Counter-Globalization and Socialism in the 21st Century

4 The ALBA-TCP Council of Social Movements

A double-turn in counter-hegemony

Jennifer L. Martinez

 

At the 2006 World Social Forum held in Caracas, Venezuelan President Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías declared:

We have to link up all our causes, unity, unity, unity, movements united respecting diversity, respecting the autonomy, no one is planning to impose anything on anyone, only coordination, unity, because if we don't work together we will never triumph not even if we fight for 500 years, only united can we do it, uniting our moral and intellectual forces, our ideas, our diversity, our physical strength, our social movements, our political movements, our local governments.

(Chávez, 2006)

Already, Venezuela had taken the lead in beginning a process ...