GTI Forum on Critical Issues
Farewell to the World Social Forum?
For nearly two decades, the WSF has served as a vital gathering space for international activists seeking "another world," but now may be losing momentum. In this GTI Forum, a panel of WSF veterans appraise its past, critique its present, and debate its future.
RITA
FREIRE
CANDIDO
GRZYBOWSKI
GUSTAVE
MASSIAH
THOMAS
PONNIAH
VIRGINIA
VARGAS
The former Greek Minister of Finance describes his vision for a democratized European Union, the political challenge, and the new transnational movement working for another Europe.Recent Publications
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What are the strengths and weaknesses of localism? Can we synthesize the local and global? How do we achieve scale? -
What's worked and what hasn't? Green capitalism or system transformation? Do we need a meta-movement? -
Workers of the World Unite (At Last)
To confront global capital, labor must itself globalize. Indeed, unions are already starting to organize transnationally, a harbinger, perhaps, of a new international to come. -
The Truth-Teller: From the Pentagon Papers to the Doomsday Machine
Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg looks back on the Vietnam era, and discusses why the warfare state remains an existential peril.
Forthcoming
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Corporations in the Crosshairs
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A Great Ethics Transition
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Planetize the Movement
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Interrogating the Anthropocene
Popular
Journey to Earthland: The Great
Transition to Planetary Civilization
Paul Raskin
Debating the Sharing Economy
Juliet Schor
Economics for a Full World
Herman Daly
The Degrowth Alternative
Giorgos Kallis
Money for the People
Mary Mellor
Bounding the Planetary Future:
Why We Need a Great Transition
Johan Rockström
Climate: The Crisis and the Movement
Naomi Klein
Farming for a Small Planet:
Agroecology Now
Frances Moore Lappé
Marxism and Ecology:
Common Fonts of a Great Transition
John Bellamy Foster
