Published Thursday, January 31, 2008 at 16:28
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On 26 January, hundreds of organizations held events across the world to mark the 8th World Social Forum and voice their demands for a fair and inclusive globalization process. They did this on the same day the Davos Economic Forum, which gathers the rich and powerful to discuss the world’s problems. Problems that the World Social Forum organizations feel are being treated without concern for the needs of the world’s ordinary citizens, who are the first affected by globalization.
Criticisms are often aimed at socialist and social democratic parties, which fight for social progress, but are increasingly seen as failing to offer an answer to the growing inequalities generated by globalization. As a consequence, many people have turned to civil society organizations to voice their concern, rather than political parties.
How should Europe’s progressive political parties react to globalization? Which solutions should they offer for making globalization fairer and more inclusive and get closer to the citizens? To what extent should the PES and its parties take part in the WSF movement and the issues raised by international civil society?
The World Social Forum was launched in 2001 in Porto Alegre, Brazil, as a counter-event to the annual gathering of the rich and powerful at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The World Social Forum has met every year since 2001 in different parts of the world: in Brazil, India, Mali and Kenya. The next WSF will take place in the Amazon region in Brazil in 2009.
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1. globalisation by kim
on Monday, February 4, 2008 at 12:02
Globalisation has come with his problems. It has been difficult for socialist to protect there social values. My opinion is that we have to learn to use the globalisation. We have to try and keep as much impact as possible on globalisation policy. In this way we can protect the social values and welfare state. PES should take part is WSF discussions. The WSF is an important forum to talk about the problems with globalisation.To be able to post comments you need to be logged in. No account yet? Register here! Lost your password?