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Is Another World Possible?

Henna Arshad April 3, 2006

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#8 Posted by mustt on May 18, 2006 4:27:44 am
I really wanted to be involved in the Karachi WSF and emailed some of the organising committee people about it. They weren`t even organised enough to reply. It doesn`t surprise me that the `New World Order` is so powerful, `cause us lefties are so disorganised.
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#7 Posted by VRV on April 6, 2006 12:59:02 pm
Yes, theoretically. We saw it in Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and North Korea!! In practice the idea is a dud, coz we all know that human greed and human weakness takes over in the garb of Another World. Democracy with the spirit of Another World is the only alternative. Communism is the best idea in smaller societies for a country of population of 10,000 people or less but not for a ocuntry of one milion people, not to metion a country of 10 or 100 million people. Experience proved us wrong. So keep the spirit and throw away the body. I am surpised people like Mir Waiz from Indian Kashmir came. He is the passive supporter of killer jehad in Indian Kashmir. How come these neo-fascists had a place in WSF?

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#6 Posted by Zeena on April 6, 2006 12:26:57 am
good article
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#5 Posted by raheel07 on April 5, 2006 1:48:37 am
Re: # 2

Excuse me, let me make this clear to you that using a same word `analytical` doesn`t mean that is an exact copy of your comment.. I think next time I should use some another synonym. How can you think like this, this is so sick. I don`t have time to write interacts which has such minor and stupid reasons as to give you back what you have written previously. Maybe its because that firstly I found some mistakes in your RJ wala article. Lets get back to the main point, I think your article was not an analysis of the cause or the movement but mere analysis of an event and its management. It was like listing down facts and topics discussed but not the reason behind it or the various possible conclusions made. The event had alot of diverse motives around it but sorry to the say, most of them karachites I met there have just killed it because they were there to see goras and eat chaats honestly.
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#4 Posted by henna999 on April 4, 2006 5:08:41 am
WSF-2007 will be held in Nairobi (Africa)...and Africans have already strated a sound movement, at least online... Do check the following links:
http://www.socialforum.or.ke/
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=7201
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#3 Posted by MantoLives on April 4, 2006 4:49:36 am
I really wanted to go to this... but missed it.

I`d love to go to next one...

Do you know where it will be Henna?
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#2 Posted by henna999 on April 4, 2006 3:44:34 am
Raheel, your reply is the exact copy of what I commented on your piece...between in which frame you keep the criticisms and appraises, don`t you think after an analysis of the subject one draw conlusions about its pluses and minuses. hmmm??

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#1 Posted by raheel07 on April 4, 2006 2:55:14 am
It was just an event review. I would have liked an analytical approach discussing issues and the cause rather than mere facts that who and what was there and what wasn`t or what was good and what was bad! It was more like criticizing an event rather than a deep insight on the whole movement. This is my honest opinion, I hope you haven`t mind.
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    #7 VRV
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