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What's new at Links: Copenhagen, Bolivia, Fifth International, Indonesia, Marta Harnecker, Diego Gracia, Quebec, Malaysia, Green New Deal? * * * 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. * * * Copenhagen: System change -- not climate change: the Klimaforum09 Declaration <http://links.org.au/node/1399> A people's declaration from *Klimaforum09*, Copenhagen, December 10, 2009 There are solutions to the climate crisis. What people and the planet need is a just and sustainable transition of our societies to a form that will ensure the rights of life and dignity of all peoples and deliver a more fertile planet and more fulfilling lives to future generations. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1399> `The main issue for us is Mother Earth' -- Bolivia's delegation to Copenhagen climate talks <http://links.org.au/node/1405> *ANGELICA NAVARRO, *chief climate negotiator for Bolivia*: *On the process, I have to say that we are quite surprised, because this is not what we were expecting. One hundred and ninety-two countries are united here to try to come to a deal. And there is this pallid process that basically seems to be untransparent, undemocratic, nonparticipatory, top down, that it seems to be imposing itself on what we are trying to achieve with 192 countries. We think that we have to come back to the real track, and that is a track with participation, inclusiveness and democracy. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1405> Bolivia: Why did Evo Morales win? <http://links.org.au/node/1404> By *Atilio A. Boron*, translated by* Richard Fidler* December 8, 2009 -- A week ago we were celebrating the triumph of Pepe Mujica in Uruguay. Today we have renewed, and more profound reasons, to celebrate the extraordinary electoral victory of Bolivia's President Evo Morales [on December 6]. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1404> Indonesia: Anti-corruption protests follow bank bailout <http://links.org.au/node/1403> December 9, 2009 -- The great photos above are of a mass demonstration in Jakarta on International Anti-corruption Day December 9, 2009, just one of many demonstrations against corruption have been sweeping Indonesia protesting allegations that a US$600 million government bailout was given to Century Bank on condition that some of the money be used to fund President Yudhoyono's re-election campaign. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1403> Australian Socialist Alliance's address to the International Encounter of Left Parties, Caracas, November 2009 <http://links.org.au/node/1401> One of the delegates of Australia's Socialist Alliance, *Federico Fuentes*, addresses the International Encounter of Left Parties held in Caracas, November 19-21, 2009. * Watch here <http://links.org.au/node/1401> Marta Harnecker on the Fifth International and the left movement in Latin America <http://links.org.au/node/1400> By *Jesús Manzanárez* December 10, 2009 -- / /Marta Harnecker remains ardent, audacious, reflective and perceptive. A collaborator of the Miranda International Centre [in Caracas], she will today [December 3] attend a reception in her honour in the Teresa Carreño Theatre for her outstanding career, fundamentally in the study of the mechanisms to effective take power at the community level and her contributions to Marxist theory. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1400> Unión de Militantes por el Socialismo: Resolución del Comité Central sobre la Vª Internacional/Resolution on the Fifth Int. <http://links.org.au/node/1398> /[English translation below.] / por *Unión de Militantes por el Socialismo *(Argentina) Al Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela Queridos compañeros y compañeras Reciban un saludo revolucionario y nuestroamericano, con los mejores deseos para la realización del 1er Congreso Extraordinario del Psuv y el más caluroso respaldo a la propuesta del comandante Chávez de comenzar a echar las bases de una Vª Internacional. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1398> New phase in the struggle for Diego Garcia <http://links.org.au/node/1397> / / By *Lalit* (Mauritius) December 3, 2009 -- The Diego Garcia struggle is moving into what we call "phase 4". Each past phase has had its victories, victories within which there were defeats. And each victory won has been won /because /the three elements making up the struggle held together, were embraced as one "whole". Before looking at phase 4, let's look first at three intertwined past crimes. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1397> Quebec left debates independence strategy <http://links.org.au/node/1396> By *Richard Fidler* December 3, 2009 -- Québec solidaire, the left-wing party founded almost four years ago, held its fifth convention in the Montréal suburb of Laval on November 20-22, 2009. About 300 elected delegates debated and adopted resolutions on the Quebec national question, electoral reform, immigration policy and secularism. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1396> Between Caracas and Delhi -- two important conferences of the international left <http://links.org.au/node/1395> By *Reuven Kaminer* December 7, 2009 -- It seems more than a coincidence that two important conferences of the international left took place in November 2009. One, the 11th International Meeting of the Communist and Workers' Parties, was held in Delhi, India, on November 20-22 and issued the "Delhi Declaration" (DD) and the other, a World Meeting of Left Parties, met in Caracas, Venezuela, on November 19-21 and issued a document entitled the "Caracas Commitment" (CC). There were approximately 50 organisations at each conference. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1395> Socialist Party of Malaysia: 'Real power comes from the people' <http://links.org.au/node/1393> By *Paul Benedek*, Kuala Lumpur More than 200 activists, including a large proportion of youth and women, packed Kuala Lumpur's Chinese Assembly Hall for the first day of Socialism 2009, an annual conference organised by the Socialist Party of Malaysia (PSM). * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1393> Debate: A Green New Deal -- dead end or pathway beyond capitalism? <http://links.org.au/node/1392> December 8, 2009 -- A Green New Deal is on everybody's lips at the moment. US President Barack Obama has endorsed a very general version of it, the United Nations are keen, as are numerous Green parties around the world. In the words of the Green New Deal Group, an influential grouping of heterodox economists, Greens and debt-relief campaigners, such a 'deal' promises to solve the 'triple crunch' of energy, climate and economic crises. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1392> * * * 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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