7 Apr 2009 02:46
What's new at Links: economic crisis; G20; Nepal; World at a Crossroads; Sudan & ICC; apartheid Israel; El Salvador; photo essay; EU election
glparramatta <glparramatta <at> greenleft.org.au>
2009-04-07 00:46:43 GMT
2009-04-07 00:46:43 GMT
What's new at Links: economic crisis; G20; Nepal; World at a Crossroads; Sudan & ICC; apartheid Israel; El Salvador; photo essay; EU election * * * Subscribe free to Links - International Journal of Socialist Renewal - at http://www.feedblitz.com/f/?Sub=343373 Visit and bookmark http://links.org.au and add it to your RSS feed (http://links.org.au/rss.xml). If you would like us to consider an article, please send it to links <at> dsp.org.au *Please pass on to anybody you think will be interested in /Links/. You can now follow Links on Twitter at http://twitter.com/LinksSocialism * * * Atilio Borón: From infinite war to infinite crisis <http://links.org.au/node/983> By Atilio Borón[*], translated by Machetera, Scott Campbell, Christine Lewis Carroll and Manuel Talens March 25, 2009 -- Some thoughts on the current capitalist crisis, its probable "solutions" and the role that a socialist option might play in the present juncture. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/983> Eric Toussaint on G20: `Putting a fresh coat of paint on a world that is collapsing'; police attack protesters <http://links.org.au/node/982> By Eric Toussaint and Damien Millet, translated by Christine Pagnoulle in collaboration with Elisabeth Anne April 1, 2009 -- The G20 summit meeting in London from April 1 onward was loudly announced and publicised. Those 20 industrialised and emergent countries (G20) are meeting to find solutions to the economic crisis. But long before the end of the summit, it is clear that they will not rise to the challenge. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/982> Sydney, April 10-12, 2009: `World at a Crossroads' 21st century socialism conference day-by-day agenda <http://links.org.au/node/974> World at a Crossroads: Fighting for socialism in the 21st Century Easter 2009, April 10-12, Sydney Venue: Sydney Girls High School World At A Crossroads is a conference that brings together hundreds of socialists, progressive activists and Marxist thinkers from around Australia, Latin America, Asia-Pacific and North America in dozens of panel presentations and workshops dealing with the urgent questions that confront us all: war, imperialism, food security, racism, workers' rights, sexism, the media and culture. * Get day-by-day agenda and more info here <http://links.org.au/node/974> Nepal: `We call on progressive and leftist forces of the world to support us' <http://links.org.au/node/986> Kathmandu -- On April 2, 2009, Ben Peterson -- a socialist activist visiting from Australia -- had the opportunity to interview Suresh Kumar Ale Magar, who is an elected member of Nepal's Constituent Assembly and a militant of the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist). * * * ``We see the policies and the struggle of the people in Venezuela, Bolivia and the Latin American countries against imperialism, particularly against US imperialism... I strongly believe that in the future that there could be an international anti-imperialist organisation, of which those countries would be a major part.'' * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/986> Review: John Bellamy Foster and Fred Magdoff's `The Great Financial Crisis' <http://links.org.au/node/985> The Great Financial Crisis By John Bellamy Foster and Fred Magdoff New York, Monthly Review Press, 2009 ISBN: 978-1-58367-184-9 paper Review by Patrick Bond * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/985> Sudan: ICC indictment of Omar al-Bashir -- justice or a poisoned chalice? <http://links.org.au/node/984> By Steven Fake and Kevin Funk March 21, 2009 -- After an hour and a half of walking under the intense Sudanese sun, armed with crude maps printed from the internet, we paused before a field of rubble in an industrial area of North Khartoum. Two teenagers sat on the porch in front of the still-partially standing building, conversing and watching the world go by in this gritty, dusty area of the Sudanese capital. "Al-Shifa?", we mustered as a question, the name of the massive pharmaceutical plant that stood on this site until just over a decade ago. They nodded. "Bill Clinton", we responded, pointing to the ruins of the facility that his administration bombed in 1998. The two boys chuckled. Just over a decade after the US bombing of al-Shifa, on March 4 of this year, a different leader -- Sudanese head of state Omar al-Bashir -- was indicted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes and crimes against humanity. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/984> Nepal's Blue Diamond Society: Hopes high for LGBTI rights <http://links.org.au/node/980> March 17, 2009 -- Kathmandu -- Ben Peterson interviewed Subash Pokharel, coordinator of Nepal's Blue Diamond Society. The Blue Diamond Society is the largest LGBTI (lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender and intergender people) rights organisation in Nepal. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/980> Salim Vally: The campaign to isolate apartheid Israel -- lessons from South Africa <http://links.org.au/node/979> By Salim Vally [Salim Vally, a leading member of the Palestine Solidarity Committee in South Africa and a veteran anti-apartheid activist, will be a featured guest at the World at a Crossroads conference, to be held in Sydney, Australia, on April 10-12, 2009, organised by the Democratic Socialist Perspective, Resistance and Green Left Weekly. Visit http://www.worldATACrossroads.org <http://www.worldatacrossroads.org/> for full agenda and to book your tickets.] * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/979> David Harvey: Their crisis, our challenge <http://links.org.au/node/978> In a far reaching interview with Red Pepper, David Harvey argues that the current financial crisis and bank bail-outs could lead to a massive consolidation of the banking system and a return to capitalist ``business as usual'' -- unless there is sustained revolt and pressure for a dramatic redistribution and socialisation of wealth. David Harvey was interviewed by Marco Berlinguer and Hilary Wainwright. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/978> El Salvador's FMLN: The road to victory and beyond <http://links.org.au/node/977> By the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador March 24, 2009 -- Starting at 7am on Sunday, March 15, Salvadorans headed en masse to the polls to cast their ballots for the future president; by 9:30pm Mauricio Funes, presidential candidate of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), pronounced himself president-elect of El Salvador--the very first leftist head of state in the country's history. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/977> Photo essay: Fighting back against home foreclosure <http://links.org.au/node/976> Photos by David Bacon Oakland, California, March 12, 2009 -- On the steps of the Alameda County courthouse, community activists in the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) protest against the auction of the foreclosed home of Armando Ramos and Fernanda Cardenas. Their home mortgage, held by the mortgage company OCWEN, had an adjustable rate. When it went up, Ramos and Cardenas could no longer make the payments. OCWEN then decided to auction off the home on the courthouse steps. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/976> Britain: New left alliance for EU elections <http://links.org.au/node/975> March 24, 2009 -- Last week saw the launch of the ``No2EU -- Yes to Democracy'' electoral front, which is critical of the European Union and opposed to the Lisbon Treaty. The alliance is an initiative of Bob Crow, head of Britian's biggest transport union, the RMT. Below, Crow explains why activists have taken the decision to challenge British Labour Party complaceny on this viciously anti-working class treaty. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/975> * * * Links seeks to promote the international exchange of information, experience of struggle, theoretical analysis and views of political strategy and tactics within the international left. It is a forum for open and constructive dialogue between active socialists coming from different political traditions. It seeks to bring together those in the international left who are opposed to neoliberal economic and social policies. It aims to promote the renewal of the socialist movement in the wake of the collapse of the bureaucratic model of "actually existing socialism" in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. ATTENTION: Sign up for regular ``what's new'' announcement emails at http://www.feedblitz.com/f/?Sub=343373 _______________________________________________ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ "[C]apital comes dripping from head to foot, from every pore, with blood and dirt." --Marx, Capital, Vol. 1, Chapter 31
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