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		<title>Toronto event targets tar sands criminals</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 02:33:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Riddell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The historic confrontation now shaping up over plans by Enbridge Corp. to build a new pipeline across the Canadian Rockies to export dirty tar-sands oil was discussed at a protest meeting in Toronto, February 16. The meeting, attended by almost 100 activists, was organized by Toronto Bolivia Solidarity and Common Frontiers around the theme, “Stop [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=johnriddell.wordpress.com&amp;blog=22825446&amp;post=895&amp;subd=johnriddell&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bolivia&#8217;s García Linera: ‘Moving beyond capitalism is a universal task’</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 16:53:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Introduction by Felipe Stuart Cournoyer: Bolivia’s Vice President Álvaro García Linera brought a message of hope and anti-imperialist commitment to Mexico in the first week of February. Speaking to an overflow assembly of students and university personnel at Mexico City’s UNAM (National Autonomous University), he said that the government led by President Evo Morales welcomes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=johnriddell.wordpress.com&amp;blog=22825446&amp;post=871&amp;subd=johnriddell&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Washington threatens reprisals against Nicaragua’s voters</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:03:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Riddell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An interview with Felipe Stuart Cournoyer. In a fit of petulant anger, the U.S. government lashed out on January 25 against the outcome of Nicaragua’s recent presidential election. To understand the context of the U.S. threats, I talked to Felipe Stuart Cournoyer, a Nicaraguan citizen and member of Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN).(1) Riddell: U.S. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=johnriddell.wordpress.com&amp;blog=22825446&amp;post=858&amp;subd=johnriddell&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Workers&#8217; government: the realities of our era are different</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 02:04:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Riddell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is a guest column by David Camfield, an editor of New Socialist Webzine. It was submitted in response to my article, “Workers’ Governments and Socialist Strategy — a Reply.” David’s comments are followed by a list of links to all other items in the “workers’ government” exchange on this website. I must thank [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=johnriddell.wordpress.com&amp;blog=22825446&amp;post=850&amp;subd=johnriddell&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Workers’ governments and socialist strategy &#8212; a reply</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 02:11:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Riddell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Camfield and Pham Binh have raised important issues in contributions to the workers’ government strategy debate on this website. Here is a reply to each of them. David Camfield on the &#8216;Crisis of Politics&#8217; In “Workers’ Governments and the Crisis of Politics,” David Camfield makes a number of cogent comments on working people’s road [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=johnriddell.wordpress.com&amp;blog=22825446&amp;post=839&amp;subd=johnriddell&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We need to provide a credible political perspective</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 20:26:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Riddell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following guest column is by Nathan Rao, a Toronto-based socialist writer. It responds to previous posts on this website by John Riddell and David Camfield. Thank you to John Riddell and others for this interesting discussion. So long as we keep front and centre the long list of caveats Riddell provides (and David Camfield [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=johnriddell.wordpress.com&amp;blog=22825446&amp;post=829&amp;subd=johnriddell&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Workers’ governments and the crisis of politics</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 02:34:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Riddell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is a guest column by David Camfield, an editor of New Socialist Webzine. It was submitted in reply to my article, “A Workers’ Government as a Step Toward Socialism.” John is right that “The Comintern’s decisions on governmental policy were rooted in a political environment that no longer exists.” Before offering some comments [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=johnriddell.wordpress.com&amp;blog=22825446&amp;post=812&amp;subd=johnriddell&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A ‘workers’ government’ as a step toward socialism</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 22:56:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Riddell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The concept of a workers’ government is the awkward child of the early Communist International. The thought it expresses is central to Marxism: that workers must strive to take political power. But in the early Comintern, it was attached to a perspective that was contentious for Marxists then and is so now: that workers can [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=johnriddell.wordpress.com&amp;blog=22825446&amp;post=785&amp;subd=johnriddell&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Comintern in 1922: The periphery pushes back</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 03:06:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Riddell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Until recently, I shared a widely held opinion that the Bolshevik Party of Russia towered above other members of the early Communist International as a source of fruitful political initiatives. However, my work in preparing the English edition of the Comintern’s Fourth Congress, held at the end of 1922, led me to modify this view.(1) [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=johnriddell.wordpress.com&amp;blog=22825446&amp;post=780&amp;subd=johnriddell&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Communist history debated at &#8216;Historical Materialism&#8217; London conference</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 19:48:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Riddell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The eighth annual conference of Historical Materialism, held in London 10–13 November 2011, featured a coordinated stream of papers on the history of the world Marxist movement during the era of the Communist International (Comintern) (1919-43). The thirty-eight presentations in this stream reflected vigorous activity in this field, while also pointing up some research challenges [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=johnriddell.wordpress.com&amp;blog=22825446&amp;post=760&amp;subd=johnriddell&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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