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What's new at Links: Venezuela, Greece, IMF reform?, World War I, Too
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Venezuela: After Chávez, has the Maduro government stalled the
revolution? <http://links.org.au/node/4218>
By *Steve Ellner*
December 24, 2014 -- Nearly two years after the death of Hugo Chávez,
the key question that many on the left are debating, in Venezuela and
elsewhere, is whether his successors have been true to his legacy, or
whether the “revolutionary process” initiated more than a decade ago has
now stalled or even been thrown into reverse.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4218>
Greece: The snap election and myths surrounding the country’s
economic ‘recovery’ <http://links.org.au/node/4219>
*Yanis Varoufakis* interviewed for /Il Manifesto/ newspaper by *Thomas
Fazi*, translated by /Revolting Europe//, /December 30, 2014/
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Posted at /Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal/ -- With a
snap general election due January 25, a Greek economist close to SYRIZA
dismantles some myths surrounding the Greek economy and believes victory
for the left-wing opposition is increasingly likely.
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After the announcement that, on January 25, 2015, Greece will return to
the polls (due to the failed third and decisive parliamentary vote for
the new president), the prospect of a victory of Coalition of the
Radical Left (SYRIZA), the strength of the radical left led by Alexis
Tsipras that is topping the opinion polls, is becoming more concrete.
This is rocking the markets and the European establishment, which have
already expressed their disappointment at the decision of Greece's Prime
Minister Antonis Samaras to attempt the election of a president.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4219>
Has the International Monetary Fund reformed?
<http://links.org.au/node/4217>
By *Patrick Bond*, Durban
December 22, 2014 -- In a /Washington Post
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2014/12/17/the-imfs-perestroika-moment/>/ op-ed
on December 17, 2014, "The IMF's Perestroika Moment
<http://triplecrisis.com/the-imfs-perestroika-moment-2-2/>", Boston
University political economists Cornel Ban and Kevin Gallagher suggested
"conventional wisdom" about the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is
"outdated" because the IMF is no longer "a global agent of economic
orthodoxy". Hmmm.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4217>
How the top brass undermined WWI soldiers' attempts to 'live and let
live' <http://links.org.au/node/4216>
See also "*The soldiers' Christmas truce -- A bas la guerre! Nie wieder
Kreig! Das walte Gott! Peace on Earth!* <http://links.org.au/node/1428>"
By *Barry Healy*
December 24, 2014 -- Australians have begun the grim journey through the
centenary of World War I. Our newspapers have special articles and
multi-page wrap arounds commemorating every significant date. This is
driven by a multi-million dollar government fund designed to whip up
militarisation in contemporary Australia by obscuring the truth about WWI.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4216>
'Une planète trop peuplée?' Preface to the French edition of 'Too
Many People?' <http://links.org.au/node/4214>
December 17, 2014 -- Québec publisher Les Éditions Écosociété has
translated and published the book that Simon Butler and Ian Angus
co-wrote, /Too Many People? Population, Immigration and the
Environmental Crisis/ (Haymarket Books, 2011).
The French edition, titled /Une planète trop peuplée? Le mythe
populationniste, l’immigration et la crise écologique,/ features a new
preface by Serge Mongeau, who is the founder of Écosociété and was a
candidate for Québec solidaire in the 2008 Québec general election.
Below is a translation of that preface, followed by the original French
text, both published with permission from Les Éditions Écosociété.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4214>
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strategy and tactics within the international left. It is a forum for
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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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