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By Mick Brooks
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Monday, 13 March 2006 |
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The Internet is open to all, but capitalism demands an owner of everything and payment for everything. This new privatisation of ideas has provoked widespread indignation and sense of injustice. Tight control over intellectual property rights can actually slow down innovation. New technology has transcended the standard capitalist business model. We need to get rid of capitalism in order to unchain human creativity. The Internet shows us a glimpse of what is possible under socialism. Don't let them take it away from us! |
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By the Editorial Board of the US Socialist Appeal
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Friday, 10 March 2006 |
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The stakes are higher than ever. It's becoming increasingly clear to millions of workers that even in the "best of times", capitalism simply doesn't work anymore. The corruption, greed, and mismanagement of the system has reached unheard of proportions. |
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By Jorge Martín - www.handsoffvenezuela.org
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Friday, 10 March 2006 |
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On March 8, the British Parliament held a debate on Venezuela, proposed by Labour MP Colin Burgon, who sparked off Blair’s attack on Hugo Chavez by posing a question to him on Venezuela. “Indeed, some people in Latin America found [the answer] more than disappointing, and it created a minor political tsunami.” |
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By John Peterson
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Friday, 10 March 2006 |
On the weekend of March 4-6, some 500 people from across the US, Canada, Latin America, and Europe gathered in Washington DC for a series of workshops, plenary sessions, cultural events, and demonstrations as part of the Venezuela Solidarity Conference (VSC). For more information please visit www.ushov.org.
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By Jorge Martín - www.handsoffvenezuela.org
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Friday, 10 March 2006 |
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El 8 de marzo el Parlamento británico celebró un debate sobre Venezuela, propuesto por el parlamentario laborista, Colin Burgon, que provocó un ataque de Blair a Hugo Chavez cuando se le planteó una pregunta sobre Venezuela. "Desde luego, alguna gente en América Latina lo encontró [la respuesta] más que decepcionante y esto creó un pequeño tsunami político". |
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By In Defence of Marxism
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Thursday, 09 March 2006 |
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We are proud to announce the recent publication of the Indonesian edition of Reason in Revolt. The book was launched publicly on February 20th at the Gadja Mada University. Here we provide some background information and details of how to order the book in Indonesia. |
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By Alan Woods
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Thursday, 09 March 2006 |
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In his preface to the recently published Indonesian edition of Reason in Revolt, Alan Woods points out that the intense anti-Islamic propaganda in the West is merely a “crude ideological cover for the pretensions and arrogance of imperialism and especially US imperialism, which seeks to dominate the entire world and subject it to its pitiless exploitation”. In answer to all this what is needed is that the rational, scientific outlook of Marxism should become the viewpoint of the labour movement in all countries. |
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By Maarten Vanheuverswyn
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Thursday, 09 March 2006 |
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Last Saturday around 50 people gathered in London for the Marxist.com Day School on Latin America. Alan Woods and Jorge Martin, who both just came back from Cuba, spoke on the Cuban and Venezuelan revolutions. You can also listen to Alan Woods' speech by downloading the audio file. |
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By In Defence of Marxism
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Thursday, 09 March 2006 |
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We have received the following declaration, in both English and Creole, from student groups in Haiti on last month’s elections. The declaration details the difficulties the masses faced in voting and the alliance of the Haitian ruling class with imperialism. |
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By El Militante
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Thursday, 09 March 2006 |
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La comunista cuba Celia Hart concedió esta entrevista al periódico de la corriente marxista El Militante, en la que habla sobre la publicación de los inéditos del Che, la presencia de la Fundación F Engels en la Feria del Libro de la Havana distribuyendo en otros los libros de Trotsky, la publicación de su primer libro y la importancia del reciente discurso de Fidel Castro sobre los peligros que acechan a la revolución cubana. |
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By Jorge Martín
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Wednesday, 08 March 2006 |
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The early origins of International Women’s Day are closely linked to the struggle of women textile workers. This year’s International Women’s Day finds 240 textile workers, mainly women, occupying the premises of the Sel-Fex company in Caracas. Their struggle is no longer just a struggle against the bosses for concrete demands, but a struggle to defend the Bolivarian revolution and to build a better future for Venezuelan working women and all working people in general. |
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By V.I. Lenin
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Wednesday, 08 March 2006 |
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"The working woman and the peasant woman are oppressed by capital, but over and above that, even in the most democratic of the bourgeois republics, they remain, firstly, deprived of some rights because the law does not give them equality with men; and secondly - and this is the main thing - they remain in "household bondage", they continue to be “household slaves", for they are overburdened with the drudgery of the most squalid, backbreaking and stultifying toil in the kitchen and the family household." V.I.Lenin, March 4, 1921 |
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By William Sanabria and Jorge Martín
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Wednesday, 08 March 2006 |
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On Saturday, February 25th a meeting of representatives of the workers in factories that have been expropriated or are occupied took place in the premises of Inveval, in El Carrizal, not far from the Venezuelan capital Caracas. Dozens of workers took part in the meeting, the main aim of which was to set up a national Revolutionary Front of Occupied Factories. |
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By Alan Woods
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Tuesday, 07 March 2006 |
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In his concluding remarks Alan Woods stresses that we have entered a new period, one in which the working class is moving in all corners of the globe. After the defeats of the past a new generation of working class fighters is coming onto the scene of history, a generation that has no alternative but to fight. We are faced with a new revolutionary perspective, a new period that will unfold over some time. We must grasp the opportunity to build the forces of revolutionary Marxism in all countries. |
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By Leon Trotsky
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Monday, 06 March 2006 |
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In the 1930s Mexican president Cardenas came into conflict with imperialism because of several measures he introduced, including land reform and the nationalisation of the oil industry. In this conflict Trotsky emphasised that it was the duty of workers, especially in countries like Britain, to side with the Mexican people against the imperialists.
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By Alon Lessel in Israel
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Monday, 06 March 2006 |
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We publish this article by Alon Lessel in Israel on the recent suspension of Ken Livingstone by the unelected Adjudication Panel. Since writing this article last week, the High Court has blocked Livingstone’s suspension allowing him time to prepare his appeal. |
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By Jorge Martin
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Monday, 06 March 2006 |
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The Bush administration and its allies have launched yet another campaign designed to demonise Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. The latest example is an article in The Washington Times by Stephen Johnson. Jorge Martin takes a look at who Stephen Johnson is, and the dangers of the campaign. |
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By Rob Lyon
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Monday, 06 March 2006 |
Spanish translation of Haiti: Préval declared winner by Rob Lyon (February 17, 2006)
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By Rob Lyon
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Friday, 03 March 2006 |
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Sectarian violence has plagued Iraq since the February 22 destruction of the sacred Shia al-Askariya shrine in As Samarra, pushing the country dangerously close to civil war. As the US army in Iraq faces the prospect of being dragged into such a war, opinion polls in the United States show that support for the Bush administration is at an all time low. The conditions are being laid for an all out explosion both in Iraq and in the United States. |
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