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Meeting the challenge of feeding the world and cooling the Earth
July 2011
Jun Borras

Two papers analysing the recent experience of Latin America, and Cuba in particular, support arguments that a shift from industrial-large scale farming to small-scale farming can bring environmental, economic and political benefits.

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.

Istanbul 2010 European Social Forum: Call for a Just Transition
July 2010

This year's ESF in Istanbul saw social movements from across the continent come together together in the urgent call for a socially and environmentally just transition in the economy.

Inside the Revolution: A Journey into the Heart of Venezuela (New Documentary)
September 2009
Pablo Navarrete

A thoughtful insight into the achievements and challenges of the Venezuelan revolution, ten years after Hugo Chavez took office.

A fight to save the Amazon rainforest
June 2009
TNI
 Joanna Cabello

After last week’s round of climate negotiations in Bonn, it is clear that the world powers are pushing for a climate treaty that will be much more successful in reinforcing the neo-liberal agenda than mitigating global warming. While climate jargon-fuelled meetings like this one happen at the...

There is an alternative
April 2009
Hilary Wainwright

Socialism's all the rage. "We Are All Socialists Now," Newsweek declares. As the right wing tells it, we're already living in the USSA. But what do self-identified socialists (and their progressive friends) have to say about the global economic crisis?

Transnational agrarian movements: struggling for land and citizenship rights
April 2009
Jennifer Franco
Jun Borras
TNI
La Vía Campesina’s transnational campaign in protest against neoliberal land policies has helped to generate new meanings of global citizenship.

 

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...

Bolivia’s New Constitution
February 2009
Nick Buxton

Against a barrage of opposition media propaganda funded by Bolivia’s elites, the new constitution was approved with 61% of the popular vote. Bolivia was once the prized pupil for its wholesale application of policies encouraged by the IMF and the World Bank. Now it is one of the countries...

A revolution without borders: reappraising Bolivia’s crisis
December 2008
TNI
 Samuel Grove and Pablo Navarrete

Bolivia, a country used to being ignored by the western media, has hit the headlines in recent months due to the marked increase in violence among opponents and supporters of the government. Back in December 2005 Bolivia, a country in which 62 per cent of the population identify themselves as...

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