A Reader's Guide to Anti-Capitalism

What is anti-capitalism. What is the big fuss about capitalism all about? Why are people opposed to globalization?

Title
Author

A16 Revolutionary Anti-Capitalist Bloc Statement
RACB

A20: Passive-ism and Peace Cops
Peter Gelderloos

"Activism" and "Anarcho-Purism"
sasha k

All We Are Saying is Give Protests a Chance
Judy Rebick

Anarchism, the TABD, and globalization
Erico Malatesta

An Anarchist Statement against the FTAA (and capitalism in general)
Black Star North zine

Anarchists and Corporate Media at the Battle of Seattle
Black Planet Radical Books

Anarchists Want to Unite With Diverse WTO Protesters
Marshall Kirkpatrick

The Anarchosyndicalist Answer to Corporate Globalization
Brian Oliver Sheppard

Another World Is Possible . . . But What Kind, and Shaped By Whom?
Cindy Milstein

Another World is possible! A Black Flag May Day Special
anarcho

Anti-Capitalism or State Capitalism?
anarcho

Anti-IMF Riots Sweep Developing World
World Development Movement

Assault on the Border
sasha k

Auto-Struggles: The Developing War against the Road Monster
Aufheben

An autonomous call for the adoptation of Ya Basta! style tactics
another fish in the sea

Bashing the Black Bloc?
Ray Cunningham

Black Block Participant Interview
Active Transformation

Beyond "Anti-Globalization": Towards a Deeper Understanding of Capital and the State
Black Star North zine

Capitalists and Anti-Capitalists: Two visions of solidarity in New York City
Jaggi Singh

Direct Action, Direct Democracy
Dru Oja Jay

Dirty Mirrors and Deformed Reflections
sasha k

Doing things differently this time: Kananaskis G8 meeting and movement building
Yutaka Dirks

FAQ About Anarchists at the "Battle for Seattle" and N30
Infoshop.org

Finding Hope After Seattle: Rethinking Radical Activism and Building a Movement
Chris Dixon

For the spread of the riots: Manifesto in favour of violent direct action
La Haine

The France of Jose Bove
Richard Kuper

Genoa - one year on
black bollock

The Global Privileges of Whiteness
Kendall Clark

Globalisation, the reformist Left and the Anti-Globalisation ‘Movement'
Takis Fotopoulos

Going Down To Kananaskis: Fork In the Road For Our Movement
Macdonald Stainsby

Groups in Britain look at their actions and
reflect

Unknown

Indian Movements vs. WTO - Part 1
Unknown

Labor & the WTO
Sarah Luthens

Lessons on Tactics after New York City
Peter Gelderloos

Mark Laskey replies to Albert's "On Trashing and Movement
Building"

Mark Laskey

Micropower Broadcasting, the Internet and the WTO Protests
Stephen Dunifer

MRG on the European Social Consulta and the EuropeanSocial
Forum (ESF)

MRG Catalunya-International working group

N30 Black Bloc Communique
ACME Collective

The Necessity and Impossibility of "Anti-Activism'
J. Kellstadt

A NEFAC Critique of the Anti-G8 Protests in Calgary
Tom Keefer

The New Anarchists
David Graeber

A New World in Our Hearts
Iain McKay

Now the protesters box clever
Johann Hari

OCAP Victories - Movement Building
Jonnie

An Open Letter To The Anti-Authoritarian Anti-Capitalist Movement
Ben Grosscup and Doyle

Pagan Cluster Call for WEF/NY
Pagan Cluster

The politics of anti-politics
Andy Tate

Postscript to the article "Give up Activism"
Unknown

Practice and Ideology in the Direct Action Movement
Undercurrent

Reflections on J18
G. Lancaster J-18 Collective

The reincarnation of Rumpelstiltskin
Arundhati Roy

Reinventing Democracy
David Graeber

Reflections on Privilege, Reformism, and Activism
Chris Dixon

Response to Seattle
Ernie Jacob

Revolutionary Anarchists:
Unite Against The World Economic Forum!

NEFAC

Seattle - We Won
R Tate

Sisters in the Struggle
Krystalline Kraus

Soccer Showdown!
Kendall Clark

Something Did Start in Quebec City: North America's Revolutionary Anti-Capitalist Movement
Cindy Milstein

Starhawk on NYC protests
Starhawk

This Is What Bureaucracy Looks Like
Jim Davis

Violence in the anti-corporate-globalization movement
Stacia M. Brown

Where Was the Color in Seattle? Looking for Reasons Why the Great Battle Was So White
Elizabeth Martinez

The whole world is watching
s

WTO Protesters Appear Prophetic
Sean Gonslaves

your face is so mysteriously kind
Monsieur DuPont

Bibliography

Anti-Capitalist Movements

  • Bennholdt-Thomsen, Veronika, Claudia Von Werlhof, Nicholas Faraclas, (2001), There Is an Alternative: Subsistence and Worldwide Resistance to Corporate Globalization, Zed Books.
  • Cockburn, Alexander (2001), Five Days That Shook the World: The Battle for Seattle and Beyond, New York: Verso.
  • Danaher, Kevin (2000), Globalize This! The Battle Against the World Trade Organization and Corporate Rule, Community Archives Publications.
  • Fisher, William F. and Thomas Ponniah (2003), Another World is Possible: Popular Alternatives to Globalization at the World Social Forum, Zed Books. ISBN: 1842773291
  • Held, David and Anthony McGrew (2002), Globalization/Anti-Globalization, Polity Press.
  • Mertes, Tom (Editor), Walden F. Bellocontributor, Bernard Cassen, Jose Bove (2004), A Movement of Movements: Is Another World Really Possible?, Verso. ISBN: 1859844685
  • Notes from Nowhere (2003), We Are Everywhere: The Irresistible Rise of Global Anti-Capitalism, Verso. ISBN: 1859844472
  • Starr, Amory (2000), Naming the Enemy: Anti-Corporate Movements Confront Globalization, New York: Zed Books.
  • Thomas, Janet (2000), The Battle in Seattle: The Story Behind and Beyond the WTO Demonstrations, Fulcrum Pub.

Globalization

  • Brecher, Jeremy (2000), Globalization from Below, Boston, South End Press.
  • Ellwood, Wayne (2001), The No-Nonsense Guide to Globalization, New York, New Internationalist.
  • Klein, Naomi (1999), No Logo: No Space No Choice No Jobs, New York: Picador.
  • Lechner, Frank J. and John Boli (2003), The Globalization Reader, Blackwell Publishers. ISBN: 1405102802

Autonomist Marxism

  • Cleaver, Harry (2000) Reading Capital Politically, Oakland: AK Press.
  • Wright, Steve (2002) Storming Heaven: Class
    Composition and Struggle in Italian Autonomist Marxism
    , New York: Pluto Press.

Magazines with Regular Coverage of the Anti-Capitalist and "Another World is Possible" Movements

  • Alternative Press Review
  • Anarchy: a journal of desire armed
  • In These Times
  • Left Turn
  • Z Magazine