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Issue 06/2010

Student Action Helsinki – ­Experiences of Freedom And ­Resistance

By:The Opiskelijatoiminta Network

In this article, our aim is to outline how the Opiskelijatoiminta Network (Student Action, henceforward OT) began at the University of Helsinki during the academic year 2008-2009. We hope that this article will, in addition to...

New Strategic Orientations for the WSF?*

By:Christophe Ventura

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...

The Social Forums and the Left in Latin America

By:Chico Whitaker

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...

The Crisis and the Future of the ESF

By:Asbjørn Wahl

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...

Regional Elections in France: Victory for the Left – Abstention and Comeback of the National Front

By:Louis Weber

Regional elections, the fifth in a history which only began in 1986, took place in France on March 14th and 21st of this year. What are these elections? Regions have existed since 1972 but only began to have elected assemblies in...

About Good and Bad of Copenhagen

By:Lothar Bisky

In recent months climate policy was on the top of the agenda of international politics. Many international meetings took place in the run-up to the climate summit in Copenhagen. However, despite some extravagant statements by the...

Ten Years Later A Short Introduction

By:Louis Weber

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...

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