From January 25 to 30, the first World Social Forum convened in Porto Alegre, Brazil - grassroots activists, international NGOs and social movements in the global struggle against neo-liberalism. The World Economic Forum, which held its own annual meeting from January 25 to 30 in Davos, Switzerland, barricaded itself against hundreds of anti-globalisation protestors.
Porto Alegre World Social Forum
10 February 2001, byIt was an audacious gamble: bringing together hundreds of representatives of movements opposed to neo-liberal globalisation from all over the planet in a big city in southern Brazil.
Opposition at the Davos World Economic Forum
10 February 2001, byAs it does every year, the World Economic Forum, comprising around a thousand of the world’s chief decision-makers and some heads of state, met at Davos.
Odyssey 2001
10 February 2001, byIn the balance sheets that marked the beginning of the New Year, the People’s Republic of China occupied a special place. In Washington, representatives of the establishment seem convinced that the major competition on the international scale in the coming decades will be between the US and China.
Chinese working class counter infringements on their rights
10 February 2001, byWith China launching the market economy, all types of enterprises, in particular the privately owned ones, unabashedly go after profits and squeeze whatever they can from the workers. Infringements of workers’ rights have become rampant.
Debates on the Spanish left
10 February 2001After their electoral defeat in March 2000 at the hands of the Popular Party, the main parties of the left in the Spanish state have held some stormy congresses.
The crisis of the United Left remains open
10 February 2001, byAt the end of October 2000 the sixth Federal Assembly (congress) of the United Left - Izquierda Unida (IU) - took place.
For a leftwing revival of IU
10 February 2001, by ,The sixth federal assembly of the IU was a setback for those who wished to confine its activity to settling the question of who was to succeed Julio Anguita.
PSOE: A new generation in command?
10 February 2001, byOn July 23rd, 2000, the 35th Federal Congress of Spain’s Partido Socialista Obrero Espanol (PSOE) came to an end.
Victory for PT in municipal elections
10 February 2001, by ,The red wave has been confirmed. The electoral results for the Workers’ Party (PT) in Brazil’s municipal elections of October 30th, 2000 were favourable in the north and south of the country. The strength of the PT as a national party of opposition to president Fernando Henrique Cardoso (FHC) surprised the right and created a new environment for the presidential elections of 2002.
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