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What's new at Links: Asia-Pac left on Gaza, Indonesia; Left gains in
Slovenia, Belgium; US ISO, "environmental catastrophism",
overpopulation?, Catalonia, Canada, Cuba & LGBTI
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(Updated July 16) Asia-Pacific socialists: 'Stop Israel's war crimes
in Gaza!' <http://links.org.au/node/3954>
*To add your group's name to the list of signatories please email PSM
International Bureau <mailto:int....@gmail.com>.*
*Joint statement by Asia-Pacific left organisations*
July 14, 2014 -- In the past week, Israeli military forces have
escalated their offensive on the Gaza Strip. Israeli warplanes have
increasingly targeted houses, civilian-populated areas and civilian
facilities in the Gaza strip. Israeli warplanes have destroyed a number
of houses while their residents were inside, without any prior warnings,
killing and wounding many Palestinian civilians.
The Israeli government has cynically exploited the killing of three
Israeli youth and used this to whip up a racist hysteria against
Palestinians and the Hamas government in Gaza. It has done this without
producing any evidence about who was responsible for those killings. A
campaign of indiscriminate violence against Palestinians has been
incited and one Palestinian boy has been tortured and burnt to death.
Now even more indiscriminate retribution has been inflicted on the
civilian residents of Gaza. Collective punishment is a violation of
international humanitarian law.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/3954>
Indonesia: 'Prabowo's defeat will keep open democratic space';
Jokowi's 'unprecedented' presidential bid
<http://links.org.au/node/3947>
By *Peter Boyle*
July 11, 2014 -- The official results of the July 9 Indonesian
presidential elections are not expected till at least July 22, but many
private "quick count" surveys and exit polls have proclaimed a winner.
Most of these unofficial polls have declared that former Jakarta
governor Joko Widodo (popularly known as Jokowi) has defeated his sole
challenger --- sacked Suharto dictatorship general Prabowo Subianto by a
margin of up to 4%.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/3947>
Slovenia: Radical left wins surprise fourth place in early election
<http://links.org.au/node/3956>
By *Gal Kirn*
July 14, 2014 -- We have broken the vicious circle of anti-communism in
the post-Yugoslav context. As you imagine we are more than happy to
present you with such an amazing election result! As all the
commentators say, the United Left Coalition (ULC) was the biggest
surprise. But the path was difficult, the ULC was from early on
marginalised by the mainstream.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/3956>
United States: ISO conference backs red-green alliances, rethinks
feminism <http://links.org.au/node/3952>
By *Peter Boyle*, Chicago
July 15, 2014 -- New red-green electoral alliances, a turn to
ecosocialism and a deepening of the US International Socialist
Organization's rethink on feminism were key features of its
well-attended Socialism 2014 conference held June 26-29 in Chicago.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/3952>
Belgium: Far-left breakthrough as Workers' Party enters parliaments
<http://links.org.au/node/3951>
By */La Gauche/*
July 11, 2014 -- Before May 25, there were no elected representatives of
what is called the "radical" left in Belgium, unlike in other countries
in Europe. This anomaly has now been corrected.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/3951>
On 'environmental catastrophism': Ian Angus replies to Sam Gindin
<http://links.org.au/node/3950>
By *Ian Angus***
July 14, 2014 -- Last year in/Monthly Review/, I debated Eddie Yuen, an
anarchist who believes it is a mistake for radicals to focus on telling
the truth about the global environmental crisis, because "awareness of
climate crisis does not necessarily lead to increased political
engagement." Not only can such awareness lead to apathy, he wrote, but
"environmental catastrophism is very likely to be mobilized by economic
and national elites to reinforce existing inequalities and expand
enclosures, commodification, and militarization".
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/3950>
South Africa: Overpopulation? Hindsight is also a blinkered
perspective <http://links.org.au/node/3949>
By *Terry Bell*
July 13, 2014 -- "The misery of people here is very great, with beggars
innumerable and increasing every day ... pigs and calves live better
than they." That rhyming comment could apply to the legions of the poor
in many parts of the world today. And South Africa is no exception.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/3949>
Catalonia: 'Let's Win Barcelona' lays down unity challenge for left
<http://links.org.au/node/3946>
/The school hall in which the launch of "Let's Win Barcelona" took place
was packed, with over a thousand forced to watch proceedings from
outside and 5000 more looking on via video link/.
By *Dick Nichols*
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/3946>
Canada needs a new left-wing party <http://links.org.au/node/3945>
By *Roger Annis*
July 3, 2014 -- Voters in Canada's largest and most industrialised
province went to the polls on June 5, 2014, to choose a provincial
government. The choices were limited lesser evils, "bad" or "worse",
constrained by a lurch to the political right by the trade union-based
New Democratic Party (NDP).
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/3945>
Mariela Castro's Toronto speech on LGBTI rights in Cuba
<http://links.org.au/node/3944>
July 9, 2014 -- Cuban political leader and advocate of gay and lesbian
liberation, *Mariela Castro*, was an invited foreign guest and
participant in the festivities and discussions during the WorldPride
celebration in Toronto in late June 2014.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/3944>
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