[lbo-talk] European Social Forum

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat Dec 20 15:27:57 PST 2003


[I haven't gotten a chance to read these yet but this sounds interesting.]

From: "peter waterman" <waterman at antenna.nl> To: "debate: SA discussion list " <debate at lists.kabissa.org> Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 11:49:52 +0100

One of the most intensive dialogues/debates on the nature and future of the WSF has been taking place in the UK, around the proposed European Social Forum, London, 2004.

All of the issues concerning the future of the Forum process seem to be arising here, in a country that has so far had a weak and narrow presence within the ESF/WSF.

The best on-going accounts of this I have so far found have been on the site of one of the several Left parties or groups that exist in the UK - that of the Communist Party of Great Britain. Tina Becker, who has written most of these items is herself a prominent figure within the movement in the UK. Check out:

http://www.cpgb.org.uk/esf/

For more-substantial pieces around the same theme, check out:

http://www.commoner.org.uk/

'The Commoner' is edited in the UK by Massimo de Angelis, himself prominent in the new London Social Forum - a prime mover in opening up debate on the ESF within the UK.

Check out the blue and green columns. Some, though not all, of my own WSF pieces can be found in one or the other. But I recommend, in particular, pieces by Phil McLeish, Massimo, Steve Wright, and Olivier de Marcellus (aka OM or Old Man), a founder of People's Global Action.

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