El Militante – Bolivia – 2/3 para proclamar el socialismo.

Article on Evo Morales recent victory in presidential elections in Bolivia. [spanish]

–Some interesting reading on Islam and social movement theory.

–Robert Fisk on Remembrance Day.

Some of Harmon’s works from Marxists.org

–An interesting read from Yates’ new book.

–And for someone who obviously owns (given that he writes) “anarchist books”, Chomsky writes about UNASUR and the OAS.

–The back-to-school special: Noam Chomsky and the Militarising of Latin America.

–I, obviously, don’t have a sense of humour about these things, but many of you might find something amusing about student poverty and debt.

–Our very own Faiz Ahmed published in Monthly Review Zine. Have a read.

–The journey to radical political understanding starts by, first, questioning if the analysis born from the dominant ideology advances your understanding of society and history and, second, asking why its answers just try to stop you looking so close.

This quote from the article is rather good:

In his presidential address to the Society for the Study of Social Problems in 2000, Robert Perrucci refers to “Galileo’s crime.” He argues that while most claim that Galileo was punished for proposing that the planets moved around the sun, others have pointed out that he was condemned because “he chose to communicate his findings about the earth and the sun, not in Latin, the medium of the educated elite, but in Italian, the public vernacular, parola del popolo” (Perrucci, 2001).

–It would only be strange if the “revolutions” were actually lead by the people instead of orchestrated by the elite. Coup is the correct word for these actions.

–It is unfortunate, but the change that some were expecting does not apply to the Global South. Imperialist policies continue almost unabated.

Jeremy Scahill has been following Blackwater for some time, and has now exposed this major story. Shocking, but not surprising.

–More myth busting from Mark Weisbrot.

–Some left-wing sell-outs for your reading pleasure.

–The right-wing in Latin America continue to spin their lies through their newspapers.

–Yet another reason to leave Microsoft in the trashbin.

–For those of you that love newspeak.

–More on the coup in Honduras from Eva Golinger.

–There are a lot more reasons that it is hard to unionise call centres. Doesn’t mean it is impossible, it just means that it can be an expensive and emotionally draining experience… much like working at them.

–Reminds me of the days of Citizens’ Press Radio.

–Some in depth analysis from Marta Harnecker.