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International Solidarity Forum resolution: Statement of Solidarity
http://solidarityforum2007.org/?q=node/32
We came and met together from many different countries.
We came because we are some of those who have to struggle.
We have to fight the capitalists. We have to fight and win.
To fight we need to meet, and talk about our problems.
The ways we get defeated, the ways in which we are winning.
We have to talk together about our common struggle:
The issues that unite us, and where we don’t agree.
We need to make a plan that is a clear way forward.
The world is really ours. But capitalists have stolen it.
Bolivia: Sign-on statement to oppose attempt to divide Bolivia
The conspiracy to divide Bolivia must be denounced
The process of changes in favor of
the Bolivian majority is at risk of being brutally restrained. The rise
to power of an Indigenous president with unprecedented support in that
country and his programs of popular benefits and recovery of the
natural resources have had to face the conspiracies of the oligarchy
and United States interference from the very beginning.
In recent days the increase in conspiracy has reached its climax. The subversive and unconstitutional actions of the oligarchic groups to try to divide the Bolivian nation reflect the racist and elitist minds of these sectors and constitute a very dangerous precedent not only for the country’s integrity, but for other countries in our region.
History shows with ample eloquence, the terrible consequences that the divisionary and separatist processes supported and induced by foreign interests have had for humanity.
Working People of All Countries, Unite!
Crisis and revolution in today’s world. Analysis and perspectives
October 30th to November 1st, 2008
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Facultad de Filosofìa y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires.
“The end of History” can be considered as one of most flawed predictions ever heard. Instead of accepting passively the painful consequences of capitalism, the world’s proletarians respond in different ways. Latin-American insurrections, Iraqi resistance and strikes in Europe show that class struggle remains at center stage in world politics. Fukuyama’s mistaken characterization exemplifies the inability of bourgeois science to analyse and understand reality.
São Paulo Forum meeting: Montevideo, Uruguay, May 22-25, 2008
Dear friends,
Please find attached the program of the XIV
Meeting of the Foro de São Paulo, which will take
place in Montevideo, Uruguay, in May 22-25 2008.
The central subject of this Meeting will be "The
Left in Latin America and the Caribbean in this
new time - The wealth of diversity".
Programación
XIV Encuentro del Foro de Sao Paulo
Montevideo, 22 al 25 de mayo de 2008
Müller Rojas: United Socialist Party of Venezuela is a `political necessity'
Alberto Müller Rojas, first vice president of the of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), speaks to Kiraz Janicke of Venezuelanalysis.com and to Federico Fuentes of Links - International Journal of Socialist Renewal about the significance of the formation of the PSUV for the Bolivarian Revolution -- debates within the new party, what its relationship with the government should be and the immediate tasks of the PSUV in the struggle for the socialist transformation of Venezuela
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Venezuela: Revolution, party and a new international
By Luis Bilbao, translated exclusively for Links by Federico Fuentes
Venezuela has entered a decisive phase of its revolutionary process, which has advanced rapidly, and without pause, since 1999. The failed attempt to reform the constitution in the December 2, 2007, referendum opened up a conjuncture of sharp contradictions in the short and medium term and modified the institutional framework in which this period will develop; but it does not modify the content of the confrontation underway. The forces of the revolution will be unleashed, along with those of the counterrevolution.
Book review: Cuban Communist makes case for international revolution
By John Riddell
Latin America at the Crossroads. By Roberto Regalado. Translation by Peter Gellert. Ocean Press (www.oceanbooks.com.au), 2007, US$17.95; America latina entre siglos. Ocean Press, 2007, US$17.95.
This compact book by Roberto Regalado, a veteran member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, strongly reaffirms the need for revolution in Latin America and beyond.
Regalado, a section chief in the Cuban CP's Department of International Relations, is anything but dogmatic. He is attentive to recent new trends in Latin American economics and politics, and respectful toward the diverse currents of socialist opinion. He stresses the importance of the new features of Latin American social struggles: the role of peasants, the landless, indigenous peoples, women, environmentalists and others.
But his careful and unpretentious analysis leads toward a striking conclusion: only a revolutionary seizure of political power by the masses can open the road to social progress south of the Rio Bravo and even within the imperialist countries.
Advent of neoliberalism
In just 232 pages Regalado provides a handbook of Marxist politics, outlining Marxism's basic anti-capitalist premise and examining closely the evolution of revolutionary and reformist schools of thought through the 20th century.
Hugo Blanco: A triumphant advance in Ecuador - popular forces sweep constituent assembly elections
Venezuela: Building popular power through Communal Councils
Living in Caracas, Venezuela, for a year during 2006, the most striking impression one gained is of a tumultuous mass movement, in which the social energies of the people have been released in an outpouring of revolutionary enthusiasm and creativity. One was constantly reminded of Vladimir Lenin’s description of revolution as a “festival of the oppressed”.
A Marxist critique of post-Marxists
Introduction
“Post-Marxism” has become a fashionable intellectual posture, with the triumph of neo-liberalism and the retreat of the working class.
Interview with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)