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About Susan George

Susan George is associate director of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam and vice-president of ATTAC France. An American by birth, she is now a French citizen and lives in Paris. Her books include How the Other Half Dies: the real reasons for world hunger(1976), A Fate worse than Debt (1987), The Lugano Report (2000), and Another World is Possible…If (2004).

Articles by Susan George

Sunday 6th November

The road to Europe: defend the biosphere and stop punishing the innocent

Imagine that the world is governed by concentric circles or spheres of power, with the most powerful one on the outside. Today the innermost circle is a neglected biosphere. We have to turn the paradigm inside out. The biosphere must come first.
Tuesday 12th October

Another world is possible, if!

It’s time that the global social justice movement moved beyond its “another world is possible” mantra towards a political strategy. In the week of the 2004 European Social Forum, veteran French-American global justice campaigner Susan George tells Caspar Henderson of openDemocracy that Europeans need to focus, organise – and lead.
Tuesday 21st January

What is the point of Porto Alegre? Activists from two generations in dialogue

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.
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