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Call of the European Social Movements
We have come together from the social and citizens movements from all the regions of Europe, East and West, North and South. We have come together through a long process: the demonstrations of Amsterdam, Seattle, Prague, Nice, Genoa, Brussels, Barcelona, the big mobilisations against the neoliberalism as well as the
Another Globalisation is Possible
FLORENCE — It was always going to be a recipe for chaos. Take 40,000 European leftists, fractious at the best of times, shoe-horn them into a Renaissance era Italian city and tell them to discuss, across half a dozen languages, the state of the world and the possibilities of changing
40,000 March against the Johannesburg Summit
40,000 people defied growing police repression in South Africa on 31 August, marching five miles from Alexandra township to Sandton, location of the World Summit for Sustainable Development.
Supporting South African Anti-Privatisation Protesters
South Africa House, Thursday 15 August 2002
The demonstration in solidarity with activists facing trial in South Africa was a good success.
Over 100 people turned out to South Africa House
The First Political Prisoners of Neo-Liberalism
On 15 August, Soweto Electricity Crisis Committee activists jailed for non-violent protest against the denial of electricity, water, housing and basic human rights will appear at Jeppe Court in Johannesburg. They are asking for your solidarity.
Genoa 2002: 150,000 Strong
At 5.27 last Saturday all the horns and hooters blared out in the port of Genoa. This was exactly the time Carlo Giuliani was murdered by police during the anti-G8 summit protests last year.
Sevilla Libera!
Thanks to the massive success of the Barcelona protests in March this year, coupled with a huge attack from Prime Minister Aznar on unemployment benefit, the week in Seville was marked by a huge protest and a General Strike.
Police oppression sparks local insurrection
At mid-afternoon demonstrators returning to Geneva from the French/Swiss border were met by Swiss riot police blocking roads leading back into the city centre.
Barcelona Anti-EU protests 2002
Spain assumes the presidency of the EU - and hosts a summit in a hotbed of radicalism
Manhattan marches in the shadow of Ground Zero
Report from New York Protests against the World Economic Forum 2002
New York Protests against the World Economic Forum, February 2002
“Demonstrate if you Dare” was the message sent out to our movement when the WEF relocated to New York City in November. The latest attempt to crush anti-capitalism has happily failed.
ESF Arrest Update
21 November 2002
The two women who were arrested and imprisoned last Friday have now been put under house arrest. The rest are in solitary confinement in high security jails. Apparently they are all in good spirits. Under Italian law, they can be held for ten days (until next Monday) before