Globalisation

Preparing for the G8: wave of arrests in Russia

BY Vicki Morris FRESH from his PR appearance on the BBC, President Vladimir Putin of Russia is preparing to host the leaders of the new free world at the G8 summit at St Petersburg (15-17 July). A counter-summit and the second Russian Social Forum have been organised, but, as was feared, they are meeting with sinister repression. A report from French journalist Carine Clément was sent to the email lists of the European Social Forum. Here is a translated extract: For several weeks now the secret services and the police have been taking a close look at Russian militants linked to...

Activism after the G8

By Josh Robinson, People & Planet East Anglia regional rep LAST weekend, Oxford Brookes university hosted Shared Planet, the annual gathering of student activists from the campaigning network People & Planet. The mobilisations around the G8 seem to have radicalised large numbers of P&P members: for the first time, the event had sold out over a week in advance. But what was particularly encouraging wasn’t just the number of people present, but the fact that P&P members seem to be rethinking the way they see activism. People I spoke to were much quicker to criticise NGO-dominated campaigns like...

AWL day school: "Globalisation and imperialism"

On Saturday 22 October, from 14:00 at Sebbon St Community Centre, London N1 , and re-run on Saturday 29 October, from 13:30 at the Swarthmore Centre, Woodhouse Square, Leeds . Click here for reading .

Workers' Liberty 50-51, October 1998

Click on "read more" to see articles. Commentary: Stephen Lawrence; Kosova; Pinochet The Cover Story: Serbia, the west and Kosova Eye on the Left: Scottish Nationalism... or Socialism by Stan Crooke Diary: Visit to a small philosopher by a postalworker Platform: Taking the capital 'P' out of politics by Sheila Cohen Platform: The Independent Labour Network by Ken Coates MEP The World: Mexico - The long road to working class independence by Pablo Velasco Against the Tide: Hi-tech cannibalism by Patrick Avaakum In Depth: Globalisation and its discontents by Martin Thomas Ireland: 1798 - Ireland...

After the G8

We asked socialists and activists to comment on the way to campaign against world poverty after the G8 summit. Workers will fight back Mick Duncan, No Sweat The poor are poor because they are exploited. But they fight back. The many illegal strikes by workers in China, or union organising drives in Haiti, show workers fighting back in the hardest and poorest of conditions. We should give solidarity. The better we wage the struggle against exploitation here, the better we’ll be able to organise that solidarity. Workers’ rights and workers’ solidarity worldwide, a struggle for the working class...

The world's poor need solidarity

After their own fashion, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown do have a “third way”. Their friend Peter Mandelson, now European Union trade commissioner, explained it in the Independent on 4 July. “Aid-for-trade... is the key to the trading strength needed to sustain development in Africa.... To argue that free trade has failed these countries is simplistic and ignores the huge structural obstacles in the path of even the most determined modern African entrepreneurialism”. Blair, Brown, and Mandelson want to make the capitalist market work better. They oppose socialism, or even “old Labour” schemes...

The world's poor need solidarity, not empty talk

Campaign forces reprieve for Zimbabwean asylum seekers By Gerry Bates After a big military victory the ancient Romans would allow the victorious general to have a triumphant parade through the streets of the great city. Defeated generals and grandees would march in chains behind the Roman general and his soldiers, to the greater glory of the victor and of Rome. Even the defeated had a part to play in the joyous celebration. And afterwards? After the parade, the captive leaders were taken down to the dark prison cellars, and quietly strangled. The Romans took their maxim, “Woe to the defeated”...

Workers' Liberty 63, July 2000: special issue on globalisation

Contents Commentary: Global solidarity against global capital Commentary: The battle after Seattle Global capital: Capital writ large by Martin Thomas Global capital: Enclosure and integration by Massimo De Angelis Global capital: Nightmares of globalisation by Bob Carnegie Fair trade?: Free trade and resistance by Rhodri Evans Resistance: The continuing nation by Alan McArthur References: Further reading Global capital: Imperialism yesterday and today by Jay Lewis. (This is a fuller version of the article than appears in the print version of the magazine). The New Economy: Globalising the...

Police hem in Gleneagles protest, 6 July

Sacha Ismail and Karen Johnson report. On Wednesday 6 July a determined hard core from the G8 mobilisations took their message to the site of the G8 summit itself, which started that day at the Gleneagles Hotel, near the village of Auchterarder. The police had surrounded the hotel with a huge fence, five miles long, twelve feet high. In places it was a double fence, with police, or extra fences, between the two main fences. In the morning the police told people getting on coaches in Edinburgh that the demonstration had been banned or cancelled, and backed down only after people started...

Shortfall at Gleneagles

Anti-poverty campaigns group War on Want has today released calculations showing that the money on the table at the G8 will provide under 5% of the debt relief and less than 20% of the aid needed to meet the objectives of the Make Poverty History (MPH) campaign. Read the details here.

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