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