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    Need-based development in a free, just society: the lasting legacy of Mahatma Gandhi
    Praful Bidwai

    An emphasis on popular mobilisation,  essential to enfranchising the millions who were excluded from public life and political processes for centuries, remains one of Gandhi’s epochal successes.

    Call to the Peoples' Alternative Summit, Enlazando Alternativas 4

    Call to all the social networks and organisations, trades unions, political forces and civil society movements to join the Peoples' Alternative Summit in defense of peoples' sovereignty, human rights, participatory democracy, labour rights, the rights of women and indigenous peoples, social...

    What are the promising new models of democratic participation?
    Hilary Wainwright

    The institutions that are supposed to reproduce daily life are incapable of acting on behalf of the people any more, so we need to produce our own institutional alternatives based on micro-experiments and universal values.

    Perspectives on regional integration
    Brid Brennan

    The current paradigmatic crisis needs to be dealt with at the regional level. In this respect, Latin American movements have already mobilised and placed different models of development and integration at the centre of their struggle. However, the European Union model, whereby integration is...

    Ten years later: challenges and proposals for another possible world
    Susan George

    The WSF must work to strengthen and deepen the alliance of social movements with environmental campaigners, that was forged in Copenhagen, and broaden the alliance to include peace and conflict organisations as well.

     

    Civil Society in European-Chinese Relations

    In the context of the current state of European-Chinese relations and the limited influence of European NGOs on EU policies, this book discusses the challenges and dilemmas of co-operation between European and Chinese civil society organisations.

    Lessons of the Gaza Freedom March
    Walden Bello

    Although the Gaza Freedom March did not enter Gaza, due to the obstacles imposed by the Egyptian government that eventually lead to divisions among the marchers, the protests organised in Cairo caught the attention of the international media and showed that the people of Gaza were not forgotten...

    The struggle of electrical workers in Mexico goes on (Part I)
    Manuel Perez Rocha

    Despite the growing poverty and unemployment in Mexico, the current government insists on continuing the failed process of “structural reforms” by dismantling the nation's energy industry.

    The Meaning of Seattle: Truth Only Becomes True Through Action
    Walden Bello

    WTO+10: Before 1999, the momentum of globalization seemed to sweep everything in front of it, including the truth. But in Seattle, ordinary women and men made truth real with collective action.

    Carbon Trading - How it works and why it fails
    Oscar Reyes
    Tamra Gilbertson

    This accessible, well-researched book provides a devastating critique of both the theory and practice of carbon trading, which lie at the heart of global climate policy.

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