Chapter
Preface to the critique influence change Edition
Foreword to the First Edition
Preface to the First Edition
Part I: The Production of Wealth and Social Reproduction
Overview: Key Questions, Critical Issues
1: External Debt: Abolish the Debt in Order to Free Development
Breaking the Infernal Cycle of Debt
Extra Resources to Finance Development
A New Development Strategy
New Rules of Financial Good Practice
Further Indispensable Measures
2: Africa/Brazil: Conference Synthesis
3: Financial Capital: Controls on Finance Capital
Restore Controls over Capital Flows to Nation-States
Promote Control of Capital Flows
Reinforce Control of Markets and Financial Actors
Reform the International Financial Institutions (IFIs)
4: International Trade: Conference Synthesis
Broad Consensus on Free Trade and the WTO
Proposals by Dot Keet, Africa Trade Network
Proposals on the WTO by Martin Khor, Third World Network
Proposals by Paul Nicholson, Via Campesina
Proposals by Hector de la Cueva, Alianza Social Continental
Proposal by Lori Wallach, Public Citizen
Final proposals by the panellists
5: Transnational Corporations: Issues and Proposals
Corporations Have Too Much Power
Governments and Corporations are Intimately Intertwined
Sectors, Individual Corporations, Structural Power
Dialogue versus Confrontation
Corporate Responsibility versus Corporate Accountability versus Democratic Control over Corporations
(i) A Strategic Perspective on the International Trade Union Movement for the Twenty-first Century
Perspective on Transformative Unionism – Values, Ethics, Beliefs and Traditions
Our Socio-Economic Outlook
Organizational Review and Restructuring
The Perspective for Africa and the South
(ii) A Global Strategy for Labour
Social, Solidarity-based Economics
Social, Solidarity-Based Economics and Development of Communities
(ii) Conference Synthesis
Consensus and Differences of Opinion
Part II: Access to Wealth and Sustainability
Overview: Key Questions, Critical Issues
8: Environment and Sustainability
(i) The Living Democracy Movement: Alternatives to the Bankruptcy of Globalization
Bankruptcy of Globalization
Creating Alternatives to Corporate Globalization
The Living Democracy Movement
(ii) Conference Synthesis
9: Water – A Common Good: Conference Synthesis
Sustainable Water Management
10: Knowledge, Copyright and Patents
(i) Intellectual Property and the Knowledge Gap
The First Problem – The Rules
The Second Problem – Their Impact
(ii) Conference Synthesis
The Alternatives: Three Levels
11: Medicine, Health, AIDS: Conference Synthesis
Access to Essential Medicines
A Brief Note on the Brazilian Experience
The Global Campaigns and their Results
Arguments Used by Global Campaigns
Challenges and Priorities
Doha: Challenges that Persist
Palestine: A Motion of Protest
12: Food: People’s Right to Produce, Feed Themselves and Exercise their Food Sovereignty
The Real Causes of Hunger and Malnutrition
The Consequences of Neoliberal Policies
13: Cities, Urban Population: Conference Synthesis
(i) Indigenous Commission Statement
(ii) Conference Synthesis
Part III: The Affirmation of Civil Society and Public Space
Overview: Key Questions, Critical Issues
15: The Media: Democratization of Communications and the Media
Proposals for Alternative Approaches
16: Education: Conference Synthesis
Education as a Liberating Tool
Education and Emancipation
Essential Principles of this Fight
17: Culture: Cultural Diversity, Cultural Production and Identity
Cultural Diversity and Identity
Cultural Production, Diversity and Identity
(i) Violence Against Women: The ‘Other World’ Must Act
Violence against Women: A Transnational and Transcultural Reality
The Multiple Manifestations of Violence against Women
Fundamentalist Regimes: Extreme Examples of the Institutionalization of Violence against Women
Women Fight Back and Organize
The Causes of Violence against Women
The Consequences of Violence against Women
Violence against Women and Liberal Globalization
The Sex Trade: A Vastly Profitable Industry
Alternatives, Perspectives and Directions to Take, Towards the Complete Elimination of All Forms of Violence against Women
(ii) Conference Synthesis on the Culture of Violence and Domestic Violence
19: Discrimination and Intolerance
(i) Combating Discrimination and Intolerance
Background to the Situation of Dalits in India
Continued Practice of Untouchability
(ii) Conference Synthesis
Proposals That Have Been Identified
Convergences and Differences: Points of Debate in Civil Society
20: Migration and the Traffic in People: The Contradictions of Globalization
‘Today the World Is Global’
Understanding Globalization
The Shifting Paradigm of Migration: From Industrialization to Globalization
Characteristics of Current Migration Flows
The European Case: Towards a ‘Precarious Immigration’
What Action is to be Taken vis-à-vis Globalization?
21 The Global Civil Society Movement
The Movement against Neoliberal Globalization
Heterogeneity and Diversity: A ‘Movement of Movements’
Porto Alegre: The Parliament of the People
From Porto Alegre to Genoa: International Convergence and the Vilification of the Movement
Neo-Colonial War and New Challenges for the Movement
(ii) Conference Synthesis
Background to the Conference
Points of Agreement and Disagreement
Part IV: Political Power and Ethics in the New Society
Overview: Key Questions, Critical Issues
22: The International Architecture of Power
(i) International Organizations and the Architecture of World Power
Proposal for a Pluralistic System of Global Economic Governance
Pluralist Global Governance
(ii) Conference Synthesis
Questions Prepared by the Facilitator
23: Militarism and Globalization: Conference Synthesis
The Central Question of the Conference
24: Human Rights: Conference Synthesis on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Establishment of a Permanent Forum on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
The Primacy of Human Rights
Support for the Draft Optional Protocol to the ICESCR
25: Sovereignty, Nation, Empire
26: Democracy: Participatory Democracy
Two Opposing Views on the Future of Humankind
Participation Demands Political Decentralization and Devolution of Powers, both Political and Economic
(i) Values of a New Civilization
Democracy as an Indispensable Value
Socialism as an Alternative
(ii) Feminism and the Three Enlightenment Ideals
Epilogue: Social Movements’ Manifesto
Resistance to Neoliberalism, War and Militarism; For Peace and Social Justice
Appendix 1: World Social Forum Charter of Principles
Appendix 2: World Social Forum 2003: Contacts
Another World Is Possible
：World Social Forum Proposals for an Alternative Globalization
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