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The World Social Forum: Challenging Empires, Second Edition

Jai Sen, Peter Waterman, editors

Critical Engagement : CACIM’s Publications Programme’

• Kolya Abramsky, August 2008 (April 2007) – ‘The Bamako Appeal and the Zapatista 6th Declaration - From Reorganizing the Existing World to Creating New Ones’. Critical Engagement, vol 1. New Delhi : CACIM Download Paper

• Jai Sen, August 2008 (May 2007b) – ‘Opening open space : Notes on the grammar and vocabulary of the concept of open space’. Discussion draft 4 modified, May 17 2007. Critical Engagement 2. New Delhi : CACIM Download Paper

• Kolya Abramsky, August 2008 (September 2007) – ‘Towards the Intergalactica - Beyond Networking : Building New Autonomous Global Relations of Production, Reproduction and Exchange’. Critical Engagement 3. New Delhi : CACIM Download Paper

• Susana Barria with nelson O J, August 2008 – ‘Main debates around the WSF 2004 in Mumbai’. Paper prepared as CACIM Forum Fellow 2007-8. Critical Engagement 4. New Delhi : CACIM Download Paper

• Mayur Chetia, August 2008 – ‘World Social Forum and the Reaction from the Indian Left’. Paper prepared as CACIM Forum Fellow 2007-8. Critical Engagement 5. New Delhi : CACIM Download Paper

• Mamata Dash, August 2008 – ‘The World Social Forum through the Eyes of movement groups in India’. Paper prepared as CACIM Forum Fellow 2007-8. Critical Engagement 6. New Delhi : CACIM Download Paper

The WSF’s Global Call to Action : A Directory. CACIM, January 22 2008

The World Social Forum: Challenging Empires

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The first book on the WSF to be published in English from the South. An anthology of essays on the theory and practice of the WSF, edited by Jai Sen, Anita Anand, Arturo Escobar and Peter Waterman; published by The Viveka Foundation.

A Political Programme for the World Social Forum ?

Democracy, Substance and Debate in the Bamako Appeal and the Global Justice Movements. A Reader

Jai Sen and Madhuresh Kumar with Patrick Bond and Peter Waterman; Compilers. January 2007. Published by CACIM, New Delhi and CCS, Durban. Read More

Talking New Politics: Are Other Worlds Possible?

In the run-up to the fourth World Social Forum held in Mumbai, India in January 2004, civil activists and students organized a major series of seminars in Delhi University to discuss the Forum and its politics. This book, the first in a series that explore the new ideas generated by the discussions.Read More

World Social Movement Bibliography on WSF & the Global Solidarity and Justice Movement.