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What's new at Links: left unity, Marta Harnecker, Chicka Dixon, S. Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Easter Rising, Indonesia, climate change, FI on VI * * * 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. * * * 'Socialism of the 21st century' and left unity <http://links.org.au/node/1600> By the *Socialist Alliance*, Australia [The following is the text of a leaflet being distributed by the Socialist Alliance in Melbourne.] April 2, 2010 -- The triumphalism spouted by capitalist apologists in the early 1990s with the collapse of the Soviet Union has long gone. Today the problems are so obvious: global warming and the world economic slump are shaking the capitalist world and casting a growing shadow over the future. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1600> Marta Harnecker: `Socialism is a search for a fully democratic society' <http://links.org.au/node/1599> *Marta Harnecker* interviewed by *Edwin Herrera Salinas*,* *for the Bolivian newspaper /La Razón/. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1599> Australia: Freedom fighter Chicka Dixon departs, his activist spirit lives on <http://links.org.au/node/1595> By *Peter Boyle*, Sydney March 31, 2010 -- Indigenous and trade union activist Chicka "The Fox" Dixon (1928-2010) was farewelled by more than a thousand people in a state funeral in Sydney Town Hall today. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1595> Conference of the Democratic Left: Unite to make another South Africa and world possible! <http://links.org.au/node/1601> The following call was issued by the Conference of the Democratic Left, a left unity project in South Africa. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1601> Ireland: The 1916 Easter Rising -- striking a blow against an insane system <http://links.org.au/node/1598> By *Stuart Munckton* April 2, 2010 -- Easter is here again -- the anniversay of the Irish rebellion against British rule in Easter 1916. Over Easter week, Irish rebels took control of key parts of Dublin and declared a republic. It took seven days for the British to put the rising down. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1598> Download Daniel Bensaïd's `Revolutionary Strategy Today' <http://links.org.au/node/1597> By *Liam Mac Uaid * March 31, 2010 -- The International Institute for Research and Education (IIRE) is an Amsterdam-based centre providing activists and scholars around the world with opportunities for research and education. It is offering a free download of the late Daniel Bensaïd's /Revolutionary Strategy Today/. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1597> Indonesia: Working People's Association's (PRP) goal is a new workers' party <http://links.org.au/node/1596> March 31, 2010 -- Socialist Alliance national convenor *Peter Boyle* interviews *Ignatius Mahendra Kusumawardhana*, the international relations officer for the Working People's Association (Perhimpunian Rakyat Pekerja -- PRP) of Indonesia, who was in Australia to speak at Socialist Alternative's "Marxism 2010" conference in Melbourne, April 2-5, 2010*.* * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1596> Namibia: Reflections on 20 years after independence <http://links.org.au/node/1594> By *Jade McClune, *Windhoek March 23, 2010 -- Twenty years ago, at Namibia's first independence celebrations on March 21, 1990, many people would have shared the hopes and the euphoria of the moment. People thought that something good would come to us if we kept our peace and relinquished all the power to "the few who knew". Now that terrible hangover is wearing off and time has enforced a certain sobriety on us: the brutish reality of a rapidly falling life expectancy, unprecedented epidemic crises, poverty, vast malnutrition, a ruined education system and chronic mass unemployment, is inescapable. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1594> After Copenhagen: Can we save the world? Video: Is the climate sick of us <http://links.org.au/node/1593> *Ian Angus*, editor of /Climate and Capitalism/, gave the talk below in Lisbon, Portugal, on March 26, 2010, at the /O Clima Farto de Nós?/ (Is the climate sick of us?) gathering, a conference organised by the Left Bloc of Portugal and the European Left. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1593> Fourth International's response to Chavez's call to found a Fifth Socialist International <http://links.org.au/node/1592> [The following is an excerpt from the "Role and tasks of the Fourth International", a report adopted by the *Fourth International* at its 16th World Congress held in Belgium in February 2010.] Chavez's call to found a Fifth International poses other questions about its origins, its framework, that is to say, its viability. The Fourth International declares that it is willing to participate in the debates and preparatory meetings that may be organised. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1592> Fourth International: Report on international situation to the 16th World Congress; Role and tasks of the FI <http://links.org.au/node/1591> By *Laurent Carasso* February 2010 -- This report will not attempt a detailed survey of the world but will try to stress what is most significant, what, in our view, should come under a common understanding of events and tasks. On many regional situations, the comrades will broadly enrich the discussion through their interventions. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1591> Zimbabwe: Despite Mugabe's opportunism, radical land reform is necessary <http://links.org.au/node/1590> By *Grasian Mkodzongi* March 11, 2010 -- Zimbabwe's land issue has generated unprecedented debates both within and outside the country. The debates, which followed the dramatic occupations of white farms by rural peasants in the late 1990s, are generally polarised between those who support radical land reform and those who support market-orientated reforms. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1590> * * * 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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