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Millions rally against Berlusconi

Flavia d'Angeli — 2002-04-15T00:00:00Z

THREE million people, workers, youth, those in insecure employment, students, pensioners, immigrants, descended on Rome on Saturday March 23, 2002 for the biggest demonstration in the history of the Italian Republic.

- IV339 - April 2002 / Italy

Left Bloc strengthened

Sérgio Vitorino — 2002-04-15T00:00:00Z

With nearly 20,000 more votes than it won in the parliamentary elections in 2000, the Left Bloc was the only left current to increase its strength in Portugal's early general elections on March 17, 2002.

- IV339 - April 2002 / Portugal

Left Bloc Deputies

2002-04-15T00:00:00Z

Francisco Louca ('Chico', leader of the PSR, Portuguese section of the Fourth International) and Luis Fazenda (secretary general of the UDP, ex-Maoist) were re-elected to the Portuguese parliament as Left Bloc deputies.

- IV339 - April 2002 / Portugal

"An unknown to represent the unknowns"

Penelope Duggan — 2002-04-15T00:00:00Z

ON Saturday March 23, 2002 the Revolutionary Communist League (LCR, French section of the Fourth International) deposited at the Constitutional Council the 500 "sponsorships" that will enable its candidate, Olivier Besancenot, to be on the ballot in the first round of the presidential election on April 21.

- IV339 - April 2002 / France

Barcelona: against the Europe of capital

Josep María Antentas — 2002-04-15T00:00:00Z

Over half a million people mobilized in Barcelona against the meeting of European Union Heads of State and Government on March 15-16, 2002. It marks a watershed in the development of the movement against capitalist globalisation in the Spanish state, and could lead to the opening of a new cycle of mobilizations in the Spanish state and Catalonia.

- IV339 - April 2002 / Spanish state

An international for humanity

Eduardo Mancuso — 2002-04-15T00:00:00Z

"THIS is an International that isn't controlled by anyone". That's how the Peruvian Trotskyist and veteran peasant leader Hugo Blanco described the World Social Forum held for a second time in Porto Alegre, Brazil from January 31 to February 5, 2002.

- IV339 - April 2002 / World, Social Forum

From event to movement

Salvatore Cannavò — 2002-04-15T00:00:00Z

THE second World Social Forum at Porto Alegre opens a new phase in the anti-globalisation movement. Both in political and media terms, the event was a success, with about 15,000 thousand delegates, 5,000 organizations and more than 50,000 participants.

- IV339 - April 2002 / World, Social Forum

Unanswered questions

Fermin Gonzales — 2002-04-15T00:00:00Z

ONE source of friction at the II WSF in Porto Alegre was the decision taken by the organisers to exclude the political parties of the Sao Paulo Forum, on the grounds that the gathering was one of social movements and not political parties.

- IV339 - April 2002 / World, Social Forum

A triple triumph

Livio Maitan — 2002-04-15T00:00:00Z

THE 2002 Word Social Forum in Porto Alegre was a triumph on three levels: in terms of participation, much bigger than in 2001, depth of political and theoretical reflection on the main problems of our epoch and definition of forthcoming events and future objectives.

- IV339 - April 2002 / World, Social Forum

The Fourth International at Porto Alegre

2002-04-15T00:00:00Z

Numerous members of sections or organizations with links to the Fourth International participated actively in the Forum in Porto Alegre.

- IV339 - April 2002 / World, Fourth International, Social Forum