Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by SZCZECH Clayton, ZUCKER Shira
LIKE WATTS, KENT State, Waco, and Seattle, “Genoa” now means something much more than a mere geographical location in popular consciousness. This birthplace of Christopher Columbus hosted the 2001 summit of the Group 8 (G8), the largest European protest in over twenty years, and the first death (…)
, by VERCAMMEN François
The battle of Genoa will go down in social history. It has sent shockwaves through every political sphere; thanks to television, it has penetrated the most modest households in the most distant corners of the planet.
The final - provisional - result is not in doubt: a heavy moral-symbolic (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers, KOVEL Joel, LÖWY Michael
The idea for this ecosocialist manifesto was jointly launched by Joel Kovel and Michael Lowy, at a September, 2001, workshop on ecology and socialism held at Vincennes, near Paris. We all suffer from a chronic case of Gramsci’s paradox, of living in a time whose old order is dying (and taking (…)
, by AGUITON Christophe
Before the Genoa demonstration
, by World Social Forum
The committee of Brazilian organizations that conceived of, and organized, the first World Social Forum, held in Porto Alegre from January 25th to 30th, 2001, after evaluating the results of that Forum and the expectations it raised, consider it necessary and legitimate to draw up a Charter of (…)
, by AGUITON Christophe
This article is the adaptation of an interview realised for the newspaper Liberation, copy n°6248, 18/06/2001. The Swedish police had used firearms against demonstrators at the occasion of a European Council, in Gothenburg, discussing new measures of work “flexibility” and reduction of social (…)
Since mid-March, day and night, pyres have been burning in the British countryside. Piles (some up to 130 feet high) of animal carcasses in open fields, heaped helter-skelter on rubber tyres and railway sleepers, charred by flames that fill the air with the stench of burning flesh and smoke, (…)
, by BELLO Walden, BULLARD Nicola
The Global conjuncture
Social forces from around the world have gathered here at the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre. Unions and NGOs, movements and organizations, intellectuals and artists, together we are building a great alliance to create a new society, different from the dominant logic wherein the free-market (…)
, by World Parliamentary Forum
WPF: 2001 Porto Alegre Declaration
, by HEALY Sean
The French seaside resort town of Nice, on the country’s Mediterranean coast, added its name to the list of “insurgent cities” — a list which already includes Seattle, Washington, Prague and Melbourne — when, on December 6-7, 70,000 people from across Europe protested outside the European (…)
, by DRUCKER Peter
FEBRUARY 28, 1991. Thinking that weeks of war and antiwar organizing were still ahead (not my only mistake during those months!), I took a Canadian vacation at the end of February 1991 with my lover Christopher. On the morning of February 28 I got up in Vancouver in the friend’s house where we (…)
, by ALI Tariq, FINKEL David
DANIEL SINGER, A close friend of Against the Current and longtime European correspondent for The Nation, died December 2, 2000.
Born in Warsaw, Poland in September 1926, Daniel Singer became a committed socialist in the tradition of Rosa Luxemburg, and always a passionate internationalist. (…)
, by KIM Iggy
CONTENTS O20 actions Background ’Critical engagement’ Role of the KCTU Partners in global neo-liberalism
On October 20 (O20) and the days before, a series of lively demonstrations against the third Asia-Europe Parliamentary Meeting (ASEM) signalled Seoul’s entry into the growing worldwide (…)
, by BELLO Walden
The last year will probably go down as one of those defining moments in the history of the world economy, like 1929. Of course, the structures of global capitalism appear to be solid, with many in the global elite in Washington, Europe, and Asia congratulating themselves for containing the Asian (…)
, by WATANABE Hiroshi
I participated in the ASEM 2000 People’s Forum in Seoul from October 18 to 21 with Tono Haruhi, the Corepresentative of APWSL Japan. ASEM stands for the Asia-Europe Meeting and is a biennial summit of 25 countries from Asia and Europe. The first ASEM was held in Bangkok in 1996 and the second (…)
, by Daniel Singer Foundation, LÖWY Michael
About Daniel Singer
Daniel Singer was born on September 26, 1926, in Warsaw, was educated in France, Switzerland and England and died on December 2, 2000, in Paris.
He was a contributor to The Economist, The New Statesman, the Tribune and The Nation (where he was Europe correspondent for (…)
, by GREENFIELD Gerard
In the neoliberal ice-age of the early 1980s through to the end of the 1990s, global capitalists and their supporters expressed supreme confidence in their victory over us. This confidence is symbolized in the posters and billboards launched by the Financial Times in the mid-1990s, declaring: (…)
, by CNDP (India)
Preamble
India’s self-proclaimed entry into the ’nuclear weapons club’ in May 1998, when it conducted five nuclear tests in Pokhran, Rajasthan is ethically reprehensible as well as socially, politically, and economically ruinous. India and Pakistan have now joined the original five members of (…)
, by TOUSSAINT Éric
Seoul: ASEM 2000
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