An overview of activist resources on the web
UK NETWORKS
Anti-capitalism - green - participation
Earth First!
A radical, innovative, militant and biocentric environmental movement composed of countless small, bioregionally based groups across the country and the world that take direct action to protect nature. The international website links to the global network of EF groups (www.earthfirst.org).
Climate Camp
The climate camp is an annual action camp which brings together hundreds of people from the UK who want to act to stop climate change before it's too late.
Road Block UK
Road Block is an alliance of groups and individuals campaigning against road-building and in support of a move towards the sustainable transport practices that are still within our reach.
See also:
Trade and debt justice - development and solidarity
Bolivia Solidarity Campaign
London-based solidarity organisation established in 2003 to support the Bolivians in their struggle against privatisation and their fight to reclaim their national resources.
Palestine Solidarity Campaign
Box BM PSA, London WC1N 3XX, info@palestinecampaign.org
An independent, non-aligned, membership-based organisation aiming to raise awareness and build an effective mass campaign against the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories.
Brazil Network
London
An independent, voluntary organisation based in London existing to publicise social, political, cultural and environmental issues in Brazil.
War on Want (WoW)
London
Long-standing, membership-based organisation campaigning for policy changes in the UK to help eradicate poverty in the developing world. WoW current campaigns include work on corporate accountability, trade justice, privatization, Palestine and Western Sahara.
World Development Movement (WDM)
London
A democratic, membership-based movement with over 100 local groups working in partnership with other organisations to tackle the underlying causes of world poverty. It current campaigns on climate change, water justice, trade and debt policy.
Hands Off Iraqi Oil
A UK-based coalition opposing the privatisation and expropriation of Iraqi oil by foreign-owned transnational companies.
See also:
Anti-militarism - peace - civil liberties
Justice not Vengeance UK
Non-violent, direct-action affinity group that organises regular vigils and civil disobedience in opposition to the US-UK occupation of Iraq.
Campaign Against the Arms Trade (CAAT) UK
A broad coalition of groups and individuals in the UK working to end the international arms trade. CAAT is a core group of the European Network Against Arms Trade, and works with organisations in South Africa, Canada, Australia and the USA.
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) UK
Long-standing, campaigning organisation for nuclear disarmament and world peace with a huge network of local organisations and knowledge. CND is today campaigning to scrap Trident, Britain's nuclear submarine system, stop the weaponisation of space and abolish the plutonium trade, as well as being an integral part of the anti-war movement.
Stop the War Coalition UK
A national broad-based coalition of over 450 local anti-war coalitions around Britain opposing the recent US-UK-led wars on Afghanistan and Iraq.
Statewatch UK
Statewatch engages in investigative journalism and critical research on civil liberties, surveillance and accountability in Europe.
Trident Ploughshares (TP) UK
Part of the international nuclear disarmament movement, Trident Ploughshares is a national network of activists pledging to disarm the 39 sites in the UK related to the internationally unlawful British Trident nuclear submarine weapons system through non-violent, open, peaceful, safe and fully accountable direct action.
See also:
Campaign Against Criminalising Communities
Military Families Against the War
Scotland Against Criminalising Communities
Asylum - refugees
Barbed Wire Britain (BWB)
A national anti-detention network of local campaigns and national bodies aimed at halting the massive increase in immigration detention in Britain.
Institute of Race Relations UK
IRR carries out research, publishes and collects resources on race relations throughout the world. It seeks to reflect the experiences of those who suffer racial oppression and draws its perspectives from the most vulnerable in society.
National Coalition of Anti-Deportation Campaigns UK
A voluntary organisation providing a network for anti-deportation organisations and campaigns to work together mainly to help refused asylum seekers stay in the UK as well as win changes in law and practice which lead to unjust or inhumane deportations.
See also:
al-Awda - The Palestine Right to Return Coalition
Committee to Defend Asylum Seekers
Organised labour - workers' rights
Home Workers Worldwide (HWW) UK
A member of (Homenet) - the international solidarity network of homebased workers' organisations and supporters - HWW works in collaboration with organisations in the UK and around the world to raise awareness and build and train grassroots organisations of home-based workers.
Institute of Employment Rights (IER) UK
Funded by trade unions, individual donations and subscription fees, the IER is an independent organisation providing a wide variety of high-quality publications to stimulate debate and analysis about employment law policies and legal developments in industrial relations.
Labour Behind the Label UK
A UK network of aid, alternative trade, labour and solidarity organisations publicizing and campaigning on behalf of garment workers’ efforts, at home and abroad, to defend their rights and improve their wages and conditions. The UK platform for the European Clean Clothes Campaign.
No Sweat UK
Inspired by the American anti-sweatshop movement, No Sweat is a broad-based, activist, campaigning organisation in the UK fighting the existence of sweatshops at home and abroad. It has organised major protests, demonstrations and stunts outside (and inside!) Nike and Gap stores.
See also:
Anti-privatisation – community – public space
CASE – Campaign for State Education UK
A membership-based national group campaigning for the right of all to the highest quality, fully comprehensive, locally accountable state education, regardless of race, gender, home circumstances, ability or disability.
Community Matters UK
The nation-wide federation for community associations and similar organisations, with over 1,000 member organisations. Community Matters promotes and supports action by ordinary people in response to social, educational and recreational needs in their neighbourhoods and communities.
Community Recycling Network UK
A non-profit organsiation of 300+ members promoting community waste management nationally as an effective way of tackling both Britain’s growing waste problem and building the social economy. Superb links to other recycling, environmental and community groups and networks.
Defend Council Housing UK
A broad-based national campaign supported by a large number of tenants, council workers and unions, community organisations and campaign groups opposing privatisation and defending council housing principles.
MERCi UK
‘Murky’ is an independent charity working to make Manchester a greener, safer, healthier and more equitable place to live. It is based in Bridge-5 Mill, redeveloped to be the most environmentally friendly building in Manchester.
Radical Routes UK
A network of independent housing cooperatives providing each other with services and support, and able to raise investment centrally through a national investment scheme. Website has contact details for local cooperatives.
UNISON UK
Britain’s biggest trade union representing 1.3 million workers in the public services and essential utilities, Unison is fast becoming an indispensable actor in campaigns against further privatisation, public-private partnerships and GATS. It is a member of the global union federation, (Public Services International).
See also:
Community Sector Coalition
East Manchester Community Forum, 0161 230 7781
London Action Resource Centre
Social Centres Network, c/o London Action Resource Centre
Race – gender – sexuality
Anti Nazi League (ANL) UK
A broad-based organisation that aims to bring together as many people as possible in a united grassroots campaign against the Far Right. Organises the successful and popular Love Music Hate Racism campaign which uses the music scene to create a vibrant counter-culture to racial hatred.
Fawcett Society
The UK’s leading society campaigning for equality between women and men at home, at work and in public life. Fawcett provides analysis, research and a strong lobby for improvements in women’s lives.
National Assembly Against Racism (NAAR) UK
A black community organisations-led coalition uniting representatives from faith-based organisations, trade unions, refugee organisations and youth/student groups in campaigns and educational programmes such as fighting the far right, racial violence and black deaths in custody.
Outrage! UK
The world’s longest surviving queer-rights direct-action group, challenging antigay discrimination, promoting the public visibility and media debate of queer issues, and offering both legal and personal advice for those suffering discrimination and persecution.
Women’s Aid UK
National charity working to end domestic violence against women and children. It coordinates and supports an England-wide network of over 250 local projects, providing over 400 refuges, helplines, outreach services and advice centres.
Love Music Hate Racism UK
Love Music Hate Racism was launched in the summer of 2002 in response to rising levels of racism and British National Party electoral success, particularly in the north west in former mill towns like Burnley. Since then, it has organized more than 200 concerts and festivals throughout the UK.
See also:
Youth Against Racism in Europe
Democracy – new political parties – the Labour Party left
Charter 88 UK
Independent campaign for a modern and fair democracy advocating dramatic reform of the UK system of government including: decentralisation of power, a democratic Westminster Parliament, a Bill of Rights, a Freedom of Information Act, and proportional voting systems for all levels of government.
Compass UK
Compass is a democratic left pressure group aligned with the UK Labour Party. It aims to develop a more coherent and radical programme for a progressive left government in the post-Blair era.
Electoral Reform Society UK
A membership organisation campaigning for the strengthening of UK democracy through changes to the voting system and electoral arrangements that would create proportional representation through a Single Transferable Vote.
Green Party UK
With separate parties for England and Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Ireland, the Green Party aims to create a just, equitable and sustainable society through both the electoral system and campaign activism.
Scottish Socialist Party UK
Brings together an alliance of socialist platforms with former Labour members and trade unionists to push for an Independent Socialist Scotland as part of a worldwide fight-back against global capitalism. Its weekly paper is the Scottish Socialist Voice.
Socialist Campaign Group of Labour MPs - UK
campaigngroup@aol.com
An organised network of a small but vociferous number of Labour MPs committed to socialist values and policies, campaigning both within and outside of the Labour Party for a return to its historic roots and internal party democracy.
See also:
Independent Working Class Association
Labour Campaign for Electoral Reform
Alternative media and analysis – netactivism – publishing houses and books
Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom UK
A broad-based research and lobbying organisation made up of individuals and affiliated groups working to promote policies for a diverse, democratic and accountable media.
CorporateWatch UK
A radical research and publishing group investigating corporate structures and the broader system that supports them. The premiere source of information on corporate takeover in Britain, CorporateWatch also runs Grassroots Action on Food and Farming. (See also Ethical Consumer; Red Star Research; The Mcinformation Network)
Feminist.com
A grassroots, interactive community by, for and about women, aiming to facilitate information-sharing and encourage mobilisation around political issues.
Indymedia UK
Part of the global network of Indymedias, Indymedia UK (United Kollektives) is a network of individuals, independent and alternative media activists and organisations, offering grassroots, non-corporate, non-commercial coverage of important social and political issues.
Media Lens
A website designed to counter the distorted picture of the world provided by mainstream newspapers and broadcasters of the increasingly centralised, corporate nature of the media which act a de facto propaganda system for corporate and other establishment interests.
New Economics Foundation UK
A research and campaigning body challenging the ideas and structures of the ‘old economy’ and offering practical and enterprising solutions to the social, environmental and economic challenges facing the local, regional, national and global economies.
Open Democracy UK
A channel for knowledge, learning, participation and understanding that is not owned by a media corporation, does not serve a special interest and does not adhere to a single ideological position.
Red Pepper UK
Independent bi-monthly magazine of the green and radical left, Red Pepper provides a round-up of national and international news in addition to commissioned articles from radical thinkers and practitioners on all themes. Online edition contains extra stories, blogs, forums and archived articles from over 150 past issues.
SchNEWS UK
A cult weekly print and online newsletter produced voluntarily by Justice? –Brighton’s Direct Action Collective. SchNEWS reports on local and global resistance movements from a green anarchist perspective, features a party and protest calendar and has an estimated readership of 50,000.
Undercurrents UK
Producer of the award-winning regular ‘alternative news video’, Undercurrents has also set up the country’s first grassroots protest video archive, supports video activist training overseas, organises video activist gatherings and helps facilitate independent grassroots production.
Pluto Books UK
Founded in 1969 as the publishing arm of International Socialism, Pluto Press has over 550 titles in print and publishes more than 70 new titles each year. The main fields it covers are politics, current affairs, international studies, Middle East studies, political theory, media studies, anthropology and development.
Verso Books UK
Radical publisher founded in 1970 by the New Left Review, with over 350 titles in print and 60 new titles each year.
Zed Books UK
Independent scholarly publishing house focusing on politics, international relations, economics and development, gender and area studies.
Clearer Channel
ClearerChannel is an online video project which encourages viewers to download and transmit video for social change.
See also:
Lobster: The Journal of Para-Politics
Bookmarks: the socialist bookshop
THE LOCAL –NORTH AMERICAN NETWORKS
Trade and debt justice – development – anti-corporate
50 Years Is Enough: U.S. Network for Global Economic Justice US
A coalition of over 200 US grassroots, women's, solidarity, faith-based, policy, social- and economic-justice, youth, labour and development organizations dedicated to the profound transformation of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
CorpWatch Canada
Research and activist network aiming to counter corporate-led globalisation by disseminating information about the power and activities of corporations and thereby helping to build a grassroots globalisation of diverse movements for human rights and dignity, labour rights and environmental justice that enforce democratic control over corporations.
Council of Canadians
Canada’s pre-eminent citizens’ watchdog organisation, comprising over 100,000 members, lobbies MPs, conducts research, and runs national campaigns aimed at safeguarding social programs and the environment, promoting economic justice, asserting Canadian sovereignty and advancing alternatives to corporate free trade.
Public Citizen US
US non-profit consumer advocacy organisation fighting for openness and democratic accountability in government, sustainable development and social and economic justice in trade and welfare policies. It runs the important Global Trade Watch, and is a member of the OWINFS network and the national Citizens Trade Campaign.
See also:
Anti-militarism – peace –civil liberties
CODEPINK US
A feminist anti-war group that started in the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq. It seeks positive social change through creative protest, non-violent direct action, and community involvement. Its hallmark tools include street theatre and non-violent direct action.
Iraq Veterans Against the War US
An advocacy group comprised of active duty military and Iraq War veterans who are opposed to the US occupation of Iraq. The organisation advocates immediate withdrawal of all occupying forces in Iraq, reparations for the destruction and corporate pillaging of Iraq so that ordinary Iraqi people can control their own lives and future, and full benefits, adequate healthcare (including mental health), and other support for returning servicemen and women.
United for Peace and Justice
A coalition of more than 1,300 international and U.S.-based organisations opposed to the US’ policy of permanent warfare and empire-building. It mobilises around seven issue campaigns: Iraq, counter-military recruitment, global justice, nuclear disarmament, Palestine/Israel, civil liberties/immigrant rights and faith-based organising.
US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation UK
A diverse coalition working for freedom from occupation and equal rights for all by challenging US policy towards the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
See also:
American Friends Service Committee
Center for Constitutional Rights
Employment rights – workers’ rights
Jobs With Justice US
JwJ is a national campaign for workers' rights in the United States founded in 1987 which includes both individual members and affiliated organizations. It exists in over 40 cities in 29 states in all regions of the US and has been a key actor in recent workers’ struggles.
National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights US
A national organisation composed of local coalitions and immigrant, refugee, community, religious, civil rights and labour organisations and activists. It serves as a forum to share information and analysis, to educate communities and the general public, and to develop and coordinate plans of action on important immigrant and refugee issues.
Southwest Workers UnionSouthwest Workers Union US
A grassroots membership based organisation representing over 2500 school workers, youth and community members.
United Students Against Sweatshops US
A US-based international student movement of campuses and individual students fighting for sweatshop-free labour conditions and workers’ rights by demanding that their school or university logo is emblazoned on clothing made in decent working conditions.
Coalition of Immokalee Workers
Farm Labor Organizing Committee
The Labour Community Strategy Center
Service Employees International Union
POWER (People Organised to Win Employment Rights)
Economic and social rights – justice – solidarity – equality
Center for Third World Organising US
CTWO is a 25-year-old training and resource centre that promotes and sustains direct-action organizing in communities of colour in the United States.
Grassroots Global Justice US
An alliance of 60 US-based grassroots groups who are organising to build an agenda for power for working and poor people. It works to link local issues to global struggles, to develop the leadership of people of colour and low-income communities, to use popular and political education, to carry out joint actions, and to create convergence of struggles as movement building strategies.
Project South: Institute for the Elimination of Poverty and Genocide US
A leadership development organisation based in the US. It provides popular political and economic education for personal and social transformation and it works with networks in the US and the Global South.
People Organized to Demand Environmental and Economic Rights US
PODER is a grassroots, environmental justice organisation based in San Francisco’s Mission District. PODER’s mission is to organise with Mission residents to work on local solutions to issues facing low income communities and communities of colour.
Indigenous Environmental Network US
A network of Indigenous Peoples empowering Indigenous Nations and communities towards sustainable livelihoods, demanding environmental justice and maintaining the Sacred Fire of their traditions. This group was involved in organising the US Social Forum and is also involved in pulling together an environmental/social justice coalition in Canada.
Global Exchange US
An international non-profit human rights organisation aimed at forging closer ties between North Americans and grassroots groups working for democracy and social justice around the world.
Women Against Poverty US
The Women Against Poverty Collective is a group of women and trans people who are working together to advocate for safe, affordable and accessible housing for women experiencing violence.
Ontario Coalition Against Poverty US
A direct-action anti-poverty organization based in Toronto, Canada, that mounts campaigns against regressive government policies as they affect poor and working people. It also provides direct-action advocacy for individuals against eviction, termination of welfare benefits, and deportation.
See also:
New York City AIDS Housing Network
Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign
SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective
Southwest Network for Environmental and Economic Justice
Environment -anti-capitalist - new politics - participation
The Ruckus Society US
An organisation that sponsors skill-sharing and direct action training camps for activists from impacted communities working on social justice, human rights and environmental justice. Ruckus was founded by Mike Roselle and co-founded with Twilly Cannon and JR Roof to specialise in environmental activism and Guerrilla communication.
Independent Progressive Politics Network US
A network composed of organisations and individuals committed to the achievement of a national, non-sectarian, independent progressive political party, or an alliance of such parties, as an alternative to the corporate-controlled, Democratic/Republican system in the US.
See also:
Global Justice Ecology Project
Sustainable Energy and Economy Network (SEEN)
Alternative media and analysis
Adbusters US
A not-for-profit, reader-supported, 85,000-circulation magazine concerned about the erosion of the physical and cultural environments by commercial forces, Adbusters is supported by a global network of diverse individuals aiming to topple existing power structures and forge a major shift in the way we live.
Z Magazine/Znet US
An independent monthly magazine guided by a radical left perspective, dedicated to resisting injustice, defending against repression and creating liberty by assisting activist efforts. Z Magazine runs the ZNet website – an incredible source of alternative information used by over a quarter of a million people a week across the world.
See also:
THE GLOBAL – INTERNATIONAL NETWORKS
Emancipation – justice – solidarity – participatory democracy
ActionAid South Africa
ActionAid is an international anti-poverty agency working to support community groups, national alliances and international networks seeking education for all, trade justice and action against HIV/AIDS throughout the world.
Centro de Assessoria e Estudos Urbanos Brazil
CIDADE is an NGO working for the empowerment of grassroots movements with research on urban reform policies and democratic local budget processes. It has worked on participatory budgeting in Porto Alegre since 1994 to empower people to participate in decision-making and develop their collective self-governing capacities.
Demosphere
An international digital democracy network, described as a digital ecosystem of web sites, blogs, and digital citizens who would like to support democracy movements around the world. The demosphere connects digital citizens to local movements through tech-savvy "bridge activists" based in different countries.
European Citizens’ Initiative Belgium
An alliance of many civil society organisations, supporters and volunteers working to give citizens the right to initiate legal changes at EU level.
Institut de Govern i Polítiques Públiques Spain
A research centre linked to the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona which focuses on governing processes, policy-making, public management and citizens participation. It also deals with different levels of government and its interactions (EU, national, regional and local), as well as with the involvement of political and social actors in the processes.
International Observatory of Participatory Democracy Spain
IOPD is a space open to cities, entities, organisations and research centres that want to learn about, exchange and implement participatory democracy at the local level.
Peoples Global Action (PGA) Canada
A global network of diverse grassroots movements across the world struggling against capitalism and destructive globalisation and for a durable borderless and directly democratic alternative. PGA helped coordinate the decentralised Global Action Days that have marked annual WTO Ministerial meetings.
World Social Forum (WSF) Brazil
A convergence point for groups and movements of global civil society opposed to neo-liberalism and instead engaged in building a planetary society centred on respect for universal human rights, the environment, democracy, social justice, equality and the sovereignty of peoples, to debate ideas, formulate proposals, share experiences and network for effective action. Since the first forum in 2001, the WSF has met annually – on several occasions in Porto Alegre, Brazil as well as other cities including Mumbai, India and Nairobi, Kenya. The process has spread with the emergence of regional social forums in Asia, Europe, Pan-Amazonia, the Americas and the US/Mexico Border. The process has also caught up at the local level, and there are currently local and national forums around the world, helping bring together groups, networks, coalitions and individuals and organize joint campaigns and days of action. Among these, it is worth highlighting the , held in Atlanta in late June 2007 US Social Forum.
See also:
Trade and debt justice – development
Anti-Privatisation Forum (APF) South Africa
An alliance of two key anti-privatisation struggles in South Africa with affiliates from the unions, communities, students and the left, the APF works to unite workers’ struggles for a living wage and jobs with community struggles for housing, water, electricity and fair rates and taxes.
Association for Taxation of Financial Transaction to Aid Citizens (ATTAC) France
The leading international-campaign organisation for the democratic control of financial markets and international financial institutions. A non-hierarchical, pluralist network of relatively autonomous local and national organisations in
more than fifty countries.
Corporate Europe Observatory The Netherlands
A research and campaign group exposing the threats to democracy, equity, social justice and the environment in the EU posed by corporate power and lobbying.
Focus on the Global South Thailand
Independent research and advocacy organisation working on economic, ecological, political and cultural developments affecting the Global South and particularly the Asia Pacific region, from a critical Third World/Southern, but internationalist, perspective.
Hemispheric Social Alliance/Alianza Sociale Continenta (HSA) Brazil
A remarkable coalition of major citizens’ networks representing some 50 million people across the entire Americas in a broad-based struggle against the proposed Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA) and the neo-liberal model of US domination it embodies.
Ibase – Brazilian Institute for Social-Economic Analysis Brazil
Research NGO and co-initiator of the World Social Forum process, committed to the defence of human rights, social well-being and the participation of all Brazilians in the construction of a democratic society.
International Gender and Trade Network US
Brings together regional networks of women involved in research, advocacy and economic literacy around issues of trade and development with the aim of engaging the global women’s movement more effectively in the discourse and negotiations on trade and investment.
Our World is Not for Sale (OWINFS)
Acts as a vital coordinating and information hub for a grouping of key reform oriented organisations, activists, progressive trade unions and social movements worldwide fighting against the current model of neo-liberal corporate globalisation embodied in the WTO, and for a sustainable, socially just and accountable multilateral system.
PACS – Policy Alternatives for the Southern Cone Brazil
An eco-social consultancy and education action centre working in collaboration with the Brazilian social, labour and co-operative movements, and the Workers Party (PT). Its main work is on the ‘social economy’, and it runs the virtual Workshop on a Socio-Economy of Solidarity.
Social Watch Uruguay
An international network of around 300 national citizens’ groups checking progress or regression on internationally agreed commitments on poverty eradication and equality.
Southern African People’s Solidarity Network
P.O. Box 12943, Mowbray 7705, South Africa
(t) (+27) 21 6851565 (f ) (+27) 21 6851645, sapsn@aidc.org.za
Brings together the major Southern African NGOs and social movements, such as the African Trade Network (twnafrica.org/atn.asp) and the Alternative Information and Development Centre (aidc.org.za), to campaign and organise together around the issues of debt, structural adjustment and globalisation.
Third World Network Malaysia
An influential, independent non-profit international research and advocacy network of organisations and individuals involved in economic, social and environmental issues relating to development, the Third World and North–South relations.
World Bank Bonds Boycott US
An international grassroots campaign of groups from the 35 Global South countries and the US which builds moral, political, and financial pressure on the World Bank by persuading individual and organisational investors such as trade unions and universities not to buy World Bank bonds.
See also:
Alliance for Responsible Trade
Asian NGO Coalition for Agrarian Reform and Rural Development
Australian Fair Trade and Investment Network
International Forum on Globalization (IFG)
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
Mexican Action Network on Free Trade
Women’s International Coalition for Economic Justice
Environment – food – water
Friends of the Earth International The Netherlands
A global federation of environmental organisations with about 1.5 million members and supporters affiliated to groups in 70 countries across the world. FOEI works against the current model of corporate globalisation to promote environmentally sustainable and just societies.
Greenpeace International The Netherlands
An independent non-profit, global campaigning organisation with 2.65 million supporters worldwide using non-violent, creative confrontation to expose global environmental problems and their causes.
Peoples Food Sovereignty Network
admin@peoplesfoodsovereignty.org
A loose global coalition of peasant-farmer organisations and NGOs working on food and agriculture issues that grew out of the OWINFS coalition.
Via Campesina Honduras
A pluralistic, democratic, multicultural movement which coordinates and develops solidarity amongst small and middle-scale farmers, agricultural workers, rural women, and indigenous communities from across the world in order to
promote sustainable economic relations of equality and social justice.
See also:
Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology,
Friends of the Earth International
Genetic Resources Action International
Organised labour – workers’ rights
Brazilian MST
The largest social movement in Latin America, the Brazilian Landless Workers’ Movement organises hundreds of thousands of landless peasants to occupy and secure land in order to guarantee food security for their families, and set up an alternative socio-economic development model that puts people before profits.
Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) The Netherlands
A Dutch-based activist NGO linked to autonomous campaigns in ten Western European countries, which aims to improve working conditions in the garment and sportswear industry through mobilising the purchasing power of consumers.
Global Labor Strategies
Global Labour Strategies is a non-profit resource centre which provides research and analysis on globalisation, trade and labour issues.
International Centre for Trade Union Rights UK
An organising and campaigning body of trade unionists, labour lawyers and academics worldwide with the fundamental purpose of defending and improving the rights of trade unions and trade unionists throughout the world.
LabourStart UK
A near-instantaneous real-time online labour news service in 10 languages maintained by a global network of volunteers who constantly upload news stories about trade union and labour struggles they find on the Internet, which are then archived.
Maquila Solidarity Network (MSN) Canada
A Canadian network of over 400 individuals and organisations promoting solidarity with groups in Mexico, Central America and Asia, organising in maquiladora factories and export-processing zones to improve conditions and win a living wage.
No Border Network
The no border network organises border camps and actions throughout Europe against detention centres and repression of migrants.
StreetNet International South Africa
An international network comprised of individual vendors, activists, researchers, institutions and other people working to increase the visibility, voice and bargaining power of street vendors throughout the world.
WIEGO US
WIEGO stands for Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organising, a worldwide coalition of labour grassroots organisations, research or academic institutions and international development organisations concerned with improving the status of women in the informal sector.
See also:
Global UnionsEuropean Network of Migrants, Refugees and Sans-Papiers
International Labour Resource and Information Group,
International Restructuring Education Network Europe (IRENE)
Human and gender rights – resisting oppression
Amnesty International (AI) UK
The world’s largest international voluntary human rights organisation with more than a million members and supporters in over 140 countries and territories.
Derechos Human Rights
An independent, non-profit internet-based international human rights organization based in USA and Spain working for the respect and promotion of human rights all over the world, with a particular focus on Latin America.
International Solidarity Movement (ISM)
A Palestinian-led movement of Palestinian and international activists working to raise awareness of the struggle for Palestinian freedom and an end to Israeli occupation. Utilises non-violent, direct-action methods of resistance to confront and challenge illegal Israeli occupation forces and policies.
Sisterhood is Global Institute (SIGI) Canada
Seeks to deepen the understanding of women’s rights at the local, national, regional and global levels, and to strengthen the capacity of women to exercise these rights. With members in 70 countries, SIGI currently maintains a network of over 1,300 individuals and organisations.
Women’s Global Network for Reproductive Rights The Netherlands
An autonomous network of groups and individuals in 157 countries who aim to achieve and support reproductive rights for women, which include the right of all women to safe, legal abortion.
Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML) London
Formed by an international network of feminists from Muslim countries, WLUML is a network of mutual solidarity and information flow aimed at breaking the isolation of women, Muslim and non-Muslim, whose lives may be affected by Muslim laws in whatever form or context.
Anti-militarism – peace
Food Not Bombs
One of the fastest growing revolutionary movements in the world today, Food Not Bombs is an inclusive, non-hierarchical all-volunteer organisation with hundreds of local groups across the world dedicated to recycling and sharing vegetarian food with hungry people, and protesting against war and poverty.
No Bases Network
ioc-nobases@lists.riseup.net, nobases@yahoo.com
A global network of individuals, organisations, social movements, and coalitions working for the closure of foreign military bases and other forms of military presence worldwide.
Women in Black (WIB)
A loose network of women world-wide committed to peace and justice and actively opposed to war and other forms of violence, who demonstrate by staging women-only, silent, non-violent vigils in public spaces dressed only in black.
See also:
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
New parties
Brazilian Workers Party (PT)
Formed out of the civil society struggles against the dictatorship in the early 1980s by a rainbow coalition of labour unions, urban and rural social movements, former guerrillas, Marxist intellectuals and Christians close to liberation theology, the PT demonstrates a unique adherence to both representative and participatory democracy, and has gradually risen from winning power in local and municipal goverments to now holding the federal state presidency.
Philippino Citizens Action Party – (Akbayan)
An alternative, democratic citizens’ political party of labour, peasants, youth, women, gay and lesbians, professionals, overseas Filipino workers and the urban poor that has emerged out of the desire of social movement groups to be part of the formal processes of government.
South Korean Democratic Labour Party (DLP)
Founded in 1999 as a parliamentarist wing of the Korean workers movement dedicated to fighting corruption, gangland-style politics and representing the ‘marginalised social groups’ such as workers, peasants and the poor.
See also:
Alternative media and analysis – netactivism
AlterNet
Online magazine dedicated to strengthening independent and alternative journalism. AlterNet provides a mix of news, opinion and investigative journalism on a range of subjects.
Indymedia
Launched by various alternative media organisations and activists in 1999 to provide grassroots coverage of the WTO protests in Seattle, Indymedia is a global network of collectively run, autonomous Independent Media Centres in 50 countries and all continents using open-publishing.
New Internationalist UK
Long-standing cooperative-run magazine reporting issues of world poverty and inequality, and the unjust relationship between the powerful and powerless in both rich and poor nations. Debates and campaigns for the radical changes necessary within and between those nations.
OneWorld UK
A global online media gateway with centres all over the world, OneWorld.net brings together a network of people and over 260 groups working for human rights and sustainable development from across the globe with the aim of taking these issues to a global audience.
Pambazuka News
Pan-African electronic weekly newsletter and platform for social justice in Africa offering comprehensive weekly coverage, cutting edge commentary and in-depth analysis on politics and current affairs, development, human rights, refugees, gender issues and culture in Africa.
Venezuela Analysis
A website dedicated to disseminating news and analysis about the current political situation in Venezuela. Based in Caracas.
See also:
A-Infos – Weekly International Anarchist Information
The Electronic Disturbance Theatre (EDT)
Global Internet Liberty Campaign
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