Venezuela: The future of ‘21st century socialism’ after Chavez's victory
Supporters celebrate the president's re-election on October 7 outside the Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas. Photo by Tamara Pearson/Venezuelanalysis.com.
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By Federico Fuentes
[En espanol @ http://links.org.au/node/3085]
October 28, 2012 -- Green Left Weekly -- Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez’s re-election on October 7 with more than 55% of the vote was vital for two reasons. First, the Venezuelan people blocked the return to power of the neoliberal right. Had they won, these US-backed forces would have worked to roll back important advances for the poor majority won since Chavez was first elected in 1998.
These include a huge expansion in government providing basic services (such as education, health and housing), the nationalisation of previous privatised strategic industries, and the promotion of popular participation in communities and workplaces.
C.L.R James: The historical development of the Negro in the United States (1943)
This article by Trinidad-born socialist C.L.R. James, written under the pseudonym J.R.
Europe: Greece, Spain, Portugal – the arc of resistance to austerity hardens
On September 25-26-27, 2012, up to 50,000 demonstrators tried to encircle the parliament, calling for the resignation of the government and declaring “democracy kidnapped”.
Cuba: The legacy of the October 1962 Missile Crisis
By Ike Nahem
South Africa: Latest ANC/police attack on militant miners condemned
SACP's Blade Nzimande leads COSATU members prior to clashes with striking Anglo Platinum miners. October 27, 2012, Rustenburg, North West.
Venezuela: Eyewitness impressions of the Bolivarian revolution
October 25, 2012 – Green Left TV – Several European activists participated in t
Review: Tommy Sheridan bio 'essential reading'
Tommy Sheridan: From Hero To Zero? A Political Biography
By Gregor Gall
Welsh Academic Press, 2011, 360 pages
Basque Country: Behind the rise of the EH Bildu left coalition
EH Bildu's main election rally.
By Dick Nichols
The 'Marx party' -- Karl Marx's revolutionary household
Love & Capital: Karl & Jenny Marx & the Birth of a Revolution
Palestine: The Histadrut -- its history and role in occupation, colonisation and apartheid
By the Trade Union Friends of Palestine (Ireland)
October 11, 2012 -- BDS Movement -- Israel's trade union federation, the Histadrut, was founded in December 1920 in British Mandate Palestine. From its inception its aims were neither to build workers' solidarity nor represent or campaign for workers' rights.
Instead it was founded as an exclusively Jewish organisation to facilitate the colonisation of Palestine. As such it worked in tandem with the Jewish Agency to promote the exclusion of Palestinian labour and produce, and was at the forefront of the movement to turn Palestine from an Arab country into a Zionist one.
Today it continues to work hand in hand with th government of Israel and promotes and defends policies that violate the basic civil, political and human rights of Palestinians.
