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What's new at Links: Olympics, workers' sport, Quebec, Paul le Blanc on
Paul Mason, Front de Gauche, Spain, Cuba, Mexico Thomas Sankara,
Malaysia, State capitalism
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Mike Marqusee at the Olympics: 'Individual excellence at the service
of the nation-state and multinational capital'
<http://links.org.au/node/2975>
/"The Tommie Smith/John Carlos 'black power' salute of 1968
<http://links.org.au/node/565> -- two medal winners overturning the
symbolism, refusing to let their individual excellence serve the forces
that degraded them and their people." /
By *Mike Marqusee*, London
August 4, 2012 -- I enjoyed my afternoon at the Olympics, sitting in my
public lottery assigned £50 seat at the ExCel, with a fine view of the
men's boxing. And I enjoyed it not least because I was finally able to
watch the sport itself without the surrounding hype, the layers of
commentary. For a moment there was only that pleasure special to sport:
the spontaneity of a story being fashioned in front of your own eyes,
once and once only (despite digital repeats), robustly itself and not
pretending to be anything else.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/2975>
Quebec: 'Share Our Future' -- the CLASSE manifesto; CLASSE rep
explains struggle (video) <http://links.org.au/node/2972>
/July 27, 2012 --//- Guillaume Legault is a leading member of Quebec's
CLASSE, a radical student organisation at the forefront of a months-long
student strike against tuition fee hikes. Legault toured Australia and
New Zealand in July-August 2012 as a guest of the socialist youth
organisation Resistance. Above is Legault's address to the Resistance
national conference, held in Adelaide./
August 3, 2012 -- The following document is the manifesto of Quebec's
militant student union, Coalition large de l'Association pour une
solidarité syndicale (CLASSE).
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/2972>
Paul Le Blanc: Occupy, insurgencies and human nature: Paul Mason
and/or Karl Marx <http://links.org.au/node/2966>
By *Paul Le Blanc*
July 25, 2012 -- Paul Mason is one of the best journalists covering the
global economy today. His book, /Live Working, Die Fighting: How the
Working Class Went Global,/ is an essential resource for anyone
concerned about the workers' struggle against oppression and for
liberation in the past, present and future. I met him while I was in
thick of Pittsburgh's G20 protests, which he was covering for the
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). I had already read his splendid
book (which I was using in one of my courses) -- and his front-line
television reportage of the protests and the realities generating them
was outstanding.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/2966>
Another Olympics is possible: the socialist sports movements of the
past <http://links.org.au/node/2976>
August 7, 2012 -- As Mike Marqusee points out in an article posted at
/Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal/, the modern Olympic
Games are "a symbolic package: individual excellence at the service of
the nation-state under the overlordship of multinational capital".
Today, the domination of most sport by the capitalist corporations,
crude nationalism and dog-eat-dog ideology is almost complete,
occasionally challenged by the actions a few principled groups and
individuals. But that was not always the case.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/2976>
France: The rise of the Left Front (Front de Gauche) -- a new force
on the left <http://links.org.au/node/2974>
By *Murray Smith*
August 2, 2012 -- The Left Front (Front de Gauche) emerged onto the
political scene at the beginning of 2009. As the Left Front to Change
Europe, it was established by three organisations -- the French
Communist Party (PCF), the Left Party (PG, Parti de Gauche) and the
Unitary Left (GU) -- with the aim of standing in the European elections
of June 2009.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/2974>
Spain: Millions protest economic and political crisis; Audio:
Spain's crisis, the popular fightback and its impact on Europe
<http://links.org.au/node/2973>
J/uly 28, 2012 -- Dick Nichols, /GLW/Links/correspondent in Europe,
interviewed by Melbourne 3CR radio's /Solidarity Breakfast/program on
the political and economic crisis in Europe, the mass protests and
strikes taking place./
By *Dick Nichols*, Barcelona
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/2973>
Cuba's internationalism: 11,000 doctors graduate; 5315 Cuban and
5694 from 59 other countries <http://links.org.au/node/2971>
By *José A. de la Osa*, Havana
July 19, 2012 -- This July, 11,000 students are to receive their degrees
as doctors of medicine; 5315 Cubans and 5694 students from 59 other
countries, the highest total in the history of Cuba and an eloquent
example of internationalist solidarity. These young graduates completed
their studies free of charge in Medical Science Universities recognised
for their high scientific level and social commitment to the poorest in
the world.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/2971>
Mexico: Movement fights 'imposition' of PRI's Enrique Pena Nieto
<http://links.org.au/node/2970>
By *Dan La Botz*
July 29, 2012 -- Mexico's presidential election that took place on July
2 is over---but it is not done. Tens of thousands of Mexicans have been
marching <http://newpol.org/node/668> every week for almost a month in
Mexico City and other cities throughout the country against what they
call the "imposition" by Mexican election authorities of Enrique Peña
Nieto of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) as president of Mexico.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/2970>
Thomas Sankara: Revolution and the emancipation of women
<http://links.org.au/node/2969>
*/"The revolution and women's liberation go together. We do not
talk of women's emancipation as an act of charity or out of a
surge of human compassion. It is a basic necessity for the
revolution to triumph." /*-- *Thomas Sankara*
By *Amber Murrey*
The life and work of Thomas Sankara can be taken as a reminder of both
the power and potential for human agency to enact transformation. I
would like to situate my ideas within the geopolitical context of the
popular uprisings that continue to take place around the world as people
organise against neoliberal policies of advanced capitalism and their
resultant gross inequalities in wealth, health and education.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/2969>
Malaysia: One year after activists' release, questions remain
unanswered <http://links.org.au/node/2968>
By *S.Arutchelvan*, secretary general, Socialist Party of Malaysia
July 29, 2012 -- Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM) -- Today marks the first
anniversary of the release of the PSM EO6 [Emergency Ordinance 6] who
were robbed of their freedom on June 25, 2011, when they were detained
with 26 others.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/2968>
The debate about the nature of the former Soviet Union: Who was
right? <http://links.org.au/node/2967>
By *Chris Slee*
July 30, 2012 -- The nature of the former Soviet Union was an issue
which divided the left for many decades. Now that the Soviet Union no
longer exists, differing analyses of its class nature should no longer
be a reason for maintaining separate socialist organisations.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/2967>
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