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What's new at Links: Copenhagen special -- Chavez, Morales, Fidel, G77, Maldives, Tuvalu, protests; PLUS Cap and Trade; Leninism * * * 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. * * * Hugo Chávez writes on `The battle of Copenhagen' <http://links.org.au/node/1419> By *Hugo Chávez Frías*, President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, translated by *Kiraz Janicke* for /Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal/ <http://links.org.au> December 20, 2009 */``I will not tire of repeating to the four winds: the only possible and viable alternative is socialism. I said it in each of my speeches to all the world representatives gathered in Copenhagen, the world's most important event in the last two hundred years: there is no other way if we want to stop this heartless and debased competition that promises only total annihilation." -- /*Hugo Chávez * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1419> Copenhagen: `Imperial' climate deal rejected by poor-country delegates <http://links.org.au/node/1418> December 18, 2009 -- Speaking on behalf of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas, President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela took the floor at the plenary of the COP15 climate talks in Copenhagen to denounce the final ``deal'' that was soon to emerge and be imposed on the majority poor-country delegates, and which would fall far short of their demands. Chavez accused US President Barack Obama of behaving like an emperor "who comes in during the middle of the night ... and cooks up a document that we will not accept, we will never accept". * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1418> Copenhagen: Democracy Now! interview with Evo Morales -- `We cannot end global warming without ending capitalism' <http://links.org.au/node/1416> December 17, 2009 -- Bolivia's President Evo Morales joins us in Copenhagen to talk about the UN climate talks, capitalism, climate debt and much more. "Policies of unlimited industrialisation are what destroys the environment", Morales said. "And that irrational industrialisation is capitalism." * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1416> Copenhagen: Full speech -- Chavez salutes protesters, calls for system change to save planet <http://links.org.au/node/1413> / / By *Kiraz Janicke*, Caracas December 16, 2009 -- During his speech to the 15th United Nations Climate Change Summit (COP15) in Copenhagen, Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez slammed the "lack of political will" of the most powerful nations to take serious action to avert climate change, and called for systemic change to save the planet. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1413> Copenhagen: People's summit develops a people-powered response to the climate crisis <http://links.org.au/node/1408> By *Lauren Carroll Harris*, Copenhagen December 15, 2009 -- Just over a week into the December 7-18 United Nations climate change negotiations in Copenhagen (COP15) , thousands of ordinary people from around the world have already participated in what is being billed as the "people's climate summit", Klimaforum09, also taking place in the Danish capital. The difference between the two forums could not be more stark. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1408> Fidel Castro: The truth about what happened at Copenhagen <http://links.org.au/node/1420> By *Fidel Castro Ruz* December 19, 2009 -- Until very recently, the discussion revolved around the kind of society we would have. Today, the discussion centres on whether human society will survive. These are not dramatic phrases. We must get used to the true facts. Hope is the last thing human beings can relinquish. With truthful arguments, men and women of all ages, especially young people, have waged an exemplary battle at the Copengahen COP15 summit and taught the world a great lesson. It is important now that Cuba and the world come to know as much as possible of what happened in Copenhagen. The truth can be stronger than the influenced and often misinformed minds of those holding in their hands the destiny of the world. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1420> Beyond Copenhagen: left alternatives to capitalism <http://links.org.au/node/1417> / /By *Lauren Carroll Harris*, Copenhagen* * /"Can a finite Earth support an infinite project? The thesis of capitalism, infinite development, is a destructive pattern, let's face it. How long are we going to tolerate the current international economic order and prevailing market mechanisms? How long are we going to allow huge epidemics like HIV/AIDS to ravage entire populations? How long are we going to allow the hungry to not eat or to be able to feed their own children? How long are we going to allow millions of children to die from curable diseases? How long will we allow armed conflicts to massacre millions of innocent human beings in order for the powerful to seize the resources of other peoples?"/ /-- /Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, speaking at COP15, December 16, 2009 * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1417> Countering the critics of Annie Leonard's `The Story of Cap and Trade' <http://links.org.au/node/1414> / / By *Patrick Bond* December 16, 2009 -- Eight million people viewed Annie Leonard's /The Story of Stuff/ video since December 2007 and her new nine-minute /Story of Cap and Trade/ <http://links.org.au/node/1380> has received 400,000 hits in the two weeks since its December 1 launch. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1414> Lumumba Di-Aping: Third World hero of Copenhagen <http://links.org.au/node/1412> / /By *Derek Barry* December 16, 2009 -- Lumumba Di-Aping has made the brave call that no Australian politician has been game to make, callin Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd a climate sceptic. The key negotiator at Copenhagen on behalf of the G77-China group told the ABC (also see below) that Rudd's message to his own people was a fabrication which "does not relate to the facts because his actions are climate change scepticism in action". Di-Aping was pointing the disparity between Rudd's sayings and actions on climate change. "It's puzzling in the sense that here is a Prime Minister who actually won the elections because of his commitment to climate change", Di-Aping said. "And within a very short period of time he changes his mind, changes his position, he start acting as if he has been converted into climate change scepticism." * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1412> Evo Morales at Copenhagen: `Shameful' for West to spend trillions on war and just $10 billion for climate change <http://links.org.au/node/1411> December 16, 2009 -- In a press conference on December 16, Bolivia's President Evo Morales said, "The budget of the United States is US$687 billion for defence. And for climate change, to save life, to save humanity, they only put up $10 billion. This is shameful." * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1411> Copenhagen: Maldives, Tuvalu, small island nations lead fight for real action on climate <http://links.org.au/node/1409> December 15, 2009 -- The president of the Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed, stressed the power of people to take action on climate change, when he spoke to a packed audience at Klimaforum09, the alternative climate summit in Copenhagen, on December 14. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1409> Leninism: It's not what you think <http://links.org.au/node/1407> By *Paul Kellogg* /[This article first appeared in /Socialist Studies: the Journal of the Society for Socialist Studies/ 5(2), Fall 2009. It has been posted at /Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal/ with the author's permission.]/ * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1407> * * * 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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