Foro de São Paulo (FSP, São Paulo Forum) is a congress of left-wing political parties, idealized by President Fidel Castro of Cuba and Luis Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil located in Latin America. It is guided by the Workers' Party (PT) of Brazil.

Foro de São Paulo meeting.

Luis Inacio Lula da Silva speaks at Foro the São Paulo

According to FSP founders the Forum of São Paulo has been constituted in 1990 when Brazilian Workers' Party convoked other parties of Latin America and the Caribbean with the objective to debate the new international conjuncture after falling of the Berlin Wall and the consequences of the implantation of neoliberal politics for the majority of the governments of the region.

The President of Cuba Fidel Castro speaks at Foro the São Paulo.

The FSP leaders say the main proposal was to argue a popular and democratic alternative to the neoliberalism, that was entering in the phase of ample world-wide implementation.

Demetrio Hernández, MIR Secretary speaks at the Foro de São Paulo.

The first meeting was in the city of São Paulo, 1990 July , with the participation of 48 parties and organizations from the Latin American continent and the Caribbean. In 1991, at Mexico City (Mexico), the meeting was named Foro de São Paulo. The next meetings were in Managua (1992), Havana (1993), Montevideo (1995), San Salvador (1996), Porto Alegre (1997), Mexico (1998), Managua (2000), Havana (2001), Antigua (2002), Quito (2003), São Paulo (2004).

Here is a list of notable participants in FSP as of 2004:

Centrist parties

• Dominican Liberation Party

Social democratic parties

• Frente Amplio
• Puerto Rican Nationalist Party
• Workers' Party, Brazil
• Working People's Alliance, Guyana

Communist parties

• Colombian Communist Party
• Communist Party of Argentina
• Communist Party of Bolivia
• Communist Party of Brazil
• Communist Party of Chile
• Communist Party of Cuba
• Communist Party of Uruguay
• Communist Party of Venezuela
• Paraguayan Communist Party
• Party of the Costa Rican People
• Peruvian Communist Party

Socialist parties

• Free Homeland Party, Paraguay
• Socialist Party of Chile
• Socialist Party of Peru
• Socialist Party of Uruguay
• Socialist Popular Party, Mexico

Labour parties

• Clement Payne Movement, Barbados
• Dominica Labour Party

Militant organisations

• National Liberation Army, Colombia
• Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia

Former militant organisations

• Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, El Salvador
• Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity
• Sandinista National Liberation Front, Nicaragua
• Tupamaros, Uruguay

External link

• Foro de São Paulo (http://www.forosaopaulo.org)
• Workers' Party - PT (http://www.pt.org.br/)
• DECLARACIÓN FINAL DEL X ENCUENTRO DEL FORO DE SAO PAULO (http://www.granma.cubaweb.cu/2001/12/17/nacional/articulo16.html)
• Luis Inacio Lula da Siva speech at the opening of Foro de São Paulo in Havana (Fundação Perseu Abrano website) (http://www.fpa.org.br/sala_leitura/forosp_cuba.htm)
• Declaração da reunião do Grupo de Trabalho do FSP(Declaration of the Foro de São Paulo Meeting) ,Workers' Party-PT website (http://www.pt.org.br/site/secretarias_def/secretarias_int_box.asp?cod=234&cat=10&cod_sis=9)
• PT message to the Equatorian parties of the Foro de São Paulo, Workers' Party-PT website  (http://www.pt.org.br/site/secretarias_def/secretarias_int.asp?cod=2817&cod_sis=9&cat=8)
• XI Encuentro Foro de Sao Paulo realizado en la Antigua (http://www.lahora.com.gt/02/12/06/paginas/economico.htm#n1)
• São Paulo Forum - the convergence point of the Latin-American and Caribbean left (http://www.vermelho.org.br/english/text/forum.asp), Communist Party of Brazil, November 20, 2002
• Echoes of the São Paulo Forum Part 2 (http://www.vermelho.org.br/english/text/forum2.asp), Communist Party of Brazil, December 19, 2002
• Echoes of the São Paulo Forum Part 3 (http://www.vermelho.org.br/english/text/forum3.asp), Communist Party of Brazil, December 26, 2002
• Participantes en 10° Encuentro del Foro de Sao Paulo piden liberación de cubanos presos en Miami (http://granmai.cubaweb.com/miami5/espanol/0003.html), Granma, 7 de Diciembre de 2001.