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South Africa: At the end of the wage
By Dale T. McKinley and Ahmed Veriava, Johannesburg
“I'm
collecting a register for the indigent people and I had 37,000
applications from Emfuleni only. Each and every day I come across
children who are left in their homes -- the parents are deceased --
they are hungry. When I knock at the door, I say how you are surviving
and they say we have been hungry for three days, we haven't got food.
You wouldn't think it's a reality in an urban area like this but it is
a reality. People are unemployed, a lot of people are unemployed.”
-- Priscilla Ramagale-Ramakau, government social worker in Sebokeng
July
5, 2009 -- It wasn't always this way for Sebokeng, one of the older
urban ``townships'' in South Africa, a place synonymous with the early
settlement and subsequent massive growth of the black industrial
working class.
Mass people's resistance in Honduras -- In their own words
July 10, 2009 -- Most of the coverage of the military coup in Honduras from bourgeois and liberal circles, and from many Western foreign ministers, has focused on what various governments are doing to influence or force an outcome to this struggle.Statements from Honduras' President Manuel Zelaya, his foreign minister Patricia Rodas, and from leaders of other ALBA countries (especially Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega, Ecuador's Rafael Correa and Bolivia's Evo Morales) have emphasised the role of the mass movement in Honduras. So have the most astute analysts of the rapidly moving events unleashed by the coup.
Photo essay: Honduras, July 5: 100,000 gather to greet `Mel', army shoots and kills protesters
Photos and text by James Rodríguez
`Proud to stand with Palestine' -- The Flame and Green Left Weekly respond to anti-Arab attack by Murdoch press
By Soubhi Iskander, Stuart Munckton and Emma Murphy
July 4, 2009 --
Grapel is a researcher with the Australian/Israel and Jewish Affairs
Council.
Grapel alleges that the Flame, “unbeknown to its English
readers”, also “supports terrorist groups and promotes violence”, and
through the Flame, GLW is “openly promoting extremism”.
Class struggle and ecology: An ecosocialist approach
By Socialist Resistance (Britain)
…we
with flesh, blood and brain, belong to nature, and exist in its midst,
and… all our mastery of it consists in the fact that we have the
advantage of all other creatures of being able to learn its laws and
apply them correctly
— Friedrich Engels.
Ecology as crucial as imperialism
For
socialists in the 20th century imperialism was the great dividing line
between those who accepted the logic of capitalist society and those
who were willing to challenge it. In the first decades of the 21st
century it is apparent that imperialism and war will remain inherent
features of late capitalism. To these threats we must add the genuine
and serious risks of severe ecological degradation and climate change
caused by the capitalist economic model as factors that will shape
socialist politics in the coming decades.
Indonesia: Left debates how to challenge the neoliberal regime
July 4, 2009 -- By Dominggus Oktavianus, Ulfa Ilyas and Rudi Hartono, translated by Data BrainantaMore than 2500 people from the Volunteers of People’s Struggle for the Liberation of Motherland (SPARTAN) held a festive anti-neoliberalism protest in front of the National Election Commission on July 1 in Jakarta. The multi-sector coalition, initiated by the People’s Democratic Party (PRD) to intervene in the 2009 election, held similar protests involving more than 1200 people in Makassar on the island of Sulawesi. Hundreds rallied in Surabaya, Medan, Lampung, and protests occurred in 11 other cities.
Hondurans pour into the streets to demand Zelaya's return -- `We are more determined than ever to overthrow this terrible coup'
Tegucigalpa, July 5, 2009 -- The day started out full of joy, as thousands of Hondurans converged in front of the National Institute of Pedagogy, intent on marching about three miles to the airport to greet the plane that was supposed to bring deposed President Zelaya back to Honduras.
"Our president's coming home today, this is going to be a great day", said Jose Rodriguez, a campesino who came from Santa Barbara with his farmer's group to join the anti-coup movement. The military tried to stop them from getting to the capital, so they had to divide up and take local buses from town to town. "It took us two days to get here, and we slept outside in the forest last night, but we had to be here", said Rodriguez.
Photo essay: Honduras, July 4 -- `Mel, Amigo, El Pueblo Está Contigo' (`Mel, our friend, the people are with you!')
Links seeks to promote the international exchange of information, experience of struggle, theoretical analysis and views of political strategy and tactics within the international left. It is a forum for open and constructive dialogue between active socialists coming from different political traditions. It seeks to bring together those in the international left who are opposed to neoliberal economic and social policies. It aims to promote the renewal of the socialist movement in the wake of the collapse of the bureaucratic model of "actually existing socialism" in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.
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