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. Born in London in 1936, he was involved as activist and academic in both the old social movements and the new, and is one of the most important specialists on movement internationalism(s).

Belated tourists of a postponed-revolution

A close look at the KMU Trade Union Centre in the Philippines suggests that joining the ITUC has buried any alternative labour internationalism of the kind dreamed of in 1990.

By Peter Waterman

/ 13 Jan 2016

Fred Halliday, come down from your mountain!

Fred Hallidays article Its time to bin the past, published in the (London) Observer (30 January 2005), presents a Three Dustbins Theory that recommends discarding the triple legacy

By Peter Waterman

/ 3 Feb 2005

Archaic left challenges the World Social Forum

The only people we hate more than the Romans are the xxxxxxx Judean Peoples Front. (The Peoples Front of Judea, in the Monty Python movie, The Life of

By Peter Waterman

/ 12 Nov 2003

World Social Forum: the secret of fire

Dis/orienting introduction In my corner of the third World Social Forum (WSF) in Porto Alegre in January 2003, there were simultaneous and contradictory feelings: euphoria and disorientation, stimulation and

By Peter Waterman

/ 17 Jun 2003