Representatives of the US Goverment present their report to the CERD Committee. February 21st. Geneva, Switzerland

Representatives of the US Goverment present their report to the CERD Committee. February 21st. Geneva, Switzerland

Representatives of the US Goverment present their report to the CERD Committee. February 21st. Geneva, Switzerland

Representatives of the US Goverment present their report to the CERD Committee. February 21st. Geneva, Switzerland

The Durban-II conference set for 2009 is to world politics what the Kyoto Accord is to climate change: a painful but inescapable search for consensus to grapple with the fallout of the past if we are to salvage our common future on our only planet.

Within two short years, the Harper minority government has pulled Canada out of both processes. In a reckless and petulant display of “Fortress North America” mentality, it has jumped ahead of the George W. Bush neo-cons by announcing Canada will not take part in Durban-II. (more…)

The MST politics are democratic socialist revolutionary, understood from the centrality of class as a motor of history. Rather than describing itself as “Marxist”, it prefers the term “Dialectical Materialist”, feeling the term “Marxist” to have been narrowed by history to represent a single set of views on socialism and class-based revolutionary struggle.As a multi-tendency organization, with a culture of debate and ideological discussion, there are people within its membership and leadership who visualize themselves as Anarchists, Anti-Revisionists, Communists, Democratic Socialist, Maoists, Revolutionary Socialists, Syndicalists, and Trotskyists.

What they do have in common is a commitment to revolutionary action, and to worker’s self-emancipation, which leads to a belief that differences in opinion are a positive feature in a revolutionary organization.

A presença e a luta dos imigrantes brasileiros nos Estados Unidos levou a mexicana Ramona Ortega a fundar a ONG Cidadão Global (CG), organização americana que atenderá exclusivamente os brasileiros, dando assistência em assuntos de imigração e cursos de inglês. A Cidadão Global pretende construir uma liderança entre a comunidade brasileira e implantar projetos educacionais e culturais.

A ONG Cidadão Global foi fundada em agosto de 2007 por Ramona Ortega, que também é diretora executiva, com o objetivo de dar voz aos brasileiros. A CG quer ser uma organização nacional de qualidade e confiança, através de informação e educação, construindo lideranças e mobilizando a comunidade brasileira. (more…)