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Five Fingers Beat 16,000 G8 Cops: Are we winning, again? by Ben Trott (June 2007)

From 6-8 June 2007, for over 44 hours, every road into and out of the enormous ’Red Zone’ surrounding the 2007 G8 summit in Heiligendamm was blockaded. According to the Financial Times on the opening day, the blockades had ’tipped the G8 summit into logistical chaos’. The mobilisation to Heiligendamm was the return of the alter-globalisation movement. Ben Trott analyses how the event turned out to be such a success? What are its implications? And what next?

Moving against by Ben Trott (June 2007)

When the G8 travelling circus rolls up to Rostock in Germany this month, it will again be met with mass protests. Ben Trott reports on the efforts of the German left to unite and draw lessons from the protests at the 2005 Gleneagles summit

Profiting from pollution - The G8 nations and emissions trading by Kevin Smith (June 2007)

Tackling climate change is likely to be at the top of the agenda at this month’s G8 summit in Heiligendamm, Germany. But the emissions trading schemes promoted by G8 countries are deferring genuine climate action, while generating massive profits for the largest polluters.

G8 – Africa nil by Stuart Hodkinson (November 2005)

Four months on and with the ‘historic G8 deal for Africa’ already in tatters, the Make Poverty History coalition is as silent as it was once ubiquitous. Ahead of December’s World Trade Organisation summit in Hong Kong, Stuart Hodkinson investigates

Don’t hold your breath by Melanie Jarman (July 2005)

As protesters prepare to give the G8 a warm Scottish welcome, Melanie Jarman predicts little chance of any agreement on climate change, save perhaps recognition, finally, that it is actually taking place

G8 Protests by Natasha Grzincic, Stuart Hodkinson (July 2005)

Lucky enough to get time off to head to the G8? Natasha Grzincic and Stuart Hodkinson bring you Red Pepper’s indispensable guide to resisting world leaders and staying alive in Scotland

The Bitter Taste of Evian - A Diary of the G-8 Summit by Stuart Hodkinson (July 2003)

The G-8 Summit took place on 1-3 June 2003 in Evian, France, overlooking Lake Geneva. Too small for the large delegations and translation teams, Chirac persuaded Switzerland to lend him its hotels, highways and police forces on the other side of the lake. With Evian a no-go militarised zone even to a comedy terrorist, attention focused on three key locations outside: nearby Annemasse in France, and the coastal towns of Geneva and Lausanne in Switzerland. Tens of thousands of protesters travelled from across Europe and the world to denounce the "Gang of 8", declare the meeting illegitimate and shut it down. Stuart Hodkinson was one of them. The following extracts are taken from his G-8 diary.

Swiss cops face G8 legal blizzard by Stuart Hodkinson (July 2003)

They said they didn’t want another Genoa, but Switzerland’s police are facing their own small-scale version of the legal avalanche currently being prepared for Italy’s Carabinieri.