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What's new at Links: Scotland referendum, Aotearoa/New Zealand, Brazil,
COSATU, NATO, US SWP & Zionism, Catalonia, US Labor Party
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Scotland: 45% vote Yes despite ruling class panic; Business as usual
is not an option; Labour for Independence statement
<http://links.org.au/node/4062>
By *Alister Black*, Glasgow
September 20, 2014 --- After two years of campaigning, Scotland's
independence referendum has ended. It saw victory for the No side, the
opponents of independence, with 55% compared to 45% who backed a Yes to
independence. The referendum saw an unprecedented level of political
engagement and debate throughout Scotland. This was reflected in the
huge and unprecedented turnout of 84.59%, reversing the trend of recent
decades of dwindling poll turnouts. Some rural areas even recorded 100%
turnout.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4062>
Aotearoa/New Zealand: Corporate parties, media gang-up to defeat
Internet MANA <http://links.org.au/node/4065>
By *John Minto*
September 22, 2014 -- It was always going to be a hard task for MANA
party leader Hone Harawira to hold onto his Te Tai Tokerau seat when
the political establishment united in a coalition to defeat him and the
chance for Internet MANA to bring more MPs into parliament.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4065>
'Democratise the land!': Brazil's Landless Rural Workers' Movement's
letter to presidential and state governor candidates
<http://links.org.au/node/4060>
By the *National Direction of the */*Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais
Sem Terra*/, São Paulo
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4060>
Brazil: Marina Silva's rise is a result of the left's failures
<http://links.org.au/node/4059>
By *Federico Fuentes*
September 16, 2014 -- A fortnight out from Brazil's October 5 national
election, the big news has been the significant surge in support for
Marina Silva, a former Workers' Party (PT) government minister and
environmental activist, with some polls predicting she could end up
winning the presidential race.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4059>
South Africa: Workers need to speak with 'one voice', but whose
voice? <http://links.org.au/node/4058>
By *Terry Bell*, Cape Town
September 14, 2014 -- The labour movement is coming under increasing
pressure as the global economic crisis continues to bite. On the South
African front the pressure is growing as the Congress of South African
Trade Unions (COSATU) labour federation fails to deal with the internal
divisions that threaten to tear the federation apart. Or at least
further fragment the country's largest union organisation.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4058>
NATO's new cold war redraws left, liberal views on imperialism and
war <http://links.org.au/node/4057>
By *Roger Annis*
September 18, 2014 -- Just under 25 years ago, the Cold War ended with a
capitalist triumph. The nationalised economies and political structures
of the Soviet Union and eastern Europe collapsed and a transition to a
harsh, anti-social capitalism began. In the years that followed, an
eastward expansion was undertaken by the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization (NATO), the military alliance of the imperialist countries
of Europe and North America. Many of the countries of eastern Europe
joined the alliance, in explicit defiance of agreements by NATO with
post-Soviet Russia not to expand in this way.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4057>
Decline and fall: The US SWP's final embrace of Zionism
<http://links.org.au/node/4056>
By *Art Young*
September 18, 2014 -- At its peak in the 1960s and early 1970s the
Socialist Workers Party (SWP) in the United States was the largest group
to the left of the Communist Party and a major pole of attraction for
radicalising youth. It was also the most dynamic and creative Marxist
organisation in the USA.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4056>
Catalonia and the Spanish state on collision course
<http://links.org.au/node/4061>
By *Dick Nichols*
September 17, 2014 -- This year's September 11 Catalan national day
(/Diada/) demonstration, in support of the Catalan parliament's planned
November 9 popular consultation on Catalan statehood, was the biggest
since the present cycle of mobilisations for the country's right to
national self-determination began four years ago.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4061>
United States: Marxists and the lost Labor Party of 1923
<http://links.org.au/node/4054>
By *Eric Blanc*
September 10, 2014 -- Discussions on how to break working people from
the hold of the Democratic Party have acquired a new immediacy as a
result of the recent electoral victories of independent working-class
candidates in Seattle, Washington, and Lorraine, Ohio, as well as the
campaign for Chicago union leader Karen Lewis to run as an independent
for mayor. Those interested in promoting independent politics today may
benefit from studying the rich experience of the labor party movement in
the United States of the early 1920s.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4054>
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