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		<title>The spectre of socialism for the 21st century</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Michael Lebowitz
The following is the keynote address to the annual meeting of the Society for Socialist Studies, Vancouver, June 5, 2008. It was originally titled &#8220;Building socialism for the 21st century&#8221;. To hear an audio recording of the speech, click HERE.
A spectre is haunting capitalism. It is the spectre of socialism for the 21st century. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://radicalnotes.com/journal/2008/07/11/the-spectre-of-socialism-for-the-21st-century/</link>
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		<title>Perspectives on the US Financial Crisis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sam Gindin and Leo Panitch
It is time to take stock. The centrality of the American economy to the capitalist world – which now literally does encompass the whole world – has spread the financial crisis that began in the U.S. housing market around the globe. And the emerging economic recession triggered in the U.S. by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://radicalnotes.com/journal/2008/07/11/perspectives-on-the-us-financial-crisis/</link>
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		<title>President Chavez and the FARC: State and Revolution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[James Petras
When President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela called on the FARC, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, to end their armed struggle and declared the ‘guerrilla war is history’, he was following a path taken by many revolutionary leaders in the past.
As far back as the early 1920’s, Lenin urged the nascent Turkish communist to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://radicalnotes.com/journal/2008/07/04/president-chavez-and-the-farc-state-and-revolution/</link>
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		<title>Public Hearing at Munsiyari, Uttarakhand</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently held Public Hearing for Rupsiabagar – Khasiabara Hydro Electric Project at Munsiyari District of Uttarakhand is an example of the establishment and corporate playing farce with the provisions of public hearing provided in the Environment Impact Assessment Notification, 2006 (EIA Notification). The EIA Notification provides for conducting Public Hearing in the project-affected areas for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://radicalnotes.com/journal/2008/06/16/munsiyari/</link>
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		<title>On the way back from Dhinkia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Anti-POSCO struggle - Some Questions
Shahina
“If you are living in a state which is rich in mineral wealth, you will have but a fragile democracy”. Desperately commented an activist fighting against the proposed iron ore project by POSCO in Orissa.While having tea together on the way back from Dhinkia, he abysmally expressed no hope for a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://radicalnotes.com/journal/2008/06/16/on-the-way-back-from-dhinkia/</link>
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		<title>The End of the Middle Class?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A growing middle-class is considered to be an indicator of prosperity. According to one of the proponents of the neoliberal capitalist euphoria in India, Gurcharan Das (India Unbound) - &#8220;the most striking feature of contemporary India is the rise of a confident new middle class&#8221;. According to him the middle-class in India is 20% of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://radicalnotes.com/journal/2008/05/26/the-end-of-the-middle-class/</link>
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		<title>Maoist Approach in Nepal - Baburam Bhattarai</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[A recent interview with Com Baburam Bhattarai clearly reminds us of Lenin&#8217;s defense of the independence of workers&#8217; organisations:
&#8220;We now have a state under which it is the business of the massively organised proletariat to protect itself, while we, for our part, must use these workers&#8217; organisations to protect the workers from their state, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://radicalnotes.com/journal/2008/05/12/maoist-approach-in-nepal-baburam-bhattarai/</link>
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		<title>Ban on People&#8217;s March: An Affront to the Right to Free Expression</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gilbert Sebastian
On 19 December 2007, P. Govindan Kutty, the editor of Peoples&#8217; March, an English magazine sympathetic to the Maoist movement was picked up by the Kerala police under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967. Govindan Kutty was on a long hunger strike in the jail and was released on bail on 24 February 2008. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://radicalnotes.com/journal/2008/04/15/ban-on-peoples-march-an-affront-to-the-right-to-free-expression/</link>
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		<title>The Politics of Arundhati&#8217;s &#8216;Genocide Affirmation&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Depicting Mao as the Author of the Biggest Political Genocide?
Gilbert Sebastian
Arundhati Roy&#8217;s article, &#8220;Listening to Grasshoppers: Genocide, Denial and Celebration&#8221; (Outlook 4 February 2008) might have, by now, lost its news-value but we hope, the concerns raised should have abiding interest. 
Her analysis in a powerful style on the project of &#8216;union and progress&#8217;, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://radicalnotes.com/journal/2008/04/02/the-politics-of-arundhatis-genocide-affirmation/</link>
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		<title>Stages of Revolution in the International Working Class Movement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dipankar Basu, Sanhati
Abstract: This article attempts to throw some light on the following two questions: (1) How does the classical Marxist tradition conceptualize the relationship between the two stages of revolution: democratic and the socialist? (2) Does the democratic revolution lead to deepening and widening capitalism? Is capitalism necessary to develop the productive capacity of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://radicalnotes.com/journal/2008/03/25/stages-of-revolution-in-the-international-working-class-movement/</link>
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