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What's new at Links: Thailand, Venezuela, espanol, Cuba, France, Haiti, Malaysia, S.Africa, Victor Serge, Afghanistan * * * 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. * * * Thailand: Red Shirts flood centre of Bangkok again <http://links.org.au/node/2002> By *Peter Boyle*, photos by*CBN Press* November 19, 2010 -- Thousands of supporters of the Thailand's Red Shirt (the popular name for supporters of the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship) movement once again turned Bangkok's busy Ratchaprasong Intersection into a sea of red. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/2002> Join the May Day 2011 solidarity brigade to Venezuela! April 25--May 4, 2011 <http://links.org.au/node/1993> The Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network invites you to observe first-hand the inspiring Bolivarian revolution in Venezuela. The sweeping social changes being carried out by Venezuela's "people's power" movements are radically transforming life for the majority in that country - workers, women, Indigenous people, young people and all those who have suffered the injustices of poverty, exploitation and exclusion that accompany corporate globalisation. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1993> `Foro Social Latinamericano', Green Left Weekly's Spanish-language supplement, November 2010 issue <http://links.org.au/node/2005> November 22, 2010 -- For environmentalists, Indigenous rights activists, feminists, socialists and all progressive people, Latin America is a source of hope and inspiration today. The people of Venezuela, Cuba, Bolivia, Ecuador and El Salvador, among others, are showing that radical social change is possible and a better, more just society can be imagined and built. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/2005> Cubans discuss economic changes: `It is the people who will decide' <http://links.org.au/node/2004> ** <http://links.org.au/taxonomy/term/31> November 19, 2010 -- The 6th congress of the Communist Party of Cuba will take place in April 2011 and the only topic of discussion will be the analysis of the country's economic and social model. Prior to the congress, from December 2010 through February 2011, a process of popular debate will unfold based on a fundamental party document entitled "The Economic and Social Policy Development Project", which is already in the hands of the people. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/2004> France: Movement debates next steps in resistance to government attacks <http://links.org.au/node/2003> By *Chris Latham* November 14, 2010 -- President Nicolas Sarkozy enacted a new law on November 10 that increases the retirement age of French workers. The move came just days after more than a million workers and students mobilised across France against the law. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/2003> Haiti: Sham `selection' serves interests of wealthy elite and foreign powers' <http://links.org.au/node/2001> By the *Canada Haiti Action Network* November 12, 2010 -- The Canada Haiti Action Network (CHAN) is once again expressing its grave concerns about exclusionary elections in Haiti. It joins with the many Haitians as well as human rights organisations in Haiti and abroad in condemning these elections as serving the interests of Haiti's wealthy elite and the foreign powers that have dominated Haiti's past and present. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/2001> Malaysia: `No one is indispensable we often hear, but for the PSM ... Bala is indispensable' <http://links.org.au/node/2000> By *Rani Rasiah, *Socialist Party of Malaysia deputy secretary general November 17, 2010 -- Comrade G. Balasundram was stabbed to death on November 16, 2010. He is really, truly no more, but the mind refuses to register this unacceptable reality. That's because he was so alive, bubbling with life, loud, boisterous. So many of us have seen him, or had a meal with him or got a call or a witty sms from him just in the 24 hours before his sudden and tragic death. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/2000> Thailand: Red Shirts plan another major rally <http://links.org.au/node/1999> By *Peter Boyle* November 18, 2010 -- Supporters of Thailand's opposition Red Shirt movement are preparing another major mobilisation, on November 19, 2010, to commemorate six months since the military repression of their mass protest camp in Bangkok's Ratchaprasong Intersection. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1999> New Zealand: The battle for Mana -- a new left votes <http://links.org.au/node/1998> //November 11, 2010 -- Matt McCarten's Mana by-election campaign has taken up the issue of housing, identifying many empty state houses in the electorate, while families are homeless. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1998> South Africa: Workers' factory takeover to defend jobs enters second month <http://links.org.au/node/1997> November 17, 2010 -- A militant factory occupation by South African metalworkers is about to enter its second month. On October 20, 2010, workers at the Mine Line/TAP Engineering factory in Krugersdorp, just outside Soweto, began the occupation to prevent the removal of machinery and other assets and to fight to save their jobs. The workers are demanding the state take over the factory, so that it can be reopened as a democratically run workers' cooperative. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1997> Victor Serge: From the defeated past to the expectant future <http://links.org.au/node/1996> By *Suzi Weissman* In the wake of the collapse of the USSR, "statism" was roundly attacked east and west. This was the free market offensive that was pushed during the 1990s and the first part of the new century. Under attack were the bureaucratised former Soviet bloc economies to be sure, but anti-statist reforms were also imposed to dismantle social-democratic gains everywhere. Not content with these ideological victories, the free marketeers went after the crony capitalist regimes in the Far East, chaebol and otherwise. Privatisation, free trade and free markets became the buzzwords of the day. Anarchism on the right and left seemed to dominate the discourse. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1996> Malalai Joya interviewed: US occupation making Afghan lives worse <http://links.org.au/node/1994> Sunday, November 14, 2010 -- *Malalai Joya* is an Afghan feminist and anti-war activist who opposes the US-led occupation of her country. An opponent of both the Islamic fundamentalist Taliban and the equally fundamentalist and corrupt warlords in the US-backed regime of President Hamid Karzai, Joya was the youngest member elected to Afghan parliament in 2005. She was suspended after she said the parliament was full of warlords. Joya is touring Australia. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1994> * * * 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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