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What's new at Links: Scottish socialists, Cuba & Ebola, Evo Morales'
win, Left Unity, Tamil debate, Canada, Louis-Auguste Blanqui, ‘Socialism
or barbarism’, Kurdistan ... more
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Spirited Scottish Socialist Party conference tackles post-referendum
challenges <http://links.org.au/node/4123>
By *Dick Nichols*
October 29, 2014 – /Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal/ --
Edinburgh’s Augustine United Church is a cold place when the wind is
howling, as it was when the Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) held its 2014
annual conference there on October 25.However, any feeling of chill
disappeared when the 200-plus SSP members present got down to tackling
the challenges of an inspiring new period in Scottish politics, marked
by unprecedented popular engagement in activism and debate over
Scotland’s future.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4123>
Cuba: Teaching the world about containing Ebola
<http://links.org.au/node/4118>
By *Conner Gorry*, Havana
October 24, 2014 -- West Africa needs what Cuba has: a well-trained,
coordinated healthcare system. Anything less and Ebola wins.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4118>
Evo Morales’ victory demonstrates how much Bolivia has changed
<http://links.org.au/node/4111>
By *Federico Fuentes*
October 20, 2014 -- The failure of opposition forces and critics to
recognise or accept that a political revolution that has taken place
explains why they are so far out of touch with the majority of Bolivian
society.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4111>
Britain: Left Unity leader Kate Hudson on creating a new party for
the left <http://links.org.au/node/4121>
October 27, 2014 -- Left Unity is a new political group in Britain
created out of a call last year by filmmaker Ken Loach for a new party
to the left of Labour, which has moved rightwards in recent years and
supports anti-worker austerity measures. The call was supported by
thousands of people and Left Unity held its founding conference in
November last year./Green Left Weekly/'s *Denis Rogatyuk* spoke with
Left Unity's national secretary *Kate Hudson*, a veteran campaigner who
is also general secretary of the /C/ampaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4121>
'Dialogue' or Tamil self-determination: a response to Michael Cooke
<http://links.org.au/node/4120>
By *Chris Slee*
October 27, 2014 -- Michael Cooke's article "Election Monitoring in
Lanka <http://links.org.au/node/4102>"[1] contains a lot of useful
information on the history and politics of Sri Lanka, including topics
ranging from the burning of the Jaffna library by Sri Lankan police in
1981 to the murder of journalists, the repression of trade unionists and
the instigation of anti-Muslim riots under the current government of
President Mahinda Rajapaksa. However the article has some serious flaws.
In particular, Cooke does not deal adequately with the national question
in Sri Lanka.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4120>
Canada: Rulers, media exploit random violence by troubled people to
justify 'war on terror' <http://links.org.au/node/4116>
By *Roger Annis*, Toronto
October 24, 2014 -- Today, the /Vancouver Sun/ has published a
description of the troubled man who killled a guard in Ottawa two days
ago and then entered Canada’s parliament building carrying his gun. He
was shot and killed by police. The /Sun/ reporters speak to people who
knew Michael Zehaf-Bibeau while he lived in Vancouver during recent
years and they describe an angry and troubled man grappling with mental
illness and drug addiction. He has lived in Vancouver, Calgary and
Montreal at various times in the past three years. He died at age 32.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4116>
The will to act: The life and thought of Louis-Auguste Blanqui
<http://links.org.au/node/4115>
By *Doug Enaa Greene*
October 24, 2014 – /Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal/ --
“I am accused of having said to thirty million French people,
proletarians like me, that they had the right to live”.[1] These words
are the opening remarks of then 27-year-old revolutionary, Louis-Auguste
Blanqui's defence speech when he was tried for treason by the French
state in 1832. Blanqui's words were nothing less than a declaration of
war upon the rule of the bourgeoisie on behalf of a mercilessly
exploited proletariat.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4115>
‘Socialism or barbarism’: An important socialist slogan traced to
its unexpected source <http://links.org.au/node/4114>
By *Ian Angus*
October 21, 2014 -- I think I have solved a small puzzle in socialist
history.///Climate & Capitalism/’s tagline, “Ecosocialism or barbarism:
There is no third way”, is based on the slogan, “Socialism or
Barbarism”, which Rosa Luxemburg raised to such great effect during
World War I and the subsequent German revolution, and which has been
adopted by many socialists since then.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4114>
Bolivia: Evo Morales re-elected, important challenges lie ahead
<http://links.org.au/node/4113>
By *Richard Fidler*
October 19, 2014 -- As expected, Evo Morales and his Movement Toward
Socialism (MAS) government won a resounding victory in Bolivia’s
national presidential and parliamentary election October 12.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4113>
Emerging Kurdistan: socialist or capitalist?
<http://links.org.au/node/4112>
By *Giran Ozcan*
October 2014 -- The last decade has seen many maps published by "think
tanks" and/or "intelligence organisations" in which the Middle East
gives birth to "new nations/states". The latest developments in the
Middle East have had Western specialists-strategists-analysts playing
with their pencils, rulers and compasses, doodling all over their maps
of the Middle East; once again hoping to carve up the region to best fit
the interests of their imperial masters.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4112>
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