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What's new at Links: John Bellamy Foster, Venezuela, World Cup, Australia & refugees, S. Africa, Fred Wright cartoon, Mozambique, Sheppard on Camejo, David Harvey, Arabic * * * *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 li...@dsp.org.au *Please pass on to anybody you think will be interested in Links. * * * John Bellamy Foster on Venezuela: Marxism and `vernacular revolutionary traditions' <http://links.org.au/node/1788> The following article is the Foreward to the July-August 2010 issue of the US socialist magazine /Monthly Review/, which features Marta Harnecker's "Latin America and Twenty-First Century Socialism: Inventing to Avoid Mistakes". Bellamy Foster will be a feature speaker at the Climate Change Social Change conference, to be held in Melbourne, November 5-7, 2010. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1788> Timor Leste and Australian activists reject Australian government's racist refugee policy <http://links.org.au/node/1782> Statement by *Luta Hamutuk, Timor-Leste Institute for Research, Advocacy and Campaigns* Dili, July 7, 2010 -- According to Australian foreign affairs policy announced by the Australian prime minister in Sydney recently and published by a range of media, including the Indonesian newspaper the /Java Post/, "Prime Minister (PM) Julia Gillard has tightened Australia immigration law. Not wanting to be bothered by the economic and social problems caused by asylum seekers, the Australian leader plans to build a detention center for asylum seekers in Timor-Leste" As quoted by Associated Press (/Java Post/, 07/07/2010). The above statement shows how Australian foreign policy contains "racist characteristics" toward Timor Leste and the region. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1782> John Bellamy Foster to attend Climate Change Social Change conference, Melbourne, November 5-7, 2010 <http://links.org.au/node/1775> / /July 7, 2010 -- Humanity is in a race against time to avoid environmental and social catastrophe caused by climate change. When we look at government half-measures like the carbon trading and disastrous international conferences like Copenhagen, we seem to be losing the race. But when we look at the rising people's movement demanding serious action on climate, there's reason for hope and inspiration. The Climate Change Social Change conference is being organised to contribute towards understanding and collective action, in Australia and internationally, to address the climate emergency. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1775> South African soccer: For the love of the game or of money and power? <http://links.org.au/node/1786> By *Dale T. McKinley*, Johannesburg July 7, 2010 -- The sun has almost set on the soccer World Cup and its seeming suspension of our South African "normalcy". No doubt, many will try their best to continue to bask in its positively proclaimed "developmental legacy"; but, as sure as the sun will rise on the morning after, so too will the reality of that "normalcy" bite us like an unhappy dog. Nowhere will this be more apparent than in the world of South African soccer itself. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1786> Classic cartoon by Fred Wright: `How much do you pay your boss?' <http://links.org.au/node/1785> Fred Wright (1907-1984) was one of the United States's most renowned labour movement cartoonists. His career lasted from 1939 until his death in 1984. He is best known for his work as a staff cartoonist for the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE). In addition to his cartoons illustrating the union's newspaper, the /UE News/, he designed leaflets, strike placards and animated organising cartoons to contribute to the US labour movement. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1785> Mozambique's `recolonisation' <http://links.org.au/node/1784> [The following article first appeared in AfricaFile's //At Issue Ezine/, /vol. 12 (May-October 2010), edited by *John S. Saul*, which examines the development of the southern African liberation movement-led countries. It has been posted at /Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal/ with permission.] * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1784> Barry Sheppard reviews Peter Camejo's `North Star -- A Memoir' <http://links.org.au/node/1783> Review by *Barry Sheppard* July 8, 2010 -- /North Star -- A Memoir/* * by Peter Camejo, who was an important figure in the radicalisation of "the Sixties" and beyond, up to his untimely death in 2008, should be read by veterans of the socialist movement and wider social causes. It also should be read by new activists thirsty for understanding of previous struggles in order to better equip themselves for present and future battles. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1783> South Africa: FIFA forbids free speech at World Cup <http://links.org.au/node/1779> By *Patrick Bond* July 7, 2010 -- Acting against our alleged "ambush marketing" and "incitement" (sic), the South African Police Service, newly augmented with 40,000 additional cadre for the World Cup, detained several of us here in Durban last weekend. We were simply exercising freedom of expression at our favourite local venue, the South Beach Fan Fest, whose half-million visitors is a record. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1779> Film: `A Place in the City' -- A world class city for whom? World Cup tourists and the rich, or the poor majority? <http://links.org.au/node/1778> July 7, 2010 -- Sixteen years since apartheid ended, and amid the hoopla and false hopes promoted by the 2010 soccer World Cup, millions of black South Africans still live in self-built shacks -- without sanitation, adequate water supplies or electricity. In Durban, almost in the shadow of the massive multibillion-rand Moses Mabhida stadium [paradoxically named after a veteran leader of South Africa's Communist Party], poor people are fighting for their right to live near work, schools and health facilities. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1778> Building a socialist-feminist economy in Venezuela <http://links.org.au/node/1777> *Lidice Navas* interviewed by *Susan Spronk* and *Jeffery R. Webber* June 30, 2010 -- A long-time revolutionary activist, Lidice Navas is an important socialist-feminist leader within the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) and a candidate for the Latin American parliament, among her many other responsibilities. We met her at the Women's Development Bank in Caracas on June 18, 2010, to talk about her vision of socialism, the accomplishments of the Bolivarian process so far, and what remains to be done. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1777> Video: David Harvey -- `The animated crisis of capitalism' <http://links.org.au/node/1776> On April 26, 2010, Marxist geographer professor* David Harvey* spoke to the the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) to explain how capitalism came to dominate the world and why it resulted in the current financial crisis. * Watch <http://links.org.au/node/1776> The Flame, June-July 2010 -- Green Left Weekly's Arabic-language supplement <http://links.org.au/node/1774> July 6, 2010 -- With the help of Socialist Alliance members in the growing Sudanese community in Australia, /Green Left Weekly/ -- Australia's leading socialist newspaper -- publishes a regular Arabic language supplement. The /Flame// /covers news from the Arabic-speaking world as well as news and issues from within Australia. Editor-in-chief is Soubhi Iskander is a comrade who has endured years of imprisonment and torture at the hands of the repressive government in Sudan. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1774> * * * 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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