Abstract

Shalmali Guttal reviews the impacts of the Social Forum process in India through conversations with some of the WSF Mumbai organizers and representatives of people's movements and mass organizations in India. She argues the degree to which the Social Forum will have a transformational role in India will depend on the extent to which it can be grounded in popular struggles for land, water and forest rights, employment, food sovereignty, economic, social and political security, human rights and dignity.