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What's new at Links: Population debate, Venezuela threatened & solidarity, Leonard Peltier, `de-growth'?, food, banning the veil, carbon price, rate of profit, Ecuador * * * *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. * * * Australia: `Sustainable population?' -- Scapegoating migrants and refugees for the capitalist system's ills <http://links.org.au/node/1807> By *Graham Matthews* July 24, 2010 -- In one of her first policy changes after replacing Kevin Rudd as leader of the Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister Julia Gillard dumped Rudd's idea of a "big Australia". On June 26, Gillard said "Australia should not hurtle down the track towards a big population". Instead, she called for a "sustainable population". Almost four weeks on, however, Labor's policy has no details --- just lots of rhetoric designed to pander to fears that immigration (particularly asylum seekers) is causing a raft of social problems. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1807> Colombia & United States threaten attack -- Stop the lies and aggression against Venezuela! <http://links.org.au/node/1805> A statement from the *Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network* July 24, 2010 -- On July 22, Venezuela broke off all diplomatic relations with Colombia and placed its national borders on high alert. This follows accusations made by the Colombian government that Venezuela is harbouring "terrorists" from the Armed Revolutionary Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the National Liberation Army (ELN), and hosting several "terrorist training camps" near the border region that divides the two countries. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1805> United States: The railroading of Leonard Peltier <http://links.org.au/node/1806> / /By *Mike Ely* Join in demanding freedom for Leonard Peltier, so that at long last simple justice be done for him and the Indigenous peoples of North America.Petitions are also being circulated urging clemency and urging US Congress to investigate FBI misconduct on Pine Ridge and the "reign of terror" that existed between 1973 and 1976. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1806> Venezuela's process of struggle <http://links.org.au/node/1804> *Jason Netek* looks at the political situation in Venezuela -- and why international solidarity is key to furthering the process of workers' power. July 22, 2010 -- /Socialist Worker/ (USA) -- The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela is the focal point of a political shift to the left that has affected most of the Latin American continent for just over a decade. For years now, we have heard denunciations of the nation and its president, Hugo Chávez, from TV personalities like Glenn Beck and Pat Robertson to establishment figures like George W. Bush and Barack Obama, all of whom liken the nation to a military dictatorship. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1804> Is `de-growth' compatible with capitalism? <http://links.org.au/node/1803> / /By *Alejandro Nadal* July 15, 2010 -- A serious campaign in favour of "de-growth" has been going on for some time and has made important contributions. This movement has opened new avenues for debate and analysis on technology, credit, education and other important areas. It's an effort that needs support and attention, and we must applaud their initiators and promoters for their boldness and dedication. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1803> False food choices under capitalism <http://links.org.au/node/1802> Below is the editorial of the /Socialist WebZine/, online magazine of the *Socialist Party of the United States*. Following that is an article by *Dan La Botz*, SPUSA's Ohio candidate forthe US Senate. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1802> Banning the veil: Rights of women or anti-Islamic racism and communalism? <http://links.org.au/node/1801> July 21, 2010 -- On July 13, the parliament of France, on the eve of Bastille Day, voted 335 to one in favour of preventing Muslim women wearing a full face-covering veil in public. The July 13 /Le Monde/ said the new law was strongly supported by the right. The Socialist Party, Communist Party (PCF) and Green Party abstained. Anyone who chooses to wear a face covering on religious grounds now faces a fine of 150 euros or a "citizenship course". The law does not come into effect until spring 2011 to allow a period of "education". There is also a year in prison and a fine of 30,000 euros for anyone found guilty of forcing a woman to wear a veil, a penalty which is doubled if the "victim is a minor". The Indian organisation Radical Socialist issued a statement taking up this wave of Islamophobic legislation in Europe. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1801> Tackling climate change: Is putting `a price on carbon' enough? <http://links.org.au/node/1800> By *Simon Butler* July 18, 2010 -- Pressure is now bearing down on the Australian climate movement because there has been so little forward progress in the federal government's climate policy. The pressure is for the movement to accept, support and campaign for weak or inadequate climate policies on the grounds that something is better than nothing.Putting a price on carbon is not the best way to deal with climate change, but a growing chorus of media commentators, NGOs and politicians are nonetheless plugging it as the key solution. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1800> 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> * * * 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. 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