25 comrades from 4 countries gathered on February 2nd in Budapest to prepare the CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPEAN SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL FORUM which will be in VIENNA May 2nd to 5th.
The meeting in the Kussuth Klub was very well organized by the Hungarian comrades. The atmosphere was cordial and extreme productive.
We had a -first- decision for 4(5) thematical axes for the forum in Vienna:
1) economic, social and ecological situation
2) the reflections of the negative economic, social and ecological developments in the political sphere: reduction of democracy; corruption; rise of the far right
3) concrete alternatives (resistance) against austerity measures
4) How can we organize in a better way the international cooperation of the movements against capitalist globalization?
The „women“ axes will be transversal- what means that it will play an important role in each of the 4 axes. And of course there will be room for feminist meetings.
We will mobilize for the WSF in Tunis March 26th- 30th- where we organize as the „International network against the far right- Prague Spring 2“ ( together with Norwegian and Arabic comrades) the seminar „International rise of the far right and religious fundamentalism“.
And we mobilize for the ALTERSUMMIT in Athens June 7th-9th.
As a preperatory group we will meet again in Vienna March 2nd (meeting of the Austrian Social Forum/ASF). And at the WSF in Tunis.
Hermann Dworczak (activist in the Austrian Social Forum/ASF; 0043 / 676 / 972 31 10)