Ezequiel Adamovsky is a historian and anti-capitalist activist who teaches at the University of Buenos Aires. He has been involved in the student movement, the neighbourhood assemblies that emerged in Buenos Aires after the rebellion of December 2001, and the World Social Forum process. He writes extensively on globalisation, anti-capitalism and leftist politics; his most recent book is (in Spanish) Anti-capitalism for Beginners: the new generation of emancipatory movements (Buenos Aires, 2003)

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As campaigners from around the world prepare for the fifth World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil, Ezequiel Adamovsky argues that the “movement of movements” has reached a crossroads. It needs a new political focus: inventing institutions that embody not hierarchies of power but cooperation among equals.

The World Social Forum in Brazil’s Porto Alegre brings together campaigners from around the world in debate over alternatives to globalisation. Here, two key activists – one Argentinian, one Franco-American - talk to Caspar Henderson of openDemocracy about the best way forward for a movement at a pivotal moment in its history.