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Nov 28: Organising for socialism in the 21st century - Marta Harnecker (Trans. Frederico Fuentes, compiled by Links)
Nov 28: Neoliberalism and the dynamic of capitalist development in Latin America - James Petras (pdf)
Nov 28: Hugo Chavez's call for 5th International - François Sabado (IV)
Nov 28: Free and fair? Sunday's Honduras elections take place under a cloud of intimidation, illegal detemntion and even assassination - Tamar Sharabi (Narco news)

Nov 28: The View from Ontario - 137 days into a mine strike - Labor Notes
Nov 28: Chavez calls for international solidarity - Frederico Fuentes (Links)
Nov 24: The future of revolutionary work in our times - Left Unity Commission of Solidarity (US)
Nov 24: Tariq Ali - The idea of Communism (interview) - Aaron Leonard, (History News Network)
Nov 21:Photo essay - Guatemala between the rock and the storm - photo essay (mimundo.org via Upside Down World)
Nov 21: A new united movement stops Mexico for a day - Tamara Pearson (Upside Down World)
Nov 21: PUSV elects delegates, debates future direction of party - Kiraz Janicke (Venezuelanalysis.com)
Nov 21: Venezuelan leftist parties discuss co-operation, opposition plans electoral intervention - James Sugget (Venezuelanalysis.com)
Nov 15: Rude awakening for Eastern Europe as crisis made in west bites deep - Ian Traynor (Guardian UK)
Nov 9: Fidel opens up - Rory Carroll (Guardian UK)
Nov 9: Climate conference:looming debacle in Copehagen - Phil Ward (Socialist Resistance)
Nov 9: We cannot fight climate change with consumerism - George Monbiot (Znet)
Nov 8: Imperial globalisation and social movements in Latin America (James Petras)
Nov 7: When the dollar rallies, the market will crash - Mike Whitney (Global Research)
Nov 7: The financial crisis and imperialism - John Bellamy Foster (MRZine)
Nov 7: Pakistan - we suffer from the worst of every world - Tariq Ali (MRzine)
Nov 6: Atlas Insolvent - Dennis Perrin on the continued 'zombie presence' of 'radical for capitalism' Ayn Rand. See also 'Free market myths of Ayn Rand' on this site
November 6: Austria - Students occupy universities; mass demonstrations and broad solidarity throughout the country - By the international press working group, University of Vienna (Links)
Nov 6:Video - Roots of the world ecological crisis - John Bellamy Foster
Nov 6: Karzai: America is playing its familiar role of propping up a dictator - Robert Fisk (independent UK)
Nov 6: The US and Colombian roles in the Honduras Crisis -Gary Leech, Znet
Nov 6: Mexican electricity workers take on Calderon - Tamara Pearson (MRzine via Znet)

Nov 4: Sir Lanka - Napoleans and Hitlers are lurking in the dark - Vickrambahu “Bahu” Karunarathne (ESSF)
	Nov 4: The World Social Forum - a sustainable model? - Pierre Rousset (ESSF)

Nov 4: Video - The Dollar - dive or survive, Leo Panitch, The Real News Network

Nov 4: Daniel Ellsberg - From Aghanistan to Vietnam (Video- Real News Network)
Nov 4: The Imperial Mandate Arrives in Honduras - Antilio A. Boron (Machetera)
Nov 4: The Trial of Thomas Hardy, a forgotten chapter in the struggle for working class democratic rights - Ian Angus (Socialist Voice, Canada)
Nov 2: Video - Mexican electricity workers march and meeting against the occupation of their plants by the army and mass sackings - watch it to the end!

Nov 1: The truth about the postal workers strike - "Roy Mayall" (LRB)
Nov 1: Mexican electrical union fights for its life - Dan La Botz (New Socialist)
Nov 1: International Tribunal on trade union freedoms condemns Mexican presidency - James Cockcroft (Znet)
Nov 1: The heart of India is under attack - Arundhati Roy (Znet via Guardian)
Nov 1: Sheffield's glorious autumn of discontent - Ben Morris (Socialist Worker UK)

Tariq Ali at the Stop the War Coalition demo
Nov 1: Tariq Ali - Ahmed Rashid's war (Counterpunch)
Nov 1: The Life and Death of Trotsky - Tariq Ali reviews two new books (Guardian UK)
Oct 30: Mexican electrical union calls national strike - Dan La Botz, Labor Notes
Oct 30: Spying on us doesn't protect democracy, it undermines it - Seumas Milne (Guardian UK)
Oct 26: When the Climate Centre Cannot Hold - Patrick Bond (The Bullet)
Oct 26: Video - autoworkers challenge the logic of capitalism - Sam Gindin

Oct 26: Tariq Ali - Farce in Kabul, Tragedy in Pakistan (Counterpunch)
Oct 24: Redmond O'Neill
L/Cpl Joe Glenton (right) led the march
Oct 24: AWOL soldier leads anti-war march (Sky News)
Oct 24: UK postal strike - war on the home front - John Pilger (ITV)
Oct 24: Innovation to the point of idiocy - by postal worker 'Roy Mayall'
Oct 24: London - Thousands protest Afghanistan war (Times Online)

Oct 23: Faced with an attack like this, it would be folly not to strike - Seumas Milne (Guardian UK)
Oct 23: When you see Griffin on the TV, remember Jack Straw started all this - Gary Younge (Guardian)
Mexican electricity workers rally against government offensive
Oct 12: Mexican army occupies state electricity plants, government sacks workers in attmpt to finally push through privatisation and smash the union - Dan La Botz (MRzine)
Oct 11: Positive developments in the European left - Ian Angus (Socialist Voice)
Oct 11: Dozens arrested as anti-fascists clash with 'English Defence League' (BBC)

Oct 10: Cosatu in nationwide SA protests against temporary labour agencies (labour 'brokers')

Oct 10: September's protests against California university cuts

Oct 10: Why we need rebels - Mike Davis on the California crisis and the need to build cadre groups

Oct 10: California - "the state once held up as the epitome of boundless opportunity has collapsed" - Paul Harris (Oberver UK)
Oct 9: Jonathan Kay and Dave McNally debate Michael Moore and American capitalism (National Post)
Oct 9: You have been warned - the nasty party is still with us: Seumas Milne (Guardian UK)

Oct 7: German unions resort to flash mobs
Oct 7: Jan Bremen - The Myth of the Global Safety Net (NLR)
Oct 6: Egyptian Labour Erupting - Atef Said (Against the Current)
Oct 4: If Labour loses it will be a result of its fatal Faustian pact - Seumas Milne (Guardian UK)

Oct 3: China at 60 - socialist revolution and capitalist restoration - Chris Slee (Links)
Oct 3: New issue of Socialist Register - new website
Oct 3: Joss losses accelerate, driven by state cutbacks - Dean Baker (MRZine)
Oct 3: India preparing asll-out assault on Maoist rebels - Nick Clarke (MRzine)
Oct 3: Mexican government prepares to seize power plants to break strength of electrical workers union - Dan La Botz (Mexican Labor News and Analysis)

Sept 29: Portuguese Left Bloc doubles its parliamentary representation with 9.85% of the votes (IV)
Sept 29: Breaking the Silence - the Mexican army and the 1997 Acteal massacre - Kate Doyle (CIP America's programme)
Sept 29: Obama stuck between wars on Iraq and Afghanistan - Nicola Nasser (Znet)
Sept 29: Is Democracy Melting? - Arundhati Roy (Tom Dispatch)

Sept 29: Venezuelan electrical workers demand participation and a colective contract
Sept 29: Marxist accounts of the economic crisis - Jospeph Choonara (International Socialism)
Sept 29: US bases centre of new Latin America struggle - Frederico Fuentes (Green Left Weekly via Venezuelanalysis)
Sept 29: Honduras coup regime suspends constitutional rights, closes media, threatens Brazil (Center for Economic and Policy Research via MRZine)
Sept 29: Honduras- regime prepares bloody crackdown, solidarity needed (Green Left Weekly)

Sept 29: The road to Zalaya's return: money, guns and social movements in Honduras - Benjain Dangl, Upside Down World
Sept 29: German elections - has electorate shifted to the right? Socialist Worker UK

Sept 29: Die Linke wins votes by standing out from the crowd (Kate Connolly, Guardian UK)
Sept 28: Naomi Klein interviews Michael Moore on the madness of capitalism (AlterNet)
Sept 27: Peter Gowan: The Ways of the World - Interview by Mike Newman and Marko Bojcun. Interview about his life and work given in the last period of his terminal illness.
Sept 25: Having some fun with capitalism - Jane Slaughter (Labor Notes) on Michael Moore's new film
Sept 25: Escalation is pointless in a war in which complexity defies might - Gabriel Kolko, Znet
Sept 25: New Labour, not just Gordon Brown, are to blame for this car crash - Seumas Milne (Guardian UK)
Sept 15: Declaration of the African People's Movement against Climate Change (Links)
Sept 13: Families of NATO airstrike victims tell their story - "I took some flesh home and called it my son" - Ghaith Abdul Ahad (Guardian UK)

Sept 13: Bob Crow calls for left alliance for British general election (Times Online)
Sept 12: Big Pharma - Pfitzer handed biggest criminal fine of all time - Joseph Grosso (Znet)

Sept 10: Arundhati Roy - A Letter to the Economist (MRzine)
Sept 10: Perry Anderson - A New Germany? (NLR)
Sept 9: Global marches for and against Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez show mixed result - Tamara Pearson (Venezuelanlysis)
Sept 9: Xan Brooks reviews 'Capitalism - a love story' (Guardian UK)
Sept 7: IMF stop funding Honduras - Mark Weisbrot (Guardian Comment is Free)
Sept 7: Melting ice caps may trigger more volcanic eruption - Catherine Bahic (New Scientist)
Sept 6: Suffering and struggle in rural China - John Riddell reviews an important new book by Chen Guidi and Wu Chuntao (Socialist Voice)
Sept 6: Melting ice will trigger wave of natural disasters - Robin McKie, (Observer UK)
Sept 5: Podcast - Pensions and the Economic Crisis - Sam Gindin (rabble.ca)
Sept 2: The Japanese Elections and the Left - MRZine

Sept 2: Che Guevara in search of a new socialism - Michael Lowy (Against the Current)
Aug 31: Four years after Katrina thousands are homeless and struggling in New Orleans (Jordan Flaherty, Left Turn via AlterNet)
Aug 31: Water shortage threatens 2m people in southern Iraq - Martin Chulov (Guardian UK)
Aug 31: Merkel knocked back, left gains in German state elections - Guardian UK; see also election coverage in der Spiegal
Aug 31: After the Saarland vote: Left Party, a dark red horse - Deutsche Welle
Aug 31: Further tributes to Upali Cooray - (ESSF)
Aug 28: German Left Party has high hopes for Sunday state election (Der Spiegal)

Aug 27: China-USA: the uncertain outcome of the crisis - Michel Husson (IVP)
Aug 26: Death of Upali Cooray
Aug 24: Right wingers brandish guns at Obama town hall meetings (AlterNet)
Aug 23: Nigeria Slips into Darkness (Michael J Watts, Counterpunch via New Socialist)
Aug 23: Cuba in search of renovation - Janette Habel (Against the Current)
Aug 23: The Philippines Left and Cory Aquino - Reihana Mohideen (Links)
Aug 23: Photo essay: Venezuela's Comuna 'Renacer del Sur' - people's power in practice - Peter Boyle (Links)
Aug 23: Video: Andrew Collier interviews Tariq Ali part 2 (Sunday Times)
Aug 23: Video: Andrew Collier interviews Tariq Ali part 1 (Sunday Times)
Aug 23: Did Lithuania house the CIA's third Euiropean torture prison? - Britta Sandberg (de Spiegal)
Aug 23: Blackwater accused of creating 'killing programme' - der Spiegal
Aug 23: Venezuela's PSUV restructures - Tamara Pearson (ZNet)

Aug 22: Myths of Ayn Rand - Phil Hearse
Aug 20: Uribe's 'new' Colombia - Lainie Cassel (Upside Down World)
Aug 20: Lost women of Juarez - Kayla Hutzler (Znet)
Aug 20: Welfare to work, or welfare to destitution - Jenni Russell (Guardian UK)
Aug 19: Britain: Political meltdown - Alex Callinicos (Socialist Review)
Aug 19: Media in Venezuela - facts and fiction - Caitlin McNulty and Liz Migliorelli (Upside Down World)
Aug 19: Comombia: the Embera struggle to save a sacred mountain - Kate Warburton (Upside Down World)
Aug 19: Sustainability - utopian and scientific, James Burton (Links)
Aug 19: Myths about the American economic model - Mark Weissbrot (MRzine)
Aug 19: Support the Iranian people, oppose the regime's clerical fascism - Peter Tatchell (Red Pepper)
Aug 19: Cuba - 50 years of the transition to socialism - James D. Cockcroft (IVP)
Aug 19: International campaign for the release of Tariq Mehmoud (APSN)
Aug 19: Has the left blown its chance of success? - Andy Beckett (Guardian UK).This is a dreadful misrepresentation of the British far left - replies follow in coming days.
Aug 19: Adam's fallacy and the Great Recession - John Bellamy Foster
Aug 17: Capitalism or a Habitable Planet, you can't have both: Robert Newman (Guardian via Climate and Capitalism)
28 July: Police gear up for massive raid on Ssangyong workers occupation (Korea Times)
28 July: Notes towards a new vision of the workers movement in Mexico - Jorge Robles (New Politics)
26 July: China: End of a Model...or Birth of a New One? - Au Loong Yu (New Politics)
26 July: Class Struggle in Post-Soviet Russia - Boris Kagarlitsky (New Politics)

25 July: Capitalism - a Love Story. New movie from Michael Moore due October 2009. See information on the Movies and Documentaries page, click here

23 July - Vestas Occupation - a fight for jobs and the planet: the occupation site
23 July: The Crisis of the Left in Contemporary South Africa - Dale T. McKinley (Links)
23 July: Drought and agribusiness threaten Australia's biggest river system - Renfrey Clarke (Links)
23 July: People stand up to oligarchy and imperialism - FI declaration on Honduras
23 July: Massacre of indigenous people in Peru - Hugo Blanco (IV)
21 July: Time, Acceleration, Climate Change and Crisis - Thadeus Pato (IV)
21 July: The tragedy of the Left's discourse on Iran: James Petras, Slavoj Žižek and MRzine under fire - Saeed Rahnema (Znet via IV)