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19th of June 2011: let’s take the streets!
No to the ‘Euro Pact’, a new attack against democracy: we are not products in the hands of politicians and bankers
6 June 2011
Once more the European rulers have decided against the interest of the citizens and in favour of the big financial corporations. On the 27th of June all the European governments will sign in Brussels the ‘Euro Pact’, a socio-economic agreement for an international alliance according to which the countries of the European Union will legislate in line with the dictates of the International Monetary fund (IMF), of the European Central Bank (ECB) and of the World Bank (WB). Should the various (...)
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WSF International Council, march 31st to april 3rd, Aubja, Nigeria
World Social Forum in debate
13 May 2008
Following the first "Global Day of Action", which took place on January 26th, and after 7 years of existence, the World Social Forum is in debate.
A political and strategical debate focused on the process of the FSM, the international situation as well as the anti-globalization's movement as a whole.
What possibilities? What challenges?
Here, you'll find some of the contributions that feed the debate.
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Your Money or Your Life. Make Capitalism History
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CADTM
8 February 2008
Jérôme Ollier’s reply to the President of the Brussels Stock exchange published by Le Soir on page 19 of its 7 February issue
Photo coverage of Jérôme Ollier’s action
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Inside the murky world of the UK’S Make Poverty
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Stuart Hodkinson
27 June 2005
Make Poverty History would seem an unprecedented success story in UK development politics. Uniting trade unions, charities, NGOs and a stellar-cast of celebrities, its cause is dominating media coverage while the campaign’s white wristband is being worn the world over. So why, as the G8 summit approaches, are leading members briefing against each other to the press and African social movements saying ’nothing about us, without us’? Stuart Hodkinson investigates. For a sun-soaked Friday in (...)
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Interview with Eric Toussaint, President of the CADTM
Social movements and political power - an essential debate
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Sergio Ferrari
7 July 2004
A World Social Forum mounted by its own participants Interview with Eric Toussaint, President of the CADTM (Comité pour l’annulation de la dette du Tiers Monde - Committee for the Abolition of Third World Debt) The phase of preparation for the World Social Forum to be held at Porto Alegre between 26th and 31st January 2005 is now officially open. This fifth edition is to represent a ‘qualitative leap’, explains Eric Toussaint, President of the CADTM and member of the WSF International (...)
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Dialogue with Denise Comanne and Eric Toussaint, CADTM
The international debt network
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Oscar Reyes ,
Naima Bouteldja
3 July 2004
This case study on the international debt network is focused on one of the major international networks campaigning on the debt issue: Committee for the Abolition of Third World Debt (CADTM). It is based on both web research and a dialogue with Denise Comanne and Eric Toussaint, respectively coordinator and chair of CADTM, who have kindly answered our questions. Origins of the networks CADTM was set up in Belgium in 1990 out of a conference involving a broad range of social movements and (...)
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We Dream A World: Resisting & Surviving Six Decades of the IMF & World Bank
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Soren Ambrose,
Njoki Njoroge Njehu
5 April 2004
During the 60th anniversary year, we are going to be exposing again the record of the IMF and the World Bank, the institutions which have, at the direction of the wealthiest governments — especially the United States government — created and enforced the rules of the global economy.
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World Social Forum, Mumbaï 2004
Call of the Social Movements
13 February 2004
We the social movements united in Assembly in the city of Mumbai, India, share the struggles of the people of India and all Asians. We reiterate our opposition to the neoliberal system which enerates economic, social and environmental crises and produces war ...
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The Specter of “Alter-Globalization”
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Aleksandr Buzgalin
4 January 2004
The specter is haunting the world, the specter of “anti-globalization”. Bushes and Blairs, Liberals and Stalinists, fundamentalists and chauvinists are united in their efforts to exorcise this specter.
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Onthe way to Mumbaï
Another World is Possible. After All!
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Eric Toussaint
26 December 2003
Those who say globalisation is unavoidable should realise that they can be bypassed or overthrown.