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What's new at Links: Hugo Chavez Frias – visionary, fighter, companero;
tributes from Asia, Africa, Europe; International Women's Day, Portugal
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Hugo Chavez presente! <http://links.org.au/node/3251>
March 6, 2013 -- Venezuela's revolutionary leader Hugo Chavez has died.
The Venezuelan people will face the enormous challenge of continuing
their socialist revolution without unifying and mobilising figure of
Chavez, who has been at the forefront of deepening and extending its
radical course.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/3251>
IWD 2013: Still being fought for -- equality, justice and freedom
from violence for women <http://links.org.au/node/3245>
International Women's Day 2013 statement by *Socialist Alliance*
March 8, 2013 -- The demands of the first-ever International Women's Day
Rally in Australia, in 1928, were: equal pay for equal work, an 8-hour
day for shop assistants, the basic wage for the unemployed and annual
holidays on full pay. A lot has been won through struggle since 1928 yet
women in Australia today still have to struggle some of these issues:
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/3245>
Hugo Chavez Frias – visionary, fighter, companero (Asia-Pacific left
statements) (updated Mar. 11) <http://links.org.au/node/3242>
/[Below are statements issued by socialist and progressive organisations
in the Asia-Pacific region. More will be posted as they come to hand.]/
Statement of the *Socialist Alliance* (Australia)
March 6, 2013 -- The Socialist Alliance
<http://www.socialist-alliance.org> in Australia expresses its deepest
sympathies with the people and government of Venezuela on the death of
Companero Hugo Chavez Frias on March 5. His passing is a huge loss for
all peoples, across Latin America and the globe, struggling for a world
free of inequality, exploitation and oppression.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/3242>
Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Die Linke salute Hugo Chavez's socialist vision
<http://links.org.au/node/3249>
/l’Humanité/ interview with *Jean-Luc Mélenchon*, spokesperson Front de
Gauche (Left Front), France, translated by *Dick Nichols*
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/3249>
African solidarity with the Venezuelan revolution and tributes to
Hugo Chavez <http://links.org.au/node/3248>
[Below are statements issued by left and progressive organisations in
Africa. More will be posted as they come to hand.]
March 10, 2013 -- The *Democratic Left Front* (DLF) of South Africa
joins the millions of poor and working people and their mass movements
in Venezuela, the Caribbean, Latin America and across the world who
celebrate the revolutionary and emancipatory life and symbolism of Hugo
Rafael Chávez Frías. Since his tragic passing away on March 5, our
hearts have drawn inspiration and courage from his example and symbolism.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/3248>
Eyewitness Venezuela: 'The people will become Chavez'; Millions
farewell Chavez, declare 'the revolution is not dead
<http://links.org.au/node/3247>
March 9, 2013 -- /VenezuelAnalysis/ journalist and Australia-Venezuela
Solidarity Network activist *Tamara Pearson'*s passionate and insightful
report on the feeling among the Venezuelan people after the passing of
President Hugo Chavez, the antics of the right-wing opposition, the
determination to continue the revolution, and the importance of
solidarity. Plus pictures from the outpouring of grief and solidarity in
the wake of Chavez's death. [More video coverage below.]
* Read and watch more <http://links.org.au/node/3247>
Media lies exposed: Venezuela's economic and social performance
under Hugo Chávez, in graph <http://links.org.au/node/3246>
Jim McIlroy, an activist from the Australia-Venezuela Solidarity
Network, interviewed by ABC TV News, on March 8, 2013, on the
significance of Venezuela's socialist President Hugo Chavez. He
successfully refutes the misinformation of the hostile "interviewer".
March 10, 2013 -- Following the tragic death of Venezuela's President
Hugo Chávez from cancer after 14 years in office, the world's
big-business media has gone into overdrive to dishonestly describe
Chavez's record as being "authoritarian", "dictatorial" and having made
the Venezuelan economy a "basket case", as was rudely interjected by an
Australian Broadcasting Corporation "journalist" in the video above.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/3246>
Marta Harnecker: 'Chavez's legacy: with the people, building a
socialist alternative to capitalism' <http://links.org.au/node/3244>
By *Marta Harnecker*, translated by *Yoshie Furuhashi* for /MRZine/
March 6, 2013 -- /La Segunda -- /When Hugo Chávez triumphed in the 1998
presidential elections, the neoliberal capitalist model was already
floundering. The choice then was whether to re-establish the neoliberal
capitalist model -- clearly with some changes including greater concern
for social issues, but still motivated by the same logic of profit
seeking -- or to go ahead and try to build another model.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/3244>
Left Bloc: 'Portugal’s left must respond to a rising tide of
rebellion' <http://links.org.au/node/3243>
/According to rally coordinators, some 500,000 protesters filled the
Lisbon boulevard leading to the Finance Ministry on March 2. Many
chanting "It's time for the government to go!" and "Screw the Troika, we
want our lives back", referring to the lenders from the European
Commission, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund. /
By *Jorge Costa*, Bloco de Esquerda (Left Bloc), translated
by**/Revolting Europe/
March 6, 2013 -- Portugal’s left must seize the moment offered by an
escalating social struggle and unite around a radical platform of
change.**The massive demonstrations on March 2 across Portugal have
changed the immediate future of social struggle in our country.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/3243>
Hugo Chavez, undefeated! Why the rich and powerful hated Chavez
<http://links.org.au/node/3241>
By *Derrick O'Keefe*
March 6, 2013 -- Hugo Chavez has died -- undefeated. Yes, undefeated.
Chavez, no matter how many times the corporate media and the
cheerleaders of the status quo call him a dictator, was elected
repeatedly with overwhelming majorities. No matter how many times this
slur is moronically or mendaciously repeated, people know the truth. No
less than former US president Jimmy Carter certified Venezuela's
elections as amongst the most fair and transparent his organisation has
ever observed. And the voter turnouts that elected Chavez were far, far
higher than those in the US.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/3241>
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