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What's new at Links: Climate denialism, Cuba, Greens & class, China, Energy efficiency, BDS, Foro Social Latinamericano, France, Thailand * * * *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. * * * The new climate-change denialism: Who promotes it, and how to answer it <http://links.org.au/node/1942> // *By Renfrey Clarke* October 15, 2010 -- You remember the scandal provoked by the errors and exaggerations in the 2007 report by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)? And you know all about the even bigger "Climategate" scandal last year, when stolen emails revealed that leading climate scientists were manipulating data to fit their alarmist political agenda? Now we have the next instalment. In a new /Guide to the Science of Climate Change/ the world's top science body, Britain's Royal Society, has quit playing politics and stopped peddling its claims of looming disaster. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1942> Cuban Revolution: challenges and change <http://links.org.au/node/1939> By *Dave Holmes* [This article and slideshow were presented as a talk to the Geelong branch of Socialist Alliance on October 6, 2010.] * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1939> Australia: A response to Socialist Alternative on the Greens and class <http://links.org.au/node/1938> By *Nick Fredman* October 13, 2010 -- Ben Hillier's article, "A Marxist critique of the Australian Greens" contains some useful information and analysis on the Australian Greens, a formation that has achieved a significant breakthrough in the recent federal election. Hillier is correct, generally, in writing of the Greens' "populist left nationalism" and "middle class ideological basis". But he over-emphasises the sociologically middle-class nature of the Greens' voting base (and probably membership), as part of a general confusion on class today. In a related error, he is quite wrong, and quite sectarian, to state that the Greens "do not in any sense represent an alternative to the ALP" [Australian Labor Party]. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1938> The left cannot ignore China's achievement in poverty reduction <http://links.org.au/node/1941> // By *Reihana Mohideen* October 15, 2010 -- China's achievements in reducing poverty have been outstanding. From 1978 -- when the restructuring of the Chinese economy began -- to 2007 the incidence of rural poverty dropped from 30.7% in 1978 to 1.6% in 2007. The biggest drop took place between 1978 and 1984 when the number of rural poor almost halved, from 250 million in 1978 to 125 million in 1985. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1941> The limits to energy efficiency under capitalism <http://links.org.au/node/1940> By *Simon Butler* October 9, 2010 -- It is close to an article of faith among environmentalists that using less energy is a big part of the solution to climate change. Energy efficiency is often said to be the "low hanging fruit" of climate policy. On face value, the benefits seem obvious. However, strong evidence has emerged that new energy efficient technologies alone won't do much to cut emissions. Indeed, in a capitalist economy, it's very likely that energy efficiency gains will lead to higher energy use, not less. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1940> Palestine: BDS movement recalls anti-apartheid tactics, responsibilities and controversies <http://links.org.au/node/1937> By *Patrick Bond*, Ramallah October 13, 2010 -- On a full-day drive through the Jordan Valley late last month, we skirted the Earth's oldest city and lowest inhabited point, 400 metres below sea level. For 10,000 years, people have lived along the river that separates the present-day West Bank and Jordan. Since 1967 the river has been augmented by Palestinian blood, sweat and tears, ending in the Dead Sea, from which no water flows; it only evaporates. Conditions degenerated during Israel's land-grab, when from a peak of more than 300,000 people living on the west side of the river, displacements shoved Palestinian refugees across into Jordan and other parts of the West Bank. The valley has fewer than 60,000 Palestinians today. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1937> `Foro Social Latinamericano', Green Left Weekly's Spanish-language supplement, October 2010 issue <http://links.org.au/node/1936> October 13, 2010 -- For environmentalists, Indigenous rights activists, feminists, socialists and all progressive people, Latin America is a source of hope and inspiration today. Australia's leading socialist newspaper /Green Left Weekly/ is strongly committed to supporting the growing "people's power" movement in Latin America. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1936> France: An explosive situation <http://links.org.au/node/1935> By *Sandra Demarcq * October 11, 2010 -- The political situation in France is dominated by the mobilisations against the proposed "reform" of the pension system [that will dramatically reduce the right of workers to access pensions]. This is at the heart of French President Nicolas Sarkozy's austerity policy. Although it is presented as an obvious demographic necessity, it is meeting increasing opposition in public opinion. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1935> Photo essay: Bangkok, 10-10-10 -- Red Shirts mass around Democracy Monument <http://links.org.au/node/1934> Story by *Peter Boyle, *photos by *Klaus.* * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1934> * * * 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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