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From Reactive to Proactive: The World Social Forum and the Anti-/Alter-Globalization Movement By Marian Pinsky
21 May 2013 – McGill Sociological Review
Given the prevailing research interest on the transition from anti- to alter- globalization, this paper examines where the World Social Forum is situated in the spectrum of movements against neo-liberal globalization. I argue that the progression of the anti/alter-globalization movements, while not linear or mutually-exclusive, can be traced along a continuum, marking the transition from condemnation, to advocating for change, to articulating means by which such change can be brought about.
“Chief goal”? Utter nonsense! The EU finance ministers coundn’t accept less than full payment on “their” bonds because the bonds weren’t “theirs”! It was Wall St, via its rating agencies, that manufactured the crisis, not other European countries! It is Wall St hedge funds who are the creditors. If the debts had been owed to EU lenders, there never would have been a “crisis” in the first place! Nor is there any sign of a threat to Europe’s welfare state. By creating unemployment, the ministers will give themselves the pretext to intorduce new welfare/public spending programmes to combat it and Wall St will just have to grin and bear it! The author obviously went looking for a “conspiracy” and came up with this!