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The Potential of Debtors’ Unions

17 December 2015 - by Ann Larson, Laura Hanna, Alessondra Shackleton, Hannah Appel, Luke Herrine

Financial markets are political. Stock markets, bond markets and derivatives markets do not merely (or even primarily) raise capital for goods and services. Rather, they all have direct and often harmful effects on people’s everyday lives. Our (...)
South African Student Protesters Win First Big Victory

19 November 2015 - by Patrick Bond

An historic victory over South African neoliberalism was won on October 23, after the most intense three-week burst of activist mobilization here since liberation from apartheid in 1994. University students have been furious, as their cry “Fees (...)
A call for support of the struggle of VIOME

11 November 2015 - by Vio.Me.

As you know, for four years now we have been fighting for our life and dignity. We, the workers, have chosen to create social alliances. We have rejected the proposals made by various political organizations to have an “exclusive” relationship (...)
Asian alliance co-publishes review of countries’ climate pledges (PR)

5 November 2015 - by Jubilee South

MANILA, 4 November 2015 – An alliance of people’s movements across Asia co-published today an independent civil society review of national climate pledges, ahead of the November 8-10 informal dialogue of climate negotiators in Paris. The full (...)
Are Climate Advocates not Welcome in France for COP21?

3 November 2015 - by Sophie Chapelle

The French government is set to reintroduce border controls for a month, over the period of the International Climate Conference in Paris. This exceptional measure is taken “where there is a serious threat to public policy or internal security”. (...)
Yes to changing production and consumption systems ... Not to climate change !!

30 September 2015 - by ATTAC/CADTM Morocco

Appeal signed by 11 organizations from Egypt, Lebanon, Algeria, Mauritania, Tunisia, Turkey, Morocco (Morocco ATTAC), France and Spain on Climate Change. Since the failure of the Kyoto Conference, Doha, Copenhagen, ... it is urgent for a (...)
Peoples Sovereignty vs Impunity Inc.

18 September 2015 - by TNI, ODG (Observatorio de la Deuda en la Globalización)

In eight articles various cases are presened that aim to serve as tools of action for activists to use in their fight for justice against the systematic violation of human rights and other crimes committed by transnational (...)
Labour Law Reforms, Indian Capitalism and the Modi Government

1 September 2015 - by Radical Socialist

This is the second article on the coming all India strike. Here we take a look at the kind of reforms Modi wishes to push though. The first article here From the beginning of the era of globalization in India, one routine yell of the (...)
Make the One Day All-India Strike on 2 September a Huge Success

1 September 2015 - by Radical Socialist

With the electoral victory of the Bharatiya Janata Party, which got a majority in the lower house of Parliament all by itself, a deeply right wing government is well-settled in power. A little over one year after they have come to power, this (...)
“We Are La Via Campesina”

27 August 2015 - by La Via Campesina

La Via Campesina, the international peasant movement, is happy to release a new Video. In this video, men and women, leaders of La Via Campesina member organizations in Africa, Latin America, Asia and Europe share their struggles and fight for (...)
It’s a victory. The unknown triumphes.

6 July 2015 - by Blockupy Frankfurt

The Blockupy’s message on the victory of the NO at the Greek referendum of July 5th. 1) The people said „NO“. Without knowing what that exactly means and what it will bring tomorrow. But they clearly know, what it means for them: They are fed up (...)
Referendum : Thessaloniki for the OXI!

5 July 2015 - by Emilie Paumard

The Greek and European media can continue (and they will) to minimize the numbers of demonstrators for the NO to the referendum ... but they will have difficulty in silencing the city walls ... Quick overview of Thessaloniki boiling A few (...)
Chili

After 2011, social struggles and constituent process

25 June 2015 - by Franck Gaudichaud, Sergio Grez, Giulia Willig

Sergio Grez, professor of history at the University of Chile (Santiago) and Franck Gaudichaud, lecturer in Latin American Civilization at the University of Grenoble (and currently visiting researcher at the University of Chile), were interviewed (...)
Open letter to the governments of EU-CELAC

11 June 2015 - by Collectif

We, members and representatives of diverse collectives and organizations from Europe and Latin America and the Caribbean, meeting in Brussels around the Days of Mobilization for Peoples Sovereignty against TNC Corporate power and the (...)
Appeal to support the Resisting Greek people and its truth Commission on Public Debt

To the people of Europe and the whole world! To all the men and women who reject the politics of austerity and are not willing to pay a public debt which is strangling us and which was agreed to behind our backs and against our interests. We (...)
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 (...)
Mobilizing collectively against climate change throughout 2015

16 April 2015 - by Coalition Climat 21

To build the pressure needed for ambitious and just climate action, and transformational and sustainable public policies, close to 100 civil society organisations have collectively foundedthe French platform Coalition Climat 21. The fight for (...)
Against all threats to health and social protection, let’s mobilise together!

1 April 2015 - by Collectif

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 Collectif

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 (...)
In Tunis, the social movements come together for a better World

23 March 2015 - by CADTM International

The World Social Forum is taking place this year in Tunis (Tunisia) from 24 to 28 March. The CADTM, which has been an active organiser since the beginning, has sent a forty strong delegation coming from nineteen different countries and four (...)
The workers and the Solidarity Assembly of VIOME call for international solidarity

17 March 2015 - by VIOME

The workers of VIOME in Thessaloniki, Greece, have stood up against unemployment and poverty by carrying through a long struggle to self-manage the occupied factory, in very adverse conditions. For two years now, they have been producing and (...)
NO BORDER : Brussels Police sentenced for compensation and moral damage

Five No Border activists had the courage and determination to cite the Belgian State and the Brussels Police zone before the Court of First Instance. It is their preventive and abusive arrests, violently carried out in a climate of widespread (...)
Furniture seizure at BNP Paribas Fortis in Belgium: «This is a call to reappropriation!»

20 February 2015 - by Who Steals Who Collective

This morning, about thirty people made their way into a BNP Paribas Fortis office in Brussels and got out with…some furniture! Chairs, plants, a table, etc.: a first catch to start taking back the billions of euros that this bank deposits in (...)
Transnational actions against the European Central Bank’s opening: March 18^th 2015 in Frankfurt

Our time to act has come!

17 February 2015 - by Blockupy Frankfurt

Join the transnational actions against the ECB’s opening on March 18th in Frankfurt! It is our crucial chance as well as our responsibility to build a common, effective force from below – if they want capitalism without democracy, we say, we want (...)