The Fourth International summer youth camp gives young activists from across Europe the chance to come together for a week to share experiences from the campaigns in which they have been involved.
What is even better is that this takes place in a context where having fun is also part of the official programme!
This year the twentieth camp of the Fourth International will take place in Portugal from July 26 - August 2. There will be a week of workshops, meetings, forums, as well as fun, sun and socialism.
All over the world the anti-globalisation movement has transformed into an anti-war movement. How did this come about?
The weapons and oil lobbies are directly represented in the US administration. The war against Iraq, together with increases in the defence budget, mean more profits for the weapons industry. The war was not all about oil; it was also the fruit of globalisation and the thirst of imperialist coun tries to dominate the world.
It is urgent to develop concrete strategies of action and to exchange ideas and experiences on a European and international level. The camp is a good opportunity to do this, because here you can meet young people who are building movements for another society in a range of countries.
Capitalist globalisation means hunger for billions of people, crude exploitation of human beings in third world countries, destruction of the environment and privatisation. Capitalism is also becoming more and more violent as we have seen with the war on lraq. becoming ever more necessary. summits and social forums on world, European and national
20th Fourth International Summer 26 July - August 2
Central Portugal
SOCIALISTISKA In this context building an alternative to capitalism is The anti-globalisation movement has organised counter
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levels, to show that another world is possible. For us, this other world is socialism. But what does socialism mean today? Is democratic and self-organised socialism an alternative to contemporary capitalism? The camp will be organised around resistance to capitalist glob. alisation and the role that young people are playing in the fightback. How did the Italians manage to assemble nearly a million people against the war in the aftermath of the European Social Forum in Florence? How is the French LCR progressing, after it gained more than one million votes in the French presidential elections?
How is the European and international anti-war movement growing? What strategies should we follow? What is imperialism? What are our solutions for Iraq? How come in some countries students organised walk-outs that emptied all schools? How can we share our experiences and learn
These are the sort of questions that will be discussed at the camp along with other important issues, such as ecolo gy, women's struggles and Lesbian and Gay liberation.
If you are interested in discussing these questions and others with young activists from across Europe then come
Ring Paul on 020 8800 7460 for more details. being constructed, as naked people were covered in cling film, slathered in Vaseline, wrapped in hessian cloth and completely caked in wet plaster.
Many did come to watch that part of the process, and since the completed exhibition opened on May 17 it has been pretty busy too
More young people seemed to be in the exhibition by Chad McCail on the ground floor than looking at the Gormley. Cynical little me came to the conclusion that this might well have something to do with the sexual explicitness of McCail's work, which while pleasant enough didn't really grab me. Maybe I'm just getting old.
I much preferred Domain Field to Gormley's earlier Allotment, which was displayed on the floor underneath. It was too stolid, and almost depressing. Trying to move around between the figures left me feeling claustrophobic.
I did however really like Fruit, massive casts I assume made of iron, suspended from the ceiling. Unlike most of his other work this isn't modelled on the human body, and succeeds in feeling extremely tac tile even though you shouldn't.
Overall the Baltic is a good day out - as a significant number of local people certainly think from the numbers that have been in the last year since it opened
• Chad McCail is at the Baltic until June
• Anthony Gormley is at the Baltic until August 25
Sirkka-Lisa Kontinen's The Coal Coast will be showing from July 5-August.
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