Globalizing Resistance: The State of Struggle

Introduction; Part One: The State Of Struggles Around The World; 1. Political diversity, common purpose: social movements in India, by Vinod Raina; 2. Resistance to globalization in rural China, by Lau Kin Chi; 3. NGOs and social movements in Southeast Asia, by Francis Loh; 4. Central Asia and the Southern Caucasus: US rearguard bases? by Bernard Dreano; 5. Resistance to neoliberalism in Australia and Oceania, by Verity Burgmann and Andrew Ure; 6. Social movements in the Arab world, by Azza Abd el-Mohsen Khalil; 7. Struggling and surviving in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, by Francois L'Ecuyer; 8. Social movements: experiences from East Africa, by Opiyo Makoude; 9. South Africa's new social movements, by David Coetzee; 10. Neoliberalism and social conflit: the popular movements in Latin America, by Clara Algranati, Jose Seoane and Emilio Taddei; 11. Proletarian resistance and capitalist restructuring in the United States, by Pierre Beaudet; 12. Europe: the challenge for social movements, by Bernard Dreano; Part Two: The Dynamic Of Convergences For Another World; 13. The World Social Forum: towards a counter-hegemonic globalization, by Boaventura de Sousa Santos; 14. The World Social Forum: a democratic alternative, by Francine Mestrum; 15. The African Social Forum: between radicals and reformers, by Mondli Hiatshwayo; 16. Convergences and the anti-war movement: experiences and lessons, by Paola Manduca; 17. The trade-union movement and the social movement: towards a new dialogue? by Pierre Beaudet; 18. The new agrarian issue: three billion peasants under threat, by Samir Amin; Part Three: The Strategic Challenges; 19. The alternative movement and its media strategies, by Victor Sampedro; 20. The European Union and the " internal threat " of the alternative world movement, by Ben Hayes and Tony Bunyan; 21. Police measures against the new global protest, by Donatella della Porta and Herbert Reiter; 22. New powers, new counter-powers, by Raoul-Marc Jennar; 23.

Francois Polet is a sociologist and a member of the team working for theTricontinental Centre (CETRI) at Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. They undertake and coordinate research, as well as producing publications, on issues concerning social movements, North/South relationships and alternative development strategies.