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What's new at Links: Sri Lanka, Charlie Hebdo, Greece & SYRIZA, direct
vs. representative democracy, Venezuela brigade, Haiti, Revolutionary
sport, Mexico, Marx and nature
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Sri Lanka: Behind Maithripala Sirisena's defeat of Mahinda Rajapaksa
<http://links.org.au/node/4238>
By *Chris Slee*
January 12, 2015 -- Maithripala Sirisena has taken office as president
of Sri Lanka, after winning the election held on January 8. Sirisena
obtained 51.28% of the vote, defeating incumbent president Mahinda
Rajapaksa, who got 47.58%.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4238>
(Updated Jan. 13) Socialists condemn 'Charlie Hebdo' massacre, warn
of Islamophobia in its wake <http://links.org.au/node/4233>
Statement by Australian *Socialist Alliance national co-conveners* on
the Paris massacre
Sydney, January 9, 2015 -- The Socialist Alliance Australia condemns the
massacre of journalists, cartoonists and others at and around the
offices of the Paris-based publication /Charlie Hebdo/. However
offensive anyone may have found some of the cartoons published by
/Charlie Hebdo/, this act of brutal violence is not justified.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4233>
Greece: Yanis Varoufakis on the economic crisis and why he is
standing for SYRIZA <http://links.org.au/node/4241>
January 13, 2015 -- Beginning at 3.55 minutes, *Yanis Varoufakis*,
professor of economic theory at the University of Athens, discusses the
European economic crisis and expalins why he has chosen to be a SYRIZA
candidate for parliament in the January 25, 2015, general election.
France: 'Charlie Hebdo' would have run the headline: ‘Satraps who
you have escaped’ <http://links.org.au/node/4240>
By *Thomas Cantaloube *and *Mathilde Mathieu*
January 14, 2015 –To govern is to choose. By accepting the participation
of dictators, jailers of opponents and enemies of the freedom of the
press from all corners of the planet at the January 11 demonstration in
memory of the victims of the Paris [/Charlie Hebdo/] attacks, the
François Hollande-Manuel Valls government has once more demonstrated its
cowardice.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4240>
Discussion: How do we rule? Direct and representative democracy and
revolutionary power <http://links.org.au/node/4239>
By *Doug Enaa Greene*
January 14, 2015 – I want to begin by stating that I am a firm and
unapologetic advocate of the necessity of the dictatorship of the
proletariat [to replace the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie we presently
suffer under]. To deny the necessity of that dictatorship is to leave
power in the hands of those who wield it – the exploiting capitalist
class. And without the establishment of the dictatorship of the
proletariat, you cannot lay the foundations of a society that provides
for human needs and allows for the full development of human potential.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4239>
Report on 15th Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network brigade to
Venezuela <http://links.org.au/node/4237>
By *Paul Dobson*, brigade leader, Caracas
January 12, 2015 -- Following months of organisation and planning, the
Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network’s 15th solidarity brigade touched
down in Maiquetía International Airport in Caracas on December 1, 2014,
at a highly important time for the Bolivarian revolution.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4237>
Haiti: Promised rebuilding unrealised; authoritarian rule challenged
<http://links.org.au/node/4236>
/Important achievements in earthquake rehabilitation were achieved with
the public health initiatives taken by Haiti's Ministry of Public Health
in cooperation with large international missions and many smaller, vital
health care projects. The contributions of Cuba and Partners In Health
stood out./
By *Travis Ross* and *Roger Annis*
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4236>
Revolutionary sport: exclusive excerpt from 'Sport in Capitalist
Society' <http://links.org.au/node/4235>
*/Sport in Capitalist Society/*/*: A short History*/
By Tony Collins
London: Routledge, 2013
184 pages
January 11, 2015 -- Routledge has kindly given permission for /Links
International Journal of Socialist Renewal/ to publish an excerpt from
*Tony Collins'* radical history of sport.
* Why are the Olympic Games the driving force behind a clampdown on
civil liberties?
* What makes sport an unwavering ally of nationalism and militarism?
* Is sport the new opiate of the masses?
These and many other questions are answered in this new radical history
of sport by leading historian of sport and society, Professor Tony Collins.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4235>
Mexico: 2014 saw a resurgence of the broad opposition movement
<http://links.org.au/node/4232>
By *Dan La Botz*
January 8, 2015 -- Mexico's President Enrique Peña Nieto, who had been
so successful in advancing his fundamentally conservative economic
program during his first year and a half in office, suddenly faced a
serious challenge beginning in September 2014 when police, apparently
cooperating gangsters, killed six students, injured at least 25 and
kidnapped 43 in the town of Iguala in the state of Guerrero.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4232>
Marx and nature: A red and green perspective
<http://links.org.au/node/4231>
/*Marx and Nature: *//*A Red and Green Perspective*/
by Paul Burkett
Haymarket Books, 2014
Review by*Martin Empson*
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4231>
Greece: 'Troika stop! Give them back their democracy!'
<http://links.org.au/node/4230>
Translated by *Liam Flenady*
Statement released in French on January 5, 2015 -/- /European Union,
European directors, International Monetary Fund, ratings agencies: stop
your blackmail, end your interference in the Greek election campaign!
Let the people decide!
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4230>
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experience of struggle, theoretical analysis and views of political
strategy and tactics within the international left. It is a forum for
open and constructive dialogue between active socialists coming from
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
socialism" in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.
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