Here are some quotations from Barry K. Gills (University of Newcastle upon
Tyne, UK) -- from his editorial in _New Political Economy_, vol. 2, no. 1
(March 1997), pp. 11-15 (Special Issue on Globalization and the Politics
of Resistance).
..."It is precisely the apolitical reading of globalisation that we most
seek to reject. This is what we mean when we say we wish to reclaim the
territory of the 'political'."
..."We must begin by firmly putting people back into the analysis as actors
and agents in the processes of social and historical change."
..."there is an urgent need to reassert the values of the broad social and
political left: i.e. to revalidate old values, such as worker solidarity,
democracy, state intervention, welfare and redistribution; while also
proposing new ones, such as gender equality, protection of the environment
and the right of civil society to reconstitute itself..."
..."As far as slogans are concerned, we must reject the corporate mantra of
'globalisation or die' and its political economy counterpart 'Hayek lives
and Keynes is Dead'. We might prefer to chant 'Keynes (or Marx, depending
on your preference) should be reincarnated and Hayek should be mummified
for eternity'."
..."Keynes, and Marx also, concentrated his effort on the problem of how to
prevent repetition of the human tragedy of general economic and social
crises brought about by destructive forces in modern capitalist economies.
We would do well to do likewise."
..."the broad social left can no longer afford to be divided by doctrinaire
controversies..."
The special issue of the journal includes several articles on resistance
under conditions of, or against, globalization.