By Shalmali Guttal * Over the past two decades, post-war or post-conflict reconstruction has emerged as the essential framework for establishing neo-liberal policy regimes in newly liberated nations (such as Timor Leste),...
Read Moreby Ben Moxham* Translations: Français | Portugues Saturday 12 February: Last Monday, 7 February, the East Timorese newspaper Suara Timor Loro Sa’e reported that at least 53 people had died of starvation in the village of...
Read MoreIndra Lubis and Isabelle Delforge* Once you see Banda Aceh, you hardly dare to speak. Once you enter the destroyed town, filled with stinking mud, once you have seen the rows of corpse-filled trucks where those collecting the...
Read MoreGeneva, 11 Feb (Kanaga Raja) Swiss civil society groups as well as international non-governmental organizations have joined forces to call for a mass mobilization against the current round of services negotiations at the World...
Read MorePar Focus on the Global South et GRAIN Traduction : Claudie Grantham, Coorditrad Focus on the Global South est un centre de recherche et de conseil sur la politique basé à Bangkok qui tente d’exposer et...
Read MoreOn the day of elections in Iraq, anti-war movements, coalitions and organizations the world over came together in an Anti-War Assembly and called for massive mobilizations on March 19 and 20. Representatives...
Read More‘Elections’ dismissed as illegitimate’PORTO ALEGRE, BRAZIL (January 30) — on the day of the elections in Iraq, anti-war movements from around the world today called for a Global Day of Action against the war in Iraq this...
Read MoreBy Walden Bello* Now five years old, the World Social Forum is returning to Porto Alegre, Brazil, after being a big success in Mumbai, India. To be held January 26 to 31, the mood of the thousands of people expected is...
Read Moreby Walden Bello* Our world is not for sale, my friend, Just to keep you satisfied. You say you’ll bring us health and wealth, Well, we know that you just lied. (Song to WTO delegates of NGO activists...
Read MoreBy Nicola Bullard In the past year, the movement against war and corporate globalisation has continued to grow, especially at the national level where movements and coalitions are directly defending workers’ and farmers’...
Read MoreTwo members of the 50 Years Is Enough Network South Council (an advisory body made up of close allies in the struggles against the IMF and World Bank) have had their lives threatened in the Philippines. The names of Walden Bello...
Read More“Why was someone as Walden Bello listed in Ang Bayan’s diagram? The question deserves to be addressed — it was out of the routine. We can guess that it was a way to show urbi et orbi that, really, no one...
Read MoreOrganized by an International Network Against Foreign Military Bases and the Campaign for the Demilitarization of the Americas (CADA)Informational Session: LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE ANTI-BASES AND ANTI-MILITARIZATION STRUGGLES27...
Read MoreStrategy of Struggles for Land and Natural Resources: January 27, Noon -3:00 PM Room A601, Space A The Impact of Multilateral Institutions on Agrarian Reform and Peasant Agriculture January 28, 3:30 pm – 6:30 pm, Room...
Read MoreOrganização: Via Campesina Movimento Sem Terra (MST) Land Research Action Network (LRAN) Global Campaign for Agrarian Reform Rede Social de Justiça e Direitos Humanos Focus on the Global South Centro de...
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