Social Forum

• Japan : Rise of ”Hashism" - From Osaka to the National Political Arena

  2 May 2012

  Starting Point - "Osaka Metropolitan Government" and "Osaka Restoration Association" "Critics of Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto sometimes describe his politics as ’Hashism’, referring to a supposed similarity between some of his tactics and those of fascism."("The Asahi Shimbun", March 3, 2012) Hashimoto, a former lawyer and TV personality, was elected Governor of Osaka Prefecture in 2008 with his popularity and aggressive campaign against administration and public sector workers. He (...)

• Reflections on the current social forums process

  by Gustave Massiah

  23 January 2012

  Presentation by Gustave Massiah International Council, Dhaka, 23rd November 2011 This paper does not intend to provide an exhaustive analysis of the relationship between the processes of the WSF and the changing global situation, rather it will put forward some reflections on the subject. In order to do this I will begin with the events associated with the social forums process that we became aware of at the WSF in Dakar in February 2011, and those that are planned for 2012, in advance of (...)

• Dakar 2011 WSF: Political and Popular Success for the Assembly of Social Movements (ASM)

  
  by Olivier Bonfond

  2 May 2011

  After several years of stagnating, the Assembly of Social Movements (ASM), a process that brings together anticapitalist social forces, achieved a significant qualitative leap forward during the latest WSF that was held in Dakar from 6th to 11th February 2011. Over and above the popular success which meant that the assembly was one of the major events of the WSF, the ASM succeeded in reaching a consensus on a truly shared agenda of struggles, as well as respecting the diversity and various (...)

• Letter of solidarity with the struggle of women in the world

  28 February 2011

  In this year, 2011, the World Social Forum joins with the peoples of Africa for the third time, following Mali in 2006 and Kenya in 2007. We, women from different parts of the world who have gathered in Dakar, recognizing that uniting our strengths will eventually bring change, confirm our solidarity and our admiration for the struggles of Senegalese women, African women, and women of the world. Their struggles, alongside the struggles of all men and women, strengthen resistance everywhere (...)

• The World Social Forum and the battle for COP17

  by Vishwas Satgar

  18 February 2011

  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 is powerful enough to organise for a genuine climate change solution at COP17.

• WSF

  Declaration of the Social Movements Assembly

  12 February 2011

  As the Social Movements Assembly of the World Social Forum of Dakar, 2011, we are gathered here to affirm the fundamental contribution of Africa and its peoples in the construction of human civilisation. Together, the peoples of all the continents are struggling mightily to oppose the domination of capital, hidden behind illusory promises of economic progress and political stability. Complete decolonization for oppressed peoples remains for us, the social movements of the world, a challenge (...)

• The Social Movements Caravan lifts off for the WSF at Dakar !

  by Mike Krolikowski, Pauline Imbach, Zinaba Aboudou Rasmane

  1 February 2011

  CADTM Africa’s Social Movements Caravan is organized in collaboration with many social movements and associations including No Vox, the Malian association of expel-lees, the Togolese association of expel-lees, the NGO Mars Togo, Visions solidaires Togo, Grami Afrique, Central African ATTAC groups, ROAD… At one stop after another, in emblematic places of social struggles, other organizations and citizens on their way to Dakar joined the Caravan. The path, strewn with activists’ meetings, (...)

• The CADTM network mobilizes to ensure the success of the WSF at Dakar!

  
  by Myriam Bourgy

  1 February 2011

  This year, the World Social Forum will be held from 6 to 11 February 2011 in Dakar, Senegal. As usual, a delegation from the CADTM International network will be present. Almost 200 CADTM delegates from 23 countries and 4 continents will take part in this year’s Forum, 10 years after the first one in Porto Alegre in 2001. The CADTM will never have been so present and so active, at any WSF yet. For the first time, the Forum is taking place in West Africa where the CADTM is present in 9 (...)

• Towards the Dakar World Social Forum, February 2011

  “The challenge of a global solution outside the system”

  by Sergio Ferrari, Eric Toussaint

  25 January 2011

  Eric Toussaint interviewed by Sergio Ferrari 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 member of its guiding body since its founding, the International Council. Éric Toussaint is a Belgian historian and political scientist, and in Belgium, (...)

• Social Movements Assembly Declaration. IV Americas Social Forum, Asuncion, August 15, 2010

  27 August 2010

  Our America is coming! Nane Amérika TeeOnemongu’ Ehína! Social movements present at the IV Americas Social Forum, in Asuncion, Paraguay, we reaffirm our solidarity and commitment to Paraguayan people to the urgent need for progress in their process to sovereignty recovery over its territory, goods common, energy resources, land reform and democratization. We are in a continent where in recent decades there has been a reunion between social movements and indigenous movements, which from (...)

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