Maria van driel* reflects on the discussions and debates on gender and women’s emancipation at SASF.

As part of using the WSF meeting in Nairobi as a space to build unions and social movements, the Southern Africa farm-worker network will be hosting a forum of farm-worker organisations at the WSF. Ighsaan Schroeder* looks at the background and the aims of the forum.

As part of the preparation for the WSF in Nairobi, 13 organisations came together in Johannesburg, South Africa, to exchange experiences on approaches to mobilisation against the hIV/AIdS pandemic. Nina benjamin* reflects on the workshop and on the plans for the WSF.

In this article Dlamini reflects on the impact of globalisation and neoliberalism on Swaziland and its working people, and also looks at the processes of organisation and resistance.

In this article Mondli hlatshwayo* looks at instances of forced evictions in luanda, Angola, human rights abuses, and at initiatives to build movements of resistance in that Country.

In this article lindsey Collen* outlines the popular resistance to growing economic and social crisis in Mauritius. She argues that social movements must not shy away from political organisation.

In this article Mondli hlatshwayo* reflects on the development of the social movements in South Africa since the late 1990s, and he also looks at the challenges facing these new social justice movements.

In this article Jubilee South Africa gives the backround to the campaign against forced removals in the platinum rich Bushveld complex in Limpopo, Northwest and Mpumalanga. The article also looks at community resistance to the forced removals