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What's new at Links: Venezuela & Greece; Yiannis Bournous, Dave Renton,
Eric Toussaint, Spyros Lapatsioras, John Milios and Dimitris P.
Sotiropouloson on SYRIZA; Tamás Krausz's Lenin; Barry Sheppard on
Malcolm X; Finland & IWD, Podemos
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Venezuela and Greece strengthen partnerships
<http://links.org.au/node/4327>
March 7, 2015 -- Venezuela has proposed trade and economic agreements
that would make Athens one of Caracas' main trading partners. Venezuela
and Greece solidified their bilateral partnership this week, when
Venezuelan officials visited the Mediterranean country to meet the new
SYRIZA government.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4327>
Greece: Yiannis Bournous' thoughts on the new situation and SYRIZA's
responsibilities <http://links.org.au/node/4324>
By *Yiannis Bournous*
March 7, 2015 -- The SYRIZA-led government’s February 24 agreement with
the Eurogroup [of European Union finance ministers] is not the end of
negotiations. It doesn’t even postpone conflict. On the contrary, it
opens up a long new period full of sharp clashes inside and outside our
country.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4324>
Give Greece a chance <http://links.org.au/node/4329>
For a democracy from below, let's fight austerity everywhere.
Statement by the *Alter Summit* network of unions and social movements
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4329>
Tamás Krausz's living Lenin <http://links.org.au/node/4328>
*/Reconstructing Lenin: An Intellectual Biography/*
By Tamás Krausz
New York: Monthly Review Books, 2015
564 pages
Review by *Doug Enaa Greene*
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4328>
David Renton: On SYRIZA and the Independent Greeks; and compromises
and alliances <http://links.org.au/node/4326>
By *David Renton*
March 7, 2015 -- Six weeks ago, when SYRIZA formed a coalition with the
Independent Greeks (ANEL) the most common view among my friends was that
this was SYRIZA’s first betrayal and that others would inevitably follow.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4326>
Eric Toussaint: SYRIZA, Podemos and the way towards power for the
people <http://links.org.au/node/4325>
By *Eric Toussaint*, translated by *Adam Clark-Gimmig*
February 18, 2015 -- Experience proves that left-wing movements can come
to be in government, but nevertheless not hold power. Democracy, in
other words the exercise of power by the people and for the people,
requires much more. The problem is currently being faced in Greece with
SYRIZA, and will have to be faced in Spain with Podemos (if that party
wins the general elections in late 2015), as it was faced in the past,
in Venezuela with the election of Hugo Chávez as president in December
1998, in Bolivia with Evo Morales in 2005, in Ecuador with Rafael Correa
in December 2006, or several decades earlier with Salvador Allende in
Chile in 1970
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4325>
SYRIZA's only choice: A radical step forward
<http://links.org.au/node/4323>
By *Spyros Lapatsioras*,[1]*John Milios*[2] and *Dimitris P.
Sotiropoulos*[3].
/“One must know how to employ the kairos of one's forces at the
right moment. It is easy to only lose a little, if one always keeps
foremost in the mind the idea that unity is never the trick, but the
game.”/[4]
March 7, 2015 -- The transitional “bridge agreement” of February 20 is a
truce intended by the Greek government and welcomed by the other side
(the European “institutions”). Within the truce period (the next four
months), the conditions for negotiating the next agreement will be shaped.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4323>
Barry Sheppard: Recovering the revolutionary legacy of Malcolm X
<http://links.org.au/node/4322>
By *Barry Sheppard*
March 5, 2015 -- February 21 marked the 50th anniversary of the
assassination of Malcolm X, one of the greatest leaders of the 1960s
Black liberation movement in the United States.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4322>
Revolutionary roots of women’s suffrage: Finland 1906 — an
International Women’s Day tribute <http://links.org.au/node/4321>
By *Eric Blanc*
March 4, 2015 --- In 1906, Finland became the world’s first country to
grant full female suffrage.This watershed achievement for women was won
by Finnish socialists during the revolutionary upheaval that swept the
Czarist empire to which Finland belonged.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4321>
Podemos: Politics by the people <http://links.org.au/node/4320>
February 2015 -- Less than a year after its formation, a populist
left-wing party is claiming more than 200,000 members and topping the
opinion polls in Spain. Its leader, Pablo Iglesias, has the highest
approval rating of any Spanish politician and opinion polls show
Podemos, which was only launched in January 2014, surpassing one or both
of the major two parties and even entering government at the next election.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4320>
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strategy and tactics within the international left. It is a forum for
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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
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