From International Viewpoint

John Percy is the national secretary of the Democratic Socialist Party, which hosted the conference.

• Achievements
• Themes
• International attendance
• Resolutions
• Manila conference
• World Social Forum
• Next steps

By Boris Kagarlitsky

By Patrick Bond

Patrick Bond is the author of two recent books: Unsustainable South Africa: Environment, Development and Social Protest and Fanon's Warning: A Civil Society Reader on the New Partnership for Africa's Development. Both are available from Africa World Press (http://www.africanworld.com). His 2001 book Against Global Apartheid: South Africa meets the World Bank, IMF and International Finance, will be republished by Zed Press this year, as will a new edition of Elite Transition: From Apartheid to Neoliberalism in South Africa from Pluto Press.

By Munyaradzi Gwisai

Munyaradzi Gwisai is a leader of the International Socialist Organisation of Zimbabwe and a member of parliament. This article is extracted from Leo Zeilig (ed.), Class Struggle and Resistance in Africa, New Clarion Press, Cheltenham, UK, 2002, which can be purchased for £15.95, including shipping. For readers in Africa, there is a special discounted price of £12.95, including shipping. Order from New Clarion Press, 5 Church Row, Gretton, Cheltenham GL54 5HG, UK, or on line from Amazon.

By Michael Alexandros

• Vietnam: Behind the region?
• Post-war impoverishment and the Cambodian war
• ‘Doi Moi’ economic renovation
• Early 1990s
• The challenge of 1997
• Post-1997 economic changes
• Economic direction
• WB/IMF/WTO demands
• Reactions to World Bank agenda
• How socialist is the state sector?
• Political changes under the post-1997 leadership
• Party, state and masses
• Workers' struggles

How far have the Vietnamese people progressed along the road to socialism, the second goal of the historic leadership of the Vietnamese Communist Party (VCP), which led the unquestionably successful struggle for the country's national liberation?

This article is taken from the June 2002 international edition of Pembebasan, published by the People's Democratic Party (PRD) of Indonesia.

by Malik Miah, Barry Sheppard and Caroline Lund.

Malik Miah is a member of the editorial board of Links; Barry Sheppard and Caroline Lund are contributing editors. All are members of the US socialist organisation Solidarity.

• Collapse of the Soviet Union
• The enemy list is expanded
• The war at home
• How far will they go?

by Dipankar Bhattacharya

Dipankar Bhattacharya is the General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist). This is the text of the keynote address delivered at the inaugural session of the Second Asia Pacific International Solidarity Conference held in Sydney from 29 March to 1 April, 2002.

Many of the articles in this issue relate to the US war drive and the changing politics of the post-September 11 world; two address the topic very directly. "A war to defeat, a world to win" was the first keynote speech at the second Asia Pacific International Solidarity Conference held in Sydney at the end of March and beginning of April.