We are working on the English version of PALA throughout 2025

Globalisation

Why the World Social Forum and other movements are failing to shape another world.

One year and a half into the COVID-19 crisis and slowly beginning to see the end of the tunnel, messages are still spread about the necessary changes in ‘the system’ to which this crisis will surely lead. But what changes? And what ‘system’? And how ‘necessary’ are they?

Social policies have been the major victims of neoliberal globalisation. Slowly the IMF and the World Bank adopted a more open attitude. However, the road is bumpy. In a recent report the World Bank proposes a ‘New Social Contract’. But what the World Bank is really up to?