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By Beenish Shoro
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Friday, 31 March 2006 |
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We provide this report of the book
launch meeting of Lal Khan’s book Kashmir’s Ordeal – A
Revolutionary Way Out. At the peak of the meeting nearly 1000
people were present, who had come to hear Alan Woods and Lal Khan
speak on the question of Kashmir. As one comrade said afterwards, the
meeting will turn out to be an important turning point and milestone
in the struggle for a socialist Kashmir. Picture gallery available.
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By Alan Woods
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Friday, 31 March 2006 |
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We provide this report by Alan Woods
from Kashmir, which details the beauty of the region, the pride and
strength of its people, as well as the terrible destruction caused by
the earthquake.
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By Stephen Philion
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Friday, 31 March 2006 |
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On February 22, the Chinese government shut down the China Workers' Website
and Discussion Lists, a website that allowed Chinese workers and farmers to
discuss their struggles and the problems they face. The developments and changes
in China are of extreme significance for workers and youth of the whole world
and in this regard, this interview, conducted by Stephen Philion for the Monthly
Review Magazine, is
extremely interesting and important, and provides an insight into the conditions
of the Chinese workers, youth and peasants.
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By In Defence of Marxism
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Friday, 31 March 2006 |
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Here
we publish a statement of one of the administrators of the China Workers'
Website on the recent closing of their site.
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By Maarten Vanheuverswyn – www.handsoffvenezuela.org
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Friday, 31 March 2006 |
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On Monday March 27, the British Channel
4 screened a documentary on Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez that can only be described as scandalous.
Unfortunately this is not just an isolated
incident, but part of a more general and concerted effort to spread
half-truths and open lies about Chavez with the aim of preparing
world public opinion for “regime change” in Venezuela.
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By Frente Revolucionario de Trabajadores de Empresas Tomadas y en Cogestión
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Friday, 31 March 2006 |
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La clase trabajadora al frente de la segunda batalla de Santa Inés por
la reelección del Presidente Chávez, contra el imperialismo y el
capitalismo. Esta batalla de Santa Inés 2 debe ser una batalla por
completar la revolución en el socialismo. Implementemos la toma de
empresas, las expropiaciones, el control obrero y la cogestión en toda
Venezuela.
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By Ubaldo O. - Periodico Obrero Militante Mexico
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Thursday, 30 March 2006 |
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The move to the left that we workers
are experiencing will be sooner or later reflected in the United
States. The revolutions and insurrections we are seeing in Latin
America, particularly in Venezuela and Bolivia, not only inspired the
movements we are seeing at the moment in Los Angeles, they also mark
a new period in the class struggle.
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By Mikael Duthu
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Thursday, 30 March 2006 |
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As we reported, French workers and students took to the
streets on Tuesday, March 28, in a massive way. The only way the
workers and youth can move forward to victory and avoid falling into
tiredness and disappointment, is by declaring a proper and effective
general strike aimed not only at the withdrawal of the Contrat
Première Embauche but also at the unseating of the current
government, which has by far overrun its mandate.
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By Phil Mitchinson
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Thursday, 30 March 2006 |
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When Blair was first
elected he promised his government would be ‘whiter than white’,
a phrase meant to distance himself from the sleaze of the Major
years. Now Blair is immersed in sleaze himself. From the lies over
the Iraq war we now have the scandal of selling peerages to the
biggest bidder. Blair has done his utmost to destroy the Labour
Party. It will be up to the trade unions and the ranks of the party
to rebuild it as a fighting workers’ organisation.
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By Jorge Martin (Hands Off Venezuela – www.handsoffvenezuela.org)
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Thursday, 30 March 2006 |
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The US Navy will be sending four ships, one of them carrying 60 fighter
planes, and a total of 6,500 soldiers on a major military exercise in
the Caribbean starting in the next few weeks. This can only be interpreted as a threat and as a concrete preparation for
future military intervention against the Venezuelan relvolution.
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By In Defence of Marxism
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Thursday, 30 March 2006 |
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We have just been informed that yesterday the Greek government has withdrawn
from its plans to close the plant in Thessaloniki. They say it will reopen
"partially". This is a big victory for the workers after two months of
determined struggle. For now the solidarity appeal is suspended as we await the
outcome.
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By Ubaldo O. - Periodico Obrero Militante Mexico
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Thursday, 30 March 2006 |
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El giro a la izquierda que estamos
viviendo entre los trabajadores tarde o temprano se iba a reflejar en
los Estados Unidos, las revoluciones e insurrecciones que hemos
presenciado en América Latina no nada más son inspiración
para las movilizaciones que ahora estamos viendo en los Ángeles,
sino han marcado un nuevo periodo en la historia de la lucha de
clases.
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By Yossi Schwartz in Israel
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Wednesday, 29 March 2006 |
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Kadima, the new party
founded by Sharon, has emerged as the first party in the Israeli
parliament, the Knesset, but it will have to govern in a coalition.
No party has an outright majority. Now the new Labour leadership has
indicated it would serve in such a coalition. This means accepting
anti-working class policies. In these conditions the Labour Party
will come under immense pressure from the bosses and the workers,
pulling in opposite directions.
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By Pam Woods – shop steward Unison Islington (personal capacity)
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Wednesday, 29 March 2006 |
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In the
biggest strike since the historic general strike of 1926, over a
million local government workers struck in defence of their pensions
yesterday, March 28th. The mood on the picket lines was
cheerful, buoyant and confident in what was undoubtedly the largest
and most solid public sector strike ever in Britain.
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By Ezker Marxista-El Militante
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Wednesday, 29 March 2006 |
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Last week's ceasefire declaration by ETA will be of great
significance for the coming months and years. Here we publish the
statement of the revolutionary Marxists of the Basque country and
Spain gathered in Ezker Marxista and El Militante.
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By Dax Toscano (El Militante - Ecuador)
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Wednesday, 29 March 2006 |
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Frente a las movilizaciones populares que se están dando en varias
provincias del Ecuador para oponerse a la firma del TLC y exigir la
salida de la empresa petrolera norteamericana OXY, el gobierno
transitorio de Alfredo Palacio decretó en horas de la noche del día
martes 21 de marzo de 2006 el estado de Emergencia en las zonas donde
se han producido mayores protestas y bloqueos de carreteras por parte
de campesinos e indígenas de la sierra central.
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By Greg Oxley in Paris
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Tuesday, 28 March 2006 |
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Today’s
strikes and demonstrations brought over three million workers onto
the streets of France, with 700,000 marchers in Paris and 250,000 in
Marseille. In the last 60 years, this movement has only been equalled
by those of the revolutionary events of May and June 1968. It is
provoking serious divisions right at the top of the ruling class, a
clear symptom of revolutionary developments.
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By Stamatis Karayannopoulos – editor of Marxistiki Foni
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Tuesday, 28 March 2006 |
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Another massive general strike rocked
Greek society on March 15. This came about in a situation of growing
class conflict. The result has been a big fall in support for the
present right wing New Democracy government. The Greek bosses are now
openly discussing the possibility of French contagion in Greece.
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By Marxistiki Foni - www.marxismos.com
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Tuesday, 28 March 2006 |
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Representatives of the
Editorial Board of “Marxistiki Foni” met the workers of the
fertilizer factory in Thessaloniki, who had once again come down to
Athens (a 6-hour train journey), to protest in front of the Ministry
of Labour against the closure of their factory. We publish the
announcement of their union. We should all support their struggle!
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By Jérôme Métellus (PCF Paris) - www.lariposte.com
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Tuesday, 28 March 2006 |
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Today millions of French workers and youth demonstrated against the hated CPE. Here we are publishing the text of a leaflet produced for the occasion by the French Marxists of La Riposte.
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By HOV Germany
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Tuesday, 28 March 2006 |
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Hands
off Venezuela in Germany played a decisively role in some successful public meetings with Che Guevara's
daughter, Aleida Guevara, last week. 450 workers, youth and Latin
American immigrants attended the Frankfurt meeting on Saturday, 25
March, and 250 were packed into the hall in Wiesbaden two days
earlier.
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By Ezker Marxista-El Militante - www.ezkermarxista.org
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Tuesday, 28 March 2006 |
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La declaración de ETA constituye un acontecimiento de gran calado que
marcará el escenario político de los próximos meses y años. Para los
marxistas revolucionarios de Euskal Herria y del Estado español
agrupados en Ezker Marxista y El Militante, larenuncia a la actividad
armada por parte de ETA es una buena noticia que, sin lugar a dudas, ha
sido determinada por el movimiento de masas desarrollado a lo largo y
ancho del Estado español durante estos últimos seis años.
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