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From event tot movement
Salvatore Cannavò -
But the numbers indicate only the most visible part of the phenomenon. The forum is in reality a demonstration of the rootedness of the movement, of its being an active part of the world scene and of…
Will China shake the world?
Liu Yufan -
Social services under the impact of market reform THE lack of opportunities for education has always been an important factor in understanding poverty. Among the rural poor in China, illiterate or…
Unanswered Questions
Fermin Gonzales -
But it still includes smaller organizations clearly identified with revolutionary marxism, including the Colombian group Presentes por el Socialismo. In the end a compromise was reached in Porto…
America's Global Gamble
Phil Hearse -
HOW should we understand the US aims in the 'war on terrorism'? The declared aims of course are to defeat 'terrorists' and to overthrow the regimes of 'rogue states'. Out of the four terrorist…
Compromises on the road to hell
Kunal Chattopadhyay -
Allegedly Babar had ordered the destruction of a temple on the site in order to build the mosque. In 1992 massive communal mobilisations and the destruction of the Babri Masjid mosque resulted from…
Gujarat: against communalism and state complicity
Inquilabi Communist Sangathan -
On February 27 2002, several compartments of a train were set on fire near Godhra in Gujarat. The train was carrying many "kar sevaks" or cadres of the Viswa Hindu Parishad (World Hindu Council). The…
MILLIONS MARCH AGAINST BERLUSCONI
Flavia D'Angeli -
THREE million people, workers, youth, those in insecure employment, students, pensioners, immigrants, descended on Rome on Saturday March 23, 2002 for the biggest demonstration in the history of the…
A triple triumph
Livio Maitan -
Those who, following September 11, had anticipated, if not a swift disappearance, a slowing down or decline of the movement, have had to admit that their hopes or fears were unjustified. That fact is…
An international for humanity
Eduardo Mancuso -
The World Social Forum not only consolidated itself as the "anti-Davos" (referring to the World Economic Forum, held this year in New York). It also gave a huge boost to the building of a broad…
Philippines: fighting military globalization
Harry Tubongbanwa -
We have 660 US Special troops in the southern part of the country right now - and others who are training the Philippine army in the north, several companies of them in different areas. The biggest…
Portugal: Left bloc strengthened
Sergio Vitorino -
The poll produced a defeat for the Socialist Party (PS), a generalized retreat for the left - with the exception of the Bloc - and a return to power for the right, after seven years in the wilderness…
Failed Crusade; America and the Tragedy of Post-Communist Russia, by Stephen F. Cohen
Olivier Régol -
It is divided into three parts: the first offers his view of the Russian situation. The second is a compilation of already published articles on Russia from 1992 to 1999 with a postscript added to…
Zimbabwe's rip-off poll
Patrick Bond, Raj Patel -
Mugabe survived on an anti-imperialist rhetoric and the land crisis notwithstanding the violence campaign... Mugabe's rhetoric separated the urban poor from the rural poor. This is one important…
Het GVB, en directe democratie
Willem Bos -
In Grenzeloos nr 64 schrijf Ailko van Veen in zijn artikel over de GVB: 'Voor voorstanders van verzelfstandiging is duidelijk wat er mis is met het GVB: het gaat mis omdat het personeel er de dienst…
voor een multiculturele, solidaire samenleving
SAP bestuur -
We moeten de strijd aangaan met het beleid dat ten grondslag ligt aan de opkomst van het rechtse populisme van Pim Fortuyn en Leefbaar Nederland. Met de mythes van de vrije markt – de praktijk van…
De monarchie en het fascisme
Karel den Dulk -
Het artikel van Koen van de Meulen over de monarchie in Grenzeloos 64 vormde een briljantje tussen de lading kiezelstenen die er de laatste tijd ook door linkse media en scribenten over dit…
Birth of our power
Ernesto Herrera -
Crisis of bourgeois hegemony and complete loss of the legitimacy of its state mechanisms of domination. Categories abound, multiply and repeat. Although it is difficult to contextualize them in a…
The Commune Lives
François Ollivier, Olivier Besancenot -
Economic paralysis is spreading little by little across a country that seems to be disintegrating. On February 4-5, 2002 the banks were closed again as a direct consequence of a new phase of the…
Enron in Argentina
Andrew Pollack -
You might even stumble on the Mother Jones article detailing Dubya's lobbying of the Argentine government on behalf of Enron when he was governor of Texas. It turns out (not surprisingly given the…
Will China shake the world?
Liu Yufan -
IN the decade following the 1989 uprising of the democratic movement and its subsequent repression, the Chinese government - led by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) - has remained stable. Many…
Foreign investment and capitalist enterprise
Catherine Samary -
ANY balance sheet of foreign investment in the countries of Eastern Europe, to be meaningful, must be prefaced by some comments and clarifications. Firstly, on the social implications of such…
EnronOnline and the Not-So-New Economy
Andrew Pollack -
Enron had pushed hard for and profited mightily from deregulation of energy markets; it was a leading player in the blackouts and price hikes facing Californians last summer, and played a similar…
A crucial vote
Brendan Young -
Ten years ago, it was established that the risk of a woman's suicide were grounds for an abortion. This happened in the wake of an incident known as the "X" case, in which a 14 year old became…
Rhetoric and Repression
Maia Valecha -
Each time the campaign of misinformation launched by the media has projected the Kashmir question as a property dispute between sub-continental neighbours, increasing the Hindu-Muslim divide,…
Resistance to neoliberalism, war and militarism: for peace and social justice
World Social Forum -
1. IN the face of continuing deterioration in the living conditions of people, we, social movements from all around the world, have come together in the tens of thousands at the second World Social…
A great leap forward
Anne Leclerc, Emile Jourdin, Pierre Rousset -
A new international solidarity was developed at Porto Alegre at a time when the Argentine crisis shows the bankruptcy of the neoliberal model and Washington is engaging in a policy of \'permanent war…
Theses on Globalization and the Palestinian Resistance
Majed Nassar, Nassar Ibrahim -
1.1 There can be little doubt that the anti-globalization movement has been garnering increasing public support over the last decade. This support has often erupted publicly and very explosively,…
Third Conference of the European anti-capitalist left
Francois Vercammen -
This third Conference amounted to significant progress in comparison to those in Lisbon (March 2000) and Paris (December 2000), in terms of participation, quality of political debate and commitments…
Linkse herstructurering is een kwestie van lange adem
Willem Bos -
Hoe is Amsterdam Anders/ De Groenen tot stand gekomen? Voor ons als SAP begon het eigenlijk al in het begin van de jaren negentig. We constateerden toen als SAP-Amsterdam dat we wel op allerlei…
Links in Italië op de weg terug
Peter Drucker -
De laatste weken lijkt het nieuws uit Italië op een even verbijsterende als zwarte komedie. Van hoofdrolspeler Berlusconi mocht er geen Europese arrestatiebevel komen. Hij wilde niet het risico lopen…
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