Left Discussions & news

http://lrp-cofi.org/statements/isl_break_03042013.html

http://cpgb.org.uk/home/weekly-worker/953/anti-war-anniversary-party-with-all-round-strategy-needed

http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/greeks-radical-left-dangers-disaffected-and-unemployed?utm_source=freelist-f&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20130314&utm_term=sweekly&utm_content=readmore&elq=45bd733ba1e64caa834abd1e764257f3

http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2013/02/rise-fall-palestinian-left.html

http://www.cpgb.org.uk/home/weekly-worker/949/swp-and-programme-transitional-regression-ends-in-a-hunch

Below you find a discussion on „Leninism“. The first article is written
by Alex Callinicos, a leading member of the British „Socialist Workers
Party“(SWP). It is followed by an answer published on the pages of the
US-SWP’s website. The US-SWP it must be remembered has split from the
SWP-GB led „International Socialist Tendency“ a couple of years ago. It
is not really clear which of the two is […]

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http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/02/07/irel-f07.html

http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/israel’s-left-turn-far-right

http://www.challenge-mag.com/en/article__358/a_new_left_arrives_in_israel

Surprisingly, considering she is a journalist, Susann Witt-Stahl
apparently does not understand that for meaningful communication to take
place, words and concepts have to have reasonably fixed, specific
referents. To take an example, when apologists for the state of Israel
make inflationary use of the word ‘anti-Semite’ and apply it to any and
all critics of Israel, the term itself loses all meaning, so that it
basically becomes an empty signifier […]

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banner at the DOX Center for Contemporary Art, Prague in the framework
of the show “Cartographies of Hope: Change Narratives”, on display till
February 21, 2013
http://www.dox.cz/en/exhibitions/cartographies-of-hope-change-narratives
The banner (2007/2012) is part of my long-term project „Alternative
Economics, Alternative Societies“ (since 2003). The text reads:
Imagine shaking this land from below, stirring it up, turning it upside
down to expose all of the plundering and exploitation, and then
spreading it out again, […]

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http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/tunisian-islamists-leftists-clash-after-job-protests