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Friday August 22, 7 pm
Rhizome Cafe, 317 E. Broadway at Kingsway Ave. Vancouver

“Don’t Hate the Media, Create Alternatives”

short video documentaries, presented by the documentary film-makers
and the aliveinmexico.org collective

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Join us for a celebration of the arts, revolution and community. This event includes music, theatre, art, guest speakers and a social justice fair.

Date: September 6
Time: 11AM-7PM
Location: Camosun College (Lansdowne) By the Paul Bldg
Price: By Donation

By John Chan

Last Friday’s opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympics was a $US100 million public relations exercise by the Chinese Communist Party to refashion its image as a pro-business regime that has long repudiated its claims to a “socialist” or “revolutionary” tradition.

LA PAZ  - Bolivian President Evo Morales was Monday preparing a redoubled nationalization push and other socialist reforms after winning huge support in a weekend referendum. But his victory in Sunday’s vote, with more than 60 percent of voters backing his mandate according to unofficial results, was tempered by strong gains also handed to political enemies, leaving the country sharply divided.

"There will, of course, be a universal language, which will be either Esperanto or pidgin-English. The literature of the past will for the most part not be translated into this language, since its outlook and emotional background will be considered unsettling: serious students of history will be able to obtain a permit from the Government to study such works as Hamlet and Othello, but the general public will be forbidden access to them on the ground that they glorify private murder; boys will not be allowed to read books about pirates or Red Indians; love themes will be discouraged on the ground that love, being anarchic, is silly, if not wicked. All this will make life very pleasant for the virtuous." - Bertrand Russell, 1931

August 04, 2008 - Znet

The current financial crisis highlights fundamental failings in a global economy run for private profit rather than broader social opportunity. Jim Stanford explains how risky financial speculation created a bubble that has now burst, and argues that we need to refocus attention on a real economy founded on the production of actual goods and services.

By Federico Fuentes - July 21, 2008

"As a product of four weeks of meetings between the different currents in the National Union of Workers (UNT), together with important union federations, we have democratically decided, in consultation with the grassroots, that [on September 19-21] we will hold a national congress...By no later than February next year, we will go towards a transparent, democratic process of internal elections"...These announcements mark an important step forward in forging working class unity and come at a time of an upturn in struggle as well as further steps towards union democratisation.

By Doug Ireland, Gay City News, July 28, 2008

Recovering our hidden gay history has been a critically important byproduct of the modern gay movement, and in its current Summer 2008 issue, the 46-year-old independent socialist review New Politics has published a significant discovery that restores to us a lost moment of our political history - specifically, of the history of gays and the left.

By Michael Albert - ZNet

Hugo Chavez tells us he wants to build twenty first century socialism...He regularly excoriates capitalism. His innovative approaches to popular political and economic decision making via councils and his prioritization of radicalized health, education, and other human services via innovative public missions, inspire great hope. But beyond Bolivarian claims and short term policies, where is the Bolivarian Revolution structurally going? What are its main institutional goals and timetables?...These are questions I think a lot of people need answers to if they are to have solid attitudes about Venezuela.

By Derrick O'Keefe - July 19, 2008

I find it refreshing and hopeful that there can still be popular oppositional campaigns that actually call things by their right names. Faced with an in-your-face capitalist as president, the French people have picked an in-your-face anti-capitalist as their favourite politician from the opposition camp.

By Roger Annis - July, 12 2008

The triennial convention of the Canadian Labour Congress held in Toronto from May 26 to 30 revealed the positive changes that have edged their way into the labour movement in recent years. It also showed the weighty obstacles that stand in the way of the organization's transformation into a more militant, fighting force on behalf of the working class...The overarching conclusion to draw from the convention is the growing gap between worsening economic, social and political conditions faced by workers today in Canada and the world, on the one hand, and the still-limited will and capacity of trade unions to fight for effective improvements in these conditions.

By Justin Podur - July, 03 2008

[Colombian President] Uribe was completely confident in his own popularity...before Ingrid Betancourt was freed in an operation by his army...Now, whether FARC continues on its path of mistakes and moral failures or whether it releases its hostages and comes to the negotiating table, Uribe will benefit politically. The idea that his regime is based on purchased votes, paramilitary violence, selling the country's assets to multinationals, will be lost in tales of the heroism of an operation that bloodlessly saved an innocent and long-suffering hostage.

Trotskyist League/Spartacus Youth Club Forum

Race, Class and the Fight for a Workers America

Break with the Democrats!
For a Class-Struggle Workers Party!
For Black Liberation Through Socialist Revolution!

Free Mumia Abu-Jamal! Abolish the Racist Death Penalty!

ººº With respect to the situation in Cuba these past few weeks, the Cuban Libertarian Movement – MLC (affinity group of Cuban anarchists in exile) speaks up to answer the unknowns and the challenges facing Cuban society. Ours is the voice of uncompromising commitment to freedom, equality and solidarity that has always been the sound of the Cuban anarchists.

Last week I was looking for a YouTube performance of the "L'Internationale" that did not depict authoritarian regimes trying to wrap themselves in the mantel of socialism. It wasn't that easy. I talk about this in my post of the above name