-For. ont amené la population dans la rue et l'ont conduite à s'organiser dans les quartiers n'ont pas élé résolus.
L'existence d'un tel parti n'est pas une garantie de succès comme le montre l'exemple du Parti des Travailleurs brésilien. Lula au gouvernement n'a pas porté la voix des travallleurs qui l'ont élu, mais s'est falt le porteparole du FMI et de la Banque Mondiale.
C'est la raison pour laquelle nous ne recherchons pas seulement à construire des partis larges anti-capitalistes, mals insistons sur la nécessité pour les différents courants politiques de pouvoir s'organiser en leur sein en avançant leurs propres idées.
Les idées avancées dans cet édito sont développées plus An interview with Pierre Khalfa (Union syndicale G10 Solidaires), executive member of ATTACWhy have European Social Forum? The Social forums are the current political manifestation of the anti-capitalist movement. They have three functions.
They are, first of all, debating spaces where social movements who are opposed to neo-liberalism and the domination of the world by capital and imperialism and who are engaged in building a society based on human beings can meet.
This is in the Charter of the Principles of Porto Alegre. The Forums also allow us to develop our own alternative proposals, a little bit at a time, starting from some shared convictions.
Finally they must serve as a point of support for social mobilizations. What is the road we've taken to get from Florence to London? We can work that out by looking at the three functions I've just mentioned. We've succeeded in making the ESF a strong political manifestation of the anti-capitalist movement in Europe.
The ESF has allowed all sorts of movements, many of which have significant differences on a number of subjects, to meet together.
The increasing numbers of people participating in the ESF is proof that this framework is useful.
However despite the profusion of alternative suggestions which are being put forward they are not very visible and do not have much momentum.
In fact, if we set aside the war and the demonstrations on February 15, we have not been able to use the ESF to push forward mobilisations on a European scale against the neo-liberal model and for "another Europe". In your opinion what is at stake in the London forum? The London forum must allow the growth of the movement in Britain, as was the case with the ones in France Rav Smith (also lowe and Italy.
The broad organisational framework for preparing the ESF, which includes the big British non-governmental organisations (NGOs), major unions, with the official support of the TUC, the anti-war movement and the more radical groups, shows that this goal will be met.
Beyond that we must be also able to begin to raise the profile of our alternative suggestions and push for mobilisations on a European scale.
On the first point, we need
ARMEE POLILE ENSVI OLEN NCAPITALISNE to build a process which allows these ideas to become the property of the whole movement. The Assembly of the Social Movements which is taking place on Sunday 17 October in the morning must discuss this question.
As for European mobilisations, the Assembly will discuss a proposal for a day of European mobilisation in March, which can be transformed into a Europe-wide demonstration in Brussels when the summit of heads of state takes place.