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The new stage and its difficulties

François Vercammen — 2003-11-18T00:00:00Z

Faced with an employers' offensive seeking to impose counter-reforms throughout the European Union, largely spontaneous social mobilizations have borne witness to the legitimacy crisis of the neoliberal model, already apparent in the success of the movement for global justice.

- IV354 - November 2003 / Europe

European Union: the threat to education

Carlos Sevilla Alonso — 2003-11-18T00:00:00Z

Education faces multiple threats as attempts continue to reduce it to a commodity. From the French republican school to the mass university of the post World War II period, educational systems have reproduced and continue to reproduce class inequalities. On the other hand, new resistances appear that defend public services and search for alternatives to the neoliberal educational model.

- IV354 - November 2003 / Europe

European Union: the Spirit of Saint Denis

G Buster — 2003-11-18T00:00:00Z

Although the European Council at Thessalonica had given a 'positive welcome' to the draft Constitutional Treaty drawn up by the European Convention, it is obvious that the intergovernmental conference (IGC) has opened a Pandora's box.

- IV354 - November 2003 / Europe

European Union: at the crossroads

G Buster — 2003-11-18T00:00:00Z

The draft European Constitution - which raises neoliberal dogma to the rank of fundamental law - is a challenge to Europe's workers and peoples.

- IV354 - November 2003 / Europe

European Union: what kind of new Europe?

Catherine Samary — 2003-11-18T00:00:00Z

The 'new Europe' which is joining the European Union has been likened recently to a US 'Trojan Horse' inside the European project. And it is true that the new and old elites in power in Eastern Europe since the fall of the Berlin Wall, notably in Poland, have adopted an Atlanticist and ultra-neoliberal orientation.

- IV354 - November 2003 / Europe

A new step forward

Leonce Aguirre — 2003-11-18T00:00:00Z

One year after its first gathering in Florence, the second European Social Forum will be held November 13-15 in Paris and in three towns of what was once the 'red belt': Saint-Denis, Bobigny and Ivry.

- IV354 - November 2003 / Europe, Social Forum

ESF: feminism and the movement

Nadia De Mond — 2003-11-18T00:00:00Z

Why a women's day at the European Social Forum (ESF)? The idea of organizing a whole day of women's debates inside the ESF emerged in the context of the limited space for discussion in workshops or in seminars provided by the first ESF at Florence.

- IV354 - November 2003 / Europe, Women, Social Forum

Nine months of Lula's government

João Machado — 2003-11-18T00:00:00Z

After nine months in office, the government of Luis Inacio da Silva 'Lula' has confirmed its contradictory and, in many aspects, even surprising character.

- IV354 - November 2003 / Brazil

PT radical stays and fights

Heloisa Helena — 2003-11-18T00:00:00Z

At the very end of September, Heloisa Helena, the senator at the forefront of opposition to the Brazilian government's right-wing economic policies, announced she had no intention of walking out of the governing Workers' Party (PT). If the leadership really wanted to silence her, they would have to pay the price of expelling her.

- IV354 - November 2003 / Brazil