Mar 20 2008
Marxsite@Resistance
The latest postings from www.marxsite.com
26 May: The buying of ‘democracy’ agents in Cuba - Nelson P. Valdes
26 May: Spinning the news - the FARC, Venezuela and Interpol
26 May: The battle for labor’s future (LA Times)
26 May: Celia Hart - World in Revolt (video)
17 May: When Kosygin and Andropov opposed the invasion of Afghanistan.
The National Security Archive of George Washington University has posted documents revealing the 1979 debates among Soviet leaders over crisis in Afghanistan. In these Politburo minutes from March 1979 both Andropov and Kosygin predicted catastrophe if Russian troops were sent crush the Afghan rebels (pdf - English translation, cover page in Russian). Nine months later they voted for the invasion and their predictions came true.
17 May: US promoting secession in Bolivia: Nicholas Kozloff (Counterpunch)
15 May: Israel’s 60th anniversay - Expulsion and dispossession can’t be cause for celebration: Seumas Milne (Guardian, UK)
15 May: US re-establishing its Latin American naval intervention force (Victor Figueroa Clarke, Upside Down World)
13 May: Einstein’s view of religion - “childish superstitions”: a little known letter from Albert Einstein outlines his views on religion in general and Judaism in particular (Guardian UK)
13 May: Food Crisis - Capitalism, Agribusiness and the Food Sovereignty Alternative: Part 2 of Ian Angus’ pathbreaking article
13 May: Labour Party - You can’t revive a corpse (Mick Hume - Spiked)
12 May: Juarez Mothers Demand Justice for their Murdered Daughters (Kent Paterson, Americas program via Znet)
12 May: Dusk on Planet Earth - Bill McKibben
11 May: Global Famine - Michael Chossudovsky (Global Research)
11 May: Evo Morales and the Red Ponchos - Partick Irelan (Counterpunch)
11 May : Louis Proyect - Bloodbath at Goldman-Sachs
11 May: Lopez Obrador, the PRD, EZLN and the Defense of Mexico’s Oil
11 May: Success of Hizbollah offensive casts doubts on ability of government to survive (CSM)
11 May: Who won in Bolivia? - Marta Harnecker (Rebelión via Machetera)
11 May: Right wing push in Bolivia - Frederico Fuentes (Bolivia Rising)
10 May: Gordon Brown , Big Business and Global Poverty
10 May: Lebanon background - Lebanon and the Middle East Crisis, interview with Gilbert Achcar (ISR)
April 26: The Alberta Tar Sands - the Biggest Environmental Crime in History (Independent UK)
April 26: Australian Boeing workers seek international solidarity
April 26: Latin American leftist leaders vow to fight food price increases
April 26: Michael A. Lebowitz - The Capitalist Workday and the Socialist Workday
April 23: The Oaxaca Commune, Socialist Project booklet - pdf
April 22: New link - Socialist Party of Malaysia
April 21: Patrick Cockburn - A New Struggle is Beginning in Iraq