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| World Social Forum
New advances, old problems ,
At its fourth annual gathering, held January 16-21, 2004 in India’s poverty-ridden financial hub of Mumbai, the World Social Forum (WSF) radicalized its demands and extended its reach and inter-group cooperation. -> read article... |
| Scotland
Neither celebration nor despondencyThe European election in Scotland had none of the high drama or excitement of the Holyrood election [to the Scottish assembly] last year. Both the Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) and the Greens had hoped to make a breakthrough into the European Parliament. Several polls had predicted that the UK Independence Party would take 11 per cent of the vote. But when the votes were finally tallied up, there was virtually no change in the arithmetic of the Scottish contingent of MEPs. -> read article... |
| Italy
New turn for PRCIn June 2003, immediately after the announcement of the results of the referendum by popular initiative of which the Party of Communist Refoundation (PRC or “Rifondazione”) had been the main promoter its general secretary, Fausto Bertinotti, announced a veritable reversal of the political line followed until then. The members of the National Political Committee of the PRC were surprised to discover the news on the front pages of the newspapers shortly before the meeting of this body. -> read article... |