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SOCIALIST VOICE Marxist Perspectives for the 21st Century http://www.socialistvoice.ca January 18, 2010 RADICAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE CATASTROPHE IN HAITI http://www.socialistvoice.ca/?p=947 Socialist Voice will publish reports and analysis on ongoing tragedy in Haiti as information becomes available. The following is a first list of recommended readings on Haiti’s past and present …. WE ARE PROUD OF CUBA’S DOCTORS IN HAITI By Fidel Castro http://www.socialistvoice.ca/?p=943 Two days ago, at almost six o’clock in the evening Cuban time and when, given its geographical location, night had already fallen in Haiti, television stations began to broadcast the news that a violent earthquake – measuring 7.3 on the Richter scale – had severely struck Port-au-Prince. VANCOUVER WINTER OLYMPICS: A FESTIVAL OF CORPORATE GREED by Roger Annis http://www.socialistvoice.ca/?p=943 On February 12, the corporate sporting behemoth known as the 21st Winter Olympic Games will open to great fanfare here. In a time of economic hardship and government cuts to social programs across Canada, huge sums of public money have been spent to stage this uber spectacle. QUÉBEC SOLIDAIRE MEMBERS DEFEND PARTY’S POSITION ON SECULARISM AND WOMEN’S RIGHTS LeftViews articles by Benoit Renaud and Bernard Rioux http://www.socialistvoice.ca/?p=943 The January 6 edition of the Montréal daily Le Devoir featured a hard-hitting op-ed defense of Québec Solidaire’s position on separation of church and state and its opposition to the imposition of Islamophobic dress codes for civil servants. ********** Previous articles SOCIALISTS AND CHINA: AN EXCHANGE A LeftViews Exchange http://www.socialistvoice.ca/?p=917 AUSTRALIA: DSP MERGES WITH SOCIALIST ALLIANCE By Peter Boyle http://www.socialistvoice.ca/?p=914 QUÉBEC SOLIDAIRE’S COLLECTIVES – HELP OR HINDRANCE? A LeftViews article by Richard Fidler http://www.socialistvoice.ca/?p=892 ************************* SV PAMPHLETS ONLINE AT READING FROM THE LEFT Many past Socialist Voice articles have been published as pamphlets. They are available as free PDF downloads: http://readingfromtheleft.com/ByPublisher.html#SocVoice ************************* SOCIALIST VOICE Web: http://www.socialistvoice.ca Email: socialistvo...@sympatico.ca Editors: Ian Angus, Roger Annis, John Riddell Associate Editor: Mike Krebs Readers are encouraged to forward or distribute Socialist Voice as widely as possible. To subscribe, send a blank email to socialist-voice-subscr...@yahoogroups.com. To unsubscribe, send a blank email to socialist-voice-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com FEEDBACK: Socialist Voice welcomes questions, comments and debate on the articles we publish. Please use the `Feedback' box at the bottom of each article on our website. LINK DOESN'T WORK? Some email programs block links to websites. If clicking on a link in Socialist Voice doesn't work, try holding down the CTRL key as you click, or copy the link address into your browser. ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com