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What's new at Links: John Bellamy Foster, Michael Lebowitz, Venezuela, Diego Garcia vs Greenpeace, India, Swaziland, IPCC, Greece * * * 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 or on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=10865397643 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 on `Marx's Ecology' and `The Ecological Revolution' <http://links.org.au/node/1534> *John Bellamy Foster* interviewed by *Aleix Bombila* John Bellamy Foster is editor of the US socialist journal /Monthly Review/ and author of /Marx's Ecology/ and /The Ecological Revolution./ Aleix Bombila writes for /En Lucha/ (Spain).This interview first appeared in English at /MRZine/. */En Lucha/**: In your book /Marx's Ecology/ you argue that Marxism has a lot to offer to the ecologist movement. What kind of united work can be established between Marxists and ecologists?* * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1534> Michael Lebowitz reviews `The Real Venezuela': Exploring the dialectic of the Bolivarian Revolution <http://links.org.au/node/1532> */The Real Venezuela: Making Socialism in the 21st Century/* By Iain Bruce London: Pluto Press, 2008, 240 pages Review by *Michael Lebowitz* "When Chávez speaks, we listen. But we don't listen to those around him." This comment by a community activist interviewed by Iain Bruce, and integrated into his wonderful exploration of the Bolivarian Revolution from below, points to an essential characteristic---the unique link at present (/por ahora/) between Hugo Chávez and the exploited and excluded of Venezuela. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1532> Mauritian socialists' open letter to Greenpeace -- `Don't help cover up colonialism's crimes on Diego Garcia' <http://links.org.au/node/1527> By *Ram Seegobin*, February 8, 2010 Dear leaders of Greenpeace [UK], We understand that your organisation has taken a position in favour of the British government's outrageous plan to create a "marine park" on territory which is not its own, thus tricking ill-informed people into supporting the British state on rather vague grounds of "the environment", while they are in fact banishing the people who lived there and flaunting the Charter of the United Nations. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1527> Eyewitness account: Video -- Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution -- The second decade <http://links.org.au/node/1533> With *Kiraz Janicke*, *Federico Fuentes*. Moderated by *Greg Albo*. /Left Streamed/ -- Toronto, February 26, 2010 -- Kiraz Janicke is a journalist for /Venezuelanalysis.com/, the foremost independent English-language source of news on Venezuela. She is editor of the /Peru en Movimiento/ website and a member of the Caracas bureau of /Green Left Weekly/, Australia's leading socialist newspaper. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1533> India: The legacy of Jyoti Basu <http://links.org.au/node/1531> By *Dipankar Bhattacharya* February 2010 -- Jyoti Basu, arguably the most familiar face of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) -- CPI (M) -- in India and the last surviving member of the party's founding polit bureau, passed away in Kolkata on January 17. In the course of his marathon political journey spanning nearly seven decades, he served for an unprecedented 23 consecutive years as the chief minister of the Indian state of West Bengal. Basu is also famously remembered as the only left leader who had been offered the prime ministership of the country, in 1996, an offer that was declined by his party even as Basu openly differed with the CPI (M), calling its decision an "historic blunder". * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1531> Swaziland Democracy Campaign launched: `Justice denied anywhere is justice denied everywhere' <http://links.org.au/node/1530> By the* Swaziland Democracy Campaign** Campaigning for democracy in Swaziland NOW!* February 25, 2010 -- Johannesburg, South Africa -- On February 21, 2010, the world witnessed the launch of a global initiative to support pro-democracy forces in Swaziland: the Swaziland Democracy Campaign (SDC). This is a product of many years of working together between South African and Swaziland organisations, which includes political parties, trade unions, churches, youth and students organisations. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1530> Climate change: Has the IPCC passed its use-by date? Time for new independent climate science body <http://links.org.au/node/1528> By *Renfrey Clarke* February 21, 2010 -- The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is an organisation whose time has passed. Preferably within the next year or so, it needs to be dismantled. As verdicts go, that might seem to have been plucked from the mouths of the climate-denialist right, of the /Herald-Sun/'s far-right columnist Andrew Bolt or the flat-earthers at Rupert Murdoch's /Australian./ After all, right-wing media outlets in recent months have run a lurid campaign against the IPCC. The UN body, which coordinates thousands of volunteer scientists in assessing and reporting on research into climate change, is accused of making gross errors and of systematically exaggerating the dangers of global warming. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1528> Greece: Crisis, resistance and challenges for the left; 24-hour general strike <http://links.org.au/node/1526> * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1526> `Foro Social Latinamericano', issue #2 of Green Left Weekly's Spanish-language supplement <http://links.org.au/node/1524> Australia's leading socialist newspaper /Green Left Weekly/ is strongly committed to supporting the growing "people's power" movement in Latin America. We are proud of the fact that /GLW/ is the only Australian newspaper to have a permanent bureau in Latin America, based in Caracas, Venezuela. Through our weekly articles on developments in the region, /GLW/ strives to counter the corporate media's many lies about Latin America's revolutions, and to give a voice in English to the people's movements for change. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1524> Venezuela's revolution faces crucial battles; Chavez: `Towards a communal state!' <http://links.org.au/node/1521> By *Federico Fuentes*, Caracas February 20, 2010 -- Decisive battles between the forces of revolution and counter-revolution loom on the horizon in Venezuela. The campaign for the September 26, 2010, National Assembly elections will be a crucial battle between the supporters of socialist President Hugo Chavez and the US-backed right-wing opposition. But these battles, part of the class struggle between the poor majority and the capitalist elite, will be fought more in the streets than at the ballot box. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1521> * * * 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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