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The Zapatista irruption of 1 January 1994: new internationalism and political redefinitions

Jose Rostier — 2024-01-31T21:49:08Z

The state of Chiapas is one of the most landlocked and poor in Mexico. So when, on January 1, 1994, the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN, founded in 1983) took control of several towns by force, it was impossible to imagine the impact of this insurrection. However, it would mark the entire second half of the 1990s and largely participate in the redefinition of the radical left on a global scale.
The radical left was then at a critical moment in terms of programme and strategy. (…)

- IV588 - January 2024 / Mexico, Global Justice

Call for a global counter-summit of social movements to the IMF-WB Annual Meetings

CADTM International — 2023-01-26T11:44:09Z

“Let's make the voice of social movements heard in Marrakech next October. We want to demonstrate the power of organized peoples, defend popular sovereignty and promote social and environmental justice.”

- IV576 - January 2023 / Morocco, Global Justice, Debt

Genoa didn't last for only 48 hours

Giulio Calella — 2021-07-20T05:39:11Z

“Only a serious and sincere reflection on these events – that is not comfort-seeking, nor victimizing or aimed at obliterating – can make this twenty-year period a fruitful basis for rebuilding a politics on new foundations that can still aspire to another world.”

- IV558 - July 2021 / Italy, Social Forum, Global Justice

Samir Amin, or the raison d'être of a new internationalism

Catherine Samary — 2018-11-21T14:04:22Z

As if he wanted to make it his political testament, in the urgency of a specific “moment”, both for himself and a capitalist globalization in crisis, Samir Amin (re) published his call for the “indispensable reconstruction of an International of the workers and peoples of the whole world”, on the Afrique-Asie.fr site, a few days before his sudden death on August 12, 2018. Appended to this is a “Letter of intention” seeking to accelerate and concretize the process.

- Features / Marxism, Global Justice

The abuses of the World Social Forum: Towards the end of the process?

Mimoun Rahman — 2015-04-27T11:54:54Z

The World Social Forum (WSF) was born following the emergence of the anti-globalisation movement in the 1990s, including the Zapatista uprising against NAFTA in 1994, the campaign against the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) in 1998 and the great mobilisation in 1999 in Seattle against the WTO summit, with nearly 50,000 participants from around the world.

- IV483 - April 2015 / Tunisia, Social Forum, Global Justice

Rights to Water and Land, a Common Struggle Movements

2015-04-21T10:42:40Z

We, social movements, grassroots organizations and civil society organizations engaged in the defence of the rights to land and water, gathered in October 2014 in Dakar at the African Social Forum. We are fighting and protesting against natural resource grabbing, especially water and land grabbing of our Commons, and against the systematic violations of the associated human rights. Sharing our ideas led to acknowledgement of the essential linkage between our struggles, given the inextricable nature of land and water grabbing. We met again at the World Social Forum in Tunis in March 2015 to continue this dialogue with movements and organizations from all over the world in order to broaden this convergence.

- IV483 - April 2015 / Social Forum, Global Justice

Call to Action ! Reject REDD+ and Extractive Industries to confront capitalism and defend life and territories

2014-12-13T12:45:55Z

On the occasion of the UN climate change negotiations in Lima, Peru – known as COP20 – we reaffirm that rejecting REDD+ and â€˜environmental services', two manifestations of the so-called “green economy”, is a central part of our struggle against capitalism and extractive industries and the defence of territories, life and Mother Earth.

- IV479 - December 2014 / Peru, Global Justice, Climate

United against the Troika

Esther Vivas — 2013-06-05T19:58:47Z

On the 1st of June demonstrations against the Troika are taking place around Europe on the call originally of the movement in Portugal “Lixe a Troika” (usually translated as “Screw the Troika”) under the slogan "People United against the Troika" and movements in the Spanish state against the imposition of the harsh austerity programmes by which the Troika pretends to solve the problem of the Eurozone crisis.

- IV461 - June 2013 / Spanish state, Global Justice, European Union

People United Against the Troika

2013-06-03T14:12:07Z

Photos of the demonstrations from around Europe.

- News from around the world / Germany, Portugal, Spanish state, Global Justice

The Manifesto of the Mediterranean Meeting in Tunisia

2013-04-29T10:53:20Z

This manifesto was adopted by the meeting of progressive organisations from the Mediterranean, held just before the World Socialist Forum in Tunisia.

- IV459 - April 2013 / Mediterranean, Global Justice