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What's new at Links: Left gains in Turkey/Kurdistan, FIFA & Africa,
Ukraine attacks workers' rights; Putin, West do deal on east Ukraine?
Scotland
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Turkey's left party leader Selahattin Demirtaş' call for 'new way of
life': radical democracy <http://links.org.au/node/4458>
June 8, 2015 -- /Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal/ --
The June 7, 2015, general election in Turkey saw the radical left
People's Democratic Party (HDP) win almost 13% of the vote and around 80
parliamentary seats.
It passed the 10% threshold for parliamentary representation for the
first time, with a total of almost 6 million votes. The HDP won all the
seats in the following Kurdish cities: Batman four, Agri four, Dersim
two, Hakari three, Sirnak four, Igdir two. The party won 1 million votes
and 11 seats in Istanbul -– a city with a huge Kurdish population
although the party also won significant non-Kurdish support there.
Thirty-one of the HDP’s 80 new MPs are women, the highest proportion of
any party. HDP candidates included Armenians, Yezidis and Assyrians
alongside Kurds. The HDP had the only openly gay candidate.
On the other hand, the ruling AKP has lost its parliamentary majority
and recieved 3 million fewer votes than in 2010. The AKP lost many votes
to the HDP in areas where it has had a big Kurdish following. Turkey's
parliament consists of 550 seats; 276 seats are required for a
single-party majority government. The ruling AKP has only secured 258
with which to try and form a coalition.
The HDP’s historic gains make the success of the peace process with the
Kurds within Turkey more likely, and will restrict Turkey’s dubious
relations with ISIS.
The speech below from HDP co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş' 2014
presidential bid outlines the HDP's vision for a new Turkey.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4458>
World soccer corruption, Africa’s ‘illicit financial flows’ and
elite silences <http://links.org.au/node/4452>
By *Patrick Bond*, Durban
June 3, 2015 -- The last week has provided extraordinary examples of how
corruption erodes the resources and morals of an entire continent –
Africa – in part because villains in South Africa made alliances with
wicked brothers in Switzerland, Latin America, the Caribbean and,
especially, the United States. We now know more about offshore centres
of both reactionary finance and corrupt-corporate soccer. It’s long
overdue they are exposed to a spotlight, /even if those pointing that
light want to leave certain features in the shadows/.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4452>
Turkey: Kurds, the working class and the new left -- interview with
Erdem Yörük <http://links.org.au/node/4457>
June 6, 2015 -- With Turkey’s June 7 parliamentary elections fast
approaching, all eyes are on the Peoples’ Democracy Party (HDP)
contesting its first ever election as a party, rather than a coalition
of nominally independent candidates: a momentous decision on the part of
the party leadership, which stands to gain clout in parliament and
solidify its position as the electoral standard-bearer of the radical
Left—or fall below the constitutionally mandated 10% barrier and be
excluded from parliament entirely.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4457>
Neoliberal Ukraine’s labour 'reforms' threaten workers' rights
<http://links.org.au/node/4456>
By*Vitaly Dudin*
June 4, 2015 -- Neoliberal modernisation in Ukraine is nothing new. The
processes and forces pushing it forward long predate the ousting of
Viktor Yanukovych last February. But since the events of 2014, this
process has been expedited and has arrived at a key issue: the laws
governing the way people work.//
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4456>
Scottish politics after May 7 Westminster general election
<http://links.org.au/node/4455>
By *Murray Smith*
June 4, 2015 – The day after the May 7 Westminster [British] general
election, George Kerevan, newly elected Scottish National Party MP for
East Lothian, was walking through his constituency. He was approached by
a group of young working-class women who recognised him, proudly
declared that they had all voted SNP and wanted to take “selfies” with
him. When Kerevan asked why, they replied “because this is history”.
They were of course right. The day before the SNP had taken 56 of the 59
seats in Scotland, leaving the Conservative, Liberal Democrat and Labour
parties with one each.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4455>
Boris Kagarlitsky: 'The killing of Novorossiya'
<http://links.org.au/node/4454>
By *Boris Kagarlitsky*, translated by *Renfrey Clarke*
June 4, 2015 – On May 23, 2015, Aleksey Mozgovoy, the most popular,
authoritative and independent of the /Novorossiya/ militia commanders,
was assassinated. Together with the “Spectre” Brigade which he led,
Mozgovoy a few days earlier had taken part in an Antifascist Forum with
left organisations from a number of European countries.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4454>
Scotland: Left Project welcomes SSP support for a new left electoral
alliance <http://links.org.au/node/4453>
May 25, 2015 -- The Scottish Left Project welcomes the motion passed at
the Scottish Socialist Party annual conference calling for a new left
electoral alliance in time for the 2016 Holyrood [Scottish] elections.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4453>
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