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What's new at Links: Thailand, Bolivia, Raj Patel on Mozambique riots, IMF book excerpt, G20, Swaziland, S. Africa, Pakistan, S11 10th anniv. * * * *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: (video) 10 years ago -- S11 2000 blockade: 'This is what democracy looks like' <http://links.org.au/node/1887> September 11, 2010 -- Ten years ago, thousands of Australian activists joined forces to blockade a meeting of the powerful World Economic Forum in Melbourne for three days, beginning September 11, 2000. Despite a massive show of police force and violence, the unity of the protesters prevailed. * Read and watch more <http://links.org.au/node/1887> * * * 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. ATTENTION: Sign up for regular ``what's new'' announcement emails at http://www.feedblitz.com/f/?Sub=343373 Follow Links on Twitter at http://twitter.com/LinksSocialism or on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=10865397643 Thailand: Red Shirt protests on the rise again <http://links.org.au/node/1884> By *Peter Boyle* September 8, 2010 -- Up to 20,000 Red Shirt supporters rallied at a concert in the Thailand seaside resort city of Pattaya on September 4, in what was one the biggest mobilisations since the military bloodily dispersed their mass protest camp in Bangkok on May 19, 2010, killing 91 and injuring thousands more. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1884> (Updated Sept. 8) Raj Patel: Food rebellion -- Mozambicans know which way the wind blows <http://links.org.au/node/1878> September 7, 2010 -- /MOZAMBIQUE News reports & clippings/ mailing list -- Price rises which triggered the riots last week have been reversed, the government announced September 7 after an emergency cabinet meeting. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1878> Exclusive excerpt from `Debt, the IMF and the World Bank: Sixty questions, sixty answers', by Éric Toussaint and Damien Millet <http://links.org.au/node/1888> September 12, 2010 -- /Links International Journal of Socialist Review/, with the permission of Monthly Review Press, is delighted to make available an excerpt from Éric Toussaint and Damien Millet's new book, /Debt, the IMF and the World Bank: Sixty questions, sixty answer./ * Read more and download <http://links.org.au/node/1888> Toronto G20 protests: What was gained and what was lost <http://links.org.au/node/1886> By* John Riddell* and *Art Young* September 2, 2010 -- Two months after the protests against the G20 summit in Toronto and the accompanying police rampage, it is time for an initial balance sheet of what was gained and lost. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1886> Thailand: How powerful is the Thai military? <http://links.org.au/node/1883> By *Giles Ji Ungpakorn* September 6, 2010 -- Despite the fact that millions of Thais believe that the centre of power among the conservative elites today is the monarchy or the Privy Council, the real centre of power, lurking behind the throne, is the military. The military has intervened in politics and society ever since the 1932 revolution against the absolute monarchy. Yet it is also a cliché to just state the number of military coups that have taken place. The power of the military is not unlimited. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1883> Swaziland: Crackdown on eve of protests, PUDEMO leader arrested <http://links.org.au/node/1882> [See also "Swaziland: Small country, big struggle -- global day of action for democracy <http://links.org.au/node/1857>".] By *Lucky Lukhele* and *Norm Dixon* September 8, 2010 -- The deputy president of Swaziland's People's United Democratic Movement (PUDEMO) Sikhumbuzo Phakathi was arrested on September 6 at the Phongola border post as the Swazi police and army were deporting a delegation of South African activists from the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) and the Swaziland Democracy Campaign (SDC). PUDEMO president Mario Masuku was detained before the start a protest march on September 7 to mark the global day for democracy in Swaziland. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1882> South Africa: Communist youth leader -- `Black economic empowerment becomes Zuma economic empowerment' <http://links.org.au/node/1881> September 5, 2010 - There was cautious optimism among many leftists in the African National Congress (ANC) that the ousting of Thabo Mbeki in Polokwane [the ANC's 2007 national conference] might mark a shift towards a much more egalitarian economic policy, including "Black Economic Empowerment (BEE). Instead, BEE is increasingly becoming too narrow, amounting to ZEE -- that is, Zuma Economic Empowerment. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1881> South Africa: Strike ends, workers' anger remains <http://links.org.au/node/1880> /On September 6, the major trade unions representing South Africa's 1.3 million public servants and teachers announced that the 20-day strike for higher wages and allowances had been "suspended". See union statements below. Union leaders said the move would allow members to consider the latest government offer. Public servants went on strike demanding an 8.6% pay rise, while the government has offered 7.5%. According to the BBC, workers who came to hear union officials shouted in protest when they announced that the strike was being suspended./ * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1880> Pakistan: Doob Gaya Hai -- a song for flood victims, by Laal (Red) <http://links.org.au/node/1879> By *Taimur Rahman* September 5, 2010 -- I am the main performer in this song. Laal (Red) is a communist band. My name is Taimur Rahman and I am also the general secretary of the Communist Mazdoor Kisan Party (Communist Workers and Peasants Party). This song is not produced for a particular organisation but just to raise awareness about the issue. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1879> Bolivia: Morales faces new challenges; Behind the 'MAS crisis' <http://links.org.au/node/1877> Problems and challenges face Bolivia's radical government -- led by President Evo Morales (above), the country's first Indigenous head of state -- and the process of change it leads. Australia's /Green Left Weekly/ has published two articles on the question, by *Eduardo Paz Rada*, editor of Bolivia-based magazine /Patria Grande/, and *Pablo Stefanoni*, editor of the Bolivian edition of /Le Monde Diplomatique/. Both were translated by *Federico Fuentes*. See also Fuente's "Bolivia: Warning signs as social tensions erupt" <http://links.org.au/node/1844> and the related comments. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1877> * * * 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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