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What's new at Links: Venezuela, MDGs, Thailand, Sweden, Cuba, FBI raids left, John Coltrane, Pakistan * * * *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. * * * Sweden: Far-right election gains met with spontaneous mass protests <http://links.org.au/node/1905> By *Johann Sommansson* September 23, 2010 -- The counting of votes in the September 19 Swedish parliamentary elections sent out shock waves. The far right made its parliamentary debut, and for the first time in modern Swedish political history an incumbent non-Social Democrats government has been able to win a national election. As such, the process of dismantling the Swedish welfare state is set to continue unabated. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1905> Thailand: What the September 19 mass Red Shirt rallies mean for Thai politics <http://links.org.au/node/1902> By *Giles Ji Ungpakorn* September 21, 2010 -- In the afternoon of Sunday, September 19, 2010, tens of thousands of Red Shirts returned to the Ratchaprasong intersection in Bangkok to remember the coup four years previously, and the deliberate murder in April and May this year of around 90 unarmed demonstrators, many of whom were gunned down by army snipers near Ratchaprasong. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1902> Cuba: The drive for efficiency within socialism <http://links.org.au/node/1911> By *Helen Yaffe* September 22, 2010 -- The announcement by the Cuban Trade Union Confederation on September 13, 2010, about plans to reduce the state-sector workforce by half a million was greeted by jeering headlines from journalists outside the island. Cuba is rarely of interest to the bourgeois press unless they believe there is some crisis to celebrate or that new measures can be interpreted as evidence of a shift from socialism to capitalism. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1911> (updated Sept. 26) United States: Solidarity needed! FBI raids left activists under guise of `anti-terrorism' <http://links.org.au/node/1909> /Against the Current/ -- On September 24, the FBI conducted raided the homes of antiwar and left activists in Minneapolis, Chicago, Michigan and North Carolina. These provocations, under the guise of "anti-terrorism", appear to have targeted leaders of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization, which publishes the /Fight Back! /newspaper and website. The articles below are from /Fight Back! News/, /Twin Cities IndyMedia /and /War Times/ * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1909> Venezuela criticises `market totalitarianism' at UN Millennium Development Goal summit <http://links.org.au/node/1908> By *Tamara Pearson*, Merida September 22, 2010 -- In Venezuela, "social investment has become a national strategy to achieve the Millennium Development Goals", said Jorge Valero, Venezuela's ambassador to the United Nations, in his September 21 speech at the UN summit in New York analysing progress towards reaching the Millennium Development Goals. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1908> Venezuela: Opposition and media lies about lack of democracy exposed <http://links.org.au/node/1907> By *Francisco Dominguez* September 23, 2010 -- Venezuelans vote on Sunday, September 26, for the South American country's 165-seat National Assembly -- its national parliament. This is the 16th national election or referenda since Hugo Chávez was first elected president in 1998. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1907> `A force which is truly for good' -- John Coltrane and the jazz revolution <http://links.org.au/node/1906> By *Terry Townsend* September 23, 2010 -- John William Coltrane (abbreviated as "Trane" by his fans) was born on this day in 1926. Since his untimely death on July 17, 1967, saxophone colossus Coltrane has become an icon of African-American pride, achievement and uncompromising determination. He led a revolution in music that mirrored the turbulent growth of black militancy and revolutionary ideas within the urban black community. Today, Trane continues to inspire. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1906> Pakistan: 'Cancel the debt to help flood victims' <http://links.org.au/node/1903> September 18, 2010 -- *Ammar Ali Jan* is a 23-year-old activist in Pakistan who visited Australia earlier this year to speak at the Resistance national conference. He is an organiser of the Progressive Youth Front (PYF), which campaigns for democracy and against corruption. He spoke to *Melanie Barnes* from Resistance about what's been happening in Pakistan, especially the devastating impact of the recent floods. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1903> Thailand: `The Red Shirts will fight on!' -- Eyewitness account, photos of Sept. 19 Red Shirt protest <http://links.org.au/node/1901> * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1901> * * * 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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