This call was issued from the second World Social Forum, held in Porto Alegre, Brazil, January 31-February 5, 2002.

This is the text of the Final Declaration of the Tenth Meeting of the Forum of São Paulo.

• International context
• Challenges to the left
• The alternative project

By Murray Smith

Murray Smith is an international officer of the Scottish Socialist Party and a leader of the International Socialist Movement, a Marxist current within it. This paper has been adopted by the ISM.

By Lisa Macdonald

by Liu Yufan

Liu Yufan is a leader of the Hong Kong socialist group Pioneer.

• Fusion with the world market
• Accession to World Trade Organisation
• Economic and political crises
• Conditions for a political revival of the working class

Today's China can no longer be considered a post-capitalist country in any sense. On the contrary, full-scale capitalist restoration has already been completed in two stages: first the qualitative changes in the class character of the state, then similar changes in the socioeconomic arena.

By Boris Kagarlitsky

Boris Kagarlitsky is a contributing editor of Links. His books include Square Wheels: How Russian Democracy Got Derailed and The Mirage of Modernisation.

This is the text of the perspectives resolution adopted by the United States International Socialist Organization (ISO) convention in January.

By Francisco Pascual

Francisco Pascual is the executive director of the Resource Center for People's Development, Manila, and a member of the International Coordinating Committee and coordinator of the International Secretariat, International South Group Network. This paper was presented at the Asian Workshop on "Women and Globalisation", November 22-24, 2001, in Manila.

by Doug Lorimer

Much has changed in international politics since September 11 and the United States invasion of Afghanistan. But these changes need to be understood in context, to be situated within what has not changed. Several articles in this issue analyse aspects of US imperialism's drive for a new version of the post-World War II "American century".