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What's new at Links: Le Blanc on Bensaïd, India, Thailand, Greece
eyewitness, S. Africa, Nigeria,China, Kagalitsky on Odessa
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Paul Le Blanc reviews Daniel Bensaïd's memoir, 'An Impatient Life'
<http://links.org.au/node/3847>
*/An Impatient Life: A Memoir/*
by Daniel Bensaïd, translated by David Fernbach, with an
introduction by Tariq Ali,
Verso Books, 2014.
Review by *Paul Le Blanc*
May 11, 2014 -- /Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal/ --
Daniel Bensaïd (1946-2010) was one of the most respected theorists to
emerge from the 1960s radicals of Western Europe. Always inclined to
think "outside the box", waving aside venerable dogmas and shrugging off
standard formulations, he found fresh ways, energised with the aura of
unorthodoxy, to express and apply truths from the revolutionary Marxist
tradition.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/3847>
India: Modi's BJP a 'grave danger' to women and minorities, says
Kavita Krishnan <http://links.org.au/node/3840>
May 8, 2014 --*Kavita Krishnan* is a central leader of the Communist
Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) and editor of /Liberation/, the
party's central publication. A former leader of the All India Students
Association (AISA), Krishnan is joint secretary of the All India
Progressive Women's Association (AIPWA), which is active among women
workers and agricultural labourers, and has led struggles for the
dignity and rights of Dalit women, and against state repression.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/3840>
Thailand: Judicial coup a blow to democracy
<http://links.org.au/node/3839>
By *Giles Ji Ungpakorn*
May 8, 2014 -- The unelected, anti-democratic and illegitimate
Constitutional Court has staged a coup d'état, overthrowing Prime
Minister Yingluk Shinawatra on a mere technicality.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/3839>
Eyewitness Greece: 'They are stealing everything, even our homes'
<http://links.org.au/node/3846>
By*Afrodity Giannakis*, Thessalonikki
May 12, 2014 -- "I wish I could leave Greece. I can't go on living here.
I work very long hours and live more frugally than ever, but I still
can't pay the bills, the income tax or the other taxes like the property
poll tax. My tax debt keeps building up. I'll end up losing my home.
They are stealing our homes and they are not communists. And people are
getting sadder and madder every day. I can't go on like this."
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/3846>
The real story of South Africa's national election
<http://links.org.au/node/3845>
By *Dale McKinley*
May 11, 2014 -- No sooner had the final results of the just concluded
2014 national elections been announced than President Jacob Zuma gave a
predictably self-congratulatory speech lauding the result as "the will
of all the people". The reality however is that the African National
Congress' victory came from a distinct minority of "the people". The
real "winner", as has been the case since the 2004 elections, was the
stay-away "vote".
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/3845>
Nigeria: Hypocritical West exploits Boko Haram's crimes
<http://links.org.au/node/3844>
By *Tony Iltis*
May 11, 2014 -- More than 270 female secondary students were kidnapped
on April 14 as they sat matriculation exams in the north-east Nigerian
town of Chibok. The kidnappers were members of a religious cult that
calls itself Jama'at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-da'wa wal-Jihad --- Arabic for
Congregation of the People of Tradition for Proselytism and Jihad. The
group is more commonly known by its Hausa nickname, /Boko Haram/, which
translates --- very loosely --- as "Western education is filthy",
although this is not a name that the group itself uses.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/3844>
New strike wave hits China <http://links.org.au/node/3842>
May 3, 2014 -- *Peter Boyle* spoke to *Kevin Lin*, who is doing research
for his PhD at the University of Technology Sydney on the labour
movement in China, about the background to a new wave of strikes in the
country.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/3842>
Boris Kagarlitsky: The ashes of Odessa <http://links.org.au/node/3841>
By *Boris Kagarlitsky*, translated for/Links international Journal of
Socialist Renewal/ by *Renfrey Clarke*
May 7, 2014 -- In the House of Trade Unions in Odessa on May 2 more
people died than over several days of fighting in the Donbass, though in
Kramatorsk the same day government forces also excelled themselves,
killing 10 unarmed local residents who had tried to block the path of
armoured vehicles.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/3841>
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