What's new at Links: Thailand, Honduras, green jobs, John Bellamy Foster, Latin America, ecosocialism, Quebec, Muntadar al-Zaidi, free pamphlet
* * * 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 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 [email protected] *Please pass on to anybody you think will be interested in Links. * * * Honduras: Resistance front calls international solidarity conference <http://links.org.au/node/1254> On behalf of the resistance in Honduras, we send combative and fraternal greetings to all those assisting us in this process of struggle for the restoration of constitutional order and for the installation of a National Constituent Assembly in Honduras. The National Resistance Front against the Coup in Honduras calls together the first internationalist conference against the coup d'etat and for a National Constituent Assembly in Honduras. The conference is to be held on October 8, 9 and 10, 2009 in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1254> Australian socialists demand `green jobs' <http://links.org.au/node/1252> By the *Socialist Alliance* [The following leaflet was distributed at the ``switch off Hazelwood'' power station protest in Victoria on September 12 and 13, attended by more than 300 people.] September 13, 2009 -- The transition from a fossil fuel dependent society to renewable energy is perhaps the most urgent question facing humanity. The public debate about climate change has shifted from a discussion about the reality of global warming to a discussion focused on how to transition to renewable energy. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1252> John Bellamy Foster: Financial crisis, imperialism and environment -- `Socialism is humanity's best chance' <http://links.org.au/node/1250> A conversation with *John Bellamy Foster*, editor of the US-based socialist magazine /Monthly Review/, professor of sociology at the University of Oregon and co-author (with Fred Magdoff) of /The Great Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences/ (Monthly Review Press, 2009). He was interviewed by *Farooque Chowdhury* for the Bangladesh daily newspaper /New Age/. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1250> Coup anniversary reveals two faces of Thailand <http://links.org.au/node/1257> By *Giles Ji Ungpakorn* September 21, 2009 -- On the September 19, 2009, the third anniversary of the military coup that wrecked Thai democracy, two demonstrations took place. They sum up the two faces of Thailand. One demonstration, by tens of thousands of ``Red Shirts'' in Bangkok, was organised in order to continue the demand full democracy. It was a peaceful and friendly demonstration. The other demonstration was organised by fascist thugs of the People's Alliance for Democracy. The PAD are the ``Yellow Shirt'' royalists. The aim of this demonstration was to attack Cambodian villagers living and working at an ancient temple inside Cambodia. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1257> Claudio Katz on Latin America, the right and imperialism: `The solution to the crisis of capitalism has to be political' <http://links.org.au/node/1256> *Claudio Katz* interviewed by *Fernando Arellano Ortiz*. July 10, 2009 -- The exit from the systemic crisis of capitalism needs to be political and "a socialist project can mature in this turbulence". So says the Argentine economist, philosopher and sociologist Claudio Katz, who also warns that the "global economic situation is very serious and is going to have to hit bottom, and now we are but in the first moment of crisis". * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1256> London climate justice conference: A model of ecosocialist collaboration <http://links.org.au/node/1255> By* Ian Angus * September 17, 2009 -- On September 12, about 100 people attended "Climate and Capitalism", a one-day conference in London, England, organised by Green Left and Socialist Resistance. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1255> Thailand: The September 19 coup, three years on <http://links.org.au/node/1253> By *Giles Ji Ungpakorn* On September 19, 2006, the Thai army staged a coup toppling the elected government of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. Soldiers sported yellow royal ribbons and the military junta claimed that it was staging the coup to protect ``democracy with the king as the head of state''. It certainly was not protecting democracy, but most Thais believed that this was indeed a "royal coup". * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1253> Britain's conquest of Quebec: 250 years later, a continuing debate on how the French colonisers became colonised <http://links.org.au/node/1251> By *Richard Fidler* September 13, 2009 -- Colonisation. Conquest. Words that even today evoke widely varying historical memories. Just last year Quebec City staged an elaborate round of events to celebrate the 400th anniversary of its founding as the colonial capital of New France. No expense was spared as federal and provincial governments alike poured money into the city's coffers. Capping the ceremonies were massively attended concerts by Québécoise singer Céline Dion and former Beatle Paul McCartney --- apparently deemed emblematic descendants of the French and British "founding peoples" of present-day Canada. It seemed to be one great love-in of all those involved. (Lost in all the self-congratulatory rhetoric, of course, was any recognition that the city's site had in fact been occupied by its Indigenous inhabitants for many centuries prior to the arrival of the Europeans.) * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1251> Muntadar al-Zaidi released from jail -- Celebrate with `Sock and Awe <http://links.org.au/node/1249> The Iraqi man who threw his shoes at former US President George W Bush, has been released from jail in Baghdad. Muntadar al-Zaidi's act of protest made him a hero in large parts of the Arab world and beyond. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1249> Free pamphlet: `The Labour Aristocracy: The material basis of opportunism in the labour movement <http://links.org.au/node/1248> * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1248> The rise and fall of the Communist Party of Thailand <http://links.org.au/node/1247> By *Pierre Rousset* September 9, 2009 -- The communist movement was first established in Siam (renamed Thailand in 1939) mostly in the Chinese ethnic migrant communities, then proliferated in the seemingly disparate surrounding regions in the north, northeast and south of the country. Following a long, difficult period of transition, the Communist Party of Thailand (CPT), once an urban party, retreated to the jungle and engaged in armed struggle. Its national expansion, during the 1970s, occurred while the kingdom was transformed into a US base for military intervention in the Vietnam War. The party eventually saw its decline during the Sino-Indochinese conflict of 1978--9 and disappeared from sight in the mid-1980s. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1247> * * * 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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