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Why Barack Obama=92s nomination for the US presidency is historic
<http://links.org.au/node/464>
By Malik Miah
``America, this is our moment=92=92, stated Barack Obama on June 3 after
winning enough delegates to become the presumed presidential nominee
for the Democratic Party. Obama becomes the first African American in
the history of the country to be nominated by one of the ruling
parties. It happened on the evening of June 3 as the final two
primaries occurred in Montana and South Dakota, where he and his main
opponent New York Senator Hillary Clinton won one state each.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/464>
Cuba's vice-president: `We can confront the food crisis'
<http://links.org.au/node/460>
Address by Jos=E9 Ram=F3n Machado Ventura, vice-president of Cuba=92s
Councils of State and Ministers, to the high-level conference on World
Food Security: The Challenges of Climate Change and Bioenergy.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/460>
Venezuela: 2.5 million take part in PSUV pre-selection; Candidates
announced <http://links.org.au/node/455>
June 2, 2008 -- Fred Fuentes iand Kiraz Janicke in Caracas re****t on
im****tant struggles being played out within Venezuela's governing PSUV
(United Socialist Party of Venezuela).
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/455>
Nigerian socialist: A tribute to Fidel Castro
<http://links.org.au/node/463>
Kola Ibrahim of the Democratic Socialist Movement of Nigeria looks at
the legacy of Fidel Castro, the internationalisation of struggle and
calls for ``working-class activists from Kenya to Venezuela to Georgia
to Pakistan and the rest of the world'' to build a genuine working
people's political platform.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/463>
Via Campesina farmers to heads of state: Time to change food
policies! <http://links.org.au/node/462>
Via Campesina
Rome, June 3, 2008 -- Now that the FAO expects that hunger will affect
an extra 100 million people by the end of the year, heads of states
and leaders from around the world are gathering in Rome for the FAO
"High-Level Conference on World Food Security: the Challenges of
Climate Change and Bioenergy".
The international peasant=92s movement Via Campesina welcomes this
sudden high level interest in food and agriculture production, but
reminds governments and international institutions that the current
climate and food crisis are not the result of any sudden natural
disaster. They are the fruit of decades of policies of trade
``liberalisation'' and of the vertical integration of production,
processing and distribution by cor****ate agriculture.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/462>
Malaysia: PSM -- a decade of struggle <http://links.org.au/node/
461>
****t Dickson, Malaysia, June 1, 2008 -- The Socialist Party of
Malaysia (PSM -- Parti Sosialis Malaysia) successfully concluded its
10th congress at a time when the ruling Barisan Nasional Party faces
its biggest threat to its survival in Malaysian politics and while
capitalism faces its biggest challenge -- the world food crisis. It is
an exciting time and it is time for change.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/461>
Argentina: The clash over rent <http://links.org.au/node/453>
Following the March 11 decision by the Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner
government to introduce a sliding tax increase =96 varying from 35% to
45% =96 on soya ex****ts, Argentina has been rocked by a wave of protests
by agricultural producers. For 21 days, the =93countryside=94 =96
including
the four organisations that unite large, middle and small agricultural
producers =96 organised a rural lockout, blocking the circulation of
agricultural produce to the cities.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/453>
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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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