Thematic Social Forum on Rio+20 and Informal IC in Porto Alegre
The Thematic Social Forum Rio+20, taking place in Porto Alegre from 24 to 28 January, was a long awaited for event. The objective was to prepare the People’s Summit that will take place in Rio at the time of the UN-Summit in June...[more]
Peoples’ Forum and Demonstrations against the last G-20 in Nice
A New Threshold Crossed by the Movements[more]
Seminar Genoa 2001-2011
The Future Of The Alternative Globalisation Movement Land, Water, Food, Energy, Common Goods, Peace Theology Of Liberation, Latin America[more]
The Dakar-WSF in the Wake of the Revolutions: The Maturing of the African Process
Feb 7-12, 2011[more]
World Social Forum DAKAR, SENEGAL 2011
Special Edition of Transform Europe Journal[more]
[fse-esf] After the meeting in Paris
Dear friends, Just below a message from the french comitte The CIFS (French initiative committee on social forums) met on the 15th of November to assess the european assembly held on October, 23-24 in Paris and to...[more]
No More Imposed Policies: Challenges for Africa in the Face of the WSF in Dakar
We are in a period in which the world crisis is still unresolved. It has had very concrete social repercussions, particularly in Africa. What is the context in which the World Social Forum will take place in Dakar? The Dakar...[more]
The US and the European Social Forum: Strategic Challenges for the WSF
No World Social Forum will be held in 2010. Instead, about 40 events are taking place all over the world in order to broaden the alterglobalist movement, to reflect on the crisis – whether it is called economic and social or...[more]
Towards the Paris Assembly
Assessments and Proposals [more]
Another Chance for the ESF?
Giving Ourselves Another Chance [more]
ESF Istanbul 2010: Analysis and Reports
Seminars co-organised by Transform!, Analysis and Reports[more]
ESF Istanbul 2010: Analysis and Reports
Seminars co-organised by Transform!, Analysis and Reports[more]
On the Move to the Next World Social Forum
From May 5th to 9th, the International Council of the World Social Forum came together in Mexico City in a meeting to prepare the next edition of the World Social Forum in February next year in Dakar, Senegal. At the beginning...[more]
Ten Years Later A Short Introduction
The subject of this dossier of Transform ! is the alter-globalisation movement. This movement can be considered one of the major political innovations of the late the 20th century. It is within it that the new forms of capitalist...[more]
The Social Forums and the Left in Latin America
The question I had been asked by the editors of this publication - “What has been the contribution of the Social Forums to the experiences of the left in Latin America?”- cannot be answered that easily. In order to learn lessons...[more]
The Crisis and the Future of the ESF
The ESF has experienced many problems over the years, and we should be honest enough to admit that it has been on a downward course ever since the first and most successful one was organised in Florence in 2002. The ESF is...[more]
The Challenges Before the European Social Forum
In January, the group of Brazilian organisations, which ten years before had promoted the World Social Forum, invited more than two hundred people from all over the world to Porto Alegre to attend a four-day seminar on a...[more]
New Strategic Orientations for the WSF?*
For the 10th anniversary of the World Social Forum (WSF), two encounters were organised in Brazil: the first at Porto Alegre, from January 25 to 29 and the other at Salvado de Bahia, from January 29 to 31. They took place in the...[more]
Only the Beginning is Always "New"
10 Years of the World Social Forum[more]
The peoples’ summit of Cochabamba
The social, political and ecological economic crisis we are undergoing, is in fact a crisis of capitalism. Following the human and ecological destruction, its utility for the general interest of society is therefore more and more...[more]
Alternatives to right wing extremism in times of social and ecological crisis
27 - 28 March the alleuropean mobilizing committee for the ESF in Istanbul (1.-4. July ) prepared together with the Czech Social Forum in Prague a Conference.[more]
Mesopotamia Social Forum (MSF) in Diyarbakir
Thousands of activists from more than 50 countries participated in the Mesopotamia Social Forum, in Diyarbakir, (southeast Turkey). The struggles against war and neo-liberal policies, the fight for the rights of women, the...[more]
European Social Forum on its way to Istanbul
The EPA was held in Vienna from 19 to 21 June. More than 70 organizations from Turkey are involved in the organization of the next European Social Forum (ESF), to be held in Istanbul, in June 2010. This open and dynamic...[more]
From Neoliberalism to Global Social Democracy
Speech at the First Plenary Session of the Left Forum, Pace University, New York, April 17, 2009 Good evening. I would like to thank the organizers of the Left Forum for inviting me to join the distinguished members of this...[more]
transform! europe in Malmö
transform!europe is a European network which consists of research and educational institutions and magazines in 13 European countries. Since its foundation transform!europe has participated in all European Social Forums. In...[more]
Alliances Day brings the World Social Forum to an End
The World Social Forum came to an end last Sunday in Belém do Pará. The last day was Alliances Day and was devoted to extended meetings with the aim of finding common grounds for common action. In the morning there were partial...[more]
The Crisis in the World Social Forum
The international crisis was one of the main issues discussed on the World Social Forum. On the last day, I was in charge of delivering a lecture about it, together with the Venezuelan economist Eduardo Lander, in a seminar...[more]
Correa, Lugo, Morales and Chavez at the WSF
Lula was not there to play hostess, but yet four Latin American Presidents of the Republic united their voices in a rally in Belém do Pará, outside the Word Social Forum. They asserted the importance of the WSF contributions to...[more]
Amazon Rainforest, a heritage for all
After the huge march at the start of the World Social Forum, Wednesday saw the beginning of the more than two thousand debate sessions that make up the program, spread out by major thematic areas which point out the main claims...[more]
100 000 march on the opening of the World Social Forum
The hundred thousand participants in the WSF who crossed the city of Belém stopped the traffic and brought the locals to their windows. The huge police deployment was intimidating enough, but did nothing but watch an...[more]
The World Social Forum starts this Tuesday
The World Social Forum starts this Tuesday, in Belém do Pará, close to the Amazon Rain Forest. More than one hundred thousand participants are expected, to attend more than two thousand panels and discussion seminars, as well as...[more]
WSF: Resolution and a Plan of Action
"Other News" is a personal initiative seeking to provide information that should be in the media but is not, because of commercial criteria. It welcomes contributions from everybody. Work areas include information on...[more]
Shared Concerns and Issues Emerging From the First Science and Democracy World Forum
The following text is the initial result of the first Science and Democracy World Forum which took place at the WSF in Belém 2009. It initiates an open and inclusive global process that seeks to build an international network of...[more]