What's new at Links: Tamil oppression, US blockade of Cuba, Monthly rev...@60, climate, Bad banks, Malaysia, Iran, media lies, Pakistan, Arabic, Indonesia
* * * 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/. * * * Sri Lanka: Brian Senewiratne on the humanitarian crisis facing the Tamil people <http://links.org.au/node/1318> October 22, 2009 -- In September 2008, the government of Sri Lanka ordered all aid agencies (including the UN agencies) to leave the ``northern war zone'' -- inhabited by Tamils -- of Sri Lanka. Socialist Alliance member *Brian Senewiratne *explains the history of Sri Lanka and the attacks on the oppressed Tamil people of the north and east. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1318> Cuba's 2009 report to United Nations on the US economic blockade <http://links.org.au/node/1315> **To be presented to the UN General Assembly on October 28, 2009 * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1315> `Monthly Review' at 60: Six decades of campaigning for `social and ecological revolution' <http://links.org.au/node/1314> Monthly Review/ editor //John Bellamy Foster (introduced by Robert McChesney) speaking at the 60th anniversary celebration of the independent socialist magazine. / * Watch and read more <http://links.org.au/node/1314> When the climate change centre cannot hold <http://links.org.au/node/1317> By *Patrick Bond* October 26, 2009 -- After the October 24-25 weekend in which 350.org and thousands of allies around the world valiantly tried to raise global consciousness about impending catastrophe (see slideshow below, photos from 350.org), we can ask some tough questions about what to do after people have departed and the props packed up. No matter the laudable big-tent activism, let's face it: global climate governance is gridlocked and it seems clear that no meaningful deal can be sealed in Copenhagen on December 18. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1317> System's defenders warn of 'collapse' of global capitalism <http://links.org.au/node/1316> By *Grant Morgan* October 22, 2009 -- Something molecular is changing in the DNA of capitalism. Look at these three recent quotes: "The future will be a total disaster, with a collapse of our capitalistic system as we know it today" "Capitalism is near the tipping point, unprepared for a catastrophe, set up for collapse and rapid decline." "There is a high probability of a crisis and collapse by 2012. The 'Great Depression 2' is dead ahead. Unfortunately, there's absolutely nothing you can do to hide from this unfolding reality or prevent the rush of the historical imperative." What's particularly important about these quotes is who made them. Not socialists. No, they were made by ardent, intelligent and reputable defenders of capitalism. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1316> Socialist Party of Malaysia: `Stop collusion with Sri Lankan govt! Stop repatriation of Sri Lankan refugees! <http://links.org.au/node/1313> By *Dr. Jeyakumar Devaraj* October 22, 2009 -- The Socialist Party of Malaysia (PSM) is concerned for the safety and wellbeing of the 207 Sri Lankan asylum seekers who are being held at the Immigration Detention Centre at the Kuala Lumpar International Airport (KLIA), as well as the 108 Sri Lankan refugees detained at the Pekan Nanas Immigration Detention Centre. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1313> Iran: Where is the Islamic Republic going? <http://links.org.au/node/1312> By *Houshang Sepehr* What is happening in Iran is a spontaneous, ingenious and independent revolt by a people frustrated by thirty years of tyranny by an obscurantist, religious regime, a revolt that was unleashed by electoral fraud. The present situation is only the result of a long and complex process which has been taking place inside the regime, a deep crisis, located on the one hand at the summit of the governing circles and within the ruling class, and on the other hand within Iranian society. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1312> Why the international media lies about events in Latin America <http://links.org.au/node/1311> By *Eric Toussaint, *translated by* Francesca Denley *and* Judith Harris * October 21, 2009 -- It may be useful to assess the dangers of the systematically hostile attitude of the overwhelming majority of major European and North American media companies to the current events taking place in Ecuador, Bolivia and Venezuela. This hostility is only matched by an embarrassed, complicit silence towards those involved in the putsch in Honduras and the repression of the Peruvian army against the Indigenous populations of the Amazon. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1311> Pakistan: Workers' leader killed in suicide attack <http://links.org.au/node/1310> By *Farooq Tariq* October 21, 2009 -- A prominent labour leader Master Khudad Khan was killed in suicide attack in Peshawar on October 15. He was on his way to a meeting and was passing by an intelligence centre when a religious fanatic blew himself up killing him and several others on the spot. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1310> The Flame, October 2009 -- Green Left Weekly's Arabic-language supplement <http://links.org.au/node/1309> October 21, 2009 -- With the help of Socialist Alliance members in the growing Sudanese community in Australia, /Green Left Weekly/ -- Australia's leading socialist newspaper -- is publishing a regular Arabic language supplement. The /Flame /will cover news from the Arabic-speaking world as well as news and issues from within Australia. The editor-in-chief is Soubhi Iskander, a comrade who has endured years of imprisonment and torture at the hands of the repressive government in Sudan. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1309> Indonesia: President's inauguration marked by anti-neoliberal protests <http://links.org.au/node/1308> By *Ulfa Ilyas*, Surabaya October 20, 2009 -- Thousands of people protested at the national parliament building in Jakarta today, during the inauguration of Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono as Indonesia's new president and Boediono as vice-president. Protesters demanded that the president put an end to neoliberal policies during his second term, because they have been proven to be a failure and have brought suffering to the people of the world, including Indonesia. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1308> * * * 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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