Thailand's Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra reviews the troops.
For more on Thailand and the Red Shirt movement, click HERE.
By Giles Ji Ungpakorn
June 17, 2013 -- Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- One might be tempted to celebrate the fact that Tarit Pengdit, head of the Department of Special Investigations, has forwarded the cases against former PM Abhisit Vejjajiva and his deputy Sutep Tuaksuban to the public prosecutor. Tarit stated that there was ample evidence that they had ordered the killings of Red Shirt pro-democracy demonstrators in 2010.
Latin America’s progressive governments: origins, nature and challenges
By Pablo Stefanoni, introduction by Richard Fidler
`Foro Social Latinamericano', June 2013 issue: Green Left Weekly's Spanish-language supplement
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June 16, 2013 -- Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- Providing facts and analysis, and publicising and organising Latin America solidarity activities in Australia, Green Left Weekly and Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal has sought to promote greater understanding and solidarity between the people of Australia and Latin America.
We are therefore delighted to publish Latin America Social Forum (Foro Social Latinamericano), a Spanish-language supplement produced regularly by the Latin America Social Forum in Sydney.
The Cuban revolution and ‘democracy’: the case of Yoani Sanchez
Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez holds up a medal presented by Mia
Latin America: Evo Morales and Nicolas Maduro defend the region’s union
By America XXI
June 11, 2013 – Links international Journal of Socialist Renewal – On May 25, Washington’s advance across the region by means of the Pacific Alliance met a counterattack in Bolivia. Bolivia’s President Evo Morales and Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro relaunched the Bolivarian Alliance of the Peoples of Our Americas (ALBA), signed bilateral agreements in 14 strategic fields and denounced the new imperialist offensive against the region.
Dissent and politics: Assembling resistance in Turkey
The football supporter group "Çarşı" from Beşiktaş entering Gezi Park.
Recuperación del sueño socialista
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Por Federico Fuentes
01/06/13 -- America XXI -- El surgimiento del socialismo del siglo XXI está vinculado a Hugo Chávez más que a cualquier otra figura. En los primeros años de este siglo, con el mundo enfocado en las guerras de Estados Unidos en Irak y Afganistán, el socialismo aparecía moribundo, como una reliquia política del pasado relegada a la isla de Cuba.
Latvia: Left bloc gets 59% in municipal elections
June 9, 2013 – Webguerrillero
Australia: How should a united socialist party work?
[This is a slightly edited text of a presentation made by Dave Holmes at the “Organising for 21st century socialism” semi
Ration consumption or ration production?
Review by Don Fitz
Any Way You Slice It: The Past, Present and Future of Rationing
By Stan Cox
The New Press, 2013
Witness a people’s revolution in the making! Join the 2013 solidarity brigade to Venezuela
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