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What's new at Links: Climate charter, John Bellamy Foster, Venezuela, Ecuador, rate of profit, Pakistan, Thailand, Catalonia, Brazil * * * *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. * * * Climate action now! Socialist Alliance releases latest Climate Change Charter <http://links.org.au/node/1797> / /By the *Socialist Alliance* (Australia) July 2010 -- For years, climate scientists have warned us that we need to act on climate change. Now, science is saying that climate change is taking place more rapidly than everyone previously thought. The warning signs are obvious. April and May were the world's hottest months since records began. This year's Arctic ice sheet melt is taking place at a pace never seen before. Scientists say carbon pollution has made the world's oceans more acidic than they have been for at least 20 million years. There is already too much carbon in the atmosphere. The warming already in the system risks the crossing of various natural "tipping points" that would raise temperatures further and faster. If these points are crossed, it would bring average temperatures to levels that have not existed for millions of years, and to which today's nature is simply not adapted. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1797> John Bellamy Foster on Venezuela: Marxism and `vernacular revolutionary traditions' <http://links.org.au/node/1788> The following article is the Foreward to the July-August 2010 issue of the US socialist magazine /Monthly Review/, which features Marta Harnecker's "Latin America and Twenty-First Century Socialism: Inventing to Avoid Mistakes". Bellamy Foster will be a feature speaker at the Climate Change Social Change conference, to be held in Melbourne, November 5-7, 2010 <http://links.org.au/node/1775>. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1788> John Bellamy Foster to attend Climate Change Social Change conference, Melbourne, November 5-7, 2010 <http://links.org.au/node/1775> / /July 7, 2010 -- Humanity is in a race against time to avoid environmental and social catastrophe caused by climate change. The Climate Change Social Change conference is being organised to contribute towards understanding and collective action, in Australia and internationally, to address the climate emergency. Register now! * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1775> The debate on the rate of profit <http://links.org.au/node/1799> By *Michel Husson* July 2010 -- A polemic on the rate of profit has developed over the last few months. This article seeks to review this debate which turns around four essential questions. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1799> Ecuador: Indigenous struggle, ecology and capitalist resource extraction <http://links.org.au/node/1798> / / *Marlon Santi* interviewed by *Jeffery R. Webber* July 13, 2010 --/ /On July 5, I sat down with Marlon Santi, president of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE), in his office in Quito. We discussed the increasing contradictions between the demands of the Indigenous people's movement, on the one hand, around water rights and anti-mining resistance, and the positions of the government of Rafael Correa, on the other, which has labelled Indigenous resistance to large-scale mining and oil exploitation as "terrorism and sabotage". * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1798> Pakistan: Losing lives to form trade unions <http://links.org.au/node/1796> By *Farooq Tariq* July 16, 2010 -- On July 6, while Mustansar Rindhawa was listening to a worker who had not been paid his wages by a textile boss, an unknown person with a Kalashnikov rifle entered the front room and fired. Mustansar tried to save his life by running to the next room. I met Mustansar Rindhawa (32) briefly on June 19, 2010, in Faisalabad, less than a month before his murder. He was one of 30 participants in a trade union leadership training course at the Labour Qaumi Movement (LQM) office. The LQM is a community-based labour organisation established in 2004. It has become the main labour organisation in Faisalabad, and is now spreading to other cities. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1796> Venezuela: Communal power in Caracas <http://links.org.au/node/1795> *Wilder Marcano* interviewed by *Susan Spronk* and *Jeffery R. Webber* July 4, 2010 -- We caught up with Wilder Marcano, director of the network of /comunas/ [communes] in Caracas, on the morning of June 18, 2010. He talked with us just before addressing a crowd of a few hundred representatives of different comunas from around the capital who had gathered in the offices of the Ministry of Popular Power for the Communes and Social Welfare to discuss a whole series of issues related to building popular power from below in the poorest barrios. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1795> Australia: Report shows how to reach 100% renewable stationary energy by 2020 <http://links.org.au/node/1794> July 14, 2010 -- Don't miss out on this cutting-edge research, which shows how Australia can reach 100% renewable energy within a decade, using technology that is commercially available right now. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1794> Behind Bangkok's war in southern Thailand <http://links.org.au/node/1792> / /Below is an excerpt from Thai socialist Giles Ji Ungpakorn's latest book, /Thailand's Crisis and the Fight for Democracy/. It provides an historical background to Thai politics from the pre-capitalist era, through the turmoil of the 1930s and 1970s, up to the present day. It has been posted at/ Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal /with/ /Giles Ji Ungpakorn's permission. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1792> Why Catalonia stood up on July 10 <http://links.org.au/node/1791> By *Dick Nichols* July 12, 2010 -- When up to 1.5 million people flooded the streets of Barcelona on July 10, 2010, in an enormous demonstration -- behind a lead banner proclaiming, "We are a nation, we decide" -- the most optimistic forecasts were exceeded. The huge protest was against the Constitutional Court's rejection of the constitutionality of Catalonia's Statute of Autonomy. Even the most conservative and Spanish-nationalist media had to admit that this was one of the biggest demonstrations since the end of the Franco dictatorship, and the most important in the history of Catalan nationalism. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1791> Brazil: Left workers' unity attempt fails <http://links.org.au/node/1790> By *Raul Bassi* July 11, 2010 -- An attempt to forge greater unity among militant union sectors in Brazil has imploded. The Working Class Congress (Conclat) was held in Sao Paulo on June 5-6 to try and bring together various radical union currents. The key forces behind the congress were Conlutas and Intersindical, both formed in opposition to the main union confederation, the Unified Workers' Confederation (CUT). * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1790> * * * 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. 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