ABSTRACT
Reclaim The Streets (RTS) was a network movement that emerged in the early1990s in Britain, before quickly spreading across the world. It brought together ecological, anticapitalist and social justice themes through carnivalesque parties that blocked roads, transformed public spaces and challenged state and capitalist institutions. Its culmination was a ‘Carnival Against Capitalism’ in the City of London on 18 June 1999, the second of many ‘Global Days of Action’ catalysed by the alternative globalisation movement and chosen to coincide with the meetings of the G8 on the same day in Cologne, Germany.
