AUT: Two views on the Porto Alegre WSF meeting

[Scott Hamilton <s_h_hamilton@xxxxxxxxx>]

World Socialist Website:

Brazil?s Lula: From Porto Alegre to Davos

Brazil?s recently inaugurated president Luiz Inacio
?Lula? da Silva flew to Switzerland Friday night to
participate in the World Economic Forum in Davos. Lula
boarded the flight only hours after delivering a
speech to the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre in
Brazil?s southern state of Rio Grande do Sul. The
latter annual gathering of anti-globalization
activists, including supporters of Lula?s own Workers
Party, or PT, was initiated three years ago in direct
opposition to the Davos meeting of world bankers and
heads of state...

Supporters of the PT government have sought to quell
protests from the activists in Porto Alegre over
Lula?s trip to Davos, claiming that he is going to the
meeting of the financial elite to make a case for a
global campaign against poverty and hunger, or
?globalization with solidarity.?

One PT leader, Sao Paulo Mayor Marta Suplicy, went so
far as to portray Lula?s approach to the bankers in
Davos as a revolutionary act. ?Lenin said that the
proletariat should not refuse any audience to expose
its ideas,? she declared...

rest at
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/jan2003/lula-j27.shtml

George Monbiot in the Guardian

Stronger than ever

Far from fizzling out, the global justice movement is
growing in numbers and maturity...For all that, I
think most of us have noticed that something has
changed, that we are beginning to move on from the
playing of games and the staging of parties, that we
are coming to develop a more mature analysis, a better
grasp of tactics, an understanding of the need for
policy. We are, in other words, beginning for the
first time to look like a revolutionary movement...

rest at
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,5673,883682,00.html










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