Contributing authors

Michael Alexandros

Michael Alexandros is an Australian socialist currently living in Vietnam.
LINKS Articles

• Where is Vietnam heading?
  (Issue 20, )

Margaret Allan

Margaret Allan is a journalist for the newspaper Green Left Weekly and a member of the Democratic Socialist Perspective of Australia.
LINKS Articles

• Socialists in the Australian women's liberation movement
  (Issue 12, May-August 1999)

Samir Amin

Economist Samir Amin is the director of the African bureau of the Third World Forum in Dakar, Senegal, and the author of numerous works on First World-Third World relations, including Imperialism and Unequal Development and Accumulation on a World Scale.
LINKS Articles

• The New Capitalist Globalisation: Defeats in the South and the East
  (Issue 8, July-October 1997)
• The New Capitalist Globalisation: Problems and perspectives
  (Issue 7, July-October 1996)

László Andor

László Andor is a member of the Left Alternative in Hungary and editor of Eszmélet. He lectures in the Department of Political Science, Budapest University of Economic Sciences.
LINKS Articles

• Has the dictatorship over needs ended in Eastern Europe?
  (Issue 14, January-April 2000)
• Capitalism in Eastern Europe
  (Issue 4, January-March 1995)

David Bacon

David Bacon is a journalist and photojournalist based in the San Francisco Bay area. He is a board member of the Northern California Coalition for Immigration Rights, and was a union organiser and factory worker for 20 years.

LINKS Articles

• Not at the end of history
  (Issue 20, January-April 2002)
• An immigration policy based on human rights
  (Issue 8, July-October, 1997)

Alejandro Bendaña

Alejandro Bendaña is a contributing editor of Links and the former director of the Augusto César Sandino Foundation.

LINKS Articles

• Interpreting the Nicaraguan elections
  (Issue 20, January-April 2002)
• The "New World Order"
  (Issue 2, July-September 1994)

Dipankar Bhattacharya

Dipankar Bhattacharya is a member of the Communist Party of India--Marxist-Leninist (Liberation).

LINKS Articles

• A war to defeat, a world to win
  (Issue 22, September-December 2002)
• Back to good old Marx in the brave new world of globalisation
  (Issue 19, September-December, 2001)
• Rereading the 'little booklet' in the era of globalisation
  (Issue 9, November 1997-February 1998)

Lothar Bisky

Lothar Bisky is chairperson of the German Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) and is a member of the Brandenburg Landtag.
LINKS Articles

• The first five years of the PDS
  (Issue 5, August-October 1995)

Juan Antonio Blanco

Dr Juan Antonio Blanco is an historian and philosopher, director of the Félix Varela Centre, a Cuban non government organisation. He is author of many books including Third Millennium: An Alternative Vision to Postmodernism.

LINKS Articles

• Reflections for the third millenium
  (Issue 4, January-March 1995)
• Cuba: the Jurassic Park of socialism?
  (Issue 4, January-March 1995)

Sue Bolton

Sue Bolton is a member of the national trade union committee of the Socialist Alliance and a member of the Democratic Socialist Perspective national executive.
LINKS Articles

• Australian Socialist Alliance
  takes a new step for left unity
  (With Peter Boyle. Issue 24, September-December
  2003)

Patrick Bond

Patrick Bond is the author of two recent books: Unsustainable South Africa: Environment, Development
and Social Protest and Fanon's Warning: A Civil Society Reader on the New Partnership for Africa's Development. Both are available from Africa World Press (http://www.africanworld.com). His 2001 book Against Global Apartheid: South Africa meets the World Bank, IMF and International Finance, will be
republished by Zed Press, as will a new edition of Elite Transition: From Apartheid to Neoliberalism in South Africa from Pluto Press.

LINKS Articles

• Principles, strategies and tactics of decommodification in South Africa
  (Issue 22, September-December 2002)

Peter Boyle

Peter Boyle is a member of the National Secretary of the Democratic Socialist Perspective of Australia.
LINKS Articles

• Australian Socialist Alliance
  takes a new step for left unity
  (With Sue Bolton. Issue 24, September-December
  2003)
• Steps toward greater left
  unity in Australia
  (Issue 23, January-April 2003)
• Why imperialism will lose
  the first war of the 21st century
  (Issue 20, January-April 2002)
• The politics of the new
  movement for global solidarity
  (Issue 17, January-April 2001)

Carl T. Brecker

Carl T. Brecker is a socialist in South Africa.
LINKS Articles

• The transition in South Africa
  (Issue 10, November 1997-February 1998)

Pat Brewer

Contributing editor Pat Brewer is a member of the National Committee of the Democratic Socialist Perspective of Australia.
LINKS Articles

• Nature, development and inequality: are women the last colony?
  (Issue 19, September-December 2001)
• Accord politics in Australia
  (Issue 1, April-June 1994)

Aleksandr Buzgalin

LINKS Articles

• Russia awakes: social protest 100 years after the beginning of the First Russian revolution
  (Issue 2, September-December 2005)
• Independence square: a popular revolution, or...?
  (Issue 27, January-April 2005)

José Ramón Balaguer Cabrera

José Ramón Balaguer Cabrera is a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of Cuba.
LINKS Articles

• The Marxist left's politics of alliances at the beginning of the 21st century
  (Issue 25, January-June 2004)

Marco León Calarcá

Marco León Calarcá is an international representative for the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)
LINKS Articles

• Colombia: the FARC speaks out (interview, in PDF format)
  (Issue 11, January-April 1999)

Alex Callinicos

Alex Callinicos is a leader of the Socialist Workers Party in Britain and author of Against the Third Way: an anti-capitalist critique.
LINKS Articles

• Regroupment and the socialist left today Regroupment and the socialist left today
  (Issue 23, January-April 2003)

Marina Carmen

At the time of writing, Marina Carmen was a member of the National Council of the Australian socialist youth organisation Resistance.
LINKS Articles

• Population, environment and women's rights
  (Issue 3, October-December 1994)

Eva Cheng

Eva Cheng is a left activist from Hong Kong, where she worked as a journalist for 10 years. Now living in Australia, she is a journalist for Green Left Weekly and a member of the Democratic Socialist Perspective.
LINKS Articles

• Increasing domestic criticism of Beijing's pro-capitalist course
  (Issue 27, January-April 2005)
• APEC fails to kick-start stalled WTO trade round
  (Issue 17, January-April 2001)
• China: is capitalist restoration inevitable?
  (Issue 11, January-April 1999)

Chow Wei Cheng

Chow Wei Cheng is a financial analyst and a member of the Democratic Socialist Perspective of Australia.
LINKS Articles

• Behind the Asian economic crisis
  (Issue 10, November 1997-February 1998)
• Lessons of the East-Asian NICs: A rejection of Jomo Sundaram's model
  (Issue 8, July-October 1997)

Michel Chossudovsky

Michel Chossudovsky is professor of economics at the University of Ottawa and author of The Globalisation of Poverty, Impacts of IMF and World Bank Reforms, Zed Books, London, 1997.
LINKS Articles

• Global falsehoods: How the World Bank and the UNDP distort the figures on poverty
  (Issue 12, May-August 1999)

Renfrey Clarke

Renfrey Clarke was the Moscow correspondent for the newspaper Green Left Weekly and is a longtime member of the Democratic Socialist Perspective in the Australian Socialist Alliance.
LINKS Articles

• Model for the Third World? The Chilean Economy since Allende
  (Issue 28, September-December 2005)
• The failure of Russia's 'democrats'
  (Issue 12, May-August, 1999)
• Why Russia needs another revolution
  (Issue 9, November 1997-February 1998)
• Mexico City in Moscow
  (Issue 5, August-October 1995)
• Budapest: What course for the new left?
  (Issue 3, October-December 1994)
• Russia's Trade Union Movement
  (Issue 1, April-June 1994)

Dan Connell

Dan Connell is the founder of the Boston-based solidarity organisation Grassroots International and the author of Against All Odds: A Chronicle of the Eritrean Revolution. He is researching a book on political and social transformation in Eritrea, South Africa, Palestine and Nicaragua.
LINKS Articles

• Palestine: crisis in the national movement.
  (Issue 3, October-December 1994)
  (A version of this article appeared in the May/June-July/August double issue of Middle East Report.)

Jeremy Cronin

At the time of writing, Jeremy Cronin was the editor of The African Communist and a member of the Political Bureau of the South African Communist Party.
LINKS Articles

• The South African transition
  (Issue 2, July-September 1994)
• Challenging the neo-liberal agenda in South Africa
  (Issue 3, October-December 1994)

Ramani De Silva

Ramani De Silva is a member of the Central Committee of the Partido ng Manggagawang Pilipino.
LINKS Articles

• PMP-Merger blazes trail
  for revolutionary movement in Philippines
  (Issue 24, September-December 2003)

Ariel Dacal Diaz

Ariel Dacal Diaz is chief editor in the politics section of Social Sciences Publishers, a leading Cuban publishing house.
LINKS Articles

• The USSR: The thwarted transition
  (Issue 28, September-December, 2005)

Norm Dixon

Norm Dixon is a member of the National Executive of the Democratic Socialist Perspective of Australia and a journalist for the newspaper Green Left Weekly.
LINKS Articles

• For a materialist analysis of national and racial oppression
  (Issue 15, May-August 2000)
• Marx, Engels and Lenin on the national question
  (Issue 13, September-December 1999)

François Duval

Francois Duval is a leader of the Ligue Communiste Révolutionnaire..
LINKS Articles

• French revolutionary left on the front line
  (Issue 23, January-April 2003)

Barbara Einhorn

Dr Barbara Einhorn is a lecturer in the School of European Studies, Sussex University, and author of Cinderella Goes to Market (Verso 1993).
LINKS Articles

• Gender and citizenship in East Central Europe
  (Issue 2, July-September 1994)

Kamala Emanuel

Kamala Emanuel is a member of the Democratic Socialist Perspective of Australia.
LINKS Articles

• Unfinished business: The struggle for abortion rights
  (Issue 16, September-December 2000)

Dianne Feeley

At the time of writing, Dianne Feeley was an editor of the US bimonthly magazine Against the Current and a member of the US socialist organisation Solidarity
LINKS Articles

• Fundamentalism: US style
  (Issue 18, May-August 2001)

Maria Luisa Fernandez

At the time of writing, Maria Luisa Fernandez was the Cuban consul-general in Australia.
LINKS Articles

• The Viability of Marxism.
  (Issue 15, May-August 2000)
  (This is the text of her opening address to the Marxism 2000 Conference in Sydney, January 2000.)

Alan Freeman

Alan Freeman is a collaborator with Capital and Class and co-editor, with Ernest Mandel, of The Value Controversy.
LINKS Articles

• Fixing up the world?: GATT and the World Trade Organisation
  (Issue 10, November 1997-February 1998)
• The poverty of nations: Relative surplus valus, technical change and accumulation in the modern global market
  (Issue 7, July-October 1996)

Marco Aurélio Garcia

Marco Aurélio Garcia was the Brazilian Workers' Party (PT) international secretary.
LINKS Articles

• Latin America's recent elections: The PT balance sheet
  (Issue 6, January-April 1996)

Edwin Gozal

At the time of writing, Edwin Gozal was the international representative of the People's Democratic Party of Indonesia.
LINKS Articles

• Indonesia: the unfinished struggle--A short history of the radical movement in Indonesia.
  (Issue 11, January-April 1999)

Allan Green

At the time of writing, Allan Green is a member of the National Executive of the Scottish Socialist Party and a member of the Editorial Board of Links.
LINKS Articles

• Analysis of the SSP's 2003
  Election Results
  (Issue 24, September-December 2003)

Munyaradzi Gwisai

Munyaradzi Gwisai is a leader of the International Socialist Organisation of Zimbabwe and is a former member of parliament for the Movement for Democratic Change.
LINKS Articles

• Revolutionaries, resistance and crisis in Zimbabwe
  (Issue 22, September-December 2002)

Adam Hanieh

At the time of writing, Adam Hanieh was a correspondent for Green Left Weekly who lived and worked in Ramallah, in the West Bank.
LINKS Articles

• Palestine and Israel after the elections
  (Issue 13, September-December 1999)

Marta Harnecker

Marta Harnecker is a scholar of the Latin American social movements. She is the director of a research organisation on the history of popular movements in Latin America, known by its Spanish acronym MEPLA. Harnecker is the author of Basic Elements of Historical Materialism, as well as numerous books and articles about the Latin American left. The thoughts that appear here are developed more fully in a book just completed by the author, Making the Impossible Possible: The Left on the Threshold of the 21st Century.
LINKS Articles

• Making the impossible possible
  (Issue 16, September-December 2000)

Greg Harris

Greg Harris is a socialist internet campaigner. For a time he wrote a column, "Networker", for the Australian newspaper Green Left Weekly.
LINKS Articles

• Capitalism's internet dilemma
  (Issue 20, January-April 2002)

Armando Hart

Armando Hart is the former minister of culture of Cuba.
LINKS Articles

• Joseph Stalin
  (Issue 28, September-December 2005)

Celia Hart

Celia Hart is the daughter of two veterans of the Cuban revolution: Haydée Santamaría, who participated in the July 26,1953, assault on the Moncada Barracks, and Armando Hart, the former minister of culture.
LINKS Articles

• `Socialism in one country' and the Cuban Revolution
  (Issue 26, July-December 2004)

Phil Hearse

Phil Hearse is a veteran socialist activist in Britain. He is currently a member of the Socialist Solidarity Network, who support the newspaper Socialist Resistance.
LINKS Articles

• Either a 'Socialist revolution or a make-believe revolution': A rejoinder to Doug Lorimer
  (Issue 17, January-April 2001)
• Permanent Revolution today
  (Issue 16, September-December 2000)
• Militant: What went wrong?
  (Issue 15, May-August 2000)
• Contours of the Mexican left
  (Issue 14, January-April 2000)
• Silber: a rejoinder (Debate with Irwin Silber)
  (Issue 9, November 1997-February 1998)
• Anti-Leninism: an apology for capitalism--Irwin Silber's 'Socialism: What Went Wrong?. (©1994 Pluto Press, London)
  (Issue 8, July-October 1997)
• Britain's 'New Labour'
  (Issue 5, August-October 1995)

Mansoor Hekmat

The late Mansoor Hekmat was a central leader of the Worker-Communist party of Iran.
LINKS Articles

• The rise and fall of political Islam: a discussion with Mansoor Hekmat
  (Issue 20, January-April 2002)

Pip Hinman

Pip Hinman is a member of the Political Committee of the Democratic Socialist Perspective.
LINKS Articles

• Lessons of the mass anti-war
  campaign in Australia
  (Issue 24, September-December 2003)
• New Labour's cloak for
  neo-liberalism
  (Issue 21, May-August 2002)

Shane Hopkinson

At the time of writing, Shane Hopkinson was a member of the Australian Democratic Socialist Perspective.
LINKS Articles

• New Labour's cloak for neo-liberalism
  (Issue 21, May-August 2002)

Gus Horowitz

Gus Horowitz was the national anti-war director of the United States Socialist Workers' Party in 1970.
LINKS Articles

• Movement history: Socialists
  and the anti-war movement
  (Issue 24, September - December 2003)

Michel Husson

Economist Michel Husson lectures at the Paris Economic and Social Research Institute and is the author of Les destins du Tiers-Monde, with N. Holchblat, and L'industrie française with T. Courtrot. Michel has previously coordinated the production of Données et Arguments (Facts and Arguments), produced by the French movement Agir Ensemble Contre le Chômage (Act Together Against Unemployment).
LINKS Articles

• The three dimensions of neo-imperialism
  (Issue 6, January-April 1996)

Makoto Itoh

Makoto Itoh is a well-known and regarded Japanese Marxist economist whose latest book is Political Economy for Socialism.
LINKS Articles

• What political economy for socialism? (interview)
  (Issue 10, November 1997-February 1998)

Jorge Jorquera

Jorge Jorquera is a long-term Chilean solidarity activist. At the time of writing, he was a member of the National Executive of the Democratic Socialist Perspective.
LINKS Articles

• Venezuela and the new Latin American revolution
  (Issue 24, September-December 2003)

Roberto Jorquera

LINKS Articles

• Notes on the Bolivarian revolution
  (Issue 28, September-December 2005)

Boris Kagarlitsky

Links contributing editor Boris Kagarlitsky is well known for his many books and articles on Soviet and post-Soviet Russian society including The Dialectic of Change, Square Wheels: How Russian Democracy got Derailed and The Mirage of Modernisation.
LINKS Articles

• Four years of Putin
  (Issue 26, July-December, 2004)
• The Golitsino Consensus
  (Issue 24, September-December, 2003)
• What remains of Soviet
  culture?
  (Issue 22, September-December 2002)
• 'Political capitalism'
  and corruption in Russia
  (Issue 21, May-August 2002)
• Facing the crisis (Issue 19, September-December 2001)
• The lessons of Prague(Issue 17, January-April 2001)
• The prospects for
  socialism (or barbarism)
  (Issue 14, January-April 2000)
• The new periphery
  (Issue 12, May-August 1999)
• Escaping the Labyrinth: The democratic model
  (Issue 6, January-April 1996)
  (This essay was originally planned as the final chapter of The
  Miracle of Modernisation [Monthly Review Press, 1995].)
• Russia's communist party and the radical left
  (Issue 5, August-October 1995)
• Letter to South Africa
  (Issue 4, January-March 1995)
• Russia: From crisis to catastrophe
  (Issue 2, July-September 1994)
• Russia's Trade Union Movement
  (Issue 1, April-June 1994)
  (Co-authored with Renfrey Clarke)

Michael Karadjis

Michael Karadjis is a member of the Democratic Socialist Perspective of Australia. He has completed an MA thesis on the break-up of Yugoslavia.
LINKS Articles

• Socialism and the market-China and Vietnam compared
  (Issue 27, January-April 2005)
• National oppression and the collapse of Yugoslavia
  (Issue 13, September-December 1999)

Vickramabahu Karunarathne

Vickramabahu Karunarathne is the general secretary of the Nava Sama Samaja Party (NSSP) of Sri Lanka and author of Tribe, Nation and Assimilation of Nations.
LINKS Articles

• The left and the politics of nationalism
  (Issue 4, January-March 1995)

Iggy Kim

Iggy Kim is an activist of the Democratic Socialist Perspective of Australia.
LINKS Articles

• How an NGO-union partnership suffocated the anti-ASEM struggle in South Korea.
  (Issue 17, January-April 2001)

Andrey Kolganov

LINKS Articles

• Russia awakes: social protest 100 years after the beginning of the First Russian revolution
  (Issue 2, September-December 2005)

Tamás Krausz

Contributing editor Tamás Krausz is a convenor of Left Alternative in Hungary and a lecturer in politics and history at the University of Budapest.
LINKS Articles

• Elections in Eastern Europe
  (Issue 2, July-September 1994)

Raghu Krishnan

Raghu Krishnan is a Canadian freelance journalist and translator. He was in France for three weeks in December 1995.
LINKS Articles

• 'Preferring disorder over injustice': France, December 1995.
  (Issue 7, July-October 1996)
  (This article first appeared in Monthly Review, No. 1, 1996, and is published in Links with their kind permission.)

S. Kumarswamy

LINKS Articles

• Industrial restructuring and the working class in India
  (Issue 27, January-April 2005)

Max Lane

Editorial board member Max Lane is a National Executive member of the Democratic Socialist Perspective of Australia.
LINKS Articles

• Indonesia three years after the fall of Suharto
  (Issue 18, May-August 2001)
• A brief introduction to the Socialist Party of Timor
  (Issue 14, January-April 2000)
• The Asia Pacific Solidarity Conference
  (Issue 11, January-April 1999)
  (Co-authored with John Percy)
• The Indonesian progressive movement
  (Issue 4, January-March 1995)
• Winning democracy in Indonesia
  (Issue 2, July-September 1994)

Oupa Lehulere

Since the 1980s, Oupa Lehulere has done research and educational work for the South African trade union movement. He is based at the Community Division of Khanya College, a labour support organisation based in Johannesburg.
LINKS Articles

• Social democracy and neo-liberalism in South Africa: a reply to Eddie Webster
  (Issue 7, July-October 1996)

Keith Locke

At the time of writing, Keith Locke was the foreign policy convenor for the New Zealand Alliance, associate defence spokesperson and a member of the National Council of the New Labour Party. More recently, he has been elected as an MP for the New Zealand Greens.
LINKS Articles

• The New Zealand Alliance
  (Issue 2, July-September 1994)

Doug Lorimer

Editorial board member Doug Lorimer is a member of the Political Committee of the Democratic Socialist Perspective of Australia and the author of Trotsky's Theory of Permanent Revolution: A Leninist critique.
LINKS Articles

• The 1905 revolution and its lessons
  (Issue 28, September-December 2005)
• The Bolshevik Party and
  'Zinovievism': comments on a caricature of Leninism
  (Issue 24, September-December 2003)
• Imperialism in the twenty-first
  century
  (Issue 21, May-August 2002)
• Imperialist economism,
  democracy and the socialist revolution
  (Issue 17, January-April 2001)
• In defence of Lenin's
  Marxist policy of a two-stage, uninterrupted revolution.
  (Issue 16, September-December 2000)
• Marxism or Bauerite nationalism?

(Issue 13, September-December 1999)
(A review of Fatherland or Mother Earth? Essays on the National
Question by Michael Löwy)

Caroline Lund

At the time of writing, the late Caroline Lund was a member of the US socialist organisation Solidarity.
LINKS Articles

• Independent unions: the way forward for US labour
  (Issue 27, January-April 2005)
  (Co-authored with Malik
  Miah
• US empire after Iraq: analysis
  and perspectives
  (Issue 24, September-December 2003)
  (Co-authored with Malik
  Miah and Barry Sheppard)
• The Bush Doctrine
  (Issue 22, September-December 2002)
  (Co-authored with Malik Miah and Barry
  Sheppard)

Lisa Macdonald

Lisa Macdonald is a member of the Political Committee of the Australian Democratic Socialist Perspective.
LINKS Articles

• The nature of Islamic fundamentalism
  (Issue 21, May-August 2002)
• Women's Liberation and the Fight for Socialism
  (Issue 15, May-August 2000)

Dario Machado

Dario Machado is the director of the Centre for Socio-Political and Opinion Studies of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and a member of the party's central committee.
LINKS Articles

• Development, democracy and socialism in Cuba.
  (Issue 5, August-October 1995)
  (Interview and translation from Spanish by Stephen O'Brien.)

Kiva Maidanik

Kiva Maidanik is a senior associate of the Institute of World Economy and International Relations in Moscow.
LINKS Articles

• Political 'stabilisation' in Russia
  (Issue 3, October-December 1994)

Muhammad Ma'ruf

Muhammad Ma'ruf is chief editor of Pembebesan (Liberation), the fortnightly magazine of the People's Democratic party of Indonsia.
LINKS Articles

• Indonesia: the unfinished struggle--Concessions or reforms
  (Issue 11, January-April 1999)
  (Statement issued on behalf of the Central Leadership Council of the PRD, Jakarta, May 27, 1998).

Manning Marable

Contributing editor Manning Marable, a national chairperson of the Committees of Correspondence, is a professor of political science and history at the University of Colorado.
LINKS Articles

• Framework for left dialogue in the USA
  (Issue 1, April-June 1994)

Olga Lucía Marín

Olga Lucía Marín is an international representative for the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)
LINKS Articles

• Colombia: the FARC speaks out (interview, in PDF format)
  (Issue 11, January-April 1999)

Stephen Marks

Stephen Marks was the Nicaraguan correspondent for the newspaper Green Left Weekly.
LINKS Articles

• Revolutionary unity and strategy in the Dominican Republic
  (Issue 7, July-October 1996)
• Montevideo Sáo Paulo Forum: What alternative to neo-liberalism?
  (Issue 6, January-April 1996)
• Nicaragua: reforms or concessions?
  (Issue 3, October-December 1994)
• Important advance at FSLN congress.
  (Issue 2, July-September 1994)

Marlin

Marlin is a socialist in Indonesia. He is a founding member and a leader in the People's Democratic Party (PRD). He was a central leader of the pre-party formations that developed in the late 1980s and early 1990s prior to the establishment of the PRD. During this early period he also spent time in the Philippines and Australia gaining experience in the different forms of radical political struggle.
LINKS Articles

• Indonesia: organising the mass struggle for democracy (PDF format)
  (Issue 9, November 1997-February 1998)
  (Translation by Max Lane)

Gerson Martinez

Contributing editor Gerson Martinez is parliamentary head of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) in El Salvador. He was interviewed by Stephen Marks and Ramón Cardona in San Salvador in April 1995.
LINKS Articles

• Democracy is the axis: Fighting neo-liberalism in El Salvador
  (Issue 5, August-October 1995)
  (Translation by Stephen Marks for Links)

Bernadette McAliskey

Bernadette McAliskey, a leader of the Northern ireland civil rights movement of the 1960s, was a Westminster MP in the early 1970s and is a long-time human rights activist.
LINKS Articles

• Irish nationalism and the peace process
  (Issue 13, September-December 1999)
  (interview by Ralf Sotscheck, Irish and British correspndent for the German daily die tageszeitung.)

Alan McCombes

Alan McCombes is a member of the Scottish Socialist Party National Executive and was the coordinator for the party's 2003 election campaign. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Links.
LINKS Articles

• Scottish politics has changed forever
  (Issue 24, September-December 2003)
• Scottish independence and the struggle for socialism
  (Issue 14, January-April 2000)

Jim McIlroy

Jim McIlroy is a member of the National Committee of the Democratic Socialist Party of Australia and a workplace delegate of the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) of Australia.
LINKS Articles

• Australian lessons in social democracy
  (Issue 3, October-December 1994)

Nick McKerrell

Nick McKerrell is a leading member of the International Socialist Movement platform in the Scottish Socialist Party.
LINKS Articles

• The united front today
  (Issue 23, January-April 2003)

Dale T. McKinley

Dr. Dale McKinley is a former chairperson of the Johannesburg Central branch of the South African Communist Party. He is a leading activist in the Anti-Privatisation Forum.
LINKS Articles

• The political economy of the rise of social movements in South Africa
  (Issue 25, January-June 2004)
• Debate and opposition within the ANC and the Tripartite Alliance since 1994
  (Issue 16, September-December 2000)
• The Tenth National Congress of the SACP
  (Issue 11, January-April 1999)
• Socialist strategy, the SACP and the realities of the South African transition: A response to Brecker
  (Issue 10, November 1997-February 1998)
  (Debate with Carl Brecker reprinted from issue 2 (1997) of the South African journal Debate: Voices from the Left)
• Sounding the retreat!: The left and the macro-economic battle in South Africa
  (Issue 8, July-October 1997)
• Class and democracy in the struggle for socialism: A reply to the 'structural reformers' and 'radical democrats'
  (Issue 3, October-December 1994)

Humphrey McQueen

Humphrey McQueen is a leading Marxist writer in Australia and an activist in the Socialist Alliance.
LINKS Articles

• What happened in globalisation?
  (Issue 25, January-June 2004)

Sonny Melencio

Editorial Board member Sonny Melencio is a veteran activist of the Philippine left, most recently a leader of the Socialist Party of Labour (SPP) which has now merged with the Partido ng Manggagawang Pilipino (Filipino Workers Party).
LINKS Articles

• Lessons and prospects for the Philippine left
  (Issue 20, January-April 2002)
  (Co-authored with Reihana Mohideen)
• The Moro question
  (Issue 18, May-August 2001)
• Critique of the politico-military strategy
  (Issue 17, January-April 2001)
  (Co-authored with Reihana Mohideen)
• Estrada's decline and the Philippines left
  (Issue 15, May-August 2000)
• Twenty-six years of struggles: Lessons and prospects for the Philippine left
  (Issue 8, July-October 1997)
• The Philippine 'semifeudalist' debate
  (Issue 3, October-December 1994)
• Leninism versus Stalinism debate in the Philippines
  (Issue 1, April-June 1994)

Malik Miah

Editorial board member Malik Miah is a member of the US socialist organisation Solidarity.
LINKS Articles

• Independent unions: the way forward for US labour
  (Issue 27, January-April 2005)
  (Co-authored with Caroline
  Lund)
• US empire after Iraq: analysis
  and perspectives
  (Issue 24, September-December 2003)
  (Co-authored with Barry Sheppard and Caroline
  Lund)
• The
  Bush Doctrine
  (Issue 22, September-December 2002)
  (Co-authored with Barry Sheppard and Caroline
  Lund)
• A critique of Norm Dixon's
  article, 'Marx, Engels and Lenin on the National Question' (Issue 14, January-April 2000)
• Affirmative action and the fight for equality (Issue 5, August-October 1995)

Vinod Mishra

The late Vinod Mishra (1947-1998) was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of India--Marxist Leninist (Liberation).
LINKS Articles

• The Indian communist movement
  (Issue 5, August-October 1995)

Reihana Mohideen

Editorial board member Reihana Mohideen was, at the time, a member of the Philippines Socialist Party of Labour (SPP), which has merged with the Partido ng Manggagawang Pilipino (Filipino Workers Party).
LINKS Articles

• Lessons and prospects for the Philippine left
  (Issue 20, January-April 2002)
  (Co-authored with Sonny Melencio)
• Critique of the politico-military strategy
  (Issue 17, January-April 2001)
  (Co-authored with Sonny Melencio)
• The uninterrupted revolution in the Philippines
  (Issue 13, September-December 1999)

Stuart Munckton

LINKS Articles

• The Venezuelan revolution and the need for solidarity
  (Issue 27, January-April 2005)

Allen Myers

Allen Myers is a former editor of Australia's Green Left Weekly and a member of the Democratic Socialist Perspective of Australia.
LINKS Articles

• Causes of the international economic crisis
  (Issue 12, May-August 1999)
• Capitalism and the environment
  (Issue 10, November 1997-February 1998)

John Nebauer

John Nebauer is a member of the Democratic Socialist Perspective of Australia.
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• A long and still relevant debate
  (Issue 13, September-December, 1999)
  Review of Trotsky's Theory of Permanent Revolution: A Leninist critique, by Doug Lorimer, Resistance Books, Sydney, 1998, A$6.95.

Francisco Nemenzo

Editorial board member Dr Francisco Nemenzo teaches political science at the University of the Philippines and was the founding chairperson of the Union for Socialist Ideas and Action (BISIG).
LINKS Articles

• Resurgence of the Filipino Left
  (Issue 2, July-September 1994)
  (This interview first appeared in the May 1, 1994 issue of the Filipino union newspaper KILOS.)

Nguyen The Phiet

LINKS Articles

• Vietnam's long history of struggle
  (Issue 27, January-April 2005)

Dick Nichols

Editorial board member Dick Nichols is a member of the National Executive of the Democratic Socialist Perspective in Australia.
LINKS Articles

• Thousands attend World Social Forum in Brazil
  (Issue 18, May-August 2001)

Robert Andrew Nowlan

Robert Andrew Nowlan is chief editor of Red Orange, a Marxist triquarterly of "theory, politics, and the everyday", PO Box 1055, Tempe, AZ 85280-1055, USA. He is also a visiting professor at the Department of English of Arizona State University.
LINKS Articles

• Queer theory and politics
  (Issue 5, August-October 1995)

Blade Nzimande

At the time of writing, Blade Nzimande was the deputy chairperson of the South African Communist Party.
LINKS Articles

• The character of the SACP
  (Issue 5, August-October 1995)

Daniel Ortega

Comandante Daniel Ortega Saavedra is the general secretary of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) and was president of Nicaragua in the former Sandinista government.
LINKS Articles

• Interview with Daniel Ortega
  (Issue 1, April-June 1994)

Francisco Pascual

Francisco Pascual is the executive director of the Resource Center for People's Development, Manila, and a member of the International Coordinating Committee and coordinator of the International Secretariat, International South Group Network.
LINKS Articles

• Militarism underpins globalisation
  (Issue 21, May-August 2002)

Jaime Pastor

Contributing editor Jaime Pastor is a representative and spokesperson for Alternative Space, a political grouping within the Spanish United Left
LINKS Articles

• Debates in the Spanish United Left
  (Issue 11, January-April 1999)

James Petras

Contributing editor James Petras is a professor of sociology at Binghampton University, New York. He has authored numerous books, including Empire or Republic: Global Power or Domestic Decay in the US and Latin America in the Time of Cholera, both co-authored by Morris Morley.
LINKS Articles

• Empire without imperialists?
  (Issue 20, January-April 2002)
• Notes toward an understanding of revolutionary politics today
  (Issue 19, September-December 2001)
• 'Creative' destruction and malignant neglect: reversing progress
  (Issue 12, May-August 1999)
• Land occupations in Brazil: The landless workers movement
  (Issue 10, November 1997-February 1998)
• A Marxist critique of post-Marxists
  (Issue 9, November 1997-February 1998)
• The process of globalisation: The role of the state and multinational corporations
  (Issue 7, July-October 1996)
• Pragmatism Unarmed: Jorge Castañad's social democratic recipe for the Latin American left
  (Issue 6, January-April 1996)
  (Co-authored with Steve Vieux)
• The economic 'recovery' of Latin America
  (Issue 4, January-March 1995)

John Percy

Editorial board member John Percy is the national president of the Democratic Socialist Perspective in Australia's Socialist Alliance.
LINKS Articles

• The Ukraine scam, internationals and internationalism
  (Issue 25, January-June 2003)
• Looking backward, looking forward: Pointers to building a revolutionary party
  (Issue 23, January-April 2003)
• Asia Pacific International Solidarity Conference
  (Issue 22, September-December 2002)
• International left collaboration and socialist renewal
  (Issue 15, May-August 2000)
• The Asia Pacific Solidarity Conference
  (Issue 11, January-April 1999)
  (Co-authored with Max Lane)
• The relevance of the 'Communist Manifesto' today (PDF format)
  (Issue 10, November 1997-February 1998)

Manuel Monereo Pérez

Contributing editor Manuel Monereo Pérez, of Spain's United Left, is the head of the Department of Political Debate and Ideology and a member of the party's federal presidency.
LINKS Articles

• Debates in the Spanish United Left
  (Issue 11, January-April 1999)

Raul Pont

Raul Pont is deputy mayor of Porto Alegre, Brazil, and a national Committee member of the Workers Party (PT).
LINKS Articles

• The Left and Local Government: The Porto Alegre experience in Brazil
  (Issue 5, August-October 1995)
  (Interview by Stephen Marks)

John Rees

John Rees is a leader of the British Socialist Workers Party and editor of its International Socialist Journal.
LINKS Articles

• The broad party, the revolutionary party and the united front
  (Issue 23, January-April 2003)

Ben Reid

Ben Reid is a member of the Democratic Socialist Perspective in Australia. At the time of writing, he was a lecturer in development studies at the University of Newcastle.
LINKS Articles

• EDSA II, the Arroyo government and the `democratic left' in the Philippines
  (Issue 25, January-June 2004)
• The Brazilian Workers Party and the participatory budget in Rio Grande do Sul
  (Issue 23, January-April 2003)

Sushawn Robb

Sushawn Robb is co-chair of the Committees of Correspondence (USA) and was a writer for the US magazine Crossroads. She is active in the women's movement and the lesbian-gay men's movement, and was previously a leader in the Line of March organisation.
LINKS Articles

• US left regroupment continues
  (Issue 3, October-December 1994)

Pierre Rousset

Pierre Rousset is editor of Rouge, the weekly paper of the Revolutionary Communist League (LCR) of France.
LINKS Articles

• The tottering Fifth Republic?: France's emerging political crisis (Interview by Lisa Macdonald)
  (Issue 11, January-April 1999)

Salah Abdel Shafi

Salah Abdel Shafi is the director of the Development Resource Centre (Gaza).
LINKS Articles

• Dependency and Control: The Palestinian and Israeli economies (Interview by Adam Hanieh)
  (Issue 11, January-April 1999)

Barry Sheppard

Contributing editor Barry Sheppard is a member of the US socialist organisation Solidarity.
LINKS Articles

• Malcolm X
  (Issue 25, January-June 2004)
• US empire after Iraq: analysis
  and perspectives
  (Issue 24, September-December 2003)
  (Co-authored with Malik Miah and Caroline
  Lund)
• The Bush Doctrine
  (Issue 22, September-December 2002)
  (Co-authored with Malik Miah and Caroline
  Lund)
• Theories of the USSR
  in light of its collapse
  (Issue 18, May-August 2001)
• US labour and the new
  movement against capitalist globalisation
  (Issue 17, January-April 2001)
• The relevance of Marxism
  (Issue 3, October-December 1994)

Tommy Sheridan

Tommy Sheridan is the first member of the Scottish Socialist Party elected to parliament, in 1999.
LINKS Articles

• Campaigning and Parliamentary
  Priorities
  (Issue 24, September-December 2003)

Irwin Silber

Irwin Silber is the author of Socialism: What Went Wrong? (©1994 Pluto Press, London)
LINKS Articles

• 'Socialism: What Went Wrong?': Irwin Silber responds to Phil Hearse
  (Issue 9, November 1997-February 1998)

Randir Singh

Randhir Singh is a (retired) professor of political theory at the University of Delhi.
LINKS Articles

• The Bolsheviks and the October Revolution
  (Issue 10, November 1997-February 1998)

B. Sivaraman

B. Sivaraman is a member of the Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India--Marxist-Leninist (Liberation) and editor of its journal Liberation.
LINKS Articles

• On Internationals and Internationalism
  (Issue 15, May-August 2000)

Jeremy Smith

Jeremy Smith is a member of the Democratic Socialist Perspective in the Australian Socialist Alliance and a lecturer in social sciences at the University of Ballarat.
LINKS Articles

• The rise and malaise of postmodernism
  (Issue 26, Jluy-December 2004)

Murray Smith

Murray Smith is a member of the Ligue Communiste Révolutionnaire in France, and on the International Committee of the Fourth International. Formerly a member of the Scottish Socialist Party [SSP], he is still actively involved with Frontline magazine.
LINKS Articles

• Some remarks on democracy and debate in the Bolshevik Party
  (Issue 26, July-December 2004)
• The May-June movement and its aftermath
  (Issue 25, January-June 2004)
• LCR holds decisive congress
  (Issue 25, January-June 2004)
• Success for second European Social Forum
  (Issue 25, January-June 2004)
• The broad party, the revolutionary party and the united front
  (Issue 23, January-April 2003)
• Where is the SWP going?
  (Issue 23, January-April 2003)
• Axes of Marxist internationalism
  (Issue 21, May-August 2002)
• Internationalism and international links
  (Issue 19, September-December 2001)
• Towards an international alliance of socialist parties
  (Issue 18, May-August 2001)

Cleto A. Sojo

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• Chávez ends WSF with call to transcend capitalism
  (Issue 27, January-April 2005)

Jonathon Strauss

Jonathan Strauss is a long-time member of the Democratic Socialist Perspective in the Socialist Alliance of Australia. He is currently a postgraduate student investigating developments in the working class and its consciousness during the Hawke-Keating Labor governments, which ended in 1996.
LINKS Articles

• The labour aristocracy and working-class politics
  (Issue 28, September-December 2005)
• Monopoly capitalism and the bribery of the labour aristocracy
  (Issue 26, July-December 2004)
• Engels and the theory of the labour aristocracy
  (Issue 25, January-June 2004)

Farooq Sulehria

Editorial board member Farooq Sulehria is a member of the Executive Committee of the Labour Party Pakistan.
LINKS Articles

• Islamic fundamentalism in Pakistan
  (Issue 18, May-August 2001)
• The right to self determination in Kashmir
  (Issue 13, September-December 1999)
• The left in Pakistan: A brief history
  (Issue 13, September-December 1999)

Sundaram

Sundaram is an independent journalist and film-maker.
LINKS Articles

• Another forum is possible?
  (Issue 24, September-December 2003)

Jomo K. Sundaram

Contributing editor Dr Jomo K. Sundaram lectures at the University of Malaya and has written widely on politics in the Third World.
LINKS Articles

• Is national capital progressive?
  (Issue 3, October-December 1994)

Peter Taaffe

Peter Taaffe is the national secretary of the Socialist Party in England and Wales, section of the Committee for a Worker's international.
LINKS Articles

• Blair Labour and the socialist struggle (interview)
  (Issue 9, November 1997-February 1998)

Carlos Tablada

Carlos Tablada is a researcher at the Centre for the study of the World Economy in Havana and the Tricontinental Centre in Louvain, Belgium. He is best known in the English-speaking world for his work Che Guevara: Economics and Politics in the Transition to Socialism.
LINKS Articles

• Cuba: new economic actors in a socialist society
  (Issue 9, November 1997-February 1998)

Michael Tardif

Michael Tardif, at the time of writing, was a National Committee member of the Democratic Socialist Party of Australia and a National Executive member of the socialist youth organisation Resistance.
LINKS Articles

• Campaign for democracy in Nepal
  (Issue 3, October-December 1994)

Farooq Tariq

Farooq Tariq is the general secretary of the Labour Party Pakistan.
LINKS Articles

• A recipe for suicide
  (Issue 20, January-April 2002)

Terry Townsend

Links managing editorTerry Townsend is a member of the National Committee of the Australian Democratic Socialist Perspective. He is a former editor of Green Left Weekly.
LINKS Articles

• The left and UN military intervention in East Timor
  (Issue 14, January-April 2000)

James Vassilopoulos

At the time of writing, James Vassilopoulos was a member of the National Committee of the Australian Democratic Socialist Perspective. He was in Genoa reporting on the protests for Green Left Weekly.
LINKS Articles

• 'We live to tread on kings': The significance of Genoa
  (Issue 20, January-April 2002)

Henry Veltmeyer

Henry Veltmeyer is a professor of sociology at St Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, and author of Poverty and Democracy in Chile.
LINKS Articles

• The economic 'recovery' of Latin America
  (Issue 4, January-March 1995)

Steve Vieux

Steve Vieux has a PhD on the foundations of the Chilean left.
LINKS Articles

• Pragmatism Unarmed: Jorge Castañada's social democratic recipe for the Latin
  American left
  (Issue 6, January-April 1996)
  (Co-authored with James Petras)

Eddie Webster

Eddie Webster is a professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Witwatersrand and a contributor to the South African Labour Bulletin.
LINKS Articles

• Left social democrats: Come out of the closet!
  (Issue 7, July-October 1996)

Winfried Wolf

Winfried Wolf is a writer living in Berlin who for many years was an activist in the Trotskyist Fourth International. He was an independent member of the German parliament on the Party of Democratic Socialism list from 1997 to 2002.
LINKS Articles

• Not a Europe of citizens: The EU on the road to military power
  (Issue 28, September-December 2005)

Coral Wynter

The author is a long-term member of the Democratic Socialist Perspective in Australia. She lived in Venezuela for two years from 1975 and recently spent three months working there in early 2004.
LINKS Articles

• The revolutionary process in Venezuela: an embryonic workers and peasants state
  (Issue 26, July-December 2004)

David Yaffe

David Yaffe is editor of Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism!, the newspaper of the Revolutionary Communist Group in Britain, and a writer on Marxist economics.
LINKS Articles

• Karl Marx: Before all else a revolutionary
  (Issue 16, September-December 2000)

Liu Yufan

Liu Yufan is a leader of the Hong Kong socialist group Pioneer.
LINKS Articles

• A preliminary report on China's capitalist restoration
  (Issue 21, May-August 2002)

Susan Zimmermann

Susan Zimmermann is a convenor of the Left Alternative in Hungary.
LINKS Articles

• 'Delinking' in East and West.
  (Issue 3, October-December 1994)

Langa Zita

At the time of writing, Langa Zita was the Information Officer for the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa
LINKS Articles

• Left Unity in South Africa
  (Issue 1, April-June 1994)