Globalise Resistance - Definition and Overview

Globalise Resistance (GR) is a British anti-capitalist alliance that seeks to unite different people in opposition to neo-liberal capitalism and corporate power.

It includes a broad range of groups from Christian NGOs campaigning for debt relief to environmentalists opposing GM food, from trade unionists fighting privatisation in their workplaces to students demanding that education be free to all.

Globalise Resistance mobilised for the 2001 protests in Genoa that were a key point in the development of the Anti-Capitialist (or Anti-Globalization) movement. It has also been involved in three European Social Forums and demonstrations against the vist of the president of the United States George W. Bush on 21st November 2003.

Though Globalise Resistance is formally bi-partisan, with a steering committee that has a majority of independents, it has been the subject of a variety of accusations from the anti-capitalist movement. Many feel it is little more than a front group for the Socialist Workers Party.

Steering group

Of the 19 members of GR's steering group, 7 are from the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) and 12 are independent [1] (http://www.resist.org.uk/about/steering.php).

• Steve Bell - Independent
• Alex Callinicos - SWP
• Noel Douglas - SWP
• Charlie Gardner - Independent
• Nikki Hardwick - Independent
• Anna Hoyles - Independent
• Hugh Jones - Independent
• Sue Jones - SWP
• Ana Lekaj - Independent
• Saija Lukkarionen - Independent
• Jonathan Neale - SWP
• Chris Nineham - SWP
• Alison Philcock - SWP
• Stephane Popovic - Independent
• Lise Rossi - Independent
• Zuky Serper - Independent
• Simon Underwood - Independent
• Guy Taylor - SWP
• Hilary Westlake - Independent

External links

• Globalise Resistance web site (http://www.resist.org.uk/)
• SchNEWS, "Monopolise Resistance – how Globalise Resistance would hijack revolt" (http://www.schnews.org.uk/sotw/monopolise-resistance.htm), September 2001, (an article on the controversy surrounding GR's links with the Socialist Worker Party)
• SchNEWS, "Monopolise Resistance - The SWP try to hijack anti-war protests" (http://www.schnews.org.uk/sotw/monopolise-resistance.htm/)