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What's new at Links: Tony Benn & Bob Crow RIP; Venezuela, Basques, Arab
revolt, El Salvador, Ukraine, “biggest estate on Earth”, Clara Zetkin,
wind power & capitalism
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Tony Benn (1925-2014): A great communicator of the socialist cause
<http://links.org.au/node/3763>
By *Phil Hearse*
March 15, 2014 -- It is a bitter irony that Tony Benn has died in the
very same week as Bob Crow, two giants of the labour movement who will
be cruelly missed. Numerous instant obituaries and comments have
concentrated on Benn’s determination, his speaking and writing talents,
his humour and his personal kindness. Of course. But in celebrating his
life the important thing for the left, especially the younger
generation, is to make an assessment of Benn and Bennism as a political
phenomenon, why it constituted such a threat to the existing powers that
be (including in the trade unions and Labour Party) and why such an
array of forces gathered together to attempt to put an end to it.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/3763>
Venezuela: (Updated March 17) Asia-Pacific socialists pledge
continuing solidarity with revolution <http://links.org.au/node/3756>
*If your organisation would like to sign this statement, please email:
internatio...@socialist-alliance.org *
March 11, 2014 -- Socialists in Asia-Pacific pledge support for
Venezuela’s socialist revolution, a year after Chavez’s death.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/3756>
An Irish republican perspective on Tony Benn
<http://links.org.au/node/3765>
Introductory comment by *Stuart Munckton*
March 17, 2014 -- The following article provides an Irish republican
perspective on Tony Benn. In some ways Ireland is a great prism through
which to view Benn, his contradictions and his political development and
radicalisation.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/3765>
Madrid’s Basque stance absurd and untenable
<http://links.org.au/node/3764>
By *Emma Clancy*
March 10, 2014 -- The Spanish government’s response to the move by armed
Basque pro-independence organisation Basque Homeland and Freedom (ETA)
to put its weapons beyond use has clearly demonstrated it favours
continuing conflict over peace.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/3764>
Understanding the Arab rebellions: Adam Hanieh's 'Lineages of
revolt' <http://links.org.au/node/3762>
Review by*Chris Slee*
March 15, 2014 -- The year 2011 saw uprisings throughout the Middle East
and North Africa. They were portrayed in the Western media as rebellions
against dictatorial regimes and for democracy. But that is only part of
the story. Political discontent was combined with economic discontent,
as reflected in the widespread slogan, “bread, freedom and social justice”.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/3762>
(Updated March 14) El Salvador: FMLN wins presidency; right wing
trying to steal election <http://links.org.au/node/3761>
March 13, 2014 -- Just after 1:30 am this morning, the Supreme Electoral
Tribunal announced the final count from the Sunday, March 9 election,
giving a decisive victory to the leftist FMLN party over right-wing
ARENA (50.11% to 49.89%).
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/3761>
Britain: Bob Crow's death 'a huge blow to militant class-struggle
unionism' <http://links.org.au/node/3760>
By *Liam Mac Uaid*
March 11, 2014 -- We are deeply shocked at the news that Bob Crow has
died suddenly early this morning of a heart attack at the age of 52.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/3760>
France: Parti de Gauche leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon on Ukraine
<http://links.org.au/node/3759>
By *Jean-Luc Mélenchon*, translated by *Dick Nichols*
March 11, 2014 -- I think it is useful to specify [my position on
developments in Ukraine] in black and white. I’m doing it in broad
brushstrokes so that the advanced minds in the newsrooms can understand.
I’m doing it in their language, saying what "I support" and what "I
condemn”. Please understand me: my comments here are an express warning
sign for the Mickey Mouse minds of the media world.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/3759>
Australia: How the Aboriginal people managed 'the biggest estate on
Earth' <http://links.org.au/node/3758>
Review by *Coral Wynter*
*/The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines made Australia/
*By Bill Gammage
Allen & Unwin, 434 pp., 2012
March 13, 2014 – This is an extraordinary book, one that will increase
your appreciation of the country’s first people, as we begin to
understand their amazing knowledge and sheer genius in the way they
cared for the land, or as Bill Gammage calls it the “biggest estate on
Earth”.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/3758>
Reading Clara Zetkin today: What strategy for women’s liberation?
<http://links.org.au/node/3757>
By *John Riddell*
March 9, 2014 -- In a recent comment to this blog, Tad Tietze defines
Clara Zetkin’s approach to women’s oppression as marked by “consistent
method, flexible application”. To portray this approach, he offers us an
important speech by Zetkin to a convention of German socialists in 1896.
In my view, Zetkin’s address is a classic of Marxism, worth careful
study, but does not offer us a satisfactory strategy for the women’s
liberation struggle today.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/3757>
Germany: Union militant on how wind-power development is held to
ransom for profit <http://links.org.au/node/3755>
March 11, 2014 -- Socialist Alliance member *Zane Alcorn* spoke with
*Ali Can*, a metalworker who has worked in the wind-turbine industry in
the north German portside town Bremerhaven. Ali is a rank and file
organiser with the trade union IGMetal and is an active member of
/Verein für Gleiche Rechte/(Equal Rights Association), a secular Turkish
community centre.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/3755>
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