Socialist Voice

Introduction by Robert Johnson and John Riddell. The mass protests in Iran, sparked by charges of fraud in the June 12 presidential elections, express deeply felt demands for expanded democratic rights. The establishment press has been silent on the aspirations of rank-and-file protesters. Socialist Voice is therefore pleased to be able to publish several statements by components of Iran’s vigorous trade union movement, which has been a major target of repression by Iran’s security forces. We have provided the titles and some introductory comments. [...more]

By John Riddell. In the last three years, a growing number of Latin American governments have expressed support for the Palestinian people through sanctions and other initiatives against the Israeli government. Their actions reflect increasing popular identification across the region with Palestinian rights. [...more]

Che Guevara: The Economics of Revolution by Helen Yaffe. Palgrave Macmillan: London, 2009. Reviewed by Diane Raby [...more]

An interview with Peter Boyle. Peter Boyle is National Secretary of the Democratic Socialist Perspective (DSP), a Marxist tendency in the Socialist Alliance in Australia. He was interviewed by Socialist Voice co-editor Roger Annis. [...more]

By Federico Fuentes. Addressing the 400-strong May 21 workshop with workers from the industrial heartland of Guayana, dedicated to the “socialist transformation of basic industry”, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez noted with satisfaction the outcomes of discussions: “I can see, sense and feel the roar of the working class.” [...more]

La Vía Campesina: Globalization and the Power of Peasants. by Annette Aurélie Desmarais. Fernwood Publishing, 2007. Reviewed by John Riddell [...more]

By Roger Annis. “My fear is that we may end up with a legislature that is almost completely irrelevant to the next generation of British Columbians.” -David Mitchell, head of the national Public Policy Forum commenting on the May 12, 2009, British Columbia election. [...more]

Introduction. This article is based on a presentation made at the April 2009 “World at a Crossroads” conference in Sydney, Australia, by Emma Murphy, a co-editor of Green Left Weekly. In December, 2008, Murphy participated in the newspaper’s investigative reporting delegation to the Northern Territory (NT) of Australia. [...more]

Introduction. “This massacre offers the world a glimpse at horrors faced by our people.” In the article below, dissident Afghan MP Malalai Joya expresses her country’s the growing outrage at the intensified NATO air strikes, and its outrage that the occupiers continue to prop up of the corrupt regime headed by Hamid Karzai. [...more]

by Stuart Munckton. “This is not just a Maoist movement,” Green Left Weekly’s correspondent in Kathmandu, Ben Peterson, said on the struggle that has erupted in Nepal. “This is threatening to become a new people’s movement, like the one that swept away the monarchy.” [...more]