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What's new at Links: Vavi expelled from COSATU, WWI, Cuba health, Kurds,
Sinn Fein, Podemos gains, Paris COP21, Pilger wrong, SYRIZA, power in
Middle East
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South Africa: United Front condemns COSATU's expulsion of Zwelinzima
Vavi <http://links.org.au/node/4361>
March 31, 2015 -- As expected, yesterday the Central Executive Committee
(CEC) of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) decided to
expel Zwelinzima Vavi from his position as its general secretary. The
United Front (UF) regards this decision as the final nail in the
regrettable terminal decline of what was once a mighty, principled,
independent and militant federation of workers’ trade unions.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4361>
1915: When socialist women united against WWI
<http://links.org.au/node/4354>
By *John Riddell*
March 28, 2015 -- Eight months into World War I, socialist women united
across the battle lines in adopting the first international socialist
appeal to stop the war. Their statement, translated below, ended, “Down
with capitalism, which sacrifices untold millions to the wealth and
power of the propertied! Down with the war! Forward to socialism!”
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4354>
Cuba eradicates syphillis, HIV transmission to babies
<http://links.org.au/node/4360>
March 20, 2015 -- Experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) will
visit Cuba soon to review if the country can be certified to have
eliminated the transmission of HIV and syphilis from mother to child.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4360>
Kurdistan: Political and cultural revolution unfolds in Rojava
<http://links.org.au/node/4358>
By *Evangelos Aretaios*
March 15, 2015, 2015 -- News of the fight of the Syrian Kurds has
reached many in Europe and the US over the last year as TV channels
around the world have covered the resistance of the Kurds against
/Daesh/ (self-proclaimed “Islamic State”) in Kobane. The fighting was
indeed a great human endeavour, often portrayed in heroic, almost
mythological terms. Behind the men and women fighters of this heroic
resistance lies a large but still unknown political and cultural
revolution that is in full effervescence in Rojava, Syrian Kurdistan.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4358>
Ireland: Sinn Féin launches a 'People's Pact' for Westminster
election <http://links.org.au/node/4356>
March 30, 2015 -- Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams TD points out that
Sinn Féin's progressive politics is the only alternative to austerity.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4356>
Spain: Podemos leads left gains in Andalusia poll
<http://links.org.au/node/4355>
By *Dick Nichols*, Barcelona
March 25, 2015 --The March 22 regional elections in Andalusia, Spain’s
most populous and second-poorest region, opened this year's critical
election calendar.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4355>
Paris COP21: Seattle-style shutdowns or another climate cul de sac?
<http://links.org.au/node/4353>
By *Patrick Bond*, Tunis
March 29, 2015 -- Looming ahead in eight months’ time is another
"Conference of Polluters" (technically, the Conference of the Parties to
the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, COP). The
last 20 did zilch to save us from climate catastrophe. Judging by early
rough drafts of the Paris COP21 agreement recently leaked, another UN
fiasco seems inevitable.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4353>
Ireland: Sinn Féin fights welfare attacks in north, power sharing
threatened <http://links.org.au/node/4352>
March 19, 2015 /-/- On March 9, Sinn Féin announced it would oppose the
new welfare reform bill in the Northern Ireland Assembly, accusing its
government partner – the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) – of acting in
bad faith on protecting welfare recipients.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4352>
John Pilger wrong on former Yugoslavia <http://links.org.au/node/4351>
By *Chris Slee*
March 27, 2015 -- In his article, "New threats of war and fascism",[1],
John Pilger rightly denounces the history of US military intervention
around the world. But he gives a distorted account of the events leading
up to NATO's war against Serbia in 1999. He fails to recognise that the
previous actions of the Serbian government created the conditions which
made NATO's attack on Serbia possible.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4351>
Interview with SYRIZA leader: 'The aim is a truly united Europe'
<http://links.org.au/node/4350>
*Antonis Markopoulos* interviewed by *Chris Spannos*
March 21, 2015 /-- /Since the Greek political party SYRIZA, the
Coalition of the Radical Left, formed a government with the rightist
Independent Greeks party on January 25, 2015, it has faced many challenges.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4350>
Adam Hanieh: Power, wealth and inequality in the Arab world
<http://links.org.au/node/4348>
By *Adam Hanieh
*March 1, 2015 -- Over four years since mass uprisings ousted sclerotic
regimes in Tunisia and Egypt it can seem that the initial hopes
represented by these movements lie in tatters. Libya, Syria, Yemen and
Iraq remain mired in bloody armed conflicts that have led to the deaths
of hundreds of thousands and displaced millions more within and across
borders.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4348>
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policies. It aims to promote the renewal of the socialist movement in
the wake of the collapse of the bureaucratic model of "actually existing
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