What's new at Links: Food crisis; Bellamy Foster on finl crisis; Venezuela; May Day; global warming; Nepal; Korea, Zimbabwe Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 19:07:05 -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 pass on to anybody you think will be interested in Links. The global food crisis Slideshow created by Peter Boyle * Read more Venezuela's labour movement at the crossroads; Stalin Borges Perez on May Day * Read more Militants mark May Day in Timor Leste, Pakistan and Malaysia (video) Timor Leste: Workers and students rally for May Day in Dili By Mericio Akara DILI, May 1, 2008 -- A May Day rally attended by some 700 workers organised by the Trade Union Confederation of Timor Leste demanded the implementation of labour laws, just wages that comply with the minimum wage regulations and lowering of prices. Demonstrators consisted of workers from several companies in Dili, students and civil society activists. The Luta Hamutuk Institute sent along its members to participate also. * Read more Individual versus social solutions to global warming By Terry Townsend A talk to the Climate Change Social Change Conference held in Sydney from April 11 to 13, organised by Green Left Weekly . For more articles, audio and video from the conference, click here. * Read more Nepal: Republican resurgence led by the red flag By Lal Bahadur Singh, Liberation, magazine of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) (Liberation) Kathmandu -- ``Nepal Stuns World, Itself: Poll Peaceful, Turnout 60%'' -- that was the banner headline of the Kathmandu Post, the leading Nepal newspaper, on April 11, 2008, the morrow of the historic constituent assembly elections. It was stunning indeed that the constituent assembly elections in a Nepal torn by civil strife were held in a remarkably peaceful atmosphere, and with a huge participation of the people. However the real stunner was yet to come some hours later when by the midnight of April 11 it became clear that a Red Star was rising in full bloom over Sagarmatha, i.e. Everest, the highest peak in the world, in the erstwhile Himalayan Kingdom. * Read more Indonesia: Call for Venezuela-style oil nationalisations; Papernas May Day statement April 29, 2008 -- About 1000 workers, students and urban poor held a pre-May Day demonstration outside GKBI Towers in Jakarta, a flashy skyscraper that is the Indonesian headquarters of companies like ExxonMobil, ANZ Bank, Cable & Wireless, Credit Lyonnais Capital, Coca-Cola, Dow Chemical, France Telecom, KPMG, McKinsey & Company, OCBC Bank and the Swiss Bank. * Read more South Korea: The general election and leftwing politics By Won Youngsu April 30, 2008 -- For the South Korean left, the general election of April 9 was another fiasco following the presidential election last December, in which the election of Lee Myung-bak brought forth the return of the conservative government, while Democratic Labor Party (DLP) candidate Kwon Young-gil received just 3 per cent of vote, less than the previous result in 2002 -- a drop of 300,000 votes. * Read more John Bellamy Foster on the global financial crisis 'Nobody knows where the toxic debt is buried and how much there is' John Bellamy Foster is editor of the Monthly Review , a prominent political journal established by the Marxist economist Paul Sweezy in the 1940s. Foster is a professor of sociology at the University of Oregon in Eugene, USA. He has written widely on political economy and has established a reputation as an environmental socialist. * Read more Zimbabwe and the strategy of resistance By Dale T. McKinley The character and content of the past and ongoing political, economic, social/humanitarian and (progressive) organisational crisis in Zimbabwe has received huge amounts of analytical and empirical attention from the broad left in Southern Africa and, to a lesser extent, from the global left. Several books, numerous essays/articles, frequent seminars/workshops and countless blogs and emails have been offered on almost every aspect of the crisis. While these efforts have certainly provided much-needed intellectual stimulation/debate, important information, degrees of organisational impetus and knowledge-generation about the crisis, and have often catalysed practical efforts to assist, and be in solidarity with, progressive forces in Zimbabwe, the Achilles heel of the struggle for a new Zimbabwe -- the strategy and tactics of resistance/opposition -- has, for the most part, been treated as a ``poor cousin'', forever condemned to sit on the margins of the main ``conversation'' and struggle. 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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