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What's new at Links: Haiti tragedy, visit Venezuela, Martin Luther King, 350 ppm, S. Africa, Rafael Correa, Daniel Bensaïd, Hugo Blanco, Gramsci, British left * * * 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. * * * Fidel Castro: The lesson of Haiti <http://links.org.au/node/1464> By Fidel Castro Ruz January 15, 2009 -- Two days ago, at almost six o'clock in the evening Cuban time and when, given its geographical location, night had already fallen in Haiti, television stations began to broadcast the news that a violent earthquake -- measuring 7.3 on the Richter scale -- had severely struck Port-au-Prince. The seismic phenomenon originated from a tectonic fault located in the sea just 15 kilometres from the Haitian capital, a city where 80% of the population inhabit fragile homes built of adobe and mud. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1464> The West's role in Haiti's plight <http://links.org.au/node/1462> By Peter Hallward January 14, 2009 -- If we are serious about assisting this devastated land we must stop trying to control and exploit it. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1462> Join the 2010 `May Day' solidarity brigade to Venezuela! April 24 - May 2, 2010 <http://links.org.au/node/1368> Registrations close February 1, 2010 The Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network <http://www.venezuelasolidarity.org>'s brigades to Venezuela are a once-in-a-lifetime experience - the opportunity to see first-hand an unfolding revolution that is not only radically transforming the lives of Venezuelans, but is challenging the greed, exploitation and destructiveness of global capitalism by showing that a better world is possible. Join the AVSN's "May Day" solidarity brigade, to run from April 24 to May 2, 2010. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1368> Martin Luther King Jr in the age of Obama: Why we can't wait <http://links.org.au/node/1467> By Billy Wharton January 17, 2009 -- Albert Boutwell's election as Birmingham, Alabama, mayor in 1963 might have signaled the end of the modern civil rights movement. As a moderate Democrat, Boutwell promised to temper the harsh repression unleashed by the city's notorious chief of police and his mayoral opponent Eugene "Bull" Connor. Mainstream leaders of the black community were told to wait it out -- let the storm pass and incremental changes could begin. Dr Martin Luther King Jr. refused to wait. Instead, he launched Plan "C" (confrontation), a large-scale protest campaign that broke the back of Southern segregation. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1467> Haitians plead: `Where is the help?' <http://links.org.au/node/1466> By Roger Annis January 15, 2010 -- Evidence of monstrous neglect of the Haitian people is mounting following the catastrophic earthquake three days ago. As life-saving medical supplies, food, water purification chemicals and vehicles pile up at the airport in Port-au-Prince, and as news networks report a massive international effort to deliver emergency aid, the people in the shattered city are wondering when they will see help. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1466> United States: Blacks still taking the hit <http://links.org.au/node/1465> By Malik Miah January 2010 -- It took 10 months before the US Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) stood up and challenged President Barack Obama. In a surprise move, 10 CBC leaders refused to participate in a key House of Representatives financial committee vote in December 2010 until some more relief is provided to Black businesses. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1465> The 350 ppm carbon dioxide challenge and how to achieve it <http://links.org.au/node/1463> By Renfrey Clarke January 14, 2010 -- The target posed by leading NASA climate scientist James Hansen of stabilising atmospheric carbon dioxide at 350 parts per million (ppm) is increasingly understood in conjunction with the need to keep cumulative emissions within a tight global "budget". While the point at which budgeted emissions occur is not in theory crucial, in practice there is a need to ensure that emissions peak early and decline swiftly thereafter. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1463> 2010: Welcome to the upside-down world of South Africa <http://links.org.au/node/1461> By Dale T. McKinley January 11, 2010 -- Even if the meanings we give to measurements of time are most often overblown, there is something about the mark of a new decade. In the case of South Africa, 1990 marked the beginning of the end of the apartheid system, ushering in a period pregnant with new hopes, possibilities and dreams. When 2000 rolled around it heralded not only a once in a lifetime turn of a century but carried with it the delayed weight of the majority expectation of an age of progress and plenty. So what are our "inheritances" as we begin the new decade? Where do things stand? What is the mark of 2010? * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1461> Ecuador: Interview -- President Rafael Correa discusses `Citizens' Revolution', socialism for the 21st century <http://links.org.au/node/1460> In April 2009, Rafael Correa was elected to his second term as president of Ecuador with 51% of the vote. This gave him a mandate to continue and deepen the program of reforms and structural changes initiated since he first became president in November 2006. In three years Correa's government has introduced unprecedented social and economic reforms - known as the Citizens' Revolution - to reverse the poverty and exploitation suffered by the majority of the population in a country which has been ravaged by neoliberalism. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1460> Daniel Bensaïd: militant, intellectual, friend <http://links.org.au/node/1458> By François Sabado Daniel Bensaïd left us today, Tuesday, January 12, 2010. Born in 1946 he gave his life to the cause of defending revolutionary Marxist ideas right to the end. He was one of the founders of the Jeunesse Communiste Révolutionnaire (JCR -- Revolutionary Communist Youth) and the Ligue Communiste Révolutionnaire (LCR -- Revolutionary Communist League, French section of the Fourth International). * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1458> Hugo Blanco: `Only extinction of capitalism will ensure the survival of our species'; Reunión sobre cambio climático Copenhague <http://links.org.au/node/1457> By Hugo Blanco, translated by Richard Fidler The concentration of greenhouse gases (GHGs) in the atmosphere is already so high that the climate system has been brought out of balance. The CO2 concentration and global temperatures have increased more rapidly in the last 50 years than ever before on Earth, and will rise even faster in the coming decades. This adds to a multitude of other serious ecological imbalances, the impacts of which threaten the lives and livelihoods of the people of the world, most acutely, impoverished people and other vulnerable groups. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1457> The relevance of Gramsci's theory for today <http://links.org.au/node/1456> By Peter Latham January 3, 2010 -- I first read Gramsci in English over 40 years ago. Moreover, my thesis on Theories of the Labour Movement--a Marxist critique of non-Marxist theories of industrial relations--used Gramsci's concept of the "organic" working class intellectual to explain twentieth century rank and file movements in the British building industry.This paper is based on the Gramsci section in my forthcoming book on The State and Local Government. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1456> Britain: Building left unity out of the wreckage <http://links.org.au/node/1455> The Socialist Resistance national committee adopted this document, by Liam Mac Uaid, on January 9, 2010, to outline its balance sheet of the last decade's attempts at the resolving the crisis of working-class representation in Britain. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1455> * * * 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. 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