The governments and central institutions of the European Union have launched a concerted offensive against our social and public services, jobs, and pensions. This is dictated by globalising capital-- the giant industrial financial and trading corporations. They demand that public transport, health, social welfare, pension and education systems be privatized or subordinated to the “laws of the market". Read more...

The second European Social Forum in Paris next month meets at a crucial time for the anti-capitalist movement. Read more...

About 250 activists - from Russia to Portugal, and from Ireland to Greece - attended the preparatory assembly for the European Social Forum at the end of last month. It is clear from the reports at the meeting that the European Social Forum will be big and diverse, if nothing else. Thanks to the tireless work of the activist translators of Babel in the conference room, and the goodwill of bilingual go-betweens in the corridors we were able to meet activists from all over Europe. Read more...

Our movement now plays a central role in the opposition against capitalist globalisation and imperialist war. We proved on February 15 that the forces gathered here can mobilise many millions of people on the streets. The challenges are getting bigger. The rulers of this world are hell-bent on carrying through their war against the workers, peasants and oppressed peoples of the worlds. Read more...

The gathering of tens of thousands of people in Florence last November and in Paris from 12 - 15 November this year marks a big step forward for the struggles against corporate globalisation and imperialist war. This year to the war-mongering of Bush has been added an all out offensive launched by the governments of the EU against our social gains and civil rights. The increasing involvement of working class militants from the trade unions, the Communist parties and even oppositional wings of the socialist parties should be welcomed. So too should leaders of these parties when they are actually fighting neoliberalism and war. Those participating in governments that are carrying out these policies or waging these wars should not be welcomed. Read more...

On 25.-26. April, the preparatory meeting of the European Social Forum (ESF) met in Berlin. About 250 delegates from all over the continent and some observers from African and Asian initiatives discussed three major items:

• the programme of the coming ESF, which will take place in Paris in November this year.
• the anti-war work of the ESF
• the character and future orientation of the ESF Read more...

As distinct political currents begin to emerge in the anticapitalist movement, Richard Brenner, Jeremy Dewar and Sean Murray review the programmatic statements of three key figures, George Monbiot's The Age of Consent, Michael Albert's Parecon and Alex Callinicos' Anti-capitalist Manifesto. Read more...

In Florence on 8 November at a packed European Social Forum meeting in a huge hall in the Fortezza da Basso more than 5,000 people listened to speakers on the theme of “parties and the movement". This was certainly the most interesting of the large scale “conferences” of the forum. Read more...

Sometimes facts do speak for themselves. The biggest ever demonstration in Florence, the largest anti-war protest to date. At least half a million from all over Italy - possibly many more – poured out of trains and coaches into the city centre on Saturday afternoon to join the 35,000 who had been locked in the embrace of the Fortezza de Basso for three days at the European Social Forum – itself a unique political dialogue of the European anti-capitalist and anti-globalisation left. Read more...

The socialist youth movement, Revolution, agreed this declaration at a meeting in London in October. It asking that the conference of social movements in Florence discuss and adopt it. We appeal to all those people who agree with it to sign it. Read more...

Between 250,000 and 500,000 people took to the streets of Barcelona on Saturday 16 March to reject the Europe of the bosses, whose agents were meeting in the last day of the European Union summit. Read more...

Colourful banners, giant puppets, drummers, samba bands, dancers and songs on the streets of Brazil. No, not Carnival in Rio but the third World Social Forum (WSF) in Porto Alegre last month. Read more...

Ministers fail to agree a new trade agreement at Doha, Qatar. Read more...

China's accession to WTO on November 11 is a symbolic recognition that capitalism holds sway in the country and the beginning of a new stage in the consolidation of business power. Read more...

WTO summit plans next round of war against world's poor Read more...

The League was involved in the very earliest Anti capitalist protests, including the J18 demonstration in London in 1999. Read more...

If there are forces prepared to demonstrate on the streets and confront the exploiters and their state forces then the reformist wing of the anti-globalisation movement is meeting in warmer and safer Read more...

Thousands of the arrogantly self-styled “movers and shakers” of the world economy are gathering in the Swiss mountain resort of Davos. Read more...

A review of Globalize this! The Battle against the World Trade Organisation Read more...

Last November, a series of demonstrations took place in Seattle, USA, against the World Trade Organisation (WTO). The Seattle protest not only disrupted the WTO meeting: it shook global capitalism to its foundations. Read more...

What is the role of the IMF in the world imperialist system? Read more...

With Mexico’s economy in deep crisis, in September President Ernesto Zedillo invited the EZLN to particiapte in National discussions on political reform. They immediately accepted. This came in the wake of an unofficial referendum in Chiapas which revealed that a majority of the population wanted the Zapatistas to abandon “the armed struggle” and form a political party. Despite the EZLN’s statement that they would never give up their weapons, the EZLN is on the brink of entry into ‘normal’ Mexican bourgeois politics? Keith Harvey looks at the Zapatistas’ recent evolution and argues that there has always been a reformist logic behind the revolutionary rhetoric. Read more...