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  Comment & Analysis

  Brazil: Lula addresses enormous crowds at World Social Forum

  January 28, 2003 Marcus Kollbrunner, Port Alegre, 26 January 2003

  "Ole, ole, ole, Lula… Lula… Lula", chanted a vast crowd that engulfed the Sunset Park in Porto Alegre on Friday afternoon, last week.

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  North Korea

  North Korea: US imperialism confronts Pyongyang

  January 28, 2003 Laurence Coates, Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI Sweden).

  What does Kim Jong Il’s defiance mean for the Bush military doctrine? Can these events lead to yet another US military intervention? Offensiv takes a closer look at the Korean crisis.

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  Scotland

  Scotland: Big opportunities for socialists in May poll

  January 27, 2003 Philip Stott

  The second elections to the Scottish Parliament take place on May 1st 2003. May Day is the traditional day of celebration and commemoration for the international workers and socialist movement. But the first four years [...]

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  Our activity

  cwi: 8th world congress – Globalisation and the world economy

  January 26, 2003 Robin Clapp, Socialist Party, CWI in England and Wales

  FOR MOST of the 1990s the capitalists believed that in globalisation and the neo-liberal economic model, they had discovered a new elixir of life for their system. Exaggerated claims were made that new technologies had [...]

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  Europe

  Europe: EU Enlargement after Copenhagen

  January 25, 2003 Karl Debbaut, CWI, 24 January 2003

  Last December’s negotiations between the existing EU members and the candidate countries for enlargement drew to a close at the Copenhagen summit. The 10 countries invited to join in May 2004 are Cyprus, the Czech [...]