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The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
Greg Palast £7.99
Globalization is all about free trade and helping the poor. Big business is a force for good. The candidate with the most votes wins. Right?
Wrong on all counts. And Greg Palast has found the documents that prove it. One of the world's foremost investigative reporters, Palast has spent the last five years finding out what is really going on in politics and big business in Britain and America.
The result is one book George Bush and Tony Blair don't want you to read. In it he reveals exactly how Bush stole the Presidency, how New Labour has prostituted itself to business, and how an alliance of fixers, criminals and idiot academics are making the world safe for international capital and very unsafe for human beings. Explosive reading.
Robinson (2003) ISBN 1841197149
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Another World is Possible: Popular Alternatives to Globalization at the World Social Forum
edited by William F Fisher & Thomas Ponniah £12.99
This collection brings together the most important themes and voices which these rapidly growing, diverse citizens' movements have expressed at the World Social Forum which gathers each year in Porto Alegre, Brazil. It offers a very different human - and humane - future: production for profit versus production for people; biohegemony versus biodiversity; westernization versus cultural diversity; corporate rule versus civil society; neoliberalism versus the reinvention of democracy.
Zed Books (2003) ISBN 1842773291
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The Three Waves of Globalization: A History of A Developing Global Consciousness
Robbie Robertson £12.99
GLobalization necessitates a new reading of the human story, historian Robbie Robertson argues in this thought-provoking study. Its origins, he suggests, lie in the interconnections that slowly enveloped humans from the earliest of times.
Globalization is destabilizing. The first wave after 1500 destroyed more than 90 percent of North & South America's peoples and contributed to war and revolution in Europe. It also generated an industrial revolution that shaped the second wave in the 19th century. But the ensuing rush to monopolize the wealth and power that globalization promised resulted in depression and war. We cannot ignore the social & historical lessons that globalization presents us with - we need to effect global solutions based on an inclusive rather than exclusive reading of history.
Zed Books (2003) ISBN 1856498611
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Living In Hope: People Challenging Globalization
edited by John Feffer £9.99
Here is an untold story - what ordinary people are doing in life-affirming response to the juggernaut of globalization: small farmers in Honduras, migrant workers in the Andes, urban poor in Bosnia, Cambodian woodcutters, Mexican textile workers, Korean community activists ...
Slowly the contours of a different way become clear - meeting the basic needs of these people, making sustainable improvements in their lives, based on active participation, solidarity and learning from one another.
Zed Books (2002) ISBN 1842771531
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You Are G8, We Are 6 Billion: The Truth Behind the Genoa Protests
Jonathan Neale £10.99
300,000 anti-globalisation protestors marched at the G8 meeting in Genoa, Italy. An exhilarating experience, the demonstrators severely disrupted the conference, but they also led ti unprecedented violence from the police and the death of an activist. From the planning meetings in Britain and Italy to his hour-by-hour experiences on the streets of Genoa, Jonathan Neale gives a personal & passionate report. Intervening chapters deftly summarise the issues behind the movement - including third world debt, climate change , the privatisation of utilities, and drug company profiteering.
Vision Paperbacks (2002) ISBN 1904132138
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Fences & Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate
Naomi Klein £8.99
The author of bestelling No Logo now brings together two years of commentary written at demonstrations and
summits around the world. She brings us up to date on the protests & possibilities, the hopes for change and the barriers raised against it.
Fences & Windows collects Naomi Klein's most notable articles and speeches, many never before published, on issues
such as NAFTA, genetically modified organisms, and economic fundamentalism. This book also reflects on the nature of
resistance: the street protests that have shocked and energized millions, the purpose of carnival-style subversion,
and the apparent disorganization that is the movement's great strength.
Flamingo (2002) ISBN 0007150474
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On Fire: The battle of Genoa & the Anti-Capitalist Movement
Various £3.00
This is a book about militant protest- to be more precise, the militant response of sections of the anti-G8 demonstrations in Genoa in July 2001. The articles in this book have either been taken from reports posted on the internet, or from contacting individuals who were present in Genoa. The aim of this book is to encourage debate about theory and tactics so as to empower us to take on those who currently are ruling this world.
One-Off Press (2002) ISBN 1902593545
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One Market Under God: Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism & The End Of Economic Democracy
Thomas Frank £7.99
The idea that any criticism of things as they are is elitist can be seen in management literature, where downsizing and ceaseless, chaotic changes are celebrated as victories for democracy; in advertising, where an endless array of brands seek to position themselves as symbols of authenticity and rebellion; on Wall Street, where the stock market is identified as the domain of the small investor and common man. One Market Under God is Frank's counterattack against the onslaught of market propaganda. Mounted with the weapons of common sense, it is lucid and tinged with anger, betrayal and a certain hope for the future.
Vintage (2002) ISBN 0099422247
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The Silent Takeover: Global Capitalism & the Death of Democracy
Noreena Hertz £7.99
Provides a new & startling take on the way we live now and on who really governs us: showing how across the world corporations manipulate & pressure governments, by means both legal & illegal; how protest has become a more effective political weapon than the ballot box; and how corporations in many parts of the world are taking over from the state responsibility for everything from providing technology for schools to health care for the community.
While the activities of business can range from the beneficial to the pernicious, neither public protest nor corporate power are in any way democratic. What is the fate of democracy in the world of the silent takeover?
Arrow (2001) ISBN 0099410591
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No Logo
Naomi Klein £8.99
If the world really is just one big global village, then the logo is its common language understood by - if not accessible to - everyone. In 'No Logo', Klein undertakes an arduous journey to the centre of a post-national planet. Starting with the brand's birth, as a means of bringing soul to mass marketing, she follows in the logo's wake and notes its increasing capacity for making the product subservient. Beyond this she reaches her core argument - the now uneasy struggle between corporate power and anti-corporate activism - via sweatshop labour, submerged identity and subversive action. Part sociological thesis, part design history, 'No Logo' is entirely engrossing and emphatic.
Flamingo (2001) ISBN 0006530400
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Captive State: The Corporate Takeover of Britain
George Monbiot £7.99
Schools promote fast food; Police forces bear logos; Superstores are bleeding small traders dry. Is nothing safe in our corporate state? In the most explosive book on British politics of the new decade, Monbiot uncovers what many have suspected but few have been able to prove: that corporations have become so powerful they now threaten the foundations of democratic government. Many of the stories have never been told before, and they could scarcely be more embarrassing to a government that claims to act on behalf of all of us.
Pan Books (2001) ISBN 0330369431
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Anti Capitalism: A Guide to the Movement
Susan George, George Monbiot, Lindsey German, Teresa Hayter, Alex Callinicos, Kim Moody et al £10.00
"This brilliant handbook is a must for all those who need to know the what, where and why of the anti-capitalism movement, which is terrifying smug elites all over the world, and is unstoppable."
John Pilger
"This is the first time a book has tried to look at what is happening all over the world within the movement. It is an interesting and important guide. Globalise the struggles to globalise hope."
Jose Bove
Bookmarks Publications (2001) ISBN 1898876789
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Globalisation Unmasked: Imperialism in the 21st Century
James Petras, Henry Veltmeyer £14.95
This book contends that "globalisation" is little more than imperialism in a new form. The "inevitability" of globalisation and the adjustment or submission of the world to free market capitalism depends on the capacity of the ruling classes to convince people that their interests are the people's interests. Key to theorizing about globalization, and to organizing to resist it, is an understanding that globalization is propagated not to bring a better and more just world to the masses but, as has always been the case with imperialism, to advance the interests of those who already enjoy power and privilege.
Zed Books (2001) ISBN 1856499391
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The Amoral Elephant: Globalisation and the Struggle for Social Justice in the Twenty-First Century
William K. Tabb £12.95
Bill Tabb demonstrates that globalisation is not inspired by objective developments of science and technology but a political strategy supported by the visible hand of the military aimed at opening markets to the benefit of capital expansion. It is a wonderful, user-friendly guide for those interested in the struggle for social justice in the twenty-first century. Rather than seeing globalization as inevitable and invincible, Tabb demonstrates how unstable and fragile it is.
Monthly Review Press (2001) ISBN 158367036X
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Globalization from Below: The Power of Solidarity
Jeremy Brecher et al £9.99
Thoughtful and incisive book which examines the most important political question raised by the advent of globalization: will a broad grassroots protest grow, succeed in entering the political lists, and transform the corporate-led global agenda? The authors draw on the history of past movements and their own experience as activists to propose strategies for building this powerful coalition into a successful movement for global democratization.
South End Press (2000) ISBN 0896086224
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The WTO: Five Years of Reasons to Resist Corporate Globalization
Lori Wallach, Michelle Sforza, with an introduction by Ralph Nader £3.99
Why is a global movement growing against the WTO? When you cut through the corporate propaganda about the benefits of globalization and really look at the 5 year track record of the WTO, what you'll find is a slow motion coup d'etat, a low intensity war waged to redefine free society - democracy and its non-commercial health, safety and other protections - as subordinate to the dictates of big business.
Seven Stories Press (2000) ISBN 1583220356
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Europe Inc: Regional & Global Restructoring and the Rise of Corporate Power
Belen Balanya, Ann Doherty, Olivier Hoedeman, Adam Ma'anit and Erik Wesselius, Foreword by George Monbiot. £14.99
The first real insight into the systematic ways in which transnational corporations - working through lobby groups - have succeeded in influencing a wide range of policies of the EU and other international institutions, such as the OECD, WTO and the UN. The authors cover the major players in these anti-democratic practices and analyse the structural and political factors that have enabled corporate political power to dominate.
Pluto Press in association with Corporate Europe Observatory (2000) ISBN 0745314910
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5 Days That Shook the World: Seattle and Beyond
Alexander Cockburn, Jeffrey St.Clair, Allan Sekula £12.00
In the annals of popular protest in America, the Seattle protests were shining hours, achieved entirely outside the conventional arena of orderly protest. In this book is a diary and discussion of those five days of protest. As the book's opening paragraph comments " What we saw in Seattle….was the flowering of a new radical movement..".
Verso (2000) ISBN 185984779X
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Capitalism in Crisis: Globalisation & World Politics Today
Fidel Castro, Edited by David Deutschmann £13.95
Many books have been written on the subject of globalisation. Many conferences have debated its meaning and direction. Voices from the third world have been allowed little space in this debate. One of the strongest of these voices - and, it must be said, the most radical - has been Cuba's Fidel Castro. In this book, Castro adds his voice to the growing international chorus against neoliberalism and the globalisation of privilege and exploitation.
Ocean Press (2000) ISBN 1876175184
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Naming the Enemy: Anti-Corporate Movements confront Globalization
Amory Starr £16.95
A new movement of 'anti-globalists', in Time Magazine's words, now 'oppose corporate dominion over the planet's poor and disfranchised'. Naming the Enemy is the first systematic documentation of this resistance to transnational corporations and globalisation that has so recently burst into the public gaze with the street protests in Seattle, Washington, London and Prague. This unique and important book is relevant to activists as well as students and scholars of globalization, new social movements and political economy.
Zed Books (2000) ISBN 1856497658
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