George Monbiot's new book

[Chris Burford <cburford@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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"Our task is not to overthrow globalisation, but to capture it, and
to use it as a vehicle for humanity's first global democratic
revolution." 

Guardian columnist George Monbiot's new book - The Age of Consent, a
Manifesto for a New World Order - addresses the question: what would
democratic global governance look like? 

Monbiot's thesis is that the existing global system is in trouble, with
the United Nations bypassed by the war with Iraq. He proposes a series of
measures aimed at ensuring that the world is run by and for its people:

A world parliament with two chambers; the scrapping of the UN security
council; the replacement of the IMF and the World Bank by an
international clearing union of the kind first proposed by John Maynard
Keynes; and a global trade regime which permits poor nations to protect
their industries and subjects multinational companies to mandatory fair
trade laws. 

The book also contains a withering attack on some of the policies of the
anti-globalisation movement. 

George Monbiot is the author of the bestselling Captive State. 

? The Age of Consent, a Manifesto for a New World Order, by George
Monbiot, is published on June 16 2003 by Flamingo. Price £15.99 hardback

Dates for George Monbiot's tour with The Age of Consent
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,5673,971435,00.html

Read George Monbiot's Guardian columns http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,5673,969256,00.html