What's new at Links: Venezuela; Kosova; France; New Zealand Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 05:45:20 -0600 (CST) Sign up for the NEW regular ``what's new'' announcement emails at http://www.feedblitz.com/f/?Sub=343373 ***************** History calls for a broad left party By Vaughan Gunson and Grant Morgan -- March 2, 2008 -- In 2006, the neoliberal maniacs at the World Bank ranked New Zealand as No.1 in the world for doing business, out of 200 countries surveyed. And a recent government report titled Wealth Disparities in New Zealand showed that 95% of New Zealands net wealth is owned by half the population. The other half is left with the crumbs -- a mere 5% of the country's wealth. * Read more Kosova and the right of oppressed nations to self-determination By Michael Karadjis This is the second in a series of articles looking at aspects of the issue of the recently announced semi-independence of Kosova [Kosovo], which has produced markedly different reactions among left-wing and socialist movements around the world. (Click here for the first article in the series.) * Read more Towards a new anti-capitalist party in France By Frangois Duval, LCR National Leadership -- February 28, 2008 -- In January, a vast majority of the delegates at the 17th national congress of the LCR [Ligue Communiste Rivolutionnaire; Revolutionary Communist League] approved a new political perspective : the building of a broad anti-capitalist party. * Read more Venezuela: Socialist Tide (Marea Socialista) activists on the referendum defeat and the PSUV Federico Fuentes, part of the Green Left Weekly /Links Caracas bureau, spoke to two of the key leaders of Socialist Tide (Marea Socialista), asking them their opinions on the PSUV and its founding congress, particularly in light of the defeat of the December 2, 2007, referendum on Chavezs proposed constitutional reform. * Read more ***************** 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.links.org.au ********************