Re: AUT: Two views on the Porto Alegre WSF meeting

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Great. A piece by a fourth international tosser and another by Cuddly Bear. The
first one isn't even about the world social forum. Scott, you are really
cooking.

Just as a note the fourth international is probably the second largest marxist
presence here after the PT left. They seem to fill the ecological niche of the
DSP or ISO in Australia, and have an ideology a little softer than the Sparts,
being also far friendlier than your neighbourhood iron bar wielder.

Thiago



Quoting Scott Hamilton <s_h_hamilton@xxxxxxxxx>:

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> World Socialist Website:
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> Brazils Lula: From Porto Alegre to Davos
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> Brazils 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
> Brazils southern state of Rio Grande do Sul. The
> latter annual gathering of anti-globalization
> activists, including supporters of Lulas own Workers
> Party, or PT, was initiated three years ago in direct
> opposition to the Davos meeting of world bankers and
> heads of state...
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> Supporters of the PT government have sought to quell
> protests from the activists in Porto Alegre over
> Lulas 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.
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> One PT leader, Sao Paulo Mayor Marta Suplicy, went so
> far as to portray Lulas 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...
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> rest at
> http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/jan2003/lula-j27.shtml
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> George Monbiot in the Guardian
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> Stronger than ever
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> 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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