Resistance in the Age of Austerity: Nationalism, the Failure of the Left and the Return of God
Owen Worth - Zed Books 2013
In November 1999 the first protests
associated with the "anti-globalisation movement" took place in Seattle, and
came to be seen as the starting point for globalised resistance to neoliberal
capitalism. However, the following years have seen little progress in
formulating a coherent alternative to neoliberalism, a failure more poignant in
the aftermath of the recent credit crisis.
In this book, Owen Worth
assesses the growing diversity of resistance to neoliberalism and argues that
the more reactionary alternatives to globalization currently provide just as
coherent a base for building opposition as those associated with the traditional
"left-wing" anti-globalisation movements. From the shortcomings of the Occupy
movement to the rise of Radical Islam - Worth shows that while a progressive
alternative cannot be taken for granted.
