists not capitalism itself. Railing and raging against the symptoms of capitalist rule while neglecting, or in some cases failing to see altogether, the causes is perhaps good enough for middle class revolutionary tourists but it woefully inadequate for workers who seriously want and need to take on and replace capitalism. flag.blackened.net /revolt/ssn/talks/anti_cap_dec00.html

Challenges facing Paris ESF Inside the anti-capitalist movement, the neo-reformists of Attac Bernard Cassen and Susan George, plus figures like George Monbiot in Britain, are now trying to impose on the movement their agenda for "another world", for a capitalism with a human face. The anti-capitalist movement is a response to global capitalism. The tremendous possibilities of the anti-war movement were derailed by the trade union and reformist leaders who failed to use 15th February to build an international general strike against the warmongers. www.fifthinternational.org /LFIfiles/ESFParis3.html

Genoa: an analysis : Indymedia Belgium If the anti-capitalist movement is not to be led into this cul-de-sac of reformism then the movement must recognise that the imperialist character of contemporary capitalism cannot simply be reduced to the activities of international economic institutions such as the WTO, the IMF and the World Bank. If the anti-capitalist movement is serious about challenging the very foundations of the global capitalist system —to usher into existence a libertarian communist society- then a multifaceted critique of imperialism must be incorporated into the politics of the movement. Such confrontations, given the existing strength of the movement, are not about to overthrow the rule of the transnational corporations and the capitalist state but are a form of propaganda; albeit forceful propaganda. www.indymedia.be /print.php?id=7005

Feature article: Marxists and the new anti-capitalist movement The movement as it exists today denounces the damage wrought by neoliberalism on the international scale: but on the other hand many of its components are born out of specific instances or problems. From this moment, there was a common cement (slogans and forms of mobilisation), a common definition of the movement (a pluralist movement composed of youth, trade unionists, ecologists, women, and activists), and a form of organisation of the movement (the internet, also on the international level) which were shared by all and considered effective. Despite the diversity, there are unquestionably some general characteristics: the movement’s attempt to define itself by rediscovering an internationalist tradition which seemed lost; a contradictory but real relationship with the old labour movement; and a generalised mistrust of all organised political forms, but linked to the desire for an overall alternative. www.labournet.org.uk /so/47cannavo.html

'Anti-Capitalism' as Ideology - and as Movement? The capitalist institutions under attack can quite successfully barricade themselves in, but it is not acceptable to the state that the black bloc reduce the whole city to rubble outside, stealing the agenda in the media as well with its violence. A 'movement' criticized for its confused and often middle class composition and ideology could therefore prefigure and contribute to the development of a wave of struggles posing a genuine threat to capital's reproduction of itself. This work of movement identity entrepreneurship is a work of ideology, in that it reflects a partial viewpoint connected to their practical experience and social perspective. www.geocities.com /aufheben2/auf_10_anticapital.html

01-4dgroundzero Anti-capitalist movements at particular points in time throw up new forms of political organisation, but these organisational forms also have a life and a power of their own. In the era of the professional worker, capitalist command and control is based firmly within the factory, and outside of this there are areas which are left relatively untouched (although that is not to say they were havens of peace and freedom as they were subject to other forms of hierarchy and domination). In fact the vast bulk of the movement is made up of people who do not consider themselves ‘activists’ or ‘political’ but who nevertheless have to struggle against oppression and exploitation in their everyday lives—people who, just like us, are struggling for new ways of living. www.commoner.org.uk /01-4groundzero.htm

Toward an Anti-Capitalist Globe But we should recognize that struggling against the capitalists and politicians on the home front, in all the ways we always have (while bringing to that battle lessons learned from the anti-capitalist globalization movement), does indeed contribute to the fight against capitalist globalization. The term "anti-capitalist globalization" is my preferred label for the movement, because it forms a relevant double entendre. Capitalist globalization is seen by many nitty-gritty activists as abstract, far removed from the day-to-day struggles taking place in communities and workplaces throughout the country. www.wpunj.edu /newpol/issue32/domini32.htm

Building an Anti-Capitalist Movement Unfortunately, the labor movement, which has the resources to launch a major challenge to the parties of big business, is continuing the failed policy of supporting the Democrats, and even some Republicans. The movement has shown the entire world that deep within the United States, at the heart of international capitalism, there is opposition to corporate globalization. The countries of the "global south" are also capitalist economies, ruled by an absolutely corrupt and brutal ruling class that ruthlessly exploits its "own" workers, including children and sweatshop labor. www.socialistalternative.org /literature/imfwb/ch2.html

The anti-capitalist movement and the war For activists in the anti-capitalist movement, with its focus on corporate power and the institutions which enforce it, Islam was not an issue which activists would necessarily have confronted. But Islamist movements are not directed primarily against workers' organisations; they do not offer themselves to capital as a way of solving its problems; they are often involved in direct, armed confrontation with the state and have often taken up anti-imperialist slogans and actions. After Buzz Hargrove's statements helped deflate the movement, a severe polarisation developed between those arguing for mass protests to continue and to be combined with anti-war work and those who emphasised 'stay local' initiatives and who refused to even mobilise for the G8 meeting in Alberta in the summer of 2002. pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk /isj98/ashman.htm

AlterNet: Capitalizing on the Anti-Capitalist Movement Companies continuinally pan a movement, commodify its cool, strip its substance and use it to enhance their own logo. But co-opting this dissent may be bit more difficult because, in part, it's a reaction to the very commodification past political movements have fallen victim to. So instead, they'll continue to try to belittle the movement, mock it, copy it, appropriate it and spit it out in a way so people cannot recognize -- or forget -- the underlying critique. www.alternet.org /story/11295

What happened and what next for anti capitalist movement : IMC Maritimes But their biggest service to the corporate capitalists is that through their stranglehold of the labour movements—unions as well as reformist parties they can block the unity of the majority of the working class with the radical young workers and students. It will strengthen the movements of the working class, the oppressed and exploited worldwide for the struggle against global capitalism, against the lays-offs and privatisations of the multinational corporations and their obedient states. This is a declaration of war on the movement — and we must organise NOW to repel this attack by all the governments of global capital, irrespective whether they are staffed by "Socialists", Liberals, Greens, Conservatives, and whether they incorporate the far right—as in Italy and Austria— or not. maritimes.indymedia.org /print.php?id=250

NoLogo An Open Letter to the Anti-Authoritarian Anti-Capitalist Movement One of the most enduring images from the Seattle protests against the World Trade Organization is that of "Teamsters and Turtles." The years of organizing and exchange between once disparate movements culminated on that beautiful November morning with many people transcending single issue thinking and moving towards a broader anti-corporate, and even anti-capitalist analysis. The black bloc, not to mention the "movement" itself, is a social as well as a political phenomenon and there should be some kind of social analysis as well. These decision-making bodies should be strongly anti-authoritarian so that no individual, organization, or political party can take them over for a particular interest. www.nologo.org /resources/02/02/26/0422231.shtml

TACT - Temporary Anti-Capitalist Team - feedback Putting the anti-capitalist movement in context in this way also illustrates that there are many more anti-capitalists than the "couple of hundred activists" quoted in the article, as well as pointing the way forward for the movement. But for the rest of us, the fact that the SWP Central Committee has set out to lead the anti-Capitalist movement, using caucuses to enforce the Party line during its interventions - that is a problem. In the article, he argues for the movement to be "rooted in the wider class struggle... www.red-star-research.org.uk /feedback.html

SHUT THE G8 -- worthing's anti G8 movement The direct action movement in Britain has roots in various communities, noteably the anti-road camps and campaigns of the 1990s, but the portrayal of our movement as a sub-culture minimises the extent to which anti-capitalist ideas have taken root in many parts of society. As the anti-capitalist movement grows across the world, some people are beginning to tell us that we need closer links with social democratic parties - the tweedledee of electoral politics and often the very people organising the state s attacks on us - in the name of unity. But if we re gonna stop the SWP/GR from blunting the impact of anti-capitalist politics, we need to examine what we re up to. www.freewebs.com /shuttheg8/infomation.htm

FRFI 170 Building a socialist movement The RTS and ‘anarchist’ led anti-capitalist movement was increasingly being pushed aside by Globalise Resistance – a front organisation of the SWP. A recent assessment of the events in Florence by the Anti-imperialist Camp2 raises important issues concerning the coalition of forces within the anti-capitalist movement within the ESF. If this movement is to be built there has to be a parting of ways – a fundamental break with those social democratic and pacifist forces that are blocking the way to building such a movement. www.revolutionarycommunistgroup.com /frfi/170/170_aic.html

Build the anti-war movement It is the anti-capitalist movement that finds itself at the swirling centre of the burgeoning anti-war coalitions in Canada, the United States, and abroad. We have a powerful new ally in the anti-war movement, an ally that was absent in the war in the Balkans of 1998 and the Gulf War of 1990-91. Faster than anyone thought possible, the anti-war movement is on its feet, organizing and pulling thousands onto the street, across the country and across the globe. www.web.net /sworker/En/SW2001/364-03-build.html

Workers Power Global ATTAC against anti-capitalist movement Many have had their attention diverted away from Qâatar to the task of creating an anti-war movement. It is not the young or the rank and file of the movement who are afraid to go onto the streets but the ageing bureaucrats and academics. The speakers themselves showed that those who had been most daunted by the police repression and the murder of Carlo Giuliani and then by September 11 are the NGO bureaucrats. www.fifthinternational.org /LFIfiles/AATAC-Lon.html

Sept. 15 -- build the anti-capitalist movement This call for a national conference is welcome, and could represent a significant step forward for the anti-capitalist movement. In the 1960s, it was the creation of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) on a national basis in the United States which gave shape to the tremendous radicalization which exploded in and around the anti-Vietnam War movement. This initiative could lay the basis for the creation of a more structured movement across the country, allowing for greater coordination of our efforts, and a more systematic development of tactics and strategies. www.web.net /sworker/En/SW2001/361-03-Sept15.html

Cindy Milstein, Something Did Start in Quebec City: North America’s Revolutionary Anti-Capitalist Movement CLAC/CASA members, like other libertarian anti-capitalists globally, are a long way from helping to turn the places they live into free cities in a free society. One could argue that the convergence of anti-capitalists in Quebec City wasn’t diverse enough, of course. As such, rather than an assertion of difference for difference’s sakepotentially implying a diverse movement emptied of contentwhat emerged in practice was an explicitly radical movement that was diverse. www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/27d/055.html

Afghanistan: For an anti-capitalist movement against war This new movement against Bush’s war and domestic crackdown is starting off with some definite plusses, including the potential for integration with an anti-corporate movement for global justice already underway. Just as youth have been the backbone of the upsurge against corporate globalization, they are a strong presence in the rising antiwar movement. Examination of the capitalist system’s dependency on war production and its need to conquer foreign markets was squelched in favor of inviting Democratic politicians to speak on "bringing the boys home." Connecting Vietnam to what was happening to women, gays and people of color in the U.S. was called divisive or a sideshow. www.socialism.com /fsarticles/special/antiwar.html

Anti-Capitalist Britain The book is essentially about the state of left and radical politics in the UK, delivered through a study of recent anti-capitalist protests and movements. Its underlying theme is the emerging relationship (and sometimes hostility) between established left organizations and the increasingly unified but disparate anti-globalization, anti-capitalist and direct action groups that have recently mobilized against the WTO and EU. Amid the diversity of the movement, they detect a hesitant move towards a more pre-figurative and libertarian mode of struggle. www.newclarionpress.co.uk /Anti-Cap.html

Canadian Dimension: Anti-Capitalist Forum The movement has become increasingly anti-capitalist and especially anti-imperialist in the face of a new outburst of American militarism, its September 2002 assertion of its right to wage "pre-emptive war" (the Bush Doctrine) and the invasion and occupation of Iraq. The Anti-Capitalist Forum brings together articles, documents and exchanges from within the anti-capitalist movement in Canada, Quebec and internationally. The Seattle moment saw the beginning of an anti-corporate globalization movement that has spanned the world and out of which has emerged new oppositional institutions like the World Social Forum and its regional equivalents. www.canadiandimension.mb.ca /debate.htm

Alex Callinicos: The Anti-Capitalist Movement and the Revolutionary Left (2001) Though the surviving Communist Parties have generally been dismissive of the anti-capitalist movement – the biggest in Europe, the French and Greek CPs and Rifondazione Communista in Italy, were notable by their absence in Prague, some smaller Stalinist organizations – for example, the International Action Center in the US – have been much more responsive. The emergence of the anti-capitalist movement represented an even bigger turn in the situation that required debate in order to clarify the tasks of revolutionaries. The party is ravaged by a crisis, and the movement passes the party by – and heads toward defeat. www.marxists.de /intsoctend/callinicos/isodoc.htm

Debating future for anti-capitalist movementSocialist Worker16Oct04 Chris Nineham told the meeting, “Our movement is having a huge impact on people and it is now possible to talk about a real alternative. A second debate saw speakers discussing the relationship between politics and the movement. Contributions from the floor showed the common ground our movement has now achieved internationally. www.socialistworker.co.uk /article.php4?article_id=2918

Anarchist news dot org - Anti-Capitalist Movement The "new activism," as exemplified in the anti-globalization movement, appears as a paradigm shift away from the politics of stale social democratic parties and small Marxist-Leninist sects awaiting their turn to play vanguard. This circle includes both the 'anti-globalization' movement and non-statist communists. The images and slogans from Seattle, Québec City, Prague, and Genoa have become an important legacy, a fresh inspiration to replace the fading images of Weathermen in football helmets. anarchistnews.org /?q=taxonomy/term/7/0/feed

Infoshop News - Anti-Capitalist Movement This is a translation of a Tactical paper adopted at the 6th National Congress of the FdCA which outlines an analysis of the globalisation movement, its strengths and weaknesses and how anarchist communists should interact with it. Anarchist Action San Francisco is building a mass movement of militant action against capitalism. Italy: An anarchist communist strategy for the globalisation movements www.infoshop.org /inews/index.php?topic=33

Challenges facing Paris ESF Inside the anti-capitalist movement, the neo-reformists of Attac Bernard Cassen and Susan George, plus figures like George Monbiot in Britain, are now trying to impose on the movement their agenda for "another world", for a capitalism with a human face. Initially, it was a movement of "many yeses but one no" - capitalist globalisation. They are allied to the Brazilian PT, its accommodation with capitalists, and its fraud of "participatory budgets", the Italian Rifondazione Comunista, the French Communist and Socialist "opposition" leaders. www.fifthinternational.org /LFIfiles/ESFParis3.html

Anti-globalization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Members of the anti-globalization movement generally advocate socialist or social democratic alternatives to capitalist economics, and seek to protect the world's population and ecosystem from what they believe to be the damaging effects of globalization. The anti-globalization movement has been heavily criticized on many fronts by politicians, members of conservative think tanks, mainstream economists, and other supporters of capitalist globalization. The anti-globalization movement developed in the late twentieth century to combat the globalization of corporate economic activity and the free trade with developing nations that might result from such activity. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anti-globalization_movement

Theory of the Anti-Globalization Movement, Part II Thus the significance of On Fire: The Battle of Genoa and the Anti-capitalist Movement and The Battle of Seattle: The New Challenge to Capitalist Globalization. These anthologies attempt to constitute the anti-globalization movement as a coherent project. Theory of the Anti-Globalization Movement, Part II New Formulation www.newformulation.org /2globalizationmorse.htm

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