21st – 22nd of May 2012
The Welfare State
Building Progressive Alliances
The social conflict in Europe has intensified strongly over the past couple of years, in the wake of the financial crisis. The labour and trade union movement has been on the defensive ever since the neoliberal offensive started around 1980. The balance of power in our societies has thus shifted enormously over the past 30 years – from labour to capital, from democracy to market forces. Time is ripe, therefore, to fight back, to build broad social alliances and to reassess our strategies and tactics.
The Welfare Conference 2010 – Political platform
The Welfare Conference 2010 – Our Welfare Policies – is held at the Oslo Congress Centre 13-14 September 2010.
The Welfare Conference 2010 – Programme
The Welfare Conference 2010 – Our Welfare Policies – is held at the Oslo Congress Centre 13-14 September 2010.
The crisis and the future of the ESF
The processes which started with the first World Social Forum in Porto Alegre in Brazil in January 2001 injected new energy into the broad left. After twenty years of neo-liberal globalisation, set-backs, pessimism and demobilisation on the left in many countries and areas, the social forums created new enthusiasm, new working methods, new mobilisations and new inspiration for hundreds of thousands of people.
What can be learnt from the Nordic Model?
Global Labour Conference, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 1-3 April 2007
by Asbjørn Wahl, Adviser, Norwegian Union of Municipal and General Employees
Challenges to the Welfare State
In this slideshow, camapign co-ordinator Asbjørn Wahl in the «Campaign for the Welfare State», gives us the historical background of the struggle for the welfare state to the present time, both in Norway and on a global scale. Be responsible – organize restistance, he sums up.
Public Private Partnership
Presentation given by Asbjørn Wahl, Campaign for the Welfare State, at the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre 2005.
The undermining of the welfare state
The Norwegian contribution to the annual Social Watch report 2003 is written by co-ordinator of the Campaign for the Welfare State, Asbjørn Wahl, and Gunhild Ørstavik in The Norwegian Forum for Environment and Development.