Anti-globalization movement
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The anti-globalization movement, or counter-globalization movement, is a social movement critical of economic globalization. The movement is also commonly referred to as the global justice movement, alter-globalization movement, anti-globalist movement, anti-corporate globalization movement, or movement against neoliberal globalization.
Participants base their criticisms on a number of related ideas. What is shared is that participants oppose large, multinational corporations having unregulated political power, exercised through trade agreements and deregulated financial markets. Specifically, corporations are accused of seeking to maximize profit at the expense of work safety conditions and standards, labour hiring and compensation standards, environmental conservation principles, and the integrity of national legislative authority, independence and sovereignty. Some commentators have characterized changes in the global economy as "turbo-capitalism" (Edward Luttwak), "market fundamentalism" (George Soros), "casino capitalism" (Susan Strange), and as "McWorld" (Benjamin Barber).
Many anti-globalization activists do not oppose globalization in general and call for forms of global integration that better provide democratic representation, advancement of human rights, fair trade and sustainable development and therefore feel the term "anti-globalization" is misleading.
See also
- Alter-globalization
- Anti-capitalist movements
- Anti-consumerism
- Anti-corporate activism
- Anti-globalization Filmography
- Argentine economic crisis (1999–2002)
- Culture jamming
- Criticism of capitalism
- David Graeber
- Direct democracy
- Domestic sourcing
- Fair trade
- General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
- George Noory
- Globalism
- Global citizens movement
- Globalization and Health
- Green economy
- Internationalism (politics)
- Le Monde diplomatique
- Manufacturing
- Nationalism
- New antisemitism#Anti-globalization movement
- New World Order (conspiracy theory)
- New world order (politics)
- North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
- Offshoring
- Protectionism
- Representative democracy
- Right-wing politics
- Right-wing populism
- Stop the City
- The Yes Men
- World Bank
- World Trade Organization
Nongovernmental organizations
- Attac
- ¡Democracia Real YA!
- Food Not Bombs
- Global Justice Movement
- Green Mountain Anarchist Collective
- Occupy Wall Street