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Stocktaking of the Belem 2009 World Social Forum

Abstract

The Global Social Forum has a history. In general, it should be noted that the political meaning of its constitution was to tackle the crisis of the neoliberal model, based on social and political convergence in a series of processes that brought forces together and their various strategies of confrontation. Convergence, on the one hand, of the anti-globalisation movement, which was born in the fight against the WTO and in solidarity with the people of the south; on the other hand, social movements in the south: indigenous people, peasants, women, young people, environmentalists, etc., who had built their own political representation and boosted major efforts to reject governments in favour of international financial groups, which included NGOs and institutional spaces contributing to the existence of the FSM. All these processes, having a common feature, had succeeded in articulating not only national developments but also looking at the global meeting of regional and international networks and organisations, the possibility of influencing change towards another possible world. Hence, resolutions were always based on the deployment of a series of campaigns and self-calls for global mobilisation.

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