The Palestinian-Israeli conflict is the single most important issue on the world agenda today.
NGOs HAVE funds that can employ local people who might otherwise be activists in resistance movements, but now can feel they are doing some immediate, creative good (and earning a living while they’re at it). Real political resistance offers no such short cuts.
YOU CAN tell that this ESF is a really important event as there are hardly any mainstream journalists here.
London’s image to many is cold, wealthy and impersonal, but its real history is of revolt and subversion. The crowd—sometimes called the "mob"—has played a big part in London’s history, and has developed a consciousness of us against them, the poor against the rich.
"DRAT THE British!" Karl Marx once said in frustration at his London exile. When the European revolutions of 1848 began to crumble Marx was forced to come to London.
The first militant confrontation in the United States between the global justice movement and the neo-liberal junta took place famously at the WTO conference in Seattle in December 1999.
I HAD been taking pictures for the Yorkshire Miner and the Morning Star for years before the strike began, so I was very familiar with the issues around the dispute—job losses and the assault on communities.
It’s been five years since the Seattle demonstrations kickstarted the global justice movement. What do you feel we have achieved so far?
Bookmarks’ Words of Resistance event was a brilliant and stimulating kickoff to the ESF at a packed hall in Bloomsbury.
Haidi Giuliani received a prolonged standing ovation from hundreds of people as she welcomed them to the ESF last night.
I’ve been asked to speak about "Public power in the Age of Empire." I’m not used to doing as I’m told, but by happy coincidence it’s exactly what I’d like to speak about tonight. When language has been butchered and bled of meaning, how do we understand "public power"?
