Contents -- Part One: The State of Struggle Around the World -- 1 Political Diversity, Common Purpose: Social Movements in India, by Vinod Raina -- 2 Resistance to Globalization in Rural China, by Lau Kin Chi -- 3 NGOs and Social Movements in Southeast Asia, by Francis Loh -- 4 Central Asia and the Southern Caucasus: US rearguard Bases? by Bernard Dreano -- 5 Resistance to Neoliberalism in Australia and Oceania, by Verity Burgmann and Andrew Ure -- 6 Social Movements in the Arab World, by Azza Abd el- Mohsen Khalil -- 7 Struggling and Surviving in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, by François L'Écuyer -- 8 Social Movements: Experiences from East Africa, by Opiyo Makoude -- 9 South Africa's New Social Movements, by David Coetzee -- 10 Neoliberalism and Social Confl ict: The Popular Movements in Latin America, by Clara Algranati, José Seoane and Emilio Taddei -- 11 Proletarian Resistance and Capitalist restructuring in the United States, by Pierre Beaudet -- 12 Europe: The Challenge for Social Movements, by Bernard Dreano -- Part Two: The Dynamic of Convergence for Another World -- 13 The World Social Forum: Towards a Counter- Hegemonic Globalization, by Boaventura de Sousa Santos -- 14 The World Social Forum: A Democratic Alternative, by Francine Mestrum -- 15 The African Social Forum: Between Radicals and Reformers, by Mondli Hlatshwayo -- 16 Convergences and the Anti- war Movement: Experiences and Lessons, by Paola Manduca -- 17 The Trade Union Movement and the Social Movement: Towards a New Dialogue? by Pierre Beaudet -- 18 The New Agrarian Issue: Three Billion Peasants Under Threat, by Samir Amin -- Part Three: The Strategic Challenge -- 19 The Alternative Movement and its Media Strategies, by Victor Sampedro -- 20 The European Union and the 'Internal Threat' of the Alternative World Movement, by Ben Hayes and Tony Bunyan.

21 Police Measures Against the New Global Protest, by Donatella della Porta and Herbert Reiter -- 22 New Powers, New Counter- powers, by Raoul-Marc Jennar -- 23 International Law, a Decisive Issue for the Alternative World Movement, by Monique Chemillier-Gendreau -- Contributors -- Index.