"Sri Lanka solution" threatened for Maoist-led uprising in India—Excerpts from Arundhati Roy

By *Graham Milner*

Rosa Luxemburg (1870-1919) is one of the greatest figures ever produced
by the international socialist movement. Her contribution, as theorist
and activist, deserves to be recognised and celebrated by the newer
generations of socialist activists who have become involved in the
movement in recent decades. Those of us who have been involved in the
socialist left for rather longer may also benefit from a critical review
of the achievements of this great woman.

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From: glparramatta <glparramatta@...>
Date: Fri Jan 1, 2010 1:31 am
Subject: Paul Le Blanc reviews Robert Service�s biography of Trotsky | Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal

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By Paul Le Blanc
This is certainly an ideal moment for people to engage with one of the
greatest revolutionaries of modern times. Robert Service makes exciting
claims: that his searches among archival holdings shed new light on the
subject, and that he offers, for the first time, an objective account of
this symbol of revolutionary Marxism. But in more ways than one, the
book he has produced is not what it claims to be. In fact, what many
reviewers have enthused over, in their discussions of Service�s book, is
the demolition of what they (and Service) consider to be a myth. As
novelist and journalist Robert Harris approvingly comments in London�s
/Sunday Times/, �50 years after the last full-scale biography of Trotsky
in English, Robert Service has turned his attention to this myth � and
has, effectively, assassinated Trotsky all over again.�

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Prime global movement against globalization and American hegemony and Zionism, the warrior Fadi Madi in Germany on the horn-General to all departments and interests of the movement around the world to counter the effects of the Holocaust, Zionism against our people in Gaza, steadfastness, and the Egyptian decision to prevent the unjust global march of Gaza and the wall of shame and humiliation in the continued Alrvhaoi official silence the Arab and international levels and the continued remote monitoring of the many organizations of global civil society to bring about genocide without any serious action and effective pressure on governments and decision-making capitals of the world to stop the Holocaust era in Gaza, we have worked over the past months, including fitting and the ethics of the freedom fighters, even in the bitter waiting to respond to our request to the Egyptian to allow the march of human solidarity, but do not carry all the love and appreciation for the struggles of the Egyptian people with their brothers in Gaza by Egyptian authorities, but parents blatantly trampled on all international charters and norms of international humanitarian and not even compete in the Government of the usurper entity heinous their crime against the Palestinian people and the conscience of the world enjoy the sleep of a deep and we do nothing but become a blind eye to the meaning of major crime in this age and it from the moment we are responsible for our consciences and our values and our principles and we will cry humanitarian rebellious yearning for freedom from the yoke of slavery World

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Get up you people of Egypt and adjourned the dust of humiliation and shame about your dignity
O Arabs, O Muslims do not excuse you after today
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On Friday, January 1, 2010 and is on the World Gaza Strip under the banner of the world's conscience
Gaza and the establishment of a week of global strategic solidarity which will take place in December 27, 2009 and until the evening of January 3, 2010

Saved the children of Gaza Batbaek steps and the following instructions:

1. Stop your business what I can as of noon on Sunday, December 27, 2009 and ending on Sunday, January 3rd, 2010, 2. Participated in or contributed to all local activities (activity and at least one day). 3. Start your own group of the composition of your relatives and friends and other groups participated in collective action. 4. Stay in the street what you can afford it, do not clash with security forces. 5. Check your e-mail daily to find out all the details of your move. 6. Skip to local TV ads, and wait for our mailing 7. Informed the office of the emergency in any incident or complaint by the security forces. 8. And first-aid kits distributed among your group on the move. 9. No Tguetn any weapon during the siege, or striking or any other movement. 10. I carry a camera in with you to shoot scenes security crackdown. 11. The Umrah Palestinian scarf always. 12. I carry the protective mask and tear gas is always with you. 13. Not only grow with the group, and participated in the ring the bells of churches and prayer on Friday or Sunday mass. 14. Not to damage or destroy any public facility, and warn lurking and logos tendentious divisive. 16. Put declaration anti-Israeli Holocaust and the apartheid wall Egyptian against our people in Gaza and Palestine before the park entrance to your home. 17. Put a poster sign the international peace on your vehicle. 18. You and your friends exchange in the world photos of the massacres in Palestine and Iraq. 19. Turn off the light of electricity on a daily basis for 5 minutes x 8 pm local time. 21. Participated in the signing of any petition against the wall and the Holocaust and the Egyptian blockade of Gaza and Make your petition and the members of your family and friends and send it to the local newspaper. . 22: categorically any U.S. and Israeli products. Egyptian-Swiss

Re-division of all groups according to the latest instructions to be also sit in front of Egyptian embassies with the embassies of the usurper entity beginning on Sunday, December 27th, 2009

Strip conscience of humanity, confused and rebellious cry

Popular appeal of the Fourth World and the twenty -
To save the world's conscience and the right human values of truth and goodness and beauty
To the children of Gaza wounded prisoner steadfast and forbearing proud rejection
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Support and support for the resistance of our people and our people in Palestine, Iraq and Lebanon
To liberate prisoners from the prisons of the U.S. occupation and Zionist
Arab citizens of the oppressed and the oppressed
To reconsider responsible and bold against the arrogance and tyranny and the Great Satan
Resistance to a unified global front against imperialism and American hegemony and Zionism
To continue the uprising dawn of freedom against oppression and injustice and aggression
For the children and the innocent of justice and human freedom and world peace and security
On behalf of the martyrs of Palestine and Iraq
The global movement against globalization and American hegemony and Zionism
Announce clarion year
We invite you
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Be one of the millions of free world
Date: all the time from the moment an open and in accordance with local laws in force
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Location: the squares and public squares and the headquarters of the United Nations and U.S. military bases and the headquarters of the diplomatic missions of countries that occupy the land of Iraq troops, embassies, consulates, commercial and cultural centers in Israel. And the Egyptian
We have another date with the enemies of humanity and civilization, and it must wake up the Arab people as in the Wall and Maysaloun, and the battle is inevitable

Gaza rally on the eve of the World Solidarity week-day and issued a global media interest, the central in the global movement against globalization, the following statement:

Zionism Arab and Egyptian pressure led to a joint Egyptian government's decision to prevent the global march of Gaza and the entry Fadi Madi, to the land of Egypt
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From: glparramatta <glparramatta@...>
Date: Tue Dec 29, 2009 4:32 am
Subject: What's new at Links: Dirty deal at Copenhagen, Hugo Chavez and Evo Morales, Dennis Brutus tribute, Pakistan, US health, Guatemala, Xmas truce

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What's new at Links: Dirty deal at Copenhagen, Hugo Chavez and Evo Morales, Dennis Brutus tribute, Pakistan, US health, Guatemala, Xmas truce

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Hamba kahle Comrade Dennis Brutus (1924-2009)

There will come a time
There will come a time we believe
When the shape of the planet
and the divisions of the land
Will be less important;
We will be caught in a glow of friendship
a red star of hope
will illuminate our lives
A star of hope
A star of joy
A star of freedom

-- Dennis Brutus, Caracas, October 18, 2008

December 26, 2009 -- World-renowned political organiser and one of Africa’s most celebrated poets, Dennis Vincent Brutus, died early on December 26 in Cape Town, in his sleep, aged 85.

How to cure the post-Copenhagen hangover

By Patrick Bond, Durban
December 23, 2009 -- In Copenhagen, the world’s richest leaders continued their fiery fossil fuel party last Friday night, December 18, ignoring requests of global village neighbours to please chill out. Instead of halting the hedonism, US President Barack Obama and the Euro elites cracked open the mansion door to add a few nouveau riche guests: South Africa’s Jacob Zuma, China’s Jiabao Wen (reportedly the most obnoxious of the lot), Brazil’s Lula Inacio da Silva and India’s Manmohan Singh. By Saturday morning, still drunk with their power over the planet, these wild and crazy party animals had stumbled back onto their jets and headed home.
The rest of us now have a killer hangover, because on behalf mainly of white capitalists (who are having the most fun of all), the world’s rulers stuck the poor and future generations with the vast clean-up charges – and worse: certain death for millions.

Pakistan: Special appeal for families of killed socialist activists

By Farooq Tariq, Nasir Mansoor and Khalid Mahmood

December 27, 2009 -- The Labour Party Pakistan has lost our four most brilliant comrades, Abdul Salam, Najma Khanum, Rehana Kausar and Wahid Baloch, in a road accident on December 13 near Ormara, Baloachistan.

Copenhagen: Morales and Chavez a `smashing success' -- an insider's report from the ALBA delegation

By Ron Ridenour
December 23, 2009 -- “Nobel War Prize winner walked in and out of a secret door, and that is the way capitalism and the United States Empire will end up leaving the planet, through a secret back door.” So spoke Venezuela President Hugo Chavez from the plenary podium on the last afternoon, December 18, of the 12-day long Copenhagen climate conference (COP15).
“While the conference was a failure, it, at least, led to more consciousness of what the problem is for all of us. Now starts a new stage of the struggle for the salvation of humanity, and this is through socialism. Our problem is not just about climate, but about poverty, misery, unnecessary child deaths, discrimination and racism—all related to capitalism”, Chavez said at the Bolivarian Alliance of the Peoples of Latin America (ALBA) press conference held at the Bella Centre immediately following Chavez’ last remarks at the plenary.

United States: Healthcare bill -- a nightmare before Christmas

By Billy Wharton
December 25, 2009 -- Call it the nightmare before Christmas or Santa’s lump of healthcare coal. Either title captures the disastrous qualities of the healthcare reform bill passed by US Senate on December 24. After months of media coverage, a summer of wild town hall meetings and all the high-sounding rhetoric one could swallow, a 2000 page monster has been birthed.

Photo essay: Justice for the disappeared of Guatemala -- Exhumations in Villalobos

Photos and text by James Rodríguez

CPI (ML): `Shameful betrayal' at Copenhagen -- India and China sign undemocratic US-scripted accord

By Radhika Krishnan
December 24, 2009 -- Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation -- The 15th Conference of Parties (COP15) has finally ended in Copenhagen, and it is now time to officially write the obituary. This week-long conference, where 110 countries got together to try and evolve a blueprint to handle the climate change crisis, has quite predictably and most unfortunately ended in failure. Predictable, because for a long time now there have been indications that the US would continue to hold the rest of the world to ransom by refusing to accept responsibility for its role in creating the climate crisis.

The soldiers' Christmas truce -- A bas la guerre! Nie wieder Kreig! Das walte Gott! Peace on Earth!

Review by Phil Shannon
Silent Night: The Story of the World War I Christmas Truce
By Stanley Weintraub
The Free Press, 2001
206 pages
It was the war that was supposed “to be over by Christmas”. It very nearly was. A spontaneous soldiers' truce broke out along the Western Front on Christmas Eve 1914, four months after the start of hostilities.

Climate Justice Now! statement: Call for `System change not climate change' unites global movement

Corrupt Copenhagen "accord" exposes gulf between peoples' demands and elite political interests
By the Climate Justice Now! coalition
December 22, 2009 -- The highly anticipated UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen (COP15) ended with a fraudulent agreement, engineered by the United States and dropped into the conference at the last moment. The "agreement" was not adopted. Instead, it was "noted" in an absurd parliamentary invention designed to accommodate the United States and permit UN secretary generla Ban Ki-moon to utter the ridiculous pronouncement, "We have a deal", in a spectacular disrespect for the multilateralism that should be the basis of the United Nations.

Excellent news from Copenhagen: Capitalist politicians exposed, foundations laid for mass movement

By Daniel Tanuro
December 19, 2009 -- We knew the United Nations summit in Copenhagen would not conclude with a new international treaty but a simple statement of intent – just one more. But the text adopted at the end of the meeting is worse than anything we could imagine: no quantified objectives for carbon-emissions reduction, no reference year for measuring them, no deadlines, no date!

Democracy Now! interview: Hugo Chavez on how to tackle climate change: `We must go from capitalism to socialism'

December 21, 2009 -- Democracy Now! -- We speak with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez about climate change, the Copenhagen summit and President Obama. Chavez calls the COP15 summit undemocratic and accuses world leaders of only seeking a face-saving agreement. “We must reduce all the emissions that are destroying the planet,” Chavez says. “That requires a change in the economic model: we must go from capitalism to socialism.”

El Salvador: FMLN welcomes Hugo Chavez's call for a Fifth International

Translated by Lara Pullin of the Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network

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Subject: �� GAZA FREEDOM MARCH NOT ON HOLD

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Date: Mon Dec 28, 2009 12:59 pm
Subject: FW: happy new year

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Date: Sat Dec 26, 2009 3:51 am
Subject: A developing situation: National Student Day protests in Iran

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From A World to Win News Service
A developing situation: National Student Day protests in Iran

December 14, 2009. A World to Win News Service. The protests on December 7,
National Student Day, revealed a developing situation in the upsurge in Iran.
They included some of the most tactically combative street actions since the
current movement arose in the wake of last June's presidential elections, and
involved schools and universities throughout the country, including Iranian
Kurdistan. Moreover, they showed a decreased, although still powerful, influence
of the "green movement" led by presidential candidates Mir-Hossein Mousavi and
Mehdi Karoubi, who consider themselves an Islamic loyal opposition to President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and many people's heightened determination to topple the
whole Islamic Republic.

A video posted on YouTube shows students at Sharif University chanting, "Death
to the oppressor, whether shah or supreme leader!" This is a reference to Ali
Khamenei, whose position as both the ultimate religious and political authority
is considered the essence of the regime's Islamic character, and the U.S.-backed
regime of the Shah that the Islamic Republic replaced.

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Date: Fri Dec 25, 2009 4:05 pm
Subject: �� GAZA FREEDOM MARCH NOT ON HOLD

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From: glparramatta <glparramatta@...>
Date: Wed Dec 23, 2009 2:53 am
Subject: What's new at Links: Copenhagen special -- Chavez, Morales, Fidel, G77, Maldives, Tuvalu, protests; PLUS Cap and Trade; Leninism

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Hugo Chávez writes on `The battle of Copenhagen'

By Hugo Chávez Frías, President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, translated by Kiraz Janicke for Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal

December 20, 2009

``I will not tire of repeating to the four winds: the only possible and viable alternative is socialism. I said it in each of my speeches to all the world representatives gathered in Copenhagen, the world's most important event in the last two hundred years: there is no other way if we want to stop this heartless and debased competition that promises only total annihilation." – Hugo Chávez

Copenhagen: `Imperial' climate deal rejected by poor-country delegates

December 18, 2009 -- Speaking on behalf of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas, President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela took the floor at the plenary of the COP15 climate talks in Copenhagen to denounce the final ``deal'' that was soon to emerge and be imposed on the majority poor-country delegates, and which would fall far short of their demands. Chavez accused US President Barack Obama of behaving like an emperor “who comes in during the middle of the night … and cooks up a document that we will not accept, we will never accept”.

Copenhagen: Democracy Now! interview with Evo Morales -- `We cannot end global warming without ending capitalism'

#3548

From: glparramatta <glparramatta@...>
Date: Mon Dec 21, 2009 12:42 am
Subject: Hugo Ch�vez writes on `The battle of Copenhagen' | Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal

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By Hugo Chávez Frías, President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, translated by Kiraz Janicke

December 20, 2009

``I will not tire of repeating to the four winds: the only possible and viable alternative is socialism. I said it in each of my speeches to all the world representatives gathered in Copenhagen, the world's most important event in the last two hundred years: there is no other way if we want to stop this heartless and debased competition that promises only total annihilation." – Hugo Chávez

Copenhagen was the scene of a historic battle in the framework of the 15th Conference of the United Nations Convention on Climate Change (COP15). Better said, in the beautiful, snowy capital of Denmark, a battle began that did not end on Friday, December 18, 2009. I reiterate: Copenhagen was only the beginning of a decisive battle for the salvation of the planet. It was a battle in the realm of ideas and in praxis.
Brazilian Leonardo Boff, a great liberation theologian and one of the most authoritative voices on environmental issues, in a key article, entitled What is at stake in Copenhagen?, wrote these words full of insight and courage: What can we expect from Copenhagen? At least this simple confession: We cannot continue like this. And a simple proposition: Let’s change course.

And for that reason, precisely, we went to Copenhagen to battle for a change of course on behalf of Venezuela, on behalf of the Bolivarian Alliance (ALBA), and moreover, in defence of the cause of humanity and to speak, with President Evo Morales, in defence of the rights of Pachamama, of Mother Earth.

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Date: Sun Dec 20, 2009 6:31 am
Subject: �� LAST NEWS FROM GAZAFREEDOM MARCH

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Prime global movement against globalization and American hegemony and Zionism brother Fadi Madi, from the completion of preparations and preparations for the Gaza Strip a week of solidarity day strategic and global march towards freedom and under the banner of the major Strip conscience of the world in more than 110 countries around the world, where would be the highlight of these activities solidarity sit-ins in front of the embassies of the usurper entity and Models symbolizes the huge big prison of Gaza Strip and the march of global and symbolic marches across the international border with occupied Palestine, seminars, festivals and street petitions and raising the Palestinian flag and, in most Iraqi cities and capitals of the world marches and candlelight at night and all of which will start on Sunday, December 27th, 2009 and ending on Sunday, January 3rd, 2010
Expressing the hope that the massive international event, which is the result of hard work has lasted for more than three years, the years the brutal siege of the Gaza Strip to achieve a real soldier to break the siege once but the march despite all the pressures, obstacles and difficulties were able to achieve its objectives before its launch and re-Strip the issue of public opinion in international humanitarian and injustice with distinction and showed the beleaguered Palestinian people within the walls of racism and isolation of artificial crossings and the authority of feuding and the loss of all elements of lifestyles to enjoy the earth's population as a whole and under the scourge of poverty and hunger, which is nearing record levels, a rare, even in the peoples of Africa famine
Arrests and the war continued unabated and the destruction of homes and displacing families and the daily bombings and civilian casualties and declared threats to wage war but not least, a huge steel wall on the Egyptian border, according to latest reports, and Anbar to prevent and stop the arrival of any humanitarian assistance including food and medicine
He noted that some international solidarity delegations have already arrived in Cairo and the Arab and Islamic participation in the process improved the quality and quantity, and a young Arab leaders have taken the initiative and marks the birth of a new dawn in the nation is in the process of preparation and all the battles of the nation until after Gaza, adding that the Arab communities and Islamic countries abroad despite all the campaigns against racial discrimination and the pressures of bayonets to the World Zionist lobbies pressure but for the first time will form the backbone for most activities is a confirmation of global solidarity and determination to link these issues to their homeland and their nation, led the American and Zionist occupation of Palestine and Iraq

The link between the Egyptian government's decision to deny visas to some Arab personalities to participate in the march of global and Gaza steel construction of the wall and the persistent attempts of the Zionist world to pre-empt the march amid the inability of Arab and Islamic official is unprecedented and the inaction of the international community to put an official end to the humanitarian tragedy in Gaza as a joint venture with the insistence of overt collusion to break the will and resolve of the Palestinian people, which carries a great historic legacy to resist the occupier and colonizer

While he confirmed that there should be a renaissance of Arab popular massive redraw all the maps and lay new foundations for activating the role of the Arab street, in the face of all conspiratorial schemes tireless efforts did not despair since the Sykes-Picot and even today, the historical window of opportunity in the solidarity of all peoples of the world at this critical stage with the liberation movement and the Arab struggle that began to take form and regulatory framework completely different than the years of conflict custody of the Arab-Zionist and one of the implications of the long march of Gaza and the positive global task is the birth of the liberation movement in the young Egyptian and Arab society stripped dress emancipation of the concepts that were prevalent and Olney was running battle victory for all issues of the nation is today attest to the beginning of the era of major shifts in the region

He added that the global movement, which is struggling in the international arena and despite the vast quantity of counterfeit logos and Zionist organizations infiltrated plants breeding civil society institutions funded by the intelligence services and the sale of political positions vulgar and suppression of the authorities of the People's Movement civilian international force of arms did not impede the progress of the struggle within the movement, but fired Dvovha march Gaza militant spirit of the World will have you to the world and preach the birth of the dawn of freedom uprising

Lastly, any decision will not deter us, no matter how mighty and the tyranny of telling the whole truth about all that afflicts our nation from the dangers that the suspect probably Pthieddidna about the battle of the struggle and grasp the essence of the conflict with the eternal enemy of our nation and the fateful and to accompany the progress one way or another to block the efforts of the organizers of the march humanity who are solid and our people and our people and the rest on the stage of struggle and jihad whatever came from outsiders and under any slogan and address of the blind the eyes and visual and mixed colors will remain the truth that you must know, practice, and is said

He went to the people of Gaza parents stepping up and expressing regret for compliance with the Egyptian authorities to pressure the Zionist and prevented him from entering the land of Egypt and Cairo, goats, Castle Martyr symbol, Gamal Abdel Nasser Sayed free Arabs, and this prohibition non-civilized and inhumane, toxic oversees the issuance of another Mujahideen activists and the global movement and all the honorable and the resistance which confirms that Gaza will remain the world's conscience, which is part of the sacred history of the nation and its soil-Tahir, a revolutionary epic of Karbala and the triumph of blood over the sword and the model of "divine victory" great and inspiring is the Ezz Al-Arab rebels, dignity and Anfoanhm is Hashem and the people of Abi Talib is Maysaloun and tantalizing are Qadisiyah, Hittin is Khaled Salah al-Din is proud of Qana, Aita Shaab, Bint Jbeil and jihadist myth
Snatiha from the sky and the ground from under spending and atoms of air will not stop the global march of Gaza is liberated only when every inch of our occupied land in Palestine and the Golan Heights and Shebaa Farms

Prime global movement against globalization and American hegemony and Zionism brother Fadi Madi, the General Program to the march of the World Strip
Goats from Cairo to Gaza
Of free people around the world to the Arabs and the proud people of bravery
Process of emancipation from the shackles of occupation and siege,
Global public outcry against oppression and injustice and aggression
A rejection of the case of defeatism and surrender, and discrimination, and fragmentation and division to the whole Arab and Islamic world
The human conscience in a coma for three years and still on a war of genocide against the two million people forcibly and oppress prisoners in Gaza
On the first anniversary of the Gaza holocaust Arabic
Announces the global movement against globalization and U.S. hegemony and the Zionist Kicks Strip proud march towards freedom
On Friday, January 1, 2010 is the day of the World Gaza Strip under the banner of the world's conscience
And begin final preparations for the Gaza Strip a week of global strategic solidarity which takes place at December 27, 2009 and until the evening of January 3, 2010
According to the following table:
Move from all around the world to Cairo in no later than December 25, 2009 after the confirmation from the embassies of Arab Republic of Egypt on the terms of his visa to Egypt
Gathering in the Egyptian capital of Cairo, starting from Dec. 10, and regulates each participant trip to Cairo, according to schedule on that the last day to receive instructions and how to walk is on December 25 this year
Are receiving all applications for participation in the march at the headquarters of the Egyptian Bar Association, that any public gathering will be the first Bar Association, Abd El Khalek Tharwat next to the Press Syndicate
Registration begins immediately or send mail Alktheroni Titles blades listed below or by telephone or in person to the headquarters of the Egyptian Bar Association or center Arab Republic, 21 El Abdin
Been assigned to each of the brothers honored as the overall coordinator for the march: Sheikh Mohammed Nimer Zgmot Mufti of Palestine in the Diaspora \ Lebanon, Egypt, Dr. Mahmoud Jaber \ media Mohamed Barakat, Germany \ and Dr. arisen for adopting the fugitive head of Arab communities in Germany
Does not require any visa from the Palestinian authorities a valuable Gaza-based coordination with the governmental and popular to break the siege in Gaza
Move all the delegations from Cairo to El Arish and Gaza Rqk and then return to Cairo to logistically by the Egyptian public has all the requirements of agriculture from the march
Meeting on Saturday, December 26th to discuss the latest preparations and preparations
Leave Cairo to El-Arish on December 27
Walk to the Rafah border crossing on December 28 and wait for the rest of the delegations late
Access to Gaza on the morning of Dec. 29 and move to areas designated by the Palestinian government and the receipt of the march in Gaza on the World
Length of stay in Gaza until the end of the march of events and activities in the Gaza Strip entered World January 1, 2010
Visit program will be developed in the Gaza Strip according to the instructions of the authorities ornaments, and according to the possibilities available

Gaza freedom march

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This uprising � intifada � is dawn of freedom everywhere around the globe and is against Antihumanity/Antijustice/Repression/Opression/Occupation/war/Globalization/Hegemony
We ask all to take part in the worldwide protest and actions in the days of Gaza of Palestinian intifada
and we must make a sign in unity so we want to have actions around the world in the same time,
the same way and with all power we have. We must motivate and bring on the way all our brothers and sisters, friends and people we know and we have to go to the main important places, what means Embassies, consulates especially from US And Israeli will start after salatul juma3 on Friday 1 January 2010
Please be aware of the information's and announcements of local groups in your town and area and country and help to organize people take part everywhere.
Between 12 h and 4 h pm in all cities and in mass demonstrations around the globe.
WE WANT TO ANNOUNCE INTERNATIONAL DAY OF Gaza and all groups,
parties and communities should force their governments to do so officially.

The head of the global movement against globalization and American hegemony and Zionism Mujahid brother Fadi Madi,invited all members and cadres and organizations and bodies of the global movement to actively participate in the march and serious larger freedom to Gaza, which start from around the world heading to Gaza at the end of the month of December, and gather in Cairo on 27 and enter the Gaza, the Rafah crossing and the sea and all the crossings, which divided the land of beloved Palestine on January 1, 2010

And be the beginning of 2010 was the public outcry to conquer the world of injustice, aggression and occupation, which will be announced from Gaza Hashem and to withstand the beginning of a new era in the uprising of the dawn of freedom and the participation of a large crowd for the first time in human history, personalities and parties, organizations and individuals from the continents of the world at large ', which is the most important step since the founding of the global campaign to break the siege of Gaza, which led to many successes in spite of all repressive measures and the threat and the policy of injustice and abuse of kinship with many of the Arab political policy conferences and forums that are responsive to the demands of security and intelligence agencies without any serious action and active in support of our people

Stand up Arab peoples of the world participated in Srechtha against imperialism and international Zionism and went to Gaza in any way appropriate form with the peoples of the world free of human shields to protect children and women in Gaza
Those who could not participate in the march, the result of any complexity or border security Vliqm any activity of a solidarity sit-ins and demonstrations, articles, associations and voluntary contributions, raised Palestinian flags and posters and to mobilize the whole nation in the days of Gaza, calling on the media all the way to allocate these days to explain the suffering of Gaza survive and shed light on the issue occupation and resistance and support the steadfastness of the Palestinian and Iraqi peoples
People Cry of Freedom and the global humanitarian universal uprising against oppression and injustice and aggression
You are all invited and all the political spectrum, social, cultural, religious, professional and trade union and civil society all men and women, children and old people to participate meaningfully and effectively in the day of wrath and defiance and resilience
January 1, 2010 on the will and resistance, loyalty, and redemption
We now have the greatest and biggest event of struggle since the catastrophe of 48 of the Gaza holocaust after 2009 has not, there is room to linger and think and wait for the outcome of a summit or a meeting or forum and the conference and what happened in Gaza cannot be forgotten. The roots of the Popular Resistance now come together with this global initiative and the success of this initiative is the biggest defeat of the Zionist movement and therefore should include the largest number of civil society organizations in the world
We call this cry and we are not concerned with any internal political conflict and not on the Palestinian arena. Or any other Arab arena as we are concerned first and foremost and the last is to provide elements of steadfastness to our people, our people and continue the course of our teachers and our faithful martyrs first and immortals flags of justice Humanitarian

An end to the military occupation that began in 1948 is a major condition for establishing a just and lasting peace. For over six decades, the Palestinian people have been denied freedom and rights to self-determination and equality. The hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who were forced out of their homes during Israel�s creation in 1947-48 are still denied the rights granted them by UN Resolution 194.
Sources of Inspiration
The Gaza Freedom March is inspired by decades of nonviolent Palestinian resistance from the mass popular uprising of the first Intifada to the West Bank villagers currently resisting the land grab of Israel's annexationist wall.
It draws inspiration from the Gazans themselves, who formed a human chain from Rafah to beit hanoun, tore down the border barrier separating Gaza from Egypt, and marched to the six checkpoints separating the occupied Gaza Strip from Israel.
The Freedom March also draws inspiration from the international volunteers who have stood by Palestinian farmers harvesting their crops, from the crews on the vessels who have challenged the Gaza blockade by sea, and from the drivers of the convoys who have delivered humanitarian aid to Gaza.
If Israel devalues Palestinian life then internationals must both interpose their bodies to shield Palestinians from Israeli brutality and bear personal witness to the inhumanity that Palestinians daily confront.
If Israel defies international law then people of conscience must send non-violent marshals from around the world to enforce the law of the international community in Gaza
The March is yet another link in the chain of non-violent resistance to Israel's flagrant disregard of international law.
Citizens of the world are called upon to join ranks with Palestinians in the January 1st March to lift the inhumane siege of Gaza.

Israel�s blockade of Gaza is a flagrant violation of international law that has led to mass suffering. The U.S., the European Union, and the rest of the international community are complicit.
The law is clear. The conscience of humankind is shocked. Yet, the siege of Gaza continues. It is time for us to take action! On January 1, 2010, we will mark the New Year by marching alongside the Palestinian people of Gaza in a non-violent demonstration that breaches the illegal blockade.
Our purpose in this March is lifting the siege on Gaza. We demand that Israel end the blockade. We also call upon Egypt to open Gaza�s Rafah border. Palestinians must have freedom to travel for study, work, and much-needed medical treatment and to receive visitors from abroad.
As an international movment we are not in a position to advocate a specific political solution to this conflict. Yet our faith in our common humanity leads us to call on all parties to respect and uphold international law and fundamental human rights to bring an end to the Israeli military occupation of Palestinian territories since 1948 and pursue a just and lasting peace.
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From: bernadette daou <redberna@...>
Date: Wed Dec 16, 2009 11:16 am
Subject: Fwd: Reminder

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#3544

From: glparramatta <glparramatta@...>
Date: Tue Dec 15, 2009 9:21 am
Subject: What's new at Links: Copenhagen, Bolivia, Fifth International, Indonesia, Marta Harnecker, Diego Garcia, Quebec, Malaysia, Green New Deal?

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Copenhagen: System change -- not climate change: the Klimaforum09 Declaration

A people's declaration from Klimaforum09, Copenhagen, December 10, 2009
There are solutions to the climate crisis. What people and the planet need is a just and sustainable transition of our societies to a form that will ensure the rights of life and dignity of all peoples and deliver a more fertile planet and more fulfilling lives to future generations.

`The main issue for us is Mother Earth' -- Bolivia's delegation to Copenhagen climate talks

ANGELICA NAVARRO, chief climate negotiator for Bolivia: On the process, I have to say that we are quite surprised, because this is not what we were expecting. One hundred and ninety-two countries are united here to try to come to a deal. And there is this pallid process that basically seems to be untransparent, undemocratic, nonparticipatory, top down, that it seems to be imposing itself on what we are trying to achieve with 192 countries. We think that we have to come back to the real track, and that is a track with participation, inclusiveness and democracy.

Bolivia: Why did Evo Morales win?

By Atilio A. Boron, translated by Richard Fidler

December 8, 2009 -- A week ago we were celebrating the triumph of Pepe Mujica in Uruguay. Today we have renewed, and more profound reasons, to celebrate the extraordinary electoral victory of Bolivia’s President Evo Morales [on December 6].

Indonesia: Anti-corruption protests follow bank bailout

December 9, 2009 -- The great photos above are of a mass demonstration in Jakarta on International Anti-corruption Day December 9, 2009, just one of many demonstrations against corruption have been sweeping Indonesia protesting allegations that a US$600 million government bailout was given to Century Bank on condition that some of the money be used to fund President Yudhoyono's re-election campaign.

Australian Socialist Alliance's address to the International Encounter of Left Parties, Caracas, November 2009

One of the delegates of Australia's Socialist Alliance, Federico Fuentes, addresses the International Encounter of Left Parties held in Caracas, November 19-21, 2009.

Watch here

Marta Harnecker on the Fifth International and the left movement in Latin America

By Jesús Manzanárez

December 10, 2009 -- Marta Harnecker remains ardent, audacious, reflective and perceptive. A collaborator of the Miranda International Centre [in Caracas], she will today [December 3] attend a reception in her honour in the Teresa Carreño Theatre for her outstanding career, fundamentally in the study of the mechanisms to effective take power at the community level and her contributions to Marxist theory.

Unión de Militantes por el Socialismo: Resolución del Comité Central sobre la Vª Internacional/Resolution on the Fifth Int.

[English translation below.]

por Unión de Militantes por el Socialismo (Argentina)

Al Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela

Queridos compañeros y compañeras

Reciban un saludo revolucionario y nuestroamericano, con los mejores deseos para la realización del 1er Congreso Extraordinario del Psuv y el más caluroso respaldo a la propuesta del comandante Chávez de comenzar a echar las bases de una Vª Internacional.

New phase in the struggle for Diego Garcia

By Lalit (Mauritius)
December 3, 2009 -- The Diego Garcia struggle is moving into what we call “phase 4”. Each past phase has had its victories, victories within which there were defeats. And each victory won has been won because the three elements making up the struggle held together, were embraced as one “whole”.
Before looking at phase 4, let's look first at three intertwined past crimes.

Quebec left debates independence strategy

By Richard Fidler
December 3, 2009 -- Québec solidaire, the left-wing party founded almost four years ago, held its fifth convention in the Montréal suburb of Laval on November 20-22, 2009. About 300 elected delegates debated and adopted resolutions on the Quebec national question, electoral reform, immigration policy and secularism.

Between Caracas and Delhi -- two important conferences of the international left

By Reuven Kaminer
December 7, 2009 -- It seems more than a coincidence that two important conferences of the international left took place in November 2009. One, the 11th International Meeting of the Communist and Workers’ Parties, was held in Delhi, India, on November 20-22 and issued the “Delhi Declaration” (DD) and the other, a World Meeting of Left Parties, met in Caracas, Venezuela, on November 19-21 and issued a document entitled the “Caracas Commitment” (CC). There were approximately 50 organisations at each conference.

Socialist Party of Malaysia: ‘Real power comes from the people'

By Paul Benedek, Kuala Lumpur
More than 200 activists, including a large proportion of youth and women, packed Kuala Lumpur’s Chinese Assembly Hall for the first day of Socialism 2009, an annual conference organised by the Socialist Party of Malaysia (PSM).

Debate: A Green New Deal -- dead end or pathway beyond capitalism?

December 8, 2009 -- A Green New Deal is on everybody’s lips at the moment. US President Barack Obama has endorsed a very general version of it, the United Nations are keen, as are numerous Green parties around the world. In the words of the Green New Deal Group, an influential grouping of heterodox economists, Greens and debt-relief campaigners, such a ‘deal’ promises to solve the ‘triple crunch’ of energy, climate and economic crises.

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#3542

From: bernadette daou <redberna@...>
Date: Tue Dec 8, 2009 10:29 pm
Subject: Invitation::: Book Launching_Camile Dagher

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Dear friends,

Please find attached the invitation to the book launching of comrade Camile Dagher's book entitled "ينبغي ان نحلم" (we shall dream), which I have the honor to introduce.

The speakers are Dr. Ghaleb Bou Mosleh, Dr. Kamal Hamdan, Dr. Antoine Douweihi, and of course Me. Camile Dagher.

time: friday december 18th at 6:30 pm
place: Unesco palace

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Date: Tue Dec 8, 2009 10:27 pm
Subject: Invitation::: Book Launching_Camile Dagher

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#3540

From: glparramatta <glparramatta@...>
Date: Tue Dec 8, 2009 3:58 am
Subject: What's new at Links: Copenhagen climate talks, support for 5th International, Arabic, left unity, Afghanistan & Pakistan, Honduras

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John Bellamy Foster: `We can't shop our way out of the ecological crisis'

John Bellamy Foster Interviewed by Max van Lingen
Max van Lingen: Consciousness about climate change has increased enormously; however, it also seems as if there is a lack of criticism of business and government actions. Instead it appears as if people are thinking: it doesn't really matter why people act, as long as they act.

A lesson from Seattle for Copenhagen: Vigorous activism can defeat the denialists

By Patrick Bond
December 1, 2009 -- Preparations for the December 7-18 Copenhagen climate summit are going as expected, including a rare sighting of the African elites' stiffened spines. That's a great development (maybe decisive), more about that below. While activists help raise the temperature on the streets outside the Bella Centre on December 12, 13 and 16, inside we will see global North elites defensively armed with pathetic non-binding carbon emissions cuts (US President Barack Obama's promise is a mere 4% below 1990 levels) and carbon trading, but without offering the money to repay the North's ecological debt to the global South.

Video: `The Story of Cap and Trade' (aka carbon trading), from the makers of `The Story of Stuff'

December 1, 2009 -- The Story of Cap & Trade is a fast-paced, fact-filled look at the leading climate solution being discussed at the climate talks in Copenhagen. Cap and trade is also variously described as ``carbon trading'' and ``emissions trading''. In Australia, the federal Labor government is trying to push a variation of this through the Senate called the ``Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme''.

Watch and read more

The Flame, November-December 2009 -- Green Left Weekly's Arabic-language supplement

With the help of Socialist Alliance members in the growing Sudanese community in Australia, Green Left Weekly -- Australia's leading socialist newspaper -- is publishing a regular Arabic language supplement.

Recent experiences in left regroupment and reconstruction

By Jim McIlroy
November 23, 2009 -- How do you build socialism in the First World countries right now? Of course, we are part of a world movement for socialism, including the Third World. We can learn a lot from recent and current experiences in left regroupment and party building that are happening around the world at present -- with all proportions guarded, and realising that there is no direct transposition of one historical, national experience onto another.

Australian and New Zealand socialists support Chavez's call for a new international organisation of the left

December 3, 2009 -- On behalf of the Socialist Alliance of Australia, we would like to send warm, socialist greetings to the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), thanking you once again for the invitation to participate in the International Meeting of Left Parties held in Caracas, November 19-21, 2009. The outcomes of this event are already having an important impact on the world, particularly among left and progressive forces, and we are grateful that we could be part of it and contribute to its success in our own modest way.

Obama delivers -- when it comes to war

By Billy Wharton
December 4, 2009 -- When US President Barack Obama announced his plan to escalate the war in Afghanistan by sending 30,000 more troops to the war-torn country, he delivered on two campaign promises. The first was a campaign trail pledge to re-focus US military power on the border region of Afghanistan and Pakistan. This was mostly ignored by enthralled voters. The second was made more quietly to his many campaign donors in the defence industry.

Labour Party Pakistan condemns Obama's Afghanistan policy

By Farooq Tariq
December 4, 2009 -- The Labour Party Pakistan (LPP) condemns US President Barack Obama's Afghanistan policy and demands that all NATO forces immediately withdraw from Afghanistan and stop drone attacks on Pakistan. The Labour Party Pakistan has decided to protest against this new escalation of the war effort in the region. The first protest took place on December 4 in front of US consulate in Lahore. There will be more demonstrations in different parts of Pakistan.

L’appel historique de Chavez pour une 5eme Internationale

par Federico Fuentes

2 décembre 2009 -- S’adressant aux délégués de la Rencontre Internationale des Partis de Gauche qui s’est tenue à Caracas du 19 au 21 novembre (2009), le président vénézuélien Hugo Chavez a déclaré : « il est temps de constituer la 5ème Internationale. » Face à la crise capitaliste et la menace d’une guerre qui représente un danger pour l’avenir de l’humanité, « les peuples réclament » une unité plus forte des partis de gauche et révolutionnaires qui sont prêts à lutter pour le socialisme, a-t-il dit.

El llamado histórico de Hugo Chávez para conformar una V Internacional Socialista

por Federico Fuentes
2 de diciembre de 2009 -- Hablando a los delegados del Encuentro International de Partidos de Izquierda realizado en Caracas, el presidente venezolano, Hugo Chávez señalo “que llegó la hora de que convoquemos a la Quinta Internacional. Frente la crisis capitalista y la amenaza de guerra que poner en peligro el futuro de la humanidad, la unidad de partidos de izquierda y revolucionario dispuesto a luchar para el socialismo “es un clamor del pueblo,” dijo Chávez.

Honduras: `The election was a farce, new regime will not be recognised' -- National Resistance Fron

By the National Resistance Front against the Coup d'etat

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From: JG <the_projekt@...>
Date: Mon Dec 7, 2009 10:13 pm
Subject: Obama's War Speech: The Questions It Raises… And The Answer That Must Be Given

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Obama's War Speech: The Questions It Raises… And The Answer That Must Be Given

By Larry Everest

On Tuesday, December 1, at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, President Barack Obama announced that he would send 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan. He also called for 10,000 more NATO troops, which pushes the total U.S.-led forces to nearly 150,000, and he announced plans to step up the war on a number of fronts including (without being specific) in Pakistan. Obama has now tripled the number of U.S. forces in Afghanistan since he took office.

These military forces will not be going to Afghanistan to set up vaccination programs or conduct literacy classes for Afghan girls. They are going there as part of the most destructive military machine on the planet, to wreak violence. The military machine that has bombed wedding parties, that has held thousands of young Afghan men in Bagram prison without charges, that kicks down doors in the middle of the night—this machine is being strengthened and further unleashed.

The West Point speech is being called the "defining moment" of Obama's presidency. Thus far into his term, at least, that is true. So it is important to look deeply at the questions Obama posed and the answers he gave—and in doing so to get into the real underlying causes of the military escalation now being put into effect.

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Date: Thu Dec 3, 2009 4:13 am
Subject: What's new at Links: Fifth International?; Venezuela, Philippines, Marta Harnecker, climate jobs, Foro Social Latinamericano, ecosocialism

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Venezuela: Hugo Chavez calls for international socialist unity

By Federico Fuentes, Caracas
November 27, 2009 -- Addressing delegates at the International Encounter of Left Parties held in Caracas, November 19-21, Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez said that with the capitalist crisis and threat of war risking the future of humanity, “the people are clamoring” for greater unity of those willing to fight for socialism. Chavez used his November 20 speech to the conference, which involved delegates from 55 left groups from 31 countries, to call for a new international socialist organisation to unite left groups and social movements: “The time has come for us to organise the Fifth International.”

500,000th visitor to Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal

At around 8pm on November 25, 2009, Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal received its 500,000th visit since records began being kept on April 4, 2008. Almost 676,000 articles were read by those visitors in that period.

`The Caracas Commitment' -- Declaration from World Meeting of Left Parties, November 19-21, Caracas, Venezuela

Declaration from World Meeting of Left Parties, November 19-21, Caracas, Venezuela
November 21, 2009 -- Political parties and organizations from Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Oceania commemorate and celebrate the unity and solidarity that brought us together in Caracas, Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, and from this libertarian city we would like to express our revolutionary rebelliousness. We are glad of and committed to the proud presence of the forces of change in a special moment of history. Likewise, we are proud to reaffirm our conviction to definitively sow, grow and win Socialism of the 21st century.

Philippines: Justice for murdered journalists and human rights heroes! End trapo politics now!

By Sonny Melencio, Partido Lakas ng Masa
November 25, 2009 -- The Partido Lakas ng Masa (PLM) condemns in the strongest possible terms the massacre in Maguindanao. We assert that this is not only a problem confined to Mindanao, but that it’s a symptom of a festering and rotten political system. We predict that this violence will be the feature of the coming elections, as the political elite struggle with increasing desperation and ferocity for a share of the ever-dwindling national wealth and power. [On November 23, 57 people were massacred by the ruling Ampatuan clan that governs the province -- see news report below.]

Fourth International leader on Chavez's call for a new international

By François Sabado
November 26, 2009 -- During an international meeting of left parties held in Caracas from 19-21 November, 2009, Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez launched a call for a Fifth Socialist International, which, according to him, should bring together left parties and social movements. According to Chavez, who is also president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), the Fifth International must be “an instrument for the unification and the articulation of the struggle of the peoples to save this planet”. In a world political situation marked by a total crisis of the capitalist system, this is a fact important enough to be underlined.

Pamphlet to download: Marta Harnecker's `Ideas for the Struggle'

Venezuela: Chavez urges PSUV to debate how to win socialism by 2019

By Kiraz Janicke, Caracas
November 23, 2009 – Venezuelanalysis.com – During an inaugural speech to the 772 delegates at the First Extraordinary Congress of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) on November 21, Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez raised a series of proposals to open the debate and discussion over consolidating the struggle for socialism both internationally and in Venezuela.

Venezuela: Chavez calls for new international organisation of left parties

By Kiraz Janicke, Caracas
November 23, 2009 – Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez called for the formation of a “Fifth International” of left parties and social movements to confront the challenge posed by the global crisis of capitalism. The president made the announcement during an international conference of more than 50 left organisations from 31 countries held in Caracas over November 19-21.

Britain: One million climate jobs now!

By the Public and Commercial Services Union (Britain)
November 15, 2009 -- Earlier this year, Britain's Campaign against Climate Change (CaCC) trade union group set up a commission to produce a detailed plan for a million ``climate'' jobs.

`Foro Social Latinamericano', Green Left Weekly's Spanish-language supplement launched

Australia's leading socialist newspaper Green Left Weekly is strongly committed to supporting the growing “people’s power” movement in Latin America. We are proud of the fact that GLW is the only Australian newspaper to have a permanent bureau in Latin America, based in Caracas, Venezuela. Through our weekly articles on developments in the region, GLW strives to counter the corporate media’s many lies about Latin America’s revolutions, and to give a voice in English to the people’s movements for change.

Socialists, the environment and ecosocialism: a view from South Africa

By Trevor Ngwane
November 19, 2009 -- There is an ecological crisis in the world and this crisis can be traced to capitalism. There is deforestation due to the trade in timber. There is climate change due to unsafe production methods. The working class is the class that suffers the most from the ecological crisis. Working-class people are in the majority and their life conditions make them more vulnerable. Workers live in flimsy houses and shacks that are easily washed or swept away by strong rains and winds. When workers are sick or injured there is always not enough medical help for them. Over the years not enough attention has been paid to this problem by socialists.

#3534

From: JG <the_projekt@...>
Date: Thu Nov 26, 2009 9:27 pm
Subject: "Sri Lanka solution" threatened for Maoist-led uprising in India

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"Sri Lanka solution" threatened for Maoist-led uprising in India—Excerpts from Arundhati Roy

November 16, 2009. A World to Win News Service. The Indian government is preparing "Operation Green Hunt," a counter-insurgency operation on an unprecedented scale. As many as a hundred thousand soldiers and other security forces are to be sent into the forested hills of eastern and central India to crush the rebellion of adivasi (tribal peoples) led by the Communist Party of India (Maoist). This is no short-term incursion: the authorities have announced that they plan to station massive numbers of troops in the tribal areas for years to come.

Several commentators have warned of the danger that the Indian government plans to seek a "Sri Lanka solution," modeled on the recent protracted government offensive there. Massive ground forces and air assaults were used to defeat the Tamil Tigers, and then hundreds of thousands of the region's civilian population were imprisoned in detention camps, where most still languish. Now what may be permanent military bases are being built in the Tamil heartland. The Indian government no doubt noted the implicit U.S. approval for that operation. At the U.S.'s behest, the International Monetary Fund [IMF] granted the Sri Lankan government a huge financial package almost immediately after the massacre.

Following are excerpts from an article by Indian writer and activist Arundhati Roy that appeared in the October 31 issue of the Sri Lanka Guardian (srilankaguardian.org). The full article online gives much more detail for her arguments and a more all-around representation of her views. The November 2009 issue of People's March (peoplesmarch.googlepages.com or bannedthought.net) has two recent statements by the Communist Party of India (Maoist) and other material on this offensive. A statement by the Revolutionary Democratic Front is also included in the AWTWNS packet dated November 16, 2009.

The low, flat-topped hills of south Orissa have been home to the Dongria Kondh [one of several tribal peoples in the region] long before there was a country called India or a state called Orissa. The hills watched over the Kondh. The Kondh watched over the hills and worshipped them as living deities. Now these hills have been sold for the bauxite they contain...

Perhaps the Kondh are supposed to be grateful that their Niyamgiri hill, home to their Niyam Raja, God of Universal Law, has been sold to a company with a name like Vedanta (the branch of Hindu philosophy that teaches the Ultimate Nature of Knowledge). It's one of the biggest mining corporations in the world and is owned by Anil Aggarwal, the Indian billionaire who lives in London in a mansion that once belonged to the Shah of Iran. Vedanta is only one of the many multinational corporations closing in on Orissa.

If the flat-topped hills are destroyed, the forests that clothe them will be destroyed too. So will the rivers and streams that flow out of them and irrigate the plains below. So will the Dongria Kondh. So will the hundreds of thousands of tribal people who live in the forested heart of India, and whose homeland is similarly under attack...

The government has announced Operation Green Hunt, a war purportedly against the "Maoist" rebels headquartered in the jungles of central India. Of course, the Maoists are by no means the only ones rebelling. There is a whole spectrum of struggles all over the country where people are engaged in rebellion—the landless, the Dalits [so-called "untouchables"], the homeless, workers, peasants, weavers. They're pitted against a juggernaut of injustices, including policies that allow a wholesale corporate takeover of people's land and resources. However, it is the Maoists who the government has singled out as being the biggest threat.

Two years ago, when things were nowhere near as bad as they are now, the prime minister described the Maoists as the "single-largest internal security threat" to the country. He revealed his government's real concern on 18 June 2009, when he told Parliament: "If left-wing extremism continues to flourish in parts which have natural resources of minerals, the climate for investment would certainly be affected."...

Right now in central India, the Maoists' guerrilla army is made up almost entirely of desperately poor tribal people living in conditions of such chronic hunger that it verges on famine of the kind we only associate with sub-Saharan Africa. They are people who, even after 60 years of India's so-called Independence, have not had access to education, healthcare or legal redress. They are people who have been mercilessly exploited for decades, consistently cheated by small businessmen and moneylenders, the women raped as a matter of right by police and forest department personnel. Their journey back to a semblance of dignity is due in large part to the Maoist cadre who have lived and worked and fought by their side for decades.

It's not enough that the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), the Border Security Force (BSF) and the notorious Naga Battalion have already wreaked havoc and committed unconscionable atrocities in remote forest villages. It's not enough that the government supports and arms the Salwa Judum, the "people's militia" that has killed and raped and burned its way through the forests of Dantewada leaving three hundred thousand people homeless, or on the run. Now the government is going to deploy the Indo-Tibetan Border Police and tens of thousands of paramilitary troops. It plans to set up a brigade headquarters in Bilaspur (which will displace nine villages) and an air base in Rajnandgaon (which will displace seven). Obviously, these decisions were taken a while ago. War has been in the offing for a while. And now the helicopters of the Indian air force have been given the right to fire in "self-defence", the very right that the government denies its poorest citizens...

What kind of war is Operation Green Hunt going to be? Not much news comes out of the forests. Lalgarh in West Bengal has been cordoned off. Those who try to go in are being beaten and arrested. And called Maoists of course. In Dantewada, the Vanvasi Chetana Ashram, a Gandhian ashram run by Himanshu Kumar, was bulldozed in a few hours. It was the last neutral outpost before the war zone begins, a place where journalists, activists, researchers and fact-finding teams could stay while they worked in the area...

The "Sri Lanka Solution" could very well be on the cards. It's not for nothing that the Indian government blocked a European move in the UN asking for an international probe into war crimes committed by the government of Sri Lanka in its recent offensive against the Tamil Tigers...

Last week, civil liberties groups from all over the country organised a series of meetings in Delhi to discuss what could be done to turn the tide and stop the war.

These are the people who the Union [All-India] home minister recently accused of creating an "intellectual climate" that was conducive to "terrorism". If that charge was meant to frighten people, to cow them down, it had the opposite effect. The speakers represented a range of opinion from the liberal to the radical Left. Though none of those who spoke would describe themselves as Maoist, few were opposed in principle to the idea that people have a right to defend themselves against State violence. Many were uncomfortable about Maoist violence, about the "people's courts" that delivered summary justice, about the authoritarianism that was bound to permeate an armed struggle and marginalise those who did not have arms. But even as they expressed their discomfort, they knew that people's courts only existed because India's courts are out of the reach of ordinary people and that the armed struggle that has broken out in the heartland is not the first, but the very last option of a desperate people pushed to the very brink of existence. The speakers were aware of the dangers of trying to extract a simple morality out of individual incidents of heinous violence, in a situation that had already begun to look very much like war.

People who had come from the war zones, from Lalgarh, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Orissa, described the police repression, the arrests, the torture, the killing, the corruption, and the fact that in places like Orissa, they seemed to take orders directly from the officials who worked for the mining companies. People described the dubious, malign role being played by certain NGOs funded by aid agencies wholly devoted to furthering corporate prospects. Again and again they spoke of how in Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh activists as well as ordinary people—anyone who was seen to be a dissenter—were being branded Maoists and imprisoned. They said that this, more than anything else, was pushing people to take up arms and join the Maoists. They asked how a government that professed its inability to resettle even a fraction of the fifty million people who had been displaced by "development" projects was suddenly able to identify 140,000 hectares of prime land to give to industrialists for more than 300 Special Economic Zones, India's onshore tax havens for the rich. They asked what brand of justice the Supreme Court was practising when it refused to review the meaning of "public purpose" in the Land Acquisition Act even when it knew that the government was forcibly acquiring land in the name of "public purpose" to give to private corporations. They asked why when the government says that "the Writ of the State must run", it seems to only mean that police stations must be put in place. Not schools or clinics or housing, or clean water, or a fair price for forest produce, or even being left alone and free from the fear of the police—anything that would make people's lives a little easier. They asked why the "Writ of the State" could never be taken to mean justice…

The forest once known as the Dandakaranya, which stretches from West Bengal through Jharkhand, Orissa, Chhattisgarh, parts of Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra, is home to millions of India's tribal people. The media has taken to calling it the Red corridor or the Maoist corridor. It could just as accurately be called the MoUist corridor. Scores of corporations, from relatively unknown ones to the biggest mining companies and steel manufacturers in the world, are in the fray to appropriate adivasi homelands—the Mittals, Jindals, Tata, Essar, Posco, Rio Tinto, BHP Billiton and, of course, Vedanta.

There's an MoU [Memorandum of Understanding—an agreement between government and corporate investors] on every mountain, river and forest glade: social and environmental engineering on an unimaginable scale. And most of this is secret. Somehow I don't think that the plans that are afoot to destroy one of the world's most pristine forests and ecosystems, as well as the people who live in it, will be discussed at the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen...

A World to Win News Service is put out by A World to Win magazine (aworldtowin.org), a political and theoretical review inspired by the formation of the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement, the embryonic center of the world’s Marxist-Leninist-Maoist parties and organizations.

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Subject: What's new at Links: Venezuela, Australia, China, UC students, Stalinism, Tamils, population, Mexico, Portugal, Canada, Quebec

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Venezuela: Socialists debate party's direction

By Kiraz Janicke, Caracas
November 16, 2009 – The United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) held nation-wide delegate elections on November 15 for its First Extraordinary Congress which will be held over the next several weekends in Caracas. Up for discussion at the congress are the party’s program, principles, organisational structure and most likely the mechanism for selecting candidates for the national parliamentary elections of 2010.

Australia: Elected socialist's goal of `campaigning' local council gained wide support

Justine Kamprad is a co-convenor of the Fremantle branch of the Socialist Alliance, in Western Australia (WA), and was the party's campaign director for the October 17, 2009, Fremantle City Council election, which saw socialist Sam Wainwright top the poll and get elected with 33.44% of the vote. Wainwright is the first member of the Socialist Alliance to be elected to public office in Australia, and one of only two socialist party members currently in an elected local council position in the country. Jim McIlroy spoke to Kamprad about the successful campaign.

China today: socialist or capitalist?

By Chris Slee
November 13, 2009 -- Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal has published a number of articles on the Chinese Revolution and the subsequent restoration of capitalism in China. This article aims to give more detail on the current situation, including the Chinese government's efforts to ameliorate some of the harmful effects of capitalism.

Join the 2010 `May Day’ solidarity brigade to Venezuela! April 24 - May 2, 2010

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The Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network’s brigades to Venezuela are a once-in-a-lifetime experience - the opportunity to see first-hand an unfolding revolution that is not only radically transforming the lives of Venezuelans, but is challenging the greed, exploitation and destructiveness of global capitalism by showing that a better world is possible.

United States: Photo essay -- Students occupy Berkeley university building to protest fee hike

Story and photos by David Bacon
Berkeley, California -- November 20, 2009 -- Students occupied Wheeler Hall on the University of California campus in Berkeley, protesting against a decision by university regents to raise tuition fees by 32%, bringing them to US$10,302 per year for undergraduates.
At the beginning of the occupation the students made several demands, including the reinstatement of 38 laid-off custodial workers, and amnesty for protesting students.

Paul Le Blanc: Theories of Stalinism

The Marxism of Leon Trotsky
By Kunal Chattopadhyay
Kolkata: Progress Publishers, 2006, 672 pages

Western Marxism and the Soviet Union
By Marcel van der Linden
Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2009, 379 pages

Reviews by Paul Le Blanc

Cuba and ALBA let down Sri Lanka’s Tamils

By Ron Ridenour
November 14, 2009 -- I think that the governments of Cuba, Bolivia and Nicaragua let down the entire Tamil population in Sri Lanka, as well as “proletarian internationalism” and the “exploited”, by extending unconditional support to Sri Lanka’s racist government.

Population control’s dark past

Review by Simon Butler
November 16, 2009 -- A select group of billionaires met in semi-secrecy in May 2009 to find answers to a “nightmarish” concern. Their worst nightmare wasn’t the imminent danger of runaway climate change, the burgeoning levels of hunger worldwide or the spread of weapons of mass destruction. The nightmare was other people – lots of other people.

A new united movement stops Mexico for a day

By Tamara Pearson

November 14, 2009 -- Mexico City -- In the many metro stations of this giant city, amidst the ugly smell of Pizza Hut and the newspapers vendors yelling out, “Grafico! 3 pesos!”, every day young people crowd around the handwritten posters recruiting for the national police. At 12,000 pesos (US$1000) per month, and with increasing unemployment and harder prospects, the offer is very tempting.

Portugal: What's behind the success of the Left Bloc?

By Raphie de Santos
Portugal’s Left Bloc has achieved a major breakthrough in the last five months. It polled nearly 11% and 10% respectively in the recent European and parliamentary legislative elections in June and September 2009. For a party that is firmly established outside of left social democracy this is a major achievement. How did it happen?

Canada/Quebec: Québécois denounce Supreme Court attack on language rights

By Richard Fidler
November 9, 2009 -- The October 22 ruling by the Supreme Court of Canada overturning yet another section of Quebec’s Charter of the French Language (CFL) has been met with angry protests by a broad range of opinion in the French-speaking province.

Four goals for a new left party

By Duncan Chapel

November 14, 2009 -- The people on this platform share a lot of ideas.

We want a working-class party to the left of the Labour Party, with a socialist program that confronts the dual crises of the ecology and the economy, which the ruling class is struggling to contain
We want a party in which anti-capitalists are hegemonic, but not monolithic. We have to be open to everyone who’s for the class struggle, not just those with Marxist ideas
We want a party of struggle, based on the ground, that’s developing a movement of resistance as well as an electoral campaign.

That’s a lot of agreement. It’s meaningful. It’s new. We like it. But what’s the next step?

Canada: Vale Inco strike shows need for international action

By Marc Bonhomme, translated by Richard Fidler
A Québécois militant, member of Québec solidaire, discusses the global implications of the strike by 3500 workers at Vale Inco, the world’s largest nickel mine, in Sudbury, Ontario.

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#3529

From: glparramatta <glparramatta@...>
Date: Tue Nov 17, 2009 8:32 am
Subject: What's new at Links: US-Colombia, Venezuela, Berlin Wall, queerphobia, green jobs, Karen Silkwood, S. Africa, Honduras, Ireland, US health

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US-Colombia military deal: Threat of imperialist-backed war on Venezuela

By Kiraz Janicke
November 9, 2009 -- The possibility of an imperialist-backed war in the Americas came a step closer on October 30, when Colombia and the United States finalised a 10-year accord allowing the US to massively expand its military presence in the Latin American country. The move comes as the US. seeks to regain its hegemony over Latin America – which has declined over the past decade in the context of a continent-wide rebellion against neoliberalism spearheaded by the revolution in Venezuela, led by President Hugo Chavez.

`Freedoms won, freedoms lost' -- left views on the fall of the Berlin Wall

November 15, 2009 -- For the past few weeks the international capitalist mass media has been awash with triumphalist hoopla about the so-called ``collapse of Communism'' as it celebrates the 20th anniversary of the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall. Below Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal posts a number of commenatries from the left that deal with facts and fictions of those dramatic events, and how the people most effected are faring today.

Capitalism, sexism and queerphobia’s social basis

By Jess Moore
There are social expectations on everyone, men and women, to act in particular ways based on our sex. This is bad for everyone because it’s stifling, but it’s worse for women and queers.

Britain: The Lucas Aerospace workers' plan -- A real Green New Deal

By Hilary Wainwright and Andy Bowman
October 9, 2009 -- Thirty-five years ago, workers at the Lucas Aerospace company formulated an ``alternative corporate plan'' to convert military production to socially useful and environmentally desirable purposes. We consider what lessons it holds for the greening of the world economy today.

Convert the ailing car industry to socially necessary production!

With the economic recession and environmental crisis alternative plans for socially useful, sustainable production have never been more relevant argues Lars Henriksson.

Karen Silkwood: an inspiration to fighters for environmental justice and workers' rights

By Sharyn Jenkins
Thirty-five years ago, on November 13, 1974, US anti-nuclear activist and trade unionist Karen Silkwood was killed in a car crash many suspect was deliberately caused. Karen Silkwood will be remembered as someone who fought an uphill and often unpopular battle against the ruthless nuclear industry. She is an inspiration to all who believe in environmental justice and workers' rights.

What is 'left' about 'the left' in South Africa?

By Dale T. McKinley
November 5, 2009 -- For several years now, but particularly since the ascendancy of Jacob Zuma and his South African Communist Party (SACP) and Congress of South African Trade Union (COSATU) allies within both the African National Congress (ANC) and the state, ``the left'' in South Africa has come to be almost completely associated with (and presented as) the SACP, COSATU and, to a lesser extent, the ANC itself. Even though this state of affairs ignores a wide range of organisations and people that can stake a serious claim to being part of ``the left'', the fact is that contemporary politics in South Africa are dominated, in one way or another, by these three alliance partners. As such, it is a good time to pose a critically important question: What is ``left'' about ``the left'' in South Africa?

Honduras: Why the resistance will boycott the November 29 election; Zelaya on accord

November 10, 2009 -- Ricardo Salgado, an Honduran analyst of the ``crisis'' in Honduras, explains to Australian community radio's Warwick Fry the latest developments in Honduras and the postion of the resistance movement. In spite of pressure on the coup regime to recognise the legitimacy of Zelaya as president ten days ago, Zelaya is still trapped inside the Brazilian embassy. The ``agreement'' (designed more to save face for the US and the coup regime rather than the restoration of a democratic solution) has failed. The coup regime has failed to meet the one-week deadline to restore Zelaya to his post as president in a reasonable amount of time to allow a ``clean'' election process.

Ireland: (slideshow) Political murals of West Belfast

By Lauren Carrol Harris
November 9, 2009 -- Belfast -- Though Northern Ireland has slipped from the nightly news, "the troubles", including ongoing deep sectarian divisions and low-level violence, are a daily reality for Irish republicans. Just one reminder of the struggle for a united Ireland, and example of the Irish people's creative resistance, is the multitude of political murals that smother the walls of West Belfast, a republican stronghold. Many commemorate the activists and civilians whose lives were taken in the struggle. But the murals don't just discuss Irish politics -- on these walls are messages of international solidarity for other peoples' movements for change and self-determination. Here are just a few.

View at http://links.org.au/node/1344

United States: Where's the socialism? The good, the bad and the ugly of health-care reform

By Billy Wharton
November 9, 2009 -- Where is the socialism now? Frenetic right-wingers spent a good part of the US summer shouting about the “government takeover of health care” or the “stealth socialist health-care plan”. Now that the Affordable Healthcare for America Act has been passed by a slim margin in the US House of Representatives, on November 8, there are few traces of anything even resembling socialism. Instead, Americans will find the good, the bad and the ugly of health-care reform all contained within the 1990-page bill.

Michael Lebowitz on Venezuela: `Socialism requires a new state from below'

Michael Lebowitz interviewed by José Sant Roz, translated by Kiraz Janicke

November 5, 2009 -- On the question of the Bolivarian revolution in Venezuela, Michael Lebowitz is one of the thinkers who has penetrated deepest into our process. He plunges his scrutinising gaze into its most diverse and conflicting issues, in order to calmly and forcefully reveal its truth with knifelike clarity. He talks like a peasant or a worker who dips into the reality that they experience, that they suffer and feel.