Lenosphere Round Up 6/5 – 6/12

I’m starting a Lenoshpere round up of posts from the past week. Hopefully this is a weekly thing. I’ve already started another (supposedly bi-weekly) series and haven’t kept up with it as I’d like. But hopefully this will pan out better.

Here’s a short round up of posts that caught my eye in my reader.

Sean Purdy (Brazil):

Where is Lula’s Brazil going?

Brazil is Latin America’s largest and most economically powerful nation.

On the surface it is a success story – President Lula of the Workers Party still enjoys substantial popularity within Brazil. The economy has been relatively stable and it is likely that Lula will choose his own successor in the next presidential elections in 2010.
But to see where Brazil is really going, we need to look beyond the slick public relations of the government…(Read More)

Lenin (U.K.):

42 days. But only 37 rebels. And nine crucial votes from the hard right DUP. Without the support of Peter Robinson and his dour, petit-bourgeois party of Orange ascendancy, the government could not have won this vote today. They say the DUP has been bought – no doubt, but how much would you have to give these fuming reactionaries to get them to back extended internment? And though the government won the vote, I have not yet detected a coherent argument for a 42 day detention limit. Bear in mind the obvious harms that result from detention without trial already…(Read More)

John Mullen a Agen (France) highlights the blog of undocumented striking workers in France:

Lisez ici le blog des sans papiers en grève à Paris. Publié par John Mullen à l’adresse.

Snowball (U.K.):

London is not only hosting Marxism 2008 in July, but also a more academic Marxist conference organised by Historical Materialism journal in November…(Read More)

Mashahed (Egypt) blogs about the bread uprising in Burullus:

وحسب ما جاء في المصري اليوم فإن الآلاف من أهالي البرلس تظاهروا يوم السبت الماضي – 7 يونيو – وقطعوا الطريق الدولي احتجاجاً علي قرار المحافظ وقف توزيع الدقيق المدعم علي البطاقة التموينية ، كما أننا لم ننسَ نضال المدينة الباسلة .في العام الماضي احتجاجاً على قطع مياه الشرب

Hossam (Egypt):

Irish labor union passes motions in support of Palestine النقابات العمالية الأيرلندية تنضم لحملة مقاطعة الدولة الصهيون

Renegade Eye (U.S.):

Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan president, has called on Colombian rebels to lay down their weapons, free all their hostages and put an end to a decades-long armed struggle against the Bogota government.

He said efforts by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) to overthrow Colombia’s democratically elected government are unjustified.

“The guerrilla war is history,” Chavez said during his weekly television and radio programme on Sunday…(Read More)