About the Book

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 Tricontinental Centre, it includes contributions from key activists and scholars such as Vinod Raina, Michel Warschawski, Maristella Svampa and Mahaman Tidjani.

Commendations

'Fascinating'. - CHARTIST

'A very interesting and important selection of work , one which aids a more generalised analysis of resistance globally and succinctly helps to fill a gap in knowledge about movements in the Global South.' - Socialist Review

Contents

Introduction - François Polet
Latin America - Raul Zibechi
Argentina - Maristella Svampa
Bolivia - Pablo Stefanoni
Brazil - Marcelo Kunrath da Silva
Colombia - Mauricio Archila Neira
Mexico - Guillermo Almeyra
Nicaragua - Jose Luis Rocha
Peru - Ramón Pajuelo
Uruguai - Raoul Zibechi
Venezuela - Héctor Lucena
Subsaharan Africa - Demba Moussa Dembele
Botswana - Ian Taylor
Cameroon - Yves Alexandre Chouala -
Congo - Sylvestre Kambaza
Kenya - Frank Matanga
Mozambique - Tereza Cruz e Silva
Nigeria - Femi Aborisade
Niger - Mahaman Tidjani
Senegal - Demba Moussa Dembele
South Africa - Fiona White
North Africa/Middle East - S. Ben Néfissa
Algeria - A. Nasser
Egypt - Azza Khalil
Turkey - Gülçin Erdi Lelandais
Israël and Palestine - M. Warchawski
Morocco - Kamal Lahbib
United Arab Emirates - F. Dazi-Héni
Asia - Teresa Tadem
China - Dan Jinhua
India - V. Raina
Indonesia - Hilmar Farid
Malaysia - Francis Loh
Pacific Islands - Jean-Marc Regnault
Nepal - Arjun Karki
Philippines - Teresa Tadem
Sri Lanka - Jayadeva Uyangoda
Thaïlande - Chantana Banpasirichote Wun'Gaeo

About the Author

François Polet has a Master in Sociology from the University of Louvain (Belgium). He has been a Researcher at the Centre tricontinental (Belgium) since 1998, where he edits publications and researches social movements of the South. Previous publications include "The Other Davos", coedited with François Houtart, Zed books, 2001.