World Social Forum (www.forumsocialmundial.org.br):
The official World Social Forum (WSF) website is the best place to start.
It describes the Forum’s origins, aims and organisational structures,
as well as containing accounts of all four WSFs and initial details
of the WSF 2005 process. The Library of Alternatives contains reflective
pieces by many of those involved in organising the Forum. Details on
the last World Social Forum in India are still available from its website.
A number of initiatives associated with the WSF also have their own
websites, including the World Social Library and the Intercontinental
Youth Camp.
European Social Forum (www.fse-esf.org):
The official website of the European Social Forum in London 2004, including
a searchable programme of events. Further documents and opinions can
be found at the unofficial ESF activist website (www.esf2004.net).
Autonomous spaces at the ESF (www.altspaces.net):
The ESF is surrounded by a variety of autonomous spaces. These include
the European Forum on Communication Rights, Beyond the ESF, Life Despite
Capitalism, the Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination, the Urban
Forum and the Carnival Forum.
Assembly of the Social Movements (www.fse-esf):
The Social Movements Assembly is one of many spaces within the WSF that
co-ordinates actions.
Babels (www.babels.org):
Babels is an international network of volunteer interpreters and translators
whose main objective it is to cover the interpreting needs of the Social
Forums and of other international events, as defined in the calendar
of the “call of the social movements”.
Choike (www.choike.org):
A web portal disseminating the work of NGOs based in the global South.
Choike contains an informative collection of reports and links about
WSF III in Porto Alegre and WSF IV in Mumbai. It also contains an online
copy of World Social Forum – Challenging Empires, which is the
most comprehensive book yet published about the WSF.
Guide for Social Transformation in Europe:
ESF and Surroundings (www.euromovements.info):
A mutlilingual space where to find networking tool boxes such as directories
of organizations involved in the ESF processes, and open analysis; it
is a open activist reserach network.
Eurotopia (www.eurotopiamag.org):
A multilingual supplement put together by Red Pepper and other progressive
magazines and research institutes from across Europe. The pilot version
will be launched at the ESF in London.
Network Institute for Global Democratization
(www.nigd.org):
A transnational research association that has been heavily involved
in the WSF process. Free, downloadable materials include a 240-page
working paper called From a Global Market Place to Political Spaces
with several important essays on the WSF, We, the Peoples of the World
Social Forum, with reflections on WSF II at Porto Alegre, and a report
on The Politics of the WSF's "Open Space", a seminar with
several key WSF organisers held at WSF IV in Mumbai.
Open Democracy (www.opendemocracy.net):
A global online magazine of politics and culture. The DIY World section
contains informative articles on the WSF and its Davos rival the World
Economic Forum.
People’s Global Action (www.agp.org):
An international anti-capitalist network that pre-exists the WSF. People’s
Global Action became known for calling Global Action Days (J18, N30,
S16, etc.) to coincide with international summits. Its website also
contains an excellent library of writings on globalisation and war,
which includes several pieces on the World Social Forum.
Transform! (www.transform.it):
Transform! is a European network of research and political education
organisations. Its informative 140-page newsletter, World Social Forum:
a Debate on the Challenges for Its Future was produced by Transform!
Italia in association with the Transnational Institute and Red Pepper.
Transnational Institute (www.tni.org):
The Transnational Institute has brought together activist scholars from
all over the world since 1974. Its Fellows include Walden Bello, Susan
George and Red Pepper editor Hilary Wainwright, all of whom have contributed
to its comprehensive WSF coverage.
Voices from Mumbai (www.voicesfrommumbai.webhop.org):
This Nottingham-based educational project brings together videos, interviews
and photos from the 2004 World Social Forum in Mumbai. It is a forerunner
to the Other Worlds Educational Project, whose pilot website can be
viewed at www.mundi.org.uk/otherworlds.