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What's new at Links: Scotland & UK Labour, Vavi on May Day, BDS gains,
Philippine left, Greece, Malaysia, Irish left, S. Africa & xenophobia,
Okinawa
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Why Scottish votes will be decisive in the outcome of the May 7 UK
general election <http://links.org.au/node/4409>
By *Alister Black*, Edinburgh
May 4, 2015 -- Britain's May 7 general election is set to be the closest
in living memory. In the polls, the two leading parties, Labour and the
Conservatives (Tories), are within points of each other. The polls have
not shifted despite the best efforts of Tory Prime Minister David
Cameron and Labour leader Ed Miliband to secure a breakthrough.
Why are the polls so close?
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4409>
'Don't moan, mobilise! Don't mourn, organise!' -- Zwelinzima Vavi's
May Day message <http://links.org.au/node/4403>
May Day 2015 speech by *Zwelinzima Vavi*, Durban
May 1, 2015 -- /Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal/ --
Today we march in concert with millions of workers all over the world to
celebrate International Workers’ Day. We stand with workers in Greece,
in Syria, in Bangladesh, in Argentina, in Zambia, in Canada and in every
other country of the world to pronounce our determination to step up the
struggle against exploitation and oppression. For while the global elite
get richer and richer, the working class continues to be condemned to
poverty.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4403>
South Africa: SRCs of five more universities join academic boycott
of Israel <http://links.org.au/node/4408>
May 4, 2015 -- We gather here today as the Student Representative
Council (SRC) presidents of five of South African universities, namely:
University of South Africa, Cape Peninsula University of Technology,
Durban University of Technology, Mangasutho University of Technology and
the University of the Western Cape. This day will go down in history as
we announce the resolutions adopted by our University Student
Representative Councils to join the academic and cultural boycott of Israel.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4408>
Philippines: Political crisis and the impasse of the Philippine left
<http://links.org.au/node/4407>
An important discussion is taking place in the Philippine left about its
intervention in the 2016 elections, the revival of the mass movement and
the coalition of a section of the progressive movement, the Akbayan
party, with the governing Liberal Party.
Several leaders of Akbayan have called for an end to this alliance,
including Walden Bello, who recently resigned as Akbayan's leader in
parliament, former chairperson of Akbayan Ric Reyes, who has now
resigned from the party after its congress in April voted to continue as
a coalition partner of the government, and SENTRO, the labour
organisation aligned with Akbayan.
The following paper is a contribution to the discussion.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4407>
Greece: Referendum on the cards if EU deal not reached
<http://links.org.au/node/4406>
By *Dick Nichols*
May 4, 2015 – /Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal/ -- On
April 27, in a three-hour appearance on private TV channel Star TV,
Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras spoke extensively about the
challenges confronting the government led by SYRIZA, the Coalition of
the Radical Left.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4406>
British election: Labour Party prefers Tory government than deal
with Scottish nationalists <http://links.org.au/node/4405>
May 2, 2015 -- With just days to go before a potentially historic
Westminster general election on May 7, a further rise in support for the
Scottish National Party (SNP) is already creating a crisis in British
politics which will likely have implications for Ireland. Most recent
polls indicate that the SNP will sweep almost all of the 59 Westminster
seats in Scotland, and is well placed to win the balance of power in
London. The development appears to have taken the British establishment
by surprise and thrown the opposition Labour Party into chaos.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4405>
Malaysia: Protest letters needed! May Day protesters arrested
<http://links.org.au/node/4404>
May 2, 2015 -- Malaysian police have arrested Socialist Party of
Malaysia (PSM) secretary-general S. Arutchelvan, formal president of
Malaysian Bar Council Ambiga Sreenevasan and member of parliament for
Seremban Anthony Loke at a May Day demonstration on May 1, 2015.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4404>
Ireland: Left discusses how to win a radical new republic
<http://links.org.au/node/4402>
May 1, 2015 -- /Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal/ --
Ireland's left, under the impact of the mass movement against water
charges that has thrown traditional politics into turmoil, is discussing
how it can organise to seriously challenge for power. On May 1, in
Dublin, five trade unions involved in the Right2Water (R2W) campaign are
hosting a conference to discuss a “Platform for Renewal” for the general
election due within the year. There will be guest speakers from SYRIZA,
Podemos and the European movement against water privatisation.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4402>
South Africa: Resisting xenophobia requires tackling its root causes
<http://links.org.au/node/4401>
By *Patrick Bond*
April 30, 2015 – Political symbols in South Africa are here today, gone
tomorrow, but oppressive political economy endures. At surface level, an
explosion of anti-racist activism among the most enlightened South
Africans – up-and-coming black scholars trying to break various ceilings
of residual apartheid power – is occurring at the same time as a
xenophobic implosion is wreaking havoc on the bottom socio-economic ranks.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4401>
40 years after Vietnam's liberation: Okinawa's forgotten war
<http://links.org.au/node/4400>
By *Jon Mitchell*
April 30, 2015 -- On April 30, 1975, North Vietnamese troops and their
supporters entered Saigon. Their arrival ended three decades of conflict
-- including 10 years of direct US- intervention -- which left as many
as 3 million dead and countless others suffering from the legacy of
PTSD, unexploded ordnance and Agent Orange. As the world remembers this
40th anniversary, all too often forgotten is the role of the Pentagon’s
most important launch pad for this failed war: Okinawa.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4400>
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experience of struggle, theoretical analysis and views of political
strategy and tactics within the international left. It is a forum for
open and constructive dialogue between active socialists coming from
different political traditions. It seeks to bring together those in the
international left who are opposed to neoliberal 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.
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