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What's new at Links: Left unity in Australia, Le Blanc on Trotsky, Rosa 
Luxemburg, Copenhagen, Fifth International, Dennis Brutus, Muslims in 
Australia

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    Australia: New era of left unity as DSP votes to merge with the
    Socialist Alliance <http://links.org.au/node/1444>

[The following speech, to the opening rally of the seventh national 
conference of the Socialist Alliance <http://www.socialist-alliance.org> 
on January 2, 2010, was delivered by *Peter Boyle*, former national 
secretary of the Democratic Socialist Perspective <http://www.dsp.org.au>.]
Comrades,
My job tonight is to make the unusual -- if not unexpected -- 
announcement that the Democratic Socialist Perspective (DSP) decided 
today at its 24th congress to effectively dissolve into the Socialist 
Alliance and to transfer all that it has built up, over some four 
decades of its existence, to the Socialist Alliance.

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1444>


    `Second assassination' of Trotsky -- Paul Le Blanc reviews Robert
    Service's biography of Trotsky <http://links.org.au/node/1440>

*/Trotsky: A Biography/*
By Robert Service
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009
600 pages

December 25, 2009 -- Robert Service has written, to great acclaim, a new 
biography of Leon Trotsky. "Trotsky moved like a bright comet across the 
political sky," Service tells us. Along with Lenin and other leaders of 
the Russian Revolution associated with the Bolshevik -- soon renamed 
Communist -- party, "he first came to global attention in 1917. ... He 
lived a life full of drama played out with the world as his stage. The 
October Revolution changed the course of history, and Trotsky had a 
prominent role in the transformation. ... There is no denying Trotsky's 
exceptional qualities. He was an outstanding speaker, organizer and 
leader." (

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1440>


    Copenhagen: Why the West tries to blame China and the poor for COP15
    fiasco <http://links.org.au/node/1437>

/ /By *Roy Wilkes*
December 27, 2009 -- Something rotten happened in Denmark. The fifteenth 
session of the Conference of the Parties (COP15), in which so many had 
invested so much hope, began as farce and ended in tragedy. Anyone who 
still had the faintest illusion that the climate crisis could be 
resolved within capitalism has now seen it fatally dashed against the 
rocks of Copenhagen.
Of course, our rulers cannot blame themselves for this fiasco. So, who 
then is to blame? "China", screams a furious Ed Milliband [the British 
Labour government's Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change] 
upon his return to London, with the media machine joining the chorus. 
Blame China! Blame Venezuela! Blame the poor countries who obstructed 
"The Deal"! Blame the victims who dared to ask for a 1.5 degree C limit, 
those unrealistic fools who dared to ask to be allowed to live.

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1437>


    Labour Party Pakistan endorses Fifth Socialist International process
    <http://links.org.au/node/1443>

The Labour Party Pakistan's National Committee meeting on December 
26-27, 2009, held in Islamabad agreed to endorse the declaration for the 
fifth international. The LPP leadership discussed in detail the 
different aspects of the declaration and found in agreement on the issues.

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1443>


    Troubadour politics: How Dennis Brutus maintained 'stubborn hope'
    <http://links.org.au/node/1442>

By *Patrick Bond
*January 1, 2010 -- World-renowned political organiser and one of 
Africa's most celebrated poets, Dennis Vincent Brutus, died early on 
December 26 in Cape Town, in his sleep, aged 85. /Poetry and Protest: A 
Dennis Brutus Reader /is the title of the autobiographical sketches and 
verse published in 2006 by Haymarket Books of Chicago and the University 
of KwaZulu-Natal Press. What links these aspects of your life, I once 
asked the itinerant Dennis Brutus, and he replied, "The role of the 
troubadour."

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1442>


    Rosa Luxemburg and Marxist politics <http://links.org.au/node/1441>

/ /By *Graham Milner*
Rosa Luxemburg (1870-1919) is one of the greatest figures ever produced 
by the international socialist movement. Her contribution, as theorist 
and activist, deserves to be recognised and celebrated by the newer 
generations of socialist activists who have become involved in the 
movement in recent decades. Those of us who have been involved in the 
socialist left for rather longer may also benefit from a critical review 
of the achievements of this great woman.

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1441>


    People's power in Copenhagen <http://links.org.au/node/1439>

December 30, 2009 -- /Green Left Weekly /writer and Australian Socialist 
Alliance climate change activist *Simon  Butler *talks about the the 
Copenhagen climate talks with Radio Adelaide's* */Backstory/.

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1439>


    Australia: How governments and the capitalist media marginalise the
    Muslim community <http://links.org.au/node/1438>

By *Helen Patterson*
December 15, 2009 -- The antipathy of mainstream Australian society 
toward Muslims is not a new development. As early as 1912, Australians 
were being cautioned about the danger of Australia falling under Islamic 
control. The adoption of camel transport had brought Muslim men from 
Afghanistan to Australia in increasing numbers from 1860 until they 
controlled the camel transport business. Despite their valuable 
contribution to the expeditions carried out by the European "explorers" 
and their vital role in establishing a transport system in the harsh 
outback conditions, the early Muslim immigrants were considered inferior 
to the dominant, white, Christian Europeans and marginalised in a 
similar way to the detribalised Aboriginal community.

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1438>

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