[Marxism] Links - International journal of socialist renewal - 7 new articles

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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. It aims to promote the renewal of the socialist movement in 
the wake of the collapse of the bureaucratic model of "actually existing 
socialism" in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.

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    What kind of left for the 21st century? Democratic Centralism and
    broad left parties <http://www.dsp.org.au/links/node/259>

*Socialist Resistance steering comittee *

January 2008 -- Since the beginning of the decade important steps have 
been made in rebuilding the left internationally, following the working 
class defeats of the '80s and '90s and the negative impact of the 
collapse of the Soviet Union.

    * Read more <http://www.dsp.org.au/links/node/259>


    Broad parties and narrow visions: the SWP and Respect (part 2)
    <http://www.dsp.org.au/links/node/253>

*Was the split really necessary?*

Many people regret the split, many consider there was no political 
justification for it. Certainly it is regrettable. Certainly there were 
no differences of political programme that could not have been dealt 
with in the same organisation, notwithstanding the SWP's discourse about 
a left/right division. But the clash with the SWP was an accident 
waiting to happen.

    * Read more <http://www.dsp.org.au/links/node/253>


    Broad parties and narrow visions: the SWP and Respect (part 1)
    <http://www.dsp.org.au/links/node/252>

By *Murray Smith*

January 4, 2008 -- The crisis which has led to a split in Respect is an 
important development, affecting as it does the principal force of the 
radical left in England. The future will tell us whether the current 
crisis represents just another failure, another dead-end, another missed 
opportunity for the English left, or whether, as seems increasingly 
possible, it offers Respect itself the chance for a renewal and is 
perhaps a step on the road towards a broader formation.

    * Read more <http://www.dsp.org.au/links/node/252>


    Malaysia: Continued repression by government
    <http://www.dsp.org.au/links/node/251>

Statement by *Sivarajan Arumugam* on behalf of the Socialist Party of 
Malaysia (PSM)

    * Read more <http://www.dsp.org.au/links/node/251>


    India: CPI (ML)'s Kolkata Congress: People's Resistance, Left
    Resurgence <http://www.dsp.org.au/links/node/249>

January 7, 2008 -- The Eighth Congress of the Communist Party of India 
(Marxist-Leninist) [CPI (ML)] has been held successfully in Kolkata. 
Held in the 150th anniversary of the First Indian War of Independence 
and the birth centenary of Shaheed-e-Azam Bhagat Singh, the 8th Congress 
boldly underlined the glorious anti-imperialist legacy of the Indian people.

    * Read more <http://www.dsp.org.au/links/node/249>


    Book review: Cuban Communist makes case for international revolution
    <http://www.dsp.org.au/links/node/248>

By *John Riddell*

Latin America at the Crossroads/. By //Roberto Regalado. //Translation 
by Peter Gellert. Ocean Press (www.oceanbooks.com.au 
<http://www.oceanbooks.com.au/>), 2007, US$17.95; América latina entre 
siglos. Ocean Press, 2007, US$17.95./
This compact book by Roberto Regalado, a veteran member of the Central 
Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, strongly reaffirms the need 
for revolution in Latin America and beyond.

    * Read more <http://www.dsp.org.au/links/node/248>


    DSP Congress reaffirms commitment to broad left regroupment
    <http://www.dsp.org.au/links/node/247>

By *Peter Boyle*
January 7, 2008 -- The 23rd Congress of the Democratic Socialist 
Perspective, a Marxist endency in the Socialist Alliance in Australia, 
reaffirmed its commitment o broader left regroupment.

The Congress noted that a new political terrain was opening up with the
election of the Rudd Labor government on the back of a mass campaign of 
opposition to the anti-worker "Work Choices" laws introduced by the 
former Liberal-National government.

    * Read more <http://www.dsp.org.au/links/node/247>

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