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What's new at Links: Venezuela's revolutionary process a 'one off'?;
elections in Venezuela; Mindanao peace?, Portugal's Left Bloc, left
unity, S.African metalworkers on climate
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Is Venezuela a 'one off'? A response to Richard Seymour's must-read
analysis <http://links.org.au/node/3059>
By *Stuart Munckton*
October 13, 2012 -- Richard Seymour has written a very interesting
analysis on Venezuela that is a must read for a number of reasons. It is
open ended in its assessments and deliberately poses as many questions
as it seeks to answer. Fair enough, as the revolution /is/open ended and
poses questions that only the struggle will answer.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/3059>
Richard Seymour: Venezuela in the 21st century
<http://links.org.au/node/3053>
By *Richard Seymour*
October 8, 2012 -- Chavez lives. He has survived cancer, thus far, and
will most likely survive the presidential election with a comfortable
majority (update: yep). And what if he did not? Would not Venezuela
still have a popular mass socialist party, a thriving democracy, an
expanding union movement, a politically emasculated ruling class, a
greatly enhanced welfare state which incorporates elements of grassroots
participation, and probably one of the few societies in the world today
where it's almost impossible to impose a vicious austerity project?
/Jealous much?/
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/3053>
Venezuela: Chavez re-elected on platform to deepen revolution; 3
million people mobilise in support <http://links.org.au/node/3050>
October 9, 2012 -/- /Venezuela's socialist President Hugo Chavez has won
the October 7 Venezuelan elections with over 54% of the vote against 45%
of the vote for right-wing opposition candidate Henrique Capriles. The
National Electoral Council's Tibisay Lucena announced more than 80% of
the 19,119,809 registered voters in Venezuela participated in the
election./Venezuelanalysis/' *Ewen Robertson* reports from Merida.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/3050>
Philippines: PLM welcomes roadmap for peace in Mindanao
<http://links.org.au/node/3058>
By the *Partido Lakas ng Masa* (Party of the Labouring Masses)
October 15, 2012 -- Partido Lakas ng Masa (PLM, Party of the Labouring
Masses), a national political party of the marginalised sectors in The
Philippines, welcomes the Bangsamoro Framework Agreement as a roadmap
for peace in Mindanao. [The agreement was signed by the Philippines
government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front on October 15, 2012.]
The agreement is also the first step to end the centuries-old oppression
of the Moro people in Mindanao.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/3058>
Portugal's Left Bloc: 'The people now have a goal: resignation of
the government' <http://links.org.au/node/3057>
Resolution of the national board of the *Left Bloc *of Portugal,
September 22, 2012, passed unanimously.
The gigantic demonstration on September 15, 2012, [see article below],
which cannot be compared to any other mobilisation in recent decades,
turns the page of Portuguese politics. This was the response of the
social majority to the government offensive, adopting a clear position
against the Troika and demanding a break with the policy of
impoverishment, austerity and destruction. The demonstration by the
people in the streets did not demand time to slow down austerity, or the
protection of the Troika: it demanded the end of the Troika in Portugal.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/3057>
South African metalworkers' union: 'For a class struggle approach to
climate change and energy transition' <http://links.org.au/node/3056>
By *Karl Cloete*, deputy general-secretary, *National Union of
Metalworkers of South Africa* (NUMSA)
[The following paper was presented on October 10, 2012, at a conference
at Cornell University. NUMSA is South Africa's second-largest union,
with alomost 290,000 members in the smelting, maunufacturing, auto and
electricity generation industries.]
Our starting point as NUMSA is that to effect an energy transition, we
as the global union movement /DO/ need a perspective to guide us as well
as strategies to be utilised by the movement. While such a perspective
and accompanying strategies will definitely not come fully formed and in
one go, we /HAVE/ to keep working on them through discussions, through
struggles, through experimentation and through learning from experiences
of those in the forefront of energy struggles (within and outside of the
labour movement).
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/3056>
Gregory Wilpert on Venezuela: 'Major challenges face Chavez in new
term' <http://links.org.au/node/3055>
October 9, 2012 -- *Gregory Wilpert*, a German-American sociologist,
earned a PhD in sociology from Brandeis University in 1994. Between 2000
and 2008 he lived in Venezuela, where he taught at the Central
University of Venezuela and then worked as a freelance journalist,
writing on Venezuelan politics for a wide range of publications. He
founded /Venezuelanalysis.com/, an English-langugage website. In 2007,
he published the book /Changing Venezuela by Taking Power: The History
and Policies of the Chavez Government /(Verso Books).
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/3055>
Britain: 'To fight austerity we need a united left' --
Anticapitalist Initiative <http://links.org.au/node/3054>
By *Simon Hardy*, Anticapitalist Initiative (Britain)
October 9, 2012 -- Submitted to /Links International Journal of
Socialist Renewal/ -- The urgent need for unity on the radical left is
something that has been eloquently put forward by Dan Hind on the
/Al-Jazeera/ website. Asking a very pertinent question as to whether
there can be a SYRIZA-type organisation in Britain, Hind draws out some
of the most important lessons of the Greek struggle and poses a
challenge to the British left -- can we break out of the ghetto as well?
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/3054>
Venezuela's presidential elections: an imperfect victory
<http://links.org.au/node/3052>
By *Tamara Pearson*
October 8, 2012 -- Last night, we were squashed and pushed as the crowd
surged into the Miraflores Palace to hear Hugo Chavez's victory speech.
People were so happy, they didn't mind their feet being trodden on, the
humidity of the air and the sweat of bodies and all the standing up,
they were exuberant and they shouted and danced and jumped up and down
and yelled out to strangers and threw beer up in the air, and even a few
shoes.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/3052>
Solidarity statements: 'A vital victory for Chavez, Venezuela and
the Bolivarian revolution' <http://links.org.au/node/3051>
*Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network* statement on the October 7,
2012, presidential elections
October 9, 2012 -- Three days after more than 3 million people took over
the streets of Caracas in a huge show of support for Venezuela's
president Hugo Chavez and his socialist platform, Chavez has won the
October 7 Venezuelan elections with more than 55% of the vote, against
right-wing opposition candidate Henrique Capriles' 44%. A record 81% of
the 19,119,809 registered voters in Venezuela participated in the election.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/3051>
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