The function of the congress is to discuss the progress of IMT in the world, present reports and plan the future activities, whilst the World School is aimed mainly to deepen the knowledge of Marxist theory, history of workers'movement and the actual situation of the struggle for world socialism.
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"Although world socialism has been going through ups and downs, " he said in a congratulatory speech, " if people know how to draw the right lessons from this period and stick to the theory of Marxism-Leninism . . . socialism will eventually overcome all obstacles ."
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But as it was used as a model of government after the Turkish War of Independence to rebuild Turkey and recover it from the underdevelopment of the Ottoman Empire, creating a strong nation in face of the prospect of European Colonialism, it can be considered as reaching the templates of a Third World Socialism movement.
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It could be argued that the new " turn to the left " leadership in Latin America ( see Socialism of the 21st century ), with its anti-Americanism, connection with less developed Eastern Europe, sense of undeveloped countries / developing countries unity and pro-Arabism / pro-Islamism is a new kind of Third World socialism.
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North Korea also congratulated " our brotherly neighbor for ending long-hostile relations and establishing diplomatic ties with the US " while Cuba and Albania openly denounced Beijing as traitors to the cause of world socialism ( Albanian relations with China had been deteriorating since 1972 and the announcement of economic reforms by the new leadership caused the tiny country to sever all contact completely ).
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On 21 August, in what became his most famous speech, Ceauescu boldly denounced the invasion in a public address before 100, 000 people in Palace Square in Bucharest, and declared that it was a " grave error and constituted a serious danger to peace in Europe and for the prospects of world socialism . " His address was perceived as a bold gesture of disobedience to the Soviet Union both at home and abroad.
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"' Third World Socialism "'was a variant of Socialism proponed by Kwame Nkrumah, Modibo Ke�ta, Ahmed S�kou Tour? Fidel Castro, Julius Nyerere, Salah al-Din al-Bitar, Michel Aflaq, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Juan Per�n, Jawaharlal Nehru, Sukarno, David Ben-Gurion, Muammar Gaddafi, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Buddhadasa, Walter Lini and other such socialist leaders of the Third World who saw a non-Soviet version of socialism as the answer to a strong and developed nation.
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*"'speedy Delete, in order to keep wikipedia standard "'this article is totally PVO . Not only that most of the data is based on some biased sites such as " WSW ( world socialism web ) ", whose hidden agendas are clearly visible when you read the articles carefully . . Also, what is most amazing to me is that, state terrosim is used as a tool by LTTE to justify their killings of innocent sinhalese / muslims / or even tamils ( they called it representing ( their ) tamils ) . See the article about prabhakaran here.