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Recovering Internationalism, Creating the New Global Solidarity RECOVERING INTERNATIONALISM, CREATING THE NEW GLOBAL SOLIDARITY Labour, Social Movements and Emancipation in the 21st Century By Peter Waterman Lima/The Hague, January-March 2008 Peter Waterman (London 1936) is a veteran activist-researcher in and on labour, social movements, the old and new internationalisms. Amongst his recent previous books have been Globalisation, Social Movements and the New Internationalisms (London/New York, 1998/2001) and Los nuevos tejidos nerviosos del internacionalismo y la solidaridad (Lima, 2006). He is a co-editor, with Jai Sen, New Delhi, and others, of a series of compilations on the World Social Forum. The present collection consists of papers written since his New Internationalisms. They fall under the heads of Labouring People and Unions, Women and Feminism, Communication and Culture, the Global Justice Movement and World Social Forum. An autobiographical Conclusion reflects on Communism as a predecessor of the latest wave of internationalist social movements. Peter is presently engaged with other experiments in computerised and on-line publishing. He is also writing a full-length autobiography. CONTENTS INTRODUCTION Recovering Internationalism, Creating the New Global Solidarity PART I: LABOURING PEOPLE AND TRADE UNIONS 1.A New Social Unionism, Internationalism, Communication/Culture and Solidarity – in a Nutshell 2.Re/Conceptualising the World Working Class 3.All in Common: A New/Old Slogan for Labour Internationally 4.The Future of the Past: Labour and New Social Movements in a Globalising World System 5.The International Union Merger of November 2006: Top-Down, Eurocentric and Virtually Invisible? 6.The Networked Internationalism of Labour’s Others 7.Towards a Global Labour CharterN PART II: WOMEN AND FEMINISM 8.Feminism, Globalisation, Internationalism PART III: GLOBALISATION, COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE 9.Aliens “?” Us™ (not to mention U.S) 10.Nine Reflections on a Communications Internationalism in the Age of Seattle 11.Making the Road whilst Walking: Communication, Culture and the World Social Forum PART IV: THE GLOBAL JUSTICE MOVEMENT AND WORLD SOCIAL FORUM 12.Social Movements, ‘Old’ and ‘New’ and the Augean Stables of Global Governance 13.The Bamako Appeal of Samir Amin: A Late-Modern Janus? 14 Of Saints Sinners and Compañer@s: Researching the Activie Bearers of Internationalism CONCLUSION: ROOTS OF THE PRESENT 15.The Worlds of International Communism and Communist Internationalism: Gone but Not (to be) Forgotten SELECTED PERSONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY ON-LINE SINCE 2001 Copyright Copyright This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 UK: England & Wales License. To view a copy of this licence, visit or send a letter to Creative Commons, 171 Second Street, Suite 300, San Francisco, California 94105, USA. Given that this is an experimental, non-profit, on-line publication, and that an attempt has been made to identify sources of all material not my own, I would like to assume goodwill on the part of any unacknowledged copyright holders. Any questions or claims should be addressed to the author. Peter Waterman Lima/The Hague, January-March 2008 p.waterman@inter.nl.net share:   print    send   correct  ADD YOUR COMMENT >>   News Up-to-date current affairs information. Mon May 12 2008 Portrait of an iconoclast Fuente: Institute of Social Studies - ISS

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