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    Indonesia: Students launch nationalisation campaign
    <http://links.org.au/node/304>

By *Katarina Pujiastuti *

March 1, 2008 -- Beginning last Monday, the National Student League for 
Democracy (LMND) held two-day demonstrations in Jakarta to campaign for 
the nationalisation of oil, gas and mining industries. On the first day, 
about 150 students representing several campuses in Java and Sumatra 
protested against ExxonMobil in front of the commercial building that 
houses its headquarters.

The richest energy company was targeted because it recently attacked 
Chavez's anti-imperialist government by taking legal action to freeze 
the assets of the Venezuelan state's oil company, PDVSA. ``Therefore, 
LMND made a good decision in protesting in front of Exxon's 
headquarters, as the company rightly symbolises foreign corporation in 
the extractive sector'', said Rudi Hartono, an LMND leader.

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    Malaysia: Socialist Party wins two seats <http://links.org.au/node/303>

By *Peter Boyle*

The Socialist Party of Malaysia (PSM) won two of the four seats it 
contested in the general elections on March 8. Dr Jeyakumar, a central 
committee member of the PSM defeated a senior leaders of the ruling 
Barisan Nasional, Minister of Works Samy Vellu, in the seat of Sungai 
Siput in Perak. Last August I visited Sungai Siput with Jeyakumar and 
other PSM comrades. Their strong base among plantation workers (mostly 
descendants of indentured labourers brought from India in the British 
colonial era) was very obvious.

PSM president Dr Nasir Hashim won the state Legislative Assemby seat of 
Kota Damansara in Selangor. "Today is a great day for all Malaysian 
opposition parties including PSM", declared the party's website.

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    US/Colombia hands off Venezuela and Ecuador! Act now to stop war in
    Latin America <http://links.org.au/node/302>

*Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network*

March 5, 2008 -- What only a few days ago seemed like a remote prospect 
has suddenly become a real possibility. The Colombian military's brutal 
massacre of 21 (at last count) guerrillas with the Revolutionary Armed 
Forces of Colombia --- Peoples Army (FARC-EP), including Raul Reyes, the 
FARC's chief negotiator and spokesperson, in Ecuador on March 1 marks a 
dramatic leap in the United States' plan to potentially trigger off an 
armed confrontation between Colombia and Venezuela.

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    Repression in Peru intensifies <http://links.org.au/node/301>

By *Hugo Blanco*

March 4, 2008 -- Not long ago repression in Peru was more a matter of 
laws than actions. Now, however, APRA's legislation (APRA is President 
Alan García's party), with basic support from the ultra-rightist Unidad 
Nacional party, and from the party of Fujimori, who is now being tried 
for massive crimes, and with no consequent parliamentary opposition, is 
being used to launch a full assault against the people.

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    India: CPI(M) -- Reconciling `anti-imperialist' rhetoric with
    `neoliberal constraints' <http://links.org.au/node/300>

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

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    Cuba: Prelude to succession <http://links.org.au/node/299>

By *Nelson P. Valdés*

The transfer of political power away from Fidel Castro was planned years 
ago. Preparation for it went into effect when he fell ill, and by the 
end of July 2006 Fidel provisionally delegated power to his brother 
Raúl. What had been provisional became permanent on February 18, 2008. 
But this was no longer a personal delegation of power; rather, the 
decision would depend on what elected officials at the National Assembly 
decided.

Over the years, there has been much speculation, and many imaginary 
scenarios have been concocted, regarding the end of the charismatic 
leader's rule. But what these various alternative scripts did not 
consider was the possibility of several preludes to succession.

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*/Links /seeks to promote the international exchange of information,
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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