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What's new at Links: Greek debt audit, PKK not terrorist, Malaysia,
NUMSA & Alliance, SYRIZA & Comintern, Brazil, Ukraine, Jodi Dean on
Naomi Klein, Swaziland, Kshama Sawant
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Greece: Radical Eric Toussaint to audit Greek debt
<http://links.org.au/node/4347>
By *Eric Toussaint*, translated by *Christine Pagnoulle* and *Vicki Briault*
March 21, 2015 -- The president of the Greek parliament, Zoe
Konstantopoulou, has set up a commission to audit the Greek debt and has
asked me to play an active part in it. I have accepted the role to
assume its scientific coordination.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4347>
Join the campaign to remove PKK from list of ‘terrorist’ groups
<http://links.org.au/node/4344>
By *Dave Holmes*
March 24, 2015 – /Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal/ --
The Melbourne-based Australians for Kurdistan committee has launched a
campaign calling for the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) to be removed
from the Australian government’s list of terrorist organisations.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4344>
Malaysia: Urgent appeal -- Release of ALL the anti-GST protesters
<http://links.org.au/node/4345>
By *Socialist Party of Malaysia/Parti Sosialis Malaysia* (PSM)
March 24, 2015 -- PSM, posted at /Links International Journal of
Socialist Renewal/ -- Police used excessive force in the recent
crackdown on protesters against the Goods and Services Tax (GST), which
is scheduled to be implemented on 1 April 2015. On March 23, 2015, the
Coalition Against GST, which is led by the Socialist Party of Malaysia
(PSM), the Oppressed People’s Network (JERIT) and a number of civil
society groups, staged a sit-in protest at the Customs Office in Kelana
Jaya, to demand answers to more than 100 questions raised by many
Malaysians regarding the GST. The director of the Customs Office refused
to answer these questions and the police reacted violently against the
peaceful sit-in.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4345>
South Africa: NUMSA and the troubled ANC-led Alliance
<http://links.org.au/node/4343>
March 20, 2015 -- The expulsion of the National Union of Metal Workers
of South Africa (NUMSA) from the Congress of South African Trade Unions
(COSATU) in November 2014 was a watershed moment in the post-apartheid
labour movement. The expulsion was a product of, and has deepened
further, the crisis in the Alliance between the African National
Congress (ANC), Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) and the
South African Communist Party (SACP), as well as the internal crises of
each of the three component parts of the Alliance.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4343>
SYRIZA win sparks interest in Comintern’s workers’ government
debate: some resources <http://links.org.au/node/4342>
By *John Riddell*
March 17, 2015 -- Efforts by working people to gain governmental power
in our new century, most recently in Greece, have drawn attention to the
Communist International’s historic discussion on this issue at its
Fourth World Congress in Moscow in 1922.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4342>
Brazil's right wing exploits scandal to promote coup calls
<http://links.org.au/node/4341>
March 14, 2015 -- Government supporters say the opposition is inventing
a crisis in order to undemocratically remove President Dilma Rousseff,
of the Workers Party of Brazil, from power. The political forces
organising marches on March 15, 2015, against the democratically elected
government of Dilma Rousseff began conspiring immediately after it
became known that she had won the run-off election in October 2014
against the candidate of the Brazilian elites, Aecio Neves.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4341>
Ukraine: IMF package foreshadows a permanent 'winter'
<http://links.org.au/node/4340>
By *Michael Roberts*
March 17, 2015 -- The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has announced a
new bailout package for Ukraine. It will disburse up to $17.5 billion
over the next three years, subject to all the usual conditions for
fiscal austerity and neoliberal reforms conducted by the Ukraine
government.The bailout package is a joke. As a former IMF economist
Robert Kahn, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, put
it, /“/The odds of this program surviving intact for four years, or even
through the end of 2015, are not much higher than for the original 2014
program."
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4340>
This changes some things: Jodi Dean on Naomi Klein's 'This Changes
Everything' <http://links.org.au/node/4339>
By *Jodi Dean*
March 17, 2015 -- How do we imagine the climate changing? Some scenarios
involve techno-fixes like cloud-seeding or new kinds of carbon sinks.
Cool tech, usually backed by even cooler entrepreneurs, saves the day --
Iron Man plus Al Gore plus Steve Jobs. In green.
Other scenarios are apocalyptic: blizzards, floods, tsunamis and
droughts; crashing planes; millions of migrants moving from south to
north only to be shot at armed borders. The poor fight and starve; the
rich enclave themselves in shining domed cities as they document the
extinction of charismatic species and convince themselves they aren't next.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4339>
Defend Swaziland unions! Free Mario Masuku!
<http://links.org.au/node/4338>
By *Patrick Craven*
March 17, 2015 -- The Congress of South African Trade Unions strongly
condemns recent violent attacks by Swaziland police on trade union
meetings and sends a message of solidarity and support to the Swazi
workers struggling for democracy and the right to organise in free and
independent trade unions.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4338>
United States: Pro-Democratic Party 'left' targets Kshama Sawant
<http://links.org.au/node/4337>
By *Ben Norton *
March 17, 2015 -- The Urban League is going after the only leftist and
the only woman of colour on the Seattle City Council. Rather than
challenging the pro-corporate advocates of neoliberalism, whether
Democrat or Republican, who increasingly dominate US politics, this
well-known liberal organisation is expending its energy on defeating the
left.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4337>
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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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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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