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Resisting the globalisation of capital
Discussion, debate and rethinking of popular alternatives
Friday January 26 2001, Zurich, Volkshaus, Stauffacherstr. 60
International conference, Workshops and debates
13. 30: the globalisation of capital
14.45: workshops
17. 15: Colombia, Palestine
20. 30: meeting Is another world possible?
Simultaneous translation in four languages
The mythology surrounding "triumphal globalisation" or "globaloney" is
being eroded. The global village is nothing more than archipelago in
which only a very few islands are currently escaping the calamities
befalling the rest of the world.
It comes as no surprise that the World Economic Forum in Davos
(WEF) kicks off its agenda with an item addressing the backlash against
globalisation and the necessity for the economic "rulers" to begin a
dialogue with civil society. In doing so, the WEF sings the same old tune
of a better tomorrow; but it never comes.
The private expropriation of socially produced wealth by a powerful
minority has relegated half of humanity to conditions of extreme poverty
and laid waste to the natural riches of the planet. Working people
everywhere are pitted against one another in the fight for jobs and
there is little doubt that their living conditions are becoming ever more
precarious. In this process, global culture has been kidnapped by a
handful of multinationals that are capable of moulding opinions
everywhere.
Against this backdrop of a world subverted by the elite on parade in
Davos, millions of women and men are struggling against the hold of
capital in all its manifestations.
Against those who invoke the"invisible hand" of the market, "The Other
Davos" gathers support from the hands and minds of working women and
men who are building a world which will be the heritage of a future
generation.
In spite of the oppression and arrogance of the powerful, the contours
of another world are being drawn. A world in which working people, in
free association, will decide on the distribution of income and the forms
of work, a world which will allow them to regain a hold on the future of
their lives.
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