STWR - Share The World's Resources

Mass protests and demonstrations, the trademark and personification of the global justice movement, must take place outside the systems of power and hope to make themselves ‘heard’; world opinion, on the other hand, is an unmitigated force of consensual mass agreement that holds no party allegiances or crystallised form. 

An interview with Naomi Klein by Amy Goodman from Democracy Now! under the theme 'Lost Worlds' - in reference to an aborted debate between Naomi Klein and Jeffrey Sachs.

The United States is preparing a war designed to unleash an unparalleled concentration of force to impose regime change on Iraq, writes Anthony Barnett in this formative article from 2003.

Why, you might wonder, does Germany feel the need to barricade the G8 meeting, protecting it from the thousands of expected protestors? The answer lies in the deep unpopularity of G8 summits, writes Mohammed Mesbahi, since they are considered undemocratic by the majority world and protestors from the richest countries.

A new stage in the evolution of the global justice movement was reached with the inauguration of the World Social Forum (WSF) in Porto Alegre, Brazil, in January 2001.

The United Nations is failing in its duty to control the abuses of transnational economic power, argues Alejandro Teitelbaum. The recent report by John Ruggie, special representative of the UN Secretary-General on business and human rights, represents a setback in attempts to establish international control over the activities of transnational corporations.

The global economy needs to be reformed to ensure that basic human needs are secured around the world, and the United Nations is currently the only international body through which such fundamental change can be facilitated.