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What's new at Links: Gough Whitlam, Communist resistance to the Nazis,
Rojava, Europe, Syria, Thomas Sankara, Ireland, Brazil, 'extractivism',
Scotland, South Africa, NUMSA
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Australia: How and why the Gough Whitlam government's far-reaching
reforms were won <http://links.org.au/node/4133>
By *Jim McIlroy*
November 1, 2014 -- The passing of former Australian Prime Minister
Gough Whitlam at the age of 98 on October 21 provoked a wave of emotion
from the community, both young and old. At a time when the federal
government is trying to smash the remnants of the progressive reforms
initiated during Whitlam's Australian Labor Party (ALP) government ---
in office from December 1972 to November 1975 --- the Whitlam era seems
like a period from another political universe.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4133>
Rojava's autonomous cantons: What a revolution looks like
<http://links.org.au/node/4129>
/"A YPJ fighter (right) next to a very similar picture of a female
fighter in the Spanish revolution in the 1930s. The comparison is apt.
The presence of such a high proportion of female front line fighters is
evidence of a profound social transformation that has been happening in
liberated Rojava and within the Kurdish revolutionary movement." /
By *Tony Iltis*
November 1, 2014 -- On November 1, protests were held worldwide in
solidarity with Kobanê. Protests took place in most countries on every
continent. Even in Afghanistan, protests were organised in six cities by
left-wing anti-occupation groups. After withstanding more than six weeks
of intense siege by the terrorist group that calls itself "Islamic
State" (IS), Kobanê (also called Kobani), a small majority-Kurdish town
on the Syrian side of the border with Turkey, has become one of the most
well-known places on the planet.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4129>
European economic stagnation: diagnoses and treatments
<http://links.org.au/node/4134>
By *Dick Nichols*
November 4, 2014 --For 48 hours it looked as if Thursday, October 16,
2014 might join similar October Thursdays in 1907, 1929 and 1979 as
another dramatic moment when share market panic triggered economic
downturn.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4134>
Critique of Patrick Cockburn's 'Whose side is Turkey on?'
<http://links.org.au/node/4132>
By *Michael Karadjis*
October 31, 2014 -/- /The November 6 /London Review of Books/ has
published Patrick Cockburn's latest article, 'Whose side is Turkey On?'.
Now, as I support the struggle of the Syrian Kurds, led by the
Democratic Union Party (PYD) and its armed militia, the YPG, against
ISIS' genocidal siege, I have no interest in defending Turkey's shabby
role in this, even if I think both the US and Turkey, in their current
difference on this issue are both being totally cynical in their
different ways. So this critique will not deal with these issues.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4132>
Burkina Faso: 'Thomas Sankara: An African Revolutionary', new book
by Ernest Harsch (audio) <http://links.org.au/node/4131>
*Ernest Harsch* interviewed by *Jim Lance*
October 10, 2014 --*Thomas Sankara*, often called the African Che
Guevara, was president of Burkina Faso, one of the poorest countries in
Africa, until his assassination during a military coup that brought down
his government. Although his time in office was relatively short,
Sankara left an indelible mark on his country's history and development.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4131>
Ireland: Mass protests, opinion poll confirm dramatic change in
Irish politics <http://links.org.au/node/4130>
November 1, 2014 -- Sinn Fein has topped an opinion poll in the 26
Counties for the first time in the history of polling in the state,
gaining four points to move up to 26%. The Millward Brown survey for
tomorrow's /Sunday Independent/ questioned 1000 people over the past 10
days. It shows independents also making gains, they increased their
support by two points to stand at 23%.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4130>
Brazil: MST's Alexandre Conceição: 'Our big challenge is to continue
the fight for structural reforms' <http://links.org.au/node/4128>
By *Iris Pacheco*, translated by *Federico Fuentes*
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4128>
What will it take to go beyond 'extractivism'? Federico Fuentes
replies to Don Fitz <http://links.org.au/node/4127>
By *Federico Fuentes*
October 31, 2014 -- In recent years, a number of important discussions
have emerged among and between environmentalists and solidarity
activists. None has generated quite as much heat as the debate over
extractive industries, particularly in South America.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4127>
Scotland: Labour for Independence founder Allan Grogan joins
Scottish Socialist Party <http://links.org.au/node/4126>
By *Allan Grogan*, founder Labour for Independence
October 27, 2014 -- This past Saturday I was overwhelmed by the welcome
I received by my new comrades at the Scottish Socialist Party (SSP)
conference in Edinburgh. I made the comment to someone throughout the
day that it was so nice to see members of a political party enjoying
each others company, respectfully debating issues and uniting in the
common good of the people they have set out to represent.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4126>
South Africa: ANC elite media meltdown reveals crony capitalist
shenanigans <http://links.org.au/node/4125>
By *Patrick Bond*, Durban
October 30, 2014 --- The biggest credibility crisis ever to hit South
Africa's independent media is unfolding. There is a serious risk that
fewer than a half-dozen power-crazed corporate managers will destroy the
waning integrity -- and at minimum, the ownership structure -- of the
country's most popular TV news station, eTV, which had aspired to become
Africa's answer to Al-Jazeera.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4125>
South Africa: NUMSA rejects ANC attempts to split COSATU, turn it
against socialism <http://links.org.au/node/4124>
Statement by the *National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa* (NUMSA)
October 27, 2014 -- When the Congress of South African Trade Unions
(COSATU) was born in 1985, the federation brought together many
different trade unions with different organisational, political and
administrative cultures and traditions. From 1981, it took four long
hard years to emerge from the unity talks with the establishment of the
largest federation in South Africa in December 1985.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4124>
Communist resistance in Nazi Germany <http://links.org.au/node/4122>
By *Doug Enaa Greene*
October 29, 2014 -- // <http://links.org.au/node/4122>In 1943, a member
of the Communist Party, sentenced to die for resistance activities as a
member of the Red Orchestra, wrote these final words to his father:
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4122>
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