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What's new at Links: Rachel Corrie, Fatima Meer, China, Afghanistan, Indonesia, S. Africa, Sri Lanka, Canada, France,Thailand, Israel's apartheid, capitalist collapse? * * * 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. * * * Remember Rachel Corrie <http://links.org.au/node/1568> By *Billy Wharton*, co-chair Socialist Party USA March 16, 2010 -- Today marks the anniversary of the tragic death of International Solidarity Movement (ISM) activist Rachel Corrie. On March 16, 2003, Corrie was killed by an Israeli Defence Force (IDF) bulldozer while non-violently resisting the destruction of a Palestinian home. Her death came to symbolise the daily violence faced by Palestinians in the occupied territories as well as the spirit of international solidarity that democratic socialists throughout the world draw political strength from. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1568> China, capitalist accumulation and the world crisis <http://links.org.au/node/1558> By *Martin Hart-Landsberg* February 2010 -- The consensus among economists is that China's post-1978 market reform policies have produced one of the world's greatest economic success stories. Some believe that China is now capable of serving as an anchor for a new (non-US dominated) global economy. A few claim that the reform experience demonstrates the workability (and desirability) of market socialism. This paper is critical of these views. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1558> Afghanistan: Exiled members of the former People's Democratic Party return to refound party <http://links.org.au/node/1576> By *John Bachtell* March 17, 2010 -- In a potentially important development, exiled members of the former People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan are returning to the country to re-found the organisation. They plan to hold a congress in Kabul later this year and rename the organisation the Democratic Party of Afghanistan. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1576> Indonesia: Slum dwellers protest against eviction order <http://links.org.au/node/1575> By *Peter Boyle*, photos by *Ulfa Ilyas* March 19, 2010 -- Hundreds residents of the urban slum village of Kampung Guji Baru in West Jakarta besieged office of Jakarta Governor Fauzi Bowo from early in the morning on March 18 to reject the planned their eviction of their settlement. The residents demanded that the governor immediately stop the eviction plans which would rob the poor residents of their rights of occupancy and ownership. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1575> Sri Lanka: Left-Tamil alliance to contest elections <http://links.org.au/node/1574> By *Chris Slee* March 20, 2010 -- The Left Liberation Front (LFF) is contesting 19 seats in the April 8 parliamentary elections in Sri Lanka. The LLF, an electoral coalition comprising the Nava Sama Samaja Party (NSSP, New Socialist Party), the Tamil National Liberation Alliance (TNLA) and the Socialist Party, stands for the right of self-determination for the oppressed Tamil people of Sri Lanka, freedom for political prisoners and an end to the state of emergency. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1574> Fatima Meer, 1928-2010: `Regardless of how many years we have spent in this life, we must get up and shout <http://links.org.au/node/1573> /Fatima Meer enraged ANC leaders by opposing the eviction of destitute families from council flats in Chatsworth, Durban. The ANC's objective was to sell off the council housing. Meer helped to establish the Concerned Citizens' Group to organise protests against the ANC's anti-poor policies like privatisation and cost-recovery, which had led to violent evictions and water cutoffs. The ANC deputy mayor of Durban Trevor Bonhomme called Meer a counter-revolutionary. / * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1573> The Peoples Democratic Party and Indonesia's poor majority <http://links.org.au/node/1572> /Kampung Guji Baru is just one of the many shanty settlements in the megacity of Jakarta, where an estimated 3 million poor people try to survive. Now its residents face forced eviction after greedy developers, corrupt government officials and the "land mafia" conspired to get the courts to do their bidding through fraudulent claims and documents. The developers want to build multistorey luxury apartments and more shopping malls for the rich. The residents and the Poor People's Union (Serikat Rakyat Miskin Indonesia, SRMI) are resisting and they ask for your solidarity. / * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1572> Tour builds Venezuela solidarity in Canada <http://links.org.au/node/1571> By *John Riddell* March 15, 2010 -- /Socialist Voice/ -- Federico Fuentes and Kiraz Janicke concluded their 10-day tour of Canada on March 7, with a rally in Vancouver entitled "Change the system, not the climate". Fuentes shared the platform with Pablo Solon, Bolivia's UN ambassador and chief spokesperson on climate change. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1571> South Africa: Momentum against climate-destroying World Bank loan grows <http://links.org.au/node/1570> By *Patrick Bond*, Durban March 16, 2010 -- In an indication that the climate justice movement is broadening, deepening and going local, there is now intense opposition to a climate-destroying energy loan for South Africa. The campaign is led by community activists in black townships allied with environmentalists, trade unionists and international climate activists. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1570> France: Sarkozy rejected in regional elections <http://links.org.au/node/1569> By the executive committee of the *New Anti-Capitalist Party* March 14, 2010 -- Paris -- Two major lessons emerge from the first round of the regional elections. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1569> Thailand's `class war': Hundreds of thousands take to the streets to demand democracy <http://links.org.au/node/1567> By *Giles Ji Ungpakorn* March 15, 2010 -- Hundreds of thousands of Thai Red Shirt pro-democracy demonstrators took to the streets of Bangkok and other cities over the weekend of March 13-14. This was a show of force to prove the strength of the movement and to dispel any lies by the royalist government and the media that the Red Shirts are not representative of the majority. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1567> Israel's apartheid: Making Palestinians pay for Hitler's crimes <http://links.org.au/node/1566> By *Suzanne Weiss* This speech was given by Suzanne Weiss on March 2, 2010, to a meeting of students at the University of Waterloo in Canada, held as part of the Israeli Apartheid Week. Suzanne Weiss, a holocaust survivor, is a member of Not in Our Name: Jewish Voices Against Zionism and of the Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid in Toronto. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1566> Why global capitalism is tipping towards collapse, and how we can act for a decent future <http://links.org.au/node/1565> / /March 15, 2010 -- This is an excerpt from an essay that forms the entire contents of the March 2010 edition of /UNITY/, Socialist Worker New Zealand's quarterly Marxist journal for grassroots activists. Following editions of the journal will expand on the crises which are converging to tip global capitalism towards collapse. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1565> * * * 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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