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Nepal: On the eve of the republic -- Interview with CPN (Maoist)
leader Prachanda <http://links.org.au/node/448>
An exclusive interview with CPN (Maoist) leader Prachanda by MRZine
(reposted by Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal <http://
links.org.au> with permission). By Mary Des Chene and Stephen Mikesell
It is 14th Jeth, 2065, [Tuesday May 27, 2008] in Nepal, the day before
the constituent assembly is to convene and declare Nepal a full
republic. The king remains in his palace. The form of the new
government, who will lead it, whether the old parliamentary parties
will join in a Maoist-led government or, as they have indicated so
far, will boycott and try to isolate it -- these and other basic
questions remain to be resolved. The following is an early morning
interview with CPN (Maoist) leader Prachanda, before he embarked on a
last intensive round of negotiations to try to bring the parliamentary
parties into a coalition government under Maoist leader****p.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/448>
Fidel on Obama: The empire's hypocritical politics
<http://links.org.au/node/447>
By Fidel Castro Ruz
May 25, 2008 -- It would be dishonest of me to remain silent after
hearing the speech Barack Obama delivered on the afternoon of May 23,
2008, at the Cuban American National Foundation, created by Ronald
Reagan. I listened to his speech, as I did [John] McCain's and Bush's.
I feel no resentment towards Obama, for he is not responsible for the
crimes perpetrated against Cuba and humanity. Were I to defend him, I
would do his adversaries an enormous favour. I have therefore no
reservations about criticising him and about expressing my points of
view on his words frankly.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/447>
Yugoslavia, Wa****ngton and the `Balkanisation' of Bolivia
<http://links.org.au/node/445>
By Michael Karadjis
I feel forced to write to correct some confusion that has been
circulating regarding the current US ambassador to Bolivia, Philip
Goldberg, who has been sup****ting the so-called ``autonomy''
referendum by the Bolivian oligarchy. A continuous line has come out
that Goldberg ``has experience in partition'' because he allegedly
participated in the dismemberment of Yugoslavia. This tends to be a
secondary point alongside a more general point that erroneously
compares actual oppressed nations, such as the Kosovar Albanians, the
poorest people in Europe, who have striven for independence for over a
century, with the rich oligarchy of low-lands Bolivia, engaged in an
imperialist-backed destabilisation of the Bolivian revolution.
Along with Kosova, some also list Tibet and other examples of so-
called ``secessionism'' as being related to the Bolivian oligarchy's
campaign. One feels compelled to add Palestine, Eritrea, Bangladesh,
East Timor, Aceh, Tamil Ealam and other national liberation struggles
by oppressed peoples just to make it consistent.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/445>
Venezuela: Struggle in the PSUV -- `If the people don't stand firm,
the right will screw it up!' <http://links.org.au/node/443>
By Stuart Munckton
May 27, 2008 -- The two Venezuelanalysis.com articles below, by Kiraz
Janicke (a member of the Green Left Weekly Caracas bureau and
Venezuelanalysis.com journalist), give a feel for the increasingly
intense struggle that is taking place within the Chavista camp.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/443>
The Soviet Union: a no-party state? <http://links.org.au/node/439>
Review by Alex Miller
The Soviet Century
By Moshe Lewin
Verso 2005
416 pages
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/439>
* Also in Spanish at http://links.org.au/node/444
Xenophobia tears apart South Africa's working class
<http://links.org.au/node/438>
By Thandokuhle Manzi and Patrick Bond
May 26, 2008 -- The low-income black town****p here in Durban which
suffered more than any other during apartheid, Cato Manor, was the
scene of a test performed on a Mozambican last Wednesday morning (May
21). At 6:45am, in the warmth of a rising subtropical winter sun, two
unemployed men strolling on Belair Road approached the middle-aged
immigrant. They accosted him and demanded, in the local indigenous
language isiZulu, that he say the word meaning ``elbow'' (this they
referred to with their hand). The man answered ``idolo'', which
unfortunately means ``knee''. The correct answer is ``indololwane''.
His punishment: being beaten up severely, and then told to ``go
home''.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/438>
Egypt: Workers impose a new agenda <http://links.org.au/node/437>
By Asma Agbarieh-Zahalka
This was my first encounter with Cairo. Love at first sight.
I wasn't there as a tourist. What brought me to Egypt with my
colleague, Samia Nassar, was the wave of strikes which, since December
2006, has been shaking the regime of Hosni Mubarak. In 2007 there were
580 strikes, demonstrations and protests, involving between 300,000
and 500,000 workers. The number for 2008 is likely to be more than
twice that, reflecting enormous hikes in food prices.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/437>
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