Solidarity Economy Draws 3,000 at World Social Forum
For those of you who don’t know, the World Social Forum was created 15 years ago as an alternative to the World Economic Forum, the meeting of the world capitalist elites. The “solidarity economy”, was the centerpiece of the World Social Forum, drawing 3,000 people. The solidarity economy is the growing attempt of spreading the anticapitalist worker self-management movement around the world.
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Barbara
Barbara MacLean has worked as an academic and career counselor at California State University, East Bay (CSUEB), Merritt and West Valley Colleges and as a career counselor and manager of the Oakland One Stop Career Center, a public career and jobs center in partnership with EDD. She is a co-founder and editor of Planning Beyond Capitalism.