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What's new at Links: Tunisia in revolt, Wikileaks & Marx, S.Korea, Haiti, Thailand, Zapatistas, Cuba, Ivory Coast * * * 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. * * * (Updated Jan. 18) Tunisia:`All Arab dictators are shaking on their thrones' -- Left and Arab voices on the insurrection <http://links.org.au/node/2101> By *Dyab Abou Jahjah* January 17, 2011 -- In Tunisia, a new government is being formed under the leadership of the RCD (the party of the fallen dictator) and the participation of some legalised opposition parties. All parties that were illegal under the old regimes are being excluded and this is stirring up a lot of controversy among parts of the Tunisian population who feel that the revolution is being driven away from its ideals. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/2101> Wikileaks, Karl Marx and you <http://links.org.au/node/2094> By *Alistair Davidson* December 23, 2010 -- Despite blanket media coverage of Wikileaks and Julian Assange, there has been little discussion of the fact that Assange is merely one leader within a large and complicated social movement. The better analyses have found it interesting that the Swedish Pirate Party are aiding Wikileaks; some note links to the German Chaos Computer Club. But only "geeks" and "hackers" (technology workers) are aware that all of these organisations are members of the same movement. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/2094> New Anti-Capitalist Party on Tunisia: 'Ben Ali assassin, Sarkozy accomplice!' <http://links.org.au/node/2100> Statement by the *New Anti-Capitalist Party* (Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste) France, translated by *John Mullen* for /Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal/ January 11, 2011 -- When Mohamed Bouazizi committed suicide by setting fire to himself after being harassed by the police his act became the spark which is now setting fire to the whole of the "miraculous Tunisia" of General Ben Ali. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/2100> South Korea: Struggles by 'irregular' workers multiply, solidarity needed <http://links.org.au/node/2099> [For more background to the South Korean irregular workers' struggle, see Chris Kim's excellent article on the Hyundai irregular workers' strike in Ulsan: "South Korea: 'Just the first round' by 'irregular workers' at Hyundai Motors", /Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal/, December 16, 2010.] * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/2099> (Updated Jan. 16) Tunisia's intifada topples tyrant: 'Yezzi fock!' <http://links.org.au/node/2098> On January 14, the BBC reported that the mass uprising in Tunisia had toppled that country's Western-backed tyrant after weeks of protests and government repression, which has cost the lives of dozens of Tunisians. The articles below explain some of the background to the uprising. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/2098> Haiti: Diplomat delivers searing indictment of occupation regime <http://links.org.au/node/2097> January 9, 2011 -- Of all the commentaries and interviews coinciding with the anniversary of Haiti's earthquake, none are likely to exceed in significance the interview granted by Organization of American States representative to Haiti, Ricardo Seitenfus, to the Swiss daily /Le Temps /on December 20, 2010. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/2097> Thailand: 60,000 Red Shirt protesters bring Bangkok to a standstill <http://links.org.au/node/2096> By *Mong Palatino* January 11, 2011 -- Red Shirt anti-government protesters in Thailand mobilised tens of thousands of their members in central Bangkok on January 9, 2011, as they continued to press their demand for more democratic reforms in government. Police estimated the crowd at 30,000 but rally organisers claimed they gathered 60,000 in the streets. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/2096> Mexico: Opportunism and sectarianism hamper left's resistance to neoliberalism <http://links.org.au/node/2095> By *Rachel Evans* January 12, 2011 -- This is an examination of Mexico's social movements, the political parties' and organisations that lead them, and their tactical and strategic outlooks, as well as the left's successes and failures in the fight against neoliberalism. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/2095> Latin America: For a solidarity `Marshall Plan' with the Cuban Revolution!; Un Plan Marshall para Cuba <http://links.org.au/node/2093> *[For more analysis and discussion on the economic reforms in Cuba, click **HERE.] * <http://links.org.au/taxonomy/term/31> By *Atilio Boron* January 5, 2011 -- Cuba is currently faced with a crucial dilemma: either it updates, revises and reconstructs its economic model or it runs the risk of succumbing to the combined pressures created by its own errors and the aggression of the US embargo. The countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as all of those in Africa and Asia, cannot remain indifferent towards this situation or limit themselves to contemplating how the revolution delivered this decisive battle without any assistance other than their own strength. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/2093> Ivory Coast: Behind the post-election political crisis and threat of military intervention <http://links.org.au/node/2092> // By *Peluola Adewale* Jannuary 5, 2011 -- That the November 28, 2010, run-off election in the Ivory Coast has produced two presidents -- Alassane Ouattara and Laurent Gbagbo -- is not a surprise, though working people had expected the election to usher a return of peace. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/2092> * unpublish <http://links.org.au/akismet/node/2092/unpublish> * submit spam <http://links.org.au/akismet/node/2092/submit-spam> A young 21st century socialist speaks out <http://links.org.au/node/2091> // By *Harry Milne* January 10, 2010 -- Why does a comfortably middle-class youth in Australia, such as myself, profess his political views to be socialist in orientation? Surely, many would think, for what reason would I advocate for such a radical position? It's simple, really. Socialism is a political representation of my value system as it currently exists. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/2091> * * * 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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