What impact does the World Social Forum have on the globalisation process?
-The importance of the WSF is that it is a centre for debate about this reality that is known as social movements, which are forms of organisation and of action for society, which are not framed in the political party context, nor in business, and nor are they states. They are a new and dynamic realty that are grouped, in general terms, around very specific objectives, for example, the war against privatisation of water in Cochabamba (Bolivia), the ethnic issues of some indigenous movements, the movements of landless peasants in Brazil, and the Zamoranos in Venezuela. Now, people organise themselves around those goals, which usually have a great ability to build unity and cooperation with other similar groups, and that is why you see a vast spectrum in the World Social Forum, in that there are environmental, economic, ethnic and gender movements, and all kinds of things. Before all of this is a sort of “agora” of social movements, to find their points of contact, where they can collabo
