p.waterman@inter.nl.net

Peter Waterman was born in London in 1936. Among his books are Globalisation, Social Movements and the New Internationalisms (Continuum, (1998/2001) and (co-editor) World Social Forum: Challenging Empires (New Delhi, 2004); Los Nuevos Tejidos Nerviosos del Internacionalismo y La Solidaridad (Lima 2006), Reinventing Internationalism, Creating the New Global Solidarity http://www.choike.org/nuevo_eng/informes/6439.html, 2008).

Recent articles

Fred Halliday’s verbal assault on activists at the World Social Forum rouses Peter Waterman to a passionate defence of the “global justice and solidarity movement”.

The forthcoming World Social Forum in Mumbai (formerly Bombay), India may be the largest civil society meeting on the planet. But is it at risk from far left elements that would undermine its purposes? Peter Waterman anatomises the thinking of the ‘entryists’.

The World Social Forum in January 2003 represented a new stage in the unfolding project of the global justice and solidarity movement. An experienced observer of the WSF asks whether it can combine its multiple energies with the clarity needed to transcend old politics – while establishing its own forms of legitimate, transparent representation? Who governs the WSF and where is it going?