Walden Bello’s Keynote Speech to the Forum on European Union-Latin America Trade Relations, Brussels, June 28, 2017 (by Skype from Tokyo).
I would like to thank the Transnational Institute and other sponsors of the conference for inviting me to make the opening address. I am not exactly sure if (...)
The Global Left Will Fail Unless it Understands the Feminisation of the Workforce. Global capital hurts people of colour the most, says the celebrated activist.
Angela Davis is a public intellectual extraordinaire. She has been an academic, an activist, a scholar and an author. Richard Nixon (...)
The situation seems to be desperate. The offensive of the right wing and the far right movements occupies space and minds. It spreads out in the media and claims to express the shift of societies to the right. This is not the case and nothing has been decided yet. Societies resist and (...)
We are experiencing a period of considerable turmoil and great uncertainty. We are probably experiencing a change of epoque, during which old trends try to hold on rigidly, initiating new trends. Antonio Gramsci (the Italian Marxist theorist and politician)’s quote is pertinent: “The old world is (...)
Speech delivered at the opening plenary session of the 111th Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Washington State Convention Center, August 19, 2016.
Walden Bello shares some reflections on the meaning of Seattle for change in knowledge systems, discusses how despite the deep (...)
PRESENTATION INTERCOLL
Intercoll is an open space for the development and confrontation of social and citizen movements. It is run by people linked to the movements, everyone involved in the struggles and mobilizations. It deals with activists who engage in an intellectual work to renew, from (...)
Michael Löwy discusses Pope Francis’s recent Encyclical Laudati Si’, ecosocialism and left unity in Europe today
February 19,2016 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal — Michael Löwy is a militant of the French section of the Fourth International. His wide-ranging interests include, in (...)
Waiting for political change to come about once every few years at election time is not only frustrating, but is an almost sure-fire way of ensuring that the changes you really want don’t get delivered within the time frames that are necessary.
If we really want to see change, then to (...)
In parallel to the EU-US trade deal currently under way, the US is negotiating a similar agreement with 11 countries of the Asia Pacific: the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Walden Bello, leading critic of neoliberal and corporate globalisation, identifies the global strategy underpinning the (...)
A hazard facing mass movements is the NGO-ization of resistance. It will be easy to twist what I’m about to say into an indictment of all NGOs. That would be a falsehood. In the murky waters of fake NGOs set up or to siphon off grant money or as tax dodges (in states like Bihar, they are given (...)
Here is the second part of the long interview given by Eric Toussaint to Anthony Legrand on the 11th of July 2014. The interview addresses how an organization like the CADTM analyzes its activities in the context of North / South relationships.
For part 1 of this interview, see on ESSF (...)
In March 2012, over 200,000 Quebec students are waging a general strike against tuition increases and have faced brutal police repression. British Columbia teachers just finished a three-day strike against an austerity budget and are set to engage in further strike action. Teacher collective (...)
The philosophy and experience of radical movements in the 1960s and 70s are in several ways complementary to the ideas of the direct action movements of today. Hilary Wainwright examines the possibility of forging a new kind of political economy by learning from the best of both of them.
The (...)
Text of a talk introducing Workers, Unions, and Global Capitalism: Lessons from India (Columbia University Press, New York, and Tulika Books, New Delhi) at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi, on 23 January 2012.
I started working on what became this book more than ten years ago, (...)
Using NGOs as a scapegoat for depoliticising is also only partially true. Nepal, for instance, with a large NGO sector, belies the depoliticisation myth. Nepal has seen a Maoist victory in elections. It is not correct to say that NGOs do not depoliticise. However, the NGO sector is not a cause (...)
Jean Eriquez’s paper of the presentation she would do in Seoul in the People’s G20 Response if she had not been deported by the South Korean government, on behalf of the other G20 countries.
On the deportation, see: WMW IC member is deported from South Korea
We know by now that the Group of 20 (...)
Paper written by the Korean People’s Solidarity for Social Progress (PSSP) to prepare people’s mobilisations at the occasion of the G2O meeting in Seoul.
Part I:
1. What is the G20?
The G20 is group of 20 countries: The G7 (the U.S., The United Kingdom, Germany, France, Japan, Italy, Canada) (...)
At the end of June 2010, fifteen thousand social movement activists gathered in Detroit, Michigan for the second United States Social Forum (USSF). Less than two months later, about half that number met at the other end of the continent in Asunción, Paraguay for the fourth Americas Social Forum (...)
The events at the Saturday G20 demonstration in Toronto last week have provoked a series of responses already. This article is not meant to review the events of the day itself, but to look at the questions raised by the demonstrations and tactics used for the left.
Suffice to say the reaction (...)
INTERVIEW. According to Eric Toussaint, a doctor in political science and one of the ideologists of the World Social Forum, now in its tenth edition, effective political action calls for the creation of a permanent national front of parties, social movements and international networks.
Eric (...)
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