Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
An initiative is underway to organize a global week of action for debt cancellation. Three meetings have been held so far (another one is planned for 02 October) with the participation of about 70 people in total representing networks and associations from the South and the North such as Asian (...)
For twenty-five years, Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World has been an essential primer on the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century history of women’s movements in Asia and the Middle East. Kumari Jayawardena presents feminism as it originated in the Third World, erupting from the (...)
To be effective, social movements’ actions must be grounded in effective organisational dynamics and democratic decision-making. Alternatively, individual isolation and social fragmentation could escalate the crisis.
The spread of the current global pandemic is unprecedented. Future (...)
By the end of the 1980s, various cracks began to appear in the global neoliberal edifice. Partially, they were triggered by early crises that erupted in Mexico, Brazil, Thailand, and Russia, among other countries. The impact of the so-called Washington consensus was making itself felt in the (...)
Questions raised about workplace culture as organisation awaits outcome of further investigation into death of Gaëtan Mootoo
An Amnesty International researcher who killed himself in his Paris office repeatedly asked for help, but his requests “fell on deaf ears”, according to documents from a (...)
New SOMO research shows that working conditions on many certified farms and plantations are still problematic. Workers face an array of challenges including poor pay, unsafe and unhealthy situations, and they are prevented from standing up for their rights. Changes and improvements are urgently (...)
Since the 1970s, representatives of trade unions and NGOs have made attempts at the United Nations – particularly within its specialised agency the International Labour Organisation (ILO) – to regulate the actions of multinationals in order to be able to sanction them if necessary. In 1971, for (...)
Don’t get distracted by the “trade war” on the front pages of the news.
It points our leaders away from what they should be focused on — climate change and peace — and it distracts everyone from the larger overall problems with this global trade regime. Focusing on steel quotas (however important) (...)
In the last 40 years the architecture of voluntary citizen action has been transformed. Why aren’t we fighting back?
AT THE annual meetings of the World Economic Forum in Davos, ‘civil society’ is referenced in virtually every presentation and fireside conversation. The world, it seems, no longer (...)
In the third quarter of 2012, several climate records were broken, in the US, India, the Arctic and many other parts of the world. The economic crisis has gotten worse in Europe and has begun to knock on the doors of the emerging economies. A global food crisis is on its way because of the (...)
The Ecosocialist International Network will meet in Paris, Sept. 26-27, to discuss its future and the way forward for ecosocialism. This article is a contribution to that discussion.
Not long ago, most socialists had little to say about environmental issues, and the environmental movement was (...)
Political parties and organizations from Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Oceania commemorate and celebrate the unity and solidarity that brought us together to Caracas, Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, and from this libertarian city we would like to express our (...)
A ‘World at the Crossroads Conference’ was organized by the Democratic Socialist Perspective (DSP), Resistance and Green Left Weekly at Sydney on 10-13 April. Kavita Krishnan, who represented CPI(ML) at the Conference, reports.
As the world reels from a severe recession, as wars, occupation and (...)
The gathering of the most powerful countries of the world is an occasion for the people of the world to demand that this G8 Summit address the twin ‘tsunamis’ that plague humanity today – the food and climate crisis – and the continuing problem of Debt that has contributed significantly to these (...)
The state of the radical left in Europe is quite contradictory. If one just looked at the visible state of political organisation in some countries one could get quite depressed.
The European Social Forum process has descended into a bureaucratic quagmire. The impact of recent or forthcoming (...)
Self-presentation of the World Forum for Alternatives taken from its website October 2, 2006.
What is the WFA?
The World Forum for Alternatives (WFA) is an international network of Research centres and concerned intellectuals from the South and the North, created in 1997. Its aim is to (...)
The Bamako Appeal is a statement issued by a meeting held in Bamako, Mali, on January 18 2006, an initiative taken by the WFA – the World Forum for Alternatives, headed by eminent Egyptian economist Samir Amin and eminent Belgian historian François Houtart that makes a major call for (and puts (...)
Trade unions and NGOs are concerned that the WTO negotiations, to be pursued at the Hong Kong Ministerial Conference in December, will have a massive impact on employment in the agricultural, industrial, fisheries, forestry and services sectors.
Please read the statement below and, if your (...)
Message to MR 2004
The events of Seattle have changed the balance of forces between the social movements opposed to globalization and the G7 leaders, governments, corporations and global economic institutions, including the IMF, World Bank and WTO, that drive the globalisation project.
Seattle gave expression to (...)
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