ABSTRACT
The aim of this chapter is to identify and analyze the dynamics of the forces of resistance generated over the last three decades of capitalist development. The working of these forces of resistance has led to a heated debate as regards the agency of the social movements that have mobilized the forces of resistance and their social base in the indigenous and non-indigenous communities most directly impacted by the operations of extractive capital – foreign direct investments in the large-scale acquisition of land and the extraction of natural resources for sale on the world market. The chapter reviews these debates to argue that what we have is the transformation of class struggle over land and labour into a territorial struggle for improved access to the global commons of land, water and surface means of subsistence, and to reclaim the territorial and basic human rights of these communities and their members.
