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What's new at Links: IWD in Venezuela, Philippines, Pakistan, Asia; Nepal; Internationalism and women; Obama protests; E. Timor; China; Australia; S. Africa; Indonesian PRD; * * * 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. * * * Women in the Venezuelan revolution: `We're not invisible but invincible' <http://links.org.au/node/1548> By *ABN* (Venezuelan news agency), translated by *Tamara Pearson* Caracas, March 8, 2010 -- "I'm a woman with a new life since the Bolivarian Revolution knocked on my door", said Pielrroc Montenegro, Maracaiban[i] by birth and Andean by tradition, with eyes full of nostalgia and gratitude. She described herself as a "dignified mother of the neighbourhood" since the mission of that name[ii] enabled her to realise one of her dreams: enrol in university. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1548> Asia-Pacific calls for protests during Obama's visits to Guam, Indonesia and Australia <http://links.org.au/node/1547> Statement by the *Working Peoples Association* (Indonesia), *People's Democratic Party* (Indonesia), *Socialist Alliance* (Australia), *Socialist Worker* (New Zealand), *Partido Lakas ng Masa* (Philippines), *Solidarity* (Australia), *Labour Party Pakistan,* *Socialist Alternative* (Australia), *Socialist Party of Malaysia* and the *Confederation Congress of Indonesia Union Alliance.* Supported by *James Petras* * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1547> Greetings from the people's revolution in Nepal <http://links.org.au/node/1564> Jed Brandt is currently in Kathmandu, Nepal, reporting on the Himalayan revolution. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1564> Timor Leste: `Foreign soldiers should stay out of Timorese politics' <http://links.org.au/node/1559> By *La'o Hamutuk* March 11, 2010 -- La'o Hamutuk calls on the military and civilian commanders of Australian and other foreign soldiers in Timor-Leste to direct their soldiers to avoid involvement in local politics, including asking Timorese citizens their political views or encouraging them to identify with one political grouping or another. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1559> China, capitalist accumulation and the world crisis <http://links.org.au/node/1558> By *Martin Hart-Landsberg* February 2010 -- The consensus among economists is that China's post-1978 market reform policies have produced one of the world's greatest economic success stories. Some believe that China is now capable of serving as an anchor for a new (non-US dominated) global economy. A few claim that the reform experience demonstrates the workability (and desirability) of market socialism. This paper is critical of these views. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1558> An Phoblacht: Racism and resistance in Australia <http://links.org.au/node/1557> By *Emma Clancy* February 25, 2010 -- When Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd apologised to the Stolen Generations of Aboriginal people in February 2008, hopes were high that this indicated a new approach from the government in its relations with the country's Indigenous people. But Rudd, elected in November 2007 after 11 years of conservative, Thatcherite rule under John Howard, has continued many of his predecessor's policies, which undermine the rights and wellbeing of Australia's Indigenous people. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1557> South Africa: "`Forgotten' Voices in the Present" book and documentary <http://links.org.au/node/1556> /"Forgotten" Voices in the Present: alternative, post-1994 oral histories from three poor communities in South Africa/ was authored by *Dale McKinley* and *Ahmed Veriava* and funded by Sephis and the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation. It is the fruition of two years worth of work and commitment to the goal of giving agency to those usually caught on the margins of South African society. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1556> Indonesia: People's Democratic Party relaunched as `open, mass-based cadre party' <http://links.org.au/node/1555> By *Peter Boyle* March 11, 2010 -- An historic decision to relaunch itself as an open party was made at the seventh congress of the People's Democratic Party (PRD) of Indonesia on March 1-3. The party's socialist politics will be expressed within the five principles laid out by Indonesia's first President Sukarno's June 1, 1945, speech on "Pancasila" (nationalism, internationalism, democracy, socialism and belief in god). * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1555> Women's rights, population and climate change: The debate continues <http://links.org.au/node/1554> March 7, 2010 -- Should climate activists and feminists support campaigns to slow population growth? *Laurie Mazu**r* says that alliance will strengthen the movement. *Ian Angus* strongly disagrees ... * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1554> Looking to new international structures in a new era of socialist feminist activism <http://links.org.au/node/1552> By *Susan Dorazio* March 8, 2010 -- One hundred years ago, German revolutionary socialist Clara Zetkin proposed, and the women of the Socialist International approved, a call for an International Women's Day. This annual event would be an explicitly socialist response to the major issues facing women in the opening decades of the 20th century. These issues, in particular the rights of women workers and the right of women to vote, centred on conflicts in the workplace and community brought to the fore by rapid industrialisation in the US and Europe. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1552> Pakistan: Women workers march on International Women's Day <http://links.org.au/node/1551> By *Bushra Khaliq*, general secretary, Women Workers Help Line Lahore -- March 8, 2010 -- More than 1500 women marched on the Mall, from Nasir Bagh to the Punjab Assembly, under the banner of Women Workers Help Line (WWHL) to celebrate the International Women's Day on March 8, 2010. Despite prevailing fear among Lahorites after an early morning suicidal attack in Model Town, women workers, including home-based workers, domestic workers, brick kiln and embellishment workers, made their way to observe the IWD. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1551> IWD in the Philippines: `For a government of the women masses and a socialist feminist society <http://links.org.au/node/1550> * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1550> Women dying from the Asian `miracle': System change a must to save women's lives <http://links.org.au/node/1549> By *Reihana Mohideen* March 8, 2010 -- Despite the fanfare about Asia's "miracle" economies, the problem of "missing women and girls" is actually growing, according to the United Nations Development Program-sponsored 2010 /Asia-Pacific Human Development Report/. These "missing" girls and women are a result of the abortion of girl fetuses and women dying through sheer neglect -- underfed and starved and not receiving adequate health care. The birth gender disparity is the highest in East Asia, home of the Asian "miracle" economies, where 119 boys are born for every 100 girls. China and India, much touted for their economic success, account for 85 million of these 100 million "missing" women. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1549> * * * 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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