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The wind from the southeast

Sergio Rodríguez Lascano — 2001-03-10T00:00:00Z

Seven years ago, the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas began. On Sunday March 10th they concluded their march "for indigenous dignity" in Mexico City, where they are to open negotiations with the government of the new president, Vicente Fox.

- IV329 - March 2001 / Mexico

"A world where all worlds fit in"

2001-03-10T00:00:00Z

The Fourth International reaffirms its solidarity with the struggle of the EZLN, its March and its demands, and also salutes the Indigenous National Congress which is currently meeting.

- IV329 - March 2001 / Mexico, IC 2001

Marcos, ATTAC and José Bové

2001-03-10T00:00:00Z

Saturday, March 11, 2001, before a triumphal arrival in Mexico City the next day, Zapatista leader, Subcommander Marcos met with a French delegation composed of José Bové, Bernard Cassen and Danielle Mitterrand.

- IV329 - March 2001 / Mexico

Political challenges

Michel Husson — 2001-03-10T00:00:00Z

On Sunday, March 10, 2001 after having covered 3,500 kilometres, the Zapatista march ended with a rally of several hundred thousand people in Mexico City. It amounted to a veritable transformation of the political situation.

- IV329 - March 2001 / Mexico

After the success, the same dilemmas

Ernesto Herrera — 2001-03-10T00:00:00Z

There's no doubt about it. The winds have changed and the horizon is clearing. Only a few years ago, when the neo-liberal counterrevolution was at the height of its arrogance, a World Social Forum of such a magnitude and impact would have been unthinkable.

- IV329 - March 2001 / World, Social Forum

A festival of multicoloured plurality ... unlike Davos

2001-03-10T00:00:00Z

No repressive brutality. No riot gas. Neither blows nor arrests as in the mountainous Swiss bunker. Porto Alegre, on the contrary, was a multicolour fiesta of an insolent, chaotic, resistant plurality. Everything was permitted.

- IV329 - March 2001 / World, Social Forum

Social Movements call for mobilisation

2001-03-10T00:00:00Z

Social forces from around the world have gathered here at the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre. Unions and NGOs, movements and organizations, intellectuals and artists, together we are building a great alliance to create a new society, different from the dominant logic wherein the free-market and money are considered the only measure of worth.

- IV329 - March 2001 / World, Social Forum

Indigenous mobilization defeats neo-liberalism

Ernesto Herrera — 2001-03-10T00:00:00Z

The agreement signed between Ecuador's President Noboa and the powerful National Confederation of Indigenous peoples of Ecuador (Conaie) on February 7, 2000 represents a new victory. In the course of three years, the radical mobilization of the peasant-indigenous movement, alongside the popular urban sectors, has overthrown two neo-liberal governments, divided the Armed Forces, and won a popular plebiscite against dollarisation of the economy and the payment of the foreign debt.

- IV329 - March 2001 / Ecuador

The Apotheosis of Bureaucratic Degeneration

Andreas Kloke — 2001-03-10T00:00:00Z

The 16th party congress of the KKE (CPG - Communist Party of Greece), still by far the biggest left political force of the country, took place on Dec 14-17, 2000. The CPG, taking advantage of the outrage about the bombings of Yugoslavia by NATO, got 8.7% of the vote in the Euro-elections in 1999 and 5.5% in the national elections in 2000, roughly maintaining its position.

- IV329 - March 2001 / Greece

A sea change in Scottish politics

Alan McCombes — 2001-03-10T00:00:00Z

Less than two years after the first elections to Holyrood, Scottish politics has undergone a sea change. With a British general election on the horizon in a few weeks or months, Alan McCombes looks at present and probable future developments.

- IV329 - March 2001 / Scotland