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Marx's call to liberation 160 years and still going strong
<http://www.links.org.au/node/323>
By *Barry Healy*//
Not many young authors can publish a work before they reach thirty
years of age and have it remain in publication continuously for the
following 160 years. Yet that is precisely the case with the /
Communist Manifesto/, which was born in the middle of a Europe-wide
revolutionary upsurge in February 1848. Moreover, the /Manifesto /
still rings through the years to today's world with its promise of
human liberty and fulfilment.
* Read more <http://www.links.org.au/node/323>
Tension in Tibet: Political dialogue only key to lasting solution
<http://www.links.org.au/node/321>
By *Kavita Krishnan*
In the wake of the anniversary of the 1959 Tibet movement (March 10)
and ahead of the Beijing Olympics, Tibet has once again emerged as a
hot spot of ethnic tension. There are re****ts of violence against and
killing of protesting Tibetan monks by Chinese forces; and also of
ethnic targeting of Han Chinese and Hui Muslims by Tibetan protesters.
Chinese authorities have straightaway blamed the Dalai Lama for
provoking the violent protests. The [Chinese] Army has been deployed
after more than a week of escalating tension. While there is little
``independent'' information to judge the actual nature and scale of
the turbulence within Tibet and attempts by the Chinese state to
suppress it, solidarity protests are being witnessed in many centres
across the world and Tibetan refugees based in India are particularly
vocal against the recent turn of events in Tibet.
* Read more <http://www.links.org.au/node/321>
M=FCller Rojas: United Socialist Party of Venezuela is a `political
necessity' <http://www.links.org.au/node/320>
*Alberto M=FCller Rojas*, first vice president of the of the United
Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), speaks to *Kiraz Janicke* of /
Venezuelanalysis.com/ <http://www.venezuelanalysis.com>
and to
*Federico Fuentes* of /Links - International Journal of Socialist
Renewal/ <http://www.links.org.au>
about the significance of the
formation of the PSUV for the Bolivarian Revolution -- debates within
the new party, what its relation****p with the government should be and
the immediate tasks of the PSUV in the struggle for the socialist
transformation of Venezuela
* Read more <http://www.links.org.au/node/320>
For the right to self-determination of the Tibetan people
<http://www.links.org.au/node/327>
By *Pierre Rousset *
March 24, 2008 -- The Chinese army has Tibet and its provinces under
tight control. The repression of the ``rioters'' who have descended
into the streets these last two weeks has been severe. Solidarity and
the effective recognition of the right of the Tibetan people to self-
determination is urgent.
Some on the left (rare in France, but more numerous elsewhere) refuse
to commit to solidarity for fear of playing the game of the United
States against China. Others, on the right, call for demonstrations
against 59 years of Chinese occupation -- it was in 1950-1951 that the
Peoples Liberation Army entered the country -- and denounce a
``communist'' dictator****p. These two positions ``mirror'' one
another, attaching little im****tance to history: the ``Tibetan
question'' arises in very different contexts according to different
periods.
* Read more <http://www.links.org.au/node/327>
Stop the bloodshed -- freedom for Tibet!
<http://www.links.org.au/node/326>
By *Tony Iltis*
March 28, 2008 -- A demonstration by Buddhist monks in the Tibetan
capital, Lhasa, on March 10 to commemorate the anniversary of China's
cru****ng of the Tibetan independence movement in 1959 triggered
protests for self-determination that, by March 14, had escalated into
anti-Chinese riots in which 19 people were killed.
Over 100 Tibetans are re****ted to have been killed, and hundreds more
arrested, by Chinese occupation forces.
This eruption of mass anger -- that spread to cities throughout the
Tibetan Autonomous Region and the neighbouring provinces of Gansu,
Qinghai and Sichuan, historically part of Tibet and with large ethnic
Tibetan communities -- was a response not only to the 58-year-old
Chinese military occupation of Tibet, but to the dispossession and
marginalisation of Tibetans by an influx of both global capital and
Han Chinese transmigrants.
* Read more <http://www.links.org.au/node/326>
Nepal: The constituent assembly election and the revolutionary left
<http://www.links.org.au/node/324>
By *Mahesh Maskey* and *Mary Deschene*
As the elections to the constituent assembly draw near (April 10), the
question in Nepal seems not to be whether there will be a democratic
republic, but rather what kind of democratic republic it will be.
``Bourgeois democrats'' would want to preserve the country's
capitalistic character, while the ``revolutionary left'' will make
every effort to give it a transitional character to bring socialism on
to the nation's agenda. ``The reformist left'' will vacillate between
the two courses but predominantly forge alliances with the ``bourgeois
democrats''.
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Imperialism's long-term opposition to Kosova's independence
<http://www.links.org.au/node/322>
By *Michael Karadjis*
The previous article <http://www.links.org.au/node/296>
of this series
showed that the basis for Kosova's right to self-determination is
real, and that there has been a genuine, mass-based striving for it
all century. Yet some on the left have argued that Kosova's recent
declaration of independence is merely an initiative of the imperialist
powers, which allegedly have had a long-term aim to create an
``independent'' Kosovar state under their control.
* Read more <http://www.links.org.au/node/322>
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