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Globalization/Anti-Globalization

The Same New World: Antiauthoritarian Politics After September 11th - By Cindy Milstein

Most of us will always remember where we were when we first heard the news, first saw the unreal images, on that morning that can only be called, quite inadequately, a tragedy. There is no erasing the memory of what happened, just as there is no bringing back the dead. September 11 will always be a day to be condemned.

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What's in a Name -By Cindy Milstein

The amorphous movement that has appeared on the scene of late—in North America, after Seattle, and around the world several years prior—exhibits an astonishing diversity of tactics, goals, and political beliefs. At the same time, this resurgence of radical politics is united in an equally varied critique of one phenomenon: globalization. Whether understood economically, politically, ideologically, or culturally; as a form of communication or set of new technologies; as an overlapping configuration of these or other factors, globalization provides the umbrella under which hundreds of often life-and-death matters can huddle as one connected whole.

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Reclaim the Cities: From Protest to Popular Power -By Cindy Milstein

"Direct action gets the goods," proclaimed the Industrial Workers of the World nearly a century ago. And in the short time since Seattle, this has certainly proven to be the case. Indeed, "the goods" reaped by the new direct action movement here in North America have included creating doubt as to the scope and nature of globalization, shedding light on the nearly unknown workings of international trade and finance bodies, and making anarchism and anticapitalism almost household words. As if that weren't enough, we find ourselves on the streets of twenty-first-century metropolises demonstrating our power to resist in a way that models the good society we envision: a truly democratic one.

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The Free Society Collective

Formed in 2002, the Free Society Collective is a small, radical Left tendency based in central Vermont. We seek the abolition of capitalism, the state, and all other social relations built on coercion, hierarchy, and oppression. To that end, we engage in a politics of resistance that simultaneously highlights a reconstructive vision. In critical solidarity with anti-authoritarian social movements around the globe, we work toward a free and ecological society premised on mutual aid, confederated direct democracy, and a liberatory culture.