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Academic discourse about anti-globalisation movements has thus far focused on the more obvious aspects of organised resistance in North American and European contexts. But the category of ‘globalisation’ refers to a process that necessarily produces an ‘endlessly nuanced’ variation of concrete effects. This makes it essential to identify its impact, and to analyse corresponding instances of anti-globalisation resistance, in specific contexts. This chapter focuses on the vital struggle against the effects of globalisation, and for social justice and truth, currently being waged in Mozambique. It aims to bring to the attention of a broad audience the particularities of the Mozambican struggle for social justice and to show how it converges with, and disrupts, dominant understandings of the anti-globalisation movement. In addition, the chapter puts forward a defence of objectivity and truth in the study of anti-globalisation activism. While the chapter shares the rejection of positivism prevalent in much critical academic literature in this area, its offers a defence of objectivity that is rooted in a Marxist and critical realist epistemological framework and, more importantly, in a close study of the struggle for social justice in Mozambique. At the heart of these struggles is a passionate concern for truth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]