Solidarity message to the Tunis World Social Forum

People’s Plan Study Group (PPSG)
Tokyo, March 23, 2015

We would like to convey our solidarity with and congratulation on all of you, Tunisian friends in particular, who have made the convening of the World Social Forum possible in Tunis despite the outbreak of the tragic Bardo museum incident. We join you in expressing our deep condolences to those who lost their lives in the indiscriminate attack. We disapprove and condemn this and other acts of “jihadist” terrorism as we disapprove and condemn state terrorism perpetrated in the name of anti-terrorist war, which totally fails to address and remove the root cause of terrorism. The World Social Forum since its inception has been addressing precisely this root cause by offering grassroots people a space to come together to confront and defeat the power of the empire of the rich, privileged, and greedy by means other than armed insurrection or terrorism. This is not an easy path, but in the midst of raging violence, we are once again convinced that this challenge WSF set itself is more than ever worth taking.
We hope that your plenaries, workshops, cultural activities and the march will all be a great success. We expect an inspiring message coming from Tunis.