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Review by Chris Slee
Sortu and Basque left nationalism’s strategic relaunch
For more coverage of the Basque struggle, click HERE. For more on Spain, click HERE.
By Dick Nichols
March 5, 2013 – Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- Nearly 10 years after the Spanish high court outlawed its previous political organisations, Basque left nationalism has finally given birth to a new legal party—Sortu (“to create” or “to be born” in Basque). The new arrival is a powerful progressive force for Basque independence—socialist, feminist, ecologically aware and staunchly internationalist.
Its goal is an independent socialist Basque-speaking state that unites the three northern Basque regions in the French department of Pyrenees Atlantiques with the four southern Basque regions covering Navarra and Euskadi (the Basque Autonomous Community) in the Spanish state.
France launches war in Mali to secure resources, stamp out national rights struggles
"The military attack in Mali has been condemned by groups on the political left in France, including the Nouveau parti anticapitaliste (New Anti-Capital
Paul Le Blanc: Lenin and Luxemburg through each other’s eyes
August Thalheimer, a revolutionary who knew and worked with both of them, insisted on the formulation “not Luxemburg or Lenin – but Luxemburg and Lenin”, ex
C.L.R James: The historical development of the Negro in the United States (1943)
This article by Trinidad-born socialist C.L.R. James, written under the pseudonym J.R.
Philippines: PLM welcomes roadmap for peace in Mindanao
Philippines government peace negotiator Marvic Leonen (bottom right) and Moro Islamic Liberation Fro
M.N. Roy.
[For more articles by John Riddell, click HERE; for more on the Communist International, click HERE.]
By John Riddell
September 25, 2012 -- Johnriddell.wordpress, posted at Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal with permission -- The newly published proceedings of the Communist International’s Fourth Congress, Toward the United Front, makes it possible for any socialist activist or independent researcher to make the acquaintance of a wide spectrum of revolutionaries of the 1920s, both prominent and obscure.[1] No guide or interpreter is needed.
Abdullah Ocalan, the PKK and the Kurdish struggle
Prison writings: The PKK and the Kurdish Question in the 21st Century
Sri Lanka: The politics of the Frontline Socialist Party -- interview with Premakumar Gunaratnam
Premakumar Gunaratnam. Photo by Peter Boyle.
For more coverage of Sri Lanka and the Tamil struggle, click HERE.
August 8, 2012 -- Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal/Green Left Weekly -- Premakumar Gunaratnam, an ethnic Tamil from Sri Lanka, who now has Australian citizenship, returned to his home country in September 2011 to help organise the launch of a new left party, the Frontline Socialist Party (FLSP), a major breakaway from the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP, People’s Liberation Front). He had been a JVP activist for three decades and a member of its underground political bureau since 1994. In an extensive interview with Peter Boyle for Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal and Green Left Weekly, Gunaratnam reported how he was abducted by a group of armed men between 4 am and 5 am on April 7, just two days before the scheduled launch of the new party.