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Solidarity with the people of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela

The undersigned organisations, members of the International Council of the World Social Forum, strongly condemn the military aggression perpetrated on 3 January 2026 by the Government of the United States of America against the people of the (…)
Voices of Pastoralist Women: Leadership and Resilience in the Month of Working Women’s Struggle

25 April 2025 - by Collective

Read excerpts of pastoralist women speeches from a webinar held on March 2025 in preparation to the 3rd Nyéléni Global Forum As part of the month of Working Women’s Struggle, the voices of pastoralist women resonate strongly from different (…)
Kathmandu Statement to End Austerity

20 April 2024 - by Collective

The World Social Forum in Nepal is an Open Space of social movements, NGOs, civil society organisations, trade unions, citizens who demand that “Another World is Possible”. We believe that ending austerity is central to the aims of this assembly (…)
The World Social Forum: The counterweight to the World Economic Forum

25 February 2024 - by Isabel Ortiz

KATHMANDU, Nepal, Feb 23 2024 (IPS) - This week the 2024 annual meeting of the World Social Forum (WSF) was held in Nepal. There were fifty thousand participants from over 90 countries, exchanging strategies to address the multiple global crises, (…)
The CADTM holds seven successful workshops at the World Social Forum in Kathmandu (Nepal)

21 February 2024 - by CADTM International, Maxime Perriot

After two days marked by the opening march of the World Social Forum in Kathmandu and two very successful workshops with 100 and 50 participants respectively, the CADTM International delegation organised or co-organised five new workshops on 17 (…)
In Nepal, CADTM delegates took part in the opening march of the World Social Forum and successfully completed their initial workshops

21 February 2024 - by CADTM International, Maxime Perriot

The World Social Forum, which took place this year in Kathmandu (Nepal), began on Thursday 15 February 2024. The CADTM International network was represented by delegates from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Kenya, Côte d’Ivoire and the (…)
Launching a Major International Front Against the Extreme Right

21 February 2024 - by Eric Toussaint, Sergio Ferrari

At the end of another edition of the World Social Forum (WSF) held in Kathmandu, Nepal, from February 15 to 19, it’s time to take stock. “It was a very positive event for the region. But we need to move forward and promote concrete initiatives in (…)
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 well (…)
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 health (…)
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 of (…)
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 (…)