What is the anti-globalisation movement?

The term anti-globalization is allocated as a unified name to the movement by the media. It refers not to the opposition of globalization per se, but the opposition of different aspects of globalization. There is a wide variety of different kinds of "anti-globalization".
In general, critics claim that the results of globalization have not been what was predicted when the attempt to increase free trade began, and that many institutions involved in the system of globalization have not taken the interests of poorer nations and the working class into account. This has resulted in a number of negative effects of cultural, political, and economic globalization.
Many claim that it is simply a "buzz-word to denote the latest phase of capitalism", whereas others believe that globalization maybe "the latest stage of Western imperialism".
The anti-globalisation movement developed in the late twentieth century to combat the globalisation of corporate economic activity and the free trade with developing nations that might ensue
Members of the anti-globalisation movement generally support anarchist, socialist or social democratic alternatives to capitalist economics, and seek to protest the world’s population and ecosystem from what they believe to be the damaging effects of globalisation
Although adherents of the movement often work together, the movement itself is heterogeneous.
It includes diverse and sometimes opposing understanding of the globalisation process, and incorporates alternative visions, strategies and tactics
Many of the groups and organisations that are considered part of the movement were not founded as antiglobalist, but have their roots in various pre-existing social and political movements


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