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What's new at Links: Marta Harnecker, Cuban Five free, South Africa
United Front, Matzpen, Pakistan, Greece, Vavi letter to SACP, Belgium
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Marta Harnecker: Decentralised participatory planning
<http://links.org.au/node/4208>
By *Marta Harnecker*, translated by *Federico Fuentes
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[Paper presented at the International Scientific Academic Meeting on
Methodology and Experiences in Socio-environmental Participatory
processes, Cuenca University, November 13-15, 2014.*]
December 19, 2014 -- These words are aimed at those who want to build a
humanist and solidarity-based society. A society based on the complete
participation of all people. A society focused on a model of sustainable
development that satisfies people's genuine needs in a just manner, and
not the artificial wants created by capitalism in its irrational drive
to obtain more profits. A society that does all this while ensuring that
humanity’s future in not put at risk. A society where the organized
people are the ones who decide what and how to produce. A society we
have referred to as Twenty-First Century Socialism, Good Living or Life
in Plenitude.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4208>
Cuban Five now all free! Will the US blockade of Cuba now end?
<http://links.org.au/node/4205>
By *Julie Webb-Pullman*
December 18, 2014 -- Cubans and many others around the world are
jubilantly celebrating the return to Cuba on December 17 of Gerardo
Hernández, Ramón Labañino and Antonio Guerrero, the final three members
of the Cuban Five to be released from US prisons, in a prisoner swap for
US spy Alan Gross.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4205>
South Africa: United Front takes steps to redefine politics
<http://links.org.au/node/4215>
By *Dinga Sikwebu*
December 22, 2014 -- Since its December 2013 special national congress’
call for trade union federation Cosatu to sever its ties with the ANC,
the decisions of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa
(NUMSA) have received poor analysis. Most misrepresented has been the
union’s resolution for NUMSA to lead in the establishment of a United Front.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4215>
Matzpen: Revolutionary anti-Zionism in Israel
<http://links.org.au/node/4213>
By *Doug Enaa Greene*
December 23, 2014 – Shortly after the June 1967 war, revolutionary
socialists, both Jewish and Palestinian, published a joint statement
denouncing the war and calling for an end to Zionism. The Jewish
socialists were perceived as traitors by Israeli society.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4213>
Cuba to stand by its communist principles, Castro says; ‘US got
isolated trying to isolate Cuba’ -- Rene Gonzalez
<http://links.org.au/node/4211>
December 20, 2014 -- Cuba's leader Raul Castro said the country would
not give up its political values for which it has fought. Calling for
mutual respect in the new development of relations with the United
States, Castro stated Cuba would continue its socialist route.
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Farooq Tariq and Tariq Ali on the 'Talibanisation' of Pakistan and
the Afghan war blowback <http://links.org.au/node/4210>
By *Farooq Tariq*
December 19, 2014 -- It was the most deadly attack on any school by
religious fanatics: 146 were killed in a Peshawar Army Public School,
including 136 children, ages ranging from 10 to 17 years. The attackers
asked the children to recite the /Kalma/ and then fired at them. It was
an attack on Muslim children by Muslim fanatics.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4210>
Greece: What a SYRIZA government will do <http://links.org.au/node/4209>
December 20, 2014 -- Below is the governmental program of the Coalition
of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) announced by **Alexis Tsipras **at the
Thessaloniki International Fair, September 15, 2014. According to the
latest opinion poll, SYRIZA is at 36.5%, with a seven percentage point
lead over the conservative New Democracy. The current contest for the
presidency of Greece looks likely to lead to a new parliamentary election.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4209>
South Africa: Zwelinzima Vavi's open letter to the SACP
<http://links.org.au/node/4206>
December 17, 2014 -- A response to comrade Jeremy Cronin and an open
letter to leaders and members of the South African Communist Party
(SACP), by *Zwelinzima Vavi* (pictured), general secretary of the
Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU).
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4206>
Belgium: Towards a major confrontation after successful general
strike <http://links.org.au/node/4204>
By *Daniel Tanuro*
December 17, 2014 -- The 24-hour strike that mobili/s/ed the Belgian
working class on December 15 was an enormous success. The country was
completely paralysed: in Flanders, in Wallonia and in Brussels, in the
private and public sectors, in industry and the services, transport and
the trade, the big and small companies. Such a massive movement has not
been seen since the strike of November 1993//but, unlike that one, the
strike of December 15 should not remain uncompleted.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4204>
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