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What's new at Links: BDS against Israel, World Cup & S. Africa, Thailand appeal, Venezuela, Chavez interview, Marxism & religion, Cuban contras, Philippines * * * *For more reliable delivery of new content, please 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. * * * Appeal against repression in Thailand <http://links.org.au/node/1748> Introduction by *Danielle Sabai* and *Pierre Rousset* June 20, 2010 -- The crackdown on the opposition in Thailand and the abuses of the regime have not been met with the solidarity response and the international condemnation that the situation requires. The regime can thus freely operate and stifle the democratic movement. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1748> Building socialism from below: The role of the communes in Venezuela <http://links.org.au/node/1745> / / *Antenea Jimenez* interviewed by *Susan Spronk* and *Jeffery R. Webber* June 13, 2010 -- We met with Antenea Jimenez, a former militant with the student movement who is now working with a national network of activists who are trying to build and strengthen the /comunas/ [communes]. The comunas are community organisations promoted since 2006 by the government of Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez government as a way to consolidate a new form of state based upon production at the local level. She told us about the important advances in the process, as well as the significant challenges that remain in the struggle to build a new form of popular power from below. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1745> United States: Victory as protesters and union block Israeli ship unloading at Oakland Port <http://links.org.au/node/1751> June 20, 2010 -- In a historic action and unprecedented action today, more 800 worker and community activists blocked the gates of the Oakland docks in the early morning hours, prompting longshore workers to refuse to cross the picketlines where they were scheduled to unload an Israeli ship. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1751> Marxism, socialism & religion <http://links.org.au/node/1750> By *Dave Holmes* Despite the apparently secular nature of so much of modern life, religion is a long way from being a spent force. For revolutionary socialists aiming to mobilise the masses for a fundamental transformation of society, religion is a question which cannot be ignored. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1750> Split amongst Cuban contras, cracks in the blockade <http://links.org.au/node/1749> By *Tim Anderson* June 11, 2010 -- A major split over the US blockade of Cuba has emerged between domestic "dissidents" in Cuba and their former partners in Miami. The US corporate media is paying attention to what appears to be a new anti-Cuban strategy. The split represents a genuine difference in counter-revolutionary tactics, but is also linked to squabbles over money. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1749> South Africa: `World Cup for all! People before profit!' <http://links.org.au/node/1747> By *Kamcilla Pillay * June 17, 2010, Durban -- /Daily News/ -- The sound of /vuvuzelas/ cut through the air in Durban on June 16 -- but for one large group there was little to celebrate. Amid cries of /phansi ngama-fat cats, phansi/ (down with fat cats, down) and a sea of banners proclaiming the government cared only for the rich, civil rights organisations took to the streets protesting against poor service delivery and the World Cup. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1747> Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez interviewed by BBC `Hardtalk'; Mark Weisbrot analyses interviewer's bias <http://links.org.au/node/1746> On June 15, 2010, the BBC's /Hardtalk/ program broadcast an wide-ranging interview with Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez from the Miraflores Presidential Palace in Caracas. The interviewer, Stephen Sackur, clearly intended to provoke Chavez with a series of ill-informed and outright dishonest claims and questions. He did not succeed. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1746> South Africa: The myths and realities of the FIFA soccer World Cup <http://links.org.au/node/1744> By *Dale T. McKinley*, Johannesburg June 15, 2010 -- Offering an unapologetic public critique of the FIFA Soccer World Cup at the height of the collective frenzy of positive expectation, feel-good nationalism and general public excitement that now exists in our country is a risky thing to do. But it is a risk that needs to be taken precisely because, no matter what the context, myths always need to be separated from realities. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1744> Philippines: The meaning of the `Noynoy' Aquino presidency <http://links.org.au/node/1743> By *Reihana Mohideen* (Based on interviews with leaders of the Philippines left, *Frank Pascual*, *Sonny Melencio* and *Ric Reyes*.) June 13, 2010 -- On June 9 Senator Benigno Aquino III ("Noynoy" Aquino) of the Liberal Party, the son of former President Cory Aqunio, was proclaimed president by the Philippines Congress. Noynoy was a former senator "with little legislative record to speak of", according to the /Philippine Daily Inquirer/ newspaper, which nevertheless campaigned hard for Noynoy Aquino's presidency, soon after Cory Aquino's death in August 2009. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1743> * * * 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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