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Declaration of the Assembly on Debt, gathered in Tunis on the 29^th 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 (…)
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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 (…)
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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 (…)
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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 (…)
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, (…)
Reflections on the current social forums process

23 January 2012 - by Gustave Massiah

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

2 May 2011 - by Olivier Bonfond

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 (…)
Letter of solidarity with the struggle of women in the world

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 (…)
The World Social Forum and the battle for COP17

18 February 2011 - by Vishwas Satgar

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 (…)
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Declaration of the Social Movements Assembly

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 (…)
The Social Movements Caravan lifts off for the WSF at Dakar !

1 February 2011 - by Pauline Imbach, Zinaba Aboudou Rasmane, Mike Krolikowski

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 (…)
The CADTM network mobilizes to ensure the success of the WSF at Dakar!

1 February 2011 - by Myriam Bourgy

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 (…)
Towards the Dakar World Social Forum, February 2011

“The challenge of a global solution outside the system”

25 January 2011 - by Eric Toussaint, Sergio Ferrari

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 (…)
Social Movements Assembly Declaration. IV Americas Social Forum, Asuncion, August 15, 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 (…)
Contribution to the preparation seminar of the World Social Forum (WSF) 2011 Dakar. Letter from several social movements

1. The purpose of this letter is twofold: to share some views on the direction of the WSF and to express a concern about the WSF 2011 in Dakar, in particular its relation with the Social Movements Assembly (SMA). 2. The WSF deserves high (…)
Final Declaration of the European social forum, Istanbul

We, the participants at the Istanbul ESF, affirming that we have a strong engagement aganist all war and occupation and that we are for a politial resolution of the Kurdish issue, have made the following resolution : Act together in Europe (…)
CADTM raises awareness on the Debt at the US Social Forum

6 July 2010 - by Daniel Munevar

Last week took place in Detroit, Michigan, the second US Social Forum. According to the organizers more than 14000 people from all over the United States and more than 60 countries registered to play a part at the main gathering of the social (…)
The USSF : a important step toward the resistance against the crisis

24 June 2010 - by Daniel Munevar, Myriam Bourgy

The second US Social Forum started today in the city of Detroit, Michigan. For the american social movements, this gathering holds a special importance as it is the first large scale meeting of the progressive social movements in the country (…)
Will capitalism absorb the WSF ?

27 February 2010 - by Eric Toussaint, Olivier Bonfond

Interview by Marga Tojo Gonzales From 21 January to 2 February 2010 Eric Toussaint and Olivier Bonfond, both involved in alterglobalization activism, members of the International Council of the WSF, of the world coordination of social (…)
Beyond the World Social Forum... the Fifth International

14 February 2010 - by Eric Toussaint, Igor Ojeda

Igor Ojeda interviews Eric Toussaint (for the Brazilian weekly paper Brasil de Fato) February 2010 INTERVIEW. According to Eric Toussaint, a doctor in political science and one of the ideologists of the World Social Forum, now in its tenth (…)
World Social Forum, ten years on

4 February 2010 - by Esther Vivas

Since the World Social Forum was launched in June 2000, at the Alternative Social Summit in Geneva, coinciding with the United Nations Assembly on Social Development, ten years have passed. In this decade, the world has changed and the context in (…)
Japan. Tokyo Social Forum

2 February 2010 - by Yoko Akimoto

How many participants found that the venue was a historical site where the first declaration of Independence of Korea contributing to March 1 Independence Movement was announced in 1919? Possibly, some, but exactly, the Korean YMCA in JAPAN (…)
Alterglobalization or Barbarism?

4 January 2010 - by Olivier Bonfond

In a few weeks the catchphrase ’Another world is possible’ will turn ten. But this is no time for rejoicing: the movement has to ask the right questions so as to find appropriate answers to the current capitalist crisis, another obstacle to this (…)