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Bolivia: Unprecedented alliance defeats right-wing assault (now with audio)
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Engels: Introduction to Karl Marx’s Wage Labor and Capital -1891
By Friedrich Engels
Nepal: Prachanda in New York -- A Maoist vision for a new Nepal
‘A Maoist Vision for a New Nepal' – MP3 recordings of a talk by Nepal's Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dah
Peter Camejo interviewed in 1976
Peter Camejo is heard here speaking in 1976 on the NBC network when he stood for the US Socialist Workers Party as its presidential candidate.
Source: Jon Flanders.
Federico Fuentes on latest developments in Bolivia
August 27, 2008 – Federico Fuentes, Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal's and Green Left
Venezuela: Prospects and challenges facing the PSUV
August 2, 2008 – Federico Fuentes, Links and Green Left Weekly commentator based in Venezuela, is back in Caracas after a quick speaking tour of Australia.
The coming economic & environment meltdowns ... and the possibilities for fighting back
July 15, 2008 --The
planet is facing a meltdown -- from the global financial system to the
unprecedented environmental crisis. Almost everyone from stockbrokers
to scientists to economists agree the situation is dire.
Yet Wall Street banks are given hundred-million-dollar bailouts, while millions face home foreclosures. In the Third world it's worse -- crops are used to provide fuel for thirsty rich-world SUVs, while 100 million more people face starvation due to the growing food crisis. The disregard for the hardship of the majority has seen food riots and strikes hit over 30 countries.
Dennis Brutus, veteran anti-apartheid campaigner, describes how US, British and other major multinational corporations colluded with the racist regime of apartheid South Africa. Brutus is attempting to win reparations for superprofits made through the exploitation and repression of black South African workers. For further background to this, go to ``Can reparations for apartheid profits be won in US courts?''.
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
SOUTH AFRICAN POET DENNIS BRUTUS ON STEAL THIS RADIO!
Michael Lebowitz: The spectre of socialism for the 21st century
The following is the keynote address to the annual meeting of the Society for Socialist Studies, Vancouver, June 5, 2008. It was originally titled “Building socialism for the 21st century''.