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Venezuela: Sidor nationalisation marks =91new revolution within
revolution=92 <http://www.links.org.au/node/363>
By Stalin Perez Borges
Introduction by Green Left Weekly:
April 19, 2008 -- Denouncing the =93coloniser attitude=94 and =93barbarous
exploitation=94 of workers by the management of the Sidor steel company,
Venezuelan Vice President Ramon Carrizalez announced at 1.30am on
April 9 that President Hugo Chavez had decided to nationalise the
company. =93This is a government that protects workers and will never
take the side of a transnational company=94, said Carrizalez.
The decision of the Chavez government to nationalise Sidor has begun
the process of returning to state hands one of the most im****tant
steel factories of Latin America, located in the heartland of
Venezuela=92s industrial belt in Guayana.
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Zimbabwe: Only mass mobilisation can defeat the Mugabe dictator****p
<http://www.links.org.au/node/352>
By the International Socialist Organization (Zimbabwe)
April 11, 2008 -- The March 29, 2008, elections have brought into
sharp relief the escalating crisis in Zimbabwe. [At the time of
writing] the government=96appointed Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC)
has not announced the results of the presidential election, which the
main opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change led by
former trade union leader Morgan Tsvangirai -- MDC(T) [a marginal
faction of the MDC led by Arthur Mutambara, also stood] claims to have
won by a margin of more than 50%. The results for the parliamentary
election show that the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-
Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF), led by Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe,
has lost its majority to the opposition for the first time since
independence.
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Tibet and the `Olympic tradition' <http://www.links.org.au/node/
361>
Below are two articles discussing the protests against the Olympic
torch relay by sup****ters of Tibet's right to national self-
determination. The first appeared in Green Left Weekly. The second is
by Pierre Rousset, a member of the French Revolutionary Communist
League (LCR) and editor of the Europe Solidaire Sans Fronti=E8res (ESSF)
website. It was translated for Links -- International Journal of
Socialist Renewal -- by Katie Cherrington.
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Climate change solutions: what role for the market?
<http://www.links.org.au/node/360>
Patrick Bond,University of KwaZulu-Natal; editor of Climate Change,
Carbon Trading and Civil Society
John Kaye, Greens NSW MLC
Stuart Rosewarne, co-editor Journal of Australian Political Economy
and Capitalism, Nature, Socialism
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Malaysia: Newly launched People's Alliance claims it is ready to
topple government <http://www.links.org.au/node/359>
S. Arutchelvan interviewed by Peter Boyle
April 18, 2008 -- There have been dramatic developments in Malaysia
since the ruling National Front (Barisan Nasional =96 BN) government had
its majority in parliament reduced sharply in general elections on
March 8. Opposition parties, which won five out of 13 state
governments, formed a new People=92s Alliance (Pakatan Rakyat) on April
1. Police disrupted a large opposition rally on April 14 to mark the
end of the government=92s five year ban on opposition leader Anwar
Ibrahim participating in politics. Anwar claimed at the rally he now
has enough defections from government MPs to form a federal government
but will not make the move until he increases his majority. At this
stage, the People's Alliance comprises the Justice Party (Parti
Keadilan =96 PKR), the Islamic Party (PAS) and the Democratic Action
Party (DAP).
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Cuba: The challenge of fossil fuels and climate change
<http://www.links.org.au/node/357>
Roberto Perez, Cuban biologist and permaculturalist, Antonio N=FA=F1ez
Jimenez Foundation for Nature and Humanity, a Cuban NGO. Feature talk
at the Climate Change Social Change Conference, Sydney, April 12,
2008.
* Read more <http://www.links.org.au/node/357>
Audio: John Bellamy Foster on `Ecology, capitalism and socialism'
<http://www.links.org.au/node/356>
John Bellamy Foster's feature talk, recorded at the Climate Change
Social Change Conference on April 12, 2008. Foster is editor of
Monthly Review and author of Marx's Ecology: Materialism and Nature.
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Venezuela: Unionists debate call for new federation; Chavez sacks
labour minister <http://www.links.org.au/node/351>
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John Pilger on South Africa: Honouring the 'unbreakable promise'
<http://www.links.org.au/node/348>
March 28, 2008 -- Fourteen years after South Africa's first democratic
elections and the fall of racial apartheid, John Pilger describes, in
an address at Rhodes University, the dream and reality of the new
South Africa and the responsibility of its new elite.
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