The State of Resistance: Popular Struggles in the Global SouthFrancois Polet This indispensable book offers a panorama of social resistances to neoliberal globalization in the South. Writers and activists from forty different countries or regions offer snapshots of the latest mobilizations, from the anti-privatization groups in South Africa and the anti-WTO campaign of peasants in India, to the indigenous movement behind Evo Morales in Bolivia. The book focuses on a range of diverse popular struggles that impact on democratic and development process, yet receive little public attention or are caricatured by mainstream media. It reveals collective tensions throughout those societies whose material bases have been profoundly shaken by a series of adjustments dictated by the canons of the globalized economy. It is an essential guide to the latest developments in social movements. |
Contents
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations | 1 |
xii | 15 |
3 | 23 |
4 | 34 |
5 | 40 |
6 | 46 |
Mexico is becoming Latinamericanized | 52 |
The social movement and | 57 |
Alternative world struggles identity struggles | 102 |
Civil society activists reinject politics | 118 |
Political transition and civil society in the | 127 |
Social movements lead the struggle | 144 |
The tyranny of the majority and the coup détat in Thailand | 160 |
Militants confront repression | 177 |
Philippine social movements | 192 |
Demands grow in Egypt | 72 |