https://internationalviewpoint.org/ International Viewpoint, the monthly English-language magazine of the Fourth International, is a window to radical alternatives world-wide, carrying reports, analysis and debates from all corners of the globe. Correspondents in over 50 countries report on popular struggles, and the debates that are shaping the left of tomorrow. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://internationalviewpoint.org/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH25/siteon0-da713.png?1745245334 https://internationalviewpoint.org/ 25 144 https://internationalviewpoint.org/Upon-contact-with-reality-at-boiling-point-positive-chemical-reaction https://internationalviewpoint.org/Upon-contact-with-reality-at-boiling-point-positive-chemical-reaction 2013-04-09T09:36:11Z text/html en Éric Toussaint, Sergio Ferrari Social Forum <p>The World Social Forum (WSF) wound up its ninth centralized edition on Saturday, 30 March in the Tunisian capital with a significant quantifiable end result. More than 50,000 participants, almost one thousand activities of many kinds; an opening march on Tuesday the 26th that brought out 25,000 people and a tightly-packed closing march in solidarity with the Palestinian people. “A very positive forum” according to the analysis of Belgian historian and activist Eric Toussaint, coordinator of the Committee for the Abolition of the Third World Debt (Comité pour l'Annulation de la Dette du Tiers Monde – CADTM) member of the FSM International piloting committee since its inception.</p> - <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/-IV459-April-2013-" rel="directory">IV459 - April 2013</a> / <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Social-Forum-+" rel="tag">Social Forum</a>