What's new at Links: 9/11, Chile, Honduras, climate talks & Africa, Cuba, Bolivia, Scottish SP, Paul Robeson
* * * 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 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 other September 11: US backed coup in Chile, 1973 <http://links.org.au/node/1242> An excerpt from *John Pilger*'s documentary /The War on Democracy/, which recounts the involvement of the United States government in the brutal 1973 military coup that overthrew the democratic socialist government of President Salvador Allende -- paradoxically on September 11. It ushered in a regime of torture and tyranny. Below, see director *Ken Loach*'s moving contribution to the /11"9'01/ project. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1242> Interview with Honduras resistance leader: `The US is sustaining the coup' <http://links.org.au/node/1236> During an August 17-19, 2009, international seminar on the economic crisis hosted by the Party of Liberty and Socialism in Sao Paolo, Brazil, /Green Left Weekly/////Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal/ journalists *Kiraz Janicke* and *Federico Fuentes*, together with journalists from /Marea Socialista/ (Venezuela) and /Alternativa Socialista / (Argentina), were able to interview *Gilberto Rios* from the international relations commission of the National Popular Resistance Front against the Coup about the growing resistance movement against the US backed coup which ousted the democratically elected president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, on June 28. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1236> Call for a 'Seattle' approach to Copenhagen climate talks, Africans demand reparations <http://links.org.au/node/1233> By *Patrick Bond* September 5, 2009 -- Durban -- Here's a fairly simple choice: the global North would pay the hard-hit global South to deal with the climate crisis, either through the complicated, corrupt, controversial ``Clean Development Mechanism' (CDM), whose projects have plenty of damaging sideeffects to communities, or instead pay through other mechanisms that must provide financing quickly, transparently and decisively to achieve genuine income compensation plus renewable energy to the masses. The Copenhagen climate summit in December is all about the former choice. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1233> Hypocrisy over Cuba's `political prisoners' <http://links.org.au/node/1246> By *Tim Anderson* September 13, 2009 -- Political prisoners and Cuba can be a confusing mix, in our times of mass propaganda. Three groups have attracted international attention, over the past decade. The first group, 70 or so (the ``dissidents''), were arrested in March 2003 by the Cuban government and charged with taking money from a US program which aims to overthrow the Cuban constitution. Amnesty International and many European states, along with the US government, immediately declared them ``prisoners of conscience''. A number have since been released. The second group of several hundred (``enemy combatants'') were collected by the US government in Afghanistan and Pakistan over 2001-2002 and held for many years in concentration camps at a US military base carved out of the island of Cuba. International protest built up more slowly, and eight years on many are still held without charge or trial. The third group of five men (``the Cuban Five'') were arrested in the US in 1998 and accused of being spies, for passing on information about groups in south Florida that were preparing terrorist attacks on Cuba. The US courts have rubber-stamped their convictions. On September 12, 2009, they completed 11 years in US jails. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1246> Caracas to host world meeting of left parties, October 7-9, 2009 <http://links.org.au/node/1244> By *Federico Fuentes*, Caracas September 5, 2009 -- Caracas will play host to one of the most important international gatherings of left parties in years, when delegates from across the world meet for the First International Meeting of Left Parties over October 7-9, 2009. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1244> Bolivia's vice-president defends MAS government's record <http://links.org.au/node/1241> Interview with with *Álvaro García Linera*, vice-president of Bolivia, by *Maristella Svampa*, *Pablo Stefanoni *and *Ricardo Bajo*, from August 2009 Bolivian edition of /Le Monde Diplomatique/. English translation and notes by *Richard Fidler*. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1241> How US warmongers exploited the 9/11 terrorist attacks <http://links.org.au/node/1238> By *Norm Dixon* [This article was first published on September 11, 2002, on the first anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in New York and Washington. Its observations remain relevant to this day.] * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1238> Declaration of the Africa People's Movement on Climate Change <http://links.org.au/node/1237> Nairobi, Kenya, August 30, 2009 -- We, the leaders of various people's movements, community-based groups, academia, NGOs and civil cociety organisations, met in Nairobi under the banner of the People's Movement on Climate Change (PMCC) to discuss strategies to confront the climate change crisis for Copenhagen and beyond from August 27 to 28 , 2009. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1237> Eyewitness to Cuba: Report by the Scottish Socialist Party's delegation to Cuba <http://links.org.au/node/1235> / /In February 2009 for two weeks, a nine-strong delegation from the Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) visited Cuba at the invitation of the Communist Party of Cuba (CPC). *Bill Bonnar* reports on the visit. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1235> Paul Robeson: `The artist must elect to fight for freedom or slavery <http://links.org.au/node/1234> By *Harry Targ* On September 4, 1949, an angry crowd surrounded the 20,000 friends of Paul Robeson who had come to hear him in an open-air concert at Peekskill, New York. After the event right-wing, anti-communist inspired mobs attacked supporters who were leaving the event. These attacks included smashing the windows of Pete Seeger's automobile with several family members inside. Sixty years later we remember the great progressive Paul Robeson, his struggles for justice, and his refusal to bow to the politics of reaction. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1234> * * * 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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