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Introduction of the January 7, 2021 session organized by CRID and ATTAC for the preparation of the January 2021 WSF.
The challenges of the World Social Forum 2021 are high. In a deep contradictory world situation, it must make it possible to: redefine an alterglobalist proposal (...)
On the twentieth anniversary of the 1999 ‘Battle of Seattle’, the event marking the beginning of the so-called anti-globalisation movement, the Editorial Committee of the transform ! europe yearbook organised a discussion with five activists of the World Social Forum (WSF) and the European (...)
This was my conclusion, but it did not last for long, just the first days of the Forum. Today, I am not that sure anymore. Maybe we are stuck with the old apolitical forum and with a powerless International Council. What does this mean for the future?
Salvador de Bahia in Brazil is a (...)
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In less than a week, the first ever World Social Forum to take place in the global north will begin in Montreal, Quebec. Unless quick action is taken, a significant number of delegates from countries in the global south will not attend due to unjustified delays and denials in visa processing (...)
Genesis of the WSF
The World Social Forum (WSF) was born following the emergence of the anti-globalisation movement in the 1990s, including the Zapatista uprising against NAFTA in 1994, the campaign against the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) in 1998 and the great mobilisation in (...)
The WSF needs updating for a post-Arab Spring, post-Indignado world, writes Nick Dearden. The problems and the possibilities were both on show in Tunisia.
The Tunisian World Social Forum has been the most energetic, lively, youthful forum held in recent years. You could be in no doubt that (...)
The World Social Forum (WSF) wound up its ninth centralized edition on Saturday, 30 March in the Tunisian capital with a significant quantifiable end result. More than 50,000 participants, almost one thousand activities of many kinds; an opening march on Tuesday the 26th that brought out (...)
Tunisia, cradle of the revolts in the Arab world, hosts from today [26 March] and until Saturday the World Social Forum (WSF), the most important international meeting of social movements and organizations. And this is not by chance. The promoters of the WSF chose this country in reference (...)
How many times and for how long the alterglobalist movement in general and the World Social Forum in particular have been declared ‘dead’? It happened so many times that one can only conclude that there must be quite some people who really want them to fail. Though I think they will have to be (...)
Capitalist crisis, social and environmental justice was the subject of the Thematic Social Forum organised in the run up to the People’s Summit of Rio+20, which was held in Porto Alegre from January 25-28 and brought together at least 60,000 participants in about 600 activities. (40,000 of (...)
The defence of the earth, the ecosystem and biodiversity is one of the most important topics on the agenda of the social movements in Latin America today and that is precisely what is at stake in the United Nations Summit on Sustainable Development Rio +20, which will take place in June 2012 (...)
Aphrodite Politi (a Greek journalist) participated in the Porto Alegre Thematic Social Forum where he spoke of the Greek situation and the preparation of Rio+20 (next June). He answered the following questions.
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What are the most important things or questions in Rio+ (...)
In a world plunged ever deeper into an uncivilised global capitalist condition, the World Social Forum is a crucial beacon of hope. But while news of Egypt and Tunisia’s revolutions electrified activists at this year’s gathering in Dakar, Vishwas Satgar asks whether progressive civil society (...)
Last week’s World Social Forum (WSF) in Dakar [[http://d2dworldsocialforumdakar2011.blogspot.com], Senegal, ended up riotously happy thanks to the eviction of a universally-hated Egyptian Pharoah, after near-debilitating logistical disasters at the event’s outset. Each year, in order to oppose (...)
The World Social Forum (WSF) is practically the only space for convergence of social movements on a planetary scale, so it is essential to continue strengthening it. This is the stance of Éric Toussaint, global justice analyst, who knows the World Social Forum from the inside as he has been a (...)
From 21 January to 2 February 2010 Eric Toussaint and Olivier Bonfond, both involved in alterglobalization activism, members of the International Council of the WSF, of the world coordination of social movements, and of the international network CADTM (Committee for the Abolition of the (...)
Since the World Social Forum was launched in June 2000, at the Alternative Social Summit in Geneva, coinciding with the United Nations Assembly on Social Development, ten years have passed. In this decade, the world has changed and the context in which the World Social Forum (WSF) emerged is (...)
During the year when it celebrates the 10th anniversary of its process, the World Social Forum will not have a single global centralized event. In 2010, the WSF will happen in a permanent way all year-round, with events and activities being held throughout the world. It will be a year in which (...)
To read on ESSF the text commented below by Jai Sen, click here: The World Social Forum, a sustainable model?
This text was initialy written for the Spanish State magazine, Viento Sur (to be published in January). The English version posted on ESSF contains all the footnotes of the French (...)
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