ABSTRACT
The World Social Forum (WSF) brought together a huge number of social movement organizations that were moving from concerns about specific issues towards a broader opposition to neoliberal globalization and its effects on social justice and democracy. It developed from a history of transnational campaigns that addressed international governmental organizations and international treaties such as the “50 Years is Enough” mobilization against international financial organizations (in particular the IMF and the World Bank), the antidebt campaign of Jubilee 2000, the protests against the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the successful mobilization against the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI), the European Marches Against Unemployment (targeting the European Union), to the campaign for a United Nations of the Peoples.
