Einzelstück 59 - A Movement of Movements. Is Another World Really Possible?

A Movement of Movements charts the strategic thinking behind the new mosaic of groups and campaigns currently challenging neoliberal globalization. In this unique collection, leading theorists and activists - the Zapatistas' Subcomandante Marcos, Chittaroopa Palit from the Indian Narmada Valley dam protests, Soweto anti-privatization campaigner Trevor Ngwane, Brazilian Sem Terra leader João Pedro Stedile and many others - discuss their personal formation as radicals, the history of their movements, their analyses of globalization and the nuts and bolts of mobilizing against a US-dominated world system. Explaining how the global South and the experience of indigenous peoples have provided such a dynamic and practical inspiration, the key thinkers of the new wave describe the roles and anarchism and direct democracy have played, the nature and limitations of the World Social Forum at Porto Alegre as a co-ordinating focus, and the effects of the economic downturn, September 11 and Washington's war on terror. Their statements, at once personal and visionary, offer a dazzling new insight into the political imagination of the global resistance movements. (Klappentext)