May 10, 2000 Dear comrade, The May-August issue of Links magazine, international journal of socialist renewal, is now available. The theme is "Internationalism in the new century", and it contains the following articles: * International left collaboration and socialist renewal - by John Percy * Marxism 2000 Conference reaffirms Marxism in the 21st century - by Margaret Allum * The viability of Marxism - by Maria Luisa Fern�ndez * On internationalism and internationals - by B. Sivaraman * Militant: What went wrong? - by Phil Hearse * Women's liberation and the fight for socialism - by Lisa Macdonald * Estrada's decline and the Philippines' left - by Sonny Melencio * For a materialist analysis of national and racial oppression - By Norm Dixon * International Workers' Movement News - Sao Paulo Forum; Cuban conferences; East Timor; Coming international conferences; South Korea; Philippines We invite you to subscribe to Links. 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It seeks to bring together those in the international left who are opposed to neo-liberal 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. LINKS is published three times a year. Editorial Board Australia: Max Lane; Doug Lorimer; Dick Nichols; John Percy; Canada: Pierre Beaudet; Indonesia: Budiman Sujatmiko; Dita Sari; Marlin; Germany: Andr� Brie; New Zealand: Matt McCarten; Pakistan: Farooq Sulehria; Farooq Tariq; Philippines: Ronald Garcia; Sonny Melencio; Reihana Mohideen; Francisco Nemenzo; South Africa: Jeremy Cronin; Langa Zita; Sri Lanka: Sunil Ratnapriya; United States of America: Carl Bloice; Malik Miah; Joanna Misnik. Contributing editors Alejandro Benda�a (Nicaragua); Juan Antonio Blanco (Cuba); Pat Brewer (Australia); Hector de la Cueva (Mexico); Rina Gagliardi (Italy); Jos� M. 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Post Links, PO Box 515, Broadway NSW 2007, AUSTRALIA Tel + 61 2 9690 1230 Fax + 61 2 9690 1381 Email <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> AUSTRALIA Individuals: 2 years (6 issues) $33; 1 year (3 issues) $20 Institutions: $46, $28 INTERNATIONAL (all subs sent airmail) Region 2 yrs (6 issues) 1 yr (3 issues) Asia & Pacific $A50 $A30 Africa, Americas, Mid-East & Europe $A60 $A35 _______________ CONTENTS OF LINKS BACK ISSUES 1-14 14 (January-April 2000) Theme: East Timor: The left and military intervention * The left and UN military intervention in East Timor - Terry Townsend * The Timorese Socialist Party - Max Lane * Debate on the national question - Malik Miah * Origins of women's oppression - Pat Brewer * The Mexican left - Phil Hearse* Scottish independence and the struggle for socialism - Alan McCombes * Hungarian post-Marxists - Laszlo Andor * Socialism or barbarism? - Boris Kagarlitsky 13 (September-December 1999) Theme: Socialism and Nationalism * Marx, Engels and Lenin on the national question - Norm Dixon * Irish nationalism and the peace process - interview with Bernadette McAliskey * The right to self-determination in Kashmir - Farooq Sulehria * National oppression and the collapse of Yugoslavia - Michael Karadjis * Palestine and Israel after the elections - Adam Hanieh * Program of the Revolutionary Workers Party of the Philippines * The uninterrupted revolution in the Philippines - Reihana Mohideen * The left in Pakistan: a brief history - Farooq Sulheria * Marxism or Bauerite nationalism? - Doug Lorimer * Trotsky's Theory of Permanent Revolution: A Leninist Critique By Doug Lorimer - review by John Nebauer * International Workers Movement News - Marxism 2000 Conference; ATTAC; Dita Sari; Pakistan; Revolutionaries in European Parliament; Scottish Socialist Party 12 (May-August 1999) Theme: Capitalist crisis, neo-liberal myths * Causes of the international economic crisis - Allen Myers * "Creative" destruction and malignant neglect: reversing progress - James Petras * Global falsehoods: How the World Bank and the UNDP distort the figures on poverty - Michel Chussodovsky * Fusion creates Philippines Socialist Party of Labour - Joint statement and political platform * Russia: the new periphery - Boris Kagarlitsky * The failure of Russia's "democrats" - Renfrey Clarke * Socialists in the Australian women's movement - Margaret Allen * Theses on the class nature of the People's Republic of China - Democratic Socialist Party * International Workers Movement News - Indonesia; CADTM; France 11 (January-April 1999) Theme: Which road to socialism? * Columbia: the FARC speaks out - interview with Olga Lucia Marin and Marco Leon Calarca * The Asia-Pacific Solidarity Conference - Max Lane and John Percy * Debates in the Spanish United Left - interview with Manuel Monereo Perez and Jaime Pastor * China: is capitalist restoration inevitable? - Eva Cheng * Dependency and control: The Palestinian and Israeli economies - interview with Salah Abdel Shafi * Indonesia: the unfinished struggle: A short history of the radical movement - Edwin Gozal; Concessions or reforms? - Muhammad Ma'ruf; PRD response to Arief Budiman's letter; Interview with editor of Pembebasan * Resolution on Tactics - Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) * The tottering Fifth Republic? France's emerging political crisis - interview with Pierre Rousset * The Tenth National Congress of the SACP - Dale T McKinley * Our Marxism (SACP) * International Workers Movement News - Pakistan; Germany; Indonesia; ASA; Espaces Marx; APCET; NELF; New Zealand; Japan 10 (March-July 1998) Theme: The Communist Manifesto and the Asian economic crisis * The relevance of the Communist Manifesto today - John Percy * Behind the Asian economic crisis - Chow Wei Cheng * The Bolsheviks and the October revolution - Randhir Singh * What political economy for socialism? - interview with Makoto Itoh * GATT and the World Trade Organisation Alan Freeman * Capitalism and the environment - Allen Myers * Land occupations in Brazil - James Petras * Socialism at the beginning of the twenty-first century - Andre Brie * Behind the jailing of the Herri Batasuna leadership - Sabin del Bado * Carl Brecker debates Dale McKinley on the transition in South Africa * The NICs: Jomo Sundaraman replies to Chow Wei Cheng 9 (November 1997-February 1998) Theme: Organising the Indonesian mass struggle * Indonesia: organising the mass struggle for real democracy - interview with Marlin * A Marxist critique of post-Marxists - James Petras * Economic nationalism and the Indian left - Dipankar Bhattacharya * Why Russia needs another revolution - Renfrey Clarke * Cuba: new economic actors in a socialist society - Carlos Tablada * Blair Labour and the socialist struggle - interview with Peter Taaffe * Portuguese Communist Party's theses on the international situation * Irwin Silber debates Phil Hearse on "Socialism: What Went Wrong?" 8 (July-October 1997) Theme: Class-struggle in South-East Asia * Twenty-six years of struggles: lessons and prospects for the Philippines left - Sonny Melencio * Lessons of the East Asian NICs - Chow Wei Cheng * An immigration policy based on human rights - David Bacon * The debate in Communist Refoundation * The new capitalist globalisation (Part 2: Defeats in the South and the East) - Samir Amin * The left and the macro-economic battle in South Africa - Dale T McKinley * Anti-Leninism: an apology for capitalism. Irwin Silber's 'Socialism: What went wrong?' - review by Phil Hearse * International Workers Movement News - Asia Pacific Solidarity Conference; APCET; Marxjour List; Cuba; Debate; Indonesia; OSPAAL; Zapatistas; FI Youth Camp 7 (July-September 1996) Theme: Globalisation and socialist strategy * The rise of right-wing feminism - Pat Brewer * The new capitalist globalisation (Part 1: Problems and perspectives) - Samir Amin * The poverty of nations: Relative surplus value, technical change and accumulation in the modern global market - Alan Freeman * The process of globalisation: the role of the state and multinational corporations - James Petras * France, December 1995: "Preferring disorder over injustice" - Raghu Krishnan * Left social democrats: come out of the closet! - Eddie Webster * Social democracy and neo-liberalism in South Africa. A reply to Eddie Webster - Oupa Lehulere * Revolutionary unity and strategy in the Dominican Republic - Stephen Marks * International Workers Movement News - Indonesia; Cuba; Zapatistas; USA; Sri Lanka; Turkey; Philippines; Euromarches; East Timor Solidarity Conference 6 (January-April 1996) Theme: What alternative for Latin America? * The 1995 Sao Paolo Forum - Stephen Marks * El Salvador: Democracy is the axis - interview with Gerson Martinez * Latin America's recent elections. The PT balance sheet - Marco Aurelio Garcia * Pragmatism unarmed: the Castaneda case - James Petras and Steve Vieuz * Mexico City in Moscow - Renfrey Clarke * Escaping the labyrinth. The democratic model - Boris Kagarlitsky * The three dimensions of neo-imperialism - Michel Husson * Socialism is the future, build it now! - The SACP's strategic perspectives * International Workers Movement News - Marx International Congress; Germany; FI World Congress 5 (August-October 1995) * Development, democracy and socialism in Cuba - interview with Dario Machado * Palestine: crisis in the national movement - Dan Connell * Queer theory and the politics of post-identity - Robert Andrew Nowlan * Affirmative action and the fight for equality: lessons from the USA - Malik Miah * The character of the SACP - Blade Nzimande * The meaning of Sandinismo: a contribution to the FSLN discussion - Alejandro Bendana * The Indian communist movement: some recent experiences - interview with Vinod Mishra * Russia's CP and the radical left - Boris Kagarlitsky *Documents of the German PDS * The first five years of the PDS - Lothar Bisky * Structural adjustment in Hungary: the politics of 20 years of debt - Laszlo Andor * Britain's "New Labour" - Phil Hearse * International Workers Movement News - South Africa; USA; WFDY; Sao Paulo Forum 4 (January-March 1995) * The economic 'recovery' of Latin America. The myth and the reality - James Petras and Henry Veltmeyer * Challenging the neo-liberal agenda in South Africa - Jeremy Cronin * Letter to South Africa - Boris Kagarlitsky * Lessons from the East Asian NICs Jomo K Sundaram * Capitalism in Eastern Europe - Laszlo Andor * The Eastern European change of regimes - Tamas Krausz * The left and the politics of nationalism - Vickramabahu Karunarathne * Reflections for the third millennium - Juan Antonio Blanco * Cuba: the Jurassic Park of socialism? - Juan Antonio Blanco * The Indonesian progressive movement - Max Lane * Post-election debate in the Brazilian PT * International Workers Movement News - Cuba Solidarity; OSPAAL; South Africa; East Timor; Nicaragua 3 (October-December 1994) * The relevance of Marxism since the collapse of the Soviet bloc - Barry Sheppard * Is national capital progressive? - Jomo K Sundaram * Population, environment and women's rights - Marina Carman * Political stabilisation in Russia - Kiva Maidanik * Class, democracy and socialism in South Africa - Dale T McKinley * Budapest conference: What course for the new left? - Renfrey Clarke * Delinking in East & West - Susan Zimmerman * Leninism vs Maoism. The semifeudalism debate in the Philippines - Sonny Melencio * Social democracy: Some lessons of the Australian experience * Nicaragua: reforms or concessions? Stephen marks * US left regroupment. Committees of Correspondence founding convention - Sushawn Robb * Campaign for democracy in Nepal - Michael Tardif * Power and Money, By Ernest Mandel - review by Chow Wei Cheng * International Workers Movement News - Spain; Cuba; USA; New Zealand; Denmark; Germany 2 (July-September 1994) * South Africa's transition. A mass-driven transformation - Jeremy Cronin * Winning democracy in Indonesia - Max Lane * Resurgence of the Filipino left - interview with Francisco Nemenzo * The New World Order. Neither new, global nor orderly - Alejandro Bendana * Russia: from crisis to catastrophe - Boris Kagarlitsky * Elections in Eastern Europe - Tamas Krausz * The New Zealand Alliance - Keith Locke * Important advances at FSLN conference - Stephen Marks * Women, the State and Revolution: Soviet Family Policy and Social Life, 1917-1936 by Wendy Z Goldman - review by Reihana Mohideen * The Latin American Left - From the Fall of Allende to Perestroika - review by Neville Spencer * International Workers Movement News - APCET; International Green Left Conference; Russian Labor Review; Brazil; El Salvador 1 (April-June 1994) * The Latin American left in the '90s - interview with Daniel Ortega * Russia's trade union movement - Boris Kagarlitsky and Renfrey Clarke * Leninism vs Stalinism: debate in the Philippines - Sonny Melencio * The split in the Philippines Communist Party - Max Lane * Framework for a left dialogue in the USA - Manning Marable * Accord politics and the left in Australia - Pat Brewer and Peter Boyle * Brazilian PT's election principles * Left unity in South Africa - Langa Zita * The African Communist - review by Jeremy Cronin * Nature, Society, Thought; Communist parties discuss collapse of Soviet Union - review by Pip Hinman * International Workers Movement News - USA; South Africa; New Zealand; APCET; New European Left Assembly ________________________ -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton/index.html Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
