One session is entitled "resisting globalisation".
As Paul Mason, culture and digital editor at Channel 4 News, told me, "For about 30 years, 'protest' in the UK was characterised as people resisting modernity: resisting globalisation, marketisation, harking back to days of social solidarity.
Portugal, one of the four EU countries with a majority centre-left government, has unveiled plans to subsidise wages in the car industry for up to a year, as production lines are idled.Such strategies are, alas, fated to collide with the second explanation for the PES's silence: that efforts to resist globalisation rarely work for long.
As mobility is increasing with globalisation, instead of resisting it, we should organise it.
Finally, it calls for a concerted critical research effort designed to uncover the workings of neoliberal agricultural globalisation in the region and suggests means of resisting its worst implications.
Instead of hinting that governments can hold globalisation at bay, explain its benefits and the costs of resisting it.
Given the forces ranged against it, the concept of Slow Food - to resist the homogenisation and globalisation of food production - may seem a bit fanciful.
However, today its purpose is not to resist the force of globalisation but to prepare for it, and to garner its vast potential benefits.
The resolution of the long and bitter battle for Airbus proves the same point: that governments that try to resist the pressure of globalisation may win time, but they will ultimately lose the fight.
But the insurgency, which came primarily from those who sought to resist the forces of globalisation has, by a striking paradox, released the Conservative right from its cage – not the one-nation right, but the free-market right of Margaret Thatcher and Enoch Powell.
The international sharing of both tactics and inspiration highlights globalisation's double-edged sword: property developers and investors may be operating simultaneously in Berlin, London and Barcelona, but the people resisting gentrification in these cities are beginning to network themselves, too.
