[Imc-zimbabwe] What's new at Links: Green jobs, Venezuela, Honduras, Cory Aquino & the left, new Pakistan book, Malaysia, US health, population and climate

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What's new at Links: Green jobs, Venezuela, Honduras, Cory Aquino & the 
left, new Pakistan book, Malaysia, US health, population and climate

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    Lucas Aerospace -- When workers said `no' to military production,
    `yes' to green jobs <http://links.org.au/node/1216>

By Rob Marsden
August 22, 2009 -- Socialist Resistance -- Today, the twin drivers of 
economic recession and the possibility of catastrophic climate change 
are beginning to push working people towards action. A series of 
small-scale but high-profile occupations of threatened factories, not 
just at Vestas wind turbine plant but also at Visteon car plant, where 
600 workers took on the might of Ford and won a greatly enhanced 
redundancy package, show what is possible. In the 1970s workers at 
Britain's Lucas Aerospace went even further. We look back at the lessons 
of Lucas Aerospace.

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1216>


    Photo essay: Venezuela's Comuna 'Renacer del Sur' -- people's power
    in practice <http://links.org.au/node/1211>

By Peter Boyle
August 20, 2009 -- At the base of the Bolivarian revolutionary process 
in Venezuela are some 30,000 communal councils. These are pictures of 
some of the people active in communal councils in poor barrios 
(neighbourhoods) in the south of the city of Valencia. They were taken 
in November 2008 when members of the Australian-Venezuela Solidarity 
Netwok brigade were hosted by the Comuna ``Renacer del Sur'' (Rebith of 
the South Commune).
Daniel Sanchez, a leader of the Rebirth of the South Commune, and Yoly 
Fernandez, a community organiser in Mission Mercal, Venezuela's 
subsidised food program, are touring Australia in August and September 
to explain how "people's power" is transforming their country and 
creating a new socialism of the 21st century.

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1211>


    Melbourne, August 28-29: Latin America Solidarity Conference 2009
    <http://links.org.au/node/1166>

People´s Power is changing the world
Latin America Solidarity Conference 2009
August 28-29, 2009 - Victorian Trades Hall, Melbourne, Australia
http://www.solidarityconference2009.org
<http://www.solidarityconference2009.org/>

Major cracks are appearing in the global capitalist system - cracks that 
are being forced open by the tide of rebellions and revolutions across 
Latin America.

Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1166>


    Win a trip to Venezuela! Drawn on August 30, 2009
    <http://links.org.au/node/971>

Win a trip to Venezuela!

...and strengthen the solidarity movement with Venezuela's revolution 

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/971>


    Honduras: pre-revolutionary situation? <http://links.org.au/node/1215>

By Ricardo Arturo Salgado, translated by Felipe Stuart Cournoyer
August 22, 2009 -- Pre-revolutionary situation? Some analyses of the 
situation in Honduras are fairly static. We have to differ with many 
local and foreign analysts who have tried to understand the situation in 
Honduras by imposing pre-existing parameters and by using basic concepts 
of the Marxist dialectic without any scientific criterion. Many have 
seen a failure of the Honduran grassroots resistance, failing to 
understand that historical materialism is not a mathematical formula 
where only variables change, but rather, a way to interpret reality 
objectively.

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1215>


    The Philippines left and Corazon Aquino <http://links.org.au/node/1214>

By Reihana Mohideen
August 14, 2009 - Former president of the Philippines Corazon Aquino 
died on August 1. Following the 1983 assassination of Benigno Aquino, 
her husband, Cory Aquino became the Philippine's leading bourgeois 
opposition figure to the US-backed dictator Ferdinand Marcos. She stood 
against Marcos in the 1986 presidential election. After Marcos was 
proclaimed the winner of the blatantly rigged election, a mass uprising 
- dubbed the ``people power revolution'' -- overthrew Marcos and Aquino 
became president. She was in office from 1986 to 1992.
The Philippines left's reaction to the death of Corazon Aquino has been 
intriguing.

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1214>


    Pakistan: Farooq Tariq's new book `Facing the Musharraf
    Dictatorship' (free download) <http://links.org.au/node/1213>

Below is spokesperson for the Labour Party Pakistan Farooq Tariq's 
introduction to his new book, Facing the Musharraf Dictatorship: An 
Activist's Narrative. Following that is the preface by Peter Boyle, 
national secretary of the Democratic Socialist Perspective of Australia. 
Facing the Musharraf Dictatorship is available from Good Books Lahore. 
Email goodbooks_1 [at] yahoo.com to order a hard copy. You can also 
download the entire 300-page PDF file at the end of the two articles below.

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1213>


    Honduras: Asking the right questions to reach better answers
    <http://links.org.au/node/1212>

By Ricardo Arturo Salgado, translated from the Spanish by Felipe Stuart 
Cournoyer
August 21, 2009 -- Tegucigalpa -- A lot has been written on the Honduran 
situation, more in solidarity with opposition to the coup than in favour 
of it. The media seems to feed on scandalous news -- no blood, no news. 
Unless what's involved is a people on the way to liberation...

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1212>


    United States: Healthcare `town hall' meeting a charade of democracy
    <http://links.org.au/node/1210>

By Billy Wharton
August 19, 2009 -- The were two big winners at the recent "town hall" 
healthcare meeting held in the North Bronx, New York City, neighbourhood 
of Parkchester on August 17 - the lunatic right wing and the private 
health insurance industry. These victories came despite the fact that 
the vast majority of those who lined up to participate in the meeting 
supported either a single-payer system or a public option. Most came 
away disappointed. I got kicked out.

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1210>


    Climate change: Why population is not the problem
    <http://links.org.au/node/1209>

By Jess Moore
August 9, 2009 -- We face a climate crisis and something needs to 
change. The world's resources are finite, as is the amount of 
destruction humans can do to the planet if we are to survive. There is a 
debate in the environment movement about whether or not curbing 
population is an essential part of the solution. We have a decade, maybe 
a decade and a half, to transform our current relationship with the 
planet. Of course, the starting point for environmentalists cannot be 
solutions. We first need to identify the cause of the crisis before we 
can know how to fight it.

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1209>


    Malaysia: People's power defeats evictions at Kampung Buah Pala --
    for now <http://links.org.au/node/1208>

By the Socialist Party of Malaysia
August 13, 2009 -- Pulau Pinang, Malaysia -- Today was the moment of 
truth for Kampung Buah Pala villagers. It was the third time that their 
homes have faced demolition. But it was the first time that the local 
villagers outnumbered the outsiders who were the majority during the 
previous attempt on August 4. Today, when the police, the developer and 
the bailiff came, the villagers did not have the luxury of the presence 
of state assemblymen, MPs, the state government representative or even 
lawyers. Only a handful of Socialist Party of Malaysia (PSM, Parti 
Sosialis Malaysia) members and Hindraf [a civil rights organisation] 
supporters were with the villagers.

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1208>


    The coup in Honduras, ALBA and the English-speaking Caribbean
    <http://links.org.au/node/1207>

By Faiz Ahmed
The military coup carried out by masked soldiers in the early hours of 
June 28 against the democratically elected President of Honduras, José 
Manuel Zelaya Rosales, was a bandit act with differing messages intended 
for different audiences. One such audience is the oligarchical groupings 
throughout the hemisphere, who will be emboldened by Washington's tacit 
tolerance of the coup makers. Another audience is the Latin American 
leftist and popular governments, who are being told that their agendas 
can be trumped by non-democratic means. And there is yet another 
audience: the predominantly English-speaking Caribbean governments who, 
like Zelaya, are far from ideologically opposed to capitalism, but are 
aware of their inability to improve the overall quality of life of their 
societies within capitalism's current configuration.

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1207>

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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. It is a forum for 
open and constructive dialogue between active socialists coming from 
different political traditions. It seeks to bring together those in the 
international left who are opposed to neoliberal economic and social 
policies. It aims to promote the renewal of the socialist movement in 
the wake of the collapse of the bureaucratic model of "actually existing 
socialism" in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.

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