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What's new at Links: Fifth International?; Venezuela, Philippines, Marta 
Harnecker, climate jobs, Foro Social Latinamericano, ecosocialism

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    Venezuela: Hugo Chavez calls for international socialist unity
    <http://links.org.au/node/1378>

By *Federico Fuentes*, Caracas
November 27, 2009 -- Addressing delegates at the International Encounter 
of Left Parties held in Caracas, November 19-21, Venezuela's President 
Hugo Chavez said that with the capitalist crisis and threat of war 
risking the future of humanity, "the people are clamoring" for greater 
unity of those willing to fight for socialism. Chavez used his November 
20 speech to the conference, which involved delegates from 55 left 
groups from 31 countries, to call for a new international socialist 
organisation to unite left groups and social movements: "The time has 
come for us to organise the Fifth International."

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1378>


    500,000th visitor to Links International Journal of Socialist
    Renewal <http://links.org.au/node/1376>

At around 8pm on November 25, 2009, /Links International Journal of 
Socialist Renewal /received its 500,000th visit since records began 
being kept on April 4, 2008. Almost 676,000 articles were read by those 
visitors in that period.

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1376>


    `The Caracas Commitment' -- Declaration from World Meeting of Left
    Parties, November 19-21, Caracas, Venezuela
    <http://links.org.au/node/1375>

Declaration from *World Meeting of Left Parties*, November 19-21, 
Caracas, Venezuela
November 21, 2009 -- Political parties and organizations from Latin 
America, the Caribbean, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Oceania commemorate 
and celebrate the unity and solidarity that brought us together in 
Caracas, Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, and from this libertarian 
city we would like to express our revolutionary rebelliousness. We are 
glad of and committed to the proud presence of the forces of change in a 
special moment of history. Likewise, we are proud to reaffirm our 
conviction to definitively sow, grow and win Socialism of the 21st century.

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1375>


    Philippines: Justice for murdered journalists and human rights
    heroes! End trapo politics now! <http://links.org.au/node/1379>

By *Sonny Melencio,* Partido Lakas ng Masa
November 25, 2009 -- The Partido Lakas ng Masa (PLM) condemns in the 
strongest possible terms the massacre in Maguindanao. We assert that 
this is not only a problem confined to Mindanao, but that it's a symptom 
of a festering and rotten political system. We predict that this 
violence will be the feature of the coming elections, as the political 
elite struggle with increasing desperation and ferocity for a share of 
the ever-dwindling national wealth and power. [On November 23, 57 people 
were massacred by the ruling Ampatuan clan that governs the province -- 
see news report below.]

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1379>


    Fourth International leader on Chavez's call for a new international
    <http://links.org.au/node/1377>

By *François Sabado*
November 26, 2009 -- During an international meeting of left parties 
held in Caracas from 19-21 November, 2009, Venezuela's President Hugo 
Chavez launched a call for a Fifth Socialist International, which, 
according to him, should bring together left parties and social 
movements. According to Chavez, who is also president of the United 
Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), the Fifth International must be "an 
instrument for the unification and the articulation of the struggle of 
the peoples to save this planet". In a world political situation marked 
by a total crisis of the capitalist system, this is a fact important 
enough to be underlined.

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1377>


    Pamphlet to download: Marta Harnecker's `Ideas for the Struggle'
    <http://links.org.au/node/1374>

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1374>


    Venezuela: Chavez urges PSUV to debate how to win socialism by 2019
    <http://links.org.au/node/1373>

By *Kiraz Janicke*, Caracas
November 23, 2009 -- /Venezuelanalysis.com/ -- During an inaugural 
speech to the 772 delegates at the First Extraordinary Congress of the 
United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) on November 21, Venezuela's 
President Hugo Chavez raised a series of proposals to open the debate 
and discussion over consolidating the struggle for socialism both 
internationally and in Venezuela.

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1373>


    Venezuela: Chavez calls for new international organisation of left
    parties <http://links.org.au/node/1372>

By *Kiraz Janicke*, Caracas
November 23, 2009 -- Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez called for the 
formation of a "Fifth International" of left parties and social 
movements to confront the challenge posed by the global crisis of 
capitalism. The president made the announcement during an international 
conference of more than 50 left organisations from 31 countries held in 
Caracas over November 19-21.

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1372>


    Britain: One million climate jobs now! <http://links.org.au/node/1371>

By the *Public and Commercial Services Union (Britain)*
November 15, 2009 -- Earlier this year, Britain's Campaign against 
Climate Change (CaCC) trade union group set up a commission to produce a 
detailed plan for a million ``climate'' jobs.

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1371>


    `Foro Social Latinamericano', Green Left Weekly's Spanish-language
    supplement launched <http://links.org.au/node/1370>

Australia's leading socialist newspaper /Green Left Weekly/ is strongly 
committed to supporting the growing "people's power" movement in Latin 
America. We are proud of the fact that /GLW/ is the only Australian 
newspaper to have a permanent bureau in Latin America, based in Caracas, 
Venezuela. Through our weekly articles on developments in the region, 
/GLW/ strives to counter the corporate media's many lies about Latin 
America's revolutions, and to give a voice in English to the people's 
movements for change.

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1370>


    Socialists, the environment and ecosocialism: a view from South
    Africa <http://links.org.au/node/1369>

By *Trevor Ngwane*
November 19, 2009 -- There is an ecological crisis in the world and this 
crisis can be traced to capitalism. There is deforestation due to the 
trade in timber. There is climate change due to unsafe production 
methods. The working class is the class that suffers the most from the 
ecological crisis. Working-class people are in the majority and their 
life conditions make them more vulnerable. Workers live in flimsy houses 
and shacks that are easily washed or swept away by strong rains and 
winds. When workers are sick or injured there is always not enough 
medical help for them. Over the years not enough attention has been paid 
to this problem by socialists.

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1369>

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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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