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anti-globalization movement
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worldwide political movement against multinational corporations
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- social movement
- Subclass of
- criticism
- Image
- S24 Black Bloc 1.jpg
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- Commons category
- Anti-globalization movement
- topic's main category
- Category:Anti-globalization movement
- inception
- 1988-00-00
- different from
- alter-globalization
- opposite of
- globalism
- in opposition to
- globalization
- partially coincident with
- anti-capitalism
- handled, mitigated, or managed by
- multinational corporation
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Encyclopedic overview
Thousands of people gathered for a demonstration in Warsaw, Poland, as the country prepared to enter the European Union in 2004.
The anti-globalization movement, or counter-globalization movement, is a social movement critical of economic globalization. The movement is also commonly referred to as the global justice movement, alter-globalization movement, anti-globalist movement, anti-corporate globalization movement, or movement against neoliberal globalization. There are many definitions of anti-globalization.
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