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What's new at Links: Venezuelan election; Richard Seymour, Tariq Ali,
Gerry Adams on Thatcher; Parti de Gauche; Mauritius; Hong Kong dockers;
Quebec; Chris Hani
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Eyewitness Venezuela: Maduro wins close victory; Right wing reacts
violently <http://links.org.au/node/3303>
By *Ryan Mallett-Outtrim*, Merida
April 16, 2013 -- The room erupted into cheers when the election result
was announced. For hours, the city of Merida's most ardent supporters of
socialist presidential candidate Nicolas Maduro had gathered in the
local offices of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV).
However, after a few moments, the closeness of the numbers sank in.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/3303>
Richard Seymour: Margaret Thatcher, an obituary from below
<http://links.org.au/node/3302>
For more on *Thatcherism, click HERE*
<http://links.org.au/taxonomy/term/772>.
By *Richard Seymour*
April 11, 2013 -- Thatcher's great achievements were also what made her
so vile. Her many talents were harnessed to bigoted, class-supremacist ends.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/3302>
France: Parti de Gauche vows to build 'citizens' revolution' for
ecosocialism <http://links.org.au/node/3301>
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By *Dick Nichols*
April 12, 2013 -- At the third national congress of the Left Party
(Parti de Gauche) held in Bordeaux from March 22 to 24, France's newest
and fastest-growing socialist group seemed to come of age. Only four
years old, the Left Party was born after its leading figure, Jean-Luc
Melenchon, a long-time leader of left currents in the Socialist Party
(PS), abandoned it after the tendencies in the PS opposing neoliberal
austerity mustered only 19% support at its 2008 congress.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/3301>
Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network: The Venezuelan people have
spoken! Respect the democratic process! <http://links.org.au/node/3305>
The Venezuelan people have spoken: Nicolas Maduro is president
End the opposition violence! Respect the democratic process!
No US-backed intervention in Venezuela!
April 17, 2013 -- The *Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network*
<http://venezuelasolidarity.org> joins with all those voices for
democracy and peace to call for an immediate end to the
opposition-initiated violence now occurring in Venezuela.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/3305>
Understanding Venezuela's election result: 'This time it was up to
us to do it alone, and we won' <http://links.org.au/node/3304>
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By *Tamara Pearson*, Merida
April 15, 2013 -- Things are chaotic here, as we recover from the
surprise, disappointment and a bit of hurt from the election results,
but also go out in the street to express our support for those results,
and to defend the national electoral system, one of the best and most
secure voting systems in the world in a country which just loves to vote.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/3304>
Mauritius: Flash flood hits Lalit de Klas's offices and archives
<http://links.org.au/node/3299>
By *Lindsay Collen*/
[Please contact Lalit de Klas at lalitm...@intnet.mu
<mailto:lalitm...@intnet.mu> to offer solidarity or assistance.]/
April 5, 2013 -- Mauritius' revolutionary socialists, organised in the
Lalit de Klas party (Lalit), have been in total crisis mode after the
terrible flash floods in and around the capital Port Louis, floods in
which people lost their lives in the centre of town, caught in
underpasses and underground parking garages.
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Dock workers defy Hong Kong's richest person, seek solidarity,
attract huge support <http://links.org.au/node/3298>
By the *Union of Hong Kong Dockers*
April 9, 2013 -- Hundred members of the Union of Hong Kong Dockers
(UHKD) are striking to demand pay rise while their wages have not risen
in the past 15 years.
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Québec: Québec solidaire in search of a second wind; Federal NDP
meets in Montréal -- another missed opportunity?
<http://links.org.au/node/3297>
The first article below is a translation and slight modification of
t
<http://www.marcbonhomme.com/files/que0301bec-solidaire-a0300-la-recherche-d0027un-second-souffle.pdf>he
original article published in French on Marc Bonhomme's blog, March
29, 2013. The second article, by Richard Fidler, deals with the New
Democratic Party's position on Quebec.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/3297>
South Africa: Chris Hani would be angry at ANC 'adopting our class
opponents' policies' <http://links.org.au/node/3296>
By the *National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa*
April 10, 2013 -- On April 10, 1993, the serving general secretary of
the South African Communist Party (SACP), African National Congress
(ANC) national executive committee (NEC) and popular leader Comrade
Chris Hani was gunned down by Janusz Walus outside his home in New Dawn
Park, Boksburg.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/3296>
(Updated April 14) Thatcher and Thatcherism: Don't let them re-write
history! <http://links.org.au/node/3295>
By *Dave Kellaway*
April 9, 2013 -- If we need yet another argument about why we must put
our political energies into building a fighting alternative to [the
Labour Party] then compare and contrast these statements on the death of
Margaret Thatcher
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/3295>
Tariq Ali: 'Thatcherism continues'; Gerry Adams: `Thatcher did great
hurt <http://links.org.au/node/3294>
April 9, 2013 --Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams commenting on the death
today of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said: Margaret
Thatcher did great hurt to the Irish and British people during her time
as British prime minister. Working-class communities were devastated in
Britain because of her policies.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/3294>
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