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Venezuela: speaking up to say the truth

By Atilio Boron May 24, 2017 —&

Is Maduro taking Venezuela down the authoritarian path?

The Chávez hypothesis: vicissitudes of a strategic project

By Chris Gilbert May 23, 2017 —

Major decisions face Québec solidaire at its forthcoming congress

By Richard Fidler

Why socialists don’t need human nature

By Themistoklis Pantazakos May 22, 2017 —

Corea del Sur después de la elección de Moon Jae-in

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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.

1917: The View from the Streets #10 & 11 - Soviet executive calls for peace - and renewed military offensives