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The first Declaration manifests "an active compromise with the validity of human rights, of democracy and of popular sovereignty as strategic values, which place the constant challenge of leftist, socialist and progressive forces renewing their thoughts and actions."Īt the second conference (Mexico, 1991), FSP expanded its objectives to add the proposal of working toward Latin American integration, an interchange of experiences, the discussion of the political left's differences and searching for consensus in action. These differences grant special relevance to FSP's final declarations, released at the end of each conference, which state the collective position of its members.Įver since FSP's first meeting (1990), the Declaration which was approved expressed the participants' "willingness to renew leftist and socialist thought, to reaffirm its emancipating character, to correct mistaken conceptions, and to overcome all expressions of bureaucratism and all absence of true social and massive democracy." The Communist Party of Cuba, for example, has adopted a single-party system for decades, while Brazil's Workers' Party (PT) supports and participates in a multiparty system. These groups differ on a range of topics which go from the use of armed force in revolutions to the support of representative democracy.

The latter, however, is true only so far as one is willing to think of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia as an actual member of the FSP, when actually the FARC, although never formally banned from the Forum, have been barred from participating in its meetings as early as 2005, when they were refused admittance to that year's meeting of the FSP in São Paulo. Their political positions vary across a wide spectrum, which includes: social-democratic parties, left-wing grass-roots labor and social movements inspired by the Catholic Church, ethnic and environmentalist groups, anti-imperialist and nationalist organizations, communist parties, and armed guerrilla forces.

2.4 Formerly ruling party or coalition partnersĪccording to FSP, more than 100 parties and political organizations participate in its conferences today.

Subsequent meetings have hosted by many of the parties throughout the region. Since the 1991 meeting in Mexico City, it started being alternately called Foro de São Paulo in reference to the location of the first meeting. The original name given to the meeting was Meeting of Left and Anti-imperialist Parties and Organizations of Latin America ( Portuguese: Encontro de Partidos e Organizações de Esquerda e Anti-imperialistas da América Latina). The first meeting held in São Paulo in July 1990 was attended by members of 48 parties and organizations from Latin American and the Caribbean. The Forum of São Paulo was constituted in 1990 when the Brazilian Workers' Party approached other parties and social movements of Latin America and the Caribbean with the objective of debating the new international scenario after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the consequences of the implementation of what were taken as neoliberal policies adopted at the time by contemporary right-leaning governments in the region, the stated main objective of the conference being to argue for alternatives to neoliberalism. It was launched by the Workers' Party ( Portuguese: Partido dos Trabalhadores – PT) of Brazil in 1990 in the city of São Paulo. São Paulo Forum ( FSP), also known as the Foro de São Paulo, is a conference of leftist political parties and other organizations from Latin America and the Caribbean.