As we know, the global justice movement is far from agreed about anti-captialisam. Indeed, there are critics who want to give globlization a human face and their also are those who champion the dispossessed, aspiring "not to reform" capitalism "but to stop it. The differnce between these perspectives is frequently depicted as a clash between the more cautious approaces of NGOs and labour leaders in the North and the more confrontational tactics of generally younger "direct action" militants who organize street protests at trade meetings. In, truth, the issue is much larger, transcending what happens at trade meetings.

Forbes magazine, a major US business publication, broached the divergene with the global justice movement in several articles in its Novemer 2000 isse, Criticizing the grassroots rebellions in India that pressured the country's Supreme Court to order a halt to Monsanto's field experiments with genetically-engineered cotton which the magazine blamed for having "wrecked Monsanto,  Forbes lauded such NGOs as Oxfam International for their responsible and cooperative approach, In particular, the magazine commended the groups's British manger calim the "Oxfam's point of view isn't that globalization is bad per se. We don't want to get red of the World Bank or IMF, because if you didn't have them the situation would get worse." Operating as a polite respectable opposition that "would rather duke it out in the conference room than on the steets," the writers pointed out, Oxfam was rewarded with an invitation to contribute to the World Bank''s report on International development.

Rather than genuinely transforming policy, NGOs like Oxfam "are in fact helping the WTO out if its crises of legitimacy," says labour researcher Gerald Green Field. Having  suffered huge public relations disasters, the World Bank and WTO have both undertaken a major facelife designed to give them  friendly, more humane images. They care, really care, about poverty, they insist, In fact, the Banks's Website now bears the slogan, "Our dream is a world free of poverty." Another prominent box on the we page intones, "Globalization must work for the poor." Slogans come cheap however. What better way to change image than bringing the critics inside and letting them write policy papers and spruce up their apperance. Heavily relaint on donors, particularly governments, most NGOs crave a basic level of respectability in elite circles. Frequently, they are prepared to offer the globalizers a human face by entering a "dialogue" with them and taking some of their funds for charitable operations in the South.