Another World is Possible: World Social Forum Proposals for an Alternative Globalization

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critique confronts the world. Without dogma, without new principles, it refuses to conform and instead demands insurrection of thought. It must be ruthless, unafraid of both its results and the powers it may come into conflict with. Critique takes the world, our world, as its object, so that we may develop new ways of making it. influence is a step from critique towards the future, when effects begin to be felt, when the ground becomes unstable, when a movement ignites. These critiques of the state of our world have influenced a generation. They are crucial guides to change. change is when the structures shift. The books in this series take critique as their starting point and as such have influenced both their respective disciplines and thought the world over. This series is born out of our conviction that change lies not in the novelty of the future but in the realization of the thoughts of the past. These texts are not mere interpretations or reflections, but scientific, critical and impassioned analyses of our world. After all, the point is to change it. Front Cover critique influence change About the Editors Title Page Copyright Contents Acknowledgements Foreword to the critique influence change Edition Preface to the critique influence change Edition Foreword to the First Edition Preface to the First Edition Introduction Part I: The Production of Wealth and Social Reproduction Overview: Key Questions, Critical Issues Key Questions Critical Issues 1: External Debt: Abolish the Debt in Order to Free Development Breaking the Infernal Cycle of Debt Extra Resources to Finance Development A New Development Strategy New Rules of Financial Good Practice Further Indispensable Measures Notes 2: Africa/Brazil: Conference Synthesis 3: Financial Capital: Controls on Finance Capital Introduction Restore Controls over Capital Flows to Nation-States Promote Control of Capital Flows Reinforce Control of Markets and Financial Actors Reform the International Financial Institutions (IFIs) 4: International Trade: Conference Synthesis Broad Consensus on Free Trade and the WTO Proposals by Dot Keet, Africa Trade Network Proposals on the WTO by Martin Khor, Third World Network Proposals by Paul Nicholson, Via Campesina Proposals by Hector de la Cueva, Alianza Social Continental Proposal by Lori Wallach, Public Citizen Final proposals by the panellists 5: Transnational Corporations: Issues and Proposals Summary Proposal Corporations Have Too Much Power Governments and Corporations are Intimately Intertwined Sectors, Individual Corporations, Structural Power Dialogue versus Confrontation Corporate Responsibility versus Corporate Accountability versus Democratic Control over Corporations Reform versus Banishment 6: Labour (i) A Strategic Perspective on the International Trade Union Movement for the Twenty-first Century Introduction Perspective on Transformative Unionism – Values, Ethics, Beliefs and Traditions Our Socio-Economic Outlook Organizational Review and Restructuring The Perspective for Africa and the South Conclusion (ii) A Global Strategy for Labour Investor Protectionism Capital’s Gains Global Class Politics Trade Unions’ Role Conclusion Notes 7: A Solidarity Economy (i) Resist and Build Social, Solidarity-based Economics Social, Solidarity-Based Economics and Development of Communities (ii) Conference Synthesis Questions Analyses Proposals Consensus and Differences of Opinion Lead Participants Part II: Access to Wealth and Sustainability Overview: Key Questions, Critical Issues Key Questions Critical Issues 8: Environment and Sustainability (i) The Living Democracy Movement: Alternatives to the Bankruptcy of Globalization Bankruptcy of Globalization Creating Alternatives to Corporate Globalization Creative Resistance The Living Democracy Movement (ii) Conference Synthesis Summary Document 9: Water – A Common Good: Conference Synthesis Key Themes Social Groups Involved Analysis Proposals Sustainable Water Management The Fight against Dams 10: Knowledge, Copyright and Patents (i) Intellectual Property and the Knowledge Gap The First Problem – The Rules The Second Problem – Their Impact Campaign Strategies Conclusion (ii) Conference Synthesis Context The Problem The Alternatives: Three Levels 11: Medicine, Health, AIDS: Conference Synthesis Access to Essential Medicines A Brief Note on the Brazilian Experience The Global Campaigns and their Results Arguments Used by Global Campaigns Challenges and Priorities Doha: Challenges that Persist Palestine: A Motion of Protest Notes 12: Food: People’s Right to Produce, Feed Themselves and Exercise their Food Sovereignty The Real Causes of Hunger and Malnutrition The Consequences of Neoliberal Policies 13: Cities, Urban Population: Conference Synthesis 14: Indigenous Peoples (i) Indigenous Commission Statement (ii) Conference Synthesis Background Proposals Part III: The Affirmation of Civil Society and Public Space Overview: Key Questions, Critical Issues Key Questions Critical Issues 15: The Media: Democratization of Communications and the Media The Issues Proposals for Alternative Approaches 16: Education: Conference Synthesis Action by Civil Society Education as a Liberating Tool Outrage over Poverty Education and Emancipation Essential Principles of this Fight 17: Culture: Cultural Diversity, Cultural Production and Identity Introduction Context Globalization Culture Cultural Diversity and Identity Cultural Production, Diversity and Identity Conclusion Proposals 18: Violence (i) Violence Against Women: The ‘Other World’ Must Act Introduction Violence against Women: A Transnational and Transcultural Reality The Multiple Manifestations of Violence against Women Fundamentalist Regimes: Extreme Examples of the Institutionalization of Violence against Women Rape as a Weapon of War Women Fight Back and Organize The Causes of Violence against Women The Consequences of Violence against Women Violence against Women and Liberal Globalization The Sex Trade: A Vastly Profitable Industry Alternatives, Perspectives and Directions to Take, Towards the Complete Elimination of All Forms of Violence against Women (ii) Conference Synthesis on the Culture of Violence and Domestic Violence 19: Discrimination and Intolerance (i) Combating Discrimination and Intolerance Background to the Situation of Dalits in India Continued Practice of Untouchability Extreme Poverty Recommended Strategies (ii) Conference Synthesis Questions Analysis Proposals That Have Been Identified Convergences and Differences: Points of Debate in Civil Society Stakeholders 20: Migration and the Traffic in People: The Contradictions of Globalization ‘Today the World Is Global’ Understanding Globalization The Shifting Paradigm of Migration: From Industrialization to Globalization Characteristics of Current Migration Flows The European Case: Towards a ‘Precarious Immigration’ What Action is to be Taken vis-à-vis Globalization? 21 The Global Civil Society Movement (i) Discussion Document The Movement against Neoliberal Globalization Heterogeneity and Diversity: A ‘Movement of Movements’ Porto Alegre: The Parliament of the People From Porto Alegre to Genoa: International Convergence and the Vilification of the Movement Neo-Colonial War and New Challenges for the Movement (ii) Conference Synthesis Background to the Conference Key Questions Leading Actors Relevant Analyses Points of Agreement and Disagreement Part IV: Political Power and Ethics in the New Society Overview: Key Questions, Critical Issues Key Questions Critical Issues 22: The International Architecture of Power (i) International Organizations and the Architecture of World Power Proposal for a Pluralistic System of Global Economic Governance What is Deglobalization Pluralist Global Governance Note (ii) Conference Synthesis Questions Prepared by the Facilitator Proposals Points of Convergence Agents of Change 23: Militarism and Globalization: Conference Synthesis The Central Question of the Conference James Petras Claude Serfati Lily Traubman Hector Mondragón Alfredo Wagner Dianne Luping Proposals 24: Human Rights: Conference Synthesis on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Establishment of a Permanent Forum on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights The Primacy of Human Rights Support for the Draft Optional Protocol to the ICESCR 25: Sovereignty, Nation, Empire 26: Democracy: Participatory Democracy Two Opposing Views on the Future of Humankind Participation Demands Political Decentralization and Devolution of Powers, both Political and Economic Economics Ethics Politics 27: Values (i) Values of a New Civilization Qualitative Values Liberty Equality and Fraternity Democracy as an Indispensable Value The Environment Socialism as an Alternative Notes (ii) Feminism and the Three Enlightenment Ideals Epilogue: Social Movements’ Manifesto Resistance to Neoliberalism, War and Militarism; For Peace and Social Justice Appendix 1: World Social Forum Charter of Principles Appendix 2: World Social Forum 2003: Contacts Index Back Cover