We would be happy to receive feedback on this article from you or others. The North American town will see a whole series of demonstrations, actions and discussion meetings. By now a very diverse mixture of activists, lobbyists and politicians are gathering under the vague banner of the anti-globalisation movement. Both the left and the right are joining and seem to have put their quarrels aside. The fight against the WTO and all it stands for is in my view the main one.
Many lobbyists seem to somewhat overrate the movement.
The left has not been a very strong force since the fall of the Berlin Wall, and it hardly exists nowadays. That's why the lobbyists are no longer exclusively looking to their left. They have started to actively build a new worldwide movement in which not only left-leaning people, but also conservatives, nationalists and even the New Right must be able to feel at home. Political activists of all creeds can project their own problems on it. They organise a congress in Seattle and never tire of repeating that they expect some 2400 participants.