The forgotten class

Middle class-driven anti-corruption campaign does not acknowledge the poor

Japan at cross roads

If there is one country that has done quite well for itself in managing the natural environment throughout its history, it is Japan. But the run …

Celebrating WSF 2004

When 80,000 people talk it makes noise. So it wasn't unusual for the fourth World Social Forum (WSF) in Mumbai to be snidely called a huge '…

The US' mixed record in green causes

A globalising world requires multilateralism to attain shared goals -- particularly the preservation of ecological security. While this can …

Another world is possible

Optimism is a great friend but a bad guide. The Asian Social Forum meeting in Hyderabad, India, deliberately avoided this truism while …

A concession called SEZ, all for foreign exchange

Special Economic Zones barter away democracy

SEZ, how special?

Despite having burned its fingers with export processing zones, which mainly involved a number of substantial fiscal benefits, the government has …

Nations discuss ban on toxic exports

Ban Amendment seeks to curb export of hazardous waste by rich countries to the poor, but has not been brought into force since 1994

No screen presence

Globalisers retreating into little shells

The real maths of the world

How to get away with murder

Ordering a new world

Another dismissal is possible

Don't make the world dysfunctional

The climate and trade tango

The end of art

...as 'they' know it. Documenta 11 diffuses the boundary between politics and aesthetics

Identity crisis

Rightwing parties provide an illusion of certainty: the one thing that many Europeans reeling under new pressures are hungrily groping for

Rise of third sector

NGOs’ relationship with the government has been redefined over the years with changing social and political scenario

Blowing in the wind

Civil society cannot distance itself from the phenomenon of right-wing parties finding their way to the top in Europe

Fragile sustenance

LIFE ON THE EDGE: SUSTAINING AGRICULTURE AND COMMUNITY RESOURCES IN FRAGILE ENVIRONMENTS·N S Jodha· Oxford University Press· …

Globalisation and Development Studies

A much-needed reader

Gandhi's Challenge to Modern Science

Do Globalise

Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate Author: Naomi Klein Editor: Debra Ann Levy Leftword Books October 2002