Nieuws uit de linkse wereld

[roger verhiest]

3. Links & Resources for Activists:


-Obama: Grassroots Movement?
[ http://www.socialistaction.org/piper2.htm ]

-Fidel Castro on Barack Obama
[ http://www.socialistaction.org/castro1.htm ]

-Left Trend Continues in Latin America
[ http://www.socialistaction.org/foley109.htm ]

-Revolts Erupt Worldwide of Food Prices Skyrocket
[ http://www.socialistaction.org/pollack38.htm ]

-Report on the May 22-25 "A World in Revolt" Conference
[ http://www.socialistaction.org/ca56.htm ]

-Video of Celia Hart Speaking at "World in Revolt" Conference
[ http://video.google.ca/videoplay?doc...54615822728626 ]
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Er zijn geen vragen meer voor FVDW, dus stel ik me voor dat we ons eens richten op onze linkse nederlandstalige kameraden en eens kijken of ze het met de berichten uit de "socialistische wereld" iets kunnen aanvangen.

[roger verhiest]

Voor diegenen die niet graag lange teksten lezen
conclusie over Obama :

To be fully effective, workers in the United States need to form their own independent party. This party would fight for economic and social justice—and not just at election time. It would strive to bring together the unions and other movements around demands that can openly challenge this criminal system that puts capitalist profits before people’s needs.

Klinkt dat niet duidelijk "links" en kennen we dat niet van dichter bij huis ?

[roger verhiest]

& Inderdaad "den ouwen" is nog lang niet dood :

The good will and determination of people constitute limitless resources that cannot be kept and would not fit in a bank’s vault. They cannot spring from the hypocritical politics of an empire.



Fidel Castro Ruz

May 25, 2008

[roger verhiest]

Ik zou toch aanraden het artikel over de ontwikkeling van links in latijns America helemaal aandachtig te lezen - in het bijzonder het laatste stukje over de recente vormen van separatisme zijn wel interessant (waar kennen we dit independisme nog van ?)

Threat by Bolivian rightists


The regime of Evo Morales in Bolivia, seen as Chavez's main ally among the new reform governments, is now facing growing threats. They have been developing for a long time because of the failure of the regime to attack the roots of the imperialist-dominated capitalist system.


These threats have been crystalized in the unofficial referendum the rulers of four right-wing-dominated provinces are organizing for May 4. The objective of the rightists is to seize an extensive "autonomy" that would amount to, or prepare the way for secession. These provinces are where the country’s major natural resources are located.


On April 23, Chavez called for an emergency conference in the Bolivian capital of La Paz of ALBA, an economic bloc between Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, and Nicaragua—along with Ecuador, the Dominican Republic, and St. Kitts as candidate members—to discuss the threat of the right-wing separatists. This seems to be another example of Chavez’s utopian policy of populist or bourgeois nationalist blocs.


ALBA is significant as an example of international economic cooperation in the interests of the masses. But it has essentially only a symbolic importance. Aside from a certain attractiveness of contributions of Venezuelan oil or oil money, ALBA has no political or economic weight.


The only way to combat the right-wing threat in Bolivia is to mobilize the workers and the oppressed—in particular, the indigenous peoples who live on top of the natural resources in the provinces ruled by the right. That requires a revolutionary orientation, which is different from diplomatic accords among populist bourgeois governments.


What is needed in Bolivia is a workers movement that can give Morales the same sort of lesson that the Sidor workers gave Chavez and then go on to take the leadership itself. Without such developments, the radicalization in Latin America—despite the mass hatred of capitalism and U.S. imperialist dominance that it expresses—can peter out in disillusionment.

[roger verhiest]

Het stukje over dde voedselcrisis en de noodzakelijke wereldrevolutie legt een dilemma voor:

Het globale kapitalisme wil deze crisis oplossen volgens het beproefde recept van industrialisatie van de landbvouw en de massale import in de "hongerlanden" van landbouwproducten ttz. verbeterde geteelt door genetische manipulatie

De locale overheden, zoeken de oplossing in het opleggen van exporttaksen op landbouwproducten.

Elders zoekt men het in herverdeling van de landbouwgronden en een terugkeer naar meer biologische (petroleumvrije) oplossingen.

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Ik zie in de nabije toekomst dat dit wel eens een lakmoesproef kan zijn om vast te stellen dat een komplete diversiteit in het aanpakken van economische problemen wel eens onmogelijk zou kunnen blijken.

[Bolsjewiek]

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door roger verhiest

Ik zou toch aanraden het artikel over de ontwikkeling van links in latijns America helemaal aandachtig te lezen - in het bijzonder het laatste stukje over de recente vormen van separatisme zijn wel interessant (waar kennen we dit independisme nog van ?)

Threat by Bolivian rightists


The regime of Evo Morales in Bolivia, seen as Chavez's main ally among the new reform governments, is now facing growing threats. They have been developing for a long time because of the failure of the regime to attack the roots of the imperialist-dominated capitalist system.


These threats have been crystalized in the unofficial referendum the rulers of four right-wing-dominated provinces are organizing for May 4. The objective of the rightists is to seize an extensive "autonomy" that would amount to, or prepare the way for secession. These provinces are where the country’s major natural resources are located.


On April 23, Chavez called for an emergency conference in the Bolivian capital of La Paz of ALBA, an economic bloc between Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, and Nicaragua—along with Ecuador, the Dominican Republic, and St. Kitts as candidate members—to discuss the threat of the right-wing separatists. This seems to be another example of Chavez’s utopian policy of populist or bourgeois nationalist blocs.


ALBA is significant as an example of international economic cooperation in the interests of the masses. But it has essentially only a symbolic importance. Aside from a certain attractiveness of contributions of Venezuelan oil or oil money, ALBA has no political or economic weight.


The only way to combat the right-wing threat in Bolivia is to mobilize the workers and the oppressed—in particular, the indigenous peoples who live on top of the natural resources in the provinces ruled by the right. That requires a revolutionary orientation, which is different from diplomatic accords among populist bourgeois governments.


What is needed in Bolivia is a workers movement that can give Morales the same sort of lesson that the Sidor workers gave Chavez and then go on to take the leadership itself. Without such developments, the radicalization in Latin America—despite the mass hatred of capitalism and U.S. imperialist dominance that it expresses—can peter out in disillusionment.

Het referendum in de rechtse staten is nietszeggend omdat enkel de rijken erin meestemmen. Anders zouden de rechtsen nooit een referendum organiseren. De massa's mobiliseren in een revolutionaire partij is hoogstnoodzakelijk. Men moet het Volk er bewust van maken dat ze het Volk in de door rechts regeerde gebieden moeten helpen en vermijden dat ze in onderdrukking en halve slavernij terechtkomen.