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. Edited by Francois Polet of the Centre Tricontinental, it includes contributions from key activists and scholars such as Vinod Raina, Michel Warschawski, Maristella Svampa and Mahaman Tidjani. |
Contents
About the Contributors | |
A continent in effervescence | |
The Kirchner method and Peronisms force of inertia | |
The reactivation of Arab civil societies and the demand for democracy | |
Hopes and fears and sitin wars | |
Civil society activists reinject politics into public life | |
The Soweto Electricity Crisis Committee | |
Social movements lead the struggle against neoliberalism | |
The new ways of resistance | |
Philippine social movements face the challenges of democracy | |
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