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World Social Forum

News, comment and features on the World Social Forum, an annual gathering of civil society organisations

April 2017

  • Venezuelan opposition deputy José Brito during a protest against the Nicolas Maduro government.

    In Venezuela 82% of people live in poverty – where are our friends now?

    Reynaldo Trombetta
    With our democracy in tatters, people live in fear with no hope of change. Western socialists should be making a stand against Maduro’s government

March 2015

  • MDG : World Social Forum (WSF) in Tunis

    World Social Forum can inspire activists to unite against the global power grab

    Adriano Campolina, head of ActionAid
    As the World Social Forum opens in Tunis, the challenge is to rally against the concentration of wealth and power in the hands of the few

April 2013

  • A farmer in El Salvador

    Poverty matters blog
    Development goals? What development goals? Blank faces in El Salvador

    Claire Provost: Rural communities including some in El Salvador knew nothing of the millennium development goals, and feel excluded from debates

March 2013

  • In previous years, the WSF has attracted high-level political figures including Hugo Chavez. Tunisian politicians have largely shunned the spotlight, although the prime minister, Ali Laarayedh, invited journalists attending the forum to a cocktail reception on Thursday at the luxury Hotel Africa Mouradi. Previously minister of the interior, Laarayedh became premier in February following the resignation of Hamadi Jebali

    World Social Forum: window on an alternative world – in pictures

  • MDG : Women participating at the World Social Forum (WSF) during opening in Tunis, Tunisia

    Poverty matters blog
    World Social Forum begins with march through streets of Tunis

February 2011

  • David Evan Harris

    World Social Forum is so much more than Evo Morales

    David Evan Harris
  • South African activists at the World Social Forum

    Poverty matters blog
    World Social Forum: grassroots Africa takes centre stage

  • Delegates gather to listen to the closing speeches at the World Social Forum in Dakar, Senegal, on Friday 11 February

    World Social Forum activists buoyed by fall of Egypt and Tunisia regimes

  • High-school graduates on hunger strike in Dakar

    Poverty matters blog
    Local and foreign politics play out at the forum

  • Poverty matters blog
    At the Dakar forum it's fast, furious … and crowded

  • World Social Forum 2011 Dakar - in pictures

  • Guardian development network
    Signs of change' says Bolivia's Morales as World Social Forum Opens

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