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What's new at Links: Nepal, May Day, Bolivia: People's Climate conf. reports & docs, Thailand, Scotland, Greece, 5th International * * * *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 [email protected] *Please pass on to anybody you think will be interested in Links. * * * Eyewitness report: Nepal, May 1 -- 500,000+ mobilise, talks fail, general strike is on <http://links.org.au/node/1656> By *Jed Brandt*, Kathmandu May 1, 2010 -- Late into the night, after a long May 1 in Kathmandu: I just left the Radisson Hotel where negotiations had been going on. Dr Baburam Bhattarai, a top leader of the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) and its negotiating team, came out the doors to say that the three negotiating parties have not reached an agreement. The general strike is on. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1656> May Day 2010: For workers' rights and the environment, oppose racism, defend revolutions <http://links.org.au/node/1657> May 1, 2010 -- May Day -- saw millions of people mobilising around globe to oppose attacks on workers' rights, reverse the degradation of the environment, defend the rights of oppressed peoples and migrants and -- as in Nepal, Venezuela, Cuba and Bolivia -- to make, extend or defend unfolding revolutions. In *Nepal*, Jed Brandt reports that between 500,000 and 1 million people flooded the streets on Kathmandu to demand the resignation of the government. The massive mobilisation -- called by the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) and the Young Communist League -- is the prelude to a general strike that begins May 2. * Read more more May day reports from around the world <http://links.org.au/node/1657> Nepal's streets ahead of May 1: `We make the power' <http://links.org.au/node/1654> The Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) has called for workers and villagers to converge on Kathmandu for a "final conflict" to win a new constitution. The Maoists are calling for a sustained mobilisation, with the hope that an overwhelming showing can push the government out with a minimum of bloodshed and stay the hand of the Nepal army. Story and photos by *Jed Brandt*, Kathmandu. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1654> (Updated May 1) Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth, and texts from the People's Conference on Climate Change <http://links.org.au/node/1647> The following documents were also adopted by the World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth on April 22, 2010, in Bolivia. They are: *1.* The Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth; *2.* Shared Visions document; *NEW: 3. *Structural causes;* NEW: 4.* Referendum on climate change; *5. *Document of the Working Group on Agriculture and Food Sovereignty; *6.* Document of the Working Group on Climate Debt; *7.* Document of the Working Group on Climate Finance; *8.* Indigenous Peoples' Declaration; *9.* International Tribunal of Climate and Environmental Justice working group; *NEW:* *10.* Dangers of the carbon market; *NEW:* *11.* Working Group No. 10 on the Kyoto Protocol and greenhouse gas emissions reduction; *NEW:* *12.* Working Group 13: Intercultural dialogue knowledge sharing, knowledge and technology; *NEW: 13.* Final conclusions of Working Group 2: Harmony with Nature to Live Well; *NEW: 14.* Working Group 6: Climate Change and Migration. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1647> Bolivia: Full text -- `People's Agreement' from World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth <http://links.org.au/node/1644> * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1644> Thailand: It's about democracy <http://links.org.au/node/1652> By *Giles Ji Ungpakorn* After mass right-wing Yellow Shirt protests against the government in Bangkok in 2006, Thaksin Shinawatra's Thai Rak Thai government dissolved parliament and called elections. Yet the Democrat Party and others refused to take part in these elections because they knew they would lose. This led to a military coup. The military wrote their own undemocratic constitution. Fresh elections were held under the control of the military, yet Thaksin's party won an overall majority again. Abhisit Vejjajiva's government is only in power by using two judiciary coups, Yellow Shirt violence at Government House and the airports, and the actions of the army. It has never been elected. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1652> `That's capitalism!' Scottish Socialist Party election broadcast: `No cuts, no wars, for an end to corruption' <http://links.org.au/node/1651> The Scottish Socialist Party is standing in 10 seats across Scotland in the UK general election on May 6. The video above was broadcast on BBC TV on April 23. SSP election manifesto: `For an independent socialist Scotland'*: *No cuts, no wars, for an end to corruption * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1651> May Day 2010: `Workers will win!' <http://links.org.au/node/1650> Joint May Day 2010 statement from Asia *All over the world workers are organising ...** We are organising to demand a living wage.* For health and safety at work. For compensation and rehabilitation. For the rights of migrant workers and refugees, for citizenship rights for migrant workers and their families. For the right to employment on equal terms. Workers are organising against deportations, against racism, against discrimination. Workers are organising against wars that are a disaster to millions of workers. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1650> Greece: Driven into crisis <http://links.org.au/node/1649> By *Ingo Schmidt* April 27, 2010 -- Neoliberal order reigns in the world. Stock markets are recovering from the crash in the fall of 2008. Private banks are no longer weighed down by bad loans that were added to public deficits. The latter were rising anyway because the economic crisis had sent tax revenues on a downward slide. Add further bailout money for financial companies and fiscal stimulus and you get a veritable fiscal crisis of the state. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1649> The `First Socialist International of the 21st Century' <http://links.org.au/node/1646> April 26, 2010 -- During the recently concluded five-month extraordinary congress of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela, *Kiraz Janicke* and *Federico Fuentes* had the opportunity to discuss President Hugo Chavez's proposal to form a Fifth Socialist International with *Julio Chavez*, a delegate to the PSUV congress and a member of the congress's international committee, which is charged with drafting a specific plan of action to form a new socialist international. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1646> Evo Morales: `Combating climate change -- lessons from the world's Indigenous peoples' <http://links.org.au/node/1645> By *Evo Morales*,* *president of the Plurinational Republic of Bolivia. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1645> Bolivia: Reflections on the World People's Conference on Climate Change <http://links.org.au/node/1643> By *Ben Courtice* This is just a first reflection on the monumental World People's Summit on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth which just finished in Cochabamba. I will post more on particular aspects of the summit soon. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1643> * * * 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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