Verdens Sociale Forum - World Social Forum (WSF)
World Social Forum 2004 (Mumbai, Indien)
"The World Social Forum 2004 will be held in Mumbai, India from January 16 – 21, 2004".
Alternatives
Special Report: From Porto Alegre to Mumbai : World Social Forum 2004
"Background articles, analyses, pictures, and details of what is happening on the ground. This section will be updated frequently".
Choike.org : a portal on Southern civil societies
In depth : World Social Forum 2004 : News and reports from Mumbai
Countercurrents.org
Tema: World Social Forum in India
Globalise Resistance
The World Social Forum - Mumbai, India. 16th to 21st January 2004
"The World Social Forum started this Friday 16 January in Mumbai, India. Globalise Resistance has over 20 people at the Forum, and we will bring you reports and images as the forum progresses."
Independent Media Center [India]
Grundig nyhedsdækning om WSF i Mumbay, foto, videoer, referater, debat m.m.
International Viewpoint
Pierre Rousset: World Social Forum : reflections on the Indian process (nr.358, april 2004).
"The fourth World Social Forum was held in Mumbai in January 2004. Moving it from Porto Alegre to a different continent in which the social forum movement was less developed and much more disparate, and notably to the specific political situation in India, was a real challenge – successfully met."
Josep Maria Antentas: Mumbai : new ground for the WSF nr.357, marts 2004).
"The fourth World Social Forum was unquestionably a political success, as attested to by the commentaries and impressions of almost all its participants. To make a balance sheet of an event and a process like the WSF is always difficult, owing to its complexity, and still more so when it takes place in a political, social and cultural context which is unfamiliar for many of us. In spite of that, I would like to draw some elements of a balance sheet …"
James Cockcroft and Susan Caldwell: World Social Forum : new advances, old problems (nr.357, marts 2004).
At its fourth annual gathering …the World Social Forum (WSF) radicalized its demands and extended its reach and inter-group cooperation. From 130,000 to 200,000 persons attended the colourful, sometimes chaotic gathering. The WSF sessions concluded by calling for a deepening of the fight against capitalism, imperialism, and patriarchy and endorsing the march 20 worldwide anti-war demonstration for the removal of foreign troops from Iraq."
[Info on International Viewpoint]
Mumbai Resistance
"The MR-2004 is a four day international event, scheduled for January 17-20, 2004. It is independent of and will run parallel to the World Social Forum (WSF), Mumbai."
New Left Review
Achin Vanaik: Rendezvous at Mumbai (nr.26, marts-april 2004)
"The fourth World Social Forum, in the neoliberal capital of the global South. Soaring elite consumption, widening inequality and anti-Muslim pogroms of Shining India, with the New Hindu Right set for fresh electoral victory."
[Info on New Left Review]
The NewStandard : Blogging the WSF
"15 activists and writers are covering the World Social Forum for The NewStandard from Mumbai, India in a multi-author weblog".
[Info on The NewStandard]
TerraViva
"The independent newspaper of the World Social Forum IV – Mumbai, India, 16-21 Jan 2004".
[Info on TerraViva]
Mellemfolkeligt Samvirke
Tema: World Social Forum 2004
Modkraft
Svend Gårn Hansen: WSF : et brag af en afslutning (23. jan. 2004)
"World Social Forum i Indien sluttede onsdag den 21. marts med store demonstrationer mod Bush og aftaler om, at den globale bevægelse samles om at kræve fred i Irak den 20. marts, og igen den 22.-25 april for at markere Verdensbanken og den Internationale Valutafonds 60-års fødselsdag."
Sven Gårn Hansen: WSF går mod USA (21. jan. 2004)
"Modstand mod USA's internationale militære agression og amerikanske koncerners krigsprofiteren stod i centrum for det fjerde Verdens Sociale Forum (WSF) i Indien, der slutter i dag. Blandt de aktionsforslag, der vandt mest genlyd, er en international aktionsdag for fred den 20. marts.Vi forsøger os med en oversigt."
Nej til Krig
Doris Kruckenberg: World Social Forum 2004 Mumbai, Indien
"For mig at se var hovedbudskabet i årets WSF det at den aktuelle økonomiske verdensordning er i dyb krise. Det er desperation der præger den hidsige jagt på profit, hvori også terroristjagten og de dermed begrundede krige har sin del."
Netavisen
Tema: World Social Forum – Mumbai Resistance 2004
"Årets World Social Forum samlede igen titusinder af aktivister fra Indien og de fleste øvrige lande i verden, da det for første gang løb af stabelen på det asiatiske kontinent, i Mumbay (Bombay) … Sideløbende og i umiddelbar nærhed gennemførtes arrangementet Mumbay Resistance 2004, med deltagelse af 310 antiimperialistiske organisationer fra hele verden. Det var udtryk for en skarpt formuleret kritik af WSF."
[Info om Netavisen]
Rød- Grønne Linjer
Per Warming: Er en anden verden mulig? World Social Forum 2004 i Mumbai, Indien (nr.4, 27. feb. 2004, s.12-13)
"Hvis succesen fortsætter, vil WSF sikkert blive omklamret af alle verdens Poul Nyruper. Stopper succesen, vil det sikkert forbene i 'alternativer'. Men endnu er ingen af delene sket."
[Info om Rød-Grønne Linjer]
Salt
Lars Bohn: De fattiges mylder i Mumbai (nr.1, feb. 2004, s.6-8)
"Dette års World Social Forum markerede et skift. For første gang deltog repræsentanter for verdens fattige massivt. Dette satte sit præg på dagsordenen og var et stort fremskridt. Men det er et åbent spørgsmål, hvor forum går hen i fremtiden."
[Info om Salt]
Socialistisk Arbejderavis
Arundhati Roy: Rød alarm (nr.235, 4. nov. 2004, s.12)
"Den indiske forfatter og aktivist Arundhati Roy skriver her om sine tanker om 'Folkelig magt i Imperiets tidsalder', ved at kigge på de faldgrupper som de sociale bevægelser står over for."
Klaus B. Jensen: Interview med Khaled Mustapha (nr.224, 4. feb. 2004, s.2)
"Socialistisk Arbejderavis har talt med Khaled Mustapha, der er forretningsudvalgsmedlem i Pædagogstuderendes LandsSammenslutning (PLS). Vi spurgte ham om, hvad den største oplevelse var på World Social Forum?"
[Info om Socialistisk Arbejderavis]
Stop Terrorkrigen
Mumbai erklæringen 2004 : mod imperialistisk globalisering og krig (Mumbai Resistance, 18. jan. 2004).
AlterNet.org
Tom Hayden: Post-Marx from Mumbai (27. jan. 2004)
"The World Social Forum successfully channeled the energies of global justice and anti-war forces last week, while continuing to struggle toward a positive alternative that gives meaning to the phrase, 'another world is possible'."
Tom Hayden: Talking back to the global establishment (18. jan. 2004)
"As the Bush administration struggles with setbacks in its global trade and Iraq agendas, the opposition World Social Forum opened festively this week with 150,000 global justice activists primarily from India and South Asia, marking a successful transition for the grassroots experiment from its original site in Brazil."
[Info on AlterNet.org]
Focus on the Global South
WSF 2004 : Call for the social movements and mass organisations (Mumbai, 28. jan. 2004)
Theme: World Social Forum Reflections
Aditya Nigam: The old left in a new world : the Mumbai 'Resistance'? (8. jan. 2004)
"The Mumbai Resistance-2004 is a motley combination of various sects of the Far Left, mainly Indian, who have decided to put up an alternative show in Mumbai, alongside the forthcoming World Social Forum (WSF). The main organizers of this event are the self-styled Maoists of the Peoples' War Group of the CPI(ML)".
Amit Sen Gupta and Probir Purkayastha: World Social Forum adding to the debate (8. jan. 2004)
"This piece should be seen as a contribution to the ongoing discussion about the WSF in India, and across the globe. It is not an attempt to answer any specific critique of the WSF, but it does try to address some of the common issues that have been raised".
Frontline
Theme: The World Social Forum : globalised struggle (nr.3, 31. jan. 2004)
Sukumar Muralidharan: Questions of democracy (nr.1, 3. jan. 2004)
"The World Social Forum to be held in Mumbai could pose key challenges of strategy and tactics before the movement since the globalisation project in its economic, political and military dimensions is plunging rapidly towards a point of inflection".
[Info on Frontline]
Green Left Weekly
Helen Jarvis and Jon Lamb: India : World Social Forum targets US war drive (nr.568, 28. jan. 2004)
"More than 80,000 people participated in the fourth World Social Forum, held on January 16-21 in the NESCO exhibition grounds, located in the north of Mumbai. There were rich discussions and debates on how to counter capitalism, corporate globalisation and the United States-led occupation of Iraq."
Jon Lamb: India : WSF may sparks a 'political awakening' (nr.568, 28. jan. 2004)
The January 16-21 World Social Forum followed many months of planning and coordination by the Indian Organising Committee. Green Left Weekly spoke to IOC member Srilata Swaminathan, a central committee member of the Communist Party of India Marxist-Leninist (Liberation), about the WSF and its impact on Indian politics."
[Info on Green Left Weekly]
Infoshop.org
Max Sussman: Notes from the World Social Forum (31. jan. 2004)
"Overall, at the WSF, Indian politics dominated the agenda in the halls and in the streets, most notably the anti-caste movement and the issues of fundamentalist communalism."
Aditya Nigam: The old left in a new world : The Mumbai 'Restistance'? (31. jan. 2004)
The time has come to put a certain Marxism alongside other religious eschatologies - forever awaiting their millennium, always in search of the enemy within. Reading through the document produced by the 'Mumbai Resistance 2004', one cannot help simultaneously feeling both fear and relief: fear at the sight of these hundreds of little Stalins crawling out of the woodwork, and sheer relief that they will never be able to rule over us ever again."
The Nation
Arundhati Roy: The New American Century (nr.9, feb. 2004)
"This article was adapted from Arundhati Roy's January 16 speech to the opening plenary of the World Social Forum in Mumbai."
[Info on the Nation]
OpenDemocracy
America Vera-Zavala: A space of freedom : the World Women's Forum (29. jan. 2004)
"This Swedish activist combines observation of everyday Indian experience with her own political commitment to draw a lesson from Mumbai’s World Social Forum: women in the global justice movement are taking possession of space and voice."
Kamal Mitra Chenoy: Making history : the future of the World Social Forum (29. jan. 2004)
"The World Social Forum in Mumbai was democracy in action in search of a fairer, people-centred world, says one of its Indian organisers. But to advance its global ambitions, must it look beyond Brazil as the site of future forums?"
Kamal Mitra Chenoy: Dateline Mumbai : the 2004 World Social Forum (9. jan. 2004)
"Three years on from the first World Social Forum in Brazil's Porto Alegre, an organiser of the latest WSF in India presents his vision of the purpose of this global gathering of activists, popular movements and NGOs".
Peter Waterman: Archaic left challenges the World Social Forum (12. nov. 2003)
"The forthcoming World Social Forum in Mumbai (formerly Bombay), India may be the largest civil society meeting on the planet. But is it at risk from far left elements that would undermine its purposes? Peter Waterman anatomises the thinking of the 'entryists'".
[Info on OpenDemocracy]
People's Democracy
Trade unions in the WSF (nr.6, 8. feb. 2004)
"Trade unions unions in India took keen interest in WSF-2004 and a convening group was constituted for 'Labour in WSF'. Four seminars were planned by all the central trade unions together, which clearly reflected the unity of purpose. All these seminars were well attended and interesting discussions took place through floor-level participation."
Theme: World Social Forum 2004 (nr.5, 1. feb. 2004)
Sitaram Yechury: CPI(M) and the World Social Forum (nr.52, 28. dec. 2003)
"There has been a growing debate on the entire process of the WSF .... Naturally the question arises as to how NGOs being funded by countries promoting globalisation can be a part of the movement against globalisation? There is another part of this debate that mounts attacks against the mainstream Left for associating itself and participating in the WSF. Much of this attack comes from congenital anti-Communists and others with strong ideological prejudices and blinkers".
Thinking Together Column:
"The organisation of the World Social Forum in Mumbai in January 2004 is both a challenge and an opportunity for those who are opposed to imperialist globalisation. It is natural, given the unusual character of the WSF and the profile that it has achieved over the last 3½ years, people would have a large number of questions about the WSF and the process that it involves":
To join or to gesticulate from a distance (nr.51, 21. dec. 2003)
Role of 'Violence' (nr.50, 14. dec. 2003)
A talking shop? (nr.49, 7. dec. 2003)
What the WSF is (nr.48, 30. nov. 2003)
[Info on People's Democracy]
Socialist Worker [UK]
Alex Callinicos: A carnival of global resistance (nr.1886, 31. jan. 2004)
"Alex Callinicos writes on the inspiration of the World Social Forum in India."
Chris Harman and Uri Prasad: Many battles, one enemy (nr.1885, 24., jan. 2004)
"Socialist Worker's Chris Harman and Yuri Prasad report direct from the World Social Forum in Mumbai (Bombay), India."
Chris Harman: A new chapter in the resistance (nr. 1884, 17. jan. 2004)
"Chris Harman, the editor of Socialist Worker, is introducing a meeting at the World Social Forum and has been visiting the region and meeting activists".
[Info on Socialist Worker]
Socialist Worker [US]
David Whitehouse and Ganesh Lal: World of resistance (nr.483, 23. jan. 2004)
"SW reports from the World Social Forum in Mumbai, India - and describes the political backdrop for this enormous gathering."
[Info on Socialist Worker]
Solidarity
Dita Sari: World Social Forum, Mumbai : from moral to political? (vol.3, nr.45, 5. feb. 2004)
"There are two issues which I think are important here but which at the same time have failed to be taken up by the WSF. Firstly, what is the position of the anti-globalisation movement with regard to national governments who are acting in the interests of neoliberal globalisation? Secondly, what are the alternative solutions to such policies?"
[Info on Solidarity]
Workers Power
World Social Forum : a 'space' or a movement for action? (26. jan. 2004)
"The refusal of the WSF to act as an organising centre for the world wide movement remains a problem; in refusing to call action the potential of the movement remains unfilled."
World Social Forum : 100.000 gather in Mumbai (18. jan. 2004)
"What is missing is not the means but the political will. The WSF has
achieved much in uniting and spreading the global movement against
capitalism but increasingly finds itself dominated by the participation of NGOs."
Dave Stockton: World Social Forum: will there be a place for anti-capitalism? (nr.282, jan. 2004, s.10)
"The WSF 2004 in India takes place at a crucial moment in the history of the movement. Certainly it offers the possibility spreading the movement against corporate power, imperialism and war a much wider spread ... On the other hand, the power and domination of the NGOs and the thinly disguised reformist parties, especially the Communist Party of India (Marxist) will weigh heavily in favour of continued impotence".
[Info on Workers Power]
ZNet
Michael Albert: Mumbai, WSF, and our futures (9. feb. 2004)
"… what if we the Social Forum process began to see itself as the fledgling infrastructure of an experiment not only in international communication, but also in participatory democracy? Can we envision social forums forming locally in cities and villages all over the planet? I am told there are a hundred in Italy. Imagine that density of per capita local forums, and even four or five times that level world wide."
Sonali Kolhatkar: World Social Forum 2004 (6. feb. 2004)
"The World Social Forum has come a long way and moving to Mumbai, India only improved it. But, this essay would be incomplete without a set of critiques of the WSF in general. If we are to build a better world, the very process by which we begin a dialogue on a new world has to be under constant scrutiny."
Shivani Chaudhry: WSF 2004 : What someone felt (1. feb. 2004)
"I can still hear the reverberating chants. I can still taste the dust. I can feel the passion and power of the 100,000 people who, like me, came to breathe in another space. I can picture new dreams being created. I can visualise the outline of the other world emerging on tomorrow's sunlit morning sky. Maybe this sounds idealistic. But this is just What Someone Felt about the WSF."
Vijay Prashad: Politics at the venue : the WSF in Mumbai (30. dec. 2004)
"The World Social Forum opened in India at least a year ago. That's when the debates within the Left about the nature of the WSF started. Marxists, liberals, and others began to argue about the utility of the WSF, its role within India, the problem of funds for something so large as the WSF and the larger question of the relationship between a national struggle and international solidarity".
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