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

["Caygill, Matthew [CES]" <M.Caygill@xxxxxxxxx>]

The World Socialist Website claims to be the International Committee - and
is basically run by the Australian descendents of the old WRP - in Britain
they call themselves the Socialist Equality Party.
My guess is that one of the much larger groupings also claiming the mantle
of the FI - i.e. those around the LCR in France - is much more sympathetic
to the WSF.

Matthew

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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>:
>
> >
> > World Socialist Website:
> >
> > Brazils Lula: From Porto Alegre to Davos
> >
> > 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...
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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...
> >
> > 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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> >
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> >
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