Global Days of Action

"Against capitalist exploitation of the environment, labour and human rights"

Documents and Articles

Read what Canadian Intelligence Agencies make of the anti-globalisation movement!

Collateral damage to civil liberties due to government and corporate crackdown on dissent

EU to attack anti-capitalist and anti-globalisation protesters

Europol report of (March 2002 ) indentifies black bloc and ecological activists as 'terrorist' or 'pre-terrorist'!

World Forum Movement - Abandon or Contaminate : Article about the World Social Forum/European Social Forum and relationship with the anti-capitalist movement.

Pink Silver, Pink or Silver - Dissertation about the anti-G8 protests in Genoa, in particular concentrating on the Pink/Pink Silver bloc (large).

Recovering the Power of the Global Grass Roots in the Antiwar Movement by Cindy Milstein

Current Struggles

May 1st 2003 - Mayday 2003 at http://www.ourmayday.org.uk - demonstrating against the root causes of war - arms companies, oil corporations and the state apparatus of death - the Ministry of Offence.

June 1st-3rd 2003 - STOP THE G8 in EVIAN, FRANCE

Past Days of Action!

June 2002: Stop the G8 in Kananaskis (Canada). After the beating the G8 got in Genoa, make sure they don't get off lightly this time.

May 1st 2002: Mayday in London at http://diy.spc.org/ourmayday/festival.html or http://www.ourmayday.org.uk and around the world.

July 20th-22nd 2001: Stop the G8 in Genoa! ZeroZero report on the largest, most disruptive and far reaching battle yet for the anti-capitalist movement yet.

June 25th+ 2001: The World Bank cancels its conference, frightened of disruption by protestors! The account here of the actions taken despite the cancellation foretell some of the problems that will come to haunt the anti-capitalist movement for some time.

An interesting attempt to stop London in its tracks.

Protesters managed to protest in Davos despite police state security...
January 25-30 2001: World Economic Forum's reputation hurt more by 'police state' tactics of the Swiss police than the presence of demonstrators!

January 20th 2001:Washington DC - Protest Against the Dictatorship of the Corporate Class

Breakaway segment of the march tries to enter the conference...
December 6/7 2000: Day of Action for Social Justice and against neoliberalism in Nice!

November 16th: See http://www.n16.org

November 24th: Climate Conference in the Hague (Netherlands) was disrupted and stopped after US pressure made treaty unacceptable
American chief negotiator was pied for his resistance against environmental initiatives

October 20th - Korean People's Action against Investment Treaties and the WTO(KoPA)

September 26th 2000 - IMF/WB meetings shut down in Prague!IMF and World Bank meetings are shut down!

September 11th 2000 - WEF meetings disrupted in Melbourne, Australia

Mayday 2000 - Guerilla gardening!Parliament Square is reclaimed and turned into a temporary garden!

Solidarity with the protestors in Seattle - picture from the London event...November 30th 1999 - "Shut down the WTO"

June 18th 1999 - Carnival Against CapitalismPolice ran over several protestors in their vans...

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