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How should leftwingers in Scotland vote in the UK general election?
<http://links.org.au/node/4376>
April 14, 2015 -- /Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal/ --
The following articles were published in the April issue #86 of the
/Scottish Left Review//, /as part of a round-up of the various positions
being proposed by sections of the Scottish left to advance a left agenda
during and after the British general election to be held on May 7, 2015.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4376>
Ian Birchall on John Riddell's 'To the masses': Essential resource
on communism's early years <http://links.org.au/node/4371>
*/To The Masses: Proceedings of the Third Congress of the Communist
International, 1921/*
edited and translated by John Riddell
Brill, Leiden & Boston, 2015
1299 pages, €399.00
April 12, 2015 -- /Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal/ --
The following review by British socialist historian *Ian Birchall*
introduces a major addition to our knowledge of the revolutionary
movement of Lenin's time: *John Riddell*'s /To the Masses: Proceedings
of the Third Congress of the Communist International, 1921/. Birchall's
review is scheduled for publication in /Revolutionary History/, a
journal with 43 published volumes.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4371>
Kurdish liberation movement committed to ‘democratic socialism for
the 21st century’ <http://links.org.au/node/4369>
*Meral Cicek*interviewed by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation
<http://www.rosalux.de/english/foundation.html>’s
<http://www.rosalux.de/english/foundation.html>*Florian Wilde*during the
World Social Forum in Tunis, translated by
<http://www.rosalux.de/english/foundation.html>*Leandros Fischer*
April 9, 2015 – /Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal/
<http://links.org.au/node/4369> -- *Meral Cicek* (above) is from Cologne
and is the chair of Kürt Kadın İlişkiler Merkezi, the Kurdish Centre for
Women´s Affairs in Erbil.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4369>
Raúl Castro: 'Cuba will continue to defend the ideas for which our
people have sacrificed' <http://links.org.au/node/4379>
By *Raúl Castro Ruz*, president of Cuba
April 14, 2015 -- It was high time I spoke here on behalf of Cuba. I was
told at first that I could make an eight-minute speech; although I made
a great effort, along with my foreign minister, to reduce it to eight
minutes, and as I’m owed six summits from which we were excluded, six
times eight, 48 (laughter and applause), I asked President Juan Carlos
Varela [of Panama] a few moments before entering this magnificent hall,
to allow me a few minutes more, especially after we have been hearing so
many interesting speeches, and I am not only referring to that of
President Obama, but also that of Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa,
President Dilma Rousseff and others.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4379>
Kobayashi Takiji: Class struggle and proletarian literature in Japan
<http://links.org.au/node/4378>
/*The Crab Cannery Ship: and Other Novels of Struggle*/
By Kobayashi Takiji
Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2013, 328 pages
By *Doug Enaa Greene
*April 15, 2015 – /Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal/ --
In 2008, one of the best-selling novels in Japan was an 80-year-old
novel, /Kanikosen/ (/Crab Cannery Ship/) by the communist author
Kobayashi Takiji, detailing the wretched working conditions on a fishing
ship and the crew's strike and determination to overthrow their
oppressors. The novel, previously selling a moderate 5000 copies per
year, shot up to sales of 500,000, along with the release of four manga
versions reaching many more readers.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4378>
Indonesia: People's Democratic Party holds first open congress
<http://links.org.au/node/4377>
By *Alex Bainbridge*, Jakarta
April 13, 2015 -- The left-wing People's Democratic Party (PRD) held its
eighth congress in Jakarta from March 24-26, 2015. This was the first
time its congress was held openly. The open congress marks an important
new stage of development for the party, which has a history of
underground organising dating back to the era of the Suharto
dictatorship that was overthrown in 1998.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4377>
Socialist Resistance on the rise of the Green parties in England,
Wales and Scotland <http://links.org.au/node/4375>
By *Terry Conway*
April 8, 2015 -- Membership and support for the Green parties across
Britain – the Green Party of England and Wales (GPEW) and the Scottish
Green Party (SGP) – has surged dramatically.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4375>
Malaysia: Najib has 'jettisoned the liberalisation project',
socialist MP Jeyakumar Devaraj says <http://links.org.au/node/4374>
By *Peter Boyle*
April 8, 2015 -- In the early hours of the morning on April 7, the
Malaysian parliament reintroduced powers of indefinite detention without
trial in the form of a new /Prevention of Terrorism Act/ (POTA). Such
powers, previously under the /Internal Security Act/ and Emergency
Ordinance — which were repealed in 2012 under popular pressure — have a
notorious history of being used by British colonial and, after
independence, Malaysian authorities to detain political dissidents.
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Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network broadsheet: 'Venezuela is not
a threat' <http://links.org.au/node/4373>
April 2015 -- Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network, posted at /Links
International Journal of Socialisr Renewal/ with permission
[The following letter was written by Venezuela's President Nicolas
Maduro and was originally published on March 17.]
By *Nicolas Maduro*, president of Venezuela
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4373>
United States: Small victory for independent working-class politics
in Chicago <http://links.org.au/node/4372>
By *Samantha Winslow*
April 9, 2015 -- Chicago teachers now have one of their own on the city
council. Susan Sadlowski Garza, school counselor and Chicago Teachers
Union executive board member, declared victory this week over incumbent
John Pope. Absentee ballots are still being counted, but signs indicate
she will squeeze past by less than 100 votes.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4372>
Netherlands: Socialist Party now 'biggest left party' after
provincial elections <http://links.org.au/node/4370>
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4370>
Venezuela: 'No more coups! No more interventions! Repeal the
Executive Order, Mr. President!' <http://links.org.au/node/4368>
April 9, 2015 -- The following letter, signed by 30 academics, municipal
councillors, trade union officials, journalists, solidarity organisation
convenors and political party leaders from around Australia, was
initiated by the Venezuela Solidarity Campaign in Melbourne.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4368>
France: Jean-Luc Mélenchon's assessment of March 22 and 29
departmental elections <http://links.org.au/node/4367>
April 7, 2015 -- Front de Gauche (Left Front) leader *Jean-Luc
Mélenchon*'s assessment of the March 22 and 29, 2015, departmental
elections in France.
Namibia 25 years on: What happened to our dreams?
<http://links.org.au/node/4366>
By *Henning Melber*
[April 9, 2015 -- The following article appeared in the /Namibian/
newspaper’s//March 21, 2015/, /25th independence anniversary supplement.
Henning Melber joined the South-West African Peoples Organisation
(SWAPO) in 1974. It is posted at /Links International Journal of
Socialist Renewal/with Melber’s permission.]
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4366>
Bolivia: Voters reaffirm ‘process of change’ but warn governing MAS
<http://links.org.au/node/4365>
By *Richard Fidler*
April 6, 2015 - Up to 90% of the electorate voted in Bolivia’s
“subnational” elections March 29 for governors, mayors and departmental
assembly and municipal council members throughout the country. These
were the second such elections to be held since the new constitution
came into force in 2009, the first being in 2010.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4365>
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