Issue 28

The theory of the labour aristocracy argues that opportunism in the working class has a material basis.

For supporters of neo-liberal prescriptions for the ills of the Third World, the experience of Chile over the past thirty years is a standard reference.

Since the victory of Hugo Chávez in the 1998 presidential election, the world has been watching developments in Venezuela.

Turnout in the European parliamentary elections of June 13, 2004, was 44.2 per cent. In Poland, the most important of the new EU members, the turnout was twenty per cent.

January 2005 was a profoundly significant month for Russia in many ways, but above all as the month when our people, after a sleep of many years, demonstrated their capacity for joint actions in defence of their common social interests.

These thoughts are intended as a tribute to all revolutionaries, without exception, who suffered the great historical drama of seeing the socialist ideas of October 1917 frustrated.

The attempted transition to socialism in the USSR has fostered a diverse debate since the Soviet collapse, with the ideological antagonism seemingly becoming more important than the actual subject at hand.

Editors introduction to issue 28 of Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal.