Truncated 21st-Century Trajectories of Progressive International Solidarity

Authors

  • Patrick Bond University of Kwazulu-Natal

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5195/jwsr.2019.948

Keywords:

Samir Amin, the Bamako Appeal, Fifth Socialist International, World Forum for Alternatives, World Social Forum

Abstract

Patrick Bond provides a biography of Amin’s work as a global political thinker and leader on the left. From his early days building the Third World Forum and establishing “origins of a South-centric organic intelligentsia with global visions” to his work with the World Social Forum process, Amin dedicated his life to trying to lay the foundations for a Fifth International. Bond notes Amin’s frustration with the extreme fragmentation and limited policy impacts of left struggles. Yet he points out some recent exceptions here in the successes of global South campaigns around the right to water, access to medicines and the right to health, and Via Campesina and MST’s success in building global resistance to corporate land grabbing.

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Published

2019-09-03

How to Cite

Bond, P. (2019). Truncated 21st-Century Trajectories of Progressive International Solidarity. Journal of World-Systems Research, 25(2), 259–269. https://doi.org/10.5195/jwsr.2019.948

Issue

Vol. 25 No. 2 (2019): Summer/Fall 2019

Section

Forum: Samir Amin's Call for New International of Workers and Peoples

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