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In the News (Fri 17 Feb 12)

  
  To Build the Workers' International: Refound the Fourth International
Observing were delegates from Voix de Travailleurs (Workers Voice, France), the Greek Section of the CWI (Committee for an Worker International), Valter Pomar (Vice-President of the PT from Brazil) and organizations of the Greek left such as NAR, a split from the Greek CP.
At the moment, the crisis is mainly economic and social, but the revolutionary risings in Albania and Indonesia show, in a limited way, its positive potential for the future, as well as the wars in Bosnia and Kosovo shows its negative potential.
This objectively expounds the workers' control of  production and the international unity of the workers: an International Conference against unemployment and in defense of the workers should be the objective of all consistent workers' leaders and should be expounded as the specific objective of a world campaign.
home.igc.org /~itobr/idm4/athnstr.html   (3712 words)

  
 Mexico - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Vicente Fox of the National Action Party (PAN) was sworn in on 1 December 2000 as the first chief executive elected in free and fair elections.
The main problem at the beginning was the dictatorship of Diaz since 1884 and the plight of farm workers who had been stripped of their wealth and lands.
It was not until the 1980s that the PRI lost the first state governorship, an event that marked the beginning of the party's loss of hegemony.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mexico   (8856 words)

  
 Bolivian Workers Need a Revolutionary Party
Although the vanguard party would be politically distinct from the mass of workers, its members would participate side by side with their fellow workers in all struggles.
Had the challenge been put to the workers and peasants union leaders to take power themselves, all their wailing about the lack of a revolutionary party, or even the more amorphous discussion of the “political instrument of the working class” so far, could have been put to the test of practice, not rhetoric.
Trotsky’s use of the union-based labor party tactic in the U.S., at one time in the 1930’s, was meant to expose in practice the failure of union leaders to stand for the political independence of the working class, and therefore convince workers of the need for a revolutionary party leadership.
www.lrp-cofi.org /statements/bolivia2005.html   (2516 words)

  
 Mass Protests Shake Argentina
Crucially missing, however, is a proletarian revolutionary leadership which can give voice to the aspirations of all the oppressed in a struggle to shatter the rule of the venal Argentine bourgeoisie and the domination of its imperialist masters.
Such a party can only be forged on the basis of a program of proletarian revolutionary internationalism which seeks to extend the struggles of the Argentine proletariat throughout Latin American and into the imperialist heartlands of the United States and West Europe.
Argentina was long one of the most economically and socially advanced countries in the former colonial world.
www.icl-fi.org /english/wv/archives/oldsite/2002/Argentina.htm   (4005 words)

  
 Looking backward, looking forward: Pointers to building a revolutionary party   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The idea of a revolutionary socialist party, or one taking any cues from the Bolshevik experience, is also hotly contested in the milieu, the "party" of former members of parties, reformed Leninists who've seen the error of their ways.
We take it for granted that any party we are in—certainly a revolutionary party, an anti-capitalist party or a party in the process of moving in that direction—would respect the right of tendency, the right for different views to organise and argue for their positions.
Without these conditions, discipline in a revolutionary party really capable of being the party of the advanced class, whose mission it is to overthrow the bourgeoisie and transform the whole of society, cannot be achieved.
www.dsp.org.au /links/back/issue23/Percy.htm   (8388 words)

  
 The theory of "self-organization" Interview with Luis Zamora of Argentina's Autonomy and Freedom movement   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
In the late 1980s the British Workers Revolutionary Party, having split with the International Committee of the Fourth International in 1986, attempted to organize a fusion with the Moreno group.
When we asked about his party’s program and how it saw a way out if the crisis, Zamora explained that it was his organization’s objective “to make contributions to the processes of [popular] self-organization,” although this formulation was never fully explained.
Rigid parties are not flexible enough to allow debate, because their truths are so rigid that the moment they receive a blow they just creak and break up.
www.wsws.org /articles/2003/jun2003/zamo-j02_prn.shtml   (2569 words)

  
 The World Factbook 2004 -- Field Listing - Background
On 21 November 1995, in Dayton, Ohio, the warring parties signed a peace agreement that brought to a halt the three years of interethnic civil strife (the final agreement was signed in Paris on 14 December 1995).
Former agricultural workers, earlier residents in the islands, were relocated primarily to Mauritius but also to the Seychelles, between 1967 and 1973.
Viewing himself as a revolutionary leader, he used oil funds during the 1970s and 1980s to promote his ideology outside Libya, even supporting subversives and terrorists abroad to hasten the end of Marxism and capitalism.
www.brainyatlas.com /fields/2028.html   (15472 words)

  
 :: SOCIALIST VOICE :: Paper of the International Socialist League   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Joint Statement by the PRT (Workers Revolutionary Party — section of the IWL in Spain) and IR (Revolutionary Left) — handed out during a demonstration in support of the Argentine struggle in Madrid on 23 December.
The recent events in Argentina have shocked the entire world, and in particular in the Spanish State for many reasons, but for the immense majority, Argentina is no longer a country.
It is not accidental that the mobilizations of solidarity with the struggle of workers of Argentinean airlines last June was accompanied by the burning it of Spanish flags and there was a legitimate indignation against the presence of Spanish companies.
www.socialistvoice.org /argentina/argentina_col.html   (708 words)

  
 No to Bush, Kerry, Nader: For a Workers Party
The workers’ party must never be the tagtail of any bourgeois party; it must be independent and have its own policy.” This was in a speech he made to the First International, the International Workingmen’s Association, in September 1871.
A revolutionary party will not base itself on whether you can vote, if you have a piece of paper saying you are “legal” or “illegal,” but on who has social power.
At certain times a revolutionary party may put forward candidates, not for the purpose of taking office – as Aubeen said, you can’t vote exploitation out of office – but as another means of presenting its own program.
www.internationalist.org /revo2warelections1004.html   (3770 words)

  
 Contemporary argentinean trotskysm: The Workers Party (Partido Obrero)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The fundamental gains in the different fronts of activity, such as workers and students, were maintained, with the logical limitations imposed by repression.
The PO was able to publish on a regular basis its weekly periodical Prensa Obrera (Workers Press), 750 numbers of which were published since the fall of the dictatorship, and its theoretical review En Defensa del Marxismo, as well as a large number of pamphlets and books to advance the political and theoretical struggle.
Almost 40 years of revolutionary and internationalist struggle have qualified the PO to offer a revolutionary alternative for Argentina and Latin America and to act effectively for the reconstitution of proletarian internationalism in its most highly developed form: the organization and program of the IV International.
www.po.org.ar /english/pohistory.htm   (1264 words)

  
 UK Indymedia - Break with Class Collaboration! For a Multiethnic Revolutionary Workers Party!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Now, these same parties have cobbled together a reactionary national front, stretching from the right wing to the “far left,” to wrap Chirac in the French tricolor as the supposed “savior of Republican values.” The anti-Le Pen demonstrations are replete with nauseating chauvinism.
At the time, the LTF insisted that the heavily minority private sector workers be mobilized in that proletarian struggle and uniquely called on the labor movement to champion the rights of all the oppressed, particularly France’s large North African population.
As is the case with all popular fronts, the politics of class collaboration disoriented the workers, derailed their struggles and emboldened the forces of reaction.
www.indymedia.org.uk /en/2002/05/29861.html   (3097 words)

  
 Imperialist Troops Out of Iraq! : SF Indymedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
This movement is here to stay and needs to be developed into an all sided mass revolutionary struggle to overthrow the capitalist governments and the system generating this wave of barbaric and ever more catastrophic wars.
The causes of the war and of the social rebellion against it are not conjectural but structural, deeply embedded in the world contradictions of Capitalism that plunges the system as a whole, including its strongest and hegemonic part, American capitalism, into crisis and historical decline.
Undoubtedly it is a sign of the preparations of the Capitalist State and the bourgeoisie to meet in a sharpening international class struggle the new forces that have joined massively active politics the last period.
sf.indymedia.org /print.php?id=1606331   (2421 words)

  
 Meetings on 50 years of the International Committee of the Fourth International Chris Marsden: The split with the WRP ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The essential issue in the struggle against the Workers Revolutionary Party (WRP) renegades that led to a split in 1986 was a resurgence of the type of Pabloite revisionism that led to the foundation of the International Committee of the Fourth International in 1953.
The response of the Gorbachev wing of the bureaucracy, far from being revolutionary, was to seek reintegration of the USSR into the structures of world capitalism through the overturn of nationalised property relations—a perspective pursued with even greater vigour by his successor Yeltsin.
Their proposed party takes slightly different forms in different countries, but pride of place is always given to the handful of dissidents and die-hards who have left the old parties and claim loyalty to past ideas of social democracy and Stalinism before their rightward lurch.
www.wsws.org /articles/2003/dec2003/mars-d08_prn.shtml   (4974 words)

  
 Listing of International Trotskyist Tendencies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Revolutionary Workers’ Party (Partido Obrero Revolucionario/Partit Obrer Revolucionari, POR), Spain
Revolutionary Workers’ Party (Partido Obrero Revolucionario, POR), Argentina
Socialist Workers’ Movement (Movimiento Socialista de Trabajadores, MST) periodical Bandera Roja, Puerto Rico, ex-LIT-CI Committee for the Construction of the Revolutionary Socialist Party (Bolshevik-Leninist) (Comitetul pentru Constructia unui Partid Socialist Revolutionar (Bolsevic-Leninist), PSR-BL), Romania
www.marxists.org /history/etol/intl.htm   (1715 words)

  
 Background Information on Foreign Terrorist Organizations
Elements of the group were responsible for the kidnapping and detention of US and other Western hostages in Lebanon.
Formed in 1971, ELA is a self-described revolutionary, anti-capitalist, and anti-imperialist group that has declared its opposition to "imperialist domination, exploitation, and oppression"; Strongly anti-US and seeks the removal of US military forces from Greece.
Stated goal is to destroy existing Peruvian institutions and replace them with peasant revolutionary regime.
www.state.gov /s/ct/rls/rpt/fto/2801.htm   (5841 words)

  
 Governments on the WWW: Political Parties
Sozialdemokratische Partei Österreichs (SPÖ) [Socialdemocratic Party of Austria]
Srpska Stranka Republike Srpske [Serbian Party of the Serbian Republic]
Hrvatska Seljacka Stranka Bosne i Hercegovine (HSS BiH) [Croatian Peasants Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina]
www.gksoft.com /govt/en/parties.html   (2433 words)

  
 The Verdict: A Shameless Frame-up!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
All of them are familiar with the Trotskyist movement; many are acquainted personally with Joseph Hansen and George Novack, and know the record of the Socialist Workers party, although they may disagree with its positions on a number of issues.
For almost a year the Workers Revolutionary party, the British group headed by Gerry Healy, has conducted a vicious slander campaign against the Socialist Workers party of the United States and two of its veteran leaders, Joseph Hansen and George Novack.
Healy and his followers in various countries have published articles and pamphlets, held public meetings, and distributed leaflets and posters accusing both men of “criminal negligence” in Trotsky’s assassination and of being “accomplices of the GPU,” alleging that they have covered up crimes of the Soviet secret police and shielded its agents.
www.marxists.org /history/etol/document/swp-us/verdict.htm   (810 words)

  
 The Lubitz TrotskyanaNet - Link Collection
Partido Obrero Revolucionario (POR) [Revolutionary Workers' Party, Spain]
Partido Operário de Unidade Socialista (POUS) [Workers' Party of Socialist Unity, Portugal]
Socialist Worker of the Socialist Workers Party in Ireland
www.trotskyana.net /Links/links.html   (2018 words)

  
 Other Radical Leftist Parties of the World   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Kurdistan Organisation of the Communist Party of Iran
Worker-communist Party of Iran - Hekmatist (Hezb-e Komunist-e Kargaran-e Iran - Hekmatist-e)
Leftist Worker Communist Party of Iraq (al-Hizb al-Shuyu'i al-'Ummali al-Yasari al-Iraqi)
www.broadleft.org /radleft.htm   (786 words)

  
 Red Links
Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA)
Socialist Party of Ukraine / Socialist Congress of Youth (SPU / SKM)
While they have been improving their political structure and outlook, they continue to support the Democratic Party, an obviously bourgeois organization.
reds.linefeed.org /links.html   (174 words)

  
 PARTIDO OBRERO - WORKERS PARTY (ARGENTINA)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Worker and piquetero day of struggle against the militarization of Las Heras
Brazil: The workers in the face of a crisis of power
Argentina supports a war criminal to preside over the World Bank
www.po.org.ar /english   (819 words)

  
 Left Links
Revolutionary Workers' Party/Partido Obrero Revolucionario (POR) (Argentina) : Liaison Committee for the Reconstruction of the Fourth International (Comité de Enlace por la Reconstruciَn de la IV Internacional, CERCI)
Revolutionary Workers Party - Workers Democracy/Rabochaya Demokratiya (RRP) (Russia) : Socialist Appeal Tendency
Workers' Cause Party/Partido da Causa Operلria (Brazil) : Partido Obrero Tendency
www.azadarman.com /link.htm   (3445 words)

  
 Trotskyist links
Partido Bolchevique por la Cuarta Internacional(Bolshevik Party for the Fourth International, Argentina)
Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna-Kiruna(Justice Party the Socialists in Kiruna, Sweden)
Spartakist Arbeiterpartei Deutschlands(Spartacist Workers' Party of Germany, unofficial(written by right-wingers), Germany)
www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/1884/tro-links.htm   (216 words)

  
 Governments on the WWW: Argentina
Embajada de Argentina en Asunción, Paraguay [Embassy of Argentina in Asuncion, Paraguay]
Embajada de Argentina en Kiev, Ucrania [Embassy of Argentina in Kiev, Ukraine]
Embajada de Argentina en Montevideo, Uruguay [Embassy of Argentina in Montevideo, Uruguay]
www.gksoft.com /govt/en/ar.html   (2053 words)

  
 Trivia Contest - World Cultures European
As the party made their way towards the gathered dignitaries, they were grandly announced "the honourable Dawson Bates, his wife, Lady Bates, and their son Master Bates." (We're not kidding - this really happened!)
• Ernesto Guevara Lynch, the father of Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara, was a descendant of a Galway woman, Ana Lynch y Oritz, who settled in Argentina in the 18th century?
If you were a naughty child, Santy wouldn't come down the chimney.
www.irishcultureandcustoms.com /TriviaDidyouknow.html   (6575 words)

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