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What's new at Links: NUMSA explled from COSATU, Podemos, Syria, Lift PKK
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South Africa: NUMSA's expulsion from COSATU is 'an attack on the
poor and an attack on workers' <http://links.org.au/node/4141>
Statement by the *National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa*
November 9, 2014 -- What we have warned the South African workers and
broader public about has come to pass. The National Union of
Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) with its 350/,/000 members was
expelled as an affiliate by the Congress of South African Trade Unions
(COSATU) in the early hours of Saturday morning (after 1 am), November
8, 2014, at a Special Central Executive Committee meeting (SCEC). This
expulsion took place through a vote which was 33 for our expulsion and
24 against.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4141>
Spain: Podemos on road to sweeping away two-party system
<http://links.org.au/node/4137>
By *Julian Coppens, *Extremadura, western Spain**
November 7, 2014 -- About 8000 members of the new organisation Podemos
packed the Palacio Vistalegre in Madrid on October 18 and 19, 2014, for
the final stages of the Citizens' Assembly "Si se puede" (Yes we can).
The assembly, with 150,000 taking part online, discussed draft documents
for the foundation of the Spanish state's newest and fastest growing
political force.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4137>
South Africa: The political significance of NUMSA's expulsion from
COSATU <http://links.org.au/node/4142>
By *Dale McKinley*, Johannesburg
November 10, 2014 -- It is arguably the most important political
development of South Africa's post-1994 era. In the early hours of
November 8, South Africa's largest union, the National Union of
Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA), was expelled by the majority of
the leadership belonging to South Africa's largest union federation, the
Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU). The political
significance of NUMSA's expulsion derives from three key, inter-related
areas of impact.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4142>
Syria: As Nusra plays at ISIS-lite, the US excels as Assad's
airforce <http://links.org.au/node/4140>
By *Michael Karadjis*
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4140>
South Africa: 'We will continue to mobilise the working class for
socialism', NUMSA's defiant response to COSATU
<http://links.org.au/node/4139>
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4139>
Germany: Lift the ban on the PKK! <http://links.org.au/node/4138>
By *Florian Wilde*, Die Linke member
November 3, 2014 -- The West has suddenly begun supporting various
Kurdish organisations in its fight against the Islamic State. So why is
the largest Kurdish organisation of all, the Kurdistan Workers Party
(PKK), still outlawed? This article discusses current developments in
Kurdistan and gives a brief overview of the history of the Kurdish
liberation movement and the PKK's illegal status in Germany. It argues
for a radical left strategy focused on defeating the ban on the PKK.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4138>
Burkina Faso's revolution: 'Blaise dégage! Sankara vit!' (Get out
Blaise! Sankara lives!) <http://links.org.au/node/4136>
By *Amber Murray*
November 3, 2014 -- An incredible political transformation has
been taking shape in the /"/Land of the Upright or Incorruptible
People", Burkina Faso. Twenty-seven years after the assassination of
revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara, Burkinabés turned out in their
hundreds of thousands, for several days of protest, chanting "/trop
c'est trop/" (enough is enough), echoing in the process a long history
of trade union activism against political repression in the country, as
well as protests staged through the Balai Citoyen collective. After four
days of the popular anger, President Blaise Compaoré vacated his post.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4136>
South Africa: 'Labour movement is at a crossroads', nine COSATU
affiliates declare <http://links.org.au/node/4135>
November 5, 2014 //
By the *nine COSATU affiliates*
After the 11th COSATU Congress in 2012, the Federation was gripped by a
paralysing ideological, political, administrative and organisational
crisis. We have analysed this crisis, and at our first joint press
conference, stated the following, as the basis of our common approach:
1. To explicitly clarify what the progressive forces inside COSATU are
campaigning for and what they are seeking to achieve.
2. To provide a clear set of demands to serve as the basis for
mobilising a majority of workers in COSATU for a decisive break with
class collusion and for trade union independence.
3. To regenerate a vibrant worker controlled organisational culture in
COSATU with a leadership that is committed to the highest democratic and
accountable processes.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4135>
European economic stagnation: diagnoses and treatments
<http://links.org.au/node/4134>
By *Dick Nichols*
November 4, 2014 -- For 48 hours it looked as if Thursday, October 16,
2014 might join similar October Thursdays in 1907, 1929 and 1979 as
another dramatic moment when share market panic triggered economic downturn.
However, it was not to be. The three trillion dollar slump in world
share market values in the first two-and-half-weeks of October has so
far been partially reversed by a coordinated effort of "calm
engineering" by central bankers. But how long can that treatment---whose
message to the gambling fund managers is that interest rates will stay
low---succeed?
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4134>
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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
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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