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The Spirit of Porto Alegre
3 October 2016, by WALLERSTEIN Immanuel

The spirit inspired of the WSF in Porto Alegre since 2001 is the coming together in a non-hierarchical fashion of the world family of anti-systemic movements to push for intellectual clarity, militant actions based on popular mobilization that can be seen as immediately useful in people’s (...)
For the purpose of preserving the trace of hope
21 September 2016, by HANIN Maher

Montreal – August 2016 A paper by Maher Hanin – Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights (F.T.D.E.S), KacemAfayaTunisian General Labor Union (UGTT) (Tunisia)
This new WSF session occurred here in Montreal on the second week of August in an opportune moment. In fact, many events happened (...)
To whom interests to bury the WSF?
29 June 2016, by CRUZ Mauri

It is known to all that WSF related processes have always been complex and with profound divergences between the multiple political nuances and involved actors. This fact should not be of any surprise to anyone. It is not an easy task to aspire the organization of an international joint action (...)
From resistance to alternatives: Another world – let’s build it now!
6 April 2016, by Menon Meena

Summary: When the World Social Forum was conceived and other mobilisations shook the the neo liberal system, the focus was on global popular resistance, on what we do not want. The World Social Forum appeared on the global scene with a slogan of hope, of the need for a vision “Another World is (...)
The World Social Forum and renewed forms of activism
4 April 2016, by Dufour Pascale

For over a decade, the WSF was a political and social incubator taking into account the diversity of experiences and movements. Since, the challenge of articulating how the world of "organizations and other forms of collective action work in planning events and mobilization, has become more (...)
A day to Porto Alegre
4 April 2016, by Pierre Beaudet

The Social Forum was born in this city in the south of Brazil where was played an innovative experience of popular mobilization and organization at a moment when Brazil and several Latin American countries were living a real democratic transition. The WSF has allowed the transmission of these (...)
Movements and citizens
4 April 2016, by Pierre Beaudet

New social movements are expanding in recent years as regards to citizens’ initiatives outside traditional channels (one example is the Occupy movement). Organizations such as trade unions are also involved in the construction of alternatives, without occupying the central place that was (...)
Some considerations on the future of the WSF and the global justice movement
4 April 2016, by CAMERON Ronald

For some people, the World Social Forum has no more political impact and is limited to debate spaces without consequences. For further questioning, the displacement of the WSF to the north has several barriers to participation. Suddenly, a huge pressure is exerted on the preparation of the WSF (...)
Very modest reflections on the WSF
4 April 2016, by Michel Warschawski

With the advent of the Forum: the war and the resistance to war
What has been the strength of the World Social Forum at first, it is the overall-prevention-and-permanent war of George W. Bush. There was a willingness to act to oppose the new imperialist war that threatened the planet. Today, (...)
A Few Considerations for the World Social Forum
3 March 2016, by Canet Raphael, Pierre Beaudet

From one crisis to the next
The WSF started at the turning of the century in the wake of the first massive economic and financial crises created by neoliberal globalization, which affected the peripheral nations of world-systems theory (Mexico, Brazil, Asia, Russia). The forum is composed of (...)

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