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What's new at Links: Haiti, population debate, Zizek debunked, France & hijab, Venezuela, Fifth International, feminism, John Bellamy Foster, Malaysian socialists, Pakistan * * * 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. * * * Haiti: The corporate vultures circle <http://links.org.au/node/1497> / /By *Regan Boychuk* February 3, 2010 -- Haitians' incredible plight has always been difficult to fully appreciate. Then the earthquake struck: hundreds of thousands dead, hundreds of thousands more hurt, a million homeless and two million in need of food. It defies imagination. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1497> `Population Justice' -- Blaming Third World women for global warming <http://links.org.au/node/1492> By *Ian Angus* January 31, 2010 -- For more than two centuries, the idea that the world's ills are caused by poor people having too many babies has been remarkably successful at diverting attention from the complex social causes of poverty and injustice. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1492> Slavoj Zizek's failed encounter with Leninism: 'The bread of justice must be baked by the people' <http://links.org.au/node/1500> By *Paul Kellogg* The Slovenian cultural theorist Slavoj z(iz(ek -- most centrally in his /Revolution At The Gates/ -- has made it his business to reintroduce the Russian Marxist Vladimir Lenin to a new generation of activists. This article will challenge z(iz(ek's interpretation of the relationship between Lenin and democracy, Lenin and violence, and Lenin and Stalin. The net effect of z(iz(ek's analysis is not to resurrect Lenin, but to resurrect Stalin -- an utterly irresponsible project given the nightmare of Stalinism from which we have only just emerged. The article will offer some suggestions for a more fruitful approach to "resurrecting" the political legacy of Vladimir Lenin. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1500> France: New Anti-Capitalist Party defends democratic right to wear hijab <http://links.org.au/node/1498> By *Olivier Besancenot*// February 3, 2010 -- /Le Figaro/ caricatured my words regarding the candidacy of Ilham Moussaïd, who is on our list in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur regional elections. After a serious and complex debate, the Vaucluse chapter of the New Anti-Capitalist Party (NPA) made a choice to include on its feminist, anti-capitalist and internationalist lists an NPA member who believes in wearing a headscarf on account of her religious convictions. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1498> The challenges facing 21st century socialism in Venezuela <http://links.org.au/node/1496> /``In Venezuela the biggest threat to the revolution does not come from the right-wing political opposition but from the so-called `endogenous' or `Chavista' right wing, in that chunks of the revolutionary bloc, including state elites and party officials, will develop a deeper stake in defending global capitalism over socialist transformation''' -- William I. Robinson/ Interview with *William I. Robinson*, professor of sociology, University of California at Santa Barbara, by *Chronis Polychroniou*, editor of the Greek daily newspaper /Eleftherotypia/ * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1496> Venezuela: Alberto Muller Rojas on the danger of bureaucracy <http://links.org.au/node/1495> *Alberto Muller Rojas* interviewed by *Vladimir Villegas* February 2, 2010 -- This interview was first published at /Indymedia Venezuela/ on November 24, 2009. Vladamir Villegas is the former president of the state-owned Corporación Venezolana de Televisión (Venezuelan Television Corporation, VTV) network based in Caracas, and ex-Venezuelan ambassador to Mexico. Alberto Muller Rojas is the vice-president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV). It was translated by Sean Seymour-Jones and Tamara Pearson for /Venezuelanalysis.com//./ * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1495> Haiti: Anti-Brazil mobilisations grow in quake's wake <http://links.org.au/node/1494> Introduction and translation by *Felipe Stuart Cournoyer* February 1, 2010 -- Below is a translation of a news report that appeared in the January 31, 2010, issue of the Brazilian newspaper /Folha de São Paulo./ One of the most vexing issues in Latin America's relations with Haiti is the grievous lack of understanding on the part of anti-imperialist forces about the nature of the repeated imperialist occupations of the former French colony, and of the crushing of the Lavalas movement, including the ouster of the country's democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1494> Fifth Socialist International -- Time for definitions <http://links.org.au/node/1491> By *Luis Bilbao* February 2, 2010 -- The first step has been taken. It has extraordinary strategic implications. It will shake up the left and right, the West and the East. It will blow in like a whirlwind through every political organisation, trade union or social, in every corner of the planet. On the evening of November 20, 2009, the day before the opening of the first extraordinary PSUV [United Socialist Party of Venezuela] congress, a feeling of vertigo swept over tens of thousands of people who heard Hugo Chávez, either on TV or on the internet, speak before delegates of parties from 30 or so countries, and launch a proposal that was as long desired as it was unexpected: to set to work to build the Fifth Socialist International. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1491> Beyond `feminine' and `masculine' <http://links.org.au/node/1490> By *Anna Ochkina* [/Rabkor.ru/ published this reply by Anna Ochkina to a polemical article, "Masculine and Feminine", by Dmitry Zhvaniya. Anna Ochkina is deputy director of Institute for Globalisation Studies and Social Movements (IGSO) and deputy editor of /Levaya politika/ (Left Politics) journal. She is a sociologist based in Penza, where she teaches at the university. Dmitry Zhvaniya is a journalist, based in St. Petersburg and a founding member of /Dvizheniye soprotivleniya imeni Petra Alekseyeva/ (the Piotr Alekseyev Resistance Movement). Zhvaniya's article "Muzhskoe i zhenskoe" ("Masculine and Feminine") is available (in Russian) at http://www.rabkor.ru/debate/3933.html.] * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1490> Pakistan: An historic gathering of workers and peasants <http://links.org.au/node/1489> By *Farooq Tariq* February 1, 2010 -- An historic gathering took place at Faisalabad, the third largest city in Pakistan, on January 29, 2010. The event was jointly organised by the Labour Qaumi (National) Movement (LQM) and the Anjuman Mozareen Punjab (AMP -- Punjab Tenants' Association), two movements of workers and peasants that, by their defiant activities in several Punjabi districts, have caught the imagination of thousands. For the first time, these two important movements of workers and peasants in Punjab shared a common platform. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1489> Video -- John Bellamy Foster: The crisis of capital: economy, ecology and empire <http://links.org.au/node/1488> /Professor of sociology and editor of //Monthly Review, John Bellamy Foster, talks about the triple crises in the economy, the environment, and the imperial wars and occupations in Iraq, Afghanistan and beyond./ * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1488> Malaysian socialist: `We are growing in influence, especially among the working class' <http://links.org.au/node/1487> By *Simon Butler* January 22, 2010 -- For decades, there was no socialist party of significance in Malaysia. But in 2009, the Socialist Party of Malaysia (PSM) made some impressive gains. The party more than doubled in size and had members elected to state and national parliament for the first time. PSM activist *Sivaranjani Manickam* attended the Socialist Alliance national conference, held in Sydney in early January, 2010. She told /Green Left Weekly/ that the recent growth in support for the party helped force the Malaysian government to finally grant it legal recognition after a 10-year battle. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1487> * * * 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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