From Chiapas to Seattle and from Seattle to Porto Alegre, it seems the WTO, IMF and the World Bank can’t meet without mass demonstrations and counter-summits. But what is the ‘anti-globalisation’ movement? Is it a rear-guard action by the old left or a new lease of political life?
Naiam Bouteldja is a Muslim activist, a member of the steering committee of Globalise Resistance (an anti-capitalist organisation) and of the Muslim network, ADL.