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Roundtable on g8 Resistance: Perspectives for the Next Phase of Global Anti-Capitalist Uprisings (Interventions # 1, first appeared in Issue 6 of Upping the Anti: a Journal of Theory and Action)
“Chef, es sind zu viele” (Block G8, Mai 2008)
Dazwischen gehen – Texte zur Offenen Arbeitskonferenz der Interventionistischen Linken (ak-Redaktion April 2008)
Gewaltbereite Politik und der G8-Gipfel (Komitee für Grundrechte und Demokratie, Dezember 2007)
Feindbild Demonstrant (Republikanischer Anwältinnen- und Anwälteverein | Legal Team, Dezember 2007)
Move into the light? Postscript to a turbulent 2007 (Turbulence, Dezember 2007)
resistance inside – Einblicke in das Innenleben einer Mobilisierung 2.0 (R.O.S.A., November 2007)
Dokumentation zu Migration und G8 (G8-Büro im Hessischen Flüchtlingsrat, Oktober 2007)
Join the winning side – Nachbetrachtung des Antifa-KOK Düsseldorf (Juni 2007)
Turbulence: What would it mean to win? (Juni 2007)
Antikapitalismus für alle! (Mai 2007)
Guide to Resistance (Spontane Redaktionsgruppe, Mai 2007)
Guide to Protest (Hannover Kreis, Mai 2007)
Fußnote #4 (SOBI Rostock, Mai 2007)
Was ist G8? Eine kritische Betrachtung (SOBI Rostock, Mai 2007)
Make G8 History! (AG Globale Soziale Rechte, April 2007)
Stimmen von Anarchistinnen & Anarchisten zu den G8 (April 2007)
solidarität (Mai 2007)
alaska Sondernummer (März 2007)
protest. widerstand. perspektive. (April 2007)
PAULAs Manifest (März 2007)
“G8: Die Deutung der Welt. Kritik. Protest. Widerstand” (arranca! Nr. 36, April 2007)
“Göttinger Gipfelzeitung” zum G8-Gipfel im Juni 2007 in Heiligendamm (April 2007)
“Rostocker Stadtgespräche” Nr. 46/47 (April 2007)
“11. Ausgabe des Antiberliner” zum G8 Gipfel sowie dem Protest dagegen (April 2007)
“Autonomes G8-Info” (Hamburg, April/ Mai 2007)
“Junirevolte” – Zeitung gegen den G8-Gipfel (solid, März 2007)
Informationen und Positionen gegen den G8-Gipfel 2007 (Kieler Netzwerk gegen den G8-Gipfel, März 2007)
“Make capitalism history!” Positionen und Informationen zum G8-Gipfel in Heiligendamm (Avanti, März 2007)
“Widerstand ist fruchtbar. Analysen und Perspektiven für eine nicht-kapitalistische Landwirtschaft” (Aktionsnetzwerk globale Landwirtschaft, März 2007)
“Globalisierung und Krieg” (Informationsstelle Militarisierung/ attac, Anfang 2007)
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Davos 08: The ghost of 2005
The PM's continued attempts to make poverty history are admirable. But he badly needs others to help with the heavy lifting. Larry Elliott
Gordon Brown's call in Davos today for a renewed push to achieve the UN's millennium development goals was both timely and necessary.
Given his current domestic difficulties, it would be the easiest thing in the world for the prime minister to slacken off on his anti-poverty agenda. But he said the scale of the emergency meant action now.
In truth, there are already signs that the international community has collectively taken its foot off the gas. That's partly the result of the strong growth in many developing countries over the past three years - largely but not exclusively attributable to high commodity prices - giving the impression that the problem of development is all but sorted.
But it is also partly the result of a gloomier outlook for the developed world, which has meant development currently has a lower priority than dealing with the financial crisis and the threat of recession.
Finally, it remains the fact, as it always did, that some G8 countries pay lip service to the idea of providing extra resources to tackle poverty.
Brown would dearly love to rekindle the spirit of the Make Poverty History campaign - the coalition of aid agencies, faith groups and trade unions that put pressure on the G8 in the run up to the Gleneagles summit in 2005.
But aid agencies have told the prime minister that that will prove mightily difficult. It was relatively easy in a country such as Britain to mobilise pressure around a platform of aid, debt relief and trade; it will prove nigh-on impossible to mobilise the same sort of energy to ensure that G8 countries live up to their funding promises.
Brown wants to see three things happen in 2008. Firstly, he wants to get the private sector involved in the development process, and to that end he has organised a conference with business in London in the spring that will include some of the world's biggest multinationals.
Secondly, he wants to ensure that Africa stays high on the agenda during both the Japanese and Italian presidencies of the G8 this year and next, so that there is no backsliding on aid commitments.
And finally, he wants there to be compacts between poor countries, rich-country donors and the private sector to deliver specific UN development goals - be it universal primary school education or improvements in infant mortality.
Will Brown succeed? Bono said in Davos yesterday that unless civil society could keep its foot on the windpipe of the G8, the chances are that the campaign to meet the millennium goals would fail.
Brown deserves to succeed, but he can't do all the heavy lifting; others must do their bit.
[http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk]
Source: http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk