Another World Is Possible : World Social Forum Proposals for an Alternative Globalization

Front Cover -- critique influence change -- About the Editors -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword to the critique influence change Edition -- Preface to the critique influence change Edition -- Foreword to the First Edition -- Preface to the First Edition -- Introduction -- Part I: The Production of Wealth and Social Reproduction -- Overview: Key Questions, Critical Issues -- Key Questions -- Critical Issues -- 1: External Debt: Abolish the Debt in Order to Free Development -- Breaking the Infernal Cycle of Debt -- Extra Resources to Finance Development -- A New Development Strategy -- New Rules of Financial Good Practice -- Further Indispensable Measures -- Notes -- 2: Africa/Brazil: Conference Synthesis -- 3: Financial Capital: Controls on Finance Capital -- Introduction -- Restore Controls over Capital Flows to Nation-States -- Promote Control of Capital Flows -- Reinforce Control of Markets and Financial Actors -- Reform the International Financial Institutions (IFIs) -- 4: International Trade: Conference Synthesis -- Broad Consensus on Free Trade and the WTO -- Proposals by Dot Keet, Africa Trade Network -- Proposals on the WTO by Martin Khor, Third World Network -- Proposals by Paul Nicholson, Via Campesina -- Proposals by Hector de la Cueva, Alianza Social Continental -- Proposal by Lori Wallach, Public Citizen -- Final proposals by the panellists -- 5: Transnational Corporations: Issues and Proposals -- Summary Proposal -- Corporations Have Too Much Power -- Governments and Corporations are Intimately Intertwined -- Sectors, Individual Corporations, Structural Power -- Dialogue versus Confrontation -- Corporate Responsibility versus Corporate Accountability versus Democratic Control over Corporations -- Reform versus Banishment -- 6: Labour