Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 11, 2017
Left Parties
Diemer, Ulli (ed.)
http://www.connexions.org/Media/CXNL-2017-11-11.htm
Date Written: 2017-11-11
Publisher: Connexions
Year Published: 2017
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Cx Number: CX21644
In recent years, there have been repeated attempts to build left political parties and coalitions, i.e. parties to the left of the established social democratic parties which have long become part of the neoliberal capitalist mainstream. Left parties have emerged out of mass movements in countries like Spain (Podemos), Germany (Die Linke), and Greece (Syriza). In Latin America, in the last two decades, left movements or parties have formed governments in Venezuela, Bolivia, Brazil, and Uruguay. What these new left parties/movements have in common is a strategy of engaging in grassroots organizing and also running in elections. They all describe themselves as socialist, though in many cases their programs are more reminiscent of what social democrats used to advocate decades ago: reforms that would tame and manage capitalism rather than abolish it. Their ultimate vision may be a world without capitalism, but their immediate proposals are more modest and incremental, though still significantly to the left of the neo-liberal consensus.
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Contents:
Topic of the Week: Left Parties
Beware the Poisoned Chalice
The Syriza Wave: Surging and Crashing with the Greek Left - book review
Die Linke: Ten Years On
'People are radicalizing Venezuela's Revolution': An interview with Christina Schiavoni
The Left needs to 'find common ground' with Evangelical Christians
What can the Corbynistas learn from Syriza?
Website of the Week: Links: International Journal of Socialist Renewal
Book of the Week: The Syriza Wave: Surging and Crashing with the Greek Left, By Helena Sheehan
Film of the Week: Video: Naomi Klein and Jeremy Corbyn Discuss How to Get the World We Want
Organizing: The Need to Radicalise the Bolivarian Revolution
People's History: Julius Nyerere: Legacy and defeated dreams in Tanzania
From the Archives: The Untold Story of the Black Radical Tradition in Canada
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