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Editors' Note: At the Socialist Project web site <<http://www.socialistproject.ca/bullet/829.php#continue>> Panagiotis Sotiris has written two lengthy essays on "The Greek Crisis and the Left Response." (1) Beyond ‘Realism’: Greece, the challenges for the Left and the need for a radical strategy" and (2) "Exit From the Eurozone. The elephant in the room or why we cannot have socialism based upon EFSF [European Financial Stability Facility] recapitalization"
Panagiotis Sotiris teaches social theory and social and political
philosophy at the Department of Sociology of the University of the
Aegean. This text is based on two presentations at the “Marx is a Must”
Conference in Berlin (9-11 May 2013), organized by the Marx 21 network,
and first published on his blog at lastingfuture.blogspot.gr.
Of greater interest, we believe, is the succinct reply to his essays by Miguel Figueroa, General Secretary of the CP of Canada, which you can read below.
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Developments at the recent African Union (AU) conference highlight the
abject subservience to the West of the vast majority of states on the
continent – and African leaders' occasional attempts to contest their
subordinate status.
On an independent-minded note, the African Union
rebuked the International Criminal Court for its fixation on indicting
only Africans for crimes against humanity.
Ethiopia's prime minister,
who was also chairman of the AU meeting, said the court's "process has
degenerated into some kind of race hunting rather than the objective of
taking care of crimes and impunities."
To drive home the point, the AU
voted almost unanimously to ask the court to refer its case against
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and his vice president back to Kenyan
courts, saying Kenya had the capacity to adjudicate the matter on its
own. Only Botswana objected to the proposal.
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I just returned from Venezuela this week where I was observing the
post-election audit of the vote count at the invitation of the CNE (the
National Electoral Council). The audit, known as the Citizens'
Verification process, is impressive in its scope and thoroughness.
From
eight in the morning 'til noon every day, a team of professors, their
students and CNE support staff, operating out of the CNE warehouse in
the Mariches barrio of Caracas, randomly select 350 boxes containing
paper vote receipts to audit. They then count each receipt in these
boxes to verify whether they match up with the electronic vote count
from the machines linked to each box. Demonstrating the amazing
transparency of this process, this auditing is being broadcast by live
webcam on the CNE website.
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Conference of Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Washington DC, May 30-June 1, 2013. Panel 343 – Cuba and the United States: what it will take to normalize relations between the two countries, and the global ramifications. José R. Cabañas is Chief of the Cuban Interests Section in Washington DC.
United States - Cuba Relations: Myths and Facts
In
the post reelection of President Barack Obama, several theories have
been formulated on whether there is a shift regarding U.S. bilateral
policy toward Cuba. If that were the case, in the process of decision
making, consultants and politicians have to deal not only with real
facts, but also with myths that have been repeated for years in the
imagery of the American press and some domestic political science of
poor quality. We will refer to some of them (myths and facts), which are
not the only ones and are not ranked in order of importance. I will
mention each of them followed by our comments:
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Who says you can’t form
accurate judgments of people on the basis of first impressions? Long
before he was Canada’s foreign minister, before he was even elected to
public office, John Baird knocked at my door and introduced himself as a
candidate in my riding for an election that had yet to be called.
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