FT: Anti-globalisation alliance lies low

[Carrol Cox]

As I predicted right after 9/11, the anti-war (and now palestinian
solidarity) movment offered more promise than the anti-globalization
movement ever did -- mostly because it offers more room for local
activity (on the ground as a friend puts it) than the anti-g movement,
but also importantly because it does not evoke the bizarre illusion that
screwing up an international meeting in itself constitutes any sort of
victory at all against capitalism. Some of the themes of the anti-g
movement will need to be incorporated somehow into the anti-war movement
-- how is a matter to be worked out in practice (locally more than
nationally to begin with).

Incidentally, on May 21 a group organized by Veterans for Peace
(including one grad student at ISU) will be walking across the desert
from Jordan to Baghdad, carrying illegal medical supplies & medical
texts and journals to be donated to hospitals and other groups there. It
seems that there is a really desperate need in Iraq for medical texts
and journals newer than 1989 -- and they are listed as contraband under
the sanctions.

Carrol