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Scottish Socialist Party: Free public trans****t for all: travel
doesn't have to cost the Earth <http://links.org.au/node/475>
The Scottish Socialist Party's campaign for free public trans****t is
an ``audacious, eye-catching idea'' according to Douglas Fraser,
political editor of /The Herald/ newspaper. In the Belgian city of
Hasselt, which covers an area double the size of Dundee, congestion
was eliminated in the late 1980s after the introduction of a totally
free public trans****t system. Free public trans****t would be the
biggest single pro-environment policy enacted by any national
government anywhere on the planet, dramatically sla****ng car use and
CO2 emissions. Free fares would represent a major ****ft of wealth in
favour of the many thousands of people who currently pay sky-high
fares to subsidise the trans****t companies.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/475>
NEW! Links Dossier #1: PSUV: Birth of a mass revolutionary party
<http://links.org.au/node/467>
The first in a series of occasional /Links Dossiers/, /Links
International Journal of Socialist Renewal/ is making available a
selection of its key articles on the exciting development of
Venezuela's United Socialist Party (PSUV). The dossier is in PDF
format, to allow easy downloading, printing and distribution.
To download /Links Dossier #1 -- PSUV: Birth of a mass revolutionary
party/, click HERE <http://static.links.org.au/dossiers/Dossier1.pdf>
Eyewitness re****t from Venezuela's May Day
<http://links.org.au/node/474>
June 13, 2008 -- /LatinRadical/ -- *Coral Wynter* is back after
coordinating the distinctive presence of the Australian Venezuela
Solidarity Network's ``May Day'' brigade to Venezuela that included,
appropriately, a large contingent of Australian trade unionists. The
previous Australian government of John Howard had the Australian
embassy in Venezuela closed down when a Wa****ngton-inspired coup
against President Hugo Chavez failed, but hopefully that will change,
if Australian Greens Senator Bob Brown (with the Australian /
brigadistas/) returns after his own visit with the news that President
Hugo Chavez is not a ``dictator'', but a popularly elected leader who
has increased his electoral popularity regularly at each electoral
contest.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/474>
South Africa: Water struggles from Johannesburg and beyond
<http://links.org.au/node/473>
By *Dale T. McKinley*
It's been five years since residents of the poor community of Phiri
(Soweto) were first confronted with the practical consequences of the
City of Johannesburg's cor****atisation and commodification (read:
privatisation) of water delivery. That was when Phiri was chosen as
the first community in the Johannesburg Metro to ``benefit'' from the
implementation of its Operation Gcin'amanzi. What subsequently
happened has now been well do***ented many times over: the
surreptitious and forcible installation of pre-paid water meters under
the pretext of fixing ageing infrastructure; the victimisation and
cutting-off of supply to those who refused; and, sustained resistance
pitting community residents -- organised through the Anti-
Privatisation Forum (APF) and the newly formed Coalition Against Water
Privatisation (CAWP) -- against an ``unholy alliance'' of Johannesburg
Water, the City of Johannesburg, state prosecutors, the South African
Police Services and private security firms.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/473>
Thousands join lawyers' `Long March' in Pakistan (+ video)
<http://links.org.au/node/472>
By* Farooq Tariq*
Thousands of lawyers, political, trade unions and social movement
activists have made their way to Islamabad. They are participating in
the Long March called by the lawyer's movement. This is to push the
Pakistan Peoples Party government to restore the top judges without
any conditions.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/472>
Canadian workers demand immediate end to war in Afghanistan (+
video) <http://links.org.au/node/471>
By *Michael Skinner*
On 29 May 2009, the delegates at the national convention of the
Canadian Labour Congress (CLC), representing more than 3 million
workers from every region of Canada and Quebec, voted overwhelmingly
to demand that the government of Canada immediately end its
participation in the illegal war in Afghanistan.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/471>
India: US imperialism's new cop on the South Asian beat
<http://links.org.au/node/470>
By *Kavita Krishnan*
June 11, 2008 -- The Indian ruling class is striving to forge what it
calls a ``strategic partner****p'' with the United States, and in this
aim the major ruling-class political parties are united. The previous
government -- a coalition termed the National Democratic Alliance
(NDA) headed by the Hindu majoritarian Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) --
which was in power from 1999-2004, had in the wake of 9/11 strived to
prove to the US rulers that India was a more stable and suitable ally
on the subcontinent for the US ``war on terror'' than Pakistan.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/470>
Che Guevara's final verdict on the Soviet economy
<http://links.org.au/node/469>
By *John Riddell*
June 8, 2008 -- One of the most im****tant developments in Cuban
Marxism in recent years has been increased attention to the writings
of Ernesto Che Guevara on the economics and politics of the transition
to socialism. A milestone in this process was the publication in 2006
by Ocean Press and Cuba's Centro de Estudios Che Guevara of /Apuntes
criticos a la econom=EDa pol=EDtica/ [/Critical Notes on Political
Economy/], a collection of Che's writings from the years 1962 to 1965,
many of them previously unpublished. The book includes a lengthy
excerpt from a letter to Fidel Castro, entitled ``Some Thoughts on the
Transition to Socialism''. In it, in extremely condensed comments, Che
presented his views on economic development in the Soviet Union.[1]
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/469>
Bolivia: When minorities deny the rights of the majorities
<http://links.org.au/node/468>
By *Miguel Lora Fuentes, */Bolpress/ (translation by *David Montoute*)
How true it is that nothing lasts forever. Bolivia's exploited
cl*****, of mainly indigenous origin, are now confronting more than
five centuries of exclusion. This territory's original inhabitants
were subjugated by the cross and the sword during the colonial period,
they were harassed and had their lands taken from them under the
Republic, and their culture was ignored during the bourgeois-
democratic revolution of 1952. Now, as they finally take state power
by democratic means at the beginning of the 21st century, the dominant
minority accuses them of wanting to install the ``first racist,
fascist state in Latin America''.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/468>
China: Socialist revolution and capitalist restoration
<http://links.org.au/node/466>
By* Chris Slee*
The Chinese revolution was one of the most im****tant events of the
twentieth century. The victory of the revolution in 1949 was a major
defeat for imperialism. The new Communist Party government carried out
democratic measures such as land reform, and improved the conditions
of workers and peasants through the spread of health care and
literacy. It began expropriating industry, and within a few years had
nationalised all capitalist enterprises. It proclaimed that the
revolution had entered the socialist stage.
But the new state was bureaucratically distorted from its inception.
The bureaucrats enjoyed substantial privileges. They repressed dissent
amongst workers, peasants, students and intellectuals. And they
engaged in violent power struggles amongst themselves, undermining the
gains of the revolution.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/466>
Nicaragua: What alternative do President Daniel Ortega's opponents
propose? <http://links.org.au/node/465>
By *Domingo Quilez*, introduction and translation by *Felipe Stuart
Cournoyer*
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/465>
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experience of struggle, theoretical analysis and views of political
strategy and tactics within the international left. It is a forum for
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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
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