Globalization and anarchism

• Capitalist Globalisation and Imperialism
  An anarchist outline of imperialism today and how to fight it with a focus on the movement against Capitaist Globalisation
• Africa, anarchism & neo-liberalism
  Many African countries are chronically broke. They must regularly borrow money to finance the public sector and to service their existing debt. The IMF is willing to provide loans as long as the government will carry out a neo-liberal reform package, known as a Structural Adjustment Program (SAP).
• Authoritarians, vanguards and "anti-capitalist" movements
  A critique of calls for the anti-capitalist movement to embrace Leninist forms of organising.
• Globalisation: the end of the age of imperialism?
  IT HAS BECOME increasingly fashionable to use the term globalisation as a description of the international economy and international political relations
• The anarchist economic alternative to globalisation
  An immediate question springs to mind: has an alternative society every existed, and has such a society existed for long enough to be useful to us as an alternative model to the economic model of capitalism. The answer to both these questions &endash; and this may surprise you - is YES
• Revolutionary Anarchism and the Anti-Globalization Movement
  A South African anarchist active in anti-privatisation struggles, argues that the movement must not let this immensely important anti-capitalist struggle slip between our fingers.
• The media and the anti capitalist globalisation movement - Learning from Nice
  You may remember back in early December the news being dominated for several nights by coverage of the European Summit in Nice.

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The global capitalist organisations

• The WTO and GATS
  According to the WTO, the GATS agreements cover 160 services' sector. What few people realised when the deal was first done is that the GATS also includes healthcare, education, housing, water, waste management and other basic services usually run by government agencies.
• From the Czech Republic: Why we organise against the IMF
  The Czech anarchist organisation Solidarita/Organisation of Revolutionary Anarchists is working as part of INPEG, the Czech alliance organising the protests in Prague this September. Vadim Barek, Solidarita's international secretary explains what the IMF means to workers in the Czech republic and why they are organising against the summit.
• The World Bank and its actions
  Right now across the world, the lives of millions of people are in the hands of two of the most powerful financial institutions ever created - the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (WB)
• What is wrong with the G8
  The G8 summits effectively decide what sort of world you and your children will live in. Behind closed doors decisions are made that mean our environment is sacrificed to profit, our health service is run down and privatised and millions of people continue to die for want of clean water and basic medicine. [ PDF file]
• Against the WTO - Against capitalism
  The problem with the World Trade Organisation is not simply a problem of bad decisions, it is a problem with capitalism itself. The decisions of the WTO may often seem to be crazy to ordinary people but to business they make sense. It represents the continued ascendancy of profit over people
• TRIPS and the WTO - killing millions for massive profits
  The World Trade Organisation's Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) was created to allow multinational corporations to demand that their 'ownership' of intellectual patents be respected in all countries.
• The Euro: the root of all evil?
  It makes no sense for us to oppose the EU on the basis of some sort of return to national sovereignty. Rather we must look for ways to create our globalisation agenda out of the process. The protests at the European Summits are proving one way of doing this
• Sweatshops, unions and Fortress Europe
  The EU is continuing the exploitation of the people of North Africa through creating a special trade zone of some of the North African countries similar to the free trades zones North America has created in Mexico.

Reviews of key texts

• Review: No Logo
  The publication of No Logo was perfectly, if unintentionally, timed. Just as the N30 demonstrations in Seattle made headlines around the world, No Logo arrived to explain some of the reasons for that movement
• Review: Globalise this
  Globalise This! is one of the more important and informative books to come out of the Battle of Seattle. The thrust of the book from the very beginning is towards the activist and 'the citizen' interested in doing something about what is wrong on this planet.
• Restructuring and resistance: Diverse voices of struggle in western Europe
  Thise is an inspired book that succeeds in explaining why many people in western Europe are opposing capitalist globalisation. It does this by doing what the mainstream media will not, giving them a voice.
• Capitalist "anti-capitalism"? Whatever next?
  A reply to Monbiot's critique of anarchism and his vision of a reformed capitalism as a solution to the problems of capitalism.

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Eyewitness accounts and texts from the protests

Seattle

Black Block Participant Interview

Prague

• Czech anarchists and the S26 Prague protests against the World Bank/IMF
  This is the text of the talk given in early October 2000 by Vadim Barák, international secretary of Solidarita
• Irish eyewitness report on S26 demonstration in Prague
  Detailed report from Red and Black block with lots of photos
• Account from Pink and Silver block
  Includes account of the day after the protest
• Lots more Prague info

Nice

• International anarchist statement for the counter-summit in Nice
  signed by Workers Solidarity Movement (Ireland) and group from the Lebanon, France, Switzerland, Belgium, Spain, Argentina, Brazil, Italia, USA, Canada and the Czech Republic [ In French][In Italian][In Spanish] [In Turkish]

Quebec

• International Anarchist Communist Anti-FTAA Declaration, Québec 2001 distributed at the demonstrations against the FTAA summit in Quebec over the weekend of the 21st April 2001

Genoa

• Four days in Genoa
  Very detailed report with pictures from a black bloc participant
• Death and Terror in Genoa
  An Irish Zapatista activist reports from the heart of the White Overalls
• Remembering Carlo Giuliani
  PDF poster in commemoration of the young anarchist murdered during the protests
• What happened in Genoa?
  2 page PDF leaflet on the protests
• Lots more Genoa info

Brussles

• International anarchist statement on the recent Laeken Summit in Brussels

Seville

• The Seville 2002 EU summit protests [with photos]
  An Irish anarchist reports from the European Summit protests in Seville
• Libertarian call to Sevilla 2002
  The European Union, the War Machine against Social Rights an international anarchist statement for Seville
• Lots more Seville info

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Debates and discussion

• Reviews of Empire
  A book by an Italian Marxist widely discussed in the globalisation movement
• What is it that is different about the Zapatistas?
  Long account of how the Zapatistas organise
• Bashing the Black Block?
  Discussion of he future of the Black Bloc tactic post Genoa
• Anarchist Declaration Against the WSF
  From anarchist groups who were at Porto Alegre
• Who are Ya Basta?
  Explanation and important documents from an anarchist who has worked with them
• Beyond the 'Days of action against global capital'
  For decades, the organisations that manage capitalism have met to divvy up the world among themselves. For the first time, their role as dealers of poverty and misery has been exposed by thousands of angry protesters.
• Direct Action
  Every time somebody puts a brick through a window or organises a minor protest there will almost inevitably be someone else who describes it as direct action.

PDF files on globalisation

• Fighting Global Capitalism
  16 pages on globalisations and anarchism
• State capitalism or anti-capitalism
  8 pamphlet on the state capitalist and statist nature of Bolshevism
• Is the emperor wearing clothes?
  7 page review of Negri and Hardt's Empire from an anarchist perspective?
• Anti-imperialism and national liberation
  17 pages
• The EU, globalisation and Seville
  2 pages, How the EU is a motor for globalisation
• Anti-capitalism or state capitalism
  A 4 page leaflet handed out at a Globalise Resistance conference showing the state capitalist nature of Bolshevism
• What happened in Genoa
  2 pages, account of the G8 protests in Genoa, July 2001
• What is the G8
  2 pages, written for Genoa protests
• Is the emperor wearing clothes
  7 page review of the Negri and Hardt book 'Empire'

Anti-Capitalism or State Capitalism?

I Anti-Capitalism or State Capitalism?
II Socialism or Statism?
III Does it matter?
VI For a real anti-capitalism!

A pamphlet on the state capitalist and statist nature of Bolshevism which also explains the anarchist alternative. Also available in pdf format.

I Anti-Capitalism or State Capitalism? II Socialism or Statism? III Does it matter? VI For a real anti-capitalism! An 8 pamphlet on the state capitalist and statist nature of Bolshevism which also explains the anarchist alternative [Download the PDF file]

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