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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. * * * France: The movement is far from over; Olivier Besancenot defends mass mobilisations to defeat Sarkozy <http://links.org.au/node/1956> By *Sandra Demarcq* October 23, 2010 -- Since May, the political situation in France has been marked by the mobilisations against changes to the pension law. Days of mobilisation succeed days of mobilisation, the movement against pension "reform" continues to develop and put down roots. It is the confirmation of a profound movement massively rejecting not only [the pension changes] but more broadly French President Nicholas Sarkozy's anti-social, racist and authoritarian policies as a whole. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1956> Britain: Con-Dem government to roll back social gains won since WWII <http://links.org.au/node/1951> By *Raphie de Santos *October 21, 2010 -- The Conservative Party-Liberal Democrat Party (Con-Dem) coalition government has announced the most severe cuts in public spending since the great depression of the 1930s. The £81 billion (bn) of announced cuts and the £30 bn of tax increases for the next four fiscal years starting in April 2011 are on top of the already announced £8bn cuts for this fiscal year. Add in the hidden cuts (the National Health Service) and it all amounts to a rolling back of a large part of the gains that people have fought to establish since the end of the second world war. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1951> John Bellamy Foster: The ecology of consumption -- excerpt from `The Ecological Rift: Capitalism's War on the Earth' <http://links.org.au/node/1947> October 20, 2010 -- /Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal/, with the permission of Monthly Review Press, is excited to offer its readers an excerpt from the /The Ecological Rift: Capitalism's War on the Earth/, an important new book by *John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark* and *Richard York*. You can download (in PDF) the chapter * Download or read here <http://links.org.au/node/1947> 1,000,000th visitor to Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal <http://links.org.au/node/1946> October 20, 2010 -- In the early hours of October 20, 2010, /Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal/ passed an historic milestone -- its 1,000,000th visitor (since statistics began being kept on April 4, 2008). The unknown visitor entered site at Renfrey Clarke's essential article, "The new climate-change denialism: Who promotes it, and how to answer it". Those 1 million visitors have collectively read more than 1.33 million articles since April 2008. /Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal/'s mission has been to promote the revival of a democratic, ecological, thinking, activist socialism, and to encourage and publicise the activities and views of active socialists around the world who are rebuilding the socialist and radical alternative in deed as well as word. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1946> Grameen Bank and `microcredit': The `wonderful story' that never happened <http://links.org.au/node/1955> Far from being a panacea for fighting rural poverty, microcredit can impose additional burdens on the rural poor, without markedly improving their socio-economic condition, write *Patrick Bond* and *Khorshed Alam*. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1955> Lars T. Lih: Scotching the myths about Lenin's `What is to be done' <http://links.org.au/node/1953> By *Lars T. Lih* October 21 2010 -- /What is to be done? /was written for the first time in Russian between the autumn of 1901 and spring of 1902. It was a success among the rather limited number of people he was addressing: namely the people in the social-democratic [as revolutionary socialism was still know as] movement in Russia and interested parties. Of course, this audience was not sufficient to make it a real bestseller, but it did have an impact. When we look at the pamphlet today we want to have a sense of when, why and for whom he wrote it. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1953> Scottish Socialist Party: `Not a matter of "if" the people will resist, but "when", "how" and "where"' <http://links.org.au/node/1952> By *Colin Fox* October 21, 2010 -- The British people have a long and proud history of defeating repression, tyranny and injustice. They stood up to Hitler in World War II and defeated Thatcher's poll tax in 1991 by invoking an inspiring spirit of resistance against seemingly insurmountable forces. And it's just a well because they need to call on those traditions once again to defeat those behind the unprecedented and brutal cuts proposed for our public services. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1952> Was Karl Marx `Eurocentric'? <http://links.org.au/node/1950> /*Marx at the Margins: On Nationalism, Ethnicity and Non-Western Societies */ By Kevin B. Anderson University of Chicago Press, 2010, 336 pages */Eurocentrism/* By Samir Amin Monthly Review Press, 1988 (second edition 2009), 288 pages Reviews by *Barry Healy* * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1950> Venezuela and the Millennium Development Goals <http://links.org.au/node/1949> By the *Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela*, Australia * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1949> South Asia: A regional `new politics' needed to challenge neoliberal agenda <http://links.org.au/node/1945> By *Farooq Tariq* October 2, 2010 -- The recent devastating flood, affecting the lives of more than 20 million people in Pakistan, has once again revealed the severe poverty that people of Pakistan are facing. The only property that many hundreds of thousands were left with after fleeing their mud homes perhaps was just a trunk, few clothes and pottery and may be a donkey, cow or a buffalo. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1945> Germany: Greens' support surges as two-party system unravels <http://links.org.au/node/1944> By *Duroyan Fertl* October 17, 2010 -- Coasting on the back of environmental protests and a hemorrhaging two-party system, the German Greens have sent shock waves through German politics, surging into the position of main opposition party for the first time. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1944> Afghanistan: Malalai Joya -- `for our people, Obama is a warmonger, like another Bush' <http://links.org.au/node/1943> By *Malalai Joya* October 10, 2010 -- In the United States, many looked to the ballot box and hoped for real change when Barack Obama was elected president in 2008. To be honest, I never expected that he would be any different for Afghanistan than President George W. Bush. The truth is that Obama's war policies have turned out to be even more of a nightmare than most people expected. Obama talked a lot about hope and change, but for Afghanistan the only change has been for the worse. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1943> * * * 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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