What's new at Links magazine online Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 16:41:09 -0600 (CST) */Links/ seeks to promote the international exchange of information, experience of struggle, theoretical analysis and views of political strategy and tactics within the international left. It is a forum for open and constructive dialogue between active socialists coming from different political traditions. It seeks to bring together those in the international left who are opposed to neoliberal economic and social policies. It aims to promote the renewal of the socialist movement in the wake of the collapse of the bureaucratic model of "actually existing socialism" in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.* *Visit and bookmark /http://www.dsp.org.au/links/ and add **to your RSS feed (http://dsp.org.au/links/rss.xml). If you would like to be added to the Links announcement email list, or would like us to consider an article, please send an email with the subject line ``Add to Links list'' to links@dsp.org.au* ************************* Zuma, the centre-left and the left-left By *Patrick Bond *December 21, 2007 Congratulations are due Jacob Zuma apparently far more Machiavellian than even his arch-opponent since 2005, Thabo Mbeki and the tireless band of warriors from the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), SA Communist Party (SACP) and African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) who kept his political life support on when everyone else declared him dead. * Read more The Battle for the United Socialist Party of Venezuela By *Kiraz Janicke* Venezuelanalysis.com December 1st 2007 -- As the struggle to deepen Venezuela's revolution intensifies, so too does the battle to create the new United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV). Over the past four months some 14,500 "socialist battalions" of the PSUV have been discussing and debating the constitutional reforms and have formed the grassroots battalions of the Commando Zamora, created as a broad front to campaign for the reforms in the lead-up to the referendum. * Read more `Without worker-management, there is no socialism A talk given at the two-day seminar Workers Management: Theory and Practise, held on October 26 and 27, 2007, organised by the Human Development and Transformative Praxis Program at the Caracas-based Miranda International Centre. Lebowitz is the director of the program. * Read more Armando Hart on the 90th anniversary of the October Revolution November 7, 2007, was the 90th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution. Here *Armando Hart Davalos*, one of the historic leaders of the Cuban Revolution, assesses the 1917 Russian Revolution in the light of historic experience. In a commentary of obvious timelessness for Cubas own revolutionary people and leadership, he argues that the pressures of the imperialist blockade were not the decisive causes of the fall of the Russian Revolution, but rather errors made within the country by its own leadership and institutions. * Read more `Socialisms in the 21st Century *Haiman El Troudi *has occupied many positions in Venezuelas revolutionary government. He was the director of the Office of President (20052006) under Hugo Chavez and secretary of the Maisanta National Command during the presidential recall referendum in August 2004. He is currently part of a team of investigators in the Caracas-based Miranda International Center, where he heads the program, ``Socialism in the 21st Century. * Read more Vietnam: On the road towards the renewal of socialism By *Tran Dac Loi* Years ago, while we were fighting the US war of aggression, the word Vietnam became very familiar to the world. However, over the past decades, less information about Vietnam has reached to the outside world... http://dsp.org.au/links/node/238