The other Davos : the globalization of resistance to the world economic system

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The other Davos : the globalization of resistance to the world economic system

edited by Franc̦ois Houtart, Franc̦ois Polet

Zed Books, 2001

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Davos, the Swiss mountain resort, is host each year to the meetings of the World Economic Forum. To this informal gathering of those business and financial magnates with real economic power in the capitalist world are invited political leaders, cultural and religious organizations and even some trade unionists. The aim is to define global economic strategies. Then one year, for the first time, a counter-Davos gathering brought together on the same date social movements representative of resistance and struggles across five continents. These movements were Brazil's Landless People's Movement, the Trade Union Congress of South Korea, the National Peasant Federation of Burkina Faso, the Quebec Women's Movement and the French Movement of the Unemployed. They met with a number of eminent economists, sociologists, historians and political scientists. The dialogue had been initiated, in association with Le Monde Diplomatique, by ATTAC (the Association for the Taxation of Financial Transactions for the benefit of Citizens), the Coordinating Centre against the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI), the World Forum for Alternatives, and the Latin American branch of SAPRIN (the Structural Adjustment Participatory Review International Network). The aim was to demonstrate, by means of very different analyses and the presentation of concrete alternatives, their opposition to the dominant ideology of neo-liberalism and the dictatorship of capitalism over global society. This book is a compilation of these discussions. Its impact has already resonated around the world with publication in Arabic, Burmese, Dutch, French, Hindi, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Thai, Vietnamese and a number of other languages.

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Preface Introduction: The Era of Inequality Part 1. The Recent Evolution of the Global Economic System 1. Some Key Statistics Francois Polet 2. Neo-Liberalism: A Short History Susan George 3. Capitalism's Global Strategy Samir Amin 4. The Mechanisms of Exclusion Christophe Aguiton, Riccardo Petrella and Charles-Andre Udry 5. The Broken Engines of Growth Francois Chesnais and Dominique Plihon 6. The New Debt Crisis Eric Toussaint Part II: The Importance of a Global Political Response 7. A Strategy appropriate to the New Times we are in Chrisophe Aguiton 8. Alternatives to the Neo-Liberal Model Francois Houtart 9. The Globalization of Social Struggles Samir Amin 10. A Very Different Globalization Christophe Aguiton, Riccardo Petrella and Charles-Andre Udry 11. Simply a Question of Taking Back, Together, the Future of our World l'ATTAC (The Association promoting Taxation of Financial Transactions in the interests of the Citizenry) 12. Cancelling the Debt Eric Toussaint Part III: For a Different Kind of Davos 13. The Globalization of Resistance and Struggles Francois Houtart 14. The Other Davos in action 15. Manifesto: What This Other Davos Stands for 16. Report of the Discussions on this Idea Francois Houtart Part IV: Conclusion: The Time Has Come to Reclaim the March of History The Global Forum for Alternatives Annex: The World Social Forum: The Porto Alegre Call for Mobilization, January 2001

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