What's new at Links: Venezuela; Zimbabwe; Tibet; Climate Change; Malaysia; Cuba; Pilger; Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 20:00:35 -0500 (CDT) 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@dsp.org.au Please feel free to pass on to anybody you think will be interested in Links Venezuela: Sidor nationalisation marks new revolution within revolution By Stalin Perez Borges Introduction by Green Left Weekly: April 19, 2008 -- Denouncing the coloniser attitude and barbarous exploitation of workers by the management of the Sidor steel company, Venezuelan Vice President Ramon Carrizalez announced at 1.30am on April 9 that President Hugo Chavez had decided to nationalise the company. This is a government that protects workers and will never take the side of a transnational company, said Carrizalez. The decision of the Chavez government to nationalise Sidor has begun the process of returning to state hands one of the most important steel factories of Latin America, located in the heartland of Venezuelas industrial belt in Guayana. * Read more Zimbabwe: Only mass mobilisation can defeat the Mugabe dictatorship By the International Socialist Organization (Zimbabwe) April 11, 2008 -- The March 29, 2008, elections have brought into sharp relief the escalating crisis in Zimbabwe. [At the time of writing] the governmentappointed Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has not announced the results of the presidential election, which the main opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change led by former trade union leader Morgan Tsvangirai -- MDC(T) [a marginal faction of the MDC led by Arthur Mutambara, also stood] claims to have won by a margin of more than 50%. The results for the parliamentary election show that the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF), led by Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe, has lost its majority to the opposition for the first time since independence. * Read more Tibet and the `Olympic tradition' Below are two articles discussing the protests against the Olympic torch relay by supporters of Tibet's right to national self-determination. The first appeared in Green Left Weekly. The second is by Pierre Rousset, a member of the French Revolutionary Communist League (LCR) and editor of the Europe Solidaire Sans Frontihres (ESSF) website. It was translated for Links -- International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- by Katie Cherrington. * Read more Climate change solutions: what role for the market? Patrick Bond,University of KwaZulu-Natal; editor of Climate Change, Carbon Trading and Civil Society John Kaye, Greens NSW MLC Stuart Rosewarne, co-editor Journal of Australian Political Economy and Capitalism, Nature, Socialism * Read more Malaysia: Newly launched People's Alliance claims it is ready to topple government S. Arutchelvan interviewed by Peter Boyle April 18, 2008 -- There have been dramatic developments in Malaysia since the ruling National Front (Barisan Nasional BN) government had its majority in parliament reduced sharply in general elections on March 8. Opposition parties, which won five out of 13 state governments, formed a new Peoples Alliance (Pakatan Rakyat) on April 1. Police disrupted a large opposition rally on April 14 to mark the end of the governments five year ban on opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim participating in politics. Anwar claimed at the rally he now has enough defections from government MPs to form a federal government but will not make the move until he increases his majority. At this stage, the People's Alliance comprises the Justice Party (Parti Keadilan PKR), the Islamic Party (PAS) and the Democratic Action Party (DAP). * Read more Cuba: The challenge of fossil fuels and climate change Roberto Perez, Cuban biologist and permaculturalist, Antonio Nzqez Jimenez Foundation for Nature and Humanity, a Cuban NGO. Feature talk at the Climate Change Social Change Conference, Sydney, April 12, 2008. * Read more Audio: John Bellamy Foster on `Ecology, capitalism and socialism' John Bellamy Foster's feature talk, recorded at the Climate Change Social Change Conference on April 12, 2008. Foster is editor of Monthly Review and author of Marx's Ecology: Materialism and Nature. * Read more Venezuela: Unionists debate call for new federation; Chavez sacks labour minister * Read more John Pilger on South Africa: Honouring the 'unbreakable promise' March 28, 2008 -- Fourteen years after South Africa's first democratic elections and the fall of racial apartheid, John Pilger describes, in an address at Rhodes University, the dream and reality of the new South Africa and the responsibility of its new elite. * Read more ********** 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. 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