New books
50 FACTS THAT SHOULD CHANGE THE WORLD, by Jessica Williams, Icon Books, June 2004
There are 44 million child labourers in India. Landmines kill or maim at least one person every hour. 81% of the worlds executions in 2002 took place in just three countries: China, Iran and the USA. The world of the early 21st century is one of shocking inequality and absurd contradictions. This book aims to make you think twice about the world in which you live. Jessica Williams provides an unashamedly popular but serious, original and angry survey on life and a powerful antidote to the idea that individuals can do nothing to change it.
GREEN ALTERNATIVES TO GLOBALISATION: A MANIFESTO, by Michael Woodin and Caroline Lucas, Pluto Press, May 2004
Two prominent members of the UK Green Party provide an accessible and concise statement of the Green alternative to globalisation. Michael Woodin and Caroline Lucas argue that globalisation marginalises poor people, threatens livelihoods and destroys the environment. They show how Global Localism thinking globally, acting locally could be applied to help solve many current international crises including climate change, trade and development, agriculture, the future of the EU, and international security.
BUSINESS AND HUMAN RIGHTS: DILEMMAS AND SOLUTIONS, edited by Rory Sullivan, foreword by Mary Robinson, Greenleaf Publishing, November 2003
Companies have embraced globalisation but have often been unprepared for the risks of operating in countries where corruption, injustice, internal conflict and human rights violations are rife. This book draws together leading thinkers and actors to explore the many complex questions to be answered around roles, responsibilities and solutions.
ONE NO, MANY YESES: A JOURNEY TO THE HEART TO THE GLOBAL RESISTANCE MOVEMENT, by Paul Kingsnorth, paperback, Free Press, April 2004
This book is a manifesto, an investigation and a travel book: an introduction to the new politics of resistance which shows there's much more to the "anti-globalisation movement than trashing Starbucks. It could turn out to be the biggest political movement of the 21st century: a global coalition of millions, united in resisting an out-of-control global economy and building alternatives to it. What is it? Who is involved, what do they want, and how do they aim to get it? Paul Kingsnorth travelled across five continents to visit some of the epicentres of the movement.
APARTHEID ISRAEL: POSSIBILITIES FOR THE STRUGGLE WITHIN, by Uri Davis, Zed Books, March 2004
Uri Davis has long been at the forefront of the defence of human rights in Israel. This book seeks to contribute to a moral understanding, political framework and climate of opinion that will support international sanctions against the government of the State of Israel, with the aim to dismantle the state's apartheid structures as a state for Jews only and assist in the establishment of a democratic State of Palestine in conformity with the values of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and international law.
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