[Imc-zimbabwe] What's new at Links: South American revolution, Brazil, Israeli apartheid, Bolivia, Tamils, Gaza, Germany, Hamas, Bolsheviks, BBC

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What's new at Links: South American revolution, Brazil, Israeli 
apartheid, Bolivia, Tamils, Gaza, Germany, Hamas, Bolsheviks, BBC

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    Luis Bilbao: Venezuela and `the rebirth of the idea of revolution'
    <http://links.org.au/node/886> .

Interview with Luis Bilbao, conducted by Agustina Desalvo for the 
Argentinian journal Razón y Revolución, issue #18 (second semester 
2008). Translated by Links International Journal of Socialist 
Renewal/Green Left Weekly's Federico Fuentes. Luis Bilbao is a central 
participant in the construction of the mass United Socialist Party of 
Venezuela (PSUV) and in the formation of the Union of South American 
Nations (UNASUR); founding editor of the Latin America-wide monthly 
magazine América XXI. Luis Bilbao will be a featured guest at the World 
at a Crossroads conference, to be held in Sydney, Australia, on April 
10-12, 2009, organised by the Democratic Socialist Perspective and Green 
Left Weekly. Visit http://www.worldATACrossroads.org for full agenda and 
to book your tickets.

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/886>


    Brazil: Landless Workers' Movement marks 25th anniversary, announces
    `new phase' in struggle <http://links.org.au/node/883>

Joao Pedro Stedile (video) addresses the January 24, 2009, national 
meeting of Brazil's Landless Workers' Movement, marking the MST's 25th 
anniversary. Stedile is co-founder of the MST. Below the videos Michael 
Fox reports on the MST's ``new phase'' in the agrarian reform struggle, 
against Brazil's mainly US-owned agro-industry.

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/883>


    Lessons from South Africa for the fight against Israeli apartheid
    <http://links.org.au/node/878>

Salim Vally of the Palestine Solidarity Committee of South Africa, 
addressing a meeting on February 7, 2008, part of Toronto's Israeli 
Apartheid Week, draws on the experiences of the South African 
anti-apartheid movement to inspire the Palestinian anti-apartheid 
movement. Salim Vally was deeply involved in the South African 
anti-apartheid movement.

Watch at http://links.org.au/node/878


    Sydney, April 10-12 (Easter), 2009: World at a Crossroads - Fighting
    for Socialism in the 21st Century <http://links.org.au/node/756>


World At a Crossroads:

Fighting for Socialism in the 21st Century

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/756>


    Sri Lanka: Genocide of the Tamil minority <http://links.org.au/node/885>

By Brian Senewiratne
January 23, 2009 -- There is a humanitarian crisis in Sri Lanka, where 
the Tamil minority in the island's north and east are facing 
annihilation at the hands of the Sinhalese-dominated government. This 
article will deal with the current crisis, with the more fundamental 
problem of the legacy left by colonial British rule (1796-1948) dealt 
with in later articles. These colonial administrative structures will 
need to be reversed of there is ever to be peace or prosperity in Sri Lanka.

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/885>


    Bolivia's vice-president:'We are consolidating our process of
    change' <http://links.org.au/node/884>

Interview with Bolivia's vice-president Alvaro Garcia Linera conducted 
by Pablo Stefanoni from Argentina's Clarin newspaper. Introduction and 
translation by Green Left Weekly's Federico Fuentes.
January 31, 2009 -- The people of Bolivia on January 25 voted 
overwhelming to approve a new constitution, a demand first raised by the 
indigenous movements in the early 1990s. It was also a key promise of 
the successful 2005 election campaign of the country's first indigenous 
president, Evo Morales.

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/884>


    Solidarity map of Israel's Gaza massacres <http://links.org.au/node/882>

By Solidarity Maps
Solidarity Maps is a project from a group of Lebanese and Palestinian 
designers, architects, researchers, media people, and many other random 
activists who have worked together previously, mainly doing media and 
mapping work during the summer 2006 Israeli attack on Lebanon, and some 
of them later on advocacy and design for the reconstruction of Nahr 
el-Bared refugee camp.

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/882>


    Italian metalworkers, Western Aust. maritime workers call for
    boycott of apartheid Israel <http://links.org.au/node/881>

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/881>


    Germany: Die Linke, Hesse and the `super election' year
    <http://links.org.au/node/880>

By Duroyan Fertl
January 29, 2009 -- Germany kicked off a "super election year" on 
January 18 when voters in the western German state of Hesse returned to 
the polls for the second time in twelve months. The new election had 
become necessary after months of negotiations to form a coalition 
government collapsed late last year, when four parliamentary members of 
the Social Democratic Party (SPD) rebelled against a plan to form 
government with the assistance of the far-left party, Die Linke.

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/880>


    Hamas and Palestine's right to exist <http://links.org.au/node/879>

By Tony Iltis
January 28, 2009 -- If Western politicians and media are to be believed, 
the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) is an anti-Semitic, 
religious fundamentalist, terrorist outfit that forms part of an al 
Qaeda- (or, alternatively, Iranian-) led movement which seeks to 
violently impose Islamic law on the world, and is dedicated to the 
annihilation of Jews.
However, what is Hamas's actual practice and the source of its strong 
popularity among Palestinians?

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/879>


    Pamphlet: Revolutionaries and parliament: The Bolshevik experience
    <http://links.org.au/node/877>

By Maurice Sibelle
One of the greatest obstacles to winning working people to the 
perspective of a socialist revolution is the widespread and deeply 
ingrained illusion -- inculcated in their minds day-in and day-out by 
the capitalist rulers -- that through the institutions of bourgeois 
democracy, particularly parliament, working people can defend and 
advance their interests.

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/877>


    The aid appeal that the BBC does not want you to see
    <http://links.org.au/node/876>

By Dave Riley
That emergency appeal for humanitarian aid for Gaza that the BBC refuses 
to broadcast? Watch it for yourself:

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/876>

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