Social movements

• European Resistance | Days of protest from May 16th to 19th against the crisis dictatorship of the European Union

  11 April 2012

  Movements are planning international mass protests against policies of pauperization Declaration of the European Action Conference in Frankfurt on February 26th, 2012

• Declaration by the African organizations at the Alternative World Water Forum

  21 March 2012

  We, African organizations at the Alternative World Water Forum, in Marseille from 14 to 17 March 2012, Given the growing pressures of the multinational corporations on the water resources in Africa, Given the privatization of the public water supply sector and that of the water distribution companies in Africa, Given the different types of violation of the African peoples’ right to access to drinkable water, Given the struggles waged by the social movements and trade unions for the (...)

• ATTAC/CADTM Morocco against capitalism globalization

  
  by Attac/Cadtm Maroc

  9 February 2012

  Final Declaration of the 4th national Congress of ATTAC/CADTM Morocco Attac/cadtm Morocco association held its 4th national Conference on 27, 28 and 29 January 2012 with the slogan "for the strengthening of the popular dimension of the fight against capitalism globalization in Morocco". Despite harassment by the authorities, this meeting was held as scheduled in Rabat. The pressure exerted by the regime on the officials of the social Centre “SAHB DHAB” where the Congress was programmed, have (...)

• Declaration of Social Movements Assembly Porto Alegre (RS), Brazil

  31 January 2012

  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, financial, political, food, and environmental crisis, that puts at risk the survival of humankind. Decolonizing oppressed peoples and confronting imperialism is the main challenge of the social movements of all over the world.

• The International Context of Global Outrage (5/5)

  Indignadas and Indignados of the World, Unite !

  
  by Eric Toussaint

  22 January 2012

  The future of the Arab spring and the Indignados and Occupy Wall Street movements is very difficult to foresee. The Tunisian and Egyptian uprisings are likely to lead to a transition similar to those that ensued in Latin America, the Philippines and Korea with the end of dictatorships in the 1980s, or in South Africa in the 1990s and in several sub-Saharan African States: with the stabilization of a neo-liberal bourgeois regime. Today is a different era, the Muslim world presents very (...)

• The International Context of Global Outrage (4/5)

  Common features of the various 2011 mobilizations

  
  by Eric Toussaint

  19 January 2012

  In 2011 we come across several common features when looking at the Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street or the Indignados movements in various countries. 1. Demonstrators reclaimed public space, they even settled there, they organized many marches. In the past radical actions have often started at places of work or study and involved their occupation. Although strikes and factory or school occupations did take place in some countries such as Egypt or Greece, the most common form of action (...)

• The International Context of Global Outrage (3/5)

  From the Arab Spring to the Indignados movement to Occupy Wall Street

  
  by Eric Toussaint

  10 January 2012

  Living conditions in Tunisia and Egypt, neither of which export raw materials, or only marginally, have worsened over recent years. The resulting civil protest has been met with brutal repression. In Tunisia first, this led to a mass reaction, which quickly took on a political dimension. People gathered in the streets and squares to face the forces of repression, which left 300 dead, and demanded the departure of the dictator, Ben Ali. He was forced to step down on 14 January 2011. From (...)

• The International Context of Global Outrage (2/5)

  The global crisis that preceded the Arab Spring, the Indignados, and the Occupy Wall Street movement

  
  by Eric Toussaint

  6 January 2012

  In 2007, the capitalist sky started to darken: the biggest crisis of capitalism since the 1930s had erupted. The different crises that ensued were interconnected: the banking and financial crisis, real estate crisis, and economic crisis in the most industrialized countries, and the food crises in the Southern countries, particularly in Africa and certain Asian countries (Latin America was less significantly affected), which mainly resulted from the economic policies practiced in the most (...)

• The International Context of Global Outrage (in 5 parts)

  Looking back on the movements that preceded the Arab Spring, the Indignados, and Occupy Wall Street

  
  by Eric Toussaint

  3 January 2012

  In 2011, social and political rebellion has re-emerged in the streets and on squares all over the world. It has appeared in new forms and been given new names: the Arab Spring, the Indignados, the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement. The main regions affected are North Africa and the Middle East (including Israel), Europe and North America. Not all countries in those areas have been equally affected by this new wave of mobilizations and new forms of organization, but everybody has heard about (...)

• COP17 civil society statement on conflict during the Global Day of Action

  5 December 2011

  Durban 4 December 2011 – On Saturday 3 December, the mid-point of COP 17, about 12 000 people from across the continent and the world gathered in Durban to demand climate justice and unite against climate change. The march was largely peaceful, with divergent activist groups uniting to demand action from governments around the world. The march culminated in the handing over of memoranda of understanding to UNFCCC COP17 President Nozipho Mxakato-Diseko and UNFCCC Executive Secretary (...)

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