Close to the anniverary of the spectacular 30 November 1999 protest against the World Trade Organization in Seattle
we received the manifesto by Franco “Bifo” Berardi, Italian activist and intellectual, “Ten years after Seattle. One strategy, better two, for the movement against war and capitalism“. Seattle was a welcome surprise for its militant, broad based protests [...]
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We have to be prepared to the prospect of a long period of monastic withdrawal, but also to the prospect of a sudden reversal of the global political landscape.
By Franco “Bifo” Berardi.
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By Nicola Bullard.
It is so interesting to look back at the issue of Focus on Trade that we published just after the collapse of the WTO talks in Seattle in early December 1999. (In case you are interested, it’s number 42.) In the lead article by Walden Bello, what is striking is not the triumphant [...]
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By Patrick Bond.
The decade since Seattle should have taught civil society activists and African leaders two powerful lessons. First, working together, they have the power to disrupt a system of global governance that meets the Global North’s short-term interests against the Global South, and against the long-term interests – and survival – of [...]
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By Ian Greer.
On November 30, 1999 around 50,000 protesters filled the streets of downtown Seattle to protest the ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organization. At least half were trade unionists from around Western US and Canada protesting free trade and the threat it posed to jobs and worker rights. Also present were representatives of [...]
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By Tadzio Müller and Ben Trott.
For French Philosopher Alain Badiou, an event is a break, a moment of rupture with a clear ‘before’ and ‘after’, where the ‘after’ could not be foreseen even from within the event itself, and whose meaning is primarily ascribed in retrospect. ‘Seattle’ was an event in this sense, creating an [...]
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By Ulrich Brand.
I agree with Bifo Beradi’s assumption that we find ourselves in a condition of global war, and that the emancipatory global social movements, the world-wide anti-war demonstrations on February 15 2003 notwithstanding, are unable to do much about it. I also share the diagnosis that the movements in Western Europe have achieved little [...]
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