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About Peter Waterman

Peter Waterman was is an author whose books include Globalisation, Social Movements and the New Internationalisms (Continuum, (1998/2001) and (co-editor) World Social Forum: Challenging Empire.

Articles by Peter Waterman

Thursday 3rd February

Fred Halliday, come down from your mountain!

Peter Waterman, 3 February 2005
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”.
Wednesday 12th November

Archaic left challenges the World Social Forum

Peter Waterman, 12 November 2003
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’.
Tuesday 17th June

World Social Forum: the secret of fire

Peter Waterman, 17 June 2003
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?
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