What's new at Links: Honduras insurrection, Chinese revolut...@60, Caster Semenya, Timor Leste & Cuba, Swaziland, W. Sahara, Gramsci, HIV care & Cuba
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If you would like us to consider an article, please send it to li...@dsp.org.au *Please pass on to anybody you think will be interested in Links. * * * (Updated Sept. 28) International solidarity with the Honduran people's struggle for democracy <http://links.org.au/node/1267> /Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal /below is publishing various solidarity statements and reports of actions in solidarity with the democracy struggle of the people of Honduras. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1267> (Updated Sept. 27) Insurrection in Honduras: Resistance Front says 'we won't rest until victory' <http://links.org.au/node/1263> By *Federico Fuentes*, Caracas September 25 --- "The whole world knows that what we have here in Honduras is a coup regime", Armando Licona, a leader from the Revolutionary University Student Front said. /Green Left Weekly/ spoke with Licona, whose organisation is part of the National Resistance Front Against the Coup (FNRG), on the phone from the Honduran capital, Tegucilgalpa. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1263> (Updated Sept. 25) Honduras: Zelaya returns --- Resistance prepares more action; coup regime reacts with repression <http://links.org.au/node/1261> By *Federico Fuentes*, Caracas September 22, 2009 --- The dictatorship in Honduras, which overthrew the elected government of President Manuel Zelaya on June 28, has unleashed a wave of repression against the masses of people who have taken to the streets following Zelaya's dramatic return on September 21. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1261> People's Republic of China at 60: socialist revolution, capitalist restoration <http://links.org.au/node/1270> /*[Click HERE <http://links.org.au/taxonomy/term/404> for more analysis of the Chinese Revolution and its evolution.] */ By *Chris Slee* September 23, 2009 -- October 1 will mark 60 years since Mao Zedong proclaimed the creation of the People's Republic of China. This followed the victory of the People's Liberation Army, led by the Communist Party of China (CCP), over the US-backed Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist Party, KMT). In 1921, when the CCP was founded, China was in chaos. Western intervention --- military, economic, political and cultural --- had destroyed or undermined traditional Chinese institutions. New, stable institutions had not been created. Various imperialist powers grabbed pieces of Chinese territory. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1270> People's Republic of China at 60: Maoism and popular power, 1949--1969 <http://links.org.au/node/1269> By *Pierre Rousset* With the proclamation of the People's Republic of China on October 1, 1949, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) found itself at the head of a country three times larger than Western Europe, with a population of some 500 million. The internal situation was favourable to the revolutionary regime. At the end of a long series of civil and foreign wars, the population sought and relied on the new leaders to achieve peace while the ongoing people's mobilisation opened the way for a deep reform of society. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1269> People's Republic of China at 60: 1925--1949 -- Origins of the Chinese revolution <http://links.org.au/node/1268> Retrospectively, we know the importance of the period opened in China by the overthrow in 1911 of the Qing Dynasty: it concluded, nearly four decades later, with the victory of the Communist revolution on October 1, 1949 -- an event of historical scope. However, at the time, the future of the country looked very uncertain. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1268> The persecution of Caster Semenya -- sport and intersex people's rights <http://links.org.au/node/1266> By *Farida Iqbal* September 20, 2009 -- Eighteen-year-old South African track athlete Caster Semenya has done nothing wrong. Yet she has been accused of deceiving the world about her sex. There is nothing wrong with Semenya's body. Yet her body has been paraded in front of the world by the mass media as if she were a sideshow freak. Semenya is a talented athlete. Yet her career is at stake. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1266> Los! Hau Bele! -- `Yo! Si Puedo' comes to Timor Leste: Cuba assists the eradication of illiteracy <http://links.org.au/node/1265> By *Bob Boughton* In Timor Leste [East Timor], which is one of the world's newest countries and Australia's poorest Asia-Pacific neighbour, Cuba is delivering an educational aid program which aims to eradicate illiteracy, currently affecting nearly 50% of the adult population, within a period of less than 10 years. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1265> Swaziland: Democracy leader released after 340 days, struggle continues <http://links.org.au/node/1264> September 22, 2009 -- Democracy activists in Swaziland celebrated on September 22 after the leader of the country's opposition was acquitted of terrorism charges and freed from prison after 340 days. Banned People's United Democratic Movement (PUDEMO) leader Mario Masuku (pictured above) was arrested and charged with terrorism on November 15, 2008. The charge centred on seditious statements he had allegedly made during the funeral of a militant. Judge Mbutfo Mamba acquitted Mr Masuku because the evidence was too weak to link him to the charge. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1264> Western Sahara: Venezuela's President Chavez calls for liberation of the Sahrawi people <http://links.org.au/node/1262> By the *Bolivarian News Agency* September 21, 2009 -- The president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez Frias, expressed his solidarity to the people of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic to reach their independence from Morocco. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1262> Gramsci and hegemony <http://links.org.au/node/1260> By *Trent Brown* Antonio Gramsci is an important figure in the history of Marxist theory. While Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels provided a rigorous analysis of capital at the social and economic levels -- particularly showing how capital antagonises the working class and gives rise to crisis -- Gramsci supplemented this with a sophisticated theory of the political realm and how it is organically/dialectically related to social and economic conditions. He provides us with a theory of how the proletariat must organise politically if it is to effectively respond to capital's crises and failures, and bring about revolutionary change. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1260> HIV/AIDS treatment in Cuba: a rights-based analysis; Lessons and challenges <http://links.org.au/node/1258> By *Tim Anderson* Cuba has achieved the lowest rate of HIV infection and the highest level of AIDS treatment in the Caribbean region. Yet the Cuban HIV program --- part of its famous health system --- has been subjected to many criticisms, usually linked to the themes of "freedom" and "rights." These criticisms must be seen in the broader context of demands for economic "freedoms" in Cuba and in the context of US demands for the dismantling of Cuban socialism and for widespread privatisation, including privatisation of the public health system. Outside understandings of the Cuban health system are further undermined by the US economic blockade of Cuba, roundly condemned each year by the United Nations General Assembly, which prevents normal scientific and cultural exchange between the US and Cuba. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1258> * * * Links seeks to promote the international exchange of information, experience of struggle, theoretical analysis and views of political strategy and tactics within the international left. It is a forum for open and constructive dialogue between active socialists coming from different political traditions. It seeks to bring together those in the international left who are opposed to neoliberal economic and social policies. 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