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| Obituary
Charlie van Gelderen (1913-2001) ,
Charlie van Gelderen was the last survivor of those who attended the 1938 Founding Conference of the Fourth International in Paris. He attended as an observer on behalf of South African Trotskyists, though he was already living in Britain by that time. He died peacefully at home in Cambridge on October 26 after a short illness at the age of 88, still a fully paid up and until very recently an active member of the International Socialist Group (British section of the Fourth International). -> read article... |
| Obituary
Lucía González Alonso (1947-2000)Lucía González Alonso, a long time militant in the workers’ movement in the Spanish state and the Fourth International, has just died after a long illness. Born in Madrid in 1947, she became involved in the struggle against the dictatorship when she was a student. -> read article... |
| World Social Forum
Porto Alegre World Social ForumIt was an audacious gamble: bringing together hundreds of representatives of movements opposed to neo-liberal globalisation from all over the planet in a big city in southern Brazil. -> read article... |
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