Syria: Rojava offers a way forward
[For more on the struggle of the Kurdish people, click HERE.]
By Tony Iltis
May 9, 2015 -- Green Left Weekly, posted at Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- War planes from the US and its allies bombed the village of Birmehli in northern Syria on the night of April 30. US Central Command spokesperson Major Curtis Kellogg claimed that at least 50 fighters from the self-styled Islamic State (IS) group were killed and there was “no indication that any civilians were killed”.
Spartacus: rebel or 'proto-communist'?
The slave revolt led by Spartacus shook the Roman world to its foundations and, although a failure, has inspired the oppressed for centuries.
Reino de España: 24 M, prólogo para australianos
[English at http://links.org.au/node/4417]
Por Dick Nichols, Barcelona
Maduro and the market: Can Chavistas keep the revolution on track?
For more on Venezuela, click HERE and more by
Ireland: Sinn Fein backs Yes vote on marriage equality
May 13, 2015 – Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal – Sinn Féin video feat
Ireland: A new party called hope -- Right2Water unions begin new left process (with videos)
Irish protest against water charges at the GPO in January.
Naomi Klein: To fight climate change we must fight capitalism
Naomi Klein interviewed by Agnès Rousseaux and Sophie Chapelle
Lessons from Spain: grassroots democracy and the movements against capitalism
"Podemos, whose decision-making process is based on online voting by a passive mass membership of 300,000, is a highly ce