World Social Forum

It seemed strange that amongst the hundreds of organisations’ stallsringing the inner circle of the World Social Forum stadium in Nairobithere were only two that served food…

Anti-water privatization activists from all over Africa met today atthe World Social Forum to launch a new African Water Network aimed atstrengthening co-operation and co-ordinating efforts to ‘oppose waterprivatization in all its forms’; to work for a participatory model ofpublic control over water; and to assert that water is a fundamentalhuman right…

With a renewed vigour and fresh intensity, the World Social Forumfeels like it’s beginning to hit its stride…

As we arrived this morning at the stadium where the World SocialForum is taking place, the traffic had come to a standstill…

Day 2 of the Forum and the wazungu (white people) are allstarting to turn various shades of pink from sunburns and heatexposure…

NAIROBI…

I used to think that the political novel died in 1948, with thepublication of George Orwell’s ‘1984’…

Early in 2006 I was in Venezuela to attend the World Social Forumand research a magazine about the country…

David Ransom thinks Latin Americans could be the first tooverturn a ruinous global orthodoxy.…

*'If we don't put an end to neoliberalism, neoliberalism willput an end to us,'* President Chávez said earlier this year.…