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What's new at Links: Thailand, Bolivia, N-power, Greens, Philippines, Chicka Dixon, Canada, COSATU on Terre’Blanche, Québec, Oscar Romero, climate * * * 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. * * * Thailand: Asia-Pacific left statement -- `Resolve crisis through democracy, not crackdown!' <http://links.org.au/node/1613> By *Socialist Party of Malaysia* (PSM), *Working People's Association* (PRP) of Indonesia, *People’s Democratic Party* (PRD) of Indonesia, *Turn Left Thailand*, *Partido Lakas ng Masa* (PLM) of the Philippines*, Socialist Alliance* of Australia, *Solidarity* (Australia) April 10, 2010 -- We are deeply concerned over the current situation in Thailand where military-backed Prime Minister Ahbisit Vejjajiva has declared a state of emergency and started a bloody crackdown amidst escalating protests calling for a fresh election. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1613> Bolivia: Bittersweet victory highlights obstacles for process of change <http://links.org.au/node/1611> By *Federico Fuentes*, Caracas April 10, 2010 Although final figures will not be known until April 24, the results of Bolivia's April 4 regional elections have ratified the continued advance of the "democratic and cultural revolution" led by the country's first Indigenous president, Evo Morales. However, it also highlights some of the shortcomings and obstacles the process of change faces. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1611> (Updated April 11) Thailand: Tyrants shoot the people to cling to power; Time for immediate fresh elections <http://links.org.au/node/1610> *STOP PRESS -- April 10, 2010* By *Giles Ji Ungpakorn* Soldiers armed with live and rubber bullets and CS gas have attacked the peaceful pro-democracy Red Shirts at various spots in the centre of Bangkok. At least 15 people, Red Shirts and one Japanese Reuters reporter, have been shot dead by armed troops using automatic weapons, and tanks [were used] against peaceful pro-democracy demonstrators. Hundreds more people have been injured. The military-backed government of Abhisit Vejjajiva has blood on its hands and should resign immediately. Some soldiers have been taken prisoner and weapons seized. Red Shirts outside Bangkok have seized many provincial headquarters. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1610> Why James Hansen is wrong on nuclear power <http://links.org.au/node/1607> By *Renfrey Clarke* April 8, 2010 -- “When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?” Attributed to economist J.M. Keynes, that retort has always been good advice. Now that carrying on with “business as usual” greenhouse gas emissions has been revealed as a road to disaster, should environmentalists change their minds on nuclear power? * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1607> The Australian Greens: mainstream party or minor irritant? <http://links.org.au/node/1612> The following speech was delivered as the 10th Annual Juanita Nielsen Lecture, on March 23, 2010. Sylvia Hale is a Greens member of the NSW state parliament, elected to the Legislative Council (upper house) in 2003. Juanita Nielsen was a campaigner against the big business development of Kings Cross, Sydney, who disappeared in 1975, and widely suspected of having been kidnapped and murdered by crime figures associated with property developers. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1612> Philippines: Ric Reyes for Pasig mayor -- a model electoral campaign for the left <http://links.org.au/node/1609> / /By *Reihana Mohideen* April 7, 2010 -- Ric Reyes' campaign for mayor of the city Pasig was formally launched at a 5000-strong local rally on March 26. The march, the biggest to be held in that city for many years, snaked its way on a "long march" through the working-class sections of Pasig. Ric Reyes' campaign is a model campaign for the left – an example of how to conduct a united, principled and effective electoral intervention. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1609> The thoughts of `Chairman' Chicka Dixon; `The Fox has the last laugh <http://links.org.au/node/1608> */"I believe every woman of this planet is my sister. I believe every man on this planet is my brother. Like all Kooris [Indigenous people] I know the earth is my mother. We must learn to share with those three. If the rest of the world could adopt that philosophy of caring and sharing, there would be no wars. But most importantly, there would be no starving children." /*-- the late *Charles "Chicka" "the Fox" Dixon.* * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1608> Canada: New openings for workers in Toronto <http://links.org.au/node/1606> / /By *Herman Rosenfeld* March 2010 -- In the context of an economic crisis where working people in Ontario, Canada, have suffered major setbacks, organised labour’s response has so far been disappointing... This has forced activists in the trade union movement, and the left more widely, to confront the limits of our present organisational situation, and to begin to look for new ways to move forward. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1606> COSATU on the murder of Eugene Terre’Blanche: `an enemy of democracy, a racist and a fascist' <http://links.org.au/node/1605> By *Patrick Craven*, COSATU national spokesperson April 6, 2010 -- COSATU will remember Terre’Blanche as an enemy of democracy, a racist and a fascist. His Nazi AWB tried to sabotage our transition to majority rule, when they forced their way into the World Trade Centre when our democracy was being negotiated, and when they invaded Bophuthatswana to defend a hated Bantustan system our people had rejected [in 1994]. He was also typical of the worst type of employer on South Africa’s farms. The reported circumstances of his murder speak volumes about the appalling state of labour relations on farms. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1605> Photo essay: `May my blood be the seed of liberty' -- Assassinated 30 years ago, Monsignor Oscar Romero honoured <http://links.org.au/node/1604> Photos and text by *James Rodriguez*, San Salvador, El Salvador * More <http://links.org.au/node/1604> Québec: Why the Parti Québécois expelled SPQ Libre <http://links.org.au/node/1603> By *Richard Fidler* March 30, 2010 -- A five-year long attempt to reform the Parti Québécois (PQ) as an independentist and “social-democratic” party ended abruptly on March 13 when the PQ’s national executive decided not to renew recognition of its left-wing “political club” as an authorised grouping with the party. * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1603> Fourth International: Mobilisation for the climate and anti-capitalist strategy <http://links.org.au/node/1602> [The following documents dealing with capitalism's climate crisis were presented at the 16th World Congress of the Fourth International, held in Belgium in February 2010.] * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1602> * * * 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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