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| Brazil
The two souls of Lula’s governmentLula’s victory has been celebrated as a great popular victory in Brazil and in Latin America in general. After all its not every day that a trade unionist and workers’ leader is elected as president, somebody who is a popular leader and the main organizer of a mass party of the left. -> read article... |
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| World Congress 2003
Ecology and socialismHumanity has faced ecological problems at other times, but these have taken on a new urgency today due to their scope and gravity. Damage to the environment often has an irreversible impact on humanity and nature and the ecological crisis on the horizon at the dawn of the 21st Century is endangering the lives of millions. -> read article... |
| China
Taking the capitalist roadThe 16th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) took place in mid- November. It has become a routine and well-controlled event, held at a fixed date (every five years), which was far from the case in the past (Congresses were held in 1928, 1945, 1956 and then 1969, subsequently becoming more regular). It has also become a non-event: it took place apparently as predicted and, more strikingly, as predicted for several years. The headlines of the world’s newspapers proclaimed that ’the Chinese party Congress has embraced capitalism’. -> read article... |