[Imc-zimbabwe] What's new at Links: left unity, Marta Harnecker, Chicka Dixon, S. Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Easter Rising, Indonesia, climate change, FI on VI

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What's new at Links: left unity, Marta Harnecker, Chicka Dixon, S. 
Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Easter Rising, Indonesia, climate change, FI 
on VI

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    'Socialism of the 21st century' and left unity
    <http://links.org.au/node/1600>

By the Socialist Alliance, Australia
[The following is the text of a leaflet being distributed by the 
Socialist Alliance in Melbourne.]
April 2, 2010 -- The triumphalism spouted by capitalist apologists in 
the early 1990s with the collapse of the Soviet Union has long gone. 
Today the problems are so obvious: global warming and the world economic 
slump are shaking the capitalist world and casting a growing shadow over 
the future.

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1600>


    Marta Harnecker: `Socialism is a search for a fully democratic
    society' <http://links.org.au/node/1599>

Marta Harnecker interviewed by Edwin Herrera Salinas, for the Bolivian 
newspaper La Razón.

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1599>


    Australia: Freedom fighter Chicka Dixon departs, his activist spirit
    lives on <http://links.org.au/node/1595>

By Peter Boyle, Sydney
March 31, 2010 -- Indigenous and trade union activist Chicka "The Fox" 
Dixon (1928-2010) was farewelled by more than a thousand people in a 
state funeral in Sydney Town Hall today.

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1595>


    Conference of the Democratic Left: Unite to make another South
    Africa and world possible! <http://links.org.au/node/1601>

The following call was issued by the Conference of the Democratic Left, 
a left unity project in South Africa.

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1601>


    Ireland: The 1916 Easter Rising -- striking a blow against an insane
    system <http://links.org.au/node/1598>

By Stuart Munckton
April 2, 2010 -- Easter is here again -- the anniversay of the Irish 
rebellion against British rule in Easter 1916. Over Easter week, Irish 
rebels took control of key parts of Dublin and declared a republic. It 
took seven days for the British to put the rising down.

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1598>


    Download Daniel Bensaïd's `Revolutionary Strategy Today'
    <http://links.org.au/node/1597>

By Liam Mac Uaid

March 31, 2010 -- The International Institute for Research and Education 
(IIRE) is an Amsterdam-based centre providing activists and scholars 
around the world with opportunities for research and education. It is 
offering a free download of the late Daniel Bensaïd's Revolutionary 
Strategy Today.

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1597>


    Indonesia: Working People's Association's (PRP) goal is a new
    workers' party <http://links.org.au/node/1596>

March 31, 2010 -- Socialist Alliance national convenor Peter Boyle 
interviews Ignatius Mahendra Kusumawardhana, the international relations 
officer for the Working People's Association (Perhimpunian Rakyat 
Pekerja - PRP) of Indonesia, who was in Australia to speak at Socialist 
Alternative's "Marxism 2010" conference in Melbourne, April 2-5, 2010.

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1596>


    Namibia: Reflections on 20 years after independence
    <http://links.org.au/node/1594>

By Jade McClune, Windhoek
March 23, 2010 -- Twenty years ago, at Namibia's first independence 
celebrations on March 21, 1990, many people would have shared the hopes 
and the euphoria of the moment. People thought that something good would 
come to us if we kept our peace and relinquished all the power to "the 
few who knew". Now that terrible hangover is wearing off and time has 
enforced a certain sobriety on us: the brutish reality of a rapidly 
falling life expectancy, unprecedented epidemic crises, poverty, vast 
malnutrition, a ruined education system and chronic mass unemployment, 
is inescapable.

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1594>


    After Copenhagen: Can we save the world? Video: Is the climate sick
    of us <http://links.org.au/node/1593>

Ian Angus, editor of Climate and Capitalism, gave the talk below in 
Lisbon, Portugal, on March 26, 2010, at the O Clima Farto de Nós? (Is 
the climate sick of us?) gathering, a conference organised by the Left 
Bloc of Portugal and the European Left.

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1593>


    Fourth International's response to Chavez's call to found a Fifth
    Socialist International <http://links.org.au/node/1592>

[The following is an excerpt from the "Role and tasks of the Fourth 
International", a report adopted by the Fourth International at its 16th 
World Congress held in Belgium in February 2010.]
Chavez's call to found a Fifth International poses other questions about 
its origins, its framework, that is to say, its viability. The Fourth 
International declares that it is willing to participate in the debates 
and preparatory meetings that may be organised.

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1592>


    Fourth International: Report on international situation to the 16th
    World Congress; Role and tasks of the FI <http://links.org.au/node/1591>

By Laurent Carasso
February 2010 -- This report will not attempt a detailed survey of the 
world but will try to stress what is most significant, what, in our 
view, should come under a common understanding of events and tasks. On 
many regional situations, the comrades will broadly enrich the 
discussion through their interventions.

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1591>


    Zimbabwe: Despite Mugabe's opportunism, radical land reform is
    necessary <http://links.org.au/node/1590>

By Grasian Mkodzongi
March 11, 2010 -- Zimbabwe's land issue has generated unprecedented 
debates both within and outside the country. The debates, which followed 
the dramatic occupations of white farms by rural peasants in the late 
1990s, are generally polarised between those who support radical land 
reform and those who support market-orientated reforms.

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1590>

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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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