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What's new at Links: Greens, socialism & daydreams, Swaziland, Pakistan floods, cricket, India, S. Korea, terrorism, ecosocialists, Lebowitz, Islamophobia * * * *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. * * * Australia: Interview with new Greens MP Adam Bandt: 'I'll give a voice to the social movements' <http://links.org.au/node/1875> *Adam Bandt* interviewed by **Jody Betzien** September 2, 2010 -- /Green Left Weekly/ -- *Adam Bandt*, the Australian Greens' MP elect for the seat of Melbourne (long considered a "safe Labor seat"), and the Greens' first House of Representatives member to be elected in a general election has been very busy since the August 21 election. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1875> Socialism and the right to daydream <http://links.org.au/node/1873> By *Billy Wharton* August 31, 2010 -- A recent study featured in the /Los Angeles Times/ suggests that daydreaming or other such unstructured mental activities might play a key role in mental well being. Unknowingly, this study promotes a prime potential of a democratic socialist society -- the right to free time. While capitalism, especially in its current neoliberal incarnation, stresses never-ending productivity, a human-centred socialist system would allow for more free time. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1873> Swaziland: Small country, big struggle -- global day of action for democracy <http://links.org.au/node/1857> The Swaziland Democracy Campaign (SDC), formed by trade unions, political parties, civil society groups and churches, has called for a global day of action on September 7, 2010. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1857> Mike Marqusee: Behind cricket's latest scandal -- Pakistan cricket and its discontents <http://links.org.au/node/1876> By *Mike Marqusee* September 3, 2010 -- On top of floods, war, bombs, a corrupt and incompetent government with a much feared military in the wings, the long-suffering people of Pakistan have now been betrayed, once again, by their cricketers. Most will not be shocked or will profess not to be shocked. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1876> India: Important step towards left realignment and unity <http://links.org.au/node/1874> By *Dipankar Bhattacharya*, CPI (ML) Liberation general secretary September 2010 -- Four fighting organisations of the left -- the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation [CPI (ML) Liberation], the Communist Party Marxist (Punjab) [CPM (Punjab)], Lal Nishan Party (Leninist) [LNP (L)] of Maharashtra and the Left Coordination Committee (Kerala) [LCC] -- formed the All India Left Coordination (AILC) at a joint convention held in New Delhi on August 11, 2010. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1874> Pakistan: As floods move south, calls for debt cancellation grow <http://links.org.au/node/1872> *[**Readers can donate to help flood victims **through the Labour Relief Campaign **via the Australian trade unions' aid agency APHEDA at http://www.apheda.org.au/news/1281331224_14992.html.] * September 2, 2010 -- In Pakistan, torrential rains a month ago that triggered unprecedented floods have moved steadily from north to south, engulfing a fifth of the country. Seventeen million people have been affected, and some five million have lost their homes. Meanwhile, a movement to cancel Pakistan's external debt is now underway as campaigners plan a protest in front of Pakistan's parliament house today to call on international institutions like the IMF to cancel the country's debt. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1872> South Korea: The story of ROKS Cheonan -- repression, lies and half truths <http://links.org.au/node/1871> By *Roddy Quines* September 1, 2010 -- It has often been said that "the first casualty when war comes is truth". The latest string of lies and half truths on the Korean peninsula have set the stage for the reheating of old tensions between North Korea and South Korea. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1871> Why Marxists oppose terrorism <http://links.org.au/node/1870> By *Dave Holmes* I'd like to begin with a juxtaposition of two events --- one which took place relatively recently and the other a long time before. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1870> `Foro Social Latinamericano', Green Left Weekly's Spanish-language supplement, Sept. 2010 issue <http://links.org.au/node/1869> * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1869> Ian Angus: What next for ecosocialists? <http://links.org.au/node/1868> By* Ian Angus* August 30, 2010 --/ /Not long ago, most socialists had little to say about environmental issues, and the environmental movement was focused on individual (change your light bulbs) and capitalist (create a market for emissions) solutions to the ecological crisis. In 2007, immediately after the founding of the Ecosocialist International Network, I wrote a /Canadian Dimension/ article on the challenges facing ecosocialists. In it, I discussed two parallel trends that, though in their infancy, seemed to portend a new wave of anti-capitalist and pro-ecology action. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1868> Pakistan: Multi-party conference demands debt cancellation, launches mass movement to refuse debt <http://links.org.au/node/1867> By *Farooq Tariq* August 29, 2010 -- A multi-party conference in Lahore has decided to campaign for cancellation of Pakistan's crippling foreign debt and to organise mass rallies in Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad. The first rally will be on September 2 in Islamabad. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1867> Michael Lebowitz on the socialist alternative and real human development <http://links.org.au/node/1866> August 30, 2010 -- *Michael Lebowitz* is a Canadian Marxist economist. He is the director of the "Transformative practice and human development" program at the Venezuela-based left-wing think tank, the Centro Internacional Miranda. * Watch more <http://links.org.au/node/1866> Netherlands: Today Islamophobia is the main form taken by racism <http://links.org.au/node/1865> By *Peter Drucker* August 29, 2010 -- Since the rise of Pim Fortuyn in 2002, Islamophobia has played a central role in Dutch politics. Geert Wilders and his Freedom Party have now emerged as a threat to all progressive forces. There is no point in trying to change the subject and hoping the danger will pass; Islamophobia has to be confronted head on. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1865> * * * 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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