What's new at Links - International journal of socialist renewal Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 03:13:02 -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. */*ATTENTION: Sign up for regular **``what's new'' announcement emails at http://www.feedblitz.com/f/?Sub=343373* /* */*Visit and bookmark /http://www.dsp.org.au/links/ and add **it to your RSS feed (http://dsp.org.au/links/rss.xml). If you would like us to consider an article, please send it to links@dsp.org.au* What kind of left for the 21st century? Democratic Centralism and broad left parties *Socialist Resistance steering comittee * January 2008 -- Since the beginning of the decade important steps have been made in rebuilding the left internationally, following the working class defeats of the '80s and '90s and the negative impact of the collapse of the Soviet Union. * Read more Broad parties and narrow visions: the SWP and Respect (part 2) *Was the split really necessary?* Many people regret the split, many consider there was no political justification for it. Certainly it is regrettable. Certainly there were no differences of political programme that could not have been dealt with in the same organisation, notwithstanding the SWP's discourse about a left/right division. But the clash with the SWP was an accident waiting to happen. * Read more Broad parties and narrow visions: the SWP and Respect (part 1) By *Murray Smith* January 4, 2008 -- The crisis which has led to a split in Respect is an important development, affecting as it does the principal force of the radical left in England. The future will tell us whether the current crisis represents just another failure, another dead-end, another missed opportunity for the English left, or whether, as seems increasingly possible, it offers Respect itself the chance for a renewal and is perhaps a step on the road towards a broader formation. * Read more Malaysia: Continued repression by government Statement by *Sivarajan Arumugam* on behalf of the Socialist Party of Malaysia (PSM) * Read more India: CPI (ML)'s Kolkata Congress: People's Resistance, Left Resurgence January 7, 2008 -- The Eighth Congress of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) [CPI (ML)] has been held successfully in Kolkata. Held in the 150th anniversary of the First Indian War of Independence and the birth centenary of Shaheed-e-Azam Bhagat Singh, the 8th Congress boldly underlined the glorious anti-imperialist legacy of the Indian people. * Read more Book review: Cuban Communist makes case for international revolution By *John Riddell* Latin America at the Crossroads/. By //Roberto Regalado. //Translation by Peter Gellert. Ocean Press (www.oceanbooks.com.au ), 2007, US$17.95; Amirica latina entre siglos. Ocean Press, 2007, US$17.95./ This compact book by Roberto Regalado, a veteran member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, strongly reaffirms the need for revolution in Latin America and beyond. * Read more DSP Congress reaffirms commitment to broad left regroupment By *Peter Boyle* January 7, 2008 -- The 23rd Congress of the Democratic Socialist Perspective, a Marxist endency in the Socialist Alliance in Australia, reaffirmed its commitment o broader left regroupment. The Congress noted that a new political terrain was opening up with the election of the Rudd Labor government on the back of a mass campaign of opposition to the anti-worker "Work Choices" laws introduced by the former Liberal-National government. * Read more