ABSTRACT

The alternative or alter-globalisation movement (AGM) came to prominence through its capacity to mount large-scale protests and interventions during summits of international governance and finance organisations (World Trade Organisation/International Monetary Fund/World Bank/ G8) during the late 1990s and early 2000s. This capacity was one outcome of networking processes that were underway for a considerable time before the AGM came to public prominence in events during 1999, such as the June 18th Carnival Against Capitalism in London or the massive protests and shutdown of the Seattle meetings of the WTO in late November and early December of the same year. These protests were amongst the first to explicitly articulate a link between Northern movements and the backlash against neoliberal globalisation that had found previous expression in the resistance to structural adjustment policies and free-trade agreements by movements in the Global South during the late 1980s and early 1990s.