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What's new at Links: Thailand, Nepal, soccer World Cup, solidarity with Greece, Southern Africa, Evo on climate, Scotland, climate debt * * * *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. * * * Thailand: Tyrants cling to power over the dead bodies of the people <http://links.org.au/node/1685> By *Giles Ji Ungpakorn* Update, 03.25 hrs Sunday, May 16, 2010, Bangkok time -- Earlier on Saturday, unconfirmed reports indicated that Abhisit Vejjajiva's soldiers had shot dead at least 50 people. Later, 22 named deaths were confirmed by the Erawan emergency centre, and 172 injured (including one Canadian, one Polish, one Burmese, one Liberian). But an official from the centre says that the real death toll is higher but cannot be reported at the moment. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1685> Nepal's May days: `This struggle has not ended. The general strike was only a dress rehearsal' <http://links.org.au/node/1681> Story and photos by *Jed Brandt*, Kathmandu May 11, 2010--The largest mobilisation of human beings in Nepal's history brought hundreds of thousands of villagers into the capital Kathmandu for the May 1 protests -- and the entire country to a standstill. On May 1, this city belonged to the members and supporters of the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist). From Kalinki to the Old Bus Park, packed buses poured into the city. Every seat and aisle was filled. Young men perched on the roofs. Bags of rice, lentils and vegetables were stockpiled in the schools, wedding halls and construction sites that served as makeshift camps for the protesters. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1681> Thailand: Red Shirt protests -- what has been achieved? ??????????????????????? ???????? <http://links.org.au/node/1676> By *Giles Ji Ungpakorn* May 11, 2010 -- Pro-democracy Red Shirt protests in Bangkok, which started in mid-March, are about to be wound up. Leaders [of the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship, UDD] have accepted a compromise with the military-backed government of Abhisit Vejjajiva. Elections will not be held immediately, but on November 14. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1676> Australia/Thailand: In solidarity with the democracy protests in Bangkok <http://links.org.au/node/1686> By *Thai Red Australia Group for Democracy* May 16, 2010 -- Since March 14, Bangkok has been the scene of mass pro-democracy protests. The protesters known as "Red Shirts" have demanded the resignation of unelected Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and new elections. Abhisit came to power in December through the overthrow of a democratically elected government by right-wing "Yellow Shirt" gangs, assisted by the military and elements of the royal family. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1686> South Africa: Will the World Cup party be worth the hangover? <http://links.org.au/node/1684> By *Patrick Bond*, Durban May 15, 2010 -- On June 11, South Africans start /jol/ing [/jol/ -- to have fun, to party] like no time since liberation in April 1994, and of course it is a huge honour for our young democracy to host the most important sporting spectacle short of the Olympics. All the ordinary people who have worked so hard in preparation deserve gratitude and support, especially the construction workers, cleaners, municipal staff, health-care givers and volunteers who will not receive due recognition. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1684> Asian left parties: `In solidarity with the Greek people's resistance against austerity' <http://links.org.au/node/1683> /The following joint statement of solidarity -- initiated by Socialist Alliance, Australia// -- has been signed by a number of left and progressive organisations in the Asia-Pacific region. If your organisation would like to sign on, please email internatio...@socialist-alliance.org./* Joint statement from Asia-Pacific left and progressive organisations* May 13, 2010 We, left and progressive organisations from the Asia-Pacific region, express our solidarity with the resistance of the Greek people against the harsh austerity being imposed upon them by the governments of the European Union (EU) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The proposed "rescue package" for the Greek economy by the IMF-EU has triggered a huge struggle that will have worldwide ramifications for working people. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1683> Southern Africa: The liberation struggle continues <http://links.org.au/node/1682> [The following is the editorial in the latest edition of AfricaFile's //At Issue Ezine/, /vol. 12 (May-October 2010), which examines the development of the southern African liberation movement-led countries. It has been posted at /Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal/ with permission.] By *John S. Saul* * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1682> Evo Morales: United, the developing countries can save Mother Earth <http://links.org.au/node/1680> By *Evo Morales*, president of Bolivia May 7, 2010 -- I have come here to share the conclusions of the First World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth, held last April 20 to 22 in Cochabamba, Bolivia. I convened this conference because in Copenhagen the voice of the peoples of the world was not listened to or attended to, nor were established procedures respected by all states. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1680> Scotland: The election everyone lost <http://links.org.au/node/1679> By *Colin Fox* May 10, 2010 -- Did you hear the one about the election everyone lost? On May 6, 2010, Labour the party in power lost 100 seats and with it the chance to continue in government after 13 years. The Conservatives lost the victory all the polls had been promising them for the past 18 months. The Liberals suffered perhaps the most devastating humiliation after Cleggmania turned out to be a complete and utter mirage. The man who apparently wowed us so much in the great TV leadership debates actually lost a significant number of seats rather than gaining any * Read more <http://links.org.au/akismet/node/1679/submit-spam> Venezuela: Millions vote to select socialist candidates <http://links.org.au/node/1678> By *Federico Fuentes*, Caracas May 9, 2010 -- The May 2 internal preselection of United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) candidates for the September 26 national elections was an example of the mobilising force of this mass party in construction. More than 2.5 million party members participated. This demonstrated the PSUV is the largest national political force, and highlighted its democratic and participatory nature. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1678> Climate debt owed to Africa: What to demand and how to collect? <http://links.org.au/node/1675> By *Patrick Bond* May 5, 2010 -- The "climate debt" that the industries and over-consumers of the global North owe Africans and other victims of climate change not responsible for causing the problem has accrued by virtue of the North's excessive dumping of greenhouse gas emissions into the collective environmental space. Damage is being accounted for, including the more constrained space the South has for emissions. This historical injustice -- and "debt" -- is now nearly universally acknowledged (aside from Washington holdouts), and reparations plus adaptation finance are being widely demanded. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1675> * * * 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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