In a world of rapid globalisation, where large corporations grow more powerful in their pursuit of economic expansion and profits, there are growing networks of concerned activists who are not dazzled by the promised land of globalisation. They are alert instead to the dangers globalisation presents to justice, cultural autonomy and the environment. This collection brings together the most important themes and voices which these diverse citizens’ movements have expressed at the World Social Forum which gathers each year in Porto Alegre, Brazil. This global movement for justice and solidarity has become the major opposition to capital’s contemporary globalisation. The book assembles some of their most constructive thinking around the key issues focusing production for profit versus production for people, bio-hegemony versus biodiversity, westernisation versus cultural diversity, neoliberalism versus the reinvention of democracy. It presents a very different and humane future which implies that it is up to all active citizens to think further about the ways of struggle against vested interests in order to achieve it.