A Québécois view of Canada’s 150th anniversary: Why celebrate colonial autonomy?
By André Binette, translation and notes by Richard Fidler
May 16, 2017 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Life on the Left — Each sovereign state can choose the date of its national holiday. Generally, this date recalls the accession to independence. The United States, for example, chose to emphasize each year their unilateral declaration of independence of July 4, 1776. They preferred this date to the date of the Treaty of Paris, 1783, which ended the revolutionary war they had won thanks to France’s decisive support. Their national holiday commemorates a founding act.
Fraternization between Russian and German soldiers on the Eas
Global capitalist crisis and Trump’s war drive
By William I. Robinson
Critiquing Maduro from the left
By Steve Ellner
May 13, 2017 — Li
Venezuela: The Constituent Assembly is a strategic decision
By Carlos Eduardo Morreo, Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal
May 12, 2017 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal /
What is to be done in Venezuela?
By Greg Grandin
May 12, 2017 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal
Hats and men: Marx's faulty symmetry
By Michael A.
Local and mayoral elections in Britain: Brexit election delivers carnival of reaction
By Phil HearseMay 11, 2017 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Left Unity — The huge Labour losses in the local council elections are just what the Labour Right was hoping for. Peter Mandelson said as much late last year, when he stated he was hoping for Theresa May to call an early election that would result in a disastrous Labour defeat and therefore the removal of Jeremy Corbyn. It’s exactly what all Corbyn’s reactionary detractors in the press and television wanted as well.