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WSF: is another world possible?
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 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
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 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
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 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...

Bailing out the planet
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 Brendan Smith, Tim Costello and Jeremy Brecher
'Green paper gold' could provide a much-needed fiscal stimulus while protecting the planet from climate change

As the rag-tag army of social movement activists, NGO representatives and other advocates from global civil society wend their way home from the Amazonian city of Belem,...

È possibile sradicare la povertà
Susan George
 Intervista con Susan George. Di Giuliano Battiston

Non si può uscire dalla crisi economica senza uscire da quella ambientale, sostiene Susan George, e propone «keynesianesimo verde» come via d'uscita.

'WSF had a prophetic voice'
Walden Bello
 Walden Bello interviewed by Gabriel Elizondo

As the WSF was winding down in Belem in Brazil, Al Jazeera's Gabriel Elizondo spoke with Walden Bello about his thoughts on this year's meeting.

Al Jazeera: How has the 2009 World Social Forum different from the past years'?

Bello: This represents...

Declaration of the International No Bases Network
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The International Network for the Abolition of Foreign Military Bases, meeting at the WSF in Belem do Para, Brazil, from 27 January to 1 February 2009, recognized that:

  • The single biggest challenge in the militarization of Africa is the installation of the U.S.
It is time to aim beyond capitalism
Walden Bello
 Walden Bello interviewed by Alejandro Kirk
The World Social Forum has an urgent and crucial task: battling the social democratic response to the global crisis of capitalism now under way, and push for a democratic control of economy and state, says Walden Bello.

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The future of the global justice movement
Walden Bello

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How to leave Iraq? Just go
Saul Landau

Iraq-satiated Democrats face a formidable political challenge: If they win in November, can they extricate the country from Bush’s illegal war, which apparently can’t be won by US military forces and has drained material and psychic resources?

Obama and Clinton promise to...

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