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On this day 26 years ago, demonstrators blockaded and shut down the summit of the World Trade Organization in Seattle—demonstrating the power of direct action and horizontal, decentralized organizing.

Today, as federal mercenaries attack our communities while state institutions strive even more blatantly to repress and impoverish us, we need the lessons of the Seattle WTO protests more than ever.

crimethinc.com/WTOEpilogue

A banner with an image of the World Trade Organization as Death. Much of the iconography of the movement that shut down the World Trade Organization framed global trade institutions as anti-democratic, enabling reformists—and later, nationalist reactionaries—to propose solutions that did not cut to the root of the problem.
An iconic photograph of the protests against the summit of the World Trade Organization in Seattle, 1999, showing a masked woman raising her hands in a victory sign in front of a blockade.

Epilogue on the Movement against Capitalist Globalization

22 years after the victory against the World Trade Organization in Seattle, what can we learn from the networks that gave rise to that movement?
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