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Archive 18 - January/March 2009
March 24: New evidence of Israeli war crimes in Gaza - Guardian UK (3 videos)
March 23: Protestors mark 6th anniversary of Iraq invasion
March 21: Hearts and Minds, a film for today - Richard Fidler, Life on the Left
March 21: Canada can't muzzle me - George Galloway
March 21: George Galloway banned from Canada - Kim Elliot (Rabble)
March 20: In the Financial Times' top 50 people to shape a new world, number one is Barack Obama. The next 11 are state leaders or members of the US cabinet. Number 13 is Olivier Besancenot.
March 20: A resurgent social democracy? - Sheri Berman (Dissent)
March 20: CFDT leader François Chérèque accuses the New Anti-Capitalist Party of being 'vultures'
March 20: The real AIG conspiracy - Michael Hudson, Global Research
March 19: A Marxist explanation of the current crisis: Robert Brenner interviewed by Seongjin Jeong for Hankyoreh, via Links
March 19: Unions say 3 million on the streets, Times says one million- French day of strike action updates here
March 19: French general strike - slideshow (FT)
March 19: Greenwash isn't working - George Monbiot's comment on Shell's dumping of alternative power (Guardian UK)
March 19: The real face of evironmentally 'ethical' business - Shell's abandonment of solar and wind power in favour of biofuels
March 18: New day of strikes and demonstrations in France tomorrow
March 18: The struggle for new unionism in Mexico - Richard Leitch (New Unionism blog)
March 18: New at the Marxsite video pod - Blue Gold, world water wars
March 18: Corruption, expropriation and justice in Bolivia - Ben Dangl (Upside Down Wordl)
March 18: Mapping controversy in Oaxaca - indigenous people accuse cartographers of anti-inssurency activity - Ramon Ryan, Upside Down World
March 18: Pakistan, at last one step forward: Mahir Ali (Znet)
March 17: Protests, beating and deportations at opening of world water forum (Global Revolt)
March 16: The Left wins in El Salvador - Richard Gott (Guardian UK)
March 16: US congratulates leftist winner in El Salvador (AFP)
March 16: Leftist winner in El Salvador promises moderation (AP)
March 16: Seven Jewish Children - Full text of Caryl Chruchill's short play inspired by the attack on Gaza(pdf)
March 16: Oaxaca, Making rights a reality in 2006 social movement - Lynn Stephen, Americas Program
March 16 Ecuador/enviroment: An open letter to Rafael Correa - Naomi Klein (NACLA)
March 16: Landless women launch protests across Brazil - Michael Fox (NACLA)
March 16: Is Brazil creating its own backyard? - Raul Zebechi, Americas Report
March 16: How the miners strike taught me to believe in impossible things - Gary Younge, Guardian UK
March 15: US economic crisis, causes and solutions - Fred Moseley, ISR.
March 15: Financial Meltdown: Haircut Time for Bondholders (Mike Whitney, Global Research)
March 15: The crisis overdetermines all of world politics - Francois Sabado (IV)
March 13. Scientists in desperate plea for climate action (Daily Telegraph UK)
March 12: New at Global Revolt video pod (left column) - Leo Panitch, Still a Marxist after all
March 12: Seeds of its own destruction - the end of neoliberalism: Martin Wolf (FT)
March 12: Marxists stunned by amazing revelation that more unequal societies have more social problems: Phil Hearse comments on 'The Spirit Level'.
March 12: Colombia's coca spraying campaign harming peasants, children, agriculture - Grace Livingstone (Guardian UK)
March 12: The contemporary meaning of the miners' strike Seumas Milne (Guardian UK)
March 11: Mark Steel - so Marx was right after all (Belfast Telegraph)
March 11: The return of Marx - Brian Jones, Socialist Worker US
March 11: John Bellamy Foster - A failed system: the crisis of neoliberal globalisation and its impact on China (Monthly Review via Links)
March 11: New Book - 25 Years After, the miners' strike, the media and the aftermath. Campaign for press and Broadcasting Freedom book, edited by Granville Williams		Book details here
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March 10: Nation of Widows: why any honest dicussion of Iraq must include the fate of women - Rose Aguilar, Alternet
March 10: 'First Victory' in Guadeloupe general strike; movement spreads to other French colonies - Richard Fidler, Socialist Voice
March 9: Perry Anderson - Italy, an invertebrate left (LRB)
March 9: Perry Anderson: An entire order converted into what it was intended to end - the decline of Italy
March 9: Viva Palestina convoy reaches Gaza!
March 9: Arthur Scargill - How the miners' strike was betrayed (Guardian UK)
March 6: New video at Global Revolt (left column)- Birth of the new Anticapitalist Party, a report of participants (Socialist Project Video)
March 6: New video at Global Revolt (left column) - Economic crisis, 10 years of hell? (F William Engdahl, Real News Network)
March 6: Belem's new start for the World Social Forum (Eric Toussaint - IV)
March 6: New video at Global Revolt - Mike Davis talks about the economic crisis on Pacifica radio (left column)
March 6: Gaza convoy now in Egypt
March 5: Revolt Goes Global - Phil Hearse
March 2: John Bellamy Foster - A whole different kind of struggle is emerging - interview with Mike Whitney (Dissident Voice via Links)
March 2: Michael Lebowitz - Let us rediscover Marx (Links)
Feb 27: Egypt - 30,000 join free union

Feb 26: 9th World Social Forum, New Pathways and Opportunities - Leandro Morais (CADTM)
Leo Panitch (left) and Sam Gindin
Feb 26: Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin: Theses on the crisis (Znet)
Feb 26: Martinique edges closer to strike-ending deal
Feb 26: Gaza Convoy Blog - into Tunisia
Feb 26: Viva Palestina convoy reaches Tipaza, Algeria (video)
Feb 25: Biofuels, Promise or Threat? - Rachel Smolker and Brian Tokar (Znet)
Feb 24: Viva Palestina convoy reaches Morocco (video)
Feb 24: New at Marxsite - Global Revolt video pod, hosted by Vodpod. 26 videos now posted.
Feb 24: Consume! - the commodification of desire. First part of video explaining how capitalist advertising gets you to buy things you don't need. For second part go to Global Revolt video pod
Feb 22: Joel Kovel on his sacking by Bard College (AIC)
Feb 22: Video - semi-insurrection in Guadeloupe

Feb 22: Gerry Adams slams meg-rich, banks and government corruption, supports social justice (video of Ard Fheis speech)
Feb 22: Full text of Gerry Adams' speech
Feb 21: Up to 200,000 demonstrate in Dublin against austerity, for workers rights (AFP report)

Feb 21: Julie Christie - "I feared Bush would inleash a wave of sadism - he did" (Independent UK)
Feb 21: Outflanked by the success of the New Anti-capitalist Party, Lutte Ouvriere tries to create its own 'Olivier Besancenot' (Politique, in French)
Feb 21: The Big Picture in Oaxaca - Nancy Davis (Narco News). NB this article is labelled part 2 but part 1 has not yet been posted.
Feb 21: Prominent Oaxaca APPO member survives attempted assassination - Kristin Bricker (Narcosphere)
Feb 21: Drug war horror story is only a seam in a complex fabric - Bill Conroy (Narcosphere)
Feb 21: Cambodia's empty dock - John Pilger (Guardian UK)
Feb 21: Finnish students defend universities from capitalism (MRzine+video)
Feb 21: Could sudden collapse of Mexico be Obama's surprise foreign policy challenge? - Bill Weinberg, Alternet
Feb 20: Latvia - economic crisis brings down another government
Feb 20: Zula Lucero: Underground changes - Argentina subway workers fight for a new union
Feb 20 : Munich and continuity between Bush and Obama foreign policies - George Friedman (Stratfor)
Feb 20 : Richard Wolff - Capitalism hits the fan (video preview)
Feb 20 : New book at Monthly Review Press: Che Guevara, his Revolutionary Legacy - Olivier Besancenot and Michael Löwy
Feb 20 : David Harvey - The arrogance of the neoclassical economists
Feb 20 : France proposes to raise salaries to end Guadalupe violence
Feb 20 : How the Crash Will Reshape America - Richard Florida (The Atlantic)
Feb 20 : An important but risky victory for Venezuela and socialism - Gregory Wilpert

Feb 19: Obama: Imperialism with a human face - Tariq Ali (rabble.ca via Links)
Feb 19: Urban poor strongly represented in new Philippines socialist party - Reihana Mohideen (Links)
Feb 19: Is economic recovery even possible in a world headed towards environmental collapse? (Tom Englehardt - TomDispatch)
Feb 19: Global job losses in two years to Dec 2009 could total 50 million (New York Times)
Feb 18: 40,000 demonstrate in Turkey against goivernment economic policy
Feb 18: Sacked Cowley agency workers confront do-nothing union bureaucrats

Feb 17: Chavez promises continuation of project to create socialist democracy in Venezuela (venezuelanalysis)

Feb 17: Bolivarianism Triumphs in Referendum Vote (venezuelanalysis)
Feb 17: Whitehall devised torture policy for Guantanamo detainees
Feb 17: Graham Turner - "We need protectionism for workers" (Guardian UK)
Feb 17: Video - Benicio del Torro on the responsibility of playing Che
Feb 17: Italian communists support East Lindsey workers (Socialist Resistance)
Feb 15: The Coming Capitalist Consensus - Walden Bello (Znet)
Feb 15: Venezuela - reasons to be on the alert: Luis Bilbao (World at Crossroads conference website)
Feb 15: Viva Palestina convoy sets off for Gaza. See video below and more info here

Feb 12: The Imperialist Propaganda of Hitchens and Friends - Richard Seymour (excerpt from his new Verso book via Alternet)
Feb 12: Seumans Milne: Booing Davos Man is a start, but the crisis runs much deeper (Guardian UK)
Feb 10: Olivier Besancenot takes the left by storm (First Post)
Feb 9: Guantanamo on the brink: death looms for inmates amidst hunger strikes, beatings and forced feeding. Report says conditions have worsened markedly since Obama became president - Paul Harris and Mark Towsend, Independent via AlterNet
Feb 8: Olivier Besancenot interviewed on the formation of the New Anti-Capitalist Party

Feb 8: In the US, as layoffs surge, women may surpass men in the workforce - Catherine Rampell (NY Times)
Feb 8: Capitalism's Burning House - interview with John Bellamy Foster (Win Magazine via MRzine)
Feb 8: Seumas Milne - The seeds of Latin America's rebirth were sown in Cuba
Feb 8: Jeanette Habel: Castro's Socialism in Crisis
Feb 7: Uribe cannot stop Colombia's slide towards peace - Supriyo Chatterjee(ZNet)
Feb 7: Vatican Crisis over bishop who denies Holocaust (Guardian UK)
Feb 7: Carmelo Ruiz-Marrero - Beyond Green Capitalism. A review of Stan Cox's path-breathing 'Sick Planet' (Counterpunch)
Feb 7: Global Crisis Fuels Protests (Real News Network)

Feb 7: John Pilger - The politics of bollocks
Feb 6: Protests in Iceland that threw out a government

Feb 6: Naomi Klein - 'Que se vayan todos' (Kick them all out), that's the global backlash talking!
Feb 6: French postman delivers far left message (Guardian UK)

Feb 5: US auto bailout - in whose interest? Sam Gindin interview on the Real News Network (Youtube). Part1. Click throught to Youtube for parts 2, 3, 4.

Feb 5: WORLD SOCIAL FORUM BELEM STATEMENT: "We won't pay for the crisis, the rich have to pay for it"
Feb 5: Seumas Milne - The target of these strikes is now obvious. "Attempts to paint the week of walkouts as anti-foreigner look silly now that Polish workers are joining the protests" (Guardian UK)
Feb 4: French government is afraid of the left (BBC)

Feb 4: A Nice French Red (Smart Set -Drexel University)
Feb 3: Pakistan - a government in turmoil: Farooq Tariq (IV)
Feb 3: Meeting of the anti-capitalist left at the Belem World Social Forum: Francois Sabado (IV)
Feb 3: Check out new look Socialist Resistance site
Jan 31: Seumas Milne: "The real theme of these strikes is not xenophobia but outrage at UK and EU rules designed to keep labour cheap and weak"
Jan 30: George Galloway on strikes against the imposition of subcontracted labour in Britain- "It's about decent jobs available for all"
Jan 30: Crisis and Critcism: "Now is the time to return to Trotsky on art" - Ben Davis
Jan 29: France gripped by mass strike (Winnipeg Sun -AP) See also >La mobilisation secteur par secteur (AFP)
Jan 29: France general strike photo gallery (Monsters and Critics)
Jan 29: French teachers join general strike
Jan 29: General strike disrupts French transport and schools (DW World)
Jan 29: Brilliant photo: Amazon indigenous people at tghe Belem World Social Forum (Der Spiegal)
Jan 29: Afghanistan kill order angers German politicians (Der Spiegal)
Jan 28: Israel's Lies - Henry Siegman (LRB)
Jan 27: Iceland's centre-left to lead new government as old coalition collapses(AFP) For the background to this read "Here Comes the Revolution" (Iceland Weather Report)
Jan 27: World Social Forum: Crisis as Opportunity for Another World - Mario Osavo

Jan 26: 'Yes' vote for constitutional change triumphs in Bolivia with 61% of the vote (MRzine)
Jan 26: Venezuela - mass support for constitutional reform campaign (Venezuelanalysis via Links)
Jan 26: Massive trial in Turkey gives insight into "deep state" (Der Spiegal)
Jan 25: Women Feel the Backlash - Kathy Lowe

Jan 24: Thousands demonstrate in London for Gaza, against BBC (with photos). See also BBC in crisis over Gaza appeal
Jan 22: Death agony of the neoliberal dream - American Armageddon blog
Jan 22: Viva Palestina! Aid convoy sets out Feb 14
Jan 22: Student occupations in solidarity with Gaza spread around Britain (Socialist Worker)
Jan 22: Storm of student protest over Gaza gathers force (Guardian UK)
Video of LSE, SOAS and Kings occupations >>Occupation blogs here
Jan 21: United States and Britain on the brink of debt disaster: John Kemp, Guardian Business
Jan 21: Protests, occupations over Gaza at 8 British universities (Guardian UK)
Jan 21: Oxford students occupation over Gaza (BBC)
Jan 21: Backlash begins as Israelis split over success of attack on Gaza (Times Online)
Jan 21: 700 have been detained in pro-Palestinian demonstrations in Israel
Jan 21: Why Israel won't survive - Ali Abunimah, electronic intifadah
Jan 21: World Agenda - Riots in Iceland, Latvia and Bulgaria are a sign of things to come (Roger Boyes, Times Online)
Jan 21: Outside Agitator - Naomi Klein and the New Left (New Yorker)
Jan 18: Mexico as failed state: Marxsite comment
Jan 18: US military says Mexico becoming 'failed' state, may need US military intervention
Jan 18: István Mészáros on the crisis (English, Spanish and Portuguese written versions of lecture - video is already on this site: from Herramienta)
Jan 17: Jan 17: Gilbert Achcar: Interview on the Gaza crisis (Irish Left Review via IV)
Jan 17: Louisefeminista's slideshow of London 10/01/09 Gaza demoinstration
Jan 17: Anti-war protests sweep the country (Guardian UK)
Jan 17: Jan 17: Anti-war protests in dozens of towns and cities in Britain Saturday (BBC)
Jan 17: Young Israeli conscientious objectors explain why they won't fight for Israel Sign their letter here
Jan 17: Gaza-West Bank divide grows (Al Jazeerah video)
Jan 17: Israel criticised for new deaths as ceasefire looms
Jan 17: Cuba after Fidel: Exchange between Saul Landau and Sam Farber (Foreign Policy Focus via New Socialist)
Jan 17: Firing the boss: interview with Chicago factory occupation organiser (Upside Down World)
Jan 17: Caoimhe Butterly: Still Breathing, a report from Gaza (MRzine)
Jan 17: Academics in Britain denouce Israel
Jan 17: Growing evidence of white phosphorous use by Israel in Gaza (Guardian video)
Jan 17: Bolivia follows Venezuelan example and breaks off diplomatic ties with Israel