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What are the challenges of World Social Forum 2021 in relation to the global situation?
18 January 2021 - by Gustave Massiah
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: (...) -
The World Social Forum is dead! Long live the World Social Forum?
26 March 2018 - by Francine Mestrum
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 (...) -
Investment chapters in Trade Agreements
13 September 2016 - by Piedad Mancero
Submitted at the World Social Forum by invitation of Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, - Berlin, Germany I. Background. Since the beginning of the millennium, public awareness of the costs and subjugation several countries in the region were (...) -
Zoé Konstantopoulou unmasks the reality of debt in the Social Forum: “The people did not know the truth”
23 August 2016 - by Rototom
Debts that suffocate citizens and governments prefer to rescue the banking or real estate sector before restoring social stability. Zoé Konstantopolou and Eric Toussaint Social talk about Debtocracy at the Social Forum. Expenses, cuts, debt (...) -
WMW Declaration at the World Social Forum 2016, Montréal
22 August 2016 - by World March of Women
The World Social Forum took place from the 9th to the 14th August in Montreal, Quebec, a territory that we acknowledge as indigenous territory of the Mohawk people. This acknowledgement makes visible the colonization of these territories, as (...) -
East and Central European Social Forum in Wroclaw
4 April 2016 - by Pierre Gottiniaux
Europe is about to implode. This was the first point made at the East and Central European Social Forum which was held in Wroclaw from 11th to 13th March 2016. Since the banking crisis broke out in 2008, rapidly becoming a worldwide crisis of (...) -
The abuses of the World Social Forum: Towards the end of the process?
22 April 2015 - by Mimoun Rahmani
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 (...) -
Against all threats to health and social protection, let’s mobilise together!
1 April 2015 - by Collective
Starting from a proposal issued by an initial group, we as organisations, social movements, trade unions, and other groups and individuals present in Tunis for the World Social Forum shared our analysis, experiences and perspectives around (...) -
Building another Europe – Now is the Time to Act !
31 March 2015 - by Collective
The Convergence assembly gathered in the context of the World Social Forum in Tunis on 28 March 2015 conveys its solidarity with the Greek people fighting against austerity, for democracy, social change and another Europe. The Assembly is (...) -
Declaration of the Assembly of Social Movements – World Social Forum 2015
29 March 2015 - by Assembly of Social Movements
People united will never be defeated ! The Assembly of Social Movements of the WSF 2015, Tunisia is where we come together in all our diversity, in order to forge a collective agenda to fight capitalism, imperialism, patriarchy, racism and all (...) -
Tunisia Once Again the Site for the Next WSF in March 2015
The World Social Forum (WSF) space belongs to the entire alterglobalist movement, and it must take ownership of it
24 October 2014 - by Sergio Ferrari, Mimoun Rahmani
The Arab Spring is now going through a frustrating period of setbacks. From this perspective, the fact that the next World Social Forum will again take place in Tunis, from 24 - 28 March 2015, proves particularly important. “This forum is a (...) -
The World Social Forum and its governance: a multi-headed monster
27 April 2013 - by Francine Mestrum
The 12th World Social Forum (WSF) took place in Tunis, two years after the ‘Arab spring’ that put an end to the old regime and put into place a government headed by Ennahda (‘renaissance movement’), an islamist political party. The Forum was a (...) -
WSF Tunis
To Reclaim Our Future, We Must Change the Present
The capitalist system has exploited and abused nature, pushing the planet to its limits, so much so that the system has accelerated dangerous and fundamental changes in the climate. Today, the severity and multiplicity of weather changes – (...) -
WSF Tunis
Declaration of the International Women’s dynamic at the Assembly of Social movements of the World social forum
13 April 2013 - by Assembly of Social Movements
We are very pleased with the strong presence of women, as well as women’s and feminist organisations, who took part in the World Social Forum in Tunis in March 2013, and who declared their solidarity with women’s struggles around the world, in (...) -
WSF Tunis
Eric Toussaint in Tunis: “The creditor’s must be disobeyed and their demands for reimbursement of illegitimate debt refused !”
6 April 2013 - by Eric Toussaint, Marie Dufaux
This is a historical moment. On 23 and 24 March 2013, a coalition of left secular Tunisian political parties (in which there are 11 political formations) organised a meeting of Mediterranean region progressive parties to call for the abolition (...) -
WSF Tunis
Tunis: A tale of two World Social Forums
2 April 2013 - by Nick Dearden
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 (...) -
WSF Tunis
Declaration of the Assembly of Social Movements – World Social Forum 2013 29 March 2013, Tunisia
31 March 2013 - by Assembly of Social Movements
As the Assembly of Social Movements of the World Social Forum of Tunisia, 2013, we are gathered here to affirm the fundamental contribution of peoples of Maghreb-Mashrek (from North Africa to the Middle East), in the construction of human (...) -
WSF Tunis
Eric Toussaint: “The Social Forum, upon contact with a reality at boiling point, has produced a positive chemical reaction”
30 March 2013 - by Eric Toussaint, Sergio Ferrari
Assessment after the World Social Forum in Tunis 2013 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 (...) -
WSF Tunis
Declaration of the Assembly on Debt, gathered in Tunis on the 29th of March 2013
Considering that debt has, since the 15th century, been a principal historical instrument of colonization, plunder, domination, subjection, humiliation and destruction of Peoples and their traditions, Considering that the debt of the global (...) -
WSF Tunis
From the World Social Forum to the Arab Revolts
30 March 2013 - by Esther Vivas
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 (...) -
WSF Tunis
Tunis: Birth of a Common Front of Political Organisations Against Debt
27 March 2013 - by Pauline Imbach
The first Mediterranean coordination against debt, austerity policies and foreign domination, and for a free, united, democratic, social, feminist and environmentally responsible Mediterranean region took place in Tunis on Saturday 23 and Sunday (...) -
WSF Tunis
World Social Forum
The World Social Forum is an open meeting place where social movements, networks, NGOs and other civil society organizations opposed to neo-liberalism and a world dominated by capital or by any form of imperialism, come together to pursue their (...) -
The World Social Forum in Tunis (26-30 March 2013)...
“The success [of the Forum] depends on the participation of social movements”
20 March 2013 - by Sergio Ferrari, Mimoun Rahmani
The success of the next World Social Forum (WSF) in Tunis depend fundamentally on the ability of social movements to appropriate open space and give a true transformer content. This is the main thesis of Mimoun Rahmani, an active member of the (...) -
Japan : Rise of ”Hashism" - From Osaka to the National Political Arena
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 (...) -
Declaration of Assembly of Social Movements Porto Alegre (RS), Brazil
31 January 2012 - by Assembly of Social Movements
We, people of all continents, gathered in the Assembly of the Social Movements during the Thematic Social Forum Capitalist Crisis and Social and Environmental Justice, fight against the causes of a systemic crisis expressed as the economic, (...)
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