Global Revolt A Guide to the Movements against Globalization

Direct Actiongives a short history of the worldwide anti-globalization movement and provides social activists with all they need to know about the key concepts and manifestos in this richly diverse mobilization of the people. It provides a veritable user's guide to the key debates going on in the movement and explains the array of tactics and actions people are using around the world to put pressure on the powerful in order to defeat free market capitalism and globalization. It emphasizes the political alternatives available and stresses the positive contribution activists can make.

Amory Starr is an activist, sociologist, and documentary filmmaker. Her first book, Naming the Enemy: Anti-Corporate Movements Confront
Globalization (Zed Books, 2000), was the first systematic documentation of the emergence of the alterglobalization movement, written before Seattle. Her second book, Global Revolt, also by Zed Books, is a beginners guidebook to the movement.

Introduction: Globalize This! * Part 1: It Didn't Start in Seattle and It Didn't Stop on 9.11 * A History of Anti-Globalization * Part 2: Manifestos and Concepts * We Do Know What We Are For! * Don't Owe! Won't Pay! Postcolonial Radicalism in the Global South * No Borders! No Nations! Stop Deportations! Classical Free Trade Theory Confronts Fortress Europe * Get Rid of Them All: The Importance of Argentina and Anti-Elitism * Back in Black: What Is Anarchism? * Solidarité & Specifismo: We Are Going to Work Together * Another World Is Possible: Our Confidence in Alternatives * Anti-Imperialism: Anti-Globalization Since 9.11 * Part 3: Debates: This Is What Democracy Looks Like! * To Familiarize Readers with the Main Points of Some Key Debates * The "Anti-" * "Violence" * Pacific Action * Consumption Politics (Including Prefiguration) * Livelihood and Subsistence Perspective * Civil Society * Vanguardism * Racism, Fascism, and Revolutionary Paternalism * Reformism * Part 4: Tactics * Spokes Only!: Affinity Groups, Spokescouncils, Consensus, and Participatory Democracy * Action Guidelines & Diversity of Tactics * Liberated Phones & Liberated Zones: Decommodification, DIY, and Autonomia * Culture Jamming * Direct Action * White Overalls & Tute Bianche: Citizenship of the Absurd * Pink Bloc & Tactical Frivolity: Why We Dance * Black Bloc & Rage: Property Crime Street Theater * No Cops, No Cars, Repetitive Beats: Reclaim the Streets * Be the Media! * Conclusion: We Are Winning