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What's new at Links: SYRIZA win: dramatic changes, international
repercussions (Podemos, Sinn Fein, Greens); Socialists & WWI; Scotland
after referendum; Eleanor Marx; Kobane; NUMSA; Thailand
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Socialists and World War I: Turn the imperialist war into a civil
war <http://links.org.au/node/4278>
By *Doug Enaa Greene*
February 2, 2015 -- It has been a hundred years since the outbreak of
the First World War. The centennial of the “war to end all wars” has
seen countless commemorations of the millions of heroic soldiers who
made the supreme sacrifice for king and country.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4278>
Eyewitness Greece: SYRIZA announces dramatic changes, prepares for
debt battle with EU <http://links.org.au/node/4272>
By *Dick Nichols*, Athens
January 30, 2015 – It was the French Catholic daily /La Croix /that last
week best described the size of the challenges facing Greece’s incoming
SYRIZA government—they are “labours of Hercules”, a reference to the
mythical Greek hero whose 12 feats against impossible odds made him
immortal in the ancient world.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4272>
Kurdistan: Why Kobanî did not fall <http://links.org.au/node/4271>
By *Dilar Dirik*
January 27, 2015 -- One year ago, today, Kobanî declared itself as an
autonomous canton. Today, after 135 days of fearless resistance, the
people of Kobanî have liberated the city from the so-called Islamic
State (ISIS). Since September 2014, the YPG and YPJ (People's and
Women's Defence Units) have been leading – there are no other words to
describe it -- an epic and unbelievable resistance against the latest
wave of attacks by ISIS.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4271>
Scottish independence: when, not if -- how Westminster lost Scotland
<http://links.org.au/node/4279>
*/Disunited Kingdom: How Westminster Won a Referendum but Lost
Scotland/*
By Iain MacWhirter
Cargo Publishing, 2014,
174 pages
Review by *Alex Miller*
February 4, 2015 – The independence referendum on September 18, 2014,
has been hailed by many as the most important single event in the recent
history of Scotland.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4279>
Eleanor Marx and the dawn of socialist feminism
<http://links.org.au/node/4277>
/*Eleanor Marx: A Life*
/By Rachel Holmes
Bloomsbury 2014, £25
Review by *Alex Miller*
February 2, 2015 – This new and very well-written biography tells the
story of the life of Eleanor Marx (known to her family and friends as
“Tussy”). Tussy was the third and youngest daughter of Karl and Jenny Marx.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4277>
Spain needs its own SYRIZA <http://links.org.au/node/4275>
February 2, 2015 -- The victory of SYRIZA in the January 25, 2015,
general election in Greece has led to widespread discussions across the
Europe on the way forward for the left. In Spain, the rapid rise in the
polls of the Podemos party has excited many. The following is one
viewpoint on the meaning of the SYRIZA win for the Spansih left.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4275>
Ireland: Sinn Féin leader calls for discussions on building left
alternative; Anti-austerity campaign boosted
<http://links.org.au/node/4274>
By *John Hedges*
January 29, 2015 -- Sinn Féin national chairperson Declan Kearney calls
in the February issue of /An Phoblacht/ for formal discussions on
building an Irish left alternative in the wake of the success of SYRIZA
in Greece.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4274>
Interview: South African metalworkers' leader Irvin Jim at the
centre of a storm <http://links.org.au/node/4273>
January 28-30, 2015 -- In this three-part interview, *Irvin Jim*, leader
of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) -- the
largest trade union in South Africa with 340,000 members that is calling
for a return to the principles of the /Freedom Charter -- /describes his
early life and radicalisation and explains why his union withdrew its
support for the governing African National Congress (ANC).
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4273>
Scotland: A new world for Scottish politics after the referendum
<http://links.org.au/node/4270>
By *Alister Black*
January 25, 2015 – As Scots gathered together at Christmas and Hogmanay
last year conversations turned inevitably to politics. Most were agreed
that the year ahead would be a very interesting one. The impact of the
independence referendum vote on September 18, 2014, is still being felt
throughout Scottish society, and that impact is reverberating across the
UK state as well.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4270>
Greece: SYRIZA, the first Green government in Europe?
<http://links.org.au/node/4269>
January 28, 2015 -/- /SYRIZA’s colours are red and purple and green,
identifying it as socialist, feminist and environmentalist. The party
platform includes all the key demands of the Green Party (UK).
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4269>
Thailand: Yingluck’s impeachment -- a fraudulent 'legal' attack by
an illegal junta <http://links.org.au/node/4268>
By *Giles Ji Ungpakorn*
January 28, 2015 -- Let us be clear. The impeachment motion passed by
the puppet parliament on January 23 against former Thailand's Prime
Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, submitted to the military junta’s
appointed Assembly by the National Anti-Corruption Commission, over her
role in the rice price support scheme for farmers, is a total farce and
a red herring. It is a deliberate part of the anti-reforms designed to
destroy democracy. It has nothing to do with the rice scheme.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4268>
(Updated Jan. 28) Greece: Venezuela welcomes SYRIZA victory;
International left celebrates <http://links.org.au/node/4267>
January 28, 2015 -- Venezuela's government has congratulated Alexis
Tsipras, leader of the left-wing SYRIZA party, who won a huge victory in
Greece's parliamentary elections on January 25, 2015, reports TeleSur
English. Tsipras has been inaugurated as the country's prime minister. A
Venezuelan government statement said: “Venezuela warmly congratulates
the Syriza coalition party and Alexis Tsipras for their historic
victory, wishing them success and complete solidarity and support.”
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4267>
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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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