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PHILIPPINES: BUILDING A SOCIALIST-GREEN-PROGRESSIVE ELECTORAL SLATE

 



 

By Sonny Melencio

November 25, 2021  — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted
from Rappler — Partido Lakas ng Masa (PLM) fielded almost a complete slate from
presidency, vice presidency, senators, and partylist in the 2022 elections. Our
slate consists of labor leader Ka Leody de Guzman for president, activist
parliamentarian and Laban ng Masa chairperson Walden Bello as vice president,
workers’ advocate Luke Espiritu as senator, and environmental leaders Roy
Cabonegro and David D’Angelo also as senators. 

We are also running as PLM partylist in Congress, with nominees coming from
public sector unions, people’s organizations, women, and urban poor groups. We
have a few local candidates contesting political clans and dynasties in areas
such as Carmona, Cavite; Caloocan City; Zambales; and others.

Fielding candidates for top posts is a bold and daring move for Left groups. It
has never been done before. The closest experience is the running of eight
senatorial candidates by Partido ng Bayan (PnB) in 1987, shortly after the EDSA
People’s Power Revolution in 1986.

 * Partido Lakas ng Masa
 * Philippines
 * Sonny Melencio

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BASQUE INDEPENDENTIST LEFT: PAIN CAUSED BY ETA ‘SHOULD NEVER HAVE HAPPENED’

 



 

By Dick Nichols

November 15, 2021 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal — The
casual observer of the Spanish Basque Country (Euskadi) might have thought that
the October 18 declaration of left-independentist alliance EH Bildu and its
largest affiliate Sortu would have been welcomed by all sides of politics (see
English version here).

The statement, which was read in Spanish by EH Bildu coordinator general Arnaldo
Otegi and in Basque (euskara) by Sortu general secretary Arkaitz Rodríguez,
delivered what many have long sought from the abertzale (patriotic) left:
acknowledgment of the suffering caused by the 43-year-long military-terrorist
actions of its armed wing, Basque Homeland and Freedom (ETA). 

 * Basque Country
 * Dick Nichols

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REFORM OR REVOLUTION? THE LESSONS OF CHILE — A CONTRIBUTION TO A DEBATE

 



 

By Geoff Mirelowitz

November 14, 2021 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted
from World-Outlook — September 11 marked the 48th anniversary of the 1973 bloody
military coup, backed by Washington, which overthrew the elected Unidad Popular
(Popular Unity) government led by Salvador Allende in Chile.

On September 12, Jacobin, a magazine that describes itself as “a leading voice
of the American left, offering socialist perspectives on politics, economics,
and culture,” published an interview by Mia Dragnic with Tomás Moulian titled,
“Salvador Allende Was Overthrown Because His Government Showed Chile Could Be
Transformed.” Moulian is a sociologist today. According to Jacobin, he was “one
of the leading militants of the Popular Unitary Action Movement (MAPU Obrero
Campesino), a left-wing party that played a key role in Allende’s Popular Unity
government,” and a “pre-candidate for the Communist Party in the 2005
presidential election.”

Eric Blanc’s article, “Socialists Should Take the Right Lessons from the Russian
Revolution,” also originally appeared in Jacobin in July.

 * Chile

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WHAT ARE THE ‘RIGHT LESSONS’ FOR SOCIALISTS? A REPLY TO ERIC BLANC

 



 

By Mike Taber

November 14, 2021 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted
from John Riddell's Marxist Essays and Commentary via World-Outlook — Eric Blanc
is a serious and dedicated socialist historian and activist who doesn’t hesitate
to jump into the fray and take positions he knows are controversial. Such an
attitude is commendable, even if I disagree with his conclusions. His latest
article, “Socialists Should Take the Right Lessons from the Russian Revolution”
— published in Jacobin and reprinted on John Riddell’s website — is no exception
and merits careful examination.

In his article Blanc aims to set the record straight on V. I. Lenin and the
Russian Revolution, and to demolish the “myth of Bolshevik exceptionalism,”
which he asserts is “wrong for our own time.” Instead, he seeks to establish the
“right lessons” socialists should take from the history of the fight for
“socialist transformation.”

 * Eric Blanc
 * Russian Revolution

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SOCIALISTS SHOULD TAKE THE RIGHT LESSONS FROM THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION

 



 

By Eric Blanc

November 14, 2021 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted
from World-Outlook — Socialists have rightly taken inspiration from the Russian
Revolution for generations, but many of the lessons drawn from it are wrong for
our own time. To make change today, we need to take democratic socialism
seriously as a theory and practice.

Radicals have lived under the political shadow of the Russian Revolution for
more than a hundred years. Inspired by the example of 1917, generation after
generation of socialists sought to learn and implement what they took to be the
core political lessons of the Bolsheviks.

Though millions of activists gave everything to this project and played
important roles in winning gains for working people across the world, Leninist
parties have never come close to making their own revolution in advanced
capitalist democracy. The tragedy of the Bolsheviks’ inspiring example was not
only that they so quickly succumbed to the horrors of Stalinism, but that they
over-projected a revolutionary approach ill-suited for parliamentary contexts.

 * Eric Blanc
 * Russian Revolution

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‘THE RETURN OF THE DIALECTICS OF NATURE’: 2020 DEUTSCHER PRIZE LECTURE BY JOHN
BELLAMY FOSTER (PLUS DISCUSSION)

 



 

November 14, 2021 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal — This is a
prerecording of the 2020 Deutscher Prize Lecture by John Bellamy Foster. The
title of the lecture is: “The Return of the Dialectics of Nature: Marxian
Ecology and the Struggle for Freedom as Necessity.” In addition to this lecture
a remote panel discussion was held on November 12, 2021.



 * climate change
 * John Bellamy Foster

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THE ROAD AHEAD: CUBA AFTER THE JULY 11 PROTESTS

 



 

By William M. LeoGrande, John M. Kirk and Philip Brenner

November 11, 2021  — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted
from Center for Latin American & Latino Studies — Fifteen months before the
island-wide protests that rocked Cuba on July 11, 2021, Rowman and Littlefield
published Cuba at the Crossroads, which we edited. The book explored several
challenges the country was facing—though at the time of writing COVID-19 was not
among them—and anticipated that change would be inevitable. Contrary to a common
narrative that Cuba is mired in the twentieth century unable to adapt to new
circumstances, Cuba at the Crossroads highlighted changes that had occurred in
the six years since we had edited A Contemporary Cuba Reader: The Revolution
under Raúl Castro. But most observers did not appreciate how angry many Cubans
have become over the slow pace of change and the government’s seeming lack of
understanding of the suffering Cubans were experiencing. The unprecedented
outpouring of protests on July 11 surprised analysts and even the protest
organizers themselves. 

 * cuba

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NEOLIBERALISM, TRADE UNIONS AND THE LEFT WITH SAM GINDIN

 

The Scarlet Standard · Neoliberalism, Unions, and the Left ft. Sam Gindin

 

November 11, 2021 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted
from Socialist Project — The Scarlet Standard are joined by Sam Gindin, a
legendary Canadian labour researcher, author, and organizer, to chat about a
wide-range of topics involving the state of labour in North America. They try to
dissect the pesky truth of neoliberalism, the limits of unions, and what is next
for the left under Biden.

 * Canada
 * trade unions

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PATH TO EXTINCTION OR PATH TO A LIVABLE FUTURE?

 



 

By Don Fitz

November 6, 2021 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal — As climate
change leads humanity’s march to Armageddon, data surfacing during late
2021 suggests that the march could be much briefer than previously thought.
“Nature is starting to emit greenhouse gases in competition with cars, planes,
trains, and factories,” asserts Robert Hunziker. The Amazon has switched from
soaking up CO2 to emitting it. Likewise, the Arctic has flipped from being a
carbon sink to becoming an emission source. Permafrost is giving off the three
main greenhouse gases (GHGs): CO2, methane, and nitrous oxide. So much Siberian
permafrost is melting that buildings are collapsing as methane bombs explode,
resulting in craters 100 feet deep.

 * climate change
 * Don Fitz

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VENEZUELA: UNITED STATES CONTINUES MEDDLING WITH ELECTION

 



 

November 6, 2021 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted
from Green Left — Then-Special Representative Elliott Abrams declared last year
that Donald Trump's administration was "working hard" to oust Venezuela’s
President Nicolás Maduro from office.

Now, Abrams (currently a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations),
along with the Joe Biden administration, is urging the Venezuelan opposition to
participate in the state and local elections on November 21. Washington’s change
of tack, however, is a far cry from renouncing the right to intervene in
Venezuela’s internal affairs.

 * Steve Ellner
 * Venezuela

 * Read more


CLIMATE: COP26 - ENOUGH BLAH BLAH, ONLY STRUGGLE PAYS OFF

 



 

By Daniel Tanuro*

November 2, 2021 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted
from Life on the Left — The increasing number of climate disasters around the
world is the result of a warming of “only” 1.1° to 1.2° Celsius above the
pre-industrial era. From reading the IPCC’s special 1.5°C report[1], any
reasonable reader will conclude that everything, absolutely everything, must be
done to keep the Earth well below this level of warming. Beyond that, the risks
increase very rapidly.[2] There is even a growing possibility that a cascade of
positive feedbacks will cause the planet to tip irreversibly towards a
“hothouse” that would eventually result in sea levels thirteen or even several
dozen metres higher than they are today.[3] An unimaginable dystopia...
certainly incompatible with the existence of seven billion human beings on
Earth!

 * climate change

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INDIA: HOW NOT TO FIGHT FASCISM

 



 

By Kavita Krishnan

October 31, 2021 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted
from Liberation — On September 28, Bhagat Singh’s birth anniversary, Kanhaiya
Kumar announced his decision to leave the CPI and join the Congress party. He
joined Congress along with Congress-backed Gujarat MLA and Left-leaning
Ambedkarite leader of the Dalit movement Jignesh Mevani.

Kanhaiya acknowledged he was “born in the CPI”, but that he felt the need to
leave it and join the Congress since the Congress is the only party that can
“lead in the ideological war to save the idea of India.”He said that today’s
India needs Bhagat Singh’s courage, Mahatma Gandhi’s unity, and BR Ambedkar’s
quest for equality, and implied that it was in the Congress that these three
essential elements could unite and find a home.   

We wish Kanhaiya and Jignesh nothing but success in the political careers of
their choice. But the political arguments about fighting fascism offered by
Kanhaiya beg several questions and call for closer scrutiny.

 * Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation
 * India

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PHILIPPINES: ACTIVIST ACADEMIC WALDEN BELLO TO RUNS AS LABAN NG MASA VP

 



 

By Laban ng Masa

October 31, 2021 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted
from Laban ng Masa — Laban ng Masa Chairperson Walden Bello officially filed his
papers to run for Vice President through an authorized representative in Manila
today. Bello, a former member of the House of Representatives, is an
internationally renowned expert in development and economics and a legendary
activist against the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos.

Running under Laban ng Masa and Partido Lakas ng Masa, he is substituting PLM
Vice Presidential candidate Raquel Castillo. He is teaming up with presidential
candidate Ka Leody de Guzman to forward a comprehensive agenda not just for
regime change but also systemic change.

Bello’s tenure as the Chairperson of the Committee on Overseas Workers' Affairs
from 2010 to 2015 was marked by his aggressive promotion of the welfare of OFWs
that included his rescuing them from the civil war in Syria.

 * Laban ng Masa
 * Philippines
 * Walden Bello

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AS CHÁVEZ SAID, ‘LET'S NOT CHANGE THE CLIMATE, LET'S CHANGE THE SYSTEM!’: A
CONVERSATION WITH MAX AJL

 



 

By Cira Pascual Marquina

October 31, 2021 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted
from Venezuela Analysis — This week and through November 12, the United Nations
Climate Change Conference (COP26) takes place in Glasgow, Scotland. COP26 brings
together heads of state and other prominent figures to talk about climate
change. However, the conference won’t address the central environmental problem:
capitalism. In this interview we talk to Max Ajl, author of A People’s Green New
Deal (Pluto Press, 2021), which examines the capitalist roots of the
environmental crisis, and addresses its impact on countries of the Global South
such as Venezuela.

 * climate change
 * Venezuela

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A POSTNIHILIST MANIFESTO: MAKING AFGHANISTAN AND OTHER MARGINS THE LOCUS FOR
WORLD EMANCIPATION

 



 

By Saladdin Ahmed 

October 31, 2021 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal — Just
before her execution, in 1919, the internationalist revolutionary thinker Rosa
Luxemburg, in a speech in Berlin, said, “if the proletariat fails to fulfill its
class duties, if it fails to realize socialism, we shall crash down together to
a common doom.”[1] Around the same time, Walter Benjamin, at the age of
twenty-seven, wrote, “Only for the sake of the hopeless ones have we been given
hope.”[2] After about twenty years, on an autumn day, fascism brought death to
Benjamin too, who was another excluded voice in Europe, yet certainly one of its
gentlest souls of all times. 

Those desperate calls for creating real hope in a world that is stuck in despair
and moving into an abyss remain ever more relevant. The geographies of intensive
suffering have shifted here and there, but ultimately the crash down has only
become worse,[3] and the only true hope is the one that will emerge from amid
the doomed and the hopeless ones. 

 * Afghanistan

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GREEN DESIGNS FOR 21ST CENTURY SOCIALISM

 



 

By Richard Westra

October 23, 2021 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted
from Socialist Project — Before turning to the subject matter at hand two
abiding issues in Marxist thinking need to be addressed. First, when Marx
inveighed against Utopian Socialist futuristic model building, he never intended
it to become a mantra dissuading socialists from thinking practically about
socialist institutional design. Rather, Marx simply insisted that such endeavors
only be undertaken after knowledge of the then forming capitalist economy had
been produced. This is the task of Marx’s magisterial economic
writing Capital that he devoted much of his life to completing. Second, while
Marx’s pithy theory of historical materialism in the (in)famous Preface spells
out in broad brush terms the general process of historical change: “At a certain
stage of development, the material productive forces of society come into
conflict with the existing relations of production,” in Capital Marx offers a
far more precise means of conceptualizing the specific historical transformation
from capitalism to socialism.

 * Ecosocialism

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CHALLENGE CAPITALIST USE OF AGRICULTURE AS A WEAPON OF DOMINATION

 



 

By Don Fitz

October 23, 2021 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal — It is time
to take action against corporate methods of agriculture which poison the food
our families eat, threaten the survival of soil ecosystems, destroy the
livelihood of farmers, crush farmworker organizing efforts and subjugate entire
countries. Here are a few of the many ways that people are challenging
capitalist agriculture, from the very theoretical to the very concrete.

The core problem of agriculture is 10,000 years old. Cultivation of annual grain
crops inevitably degrades the soil ecosystem and depletes soil organic matter.
Perennial grain crops and cropping systems now being developed can resolve this,
making food-producing ecosystems as resilient as natural ecosystems.

In India, the small and marginal farmers who comprise 83% of farm households
suffer brazen commercialization of the countryside. The steady withdrawal of
state support causes a decline in incomes. Yet, a growing network of people's
collectives and agro-ecological approaches are reinvigorating Indian farming and
augmenting incomes.

 * agriculture
 * Don Fitz

 * Read more


ECOSOCIALISM 2021: SYSTEM CHANGE NOT CLIMATE CHANGE

 

Three days of workshops and panels, featuring local and international speakers.

Get Tickets

This event will be available both online and in person at locations including
Brisbane, Cairns, & Perth.

 * Conference

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THE COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS

 



 

Introduction by Richard Fidler

October 18, 2021 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted
from Life on the Left — The soviet seizure of power under Bolshevik leadership,
in October 1917, surprised many socialists outside of Russia, particularly in
Western Europe where the tendency was to anticipate socialist victory through
the election of a socialist majority and parliamentary adoption of the kind of
program outlined by the prominent Marxist intellectual Karl Kautsky in The Road
to Power.

 * Communist International

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FOOD SOVEREIGNTY: A MANIFESTO FOR THE FUTURE OF OUR PLANET

 



 

By La Via Campesina

October 18, 2021 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted
from La Via Campesina — 

Food Sovereignty is a philosophy of life.

It offers a vision for our collective future, and defines the principles around
which we organize our daily living and co-exist with Mother Earth. It is a
celebration of life and all the diversity around us. It embraces every element
of our cosmos; the sky above our heads, the land beneath our feet, the air we
breathe, the forests, the mountains, valleys, farms, oceans, rivers and ponds.
It recognizes and protects the inter-dependency between eight million species
that share this home with us.

We inherited this collective wisdom from our ancestors, who ploughed the land
and waded the waters for 10,000 years, a period in which we evolved into an
agrarian society. Food Sovereignty promotes justice, equality, dignity,
fraternity and solidarity. Food Sovereignty is also the science of life – built
through lived realities spread across countless generations, each teaching their
progeny something new, inventing new methods and techniques which sat
harmoniously with nature.

 * environment
 * food
 * Via Campesina

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