Venezuela: 10 years after the failed US-backed coup, the revolution continues
April 12, 2012 -- Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- The April 2012 broadsheet of the Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network marks the successful defeat of the US-backed coup aginst Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez.
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On April 13, 2012, Venezuelans and supporters of democracy across the world will celebrate the 10-year anniversary of a popular uprising that defeated a US-backed coup against President Hugo Chavez. The day is an important reminder that any attempts by foreign governments and the internal opposition to remove Chavez from power -- whether through coups or at the October 7, 2012, presidential election -- will be met with the popular mobilisation of the people, on the streets and at the ballot box.
On April 11, 2002, the right-wing opposition, backed by the US and private media, organised a military coup that briefly removed Chavezf rom office. The head of the Chamber of Commerce (Fedecamaras) Pedro Carmona was declared president and a decree was issued dissolving the Supreme Court, the constitution and the National Assembly, and fired the ombudsman and the attorney general.
The dirty picture of neoliberalism: India’s New Economic Policy
Wealth and poverty in India. Photo by DaveWilsonPhotography.
Paul Le Blanc on Barry Sheppard’s memoirs: Revolutionary redemption, lessons for activists
Barry Sheppard in 1964.
By Paul Le Blanc
Britain: The challenge of George Galloway’s ‘Bradford Spring’
George Galloway campaigns in Bradford West.
Promise-breaking at the World Bank: Why Jim Yong Kim will be a heartbreaker
Jim Yong Kim is also known for his rapping and dancing with talented Dartmo
[Click HERE to follow the entire debate on Lenin.]
By Paul Le Blanc
April 5, 2012 -- Weekly Worker, posted at Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal with permission -- I would like to respond to two problematical contentions advanced by Pham Binh in his article ‘Wanting to get Lenin wrong’ (Weekly Worker, March 29, 2012). One of these contentions is about my motivation for disagreeing with his interpretation of Lenin’s thought, and the other has to do with a historical question -- when the Bolsheviks became a separate party. This is part of an extended debate having to do with history and politics (Lenin and the Bolsheviks; tasks facing socialists today). My own contributions touching on these questions can be found at http://links.org.au/taxonomy/term/579.
South Africa: Interview with Soweto socialist councillor
Operation Khanyisa Movement banners at a march in Johannesburg, 2008.
April 5, 2012 -- Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- The following interview appears in the South African left magazine Amandla!. The latest issue has just been released. Click here for the full contents. The new issue of Amandla! features analysis of the African National Congress' centenary.
Indonesia explodes into protests over fuel price rise plan
One of the 1063 fuel price protests held in Indone
Two sides to Burma's elections
Aung San Suu Kyi.
By Giles Ji Ungpakorn, Turn Left Thailand
Canada: Thomas Mulcair, the New Democratic Party and the social movements
"Thomas Mulcair is a man of the establishment, not of the social movements."
[Read more on Canada's New Democratic Party HERE.]
By Paul Kellogg
March 27, 2012 -- PolEcon.net, posted at Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal with the author's permission -- Canada's social-democratic New Democratic Party (NDP) has a new federal leader. Thomas Mulcair, has no roots in the social movements, a long history of being a senior Liberal Party member and is someone openly committed to pushing the NDP considerably to the right. The implications for all interested in progressive social change are sobering.
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