ABSTRACT
This chapter shows how groups engaged with the intercontinental struggle against global transformations have cultivated a new kind of economic, political and cultural politics of resistance. It assesses examples of new forms of local, national and global civic participation developing the themes of equality and inclusivity. The situation in Burma represents a horribly predictable paradox of economic globalization and the seduction of the neoliberal argument which runs as follows: More investment, more liberalism, more trade, and more democracy. One way of resisting these 'national nightmares' has been through strategically rethinking the site and nature of democracy through using and cultivating a radicalization of the existing political institutions of liberal democracy. The radical democracy thesis is important but refrains from adequately responding to the new challenges of monopoly capitalism, thus ending up as apologists for the global expansion of capitalism 'out there'.
