Towards a politics of solidarity.(Editorial)

If indeed poverty and lack of development is a result of a myriad of economic, social, political, and cultural factors, then we, feminists and social justice activists, need to be able to go beyond our specific advocacy.

Our challenge is to draw a clearer analysis of how these issues-whether WTO, food security, reproductive health, political participation, environment, arms trade, trafficking, or media and ICT-are interlinked and move towards collective action. For instance, we need to look at policy coherence in all these outcome documents-from the Hong Kong Ministerial Draft Text, the Kyoto Protocol, the BPfA, the ICPD PoA, and the MDGs, to outcomes from the Review Conference on Small Arms, WSIS, WSSD, WEF, APEC, and ASEAN, among others. *

For this issue of we! Isis has attempted to look at various issues to see where the global neoliberal project is railroading us, as well as to showcase various ways of civil society resistance.

We see that working towards a politics of solidarity between the various social justice movements as vital in moving the discussion beyond the usual "globalisation is bad for developing countries" and "trade liberalisation hits women harder" talk. Using Our incisive feminist lens and analysis as a framework, we need to be able to speak the trade agreement language and play the numbers game.

We will continue to draw our strength from our diverse experiences and struggles. However, we must bring in people with technical expertise--lawyers, economists, financial analysts, trade experts, statisticians, and mathematicians--to strengthen our advocacy.

To be able to ...