Sasha K

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Assault on the Border
by sasha k

The next WTO ministerial will meet within the safe borders of Qatar. This is no surprise; did anyone really believe all this talk of dialogue? During the Seattle meeting, an official from China commented that if the meetings were held in his country there wouldn't be such problems as we saw in the streets. And so it is.

"Activism" and "Anarcho-Purism"

"After Seattle" (words that launched a thousand articles) there has been much talk about how to keep "building the movement." In "Rethinking Radical Activism and Building the Movement," Chris Dixon adds his thoughts on the matter. After reading the article one is prompted to ask what of "activism" is rethought and what is the movement to be built? In fact, very little is rethought and a critical look at "activism" is entirely absent from Dixon's celebratory piece. Dixon focuses his discussion around hope, a hope that he calls "critical"; unfortunately, the hope in Dixon's article is mostly self-congratulatory and contains almost no critical reflection.

The Scale of Capitalism and Resistance

In the face of the new form of globalization, some have argued that we must return to the nation state or to culture as the privileged site of struggle, others have maintained that the individual is necessarily the site of confrontation.