Climate change: What would Frederick Engels say?
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By Martin O'Beirne
Venezuela: Revolution brings substantial improvements to working-class neighbourhoods
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Hillside barrios in Caracas. Photo by Ryan Mallett-Outtrim/Venezuelanalysis.
Bolivia: Workers to take over closed or abandoned firms; The working class and the political process
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By Richard Fidler, La Paz, Bolivia
France: Jean-Luc Mélenchon's speech at the 2013 Fete L´Humanité
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Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- Front de Gauche leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon addressed the fete of left newspaper L´Humanité in Paris on September 15, 2013. In this six-part video (above and below) Mélenchon discusses French foreign policy in relation to Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, the colossal failures of "Chicago School" [neoliberal] economics, the attacks of the European Union, the Front de Gauche's program when elected, religion and politics, and the front's opposition to militarism.
Malaysia: PSM members win RM200,000 settlement in false imprisonment case
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Celebrations following the release of the EO6. Ex-detainee Choo Chon Kai in centre.
Five years after the economic meltdown: Riches for some, poverty for the rest
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Last man standing.
By Rupen Savoulian
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Right gains in Austria's paradoxical election result
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By Walter Baier
Malaysia: Kampong Hakka -– when 100 years of community residence does not matter
By S. Arutcheclvan, general-secretary, Socialist Party of Malaysia