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What's new at Links: Pakistan floods, Australian socialists, Karl Polanyi, Sri Lanka, Arabic, Thailand, Philippines, Bolivia & climate talks, Grundrisse, Zimbabwe * * * *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/. * * * Pakistan: Labour Relief Campaign launches appeal for millions affected by floods <http://links.org.au/node/1832> *[**Readers can also donate via the Australian trade unions' aid agency APHEDA at http://www.apheda.org.au/news/1281331224_14992.html.] * Appeal from the *Labour Relief Campaign*, Pakistan August 7, 2010 -- More than 12 million people are suffering from floods in Pakistan. Please donate to the Labour Relief Campaign to help people of Pakistan facing the worst-ever floods in its history. Torrential rains have unleashed flash floods in different parts of the country in the last three weeks. Levies have broken, leaving the people exposed to flood water. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1832> Australian socialists: `Vote Socialist & Greens, put Abbott's conservatives last <http://links.org.au/node/1830> On July 24, 2010, Australia's leading socialist newspaper /Green Left Weekly/ spoke to */Peter Boyle/*, national convener of the Socialist Alliance, about the political climate of the 2010 federal election, to be held on August 21. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1830> Karl Polanyi provides `a vital intellectual resource' for ecosocialists <http://links.org.au/node/1842> By *Derek Wall* The market is still seen as a solution to all ills and the failure of socialists to make a persuasive case for alternatives to marketisation has created huge problems for the left. In just about every part of world outside Latin America, the left remain in a weak position and alternatives to neoliberalism remain marginal, so intellectual resources that show that the market is neither an inevitable nor an effecient means of running the economy are vital. One of the most important resources in the ideological struggle for a socialist economy that sustains the environment, promotes social justice and creates democratic control of the means of production, is the work of the late great Hungarian thinker Karl Polanyi. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1842> Sri Lankan government's ties with Israel expose its duplicity <http://links.org.au/node/1841> By *Chris Slee* August 14, 2010 -- On July 21 the Israeli newspaper /Yedioth Ahronoth/ published an interview with Donald Perera, Sri Lanka's ambassador to Israel. Perera thanked Israel profusely for its support in the fight against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), saying: "For years Israel has aided our war on terror through the exchange of information and the sale of military technology and equipment... Our air force fleet includes 17 Kfir warplanes, and we also have Dabur patrol boats. Our pilots were trained in Israel, and we have received billions of dollars in aid over the past few years. This is why I asked to be assigned to Israel -- a country I consider a partner in the war against terror." * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1841> Pakistan: Use foreign debt repayments for flood-hit communities <http://links.org.au/node/1840> By the *Labour Relief Campaign* August 13, 2010 -- Pakistan must refuse to pay foreign debt and divert the amount to the relief and rehabilitation of flood-hit communities. Instead of begging for much-needed aid for relief and rehabilitation, Pakistan must stand up and announce the unilateral suspension of repayment of foreign debts, owed to international finance institutions (IFIs) and donor countries. Currently Pakistan is paying about US$3 billion on debt servicing every year. Pakistan's present foreign debt of $54 billion is increasing. This act alone can bring most of the much-need support for the immediate relief of the flood victims. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1840> The Flame, August 2010 -- Green Left Weekly's Arabic-language supplement <http://links.org.au/node/1838> August 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/1838> Pakistan: Video -- Farooq Tariq on religious fundamentalism <http://links.org.au/node/1837> August 11, 2010 -- *Farooq Tariq* from the Labour Party Pakistan talks about the changing relationship between the Islamic fundamentalists and the state of Pakistan. Thailand: Freedom of speech is a severe danger to the ruling class <http://links.org.au/node/1836> By *Giles Ji Ungpakorn* August 10, 2010 -- Tantawut Taweewarodomkun, the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD) USA's web designer, known as "Red Eagle", who was arrested on April 1, 2010, on "computer crimes" and /lese majeste/ charges, has been remanded in custody until February 2011, when the court has set a date to interrogate prosecution and defence witnesses. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1836> Philippines: Extrajudicial killings and the struggle for land reform under 'Noynoy' Aquino <http://links.org.au/node/1835> / / *Satur Ocampo*, Bayan Muna president, interviewed by* Reihana Mohideen* August 11, 2010 -- Some 1205 extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary killings, largely political activists and journalists, took place under the government of former Philippines president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, according to the human rights organisation Karapatan. In the few weeks since the June 30 inauguration of the new president Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III, six extrajudicial killings have taken place, three being members of organisations aligned with the Bayan Muna (Country First) party. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1835> Bolivia's UN ambassador: Despite extreme weather, rich countries fail to cut greenhouse gases <http://links.org.au/node/1834> August 10, 2010 -- Even as the world faces a series of extreme weather events that scientists warn is related to global warming, international climate negotiations are moving at a glacial pace. The latest round of climate talks in Bonn, Germany, ended last week, and diplomats have just one more short meeting in China in the coming months to hash out their differences before the critical high-level climate conference in Cancún, Mexico, at the end of the year. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1834> The dissemination and reception of the `Grundrisse' -- a contribution to the history of Marxism <http://links.org.au/node/1833> / / [The following article is a chapter from /Karl Marx's Grundrisse: Foundations of the critique of political economy 150 years later/, edited by Marcello Musto. Published by Routledge, the paperback edition is just out. It is posted at /Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal /with the author's permission. *Marcello Musto* teaches at the Department of Political Science at York University, Toronto Canada. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1833> Zimbabwe: Liberation nationalism, old and born again <http://links.org.au/node/1831> By *Richard Saunders* August 2010 -- The historic defeat of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) in the February 2000 constitutional referendum by an alliance of leading civil society organisations and the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) marked a pivotal point in Zimbabwean politics. It was the first time the party had lost a national poll since independence. After a decade of neoliberal reforms, and rising economic dislocation and social protest that emerged with the unwinding of the "liberation consensus" around national development, ZANU-PF was faced with an unprecedented challenge on a political terrain it had unilaterally dominated for more than a decade. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1831> * * * 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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