Socialist Alliance member Margarita Windisch addresses the 2012 Melbourne Reclaim the Night rall
Socialist Alliance
A protest in Parramatta, a suburb of Sydney, on November 15, 2012, called for an end to Israel's attacks on Gaza.
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The Noynoy government must condemn Israel’s actions and support build-up of international pressure to stop Israeli aggression!
Statement byPartido Lakas ng Masa (PLM, Party of the Labouring Masses, Philippines)
Dot sizes for visits between May and September 2012:
= 1,000+
= 100 - 999
= 10 - 99
= 1 - 9 visits
September 9, 2012 -- Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- On Saturday, September 8, 2012, Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal received its 2 millionth visit (since statistics began being kept on April 8, 2008). Its 1 millionth visit was registered on October 20, 2010. Less than a year later, Links' 1.5 millionth visitor arrived, in late September 2011.
Those 2 million visitors have collectively read more than 2,685,000 articles in that time.
Moscow 2008.
[For more discussion on the nature of the Soviet Union click HERE. See also the related discussion on Stalinism HERE.]
By Chris Slee
July 30, 2012 – Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- The nature of the former Soviet Union was an issue which divided the left for many decades. Now that the Soviet Union no longer exists, differing analyses of its class nature should no longer be a reason for maintaining separate socialist organisations.
Nevertheless, this historical debate has relevance to current politics, since the theories developed to explain the nature of the Soviet Union were subsequently applied to other countries, including Cuba. In particular, the theory of state capitalism, of which British Socialist Workers Party leader Tony Cliff was a leading exponent, is applied to Cuba by many groups today, including Solidarity and Socialist Alternative in Australia.
STOP PRESS, July 25, 2012 -- Thanks to all who sent protest messages and got the word out quick. Baba Jan and Iftikhar Hussain have now been returned to jail after being interrogated and roughed up by the special interrogation team. But we we still must demand: Free Baba Jan and Free the Hunza Five! -- Peter Boyle
By Peter Boyle, Socialist Alliance (Australia) national co-convener
July 23, 2012 -- Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- A leading Pakistan newspaper, Dawn, reports that Labour Party Pakistan comrades Baba Jan and Iftikhar Hussain are being tortured by special "anti-terrorist police" unit in an undisclosed location now: http://dawn.com/2012/07/23/gilgit-rights-activist-being-given-the-third-degree/