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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)
J
an 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
Jan 14: BBC video shows shocking violence of Israeli attacks on Gaza
Jan 14: Gaza death toll reaches 1000 (video and report, Guardian UK)
Jan 14: The growing clout of the Nouveau Poor - Brabara Ehreneich (The Nation).
"We read of desperate measures, like having to cut back the personal trainer to two hours a week. Parties have been canceled; dinner guests have been offered, gasp, baked potatoes and chili. The
New York Times
relates the story of a New Jersey teenager whose parents were forced to cut her $100 a week allowance and private Pilates classes.
"
Jan 14: "I hope my murder will be seen not as a defeat but an inspiration". Assassinated opposition Sri Lankan journalist Lasantha Wickrematunge predicted his own murder and named his assassins.
Jan 12: Video -
Daniel Bensaïd
: "In Germany I would probably be a member of Die Linke...but in France we are not obliged to go through the Die Linke stage" (Daily Motion, in French, download starts when yellow line appears left).
Jan 12: Costas Lapavitsas - Financialised Capitalism: Direct Exploitation and Periodic Bubbles (pdf)
Jan 12: Subcommandante Marcos' speech on Gaza
Video: George Galloway at Stop Gaza Massacres rally, London, 8/01/09
Video: Tariq Ali at Stop Gaza Massacres rally, London, 8/01/09
Video: John Rees at Stop Gaza Massacres demonstration 3/01/09
Annie Lennox: Stop Gaza Massacres rally 3 January 2008
Jan 10: Tens of thousands march in London to protest Gaza massacres (Guardian UK)
Jan 10: Biggest ever Gaza protest (Sky News). See video on this page - protestors throw shoes on Edinburgh demo
Jan 10: Le Monde photos of demonstrations throughout Europe against Gaza war
Jan 10: Protests intensify as Israel remains in Gaza
(Times Online)
Jan 10: Demonstrations in 80 French towns and cities against Gaza war (Europe 1)
Jan 10: Demonstrations throughout France against Gaza war
(Le Monde -French language only)
Jan 10: Thousands march in Berne against Gaza war
Jan 10: Israelis kill 257 children in Gaza (Daily Telegraph UK)
Jan 9: Seumas Milne: Israel and the West will pay a price for Gaza bloodbath
Jan 9: Joseph Massad - The Gaza Ghetto Uprising (electronic intifada)
Jan 9: John Pilger -Gaza Under Fire (New Statesman)
Jan 9: Naomi Klein - Israel: Boycott, Divest, Sanction (ZNet)
Jan 9: Saree Makdisi - "By choice they made themselves immune" (electronic intifada
)
Jan 9: Robert Fisk: "Israel opens the gates of Hell in Gaza" (independent)
Jan 6: Robert Fisk: Israel keeping out the cameras and reporters simply doesn't work
Jan 6: Robert Fisk: The self delusion that plagues both sides in this bloody conflict (independent)
Jan 6: Israeli shelling kills dozens at UN shelter (Video plus report) Guardian UK
Jan 5: Crisis in the Heartland: Peter Gowan (NLR)
Jan 4: The Invasion of Gaza: "Operation Cast Lead", Part of a Broader Israeli Military-Intelligence Agenda - Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research
Jan 4: Understanding the Gaza catastrophe - Richard Falk (Huffington Post via Znet)
Jan 4: From the Ligue Communiste to the New Anti-Capitalist Party: Alain Krivine, Daniel Bensaid, Francois Sabado, Pierre Rousset, Roseline Vachetta, Sami Joshua and others (IV)
Jan 4: France's new anti-capitalist party - a "very exciting initiative" (Jim Jepps via Links)
Jan 3: Hundreds of London demonstrators throw shoes at Downing Street (AP)
Jan 3: Tens of thousands in London protest Gaza attack (Guadian UK)
Jan 3: London demonstration against attacks on Gaza - BBC video and story
Jan 3: World protests at Gaza attacks - BBC
Jan 3: Protests against Gaza attacks sweep accross the world - Times Online
Jan 3: Gaza - Manifestations en France et en Europe (Nouvel Observateur) - "Derrière la banderole de tête, sur laquelle était inscrit "Halte au massacre. Des sanctions contre Israël", défilaient notamment les leaders de la LCR Olivier Besancenot et du PCF Marie-George Buffet".
Jan 2: UN complicity with Israel's Gaza propaganda - Omat Barghouti (Znet)
Jan 2: Tariq Ali - the Gaza Ghetto and Western Cant (Counterpunch)
Click here to see the Magnum Agency's photos
of 1 January 1959 in Havana
Dec 31 2008: Fifty Years Later, Cuba's Revolution Lives On
Dec 30: Israel's attack on Gaza is a crime that cannot succeed - Seumas Milne (Guardian UK)
Dec 30: Why bombing Askelon is the most tragic irony - Robert Fisk (Independent UK)
Dec 29: Greece - road to revolution? by Uri Gordon (Znet)
Dec 28: Photos of Gaza devastation - Guardian UK
Dec 28:
Inside Gaza: 'The hospital morgues were already full. The dead were piled on top of each other outside' - By Sami Abdel-Shafi in Gaza city (Independent on Sunday)
Dec 28: Gaza massacres must spur us to action - Ali Abunimah (Electronic Intifadah)
Dec 28: If Gaza Falls - Sara Roy (LRB)
Dec 28: Death of Harold Pinter - text of his devastating assualt on US foreign policy while making Nobel acceptence speech
Dec 25: Revolutionary Road -
Marxist take on this forthcoming movie click here to go to Louis Proyect's Unrepentent Marxist blog and scroll down to his December 13 posting
Dec 22: Larry Elliot 'fesses up: only Marxists and Greens have a viable critique of the crisis, the centre-left is brain dead. (Not an exact rendering of the views of the Guardian's economics editor, but near enough).
Dec 22: Reply to Alex Callinicos on the radical left in Europe - Alan Thornett (Socialist Resistance)
Dec 21: Protestors attack credit data company and Christmas tree (AFP)
Dec 21: Protests pile pressure on Greek government - AFP
Dec 21: Class war behind Thailand's clash of colours - Bill Condie, The Observer
Dec 20: No justice for African-Americans targeted by white vigilantes after Katrina hurricane - Liliana Segura discusses the pathbreaking investigation by AC Thompson into white death squad(Alternet)
Dec 20: French government abandons high schools reform amid fears of a French 'Greece'
Dec 20: Imitation Democracies: the post-Soviet penumbra - Dimitri Furman (NLR)
Dec 20: A death in the family - Tariq Ali
Dec 20: Argentine court orders release of human rights abusers
Dec 19: Amazon UK accused of sweatshop conditions
Dec 19: Times of London article reveals dreadful conditions for Amazon warehouse workers
Dec 19: Phil Hearse - The third slump and its consequences (Socialist Resistance via Links)
Dec 18: More rioting in Greece (report plus video BBC)
Dec 18: Coldtype Reader issue Dec 2008: Class War (pdf)
Dec 16: The inevitable collapse of neoliberal globalisation - Phil Hearse
Dec 16: Chicago - even workers at Republic Windows and Doors suprised by the success of their sit-in (NY Times)
Dec 16: Greek Revolt - Manfred Ertel and Daniel Steinvorth (ZNet)
Dec 16: Neocons try to crush Iran neotiations - Ali Gharib, IPS News, via AlterNet
Dec 16: Arundhati Roy - India has to take a look in the mirror to understand Mumbai terrorist attacks
Dec 14: Britain leaves Iraq in shame: the US won't go so quietly - Seumas Milne (Guardian UK). This is a not very disguised polemic with those like Jonathan Steele (see Nov 27 posting) and Patrick Cockburn (see below) who think the new 'status of force' agreement signifies US withdrawl from Iraq.
Dec 14: Italian labour union strikes over Berlusconi's handling of the crisis
Dec 14: Italian unions strike over crisis (AP)
Dec 13: Patrick Cockburn - 'Total Defeat' for US in Iraq (Counterpunch)
Dec 13: Are Greek riots a taste of things to come? - Peter Popham(Independent UK)
Dec 13: Neil Clark- Socialism's Comeback (New Statesman)
Dec 13: Benicio del Toro - To interpret Che made me respect him more
Dec 12: Who are the protesters in Greece? (Al Jazeera)
Dec 9: Left-leaning Quebec Solidaire wins first seat in national assembly
Dec 9: Greece uprising, photo gallery
Dec 9: Greek riots for fourth day as general strike looms (Bloomberg)
Dec 9: Athens haunted by spirit of student rebellion (FT)
Dec 9: Greek uprising- People have lost faith in government says Papandreou (Guardian UK)
Dec 9: The truth about social workers and child protection in Britain - Jenni Russell (Guardian UK)
Dec 9: Rebellion deeply embedded in Greece (BBC)
Dec 9: Anwar Sheikh, Doug Henwoord - the deepening economic disaster (audio)
Dec 9: Chicago factory occupied - Socialist Worker US
Dec 8: Greek rioting continues after teenager shot by police (Times online)
Dec 8: Third day of rioting in Greece amid anti-government furore (Reuters)
Dec 8: Greek riots - still photos
Dec 7: Mexico strike shuts down world's biggest silver mine (Guardian UK)
Dec 7: The Financial Crisis, a View from the Left - Dan La Botz (MRzine)
Dec 7: The Economic Crisis, the American Working Class, and the Left: The Situation Today and the Situation in 1930s - Dan La Botz (MRzine)
Dec 7: Auto workers face the crisis - Diane Feeley (Solidarity US)
Dec 7: Changing colours in China- Joel Andreas (NLR)
Dec 7: The Hugo Chavez show (Frontline video, 90 mins)
Dec 7: America's food stamp use nears all-time high Jane Black (Washington Post)
Dec 7: King George is gone - Ron Jacobs (Counterpunch)
Dec 7: Anti-war groups fear Obama may create hawkish cabinet (LA Times)
Dec 7: Rock sensation as Joe Satriani sues Coldplay over alleged plagiarism
Dec 6: Global Crisis: making the world's poor pay (Adam Hanieh, The Bullet)
Dec 6: Coca Cola's latest environmental scam - Amit Srivastava, India Resource Centre
Dec 1: This was not global jihad, its roots are much closer to home - Misha Glenny
Dec 1: Venezuela trade unionists shot, workers call for armed self defence (venezuelanalysis)
Nov 29: Mumbai attack: India's leaders need to look closer to home - Tariq Ali (Counterpunch via Znet)
Nov 29: Peter Camejo's clarion call (Socialist Worker US)
Nov 29: The crisis - notes on alternatives: Sam Gindin (The Bullet)
Nov 29: Monopoly-finance capital and the crisis - John Bellamy Foster (MRzine)
Nov 29: Thailand: Anti-government PAD thugs want dictatorship to replace democracy - Giles Ji Ungpakorn (MRzine)
Nov 29: John Pilger - The corruption that makes an unpeople of an entire nation
Nov 29: The Mumbai attacks - Justin Podur (MRzine)
Nov 29: Towards the foundation of a new anti-capitalist party: Pierre Rousset (International Viewpoint)
Nov 29
:
Debate 1) Where is the radical left going,
Alex Callinicos (international Socialism)
2) The NPA, a new experience of building an anti-capitalist party (Francois Sabado, International Viewpoint)
Nov 27: Jonathan Steele- End of the US occupation of Iraq?
Nov 23: Chavez party wins 17 out of 22 states, but loses Caracas city hall and the country's biggest slum to the opposition
Nov 23: China winning cyber war, Congress warned (Guardian UK) - China now has the ability to disrupt US military operations worldwide
Key Links
New Anti-Capitalist Party (France)
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Die Linke English pages
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New Links: Ágora TV (Spanish Language)
ASMSFQI
Journal for Critical Educational Studies
New Link
: London Review of Books
James Petras
Cold Type
Resistance Books (UK)
Today in Iraq
Documents from the Havana Marx conference
Socialist Project (Canada)
Socialist Resistance
Socialist Resistance Books
Europe Solidaire Sans Frontieres
Tariq Ali
International Viewpoint
Green Left Weekly
ISM/Frontline
Bolivia Solidarity Campaign
New Socialist (Canada)
Upsidedown World (Latin America news and info site)
Respect
Stop the War Coalition
Hands Off Venezuela
Democracy
Now!
Labor Notes
China Labor Bulletin
Robert Fisk site
Verso Books
Pluto Press
Word Power (Scotland
)
Mark Curtis Site
venezuelanalysis.com
MRzine
Important past articles you may have missed
John Lennon and Yoko Ono - Power to the People
Mass murder of women in Guatemala
Martha Harnecker - Social movements, sectoral movements
IRRE pamphlet - Change the world without taking power - or take the power to change the world?
Lowy - Dialectics and Revolution
Bensaid - Theses of Resistance (pdf)
William K Tabb - The power of the rich
Klein - Disaster capitalism
Panitch - Theory, Democracy and the Left
Petras - Derailed revolution in Argentina (pdf)
MacKenzie and Tate - Resistance on the Mexican "Riviera"
Mike Davis - Monster at the Door
Gowan - US triumphing towards defeat (pdf)
Jameson - Fear and loathing in globalisation
Malcolm Bull on Negri and Hardt
Changer le monde sans prendre le pouvoir ? - Phil Hearse
Aguila Mora and Gonzalez - Mexican Strategy
Ebert: Red Feminism
Taming Sinn Fein
Lebowitz - The knowledge of a better world
Judy Rebick - 21st Century Socialism
Pentagon's weather nightmare
Lakatos - Scientific Method
Panitch and Gindin - Capitalist Imperial State
Parenti- How the Free Market Killed New Orleans
Saul - "Humanitarian" imperialism
Blackburn - Terror and Empire
Tariq Ali - Letter to a Young Muslim
Ollman: Meaning of Dialectics
