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What's new at Links: Tunisia, green capitalism?, ULA Ireland, China & jobs, Ohio socialists, Cuba, Thailand book banned, MLK * * * *For more reliable delivery of new content, please subscribe free to Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal at http://www.feedblitz.com/f/?Sub=343373 * You can also follow Links on Twitter at http://twitter.com/LinksSocialism or on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=10865397643 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 li...@dsp.org.au *Please pass on to anybody you think will be interested in Links. * * * Tunisia: Masses create people's power bodies in neighbourhoods and workplaces <http://links.org.au/node/2113> [During the uprising in Tunisia there have been reports of the formation of neighbourhood and popular self-defence committees in many parts of the country. Below are excerpts from a number of articles by the International Marxist Tendency's Jorge Martín, which offer some fascinating details of this important development.] * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/2113> (Updated Jan. 24) Tunisia:`All Arab dictators are shaking on their thrones' -- Left and Arab voices on the insurrection <http://links.org.au/node/2101> Statement of the National Administrative Commission of the General Union of Tunisian Workers (UGTT) issued on January 21, 2011 (first published in English on /MRZine/). 1. The General Union of Tunisian Workers is a national organisation necessarily interested in political affairs, given its history of struggle during the colonial epoch and the period of the construction of the modern state, considering the dialectical links among economy, society, politics, and culture in the process of development, but out task has become more urgent than ever. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/2101> The futility of green capitalism: Interview with Daniel Tanuro <http://links.org.au/node/2109> Interview with *Daniel Tanuro*, translated by *Richard Fidler* January 17, 2011 -- Daniel Tanuro's new book, /L'impossible capitalisme vert/,or "The Futility of Green Capitalism", is a major contribution to our analytical understanding of ecosocialism. Tanuro, a Belgian Marxist and certified agriculturist, is a prolific author on environmental history and policies. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/2109> Ireland: United Left Alliance's electoral challenge strengthens <http://links.org.au/node/2107> January 16, 2011 -- The challenge of the United Left Alliance to the right-wing consensus in Irish politics is strengthening rapidly. As of today, a total of 17 constituencies will be contested by 18 ULA candidates in the looming general election. As well as Tipperary South and West Waterford, 11 constituencies in Dublin, two in Cork, as well as Wexford and Limerick city, candidates have been nominated for Carlow/Kilkenny and Laois/Offaly. This means that almost 50% of Dáil [parliamentary] constituencies will have a left alternative to the establishment political parties. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/2107> Martin Hart-Landsberg: China and the jobs issue <http://links.org.au/node/2112> By *Martin Hart-Landsberg * January 21, 2011 -- The president of China, Hu Jintao, just completed a visit to the United States and, not surprisingly, many people used the occasion to raise the jobs issue. The US economy continues to suffer from high unemployment. And the US continues to run an enormous trade deficit with China, a deficit that dwarfs any other bilateral deficit. The connection made is as follows: China is an unfair trader. Its state policies, including subsidies and labour repression, are a major reason for the destruction of the US manufacturing sector and jobs. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/2112> Ireland: Radio debate on United Left Alliance and left unity <http://links.org.au/node/2110> *The future of the left in Irish politics* January 20, 2011 -- RTE, /Today with Pat Kenny/ -- A new political alliance was born in Ireland just before Christmas. It is the United Left Alliance. It's an umbrella group of left-wing parties and individuals who have joined forces to fight the March 11, 2011, general election. The grouping consists of three existing political parties: the Socialist Party, the People Before Profit Alliance and the Workers and Unemployed Action Group. However the Labour Party and Sinn Fein are not members. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/2110> United States: Buckeye Socialist Network launched <http://links.org.au/node/2108> By *Mike Cannon * January 2011 -- The 2010 Dan La Botz Socialist for Senate campaign in Ohio represents an important success in the recent context of leftist third-party initiatives. Running the first Socialist Party campaign for national office in Ohio since 1936, La Botz garnered 25,368 votes statewide, one of the more successful socialist electoral bids in decades. This experience provides some important lessons for how the left can engage the electoral arena in this period. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/2108> Camila Piñeiro Harnecker: `Cuba needs changes, to take us forward rather than backwards' <http://links.org.au/node/2106> *Translator's introduction * January 15, 2011 -- Alongside and intersecting with the grassroots debates on the /Draft Economic and Social Policy Guidelines/ and the informal debate, there is a rich discussion and debate taking place among Cuban intellectuals and academic specialists from a variety of disciplines and a spectrum of political perspectives within the broad camp of the Cuban Revolution. The Cuban magazine /Temas/ (Themes) is one publication that carries contributions to this debate among Cuba's revolutionary intelligentsia. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/2106> Thailand bans Giles Ji Ungpakorn's `Thailand's Crisis and the fight for Democracy'/???????????????????????? ???????????????????? <http://links.org.au/node/2105> By *Giles Ji Ungpakorn* January 18, 2011 -- After struggling to read my book for more than a year, the Thai police have finally banned /Thailand's Crisis and the fight for Democracy/. No one is allowed to import it. But I have nearly sold out! What is even more amusing is that there is a Thai version which is available on the internet to download for free. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/2105> The rise and fall of Tunisia's Ceaus,escu <http://links.org.au/node/2103> By *Richard Seymour* [This article first appeared on Seymour's blog, /Lenin's Tomb/. It is posted at /Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal/ with the author's permission.] * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/2103> Discovering the radical vision of Dr Martin Luther King Jr. <http://links.org.au/node/2102> By *Billy Wharton* January 17, 2011 (MLK Day) --Discovering the radical message in the writings of Dr Martin Luther King Jr. is no easy task for secular leftists. It requires a leap into the world of black Christian theology, a long tradition that has inspired multiple attempts at emancipation -- from the slave revolt of Nat Turner to the modern civil rights movement. However, the terms of discussion inside of this tradition require secular readers to think through categories firmly rooted in Christian teachings. Some patience and a willingness to deal with what might be unfamiliar examples can yield new perspectives on an American tradition dedicated to service in the call of human freedom. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/2102> * * * Links seeks to promote the international exchange of information, experience of struggle, theoretical analysis and views of political strategy and tactics within the international left. It is a forum for open and constructive dialogue between active socialists coming from different political traditions. It seeks to bring together those in the international left who are opposed to neoliberal economic and social policies. It aims to promote the renewal of the socialist movement in the wake of the collapse of the bureaucratic model of "actually existing socialism" in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. 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