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What's new at Links: Haiti; population and environment; RIP Howard Zinn & Alistair Hulett; Indonesia; Cuba and S. Africa; Obama; Honduras * * * 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 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. * * * Howard Zinn, 1922-2010: Howard Zinn interviewed by Dave Zirin <http://links.org.au/node/1482> On May 2, 2009, the US International Socialist Organization invited Dave Zirin to sitdown and interview renowned historian Howard Zinn. * Watch here <http://links.org.au/node/1482> People are not pollution -- Why climate activists should not support limits on immigration <http://links.org.au/node/1478> By *Ian Angus* and *Simon Butler* January 25, 2010 -- Immigrants to the developed world have frequently been blamed for unemployment, crime and other social ills. Attempts to reduce or block immigration have been justified as necessary measures to protect "our way of life" from alien influences. Today, some environmentalists go farther, arguing that sharp cuts in immigration are needed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and slow climate change. However sincere and well-meaning such activists may be, their arguments are wrong and dangerous, and should be rejected by the climate emergency movement. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1478> Peter Hallward: Securing disaster in Haiti <http://links.org.au/node/1476> By *Peter Hallward* January 21, 2010 -- Nine days after the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12, 2010, it's now clear that the initial phase of the US-led relief operation has conformed to the three fundamental tendencies that have shaped the more general course of the island's recent history.[1] It has adopted military priorities and strategies. It has sidelined Haiti's own leaders and government, and ignored the needs of the majority of its people. And it has proceeded in ways that reinforce the already harrowing gap between rich and poor. All three tendencies aren't just connected, they are mutually reinforcing. These same tendencies will continue to govern the imminent reconstruction effort as well, unless determined political action is taken to counteract them. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1476> Indonesia: Thousands protest Yudhoyono's 100th day in office <http://links.org.au/node/1486> Photos by *Ulfa Ilyas* and *PRP International* Jakarta, Indonesia -- January 28, 2010 -- Thousands of Indonesians staged a mass protest in front of the presidential palace. The protesters criticised the government of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's neoliberal policies and corruption on its 100th day in office. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1486> Cuba and the South African anti-apartheid struggle <http://links.org.au/node/1485> /Twenty years ago, Nelson Mandela was released from Victor Verster Prison in Paarl, South Africa, on February 11, 1990. That historic victory was the product of the long and courageous struggle of the oppressed people of South Africa. It was also a victory for the international movement against apartheid. Revolutionary Cuba played a vital role in the international movement against white minority rule in South Africa, as the following article describes. / * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1485> Alistair Hulett: `A truly great singer, songwriter, activist and socialist' <http://links.org.au/node/1484> January 29, 2010 -- Alistair Hulett died at the Southern General Hospital in Glasgow on Thursday evening, January 28, 2010. Alistair, a truly great singer, songwriter, activist and socialist, will be greatly missed by us all. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1484> Obama's State of the Union: Year one of a corporate presidency <http://links.org.au/node/1483> By *Billy Wharton* January 27, 2010 -- From the start, Barack Obama's presidency has seemed like one big public relations campaign. Tonight's State of the Union address did little to dissuade one from this view. Sagging under the weight of depressed dreams of hope and change, he desperately needed to appear as though he was doing something to address the growing needs of the US people. Emphasis was on "appearances", since Obama's speech delivered more of the same from his first year in office: high rhetoric with little substance. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1483> Haiti: `Cancel the debt!' -- Joint statement by Asian left organisations in solidarity with the people of Haiti <http://links.org.au/node/1481> [To add your organisation's support, email: Ign Mahendra K at internatio...@prp-indonesia.org <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GreenLeft_discussion/post?postID=5sfTzTFOvQOmgcW8sQ19PyaDoS4dqCfQcR12XSb_gjqPJ2Q2cVvN5shYRUMCHQ3aZmObzVJUwmKCqVuG9eHfGqKtu9d1StO0OH8>.] January 27, 2010 -- On January 12, 2010, a 7.3 Richter scale earthquake struck Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti. The earthquake caused great destruction and 200,000 people are thought to be dead. Further, 3 million Haitians have been rendered homeless by the quake, which also damaged many public service buildings, such as hospitals and schools. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1481> Honduras: Obama's new puppets on display; Massive demonstration as Lobo takes power <http://links.org.au/node/1480> By *Felipe Stuart Cournoyer*, Managua January 26, 2010 -- During the dubious Honduran election process leading up to voting day on November 27, 2009, the people would chant "/Santos[1] de santo no tiene nada. Lobo de lobo lo tiene todo/" ["(Elvin) Santos gets nothing from the saints; Lobo's taken it all from the wolf."] * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1480> Haiti: A history of struggle and exploitation <http://links.org.au/node/1479> By *Amanda Zivcic* January 23, 2010 -- Since the earthquake struck Haiti on January 12, 2010, there has been a global outpouring of support. Many people, horrified by the scenes of sheer devastation, the astronomical death toll and the struggle of survivors to gain access to medicines, food and shelter, are left wondering: why so many? The oft-repeated tag of Haiti being "the poorest nation in the Western hemisphere" is true but this did not just happen. It is the result of a history of colonialism, slavery, imperialism, foreign military intervention, foreign-imposed dictatorships and unjust debt. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1479> * * * 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 ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
