The anti-globalization movement, or counter-globalisation movement, is critical of the globalization of corporate capitalism.

S. A. Hamed Hosseini ( an Australian sociologist and expert in global social movement studies ), argues that the term anti-globalization can be ideal-typically used only to refer to only one ideological vision he detects alongside three other visions ( the anti-globalist, the alter-globalist and the alter-globalization ).

He argues that the term " anti-globalization " is a term coined by the media, and that radical activists are actually more in favor of globalization, in the sense of " effacement of borders and the free movement of people, possessions and ideas " than are the IMF or WTO.

He also notes that activists use the terms " globalization movement " and " anti-globalization movement " interchangeably, indicating the confusion of the terminology.

Several influential critical works have inspired the anti-globalization movement.

The anti-globalization movement has been criticized by politicians, members of conservative think tanks, and many mainstream economists.

Critics assert that the empirical evidence does not support the views of the anti-globalization movement.

Members of the anti-globalization movement argue that positive data from countries which largely ignored neoliberal prescriptions, notably China, discredits the evidence that pro-globalists present.

One of the most common criticisms of the movement, which does not necessarily come from its opponents, is simply that the anti-globalization movement lacks coherent goals, and that the views of different protesters are often in opposition to each other.

One argument often made by the opponents of the anti-globalization movement ( especially by The Economist ), is that one of the major causes of poverty amongst third-world farmers are the trade barriers put up by rich nations and poor nations alike.

Many supporters of globalization think that policies different from those of today should be pursued, although not necessarily those advocated by the anti-globalization movement.

Alan Shipman, author of " The Globalization Myth " accuses the anti-globalization movement of " defusing the Western class war by shifting alienation and exploitation to developing-country sweatshops.

" He later goes on to claim that the anti-globalization movement has failed to attract widespread support from poor and working people from the Third World, and that its " strongest and most uncomprehending critics had always been the workers whose liberation from employment they were trying to secure.

These critics assert that people from the Third World see the anti-globalization movement as a threat to their jobs, wages, consuming options and livelihoods, and that a cessation or reversal of globalization would result in many people in poor countries being left in greater poverty.

See also: anti-globalization movement, Indymedia, Wikimedia, Second Superpower

ATTAC is not an anti-globalization movement, but it criticises the neoliberal ideology that it sees as dominating economic globalisation.

The anti-globalization movement is a worldwide activist movement that is critical of the globalization of capitalism.

As a result, between 1999 and 2001, IMC newswires tended to be focused on up-to-the-minute coverage of protests, from local demonstrations to summits where anti-globalization movement protests were occurring, with protest coverage continuing into 2007.

It also continues to be used more generally to refer to any efforts at coalition-building between environmenalists and labor, as with the famous " teamsters and turtles " politics of the WTO Meeting of 1999 and the continuing anti-globalization movement.

This is a common accusation made by the anti-globalization movement which argues that governments have been elected on a mandate to oppose global free trade and instead pursued it.

This and the establishment of a global anti-globalization movement in the late 1990s can be seen as follow-ups to the ecological movement.

Critics argue that there are vast differences between the kind of ethics that are applied in, say, the modern labour movement or the anti-globalization movement, and those that would be applied by any believer in the literal interpretation of the Qur ' an.

Instead, the city saw became the site of the first great street confrontation between the anti-globalization movement and the World Trade Organization on November 30, 1999.

Instead, the city became the site of the first great street confrontation between the anti-globalization movement and the World Trade Organization on November 30, 1999.

Supporters of the democratic globalization movement draw a distinction between their movement and the one most popularly known as the ' anti-globalization ' movement, claiming that their movement avoids ideological agenda about economics and social matters.

In 2003, Roger Griffin argued that National-Anarchism is a segment of the groupuscular right which has evolved towards a " mazeway resynthesis " between " classic fascism, Third Positionism, neo-anarchism and new types of anti-systemic politics born of the anti-globalization movement.

Another well-known example of early Internet activism took place in 1998, when the Mexican rebel group EZLN used decentralized communications, such as cell phones, to network with developed world activists and help create the anti-globalization group Peoples Global Action ( PGA ) to protest the World Trade Organisation ( WTO ) in Geneva .< ref >

" Artivism developed in recent years while the antiwar and anti-globalization protests emerged and proliferated.

Health advocates often claim that market systems are very difficult to reconcile with food, nutrition, agriculture or medicine's need to work well with living systems — a key complaint of the anti-globalization movement.

He identifies some of its main features as the identification of Zionism and racism ; the use of material related to Holocaust denial e. g. doubts about the number of victims and allegations that there is a " Holocaust industry "; a borrowed discourse from third worldism, anti-imperialism, anti-colonialism, anti-Americanism, and anti-globalization ; and the dissemination of what he calls the " myth " of the " intrinsically good Palestinian — the innocent victim par excellence.

Specifically, the op-ed referred to GlobalResearch. ca as " anti-U. S. and anti-globalization " and criticized Chussodovsky's thesis and views — namely: that the U. S. had knowledge of the 911 attacks before they happened ; that Washington had weapons that could influence climate change ; and lastly, that the large banking institutions are the cause of the collapse of smaller economies — as " wild-eyed conspiracy theories ".

One of the first international anti-globalization protests was organized in dozens of cities around the world on June 18, 1999, with those in London and Eugene, Oregon most often noted.

The period has had diverse political ramifications: its " anti-ideological ideas " appear to have been positively associated with the feminist movement, racial equality movements, gay rights movements, most forms of late 20th century anarchism and even the peace movement as well as various hybrids of these in the current anti-globalization movement.

In various forms it is promoted by many political movements, most notably feminism, gay rights, green politics and the anti-globalization movement.

The summits that garnered most general public and media attention were the Quebec City and Mar del Plata events, both of which provoked very large anti-globalization and anti – Free Trade Area of the Americas protests and attendant police response.

For example, George Monbiot, normally associated with the anti-globalization movement ( who prefers the term Global Justice Movement ) in his work Age of Consent has proposed similar democratic reforms of most major global institutions, suggesting direct democratic elections of such bodies, and suggests a form of " world government.

Singh, a well-known anti-globalization and social justice activist, was jailed for a number of charges, the most serious of which was a weapons charge for a catapult that launched teddy bears.

Jaggi Singh ( born in 1971 in Toronto, Canada ) is one of Canada's most high-profile anti-globalization and social justice activists.

Anti-capitalism and anti-globalization movements rose to prominence particularly through events such as the opposition to the WTO meeting of 1999 in Seattle.

The quaker influence was particularly pronounced in the Anti-nuclear movement of the 1980s and in the North American anti-globalization movement, both of which included many thousands of Anarchists and self-consciously adopted secular, consensus-based aspects of Quaker decision making.

* GATT update and creation of the World Trade Organization and other global economic institutions, but opposition by anti-globalization activists showed up in nearly every GATT summit, like the demonstrations in Seattle in December 1999.

* The anti-globalization protests at the World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference of 1999 in Seattle, Washington began on 30 November 1999.

It has also been suggested that the beginnings of the World Social Forum originated in the Battle for Seattle November 1999, where anti-globalization activists protested a meeting of the World Trade Organization's latest trade negotiations.

She is anti-globalization and critical of NATO, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Trade Organisation.

World Company plays a significant role in the military-industrial complex and is, of course, opposed by anti-globalization movements.

Topics covered include Jocelyn Elders, the Waco Siege, the Oklahoma City bombing, the Crime Bill of 1996, the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, the 1993 bombing of Iraq, Operation Gothic Serpent, the Rwandan Genocide, the War in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the North American Free Trade Agreement, the 1998 bombing of Afghanistan and Sudan, the Impeachment of Bill Clinton, Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed, Stand for Children, Jesse Jackson, the Million Man March, Mumia Abu-Jamal, John Sweeney, the Service Employees International Union, the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees, the Worker Rights Consortium, the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign, the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Telecommunications Act of 1996, Spare Change News, the North American Street Newspaper Association, the National Coalition for the Homeless, anti-globalization, and WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999 protest activity.

Strauss writes that, as a result of far-right involvement, a " bizarre ideological turf war has broken out ," whereby anti-globalization activists are fighting a " two-front battle ," one against the World Trade Organization, International Monetary Fund ( IMF ), and World Bank, the other against the extremists who turn up at their rallies.

The World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland ( January, 2003 ) triggered anti-globalization protests across Switzerland.