Alex Callinicos At an impasse? Anti-capitalism and the social forums today Resumo: The international movement against capitalist globalisation has been globally visible for nearly a decade now. It started with the Chiapas rising of January 1994 and the French public sector strikes of November_December 1995, and exploded onto the global stage at the Seattle protests in November 1999. It then enjoyed a period of dynamic expansion through the launch of the World Social Forum (WSF) in Porto Alegre, Brazil, in January 2001, the massive confrontation at the G8 summit in Genoa in July 2001, and the first European Social Forum in Florence in November 2002. The culmination was the enormous demonstrations against the war in Iraq between February and April 2003. Subsequently, however, there has not been the same forward impetus. Indeed, increasingly centrifugal pressures and even a degree of disarray have become evident.
Chico Whitaker WSF is not a “moment”. It is a “tool”. Resumo: the WSF is a tool to make possible that "a thousand flowers could bloom" - flowers of efficient action - he must be permanent, not only “moments” or specific but occasional mobilizations.
atualizado em 24/05/2013
