globalisation

Fairy dust for all! - Raphael Schlembach

‘Moments of Excess: Movements, Protest and Everyday Life’, The Free Association, PM Press, 2011, reviewed by Raphael Schlembach. Originally published in September 2011.

Forces of labor - Beverly J Silver

Recasting labor studies in a long-term and global framework, the book draws on a major new database on world labor unrest to show how local labor movements have been related to world-scale political, economic, and social processes since the late nineteenth century.

Close the IMF, abolish debt and end development: a class analysis of the international debt crisis - Harry Cleaver

The political targets of this article are reformist understandings of international debt and development. Opposing theories which 'blame the victim', Cleaver construes international debt as 'a weapon against the working class', and the debt crisis as 'a product of working class power' . Repudiation of debt is accordingly the necessary Marxist political response .

Black bloc, white riot: Anti-globalisation and the geneaology of dissent

Ten years after the 1999 battle in Seattle sparked an historic struggle against the forces of multinational conglomeration and American imperialism, the anti-globalisation generation is ready to reflect on a decade of organising that changed the face of mass action around the globe.

Transnational classes and international relations - Kees van der Pijl

This book focuses on an historical perspective on class formation under capitalism and its transnational integration ('globalisation'), and international relations between the English-speaking centre of capital and successive contender states.

On the Phenomenology of Giant Puppets

On the phenomenology of giant puppets: broken windows, imaginary jars of urine, and the cosmological role of the police in American culture. David Graeber, author Direct Action: An Ethnography, examines the 'anti-globalization' movement and its practices.