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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. * * * Indonesia: Activists set up Merapi disaster relief centres <http://links.org.au/node/1986> /Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal/ readers can make donations to those affected by the Mt Merapi eruption to the following account: *Bank: (Bank Central Asia) BCA Branch: KCP BCA Tebet Barat Account holder: Tejo Priyono Account Number: 436 149 72 14* * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1986> Cuba: Reversing the medical `brain drain' -- the many faces of ELAM <http://links.org.au/node/1984> By *Don Fitz*, Havana November 7, 2010 -- Cuba is doing more than any other country in the world to reverse the "brain drain" of doctors abandoning impoverished areas. A physician who leaves Sierra Leone for South Africa can earn 20 times as much. Higher pay in English-speaking countries lures medical graduates from India (10.6% of doctors), Pakistan (11.7%), Sri Lanka (27.5%), and Jamaica (41.7%). Only 50 of 600 doctors trained in Zambia remained there after independence. There are more Ethiopian doctors in Chicago than in Ethiopia. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1984> South Korea: First-hand report -- Day 1 of the anti-G20 Seoul International People's Conference -- Army of cops prevent march <http://links.org.au/node/1981> *Roddy Quines* is a Socialist Alliance of Australia <http://www.socialist-alliance.org> member living in South Korea. This is his first-hand account of the first day of anti-G20 actions on November 7, 2010, in Seoul. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1981> Australia -- burqa ban debate: If I can't wear a burqa it's not my revolution? <http://links.org.au/node/1992> On September 23, the /Daily Telegraph/ reported on a wall mural in the Sydney inner-west suburb of Newtown by artist Sergio Redegalli with the slogan "Say no to burqas". Redegalli's mural has sparked protests by local residents who have condemned it as racist. Sydney Socialist Alliance activist *Kiraz Janicke* says Redegalli's piece "has no other value than to promote racism". She has responded with an artwork of her own titled "Burqa revolution". * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1992> Scotland: Respect votes to split left vote, Galloway opposes independence <http://links.org.au/node/1991> On November 13, 2010, the English left-wing organisation Respect's annual conference voted, 59 to 15, to begin organising in Scotland. The decision was preceded by the most prominent Respect leader and former MP *George Galloway* floating the idea that he stand for the Scottish Parliament, either as part of a Respect campaign or an independent "George 4 Glasgow" campaign. Below are a number of articles from the Scottish and English left on Respect's move into Scotland. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1991> South Korea: Epic Ssangyong workers' strike remembered <http://links.org.au/node/1989> * Watch the report here <http://links.org.au/node/1989> Will Zimbabwe again regress? <http://links.org.au/node/1988> By *Patrick Bond*, Bulawayo November 12, 2010 -- If leaders of a small African country stand up with confidence to imperialist aggression, especially from the US and Britain, it would ordinarily strike any fair observer as extremely compelling. Especially when the nightmare of racist colonialism in that country is still be to exorcised, whites hold a disproportionate share of economic power and state's rulers appear serious about changing those factors. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1988> Britain: Understanding the Green Party <http://links.org.au/node/1987> November 2, 2010 -- *Derek Wall* is an economics lecturer and writer. He has been a member of the Green Party since 1980 and was Green Party principal speaker from 2006 to 2007. He is a founder of the Ecosocialist International and Green Left [an organised ecosocialist group within the Green Party] and has written widely on green politics. His latest books are /The Rise of the Green Left/ and /The No-Nonsense Guide to Green Politics/. In this interview, he and *Edward Lewis* examine the nature and politics of the Green Party from a left perspective. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1987> Video: `The Story of Electronics' -- Designed for the dump (from the makers of `The Story of Stuff') <http://links.org.au/node/1983> November 10, 2010 -- From the makers of /The Story of Stuff/ and the /The Story of Cap and Trade/, Annie Leonard presents the latest episode in the series, /The Story of Electronics/. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1983> Indonesia: FNPBI fifth congress -- `Time to awaken the sleeping lion' <http://links.org.au/node/1982> Compiled by *Ulfa Ilyas*, translated by *Risma* November 4, 2010 -- The National Front of Indonesian Workers' Struggle (FNPBI) held its fifth congress on October 24-26 in Denpasar Bali. About 300 FNPBI organisers from nine provinces of Indonesia attended the opening ceremony. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1982> * * * 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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