Eric Toussaint mfl i en analys av EU-utvecklingen några dar före EU-valen 9.6.24 "The European Eurocracy is planning to give the extreme right a specific role in European government, thereby burying all of the taboos and precautions that Western democracies have taken against these political movements since the end of WWII".
Apropå "the Eurocracy". Jag misstänker att Spinelli är upphovsman till begreppet, liksom det egentligen var han som namngav den europeiska unionen. Se Spinellis bok "The Eurocrats" från 1966 och Spinelligruppens utkast till fördrag om Europeiska unionen, som antogs av europaparlamentet år 1984.
Toussaint m fl skriver:
"The most powerful EU leaders not only approve the Zionist state’s policy of war crimes against the civilian population of Gaza, citing a non-existent ‘right to defence’ on the part of an occupying power. They also repress and attempt to ban any internal voices that oppose unconditional EU support for the Israeli occupation of Palestine and genocide of Gazans. The McCarthyite drift has a true goal: not simply to eliminate solidarity with the Palestinian cause, but to discipline the European population around the geostrategic interests of its elites, namely the remilitarization of Europe around the war in Ukraine and unconditional support for Israel".
Ovanstående är lätt att hålla med om. Däremot vill åtminstone inte jag förena mig i de tre skribenternas -- en fransmans, en spanjors och en irländares -- överdrivet antieuropeiska utgjutelse i följande stycke:
"Perhaps the only positive outcome of all of this is that we can finally consign to the dust bin, all of the so-called ‘European values’ and ‘founding myths of peace’ that the EU liberal propaganda machine continues to hammer away at".
Vad de "europeiska värdena" beträffar ska vi nog akta oss att slänga bort rubbet. Idag är det visserligen uppenbart att EU, trots Spinellis och hans kollegors ansträngningar, aldrig blev ett fredsprojekt men det är svårt att se hur vi människor någonsin ska få till världsfred om vi inte lyckas få Europa att slå in på fredens väg.
Den ryske krigsmotståndaren Boris Kagarlitskij har dömts till fem år i fängelse. Men hans tankar har fått eget liv. Klimatrörelsen bör lyssna på hans idéer om hur klimatomställningen kan bidra till att undvika ett nytt kallt krig, skriver Tord Björk.
Article by Roberto Savio in WSI Magazine 26 Jan 2022. "The International Renewal Group denounces the WSF's irrelevance due to being unable to adapt to changes"
WSF Link collection -- Global Policy Forum is a policy watchdog that follows the work of the United Nations. We promote accountability and citizen participation in decisions on peace and security, social justice and international law.
"The UN is being turned into a public-private partnership": An interview with Harris Gleckman
Lynn Fries speaks to Harris Gleckman about the growing corporate influence over our global governance system.
COATI – the Collective for Autonomy in Interpreting Technology- was formed in Barcelona in 2009, bringing together people who had participated in anti-capitalist and anti-globalisation movements. We had supported the peasant farmers of Via Campesina in the creation of the movement for Food Sovereignty, and had volunteered as interpreters (sometimes in very precarious conditions) and seen the value of good alternative technology; we had learnt to organise horizontally and by consensus in the Do-It-Yourself culture of anarchist and anti-capitalist social centres all over Europe; we had built an understanding of technology in the squatted hacklabs and free software communities; we learnt about sound systems running hardcore punk festivals, street parties and independent, community-based radio stations; and it was those experiences, and the values of those communities, that inspired the project.
By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research, August 09, 2016
Author’s Introduction: " This article was first published in 2013 focussing on the May 2013 Tunis World Social Forum.
This year the World Social Forum is being held in Montreal, regrouping committed social activists, anti-war collectives and prominent intellectuals.
Most of the participants are unaware that the WSF is funded by corporate foundations including Ford, Rockefeller, et al. Much of this funding is channelled to the WSF organizers under the helm of the WSF International Council. ...[...]"
The Edge Funders Alliance
La Tunisie convoque à nouveau la prochaine édition du FSM en mars 2015 « Le Forum Social Mondial appartient au mouvement altermondialiste dans son ensemble, et il doit se l’approprier… » C’est le Maghreb qui a demandé de maintenir le lieu « Les mouvements sociaux, acteurs clés » La solidarité internationale, plus que jamais indispensable Sergio Ferrari*
This is a collaborative platform wiki set up to support the networking and systematization of useful informations among the participant of the International forum on free culture and knowledge. Their team members are among the participants or contributors
The Forum’s aim is to create a permanent structure for international political and cultural debate... annual assemblies and regional sessions to examine the challenges of the new century. The WPF is not, however, just an annual meeting of eminent and auth
By ALAN CLENDENNING The Associated Press Wednesday, January 27, 2010; 11:42 AM PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil -- Brazil's first working-class president got a hero's welcome at the World Social Forum, wowing 10,000 leftists with a vow to reproach the planet's busin
"In 1959, a group of scholars and practitioners founded the International Studies Association (ISA) to pursue mutual interests in international studies. Representing 80 countries, ISA has over 4,000 members worldwide and is the most respected and widely k
Sumaira Sagheer Toor, Masters Dissertation, MA in Global Media and Postnational Communication, School of Oriental and African Studies, London. This study enacts a three-pronged relationship between transnational communications, participatory democracy and
Global capitalism finances anti-capitalism: an absurd and contradictory relationship. "Another World is Possible", but it cannot be meaningfully achieved under the present arrangement. A shake-up of the World Social Forum, of its organizational structure,
Hervé Bourlard, from Idiap Research Institute ("an independent, non-profit research foundation specializing in multimedia information management and in multimodal man-machine interaction").
Tuomas Ylä-Anttila, doct dissertation "Politiikan paluu. Globalisaatioiliike ja julkisuus" Vastapaino 2010. The study proves many common assumptions about the Global Justice Movement wrong. Rather than being a marginal actor, the movement is the initiato
There is a less-discussed parallel process of thematic city-wide popular assemblies that were established to deal with issues that are not neighbourhood-specific, such as environment, education, health and social services and transportation. Six thematic
Aaron Tovish inlägg i uclg congress, sommaren 2010. (förkortat)"Those who recognize the necessity of taking responsibility for humankind's potential impact on the sustaining capacity of the Earth need to be concerned not only about global warming, but als
Boaventura dos Santos, 2008: "The novelty of the WSF is its new way of organising with the goal of creating a new political culture. That’s why I would define the WSF as a counter- hegemonic form of globalisation rather than as alter-globalisation - as im
Boaventura dos Santos: "The question is, which globalization will benefit from the leaks? The hegemonic globalization of capitalism or the counter-hegemonic globalization of the social movements which believes that another world is possible and fights for
The modern global economy doesn’t just run on fossil fuels, writes Bob Hughes, it primarily driven by social and economic inequality. But as a growing number of studies suggests that this inequality also has a heavy environmental cost, Hughes argues that
The No Voices Network. "No Vox est un réseau d’associations, de mouvements et d’organisations, qui mènent concrètement des luttes sociales sur le terrain. Fondé lors du 1er Forum social européen à Florence, le réseau a pris une dimension internationale lo
The South Asian Social Forum 2011, an international platform to address different contemporary issues for a peaceful South Asia, will begin in Dhaka on November 18. The five-day forum will be held, for the first time in Bangladesh, from November 18-22. Un
"Focus has launched a process to update our strategic perspective and to identify new projects and approaches that will equip us, and our allies, to challenge power and bring about positive change. "
Giddens feels that there is a huge disparity between the reality of climate change and the political and economic response. As well as system-level change, the situation needs action below the level of the nation state, he explained, with activists and civil society taking steps worldwide to obtain change on the ground, as the Transition Towns movement tried, for example. "The United Nations (UN) has lost a lot of influence, so we will need to look to states and groups of states," he said.
UNESCO will convene an International Conference on the “Memory of the World in the Digital Age: Digitization and Preservation” from 26 to 28 September 2012 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada