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What's new at Links: Venezuela coup attempt foiled; MaThoko's post box;
Ukraine; SYRIZA & Australia; Greece; Nikolai Bukharin
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Asia-Pacific socialists condemn latest US-backed coup attempt in
Venezuela <http://links.org.au/node/4297>
[If your organisation would like to sign this statement please email
int....@gmail.com <mailto:int....@gmail.com>.]
February 17, 2015 -- We, the undersigned organisations, strongly condemn
the recent coup attempt that sought to overthrow the democratically
elected government of Venezuela in order to reverse the achievements of
the socialist Bolivarian process.
The failed coup attempt was crafted around a plan that involved creating
an economic assault on the country, creating an international debate
around a supposed humanitarian crisis, a political coup involving
officials who would turn on the government, and finally a military coup
that would lead to the installation of the transitional program. The
coup plotters even planned to bomb Miraflores [presidential] Palace and
the TeleSUR offices in Caracas, as well as conducting assassinations of
both members of the opposition and the government, including President
Maduro, during the ensuing chaos once the coup unfolded.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4297>
Venezuela: US-backed coup plot thwarted <http://links.org.au/node/4294>
February 12, 2015 -- A coup plot against Venezuela's government has been
foiled, with both civilians and members of the military detained,
President Nicolas Maduro revealed on February 12 in a televised address.
Those involved were being paid in US dollars, and one of the suspects
had been granted a visa to enter the United States should the plot fail,
Maduro said.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4294>
Radical objects: MaThoko’s post box and the LGBT movement in South
Africa <http://links.org.au/node/4296>
By *John Marnell*
February 17, 2015 -- Sometime in the early 1980s, an unassuming house in
KwaThema, a township just outside of Johannesburg, became a safe haven
for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community. Like
the other houses in the township, it was small – only four rooms – and
simple, matchboxes made on the cheap by the apartheid state. It belonged
to Thokozile Khumalo, known affectionately as /MaThoko/, who for the
next decade opened her home and her heart to countless young people.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4296>
Ukraine: Kyiv, Russia sign shakey ceasefire
<http://links.org.au/node/4295>
By *Tony Iltis*
February 14, 2015 -- Leaders of Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France
emerged from negotiations in Minsk, Belarus on the morning of February
12, after 16 hours of talks, and announced that agreement had been
reached for a ceasefire in Ukraine's civil war.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4295>
Australia: SYRIZA’S victory and building a green-left alternative
<http://links.org.au/node/4293>
By *Susan Price*
February 14, 2015 -- What lessons can we learn from the recent victory
of SYRIZA for building the anti-austerity movement and a political
alternative to neoliberalism here in Australia? Australian Greens
senator Lee Rhiannon, in her recent article in /New Matilda/, writes
that the left in Australia should wake up and take notice of what is
happening in Europe. I couldn’t agree more.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4293>
Mike Treen: SYRIZA victory in Greece a blow to austerity
<http://links.org.au/node/4292>
By *Mike Treen*, director UNITE union (Aotearoa/New Zealand)
February 5, 2015 -- The longer the SYRIZA government can survive and
resist the better chance working people throughout Europe can act to
remove right wing austerity governments and mobilise their own power
through their unions and communities to create an alternative to the
Europe of capitalism, recession and despair.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4292>
Nikolai Bukharin: ‘The favourite of the whole party’
<http://links.org.au/node/4291>
By *Doug Enaa Greene*
February 13, 2015 – “Bukharin has thirty years of revolutionary work to
his credit."This was the final judgment of Leon Trotsky, Nikolai
Bukharin's erstwhile adversary in 1938, after his death. These words
were not without truth. He lived a life of deep revolutionary and
intellectual commitment. Bukharin was one of the leading theorists and
leaders of the Bolshevik Party, reaching the heights of power in the
USSR in the 1920s.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4291>
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the wake of the collapse of the bureaucratic model of "actually existing
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