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What's new at Links: Copenhagen climate talks, support for 5th International, Arabic, left unity, Afghanistan & Pakistan, Honduras * * * 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. * * * John Bellamy Foster: `We can't shop our way out of the ecological crisis' <http://links.org.au/node/1390> *John Bellamy Foster* Interviewed by *Max van Lingen Max van Lingen: **Consciousness about climate change has increased enormously; however, it also seems as if there is a lack of criticism of business and government actions. Instead it appears as if people are thinking: it doesn't really matter why people act, as long as they act.* * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1390> A lesson from Seattle for Copenhagen: Vigorous activism can defeat the denialists <http://links.org.au/node/1381> By *Patrick Bond* December 1, 2009 -- Preparations for the December 7-18 Copenhagen climate summit are going as expected, including a rare sighting of the African elites' stiffened spines. That's a great development (maybe decisive), more about that below. While activists help raise the temperature on the streets outside the Bella Centre on December 12, 13 and 16, inside we will see global North elites defensively armed with pathetic non-binding carbon emissions cuts (US President Barack Obama's promise is a mere 4% below 1990 levels) and carbon trading, but without offering the money to repay the North's ecological debt to the global South. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1381> Video: `The Story of Cap and Trade' (aka carbon trading), from the makers of `The Story of Stuff' <http://links.org.au/node/1380> December 1, 2009 -- /The Story of Cap & Trade/ is a fast-paced, fact-filled look at the leading climate solution being discussed at the climate talks in Copenhagen. Cap and trade is also variously described as ``carbon trading'' and ``emissions trading''. In Australia, the federal Labor government is trying to push a variation of this through the Senate called the ``Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme''. * Watch and read more <http://links.org.au/node/1380> The Flame, November-December 2009 -- Green Left Weekly's Arabic-language supplement <http://links.org.au/node/1389> With the help of Socialist Alliance members in the growing Sudanese community in Australia, /Green Left Weekly/ -- Australia's leading socialist newspaper -- is publishing a regular Arabic language supplement. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1389> Recent experiences in left regroupment and reconstruction <http://links.org.au/node/1388> By *Jim McIlroy* November 23, 2009 -- How do you build socialism in the First World countries right now? Of course, we are part of a world movement for socialism, including the Third World. We can learn a lot from recent and current experiences in left regroupment and party building that are happening around the world at present -- with all proportions guarded, and realising that there is no direct transposition of one historical, national experience onto another. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1388> Australian and New Zealand socialists support Chavez's call for a new international organisation of the left <http://links.org.au/node/1387> December 3, 2009 -- On behalf of the Socialist Alliance of Australia, we would like to send warm, socialist greetings to the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), thanking you once again for the invitation to participate in the International Meeting of Left Parties held in Caracas, November 19-21, 2009. The outcomes of this event are already having an important impact on the world, particularly among left and progressive forces, and we are grateful that we could be part of it and contribute to its success in our own modest way. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1387> Obama delivers -- when it comes to war <http://links.org.au/node/1386> By *Billy Wharton* December 4, 2009 -- When US President Barack Obama announced his plan to escalate the war in Afghanistan by sending 30,000 more troops to the war-torn country, he delivered on two campaign promises. The first was a campaign trail pledge to re-focus US military power on the border region of Afghanistan and Pakistan. This was mostly ignored by enthralled voters. The second was made more quietly to his many campaign donors in the defence industry. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1386> Labour Party Pakistan condemns Obama's Afghanistan policy <http://links.org.au/node/1385> By *Farooq Tariq* December 4, 2009 -- The Labour Party Pakistan (LPP) condemns US President Barack Obama's Afghanistan policy and demands that all NATO forces immediately withdraw from Afghanistan and stop drone attacks on Pakistan. The Labour Party Pakistan has decided to protest against this new escalation of the war effort in the region. The first protest took place on December 4 in front of US consulate in Lahore. There will be more demonstrations in different parts of Pakistan. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1385> L'appel historique de Chavez pour une 5eme Internationale <http://links.org.au/node/1384> par *Federico Fuentes* 2 décembre 2009 -- S'adressant aux délégués de la Rencontre Internationale des Partis de Gauche qui s'est tenue à Caracas du 19 au 21 novembre (2009), le président vénézuélien Hugo Chavez a déclaré : « il est temps de constituer la 5ème Internationale. » Face à la crise capitaliste et la menace d'une guerre qui représente un danger pour l'avenir de l'humanité, « les peuples réclament » une unité plus forte des partis de gauche et révolutionnaires qui sont prêts à lutter pour le socialisme, a-t-il dit. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1384> El llamado histórico de Hugo Chávez para conformar una V Internacional Socialista <http://links.org.au/node/1383> por *Federico Fuentes* 2 de diciembre de 2009 -- Hablando a los delegados del Encuentro International de Partidos de Izquierda realizado en Caracas, el presidente venezolano, Hugo Chávez señalo "que llegó la hora de que convoquemos a la Quinta Internacional. Frente la crisis capitalista y la amenaza de guerra que poner en peligro el futuro de la humanidad, la unidad de partidos de izquierda y revolucionario dispuesto a luchar para el socialismo "es un clamor del pueblo," dijo Chávez. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1383> Honduras: `The election was a farce, new regime will not be recognised' -- National Resistance Fron <http://links.org.au/node/1382> By the *National Resistance Front against the Coup d'etat* * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1382> * * * 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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