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What's new at Links: Kurds vs. ISIS, Hong Kong, marriage equality,
Ireland water revolt, Catalonia, World Bank,Gulf states, Bolivia &
climate, Haiti
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Kurdish leader: 'We are the only humanist shield against barbarity'
<http://links.org.au/node/4099>
October 6, 2014 -- /Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal/ --
*Gharib Hassou* is representative in Iraqi Kurdistan of the Syria-based
Democratic Union Party (/Partiya Yekitîya Demokrat/, PYD), the main
force of Kurdish resistance in Syria. He is interviewed by *Stéphane
Aubouard* in Erbil for the French left-wing newspaper /l'Humanité./
Translated by *Isabelle Métral*. (Note: DAESH is also know as "Islamic
State" (IS) or ISIS).
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4099>
Accusing Hong Kong activists of being tools of US policy is ignorant
and dangerous <http://links.org.au/node/4093>
By *Dave Lindorff*
October 10, 2014 -- A number of progressive and left-leaning writers
have jumped on a report by Wikileaks that the neocon-dominated National
Endowment for Democracy (NED) and various other US-government linked
organisations with a history of subversion and sowing discord abroad are
operating in Hong Kong and on that basis are making the leap of "logic"
that the democracy protests in Hong Kong must therefore be a creation of
US policy makers.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4093>
Malalai Joya: 'Fiery salutations to the brave women of Kobane'
<http://links.org.au/node/4101>
By *Malalai Joya*, Afghanistan
October 12, 2014 -- These days the bravery and resilience of the women
of Kobane has amazed people around the world. To defend their soil from
the criminal ISIS murderers, they are neither looking at the US and
NATO's support, nor appoint the West and the US to defend their homeland
from terrorists and foreigners, like a handful of mercenary analysts in
Afghanistan. The noble men and women of Kobane selflessly defend their
honour, freedom, and homeland with their own hands and have accepted to
make all kinds of sacrifices for this purpose.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4101>
Two cheers for marriage equality <http://links.org.au/node/4100>
By *Colin Wilson*
October 10, 2014 -- This week has seen a striking victory for US
campaigners for LGBT equality. On Monday, October 6, the Supreme Court
decided not to hear appeals from five states that sought to uphold bans
on same-sex marriage. This is the end of the road for opponents of
marriage equality in states as conservative as Utah, where over half the
population are Mormons, and where marriage licences were issued to
jubilant same-sex couples from Monday.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4100>
Water revolt in Ireland: Socialist candidate wins by-election as
100,000 march <http://links.org.au/node/4098>
By *Henry Silke*, Dublin
October 13, 2014 -- Saturday, October 11, saw a major revolt in Ireland
over the implementation of the controversial water charge. An estimated
100,000 people marched in unseasonal sunshine, while former member of
the European parliament (MEP) Paul Murphy was elected in the Dublin
South West by-election. Murphy stood for the Socialist Party's (CWI)
electoral front, the Anti Austerity Alliance (AAA).
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4098>
Catalan national struggle enters critical stage
<http://links.org.au/node/4097>
By *Dick Nichols*
October 12, 2014 -- On September 29, the normally sluggish Spanish legal
system had an attack of extreme speed. Its Usain Bolt-like behaviour was
sparked by the regional government of Catalonia formally decreeing the
long-awaited November 9 non-binding consultation of Catalan opinion
[referendum] on the future political status of the region.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4097>
The 'World versus Bank' seen from South Africa
<http://links.org.au/node/4096>
By *Patrick Bond*, Durban
October 11, 2014 -- In Washington DC and 10 countries across the globe,
protests on October 10 targetted the World Bank during its annual
meeting. Many are asking, isn't 70 a dignified age for institutional
/retirement/, especially for policies and practices long considered
destructive but now seemingly back in official favour?
Founded in 1944 to finance war-torn Europe's reconstruction, the World
Bank is now suffering one of its most severe credibility crises,
accentuated by a new civil society campaign, "WorldVsBank". South
Africa's three largest cities host teach-ins because this country, after
all, was the model "Knowledge Bank" pilot after 1990.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4096>
Adam Hanieh: Gulf states, neoliberalism and liberation in the Middle
East <http://links.org.au/node/4095>
October 6, 2014 -- *Adam Hanieh* is a senior lecturer at and School of
Oriental and African Studies in London and author of /Lineages of
Revolt: Issues of Contemporary Capitalism in the Middle East/. He spoke
to *Bill Crane *about his book and on the trajectories of the Arab
revolutions since 2011.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4095>
How Bolivia is leading the global fight against climate disaster
<http://links.org.au/node/4094>
By *Richard Fidler*
October 6, 2014 -- Bolivia goes to the polls on Sunday, October 12, in
the country's third national election since the victory of Evo Morales
and his Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) in December 2005 and the second
since the adoption of its radically new constitution in 2009. The MAS
list, led by President Morales and his vice-presidential running mate
Álvaro García Linera, is far ahead in the opinion polling over four
opposition slates, all to the right of the MAS.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4094>
Haiti: Tyrant Jean-Claude Duvalier dead, but his legacy survives
<http://links.org.au/node/4092>
By *Roger Annis*
October 8, 2014 -- Jean-Claude Duvalier, the tyrant who ruled Haiti from
1971 to 1986, has died in Haiti at the age of 63. His death provides a
moment for political reflection by the Haitian people, especially in
view of the reality that so much of Duvalier's harsh political legacy
remains alive and well in the island country. A UN Security Council
foreign military occupation has entered its 11th year. It serves to
bolster much of the authoritarian Duvalier legacy, which has always, at
its heart, been about excluding the Haitian people from governing their
own country.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/4092>
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