Anmeldelser, interviews og debat om Naomi Klein’s bog ‘No Logo’. Derudover en række resursesteder om sweatshops.
Forord
No Logo er titlen på en vigtig bog skrevet af den canadiske journalist Naomi Klein. Her beskriver hun, hvordan mange af de multinationale siden midten af 1980’erne har koncentreret deres resurcer om markedsføring af det enkeltes firmas mærkevarer (brand), dvs. produktion af logoer fremfor produktion af ting, med en enorm stigning i reklame- og markedsføringsomkostningerne til følge. Denne forøgede udgift hentes så ind ved, at selve produktionen ofte udbydes til fabrikker i de økonomiske frizoner i Asien og Latinamerika, hvor der arbejdes under sweatshop-lignende forhold: ekstrem udbytning, elendige løn- og arbejdsforhold, forbud mod fagforeninger og militærlignende organisering. Samtidig reorganiseres virksomhederne i kerneområderne med nedskæringer og øget brug af deltids-, korttids- og kontraktansatte til ringere lønninger.
Alt dette er det grimme ansigt bag firmaernes mærkevarer.
Vi har samlet nogle anmeldelser af bogen, interviews og artikler af Naomi Klein, og med afsæt i hendes bog udvalgt en række websites, som afdækker og bekæmper de multinationales destruktive politik.
Bjarne A. Frandsen. 16. marts 2001
Revideret 6. december 2001
Indhold
Se også på Socialistisk Bibliotek:
- Linkboxen: Naomi Kleins ‘Intet bliver som før’
- Linkboxen: Naomi Klein og katastrofekapitalismen
Naomi Klein
Naomi Klein: No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies, London, Flamingo, 2000. Bogen er fornylig udkommet i en billigere udgave.
Forlaget Klim har udsendt en dansk udgave i begyndelsen af december 2001: No Logo: mærkerne – magten – modstanden.
Bogen er online på Libcom: No Logo.
AlterNet.org
Tamara Straus: Naomi Klein’s new new left (22. aug. 2000).
“Like many who took to the streets of Seattle, DC or LA, Naomi Klein, author of the anti-corporate bible ‘No Logo’, thinks we’re witnessing the birth of a new radicalism. But she has reservations; she’s not so certain the New Left isn’t just running in place.”
Cultural Logic
Matthew Sharpe: The Logo as fetish: Marxist themes in Naomi Klein’s No Logo (Volume 6, 2003; online at Internet Archive)
“In the broad sense that Klein is clearly interested in trying to forge a link between theoretical reflexivity and political practice, then, No Logo can be read as a neoMarxist tome. In this essay, though, I want to suggest that Klein’s work is (knowingly or not) deeply Marxian in its argument, in more senses than just this.”
Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism!
David Yaffe: People against multinational corporations (nr.154, juli-aug. 2000).
“We should be grateful that such a substantial and inspiring book has been written about a new and alternative political movement.”
(På dansk i Solidaritet, se nedenfor).
The Guardian
Katharine Viner: Hand-to-brand-combat, 1-2 (23. sept. 2000).
“As a teenager, Naomi Klein was a dedicated mall rat, fixated on designer labels. A bare decade later, the author of a life-changing book on anti-corporatism and the new politics, she is at the heart of the protest at the current World Bank summit in Prague. She tells Katharine Viner how everything turned around for her.”
Naomi Klein har en fast commentar i avisen, se Guardian columnist.
In These Times
Naomi Klein: Kamikaze capitalists (9. november, 2001).
“What do you call someone who believes so firmly in the promise of salvation through a set of rigid rules that he is willing to risk his own life to spread those rules? A religious fanatic? A holy warrior? How about a U.S. trade negotiator?”
Jane Slaughter: The next Seattle : Naomi Klein looks into the future of the movement (25. dec. 2000).
“It has been nearly a year since the ‘Battle in Seattle’ gave the globalizers a wake-up call. Many on the left were equally jolted by the commitment and radicalism of the young protesters, who seemed to arrive out of nowhere. But the events of Seattle were foretold by 30-year-old Canadian Naomi Klein. In her 1999 book, ‘No Logo’, Klein explained how corporations’ twin profit strategies – their hyper-marketing and their outsourcing of labor – had created a generation of activists who feel no stake in the system. Klein spoke with ‘In These Times’ from Seattle.”
Internasjonal Sosialisme
Andreas Ytterstad: En ny klassiker for en ny bevegelse: Om No Logo av Naomi Klein (nr. 6, høsten 2000)
“Denne boka er et must for antikapitalister og sosialister som vil forstå mangfoldet, utviklingen og forklaringen på denne verdensomspennende bevegelsen.”
The Nation
Naomi Klein: A fete for the end of the end of history (19. marts 2001). Om World Social Forum/Porto Alegre.
Naomi Klein: The vision thing (10. juli 2000). “This conference is not like other conferences.”
Jane Slaughter: Brands ‘R’ us (12. juni 2000). Anmelderartikel af bøger af Jeremy Rifkin og Naomi Klein.
New Left Review
Naomi Klein: Reclaiming the commons (nr. 9, maj-juni 2001, s. 81-89).
“The anti-globalization movement is the talk of the financial press. Naomi Klein asks how far it is against globalization and whether it is a movement, arguing it is better described as a broadening series of different struggles against privatization””in every sense.”
Tom Mertes: On No Logo (nr.4, juli-aug. 2000, s. 168-176).
“Tom Mertes on Naomi Klein, No Logo. Emblems of ownership: from branding hides to clothes, cattle to people? A Canadian reporter’s stinging attack on the new corporate logic behind logo-mania.”
NoLogo.org (online at Internet Archive, 2012)
Naomo Kleins site. Har materiale om hende bøger og løbende artikler.
Politiken
Jes Stein Pedersen: Mærkning af mennesker (1.dec. 2001).
“Det er både en intellektuel og æstetisk nydelse af arbejde sig gennem ‘No Logo’. Hold kæft, hvor er det lang tid siden, man har mødt en intellektuel fra vesten, der har gjort noget, der bare minder om det Naomi Klein præsterer i ‘No Logo’, hvis næsten forførende kapitalismekritik med rette har vakt opsigt.”
Salt
Naomi Klein: Uden logo (nr. 5, oktober 2000, s.10-11).
Socialistisk Arbejderavis
Lene Junker: No Logo (nr.199, december 2001, s.8).
“Det er inspirerende læsning og man fornemmer klart, at herfra udgår Naomi Kleins håb og tro på, at en anden verden faktisk er mulig. Begivenhederne de sidste to år har overgået alle forventninger.”
Bevægelsen er gået fra anti-globalisering til anti-kapitalisme (nr.191, marts 2001, s.9).
“Naomi Klein’s bog No Logo røber hvordan multinationale firmaer kvæler folks liv. Den er blevet en kæmpesucces efter protesterne i Seattle. Socialistisk Arbejderavis’ britiske søsteravis, Socialist Worker, har talt med Naomi Klein.”
Socialist Register
Naomi Klein: Farewell to “The end of history”: organization and vision in anti-corporate movements (2002)
“For the past thirty years, a select group of CEOs and world leaders have met during the last week in January on a mountaintop in Switzerland to do what they presumed they were the only ones entitled to do, or capable of doing: determine how the global economy should be governed. We were cheering because it was, in fact, the last week of January, and this wasn’t the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. It was the first annual World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil. And even though we weren’t CEOs or world leaders, we were still going to spend the week talking about how the global economy should be governed.”
Solidaritet
David Yaffe: Folket imod de multinationale (nr.1, marts 2001, s.25-29; online på Internet Archive).
“De multinationale firmaer dominerer alle sider af vores liv. De er de drivende kræfter bag globaliseringen, herrer over de imperialistiske magters økonomier, superudbyttere af de underudviklede nationer, skaberere af forskellige livsstile og i stigende grad de bestemmende over kunst- og kulturformer verden over. Hvordan er det sket, og hvordan bekæmpes det? David Yaffe diskuterer en ny og inspirerende bog.”
Yes Magazine
Walden Bello: No Logo: A brilliant but flawed portrait of contemporary capitalism (september 2001).
“Naomi Klein paints an unparalleled portrait of the culture of capitalism in the age of globalization. She also provides us with the best analysis yet of the rise of the anti-globalization movement. She has, moreover, written a very insightful work on the dynamics of light manufacturing, the service sector, entertainment, and retail, where marketing has eclipsed manufacturing, where selling the product has given way to establishing the hegemony of the brand in the consumer’s total lifestyle. But the portrait is incomplete and one-dimensional.”
Aktivist- og Resurcesteder
Adbusters
Kreativ aktivisme vendt mod de multinationale. Udgiver tidsskriftet Adbusters hver anden måned.
Americas.org: Resource Center of the Americas
Nyheder og resurcer i forhold til Mexico, Mellem- og Sydamerika.
Asia Monitor Resource Center (AMRC)
Hong Kong-baseret site.
Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC)
Et internationalt netværk for forbedrede forhold for arbejdere i tekstil- og sportstøjsindustrien på verdensplan. Udgiver nyhedsbrevet Clean Clothes.
Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO)
Hollandsk kampagne- og forskningssted. Udgiver kvartalstidsskriftet Corporate Europe Observer. Kendt i Danmark for bogen Euro A/S (Klim 2000). Har en større linkssamling.
Corporate Predators (online at Internet Archive, 2011)
Top 100 Corporate Criminals of the Decade, som er et større uddrag fra Mokhiber/Weissman’s bog: Corporate Predators.
CorpWatch
Et større amerikansk site med nyheder og analyser af de multinationale verden over. Har en Research Guide.
Corporate Watch
Engelsk kvartalstidsskrift, som ligger online. Se også deres Resources: Companies.
Ethical Consumer
Engelsk site om de store firmaer bag mærkevarerne. Har en Boycott List.
Global Exchange
Amerikansk kampagnested is an international human rights organization dedicated to promoting social, economic and environmental justice
Global Policy Forum
Transnational Corporations. Artikler og statistik om de multinationale.
Globalize Resistance
“Groups and individuals opposed to the gobal growth of corporate power”.
Human Rights for Workers
“The World Crusade against Sweatshops and why it needs your support”.
Et nyhedsbrev, som udkommer et par gange om måneden. Har links om Workers Rights Issue.
Institute for Policy Studies
Sarah Anderson/John Cavanagh: Top 200 : the rise of corporate global power (4. dec. 2000, 17 s., pdf) + interview med Sarah Anderson.
Maquila Solidarity Network (MSN)
Canadisk kampagnested, som dækker Mexico, Centralamerika og Asien. Har en større emneinddelt Resources.
McSpotlight
Stort site udelukkende om fastfood-kæden McDonald.
Multinational Monitor
Månedligt tidsskrift med fokus på de multinationales aktiviteter, specielt i 3. Verden.
No Sweat: The UK Campaign Against Sweatshops
“No Sweat is an activist, campaigning organisation, fighting sweatshop bosses, in solidarity with workers, worldwide”.
Sweatshop Watch
Californisk kampagnested, som arbejder i forhold til tekstilindustriens sweatshops over hele verden.
Transnationale.org
En større portal med fakta om de enkelte firmaer.
Unite Here!
Fagligt kampagnested mod sweatshops i USA, Canada, Mexico og Mellemamerika.
United Students against Sweatshops (USAS)
Amerikansk organisation bag Sweat-Free Campus Campaign.
