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What's new at Links: Solidarity with Libyan uprising; Zimbabwe arrests;
Tunisia; Venezuela; Arabic; Espanol; David Hicks; Asian Dub Foundation;
economic crisis
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Libya: How Gaddafi became a Western-backed dictator
<http://links.org.au/node/2179>
By *Peter Boyle *
Updated February 25, 2011 -- On February 22, Muammar Gaddafi was
boasting on state TV that the Libyan people were with him and that he
/was/ the Libyan revolution, even while his dwindling army of special
guards and hired mercenaries attempted to drown a popular revolution in
blood.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/2179>
(Updated Feb. 25) Zimbabwe: Socialists and Egypt solidarity
activists charged with treason! Protest urgently needed!
<http://links.org.au/node/2177>
*Arrested activists charged with treason, tortured*
February 25, 2011 -- It has now been confirmed that detained labour
movement activist and leading member of the International Socialist
Organization Zimbabwe Munyaradzi Gwisai (pictured) and 45 other
activists detained by the Zimbabwe state on February 19 have been
charged with treason. If found guilty of treason, the activists risk a
sentence of death or life imprisonment. They are being tortured to
extract bogus confessions. The arrests followed a raid on a closed
meeting that was discussing the implications of the revolutions in the
Arab world.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/2177>
Tunisia: `Revolution until victory!' Mass protests force prime
minister to resign <http://links.org.au/node/2188>
By *Andy Worthington
*February 27, 2011 -- Six weeks after Tunisia's long-serving dictator,
Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, was forced to flee the country after the
popular uprising that has inspired similar movements throughout the
Middle East, Mohamed Ghannouchi, who was the head of the transitional
government that took over from Ben Ali, has responded to the largest
protests since the dictator's fall --- a weekend of violent protests
that left five people dead --- by tendering his resignation.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/2188>
First Egypt, next Venezuela? The real threat to democracy in
Venezuela comes from Washington <http://links.org.au/node/2187>
/"The Arab revolt represents both an 'economic revolt' and a
'democratic, nationalist and anti-colonial revolution', Santiago
Alba Rico and Alma Allende said, that 'provides the socialist left
and pan-Arabists in the region with an unexpected opportunity'. They
said: 'the Arab people, who have returned to the world stage, need
the support of their Latin American brothers'."/
By *Kiraz Janicke* and *Federico Fuentes*
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/2187>
`Foro Social Latinamericano', Green Left Weekly's Spanish-language
supplement, February 2011 issue <http://links.org.au/node/2186>
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/2186>
David Hicks' Guantanamo nightmare <http://links.org.au/node/2185>
Review by *Coral Wynter*
*/Guantanamo: My Journey/
By David Hicks
William Heinemann, 2010 *
February 25, 2011 -- Everyone who is curious about David Hicks and his
imprisonment at the US concentration camp at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba for
six years, should read this book.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/2185>
Australian socialists: `Stop the massacre in Libya! Power to the
people!' <http://links.org.au/node/2182>
Statement by the *Socialist Alliance* (Australia) in solidarity with the
people's uprisings in Libya and the Arab world
February 26, 2011 -- The Socialist Alliance extends its full solidarity
to the people of Libya now being brutally repressed for demanding an end
to the corrupt and unjust regime of dictator Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/2182>
The Flame, February 2011 -- Green Left Weekly's Arabic-language
supplement <http://links.org.au/node/2181>
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/2181>
Soundtrack to a revolution: interview with Asian Dub Foundation's
Chandrasonic <http://links.org.au/node/2180>
February 23, 2011 -- British-born South Asian punk-dance band *Asian Dub
Foundation* (ADF) released their latest album /A History of Now/ just as
the revolution in Egypt was starting to build. Someone unknown to the
band edited news footage of the revolt to the album's title track and
stuck it on YouTube.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/2180>
Malaysian socialists: `Stop brutal massacre in Libya NOW! Power to
the people of the Arab world! <http://links.org.au/node/2178>
Solidarity statement by the *Socialist Party of Malaysia* with the
people's uprising in Libya and the rest of Arab world against
authoritarian regimes
February 22, 2011 -- The Socialist Party of Malaysia (PSM) condemns the
brutal repression committed by Muammar al-Gaddafi's regime against its
people who revolt against injustices and corruptions.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/2178>
The economic crisis -- What are the main causes?
<http://links.org.au/node/2176>
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By *Jeyakumar Devaraj*, Socialist Party of Malaysia
February 13, 2011 -- The world economic system is being buffeted by a
series of crises, and this in turn has led to economic hardships for
millions of people throughout the world. In many countries, the people
are suffering in silence, but there are increasing signs of protest.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/2176>
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