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
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I Latin America | 17 |
A continent in effervescence | 19 |
2 Dilemmas for social actors in Brazil | 23 |
3 The emergence of indigenous nationalism in Bolivia | 29 |
The workers movement and the Bolivarian revolution | 35 |
5 Reinvigorated indigenous and popular movements tackle Guatemalas huge inequalities | 40 |
The Kirchner method and Peronisms force of inertia | 46 |
18 Social movements and democratization in Kenya | 114 |
Civil society activists reinject politics into public life | 118 |
weak and under threat | 123 |
21 Political transition and civil society in the Democratic Republic of the Congo | 127 |
The ambiguities of the social movement | 131 |
Is its civil society tainted? | 135 |
The Soweto Electricity Crisis Committee | 139 |
Social movements lead the struggle against neoliberalism | 144 |
7 Mexico is becoming Latinamericanized | 52 |
8 The social movement and the leftwing government in Uruguay | 57 |
9 Democratizing democracy in Colombia | 60 |
II The Near East and the Maghreb | 65 |
10 The reactivation of Arab civil societies and the demand for democracy | 67 |
11 Demands grow in Egypt for social justice and democracy | 72 |
From social regimentation to new popular movements | 79 |
the oil monarchies adapt | 87 |
Hopes and fears and sitin wars | 93 |
A lack of perspective | 98 |
Alternative world struggles identity struggles and the centralizing inheritance | 102 |
III SubSaharan Africa | 107 |
17 Struggles against neoliberal policies in Africa | 109 |
IV Asia | 151 |
26 Internationalizing the campaigns against the Asian Development Bank | 153 |
Neoliberalism caste politics and farmer suicides | 156 |
28 The tyranny of the majority and the coup détat in Thailand | 160 |
The new ways of resistance | 167 |
30 State and civil society in the South Pacific | 171 |
Militants confront repression | 177 |
32 Towards a convergence of resistance in Sri Lanka? | 180 |
Paddling through increasingly treacherous and neoliberal waters | 186 |
34 Philippine social movements face the challenges of democracy | 192 |
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