[DEBATE] : WSF ... it´s an old history

[Orlando]

 This was in first world social forum in Porto
 Alegre...
 
 The Manifest that follows was written  and signed by
people (mostly youth) that were in the youth        
camping of the WSF. About 200 people made a    
demonstration against the WSF and read loudly the
Manifest.
 
          
> 
> 
>    Manifest of Anti-capitalist Youth against
> the World Social Forum
> 
> Another World is Possible...
> Only Destroying Capitalism!
> 
> Since Seattle, passing Washington, London, Milan,
> Melbourne Seol, Prague
> to Nice, time and again tens of thousands of
> anticapitalist youth have
> denounced, with direct action, the great monopolies
> and international
> institutions such as the IMF, World Bank, WTO, and
> the
> European Union.
> These institutions are responsible for the
> exploitation of millions of
> workers, for the destruction of the environment, for
> relegating millions of
> persons in dire poverty.
> 
> Now, here,in Porto Alegre , at the World Social
> Forum,
> the NGO's, the
> union bureacracies, and the directors of the
> institutionalized political parties
> change the content of the struggle of the young
> anticapitalists to the
> reactionary policy of "humanizing capital".
> Humanizing
> capitalism with the
> French ministers that persecute immigrants, who form
> a
> government that,
> together with NATO, bombed Yugoslavia, killing
> thousands of people and
> repressed the anti-capitalists in Nice. Humanizing
> capitalism together with
> the bankers and the multinationals. Humanizing
> capitalism together with the
> governments who, like the PT [Worker's Party],
> continue paying the foreign
> debt, repressed the strike of the professors of Rio
> Grande do Sul and the
> occupation of a federal building in Porto Alegre,
> and
> continue repressing the
> street merchants and the homeless on their squatted
> land. Governments that
> continue to make payments to the multinationals.
> 
> In truth the "stars" that direct this government and
> mayoralship,
> self-proclaimed democratic and popular, interested
> in
> the 2002 elections,
> resolved to serve as a test tube for a new
> capitalist
> order. One sustained by a
> social democracy that permits bourgeouis
> exploitation
> and pleases the
> middle-classes with democratic play-actings such as
> the Participatory
> Budget that aims to impede protests via the
> co-optation of popular
> movements. Rounding out the picture are the various
> "left" parties that even
> while criticising this policy, capitulate before a
> more thorough questioning.
> 
> Humanizing capitalism is utopian and reactionary.
> Thus, we, anti-capitalist
> youth from the Youth Camp, form a part of the
> anti-capitalist movement and
> stand in solidarity with the youth denouncing the
> World Economic Forum in
> Davos. We say: The World Social Forum is a ruse of
> those who wish to
> detour the anti-capitalist fight towards the policy
> of
> collaboration of classes
> and elections, continuing to apply the misery of
> capitalism. Thus we
> continue our efforts in the contruction of a
> national
> anti-capitalist network
> under the cries of : "Down with the World Economic
> Forum, IMF World
> Bank and WTO"; to which the World Social Forum is
> not
> an alternative,
> "down with the plan Colombia!", "Long live the
> Palestinean Intifada", "No
> to the payment of the domestic and foreign debts!",
> "No to the
> Privatizations!".
> 
> Capitalism kills, we will kill capitalism. It is up
> to
> the youth, the workers,
> and the poor anti-capitalists, loyal to the spirit
> of
> Seattle, Nice, Prague and
> Davos to impede the distortion of the
> anti-capitalist
> intervention and its use
> by its enemies.
> 
> Signed,
> Juventude e Luta Revolucionaria, Jornal Espaco
> Socialista, Comite Marxista Revolucionario,
> Anarco-Punks, Movimento Che Vive (RJ), Coletivo pela
> Universidade Popular (Porto Alegre), Secretaria
> Estadual de Casas de Estudantes de Goias, Movimento
> Nacional de Meninos e Meninas de Rua, Federacao
> Anarquista Gaucha, Grupo Cultural Semente de
> Esperanca, Acao Global por Justica Local, Resitencia
> Popular RJ/PA, Nucleo Zumbi Zapatista - ABC
> Paulista,
> Estrategia Revolucionaria, Socialismo Libertario
> Brasilia, Federacao Anarquista Uruguaia, Acao
> Revolucionaria Marxista (RJ), Frente de Luta
> Popular,
> Juventude Avançar na Luta, Ligua Bolchevique
> Internacionalista, Espaco Cultural Quilombola -
> Aracatuba - SP, e other anti-capitalist activists.
> 


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