The Genoa Social Forum is a coalition of movements, political parties and societies opposed to capitalist globalisation.
It was created in 2000, a year before the scheduled 27th G8 summit in Genoa in 2001, and included several associations - and hundreds of smaller ones - largely but not solely from Italy.
Although it made several requests to meet the institutional representatives, as a forerunner of a counter-forum, on June 24, 2001 they were met by police chief Gianni De Gennaro.
Its national spokesperson was Vittorio Agnoletto, former MEP for the Communist Refoundation Party.