Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by BRENNAN Brid
Between ASEM 2 and ASEM 3 a profound re-structuring of the East Asian economies has taken place. The rules now governing Asia’s political economies have been so thoroughly re-written that new liberalism is now the new development orthodoxy. Structural Adjustment has been severely imposed and has (…)
, by MARTIN Eamon
Seoul, South Korea, Oct. 20- On Thursday, thousands of protesters staged a boisterous anti-globalization rally as Asian and European leaders gathered in Seoul for a cross-continental summit. In a series of lively demonstrations against the Asia-Europe Meetings (ASEM), South Koreans linked up (…)
, by DAN Byung-Ho
Keynote Speech presented at the Third Asia-Europe People’s Forum, Seoul, Korea, 17-21 October 2000.
Sisters, brothers - friends,
I am honoured, both personally and on behalf of the six hundred thousand members of the Korean Federation of Trade Unions (KCTU), and all other workers who have (…)
, by SIVARAKSA Sulak
One of the keynote speeches presented at the Third Asia-Europe People’s Forum, Seoul, Korea, 17-21 October 2000.
I have been asked to speak on the theme of the conference and would like to pose two corollary questions. The first question is, “What is our alternative vision to globalisation?” (…)
, by BELLO Walden
Talk delivered at a series of engagements on the occasion of demonstrations against the World Economic Forum (Davos) in Melbourne, Australia, 6-10 September 2000.
We are, here in Melbourne in the next few days and in Prague in two weeks’ time, participating in an historic enterprise: that (…)
, by SEARS Alan
Alan Sears presented this paper at the August 2000 Sumer School of Solidarity. He is a member of the New Socialist Group in Canada and teaches sociology at the University of Windsor.
THE QUEER MOVEMENT has made impressive gains in the thirty-one years since the Gay Liberation Front emerged (…)
, by Movements
Durban South Africa,
We are united with a single purpose, to ensure that eveyone with HIV and AIDS has access to fundamental rights of healthcare and access to life-sustaining medicines. AIDS has become a catastrophe that threatens the very future of this planet. Terribly high levels of HIV (…)
, by Members of the global women’s rights movement
Final Statement of the International Women’s Summit to Redefine Security
Okinawa, Japan, June 22-25, 2000
This statement was produced by the International Women’s Summit to Redefine Security on the occasion of the G-8 Summit in Okinawa, Japan, June 22-25, 2000. The ratification of the (…)
, by MUTO Ichiyo
I. Between the Two Summits: The Japan Problem in a New Context
WE ARE GATHERED HERE IN OKINAWA (JAPAN) TO DISCUSS PEOPLE’S SECURITY, justice, and peace and to develop action across Asia and beyond to attain them. We feel that we are meeting at the right time and in the right place. This is the (…)
, by BELLO Walden
Introduction
Pushing Meltzer to the Max!
AS thousands of protestors descend on Washington for the 16 April action against the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, they can take comfort in the fact that a growing number of people in high places share their views.
In the latest (…)
, by Movements (international)
The events of Seattle have changed the balance of forces between the social movements opposed to globalization and the G7 leaders, governments, corporations and global economic institutions, including the IMF, World Bank and WTO, that drive the globalisation project.
Seattle gave expression to (…)
, by Movements (international)
This appeal was agreed upon and signed by many NGOs in the world after the Seattle mobilizations of Dec. 1999.
It’s time to turn trade around. In November 1999, the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Third Ministerial Meeting in Seattle collapsed in spectacular fashion, in the face of (…)
, by Focus on the Global South, ISGN
The massive street protests and collapse of the 3rd WTO ministerial meeting in Seattle highlighted the bankruptcy of the “free trade” dogma that rules the multilateral trading system. It was a significant advance in the people’s struggle against the WTO especially since the US and other big (…)
, by DRUCKER Peter
The following text was published as the conclusion to the anthology Different Rainbows (London, 2000) on same-sex sexualities and popular struggles in the Third World. For more details about Different Rainbows and ordering information, please see http://www.iire.org/peter.html . The anthology (…)
, by BELLO Walden
“Make sure to bring your raincoat,” Anuradha Mittal of Food First, the famous food security advocacy institute based in the US, warned me on the phone. “It’s pouring in Seattle.”
But it is not Seattle’s famous non-stop rain that will make the Third Ministerial meeting of the World Trade (…)
, by GREENFIELD Gerard
1. Introduction: Control in the Global Economy
When we talk about “control” in the global economy, we can identify two forms of control: corporate control and popular democratic control. Corporate control involves the increased power of corporations and the subordination of all aspects of (…)
, by NICHOLS Dick
Ecological Marxism maintains that the root cause of the environmental crisis is the insuppressible growth dynamic of capitalism and that environmental sustainability can only be met by democratic socialist planning.
This is certainly not the outlook of most environmentalists today. They, (…)
, by BELLO Walden
Speech prepared for the Democracy, Market Economy, and Development Conference, Seoul, Korea, Feb. 26-27, 1999.
I would like, first of all, to thank the Government of the Republic of Korea and the World Bank for inviting me to share my thoughts as a discussant on the topic “Corporate (…)
, by HEARSE Phil
Which of these has the highest population – Belgium, the Netherlands, Australia or Mexico City? You guessed it, Mexico City, with a population about 22 million and growing daily. Almost certainly the world’s largest city, it is also a gigantic ecological disaster area. And a laboratory-pure (…)
, by ROUSSET Pierre
Political parties and groups from across Asia and the Pacific gathered in Sydney, Australia this April for a historic solidarity conference.
The event was a success, both in terms of the wide range of participants, and the warm spirit which dominated the proceedings. In this era of (…)
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