Democracy, Substance and Debate in the Bamako Appeal and the Global Justice Movements: A Reader
Compilers: Jai Sen and Madhuresh Kumar with Patrick Bond and Peter Waterman
Indian Institute for Critical Action : Centre in Movement (CACIM), New Delhi, India & the University of KwaZulu-Natal Centre for Civil Society (CCS), Durban, South Africa
January 2007
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
Contributors to the Reader
Section 1
Introductions
1.1 The Bamako Appeal Dialogue : An Introduction : Peter Waterman
1.2 Fragments of an Introduction : A Background to this Reader : Jai Sen, CACIM (New Delhi)
1.3 A Political Programme for the WSF ? : Patrick Bond, CCS (Centre for Civil Society, Durban)
Section 2
The Communist Manifesto
2.1 Communist Manifesto : Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, 1848
Section 3
Bandung
3.1 Final Communiqué of the Asian-African Conference : Asian-African Conference, April 24 1955
3.2 Outcomes of the Asian-African Summit : Asian-African Summit, April 1955
3.3 Speech to Bandung Conference Political Committee, 1955 : Jawaharlal Nehru, nd [1955]
Section 4
The World Social Forum
4.1 World Social Forum Charter of Principles : World Social Forum Organising Committee and World Social Forum International Council, June 2001
4.2 Today’s Bandung : Michael Hardt, March-April 2002
Section 5
Porto Alegre Manifesto
5.1 Porto Alegre Manifesto : Group of Nineteen, February 20 2005
5.2 Discussing the Porto Alegre Manifesto : Patrick Bond, February 22 2005
Section 6
The Bamako Appeal
6.1 The Bamako Appeal : Forum pour un Autre Mali, Forum Mondial des Alternatives (France), Forum du Tiers Monde (Sénégal), ENDA (Sénégal) and ors, February 2006
6.2 Signatories to The Bamako Appeal : François Houtart, WFA (World Forum for Alternatives), April 2006
6.3 Answers to Bamako Appeal : François Houtart, April 13 2006
6.4 Bamako Appeal promotes struggle against market-driven society, Bamako, Mali : John Catalinotto, January 27 2006
6.5 World Social Forum puts Africa up front / Round tables issue Bamako Appeal / Appel de Bamako : John Catalinotto, February 2006
6.6 The World Social Forum lands in Africa : Geoffrey Pleyers, September 2006 –’
Section 7
Reactions to the Bamako Appeal
7.1 The Bamako Appeal and The Zapatista 6th Declaration : Between Creating New Worlds and Reorganizing the Existing One : Kolya Abramsky, May 2006
7.2 Some Comments on the Bamako Appeal : Michael Albert, May 4 2006
7.3 Does Bamako Appeal ? The World Social Forum Versus the Life Strategies of the Subaltern : Franco Barchiesi, Heinrich Bohmke, Prishani Naidoo, and Ahmed Veriava, July 22-23 2006
7.4 Politics of the WSF: A debate in Durban, Centre for Civil Society Workshop on the World Social Forum, July 2006
7.5 Appraising the Bamako Appeal : A Contribution to the Debate : Peter Custers, June 15 2006
7.6 Some Questions Directed to the Authors of the Bamako Appeal : Dorothea Haerlin, April 28 2006
7.7 Comments on Bamako Appeal : Peter Marcuse, May 6 2006
7.8 A Critique of the Bamako Appeal : Steve Martinot, 2006
7.9 Letter to Organisers of Bamako Meeting : Antonio Martins, Chico Whitaker, and Sergio Haddad, March 16 2006
7.10 Some Comments on The Bamako Appeal : Francine Mestrum, February 20 2006
7.11 The World Social Forum and the Bamako Appeal : Yes, but no … : Francine Mestrum, June 10 2006
7.12 From the ‘Conference of the Peoples of Bandung’ to the Bamako Appeal : Geoffrey Pleyers, January 2007 –
7.13 Comments on the Bamako Appeal : Subir Sinha, April 25 2006
7.14 Bamako Appeal Spikes Controversy : Ruby van der Wekken, Peter Waterman, Francine Mestrum, Teivo Teivainen, Ruby van der Wekken, Ruth Reitan, Tord Bjork, Marko Ulvila, February 2006
7.15 The Bamako Appeal : A Post-Modern Janus ? : Peter Waterman, April 15 2006
7.16 Beyond Bamako : The Bamako Appeal and the Maturation of the World Social Forum : Peter Waterman, May-June 2006
Section 8
Call of Social Movements
8.1 Porto Alegre II – Call of Social Movements – Resistance to neoliberalism and militarism : for peace and social justice : Anon, nd, c.January 2002
8.2 World Call of the Social Movements, Porto Alegre, Brazil - January 27th 2003 : ALAI - Agencia Latinoamericana de Informacion (Ecuador), Amigos de la Tierra (El Salvador), Arab NGO Network for Development (Lebanon), and others, January 2003
8.3 Seminar of the Social Movements, Brussels, September 28 - October 1 2006, Summary Report : Christophe Aguiton (European March Against Unemployment), Ruli Agus (Federation Indonesian Peasant Union (FSPI), member Via Campesina), Akimoto Yoko (ATTAC Japan), and ors, October 2006
Section 9
Beyond Bamako : Other Languages
9.1 Democratic Politics Globally : Elements for a Dialogue on Global Political Party Formations : Samir Amin, 2006
9.2 Beyond the Third World : Imperial Globality, Global Coloniality and Anti-Globalisation Social Movements : Arturo Escobar, February 2004
9.3 The International Union Merger of November 2006 : Top-Down, Eurocentric, and… Invisible ? : Peter Waterman, Autumn 2006
9.4 Women’s Global Charter for Humanity : World March of Women, December 10 2004
9.5 Invitation-Summons to the Intercontinental Encounter for Humanity and Against Neoliberalism : Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN - Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional), May 1996
9.6 6th Declaration of the Selva Lacandona : Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN - Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional), July 1 2005
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The Reader is intended for limited and private circulation, for non-profit educational and discussion purposes only. It is useful to also clarify that the views of the authors in the various articles included here are not necessarily the views of the compilers, and equally that inclusion in this collection does not necessarily imply that the authors agree with the views expressed by the compilers of the Reader.
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Acknowledgements
This Reader on the Bamako Appeal and the Global Justice Movements has been prepared for the meeting ‘Revisiting the Bamako Appeal : Issues of Democracy and Substance in the World Movement’ being organised by CACIM (India Institute for Critical Action : Centre in Movement), New Delhi, India, and CCS (University of KwaZulu-Natal Centre for Civil Society), Durban, South Africa, at the World Social Forum 2007 in Nairobi, Kenya, on January 21 2007. It has been compiled by CACIM and CCS, and with input and advice from Peter Waterman of The Hague, The Netherlands. We would like to acknowledge the help of Sah Bittu, Geoffrey Pleyers, Nishant and many others who have helped us put together this Reader in a very short time. We also thank our printers for this excellent job, again in record time !
For reasons of space (and time), we have included here only the relatively shorter essays among all those that are available on global justice and solidarity movements (GJSM) but on the other hand, we have tried to collect together everything that is currently available on the Bamako Appeal in order to contribute to the debate – aside from some of the key documents in history that we think are relevant in order to understand the Bamako Appeal in perspective. Many of the documents featured here have been drawn from OpenSpaceForum? www.openspaceforum.net, and in time all of them will be up there. We hope that this collection will be useful for the meeting in Nairobi and might also, over time, become a significant reference source for the strategies and manifestos being constantly generated worldwide by constituents of the GJSM.
Please note that we have not in any way edited the documents that we have sourced and reproduced here other than in some cases adding the publication date. In all such cases we have acknowledged the sources for the documents, to our best of ability. Some of the texts however have been especially written for this collection, and we would like to express our gratitude to their authors for doing so in this time.
The Reader is intended for limited and private circulation, for non-profit educational and discussion purposes only. It is useful to also clarify that the views of the authors in the various articles included here are not necessarily the views of the compilers, and equally that inclusion in this collection does not necessarily imply that the authors agree with the views expressed by the compilers of the Reader.
Jai Sen and Madhuresh Kumar, with Patrick Bond and Peter Waterman
New Delhi, Kathmandu, Durban, and The Hague
January 2007
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Kolya Abramsky edited the book Restructuring and Resistance, Diverse Voices of Struggle in Western Europe, and is involved in anti-authoritarian global anti-capitalist networking processes, at the global, European, and local levels, with a current focus on renewable energy.
Christophe Aguiton is a leader of the French Association to Tax financial Transactions to Aid Citizens (ATTAC) and the European March Against Unemployment.
Ruli Agus is a leading member of the Federation of Indonesian Peasant Unions and the global network Via Campesina.
Michael Albert coordinates the www.zmag.org network and is the author of many books on participatory economics and the progressive movements, including Realizing Hope, Parecon, Remembering Tomorrow and Moving Forward.
Samir Amin directs the Third World Forum in Dakar, chairs the World Forum for Alternatives, and has authored numerous books on global capitalism, including, most recently, Beyond US Hegemony : Assessing the Prospects for a Multipolar World and Memoirs of an Independent Marxist.
Franco Barchiesi, an Italian, holds a PhD from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and teaches in African Studies at Ohio State University in the United States.
Tord Bjork is cofounder of the Popular Movements Study Group and is a member of Friends of the Earth Sweden, Network Institute on Global Democracy and Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam.
Heinrich Bohmke is a filmmaker and legal activist based at the Centre for Civil Society in Durban.
Patrick Bond directs the Centre for Civil Society in Durban, and has authored, most recently, Looting Africa and Talk Left Walk Right.
John Catalinotto is a journalist and lecturer at City University of New York, who has represented the International Action Center at tribunals in the U.S. and in Vienna and Belgrade.
Peter Custers is the author of Capital Accumulation and Women's Labour in Asian Economies and Questioning Globalized Militarism.
Arturo Escobar is based at the University of North Carolina in the United States where he is Kenan Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Institute of Latin American Studies, and author of the influential book Encountering Development.
The Group of Nineteen who authored the Porto Alegre Manifesto is comprised by prominent scholars and activists Aminata Traoré, Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Eduardo Galeano, José Saramago, François Houtart, Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Armand Mattelart, Roberto Savio, Riccardo Petrella, Ignacio Ramonet, Bernard Cassen, Samir Amin, Atilio Boron, Samuel Ruiz Garcia, Tariq Ali, Frei Betto, Emir Sader, Walden Bello and Immanuel Wallerstein.
Michael Hardt is a professor of literature at Duke University, Durham, the United States, and coauthor (with Toni Negri) of Empire and Multitudes.
Sergio Haddad is president of the Brazilian Association of NGO's and executive secretary of. the Acao Educativa Assessoria Pesuisa e. Informaçao, a Sao Paulo-based organisation for adult-education research.
Dorothea Haerlin is with ATTAC-Germany and the Berlin Water Table.
François Houtart was for three decades professor at the Catholic University of Leuven and presently co-directs the World Forum for Alternatives and Centre Tricontinental.
Madhuresh Kumar is a researcher and social activist, CACIM programmes coordinator, secretary of the Kolkata civil organisation Unnayan, collaborator on the books World Social Forum: Challenging Empires and Talking New Politics, and author of Globalisation, State Policies, and Sustainability of Rights.
Peter Marcuse is a lawyer and planner who teaches urban planning at Columbia University in New York City, and who has authored Globalizing Cities and Of States and Cities.
Steve Martinot has worked as a machinist, truck driver and union organiser, presently teaches at San Francisco State University, and recently authored The Rule of Racialization.
Antonio Martins, a founder of the World Social Forum and International Council member, has worked in many alternative papers in Brazil, and is responsible for the Brazilian edition of Le Monde Diplomatique, as well as serving as a facilitator of ATTAC-Brazil.
Francine Mestrum is a Belgian social scientist and specialist on development issues (and author of Mondialisation et pauvreté), and an activist with ATTAC.
Prishani Naidoo is an activist and researcher with the Anti-Privatisation Forum, and a post-graduate student at the Centre for Civil Society.
Geoffrey Pleyers, is FNRS Post-doctoral Researcher at the University of Louvain (Belgium) and an associate researcher at the Centre d’Analyse et d’Intervention Sociologiques (Paris) and at the Centre for the Study of Global Governance (L.S.E.). He attended the first five World Social Forums as well as the 2006 Polycentric WSF in Bamako.
Ruth Reitan is based at the University of Miami’s Department of International Studies, and authored Global Activism and The Rise and Decline of an Alliance: Cuba and African American Leaders in the 1960s.
Jai Sen, director of CACIM, is an architect, urban designer and a civil campaigner on dwelling, labour, planning and rights related issues, and co-editor of World Social Forum: Challenging Empires.
Subir Sinha is Lecturer in Development Studies and Chair of the Centre for South Asian Studies at the University of London School of Oriental and African Studies, and a scholar activist on social and environmental issues, the history of Indian development, contemporary social movements, neoliberalism and civil society, and transnational development regimes.
Teivo Teivainen is chair of the politics department at the University of Helsinki, teaches at the San Marcos University in Lima, coordinates the activities of the Network Institute for Global Democratization in the Americas, and authored or coauthored books including Enter Economism Exit Politics, A Possible World, Dolar Un Voto and El poder mundial y desafÃos democráticos.
Marko Ulvila is a Finnish free lance researcher and democracy activist based in Tampere, the member secretary of Democracy Forum Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam – Finland, and chairperson of NIGD.
Ruby van der Wekken is the NIGD’s World Social Forum coordinator.
Ahmed Veriava is a Johannesburg movement activist, an analyst with Research and Education for Development, and a masters student at the Centre for Civil Society in Durban.
Peter Waterman, is a British scholar-activist of international labour and social movements, and co-editor of World Social Forum: Challenging Empires and author of Los nuevos tejidos del internacionalismo y la solidaridad’ (The New Nervous System of Internationalism and Solidarity).
Chico Whitaker, winner of the 2006 ‘Right Livelihood Award’, is a WSF cofounder, a former city councilor for the Workers Party (resigning in 2006 due to political disagreements), and author of The Challenge of the 'World Social Forum.
Akimoto Yoko is a member of ATTAC-Japan and of the Asian Pacific Workers Solidarity Links editorial committee.
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