The real movement that abolishes the present state of things

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes Arthur, Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, 56–57. Due to a misunderstanding between editor Craig Phelan and myself, I initially drafted a response of around 8,000 words when he was expecting 3,000. But anyone who wants the Full (if uncorrected) Monty should feel free to apply to me at p.waterman@inter.nl.net. Thanks, finally, to Craig and Kim Scipes for comments on such earlier drafts. Barchiesi, ‘Classes, Multitudes and the Politics of Community Movements;’ Castree et al., Spaces of Work; Clawson, The Next Upsurge; Dinerstein and Neary, The Labour Debate; Drainville, Contesting Globalisation; Hardt and Negri, Empire; Linebaugh and Rediker, The Many-Headed Hydra. See <http://www.global-unions.org/wsf/WSF_Events_Mumbai_2004.doc>. Castells, The Information Age. Many of the latter, such as the feminist and environmental movements are still wedded to forms of articulation that belong to a passing era of capitalism. Dinerstein and Neary, The Labour Debate; Drainville, Contesting Globalisation; Hardt and Negri, Empire; Silver, Forces of Labour. Thompson, The Poverty of Theory, 252. His ‘class process’ comes over as the mother of all social processes under capitalism, the source of all alienation, the privileged key to the lock of social emancipation. Feminist mothers might find this insufficient. Drainville, Contesting Globalisation, 72–75. Kimeldorf, Reds or Rackets. Waterman, Globalisation, Social Movements and the New Internationalisms, ch. 4. <http://www.itf.org.uk/english/aboutus/congress/index.htm>. Barchiesi, ‘Classes, Multitudes and the Politics of Community Movements.’ Neary, ‘Labour Moves.’ Petras, ‘Brazil and Lula.’ West, Militant Labour. <http://www.millionworkermarch.org/>. Update, March 2005. It failed. For an analysis check out <http://www.counterpunch.org.jw10312004.html/>. Scipes, ‘Organizing for What?’ Gorz, ‘A New Task.’