This text takes the present situation as its starting point and considers the possible sequels to neoliberalism, understanding that it is possible to move beyond it and that the future is not predetermined.
This text takes the present situation as its starting point and considers the possible sequels to neoliberalism, understanding that it is possible to move beyond it and that the future is not predetermined.
Jai asked me to react and participate in the Movements of Movements discussion on the WSM-Discuss list. Given all that Jai brings to us, I am happy to contribute. My answer is quite long because thinking about WSM-Discuss leads to many fundamental questions for me.
The Paris Commune is a universal moment. We rediscover each time its significance in relation to the new questions that arise in building the future.
Sociologist Immanuel Wallerstein was one of the creators, with Samir Amin, Andre Gunder Frank and Giovanni Arrighi, of the world-system perspective that emerged in the 1970s as a critical approach to understanding global hierarchy and world history.
Les enjeux du Forum Social Mondial 2021 [1] sont considérables. Dans une situation mondiale profondément contradictoire, il doit permettre de : redéfinir une proposition altermondialiste correspondant à la nouvelle situation ; comprendre les contradictions nouvelles du système mondial ; partir des mouvements pour résister, définir les alternatives, construire un nouveau projet d’émancipation.
It is a moment we return to, which gives meaning and which we rediscover. It is a moment that creates the unexpected and reveals new possibilities, a turning point in history.
The challenges of the World Social Forum 2021 are high . In a deep contradictory world situation, it must make it possible to: redefine an alterglobalist proposal corresponding to the new situation; understand the new contradictions of the world system; start from the movements to resist, define the alternatives, build a new emancipation project.
This text, whose reflections I broadly share, analyses without complaisance the situation of the WSF and emphasizes the limits of the functioning and the responsibilities of the forms of organization.
This text, whose reflections I broadly share, analyses without complaisance the situation of the WSF and emphasizes the limits of the functioning and the responsibilities of the forms of organization.
This note has been written to prepare the discussion on the WSF at the CRID Council meeting on 6 November 2020. It updates the notes sent to the CRID instances on June 12, 2020 and July 16, 2020.
I met Samir Amin in 1965 in Dakar. He was a professor at the University of Dakar, I worked at the Ministry of Planning and Development. We were both born in Egypt and that was a starting point for us.
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