Bello has been one of the key leaders of the movement against capitalist globalisation ever since Seattle. At the World Social Forum at Porto Alegre he also wiped the floor with various bosses' representatives. Bello and Bullard's paper offers an excellent analysis of the present situation. The international capitalist institutions have been thrown onto the defensive. It is time for their opponents to attack.
Corporations find it less and less possible to operate without engaging in criminal activity.
The similarity between the Mafia and the TNC is something that we must continually stress in this campaign of delegitimation. All this is absolutely spot on. Bello and Bullard are absolutely right to warn against critics of globalisation being co-opted by those who want to give the corporate Mafia a human face. Currently there are a number of influential appointees in the economic agencies of the Bush administration who favour either eliminating or radically reducing the role of the Bretton Woods institutions. With many Republicans and Democrats in Congress evincing similar sentiments, international civil society and labour unions might add their weight to form a critical mass that would determine the future of these institutions.