By Walden Bello (This article appears in the Nov. 6, 2002, issue of Corriere de la Serra, the leading newspaper in Italy.) The European Social Forum in Florence (Nov. 6-12) is taking place against the backdrop of a global...
Read MoreIntroducción: Bruno KervynLa Insignia. Bélgica, noviembre del 2002. Hace unos meses, OXFAM International publicó un fascinante informe, Cambiar las reglas: comercio, globalización y lucha contra...
Read MoreIntroducción: Bruno KervynLa Insignia. Bélgica, noviembre del 2002. Hace unos meses, OXFAM International publicó un fascinante informe, Cambiar las reglas: comercio, globalización y lucha contra la...
Read MoreBy Nguyen Van Thanh After the World War II, the three revolutionary upsurges, namely the three movements of world socialism, national liberation in colonised countries and workers’ struggle in developed capitalist...
Read MoreBy Nicola Bullard Past and present were never far away from each other at the Argentina Social Forum and sometimes they collided in such incandescent moments of poignancy and hope that anything seemed possible: even the...
Read MoreBy Shalmali Guttal I. The Mekong Region The Mekong river is the world’s 12th longest river in the world (about 4,200 km long) and 10th largest in terms of annual water yield (about 475,000 million cubic metres); it is also...
Read MoreBy Sulak Sivaraksa* Western capitalism and its multinational tools have had plenty of opportunity to fulfill their promise to bring prosperity to all. That they have failed is becoming more evident by the day. The mission of the...
Read MoreIN THIS ISSUE: Brazil on the threshold, the US on the brink and a Vietnamese view of the journey from Seattle to Doha. And from Thailand, Buddhism and the Bank, the illusion of isolation, plus the story of the villagers who...
Read MoreBy Aileen Kwa THE HEAT IS ON…Despite the fact that the Cancun WTO ministerial is twelve months away, the influential members of the WTO have already started their work in ensuring that the configuration of factors which...
Read MoreBy Aileen Kwa Indonesia has declined to sign on to a Cairns Group position paper (6 September) on market access in agriculture that calls for drastic tariff cuts.The Cairns Group, led by Australia, comprises 18 exporting...
Read MoreNicola Bullard : “Hay esperanza si hay acción””Nosotros no pensamos en términos de grandes conceptos a los que arribar,no queremos que se haga un cambio igual para todos, no queremoshomogeneizar a...
Read MoreBy Walden Bello September 2002 “Germany Isolated for Iraq Stance.” This headline, blared across the US in the last few weeks, stands as a classic illustration of how Orwellian American journalism is these days. Germany isolated?...
Read MoreBy Mary Louise Malig September 2002 Apartheid is not dead, it is very much alive and of all ironies, it was reinforced in the country where it was most bitterly fought. Apartheid at a global level has in fact, just been...
Read MoreIN THIS ISSUE: Something for everyone — updates from Geneva and Johannesburg, the state of the Atlantic Alliance and the Mississippi-Mekong cat-fish war, history-making moments in Argentina and peoples resistance in South...
Read MoreBy Shalmali Guttal “…Therefore, the petition against certain frozen fish fillets from Vietnam is no doubt not in conformity with reality and must be regarded as an attempt to abuse the antidumping measures for unfair...
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