Product Description

Contains black and white photographs throughout.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #420345 in Books
• Published on: 2001-07-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 416 pages

Customer Reviews

How the neo-liberal free trade works
This book is like a very very big and really good article of what's on all around the world. It shows you how the international corporations are trying to make the policies of the world. The book makes you feel you are not alone against neo-liberal globalisation and shows you many ways you can organise to help the struggle. It has a lot of information of organizations and that is very useful.

Sincerely I recommend it.

This is how our movement looks like!
We don't have to talk about the importance of the emergence of the anti-capitalist movement since Seattle. We experienced the highest point of the movement with 300.000 demonstrating in Genoa. Against their corporate globalisation we have created a movement on an international scale never seen before.
This book is a symbol for different traditions coming together in the movement. Far from being "Western-civilisation-centristic" it provides a globaliszed analysis of the impact of neoliberal politics all over the world - and the reistance against it. This book represents the tradition and the legacy of the enlightenment in the 21st entury. It tells you what the multinational corporations are really doing, how they destroy our environment and how the new neoliberal world order dominates the mainstream politics everywhere - in Britain, in South America and even in China. If you want to know, what the issues and problems are and who the main actors of the "Movement for global justice" are, you have to read this handbook. Both, for the deeply involved activist and for the interested observer this book is an extremly usefull tool.
If you're an activist in Germany - as I am - this book lets you feel the real international impact of the movement. In Germany the left is weak and the movement is just in the beginning. But after reading this book, I've got the inspiration how this movement can look like.

A great guide to the growing fight against global injustice.
This is a great little book. This diminutive volume (about 4 by 6 inches) is a compendium of essays by various players in the current anti-capitalist movement, such as George Monboit and organisations such as Socialist Alliance, Oxfam and Friends Of The Earth. Broken down into sections of "issues" (which are: corporate globalisation, GATS, debt, environment, labour, women, pharmaceutical patents, GM, war and immigration), "regions" (Africa, Europe, the US etc.) and "actors" and then describes the events such as Seattle and London's May Day. Very up to date, although unfortunately published just before Genoa. Obviously, such a book can't divulge the arguments in a huge amount of detail due to covering a huge range of subjects, it's full of enough info to convince anyone that maybe something is going badly wrong in the world, and should give most the much needed push from inaction to making a difference, especially after seeing just how many others are beginning to fight back against the system. If you're new to the whole anticapitalist arena, then this book is essential, but for more details and info, then I think that writers such as good old Noam Chomsky would be more apt, but then again you'd already be reading him, wouldn't you? In conclusion, a real 'must have' book, especially for newcomers.