ABSTRACT
The tension between national and global responses to globalization remains one of the main questions dividing the movement against neoliberalism in different parts of the world today. This chapter discusses the relationship between nationalism and globalism in reference to the notions of ‘the people’ and the multitude and why the national has been surpassed as main arena of anti-systemic struggle by the global character of social movements themselves. Moreover, it highlights the need to create a counter-empire of the multitude as a response to global corporate and military power, rather than retreat to nationalism.
