Anti-globalisation activists and violence

"Does the alterglobalisation movement still have a 'raison d'être'?", wonders the editorialist Yves Thréard, after the violence that broke out this weekend in Germany. "It feels like a long time ago when certain observers saw alterglobalisation as a new political force, a new 21st century ideological trend spreading over the planet, as communism had done previously. ... In vain, a common denominator is being sought for the ecologists in the Larzac region of France, the peasants of Altiplano, those nostalgic of Che Guevara, the WTO assailants, the advocates of the Palestinian cause and the followers of the black flag - the ones who smashed up Rostock. The massive demonstration in Geneva, in 2001, is now a mere memory: It didn't trigger off the international rebellion that had been so desired and so dreaded. And it is no longer all the rage to go to Porto Alegro, Mecca of all those dreaming of another world."

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