Melenchon's 'France Unbowed' movement has a similar
anti-globalisation, pro-worker protection message to Le Pen's, but is sharply opposed to her position that immigration and radical Islam are at the root of France's problems.
Despite a few clashes between the police, anarchists and
anti-globalisation supporters, the protest was mostly peaceful and activists from an eclectic mix of labour unions, leftist political parties, environmentalist and women's rights groups participated in the march.
Around 20,000 protesters have chanted
anti-globalisation slogans and marched through downtown Seoul streets in a rally against this week's Group of 20 summit to be held in the Korean capital.
1] While much has been made of the differences between the
anti-globalisation movement and the earlier generation of social movements, evaluations of its success continue to rest on conventional criteria.
Previous summits and conferences have been targeted by anarchists, anti-war campaigners,
anti-globalisation protesters and environmentalists.
NGOs like civil liberties watchdog Statewatch and
anti-globalisation campaigners like ATTAC have criticised the police criteria of possible troublemakers', saying laws to prevent people from going to protests in other countries if their names have been recorded as mere suspects' in police databases violates EU fundamental on freedom of movement and protest.
Friedman derides
anti-globalisation protests, from Seattle's WTO meeting in 1999 to the Genoa G8 summit (and implicitly, Melbourne's S11 and G20) principally for lacking coherence.
Brian Morgan of Uwic's Cardiff School of Management argues here that the debacle should not make us
anti-globalisationA man said to be a French
anti-globalisation activist has been denied entry to the US by customs officials upon arrival at John F.
Starling, born in Epsom, Surrey, said his work was all about
anti-globalisationThe clash of globalisations; neo-liberalism, the third way, and
anti-globalisation.
Une definition en extension des organisations plus ou moins institutionnalisees qui participent aux evenements <<
anti-globalisation >> (1) n'est pas possible, car elle aboutit a un << inventaire a la Prevert >> (Wieviorka 2003) rapidement caduc et denue de sens.
