Global Revolt: A Guide to the Global Revolt against Globalization

Direct Action gives a short history of the worldwide anti-globalization movement and provides social activists with all they need to know about the key concepts and manifestos in this richly diverse mobilization of the people. It provides a veritable user's guide to the key debates going on in the movement and explains the array of tactics and actions people are using around the world to put pressure on the powerful in order to defeat free market capitalism and globalization. It emphasizes the political alternatives available and stresses the positive contribution activists can make.

Amory Starr is an activist, sociologist, and documentary filmmaker. Her first book, Naming the Enemy: Anti-Corporate Movements Confront Globalization (Zed Books, 2000), was the first systematic documentation of the emergence of the alterglobalization movement, written before Seattle. Her second book, Global Revolt, also by Zed Books, is a beginners guidebook to the movement.