 | A Tale of Two Coups: Venezuela and Argentina by Greg Palast, New Internationalist Magazine July 3rd, 2002 April's big business-led coup in Venezuela failed, where international finance's coup in Argentina in recent months has succeeded. Greg Palast gives us the inside track on two very different power-grabs. |
 | Globalizing Hope by Joshua Karliner, CorpWatch February 6th, 2002 The only way to really describe the World Social Forum that just ended in Brazil is a global political ''carnaval.'' |
 | World Economic Forum Protests Pose New Challenges for Anti-Globalization Movements by Kenny Bruno, CorpWatch January 29th, 2002 Will demonstrators show that anti-corporate sentiment is alive and well? We look at the issues raised by the World Economic Forum in New York and the World Social Forum in Brazil. |
| Where Do We Go From Here? by Joshua Karliner, CorpWatch October 11th, 2001 CorpWatch Director Joshua Karliner looks at the challenges facing the anti-corporate globalization movement since the WTC attack. |
 | Immigration and Globalization: The UN Conference Against Racism Takes on Migrant Issues by Catherine Tactaquin, Special to CorpWatch August 30th, 2001 The World Conference on Racism in Durban spotlights many insidious forms of racism, including anti-immigrant activity. |
| After Carlo Giuliani, Peaceful Protests Must Continue by Kenny Bruno, Special to CorpWatch July 25th, 2001 The highly publicized killing of Carlo Giuliani during the protests in Genoa on Friday, July 19th may mark a milestone for the anti-corporate globalization movement as significant as the Battle in Seattle. |
| G8: Are You Happy? by Susan George, Special to CorpWatch July 24th, 2001 The movement for a different kind of globalization is in danger. Either we expose what the police are actually up to and prevent the violence of the few, or we risk shattering the greatest political hope in the last several decades. |
 | Zapatistas: Bad For Business by Martin Espinoza, Special to CorpWatch March 22nd, 2001 Are the Zapatistas winning the war of ideas against neoliberalism and free trade? |
| The Promise of Porto Alegre by Ignacio Ramonet, Le Monde Diplomatique The new century is starting in Porto Alegre. All kinds of people, each in their own ways, have been contesting and critiquing neo-liberal globalisation, and many of them will be gathering in this southern Brazilian city on 25-30 January for the first World Social Forum. This time they won't just be protesting -- as they were in Seattle, Washington, Prague and elsewhere -- against the world-wide injustices, inequalities and disasters created by the excesses of capitalism (see the article by Bernard Cassen). |
| From Melbourne to Prague: the Struggle for a Deglobalized World by Walden Bello, Focus on the Global South September 6th, 2000 Walden Bello delivered this speech at a series of engagements on the occasion of demonstrations against the World Economic Forum (Davos) in Melbourne, Australia, 6-10 September 2000. |
| The Struggle for a Deglobalized World by Walden Bello, Focus on the Global South September 6th, 2000 In the mid-nineties, the WTO had been sold to the global public as the lynchpin of a multilateral system of economic governance that would provide the necessary rules to facilitate the growth of global trade and the spread of its beneficial effects. |
| Activists from the Developing World See D.C. Events as a Watershed in Global Solidarity by Julie Light, Special to CorpWatch April 17th, 2000 If you ask a Mexican farmer, Indian civil servant, Filipina garment worker, Bolivian miner or South African student what structural adjustment is, chances are they would be able to explain IMF and World Bank mandated belt tightening because their lives have been touched by it. |
| The World Bank Takes More Than it Gives by Julie Light, CorpWatch April 14th, 2000 Dr. Vineeta Gupta is a physician and human rights activist based in Punjab, India. She has focused her efforts on World Bank efforts to privatize healthcare in Punjab. According to Dr. Gupta, the result of World Bank policies has not been greater access to healthcare. |
| Where was the Color in Seattle? by Elizabeth (Betita) Martinez, Colorlines February 1st, 2000 In the vast acreage of published analysis about the splendid victory over the World Trade Organization last November 29-December 3, it is almost impossible to find anyone wondering why the 40-50,000 demonstrators were overwhelmingly Anglo. |
| The Historic Significance of Seattle by Vandana Shiva, Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology December 10th, 1999 The failure of the WTO Ministerial meeting in Seattle was a historic watershed, in more than one way. Firstly, it has demonstrated that globalisation is not an inevitable phenomena which must be accepted at all costs but a political project which can be responded to politically. |
| Engendering Change by Julie Light, Special to CorpWatch June 26th, 1999 For women working in Mexican assembly plants, known as maquiladoras, insisting on their legal rights takes what are colloquially referred to as cojones. It indicates that Mexico's low wage feminine labor force may not be as docile as foreign employers would like to believe. It also is a harbinger of an incipient movement inside Mexico's expanding export-processing sector. |
| Tijuana Police Defy Court Protection of Maquiladora Strike by David Bacon, Special to CorpWatch May 16th, 1999 TIJUANA -- For two weeks, Tijuana has teetered on the brink of official lawlessness, as city and state police continue to defy Baja California's legal system. Raul Ramirez, member of the Baja California Academy of Human Rights, warned last week that ''the state is in danger of violating the Constitution and the Federal Labor Law... as it succumbs to the temptation to use force.'' |
| MEXICO: Standing up for Health Rights on the Job Special to CorpWatch May 1st, 1999 First hand accounts of two workers who sued a San Diego-based medical manufacturer after a workplace accident. |
| MEXICO: University Professors Photos Draw the Wrath of Border Industrialists by Julie Light, Special to CorpWatch April 29th, 1999 It wasn't just the politically provocative photographs that got Fred Lonidier's exhibit at Tijuana's public university taken down. It was the fact that he had the audacity to leaflet maquiladora workers outside the factory gates and invite them to the gallery that got his show yanked. |
| MITSUBISHI: The Most Environmentally Destructive Corporate Force on Earth by Joshua Karliner, CorpWatch December 1st, 1997 The best known, most prestigious, and largest keiretsu, is the Mitsubishi Group of companies. Given the size and reach of its diverse activities, and due to the fact that it is more heavily focused in polluting industrial sectors than other keiretsu, the Mitsubishi Group may well be the single most environmentally destructive corporate force on Earth. |