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What's new at Links: Arizona shootings, degrowth?, Cuba, statistics, US imperialism, Portugal, Marx, Ireland, Korea, Mao, Wikileaks & Sweden * * * *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. * * * Socialist Party USA: `No to political assassinations! Let's make a democratic revolution!' <http://links.org.au/node/2090> By *Andrea Pason* & *Billy Wharton*, co-chairs Socialist Party USA January 9, 2011 -- On behalf of the Socialist Party USA, we send our sincerest condolences to the families of the people killed in the January 8 shooting in Tucson, Arizona. This was an attempt at political assassination as the shooter, 22-year-old Jared Lee Loughner, reportedly shot Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (AZ, D.) in the head before turning his gun on the crowd. The dead include a 9 year child and five others, with twelve people wounded. Rep. Giffords remains in critical condition. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/2090> Capitalism and degrowth: An impossibility theorem <http://links.org.au/node/2089> By *John Bellamy Foster * January 2011 -- In the opening paragraph to his 2009 book, /Storms of My Grandchildren, /James Hansen, the world's foremost scientific authority on global warming, declared: "Planet Earth, creation, the world in which civilization developed, the world with climate patterns that we know and stable shorelines, is in imminent peril...The startling conclusion is that continued exploitation of all fossil fuels on Earth threatens not only the other millions of species on the planet but also the survival of humanity itself---and the timetable is shorter than we thought." * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/2089> Why does health care in Cuba cost 96% less than in the US? <http://links.org.au/node/2082> By *Don Fitz* January 5, 2011-- When Americans spend $100 on health care, is it possible that only $4 goes to keeping them well and $96 goes somewhere else? Single payer health care [government-funded universal health insurance] advocates compare US health care to that in Western Europe or Canada and come up with figures of 20--30% waste in the US. But there is one country with very low level of economic activity yet with a level of health care equal to the West: Cuba. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/2082> What if the state of the world were measured by its majority? <http://links.org.au/node/2078> By *Tamara Pearson*, Merida, Venezuela December 30, 2010 -- The rich and their golf courses. From their perspective the whole world is one -- a wonderland of hillocks and streams and games made just for them, watered without thought for drought, and the world's poor nowhere to be seen. But a bit of the map has said it doesn't want to be a golf course. The rich, sweaty and sulking, arm themselves with reports, statistics, surveys, foundations, institutes and "causes" and set out to prove that Venezuela is burning and broken, its economy rumbling, its health system out of order, and its politics repressive. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/2078> US imperialist aggression in the early 21st century <http://links.org.au/node/2088> [This talk by *Rasti Delizo *was presented at the regional "socialism conference" was held in Manila from November 27 to 28, 2010. The conference was organised by the socialist Partido Lakas ng Masa (Party of the Labouring Masses) and the socialist-feminist regional network Transform Asia.] * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/2088> Cuba: Economy of commands or earnings? Joaquin Infante on economic changes <http://links.org.au/node/2086> December 31, 2010 -- /Cuba's Socialist Renewal/ -- Coinciding with the beginning of the three-month-long public debate on the /Draft Economic and Social Policy Guidelines of the Party and Revolution/, the following two-page interview with //Dr Joaquin Infante, one of Cuba's veteran economists, appeared in /Juventud Rebelde/. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/2086> Portugal: More austerity looms in 2011 <http://links.org.au/node/2085> By *Raphie de Santos* January 4, 2011 -- A full financial bailout of Portugal involving the European Central Bank (ECB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) looks set to happen in the first half of 2011. This will involve severe austerity conditions being imposed on the Portuguese people by the ECB and IMF. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/2085> Marx-Engels Gesamtausgabe (MEGA2): Has another Marx been revealed? <http://links.org.au/node/2083> //January 2, 20100 -- The Russian journal /Logos/, one of the most important journals of philosophy in Russia, is publishing a special issue on Karl Marx in January 2011. It includes a translation of *Marcello Musto*'s "The Rediscovery of Karl Marx" and an extensive interview with Musto. Below is the English translation of the interview. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/2083> Irish crisis: A complete failure for neoliberalism <http://links.org.au/node/2081> By *Eric Toussaint* January 3, 2011 -- For a decade, Ireland was heralded by the most ardent partisans of neoliberal capitalism as a model to be imitated. The "Celtic Tiger" had a higher growth rate than the European average. Tax rates on companies had been reduced to 12.5% |1| and the rate actually paid by the transnational corporations that had set up business there was between 3 and 4% -- a CEO's dream! * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/2081> Martin Hart-Landsberg: What's happening on the Korean Peninsula? <http://links.org.au/node/2080> By *Martin Hart-Landsberg* December 31, 2010 -- What's happening on the Korean peninsula? If you read the press or listen to the talking heads, your best guess would be that an insane North Korean regime is willing to risk war to manage its own internal political tensions. This conclusion would be hard to avoid because the media rarely provide any historical context or alternative explanations for North Korean actions. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/2080> China, Mao and the global neoliberal offensive <http://links.org.au/node/2079> Review by *Chris Slee* January 4, 2011 -- Minqi Li's /The Rise of China and the Demise of the Capitalist World Economy/ deals with a range of topics including the history of the Chinese Revolution, China's role in the world economy today and the future of the world economy. This review will not deal with every aspect of the book, but will focus on Minqi Li's discussion of China's history, economics and politics, and its current role in the world. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/2079> Wikileaks: Sweden, Assange and the USA <http://links.org.au/node/2077> By *Al Burke* December 28, 2010 -- Sweden has requested the extradition of Wikileaks editor Julian Assange from the United Kingdom, and legal proceedings are expected to commence at the start of the new year. Due to the extraordinary behaviour of the prosecutor in charge of the case, questions have been raised about the prospects of Assange receiving impartial justice in Sweden. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/2077> * * * 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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