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What's new at Links: Thailand, US nukes, Bolivia climate summit, coal protest, Palestine, Sudan, S. Africa, Venezuela, Pakistan, capitalism & food * * * 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. * * * Can capitalism fix climate change? <http://links.org.au/node/1630> By *Simon Butler* April 14, 2010 -- Albert Einstein defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. It has taken capitalism about 250 years to generate enough waste and pollution to press dangerously against nature's limits. With such a damning record, there should be no grounds to expect a different outcome in the future. Yet the mainstream discussion about how to tackle the climate crisis still assumes that, this time around, capitalism can be made sustainable. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1630> Obama's double talk at nuclear summit: US preserves and extends its nuclear domination <http://links.org.au/node/1622> By the *International Socialist Organization*, United States April 14, 2010 -- The US has repackaged its strategy -- but the terrible threat of nuclear war remains. The administration of US President Barack Obama is out to upgrade the US nuclear arsenal and pressure world leaders into imposing sanctions against countries -- like Iran -- that allegedly harbour ambitions to develop nukes of their own. That's the agenda behind the April 12-13 Washington summit on nuclear security, which followed the announcement of a supposedly less belligerent US nuclear strategy and the signing in Prague of the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) with Russia. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1622> Bolivia: Ambassador Pablo Solon on why thousands will attend World People's Climate Summit <http://links.org.au/node/1619> April 11, 2010 -- More than 10,000 individuals and 50 governments have already registered to participate in the historic World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth in Cochabamba, Bolivia, on April 19-22, 2010. *Pablo Solon*, Bolivia's ambassador to the UN, at a press conference during UNFCCC negotiations in Bonn on April 10 condemned continued attempts by some developed countries to impose a deeply flawed Copenhagen Accord as the basis for future negotiations. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1619> Photo essay: `Stop the coal rush!' -- people's blockade halts exports from world's biggest coal port <http://links.org.au/node/1628> Photo essay and story by *Jagath Dheerasekara* March 28, 2010 -- Newcastle, Australia -- A mass community protest at the biggest coal port in the world, Newcastle, succeeded in preventing coal ship movements all day. Hundreds of peaceful protesters occupied the harbour from 10 am. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1628> What kind of Palestinian state in 2011? <http://links.org.au/node/1627> By *Rafeef Ziadah* April 12, 2010 -- In December 2007, the Palestinian National Authority (PA), in close consultation with donor states and institutions like the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank, proposed the Palestinian Reform and Development Plan (PRDP), a program based on "rebuilding the Palestinian national institutions" and "developing the Palestinian public and private sectors". * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1627> Sudan: US backs election farce <http://links.org.au/node/1625> By *Kerryn Williams* April 15, 2010 -- Hailed as the first "competitive", "open", "multi-party" elections in Sudan in 24 years, there was little free, fair or open about the national poll that began on April 11, boycotted by the major opposition parties. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1625> Malaysia: Solidarity protest with Thai people's movement for democracy <http://links.org.au/node/1623> April 14, 2010 -- Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia -- Today, a delegation of 30 people led by the *Socialist Party Malaysia* (PSM) staged a protest at the Royal Thai Embassy in Kuala Lumpur. Those present included Dr. Nasir Hashim (chairperson of the PSM and Selangor state assemblyperson for Kota Damansara ), Dr Jeyakumar Devaraj (central committe member of PSM and federal member of parliament for Sungai Siput), and S. Arutchelvan (secretary-general of the PSM). There were also representatives of Suaram, a leading human rights organisation in Malaysia, as well as a representative from the Student Federation of Thailand. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1623> South Africa's poor to pay for dirty World Bank loan <http://links.org.au/node/1621> By *Patrick Bond*, Durban April 14, 2010 -- Just how dangerous is the World Bank and its neo-conservative president Robert Zoellick to South Africa and the global climate? Notwithstanding South Africa's existing US$75 billion foreign debt, on April 8 the bank added a $3.75 billion loan to South Africa's electricty utility Eskom for the primary purpose of building the world's fourth-largest coal-fired power plant, at Medupi. It will spew 25 million tons of the climate pollutant carbon dioxide into the air each year. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1621> Venezuela: `For every April 11th, may there be an April 13th' -- solidarity messages on anniversary of defeated coup <http://links.org.au/node/1620> Celebrating the 8th anniversary of the Venezuelan people's defeat of the April 11, 2002, coup against Hugo Chavez, and solidarity with the Venezuelan Revolution By the *Socialist Party of Malaysia* April 13, 2010 -- This year April 13 marks the 8th anniversary of people's victory over the US-backed coup d'état against President Hugo Chavez in 2002. The Socialist Party of Malaysia (PSM) would like to pay tribute to the revolutionary masses of Venezuela who defended the revolution eight years ago with tremendous courage and now are still fighting to shape Socialism of the 21st Century. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1620> Pakistan: A credible alternative to the parties of the rich <http://links.org.au/node/1618> / /By *Farooq Tariq* On 10 April 2010, Mian Abdul Qayum, a labour leader in Faisalabad, submitted his nomination papers as candidate for the Punjab Assembly constituency 63 by-election on May 15. The other candidates are from the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), the Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PMLN) and the National Muslim League. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1618> Capitalism and food: Let them eat junk <http://links.org.au/node/1616> An interview with *Rob Albritton* March 2010 -- Rob Albritton's /Let Them Eat Junk: How Capitalism Creates Hunger and Obesity/ (2009), published by Arbeiter Ring Press in Canada and Pluto Press in the UK, offers a welcome and urgently needed analysis of "how the profit fixation of capital has led us deeply into a dangerously unsustainable system of food provision, a system that totally fails when it comes to distributive justice and to human and environmental health" (p. 201). His analysis takes us inside capitalism and shows how its "deep structures" manage our agricultural and food systems in irrational ways. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1616> Thais in Australia: `Oppose human rights abuses by Thai military and government' <http://links.org.au/node/1615> ????????????????????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????? The following statement by* Thai Red Australia Group for Democracy* was* *released at a protest rally in Sydney on April 12, 2010. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1615> * * * 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. 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