Angry and effective
The threat of renewed demonstrations against global capitalism hangs over next week’s annual meetings of the IMF and World Bank. This new kind of protest is more than a mere nuisance: it is getting its way
N30, A16, S11, S26. If you are part of the anti-capitalist resistance, these terms will need no explaining. Each denotes a day of protest against “corporate-led globalisation”. First came the World Trade Organisation's ill-fated ministerial meeting in Seattle in November 1999; then the spring meetings of the World Bank and the IMF in April this year; next, the World Economic Forum's gathering in Melbourne on September 11th; and, coming to Prague next week, the main annual meetings of the Bank and the Fund. Each term also connects you to a website where the plans for the demos, and other useful information for would-be protesters, are posted.
This article appeared in the Briefing section of the print edition under the headline “Angry and effective”
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