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If you think another world is possible, you’re not alone.
The employers call it the antiglobalisation movement. Radical youth on marches and protests call it the anticapitalist movement. Academics, journalists and union leaders call it the ‘altermondialist’ or global justice movement.
Whatever you call it, on one thing all are agreed. The movement against corporate globalisation and war is at a crossroads.
Will it remain nothing more than a space in which other worlds can be discussed? Will it return to its roots in direct action, launching new protests on the scale of Seattle 1999, Genoa 2001 and the 20 million strong world march against war on 15 February 2003? Above all, will it be able to decide how to wield its awesome power not just to resist capitalism, but also to overthrow it?
This pamphlet surveys the global movement, from its origins in Chiapas and Seattle, though the writings of its principal theorists, and the history of its summit sieges and its social forums. Unapologetically partisan, it argues that to rid the globe of capitalism, the movement must take a big step towards the formation of a new world party of social revolution.
It is indispensable reading for anyone who wants to make another world not just a possibility, but a reality
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