ABSTRACT
In the twenty-first century, the elite classes are still grabbing at even more control of the world's natural resources, along with human life and labour, to benefit only themselves. In Global Reach, Richard Barnet and Ronald Muller describe the top managers of multinational corporations as “world managers” because they are “the first men in history to make a credible attempt at managing the world as an integrated unit”. On the other hand, these “world managers” cannot have a grip on everything. Québec City is one of a series of protests against the transnational corporations and their agenda for the world. Hundreds of people protested at the World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle, Washington, November/December 1999. A world of systems designed to preserve injustice and inequality is held in place by several interrelated expressions of “power-over:” political power, economic power, physical force, and ideological power.
