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    Civil Society Gaining Ground
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    November 2011
    Tom Kramer

    Local organisations have adopted different strategies towards the authoritarian government in Burma. Focussing on the dynamics of civil society Tom Kramer looks into the possibilities and risks of growing international interest in engagement with these groups.

    Voices from the World Social Forum
    February 2011
    Susan George

    Although initiated as a counter-forum to Davos, the World Social Forum has evolved beyond it now, focusing on the root causes of problems facing humanity and developing real alternatives as solutions.

    Activists from across Asia explain how the EU’s free trade agenda affects them: (3) Labour rights in the Philippines
    November 2010

    In the third of a series of interviews with civil society activists from Asia we hear about the damaging impacts of free trade agreements on labour rights in the Philippines.

    Activists from across Asia explain how the EU’s free trade agenda affects them: (1) Indonesia and China
    October 2010

    At the Asia Europe People’s Forum in Brussels we interviewed some civil society activists from across Asia, to find out more about the damaging impacts of free trade agreements on the everyday lives of people in their countries.

    Sad Spectacle in Istanbul
    July 2010
    Boris Kagarlitsky

    If left-wing ideas have become popular again and social movements in Eastern Europe have strengthened, why is the European Social Forum in decline?

    Civil society recommendations to the Asia-Europe Meeting 2010
    July 2010

    The Asia Europe Peoples' Forum puts forward detailed recommendations on how future ASEMs can become more accountable, transparent and relevant in meeting the needs of the people of Asia and Europe.

    Ten years later: challenges and proposals for another possible world
    January 2010
    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.

     

    WSF: is another world possible?
    February 2009
    TNI
     Tim Costello and Brendan Smith

    Belém, Brazil - The recently concluded World Social Forum is a good gauge for assessing the state of the world's alternative social, economic and political movements. Organized in 2001 as a counterpoint to the World Economic Forum, the annual meeting of global and corporate elites held in Davos...

    The convenient crisis of civilisation
    February 2009
    TNI
     Christophe Aguiton
    Global recession may offer the indigenous people of the Andes the chance to redefine themselves in a post-colonial environment.

    Crises were everywhere the subject of this year's World Social Forum, whose 100,000 participants are now returning home from Belem on the banks of the...

    Declaration of the Assembly of Social Movements at the World Social Forum 2009
    February 2009
    TNI
     Assembly of the Social Movements

    Anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist, feminist, environmentalist and socialist alternatives are necessary

    We the social movements from all over the world came together on the occasion of the 8th World Social Forum in Belém, Amazonia, where the peoples have been resisting...

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