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thessaloniki, greek eu summit
Smash the IMF and the World Bank!
International anti-capitalist protests
European social forum Time to put forward a socialist alternative
New mass workers' parties needed to unite the struggles of workers and youth.
Karl Debbaut, 26 October 2003
Munich: Tens of thousands demonstrate against NATO's war drive
cwi members from Austria and joined the anti-war and anti-Nato demos held in Munich last Saturday.
Reports from Austria and Germany, 13 February 2003.
Brazil: Lula, Chavez, and Evo Morales address World Social Forum
The very successful third World Social Forum, held in Port Alegro, Brazil, ended last week.
Marcus Kollbrunner, Porto Alegre, 6 February 2003
Brazil: Lula addresses enormous crowds at World Social Forum
"Ole, ole, ole, Lula... Lula... Lula", chanted a vast crowd that engulfed the Sunset Park in Porto Alegre on Friday afternoon, last week.
Marcus Kollbrunner, Port Alegre, 29 January 2003
Brazil: 100,000 expected at World Social Forum
The third annual meeting of the World Social Forum (WSF) in Porto Alegre, Brazil, takes place from 23-28 January 2003.
Marcus Kollbrunner, Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI in Sweden), interviewed André Ferrari, Socialismo Revolucionario (CWI in Brazil). 23 January 2003.
Johannesburg Earth Summit
ANC government harassment and sabotage cannot stop 30,000 marching.
Weizmann Hamilton, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI section in South Africa), 3 September 2002
Oslo: Protests will greet World Bank’s conference
Several demonstrations are planned to protest against the World Bank’s Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE) Conference in the Norwegian capital, Oslo, 24-26 June.
Trond-Sverre Kolltveit, Norway, 17 June 2002.
Seville: Radical protests against hated government and capitalism
Hundreds of thousands took to the streets in Seville last Saturday in a massive anti-capitalist protest.
Tony Saunois, CWI, Seville, 25 June 2002
Seville: Massive protest against capitalist Europe
The EU-summit in Seville was confronted with a very big anti-capitalist demonstration on the evening of Saturday June 22.
Els Deschoemacker, Seville, 22 June 2002.
Washington DC: Thousands protest against war, poverty and racism
40,000-75,000 protested in Washington DC on April 20 against Bush's "War on Terrorism" and its possible extension to Iraq, US aid to Colombia, the School of the Americas, and the annual meeting of the IMF and World Bank.
Eljeer Hawkins, New York, 25 June 2002
World Social Forum – An Alternative to capitalism?
The southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre hosted for the second year running the World Social Forum – billed as an alternative to the World Economic Forum, the international gathering of the representatives of capitalism, which took place at the same time in New York.
Tony Saunois, Committee for a Workers International, 15 February 2002
100 000 protest against capitalist globalisation
'I went to the World Social Forum at the request of our international movement - the Committee for Workers' International - to assist in raising the need for a socialist alternative on a world basis among workers and youth who had gathered from around the globe.
Joe Higgins, Socialist Party TD, Ireland, 13 February 2002
New York: World Economic Forum protests
From January 31st through February 4, workers, youth, environmentalists, and an assortment of activists welcomed the corporate elites of the World Economic Forum to New York City, with rousing protests of over 10,000 people.
Eljeer Hawkins, Harlem, New York, February 2002
Brussels Anti-EU demonstrations
These reports have been compiled from contributions from many CWI members and International Resistance and International Socialist Resistance members from around Europe.
2001
Italy after Genoa – a new radicalisation has begun
The 300,000 strong 21 July demonstration and the state repression in Genoa are turning points both in Italy and for the growing worldwide opposition to capitalist globalisation.
Robert Bechert, 14 August 2001
What now after Genoa?
Anyone who participated in the 300,000 strong demonstration against the G8 summit in Genoa on 21 July this year will look back on it as an historic day – a high point.
Clare Doyle, 10 August 2001
CWI Statement after Gothenburg: No Criminalisation of anti-capitalists!
Throughout Europe the clashes around the Gothenburg EU summit have been utilised to unleash a propaganda barrage against the growing anti-capitalist movement in general and socialists in particular.
20 June 2001
The Truth about Gothenburg
TENS OF thousands demonstrated against US president George W. Bush and the summit of the European Union (EU) in Gothenburg, Sweden, 14-16 June.
Per Olsson, 18 June 2001
Fight the bosses EU/EMU - For a Socialist Europe
On the one hand Bush and the bosses' EU and on the other thousands of demonstrators.
Per Olsson, 18 June 2001
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