Britain: People's Assembly prepares for fight back (with videos); Success, challenges and politics
Ken Loach.
By Jody Betzien, London
Obama in South Africa: Washington tells Pretoria how to ‘play the game’ in Africa
Protesters greet Obama, June 28, 2013.
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela: the myths and the man
By Terry Bell, Cape Town
Publicity for the congress, which declares: “neither capitalists nor bureaucrats, all power to the working class”.
By Ewan Robertson, Mérida
June 24, 2013 -- Venezuelanalysis.com – Activists from across the Venezuelan labour movement met June 21-23, 2013, for the country’s first ever "workers’ congress", where workers discussed workplace democracy and the construction of socialism.
The congress, billed “First Workers’ Congress: Balance and Challenges of Worker Control and Workers’ Councils for the Construction of Socialism”, was organised by the National Worker Control Movement and saw the participation of more than fifty groups from factories across the country.
Political and union organisations were also present, including radical activists from the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), the trade union current of the Communist Party (PCV) and representatives of leftist union confederation, the National Union of Workers (Unete).
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva with Dilma Rousseff.
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André Singer interviewed by Guilherme Evelin for Revista Epoca, translated for Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal by Federico Fuentes
June 23, 2013 -- André Singer, the person who developed the concept of “Lulism”, says that the recent street protests have opened up a long cycle of mobilisations that will force the government and the country to make some crucial decisions.
South Africa: ANC sees 'Swedes and Irish' behind miners' anger; Solidarity forces ANC back-down
Liv Shange returns to South Africa, July 14, 2013.
By Terry Bell, Cape Town
'The fate of Syria must not be decided by foreign powers or forces'
Non-violent Syrian demonstrators, July 2011. Photo: AP.
By Thomas Harrison and Joanne Landy
Military police fire on protesters in Sao Paulo. Photograph: Sebastiao Moreira/EPA.
