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What's new at Links: Hiroshima, Chavismo, Poulantzas, Cecil the Lion,
Scottish Socialists, Malaysia, Puerto Rico, Kshama Sawant
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Atomic bombings of Japan were a crime against humanity
<http://links.org.au/node/4548>
By *Rupen Savoulian*
August 9, 2015 -- This month marks the 70th anniversary of the atomic
bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki <http://links.org.au/node/1186> by
the United States in August 1945.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4548>
Venezuela: Chavez gone, but Chavismo here to stay
<http://links.org.au/node/4546>
By *Federico Fuentes*
August 5, 2015 -- Had Hugo Chavez not passed away in 2013, the former
Venezuelan president and revolutionary socialist would have turned 61 on
July 28. However, though Chavez is gone, his indelible imprint on
Venezuela’s political landscape endures.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4546>
Nicos Poulantzas: State, class and the transition to socialism
<http://links.org.au/node/4543>
By *Doug Enaa Greene*
August 5, 2015 -- /Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal/ --
We live in an era where too much of the left, both in the USA and
abroad, remains stuck to old orthodoxies and failed strategies. Marxism
is reduced to holy writ and rote, devoid of any ability to either
interpret or change the world. In order to win, the left desperately
needs to break away from past habits and recover the ability to raise
questions anew by using Marxist methodology to formulate strategy. In
this endeavour, there are a number of thinkers we can profitably learn
from; one of whom is Nicos Poulantzas. Despite the limitations and
contradictions within Poulantzas' methods, he was not afraid to ask the
right questions and to develop new strategies.
To that end, it is worth looking at Poulantzas' work in three areas: the
state, class and the transition to socialism.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4543>
Zimbabwe: Media tears for Cecil the Lion; Itai Dzamara and missing
activists ignored <http://links.org.au/node/4551>
*Wonder Guchu*By
August 11, 2015 -- The world today knows more about the Zimbabwean lion
Cecil, killed by North American dentist Walter Palmer, than they do
about the Zimbabwean journalist and human rights activist Itai Dzamara,
who has been missing since March 9 this year.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4551>
Scottish Socialist Party to affiliate with new left alliance
<http://links.org.au/node/4547>
By the *Scottish Socialist Party*
August 8, 2015 -- The Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) National Council
members have voted in favour of the party becoming an affiliate of a new
electoral alliance for the Scottish elections next year. Party
co-spokesperson Sandra Webster highlighted the potential for socialism
to grow in this alliance.
/At our NC ... the comrades present voted to enter an alliance with
the soon to be renamed //Scottish Left Project. All of our comrades
should be proud of their passionate discussion and resolution. The
SSP look forward to being at the heart of the alliance hoping
socialists may be elected to Holyrood in 2016. I look forward to
continuing to build the SSP and building a movement that is truly
grassroots./
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4547>
Malaysia: Democracy movement calls Bersih 4 mass protest for August
29-30 <http://links.org.au/node/4544>
By *Peter Boyle*
August 6, 2015 -- /Links International Journal of Socialist
Renewal///Green Left Weekly/ -- The Malaysian democracy movement,
BERSIH, has called its fourth major mobilisation — named Bersih 4 — for
August 29-30, 2015, amid increasingly desperate and repressive attempts
by the Barisan Nasional (BN) government of PM Najib Razak to suppress
investigations of his alleged involvement in a multi-billion corruption
scandal embroiling the debt-ridden state investment fund 1Malaysia
Development Bhd (1MDB).
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4544>
Barry Sheppard: Screwed by vulture funds, Puerto Rico is the
Washington's 'Greece' <http://links.org.au/node/4542>
By *Barry Sheppard*
July 27, 2015 -- The world has been focused on the spectacle of the
“Troika” of the International Monetary Fund, European Union and the
European Central Bank crushing the Greek people, but it is far from the
only example of strong nations using a “debt crisis” to extract more
wealth from those that are weaker. A case in point is the US colony of
Puerto Rico. In a June 28 /New York Times/ interview, the governor of
the Caribbean archipelago nation declared its debt of US$73 billion “is
not payable. There is no other option. I would love to have an easier
option. This is not politics. This is math.”
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4542>
United States: Kshama Sawant wins 52% of vote in primary
<http://links.org.au/node/4541>
By *Tom Crean*, Seattle
August 5, 2015 -- A fired-up crowd of more than 200 supporters of
Socialist Alternative Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant gathered
in the Melrose Market Studios in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighbourhood to
hear the result of the non-partisan primary for the Seattle City Council
election.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4541>
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