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Introduction : forty years of solitude and the novelty of the World Social Forum -- The World Social Forum as critical utopia -- The World Social Forum as epistemology of the south --The World Social Forum and the sociology of absences -- The World Social Forum and the sociology of emergences -- The World Social Forum as an insurgent cosmopolitan politics -- The struggles for global social justice must be based on a very broad conception of power and oppression -- Counter-hegemonic globalization is built upon the equivalence between the principles of equality and recognition of difference -- Rebellion and non-conformity must be privileged to the detriment of the old strategic options (reform or revolution) -- The WSF aims at a new internationalism -- The WSF process progresses as transversal political terrains of resistance and alternative are identified as an ongoing process -- The struggle for radical democracy must be a struggle for demo-diversity -- Transcultural criteria must be developed to identify different forms of democracy and to establish hierarchies among them according to the collective quality of life they provide -- The WSF process must be conceived as promoting and strengthening counter-hegemonic forms of high-intensity democracy that are already emerging -- There is no democracy without conditions of democracy -- There is no global social justice without global cognitive justice -- The many names of another possible world--social emancipation, socialism, dignity, etc --are in the end the name of democracy without end -- Organizing fragmented counter-hegemonic energies -- Internal democracy: relations between the organizing committee and the international council -- Transparency and hierarchies in participation -- Parties and movements -- Size and continuity -- The new organizational challenges: the evaluation of the 2003 WSF -- The new organizational models: the Mumbai demonstration and the 2005 WSF -- The 2006 polycentric WSF -- Representing this