[A-List] What's new at Links: Solidarity with Gaza from Bolivia & Venezuela, Jewish and Israeli opposition; Thailand, S. Africa, Apartheid Israeli, Tariq Ali, Malaysia

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What's new at Links: Solidarity with Gaza from Bolivia & Venezuela, 
Jewish and Israeli opposition; Thailand, S. Africa, Apartheid Israeli, 
Tariq Ali, Malaysia

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    Bolivia breaks ties over Gaza, will take Israel to ICC/Bolivia rompe
    relaciones diplomáticas con Israel en solidaridad con Gaza
    <http://links.org.au/node/855>

January 14, 2009 -- Al Jazeera -- Evo Morales, the president of Bolivia, 
says he is breaking off ties with Israel in protest against its war in 
Gaza, which has left more than 1000 Palestinians dead. Morales said on 
Wednesday that he would seek to get top Israeli officials, including 
Ehud Olmert, the Israeli prime minister, charged with "genocide" in the 
International Criminal Court.

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/855>


    Jewish and Israeli opposition to Israel's Gaza slaughter (updated
    Jan. 17) <http://links.org.au/node/851>

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/851>


    Thailand: Petition -- Defend freedom of speech. Stop the use of
    `lese majeste' laws <http://links.org.au/node/859>

Please sign this open letter and ask others to sign.

Stop the use of lese majeste laws in Thailand. Defend freedom of speech
We, the undersigned, oppose the use of lese majeste in Thailand in order 
to prevent freedom of speech and academic freedom. We demand that the 
government cease all proceedings in lese majeste cases.

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/859>


    Palestine government salutes Venezuela's Hugo Chavez
    <http://links.org.au/node/858>

President Hugo Chavez,

Your Excellency, President Hugo Chavez,
We, the people of Palestine, commend your courage to speak and act upon 
your conscience regardless of your detractors' criticism or cowardice.
Mr. President, we have watched death rain upon our families and children 
in Gaza for weeks; and yet we stand proud and ready for any outcome. We 
are a resilient people who wish for peace but will fight rather than bow 
to injustice. We live and die by the codes of our forefathers -- codes 
of honor, integrity, truth and bravery.
Throughout history, in a just conflict, there always emerges a champion, 
a single hero who, by his actions, embodies all the virtues the masses 
aspire to. You have demonstrated that you are such a man.

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/858>


    South Africa's new opposition party: Face to face with `Terror'
    <http://links.org.au/node/857>

The following was presented by social movement activist Ashwin Desai as 
part of the December 18, 2008, Harold Wolpe lecture and debate with 
Mosiuoa ``Terror'' Lekota, leader of the newly formed Congress of the 
People (COPE). It was held at the Centre for Civil Society, University 
of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban. COPE was formed by supporters of the former 
president of the ANC Thabo Mbeki in protest at his replacement by Jacob 
Zuma.

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/857>


    COSATU leader Zwelinzima Vavi: Sanction and boycott apartheid
    Israel! <http://links.org.au/node/856>

By Zwelinzima Vavi, general secretary, Congress of South African Trade 
Unions (COSATU)
January 14, 2009 -- From our own experience, we know how painful and 
dehumanising is the system of segregation, otherwise known as apartheid. 
Apartheid is a system based on the assumption that one group or race is 
superior to others and therefore has a right to all the privileges and 
virtues associated with that particular status. It has a right to run 
and determine the lives of others, excluding them from certain 
privileges, merely because they do not belong to the "chosen" group.
What other definition would so fittingly define a system based on 
different rights and privileges for Jews and Arabs in the Middle East? 
The bantustanisation of Palestine into pieces or strips -- West Bank, 
Ramallah, Gaza Strip and so on -- run by Israel and with no rights 
whatsoever for the Palestinians, is definitely an apartheid system.

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/856>


    Young Israeli socialist speaks out for a free Palestine
    <http://links.org.au/node/854>

January 7, 2009 -- Isaac Shuisha, an Israeli citizen and student 
involved in the Palestine solidarity movement in Sydney, spoke to Green 
Left Weekly's Simon Butler about the reasons behind Israel's assault on 
Gaza and the campaign for a free Palestine. Shuisha is a member of the 
socialist youth organisation, Resistance.

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/854>


    Israel -- an apartheid state <http://links.org.au/node/853>

By Tony Iltis
January 6, 2009 -- In a 1969 interview, then-Israeli PM Golda Meir, 
referring to the creation of the State of Israel in 1948, said: "It is 
not as though there was a Palestinian people ... and we came and threw 
them out and took their country ... They did not exist."
Of course, the Palestinian people did, and still do, exist. This 
inconvenient fact helps explain why Israel is forced to continuously 
resort to brutal military force.

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/853>


    Tariq Ali on Israel's massacres in Gaza <http://links.org.au/node/852>

Tariq Ali addresses the Stop Gaza Massacres meeting in London, January 
8, 2009. Organised by Stop the War Coalition UK.

Watch at http://links.org.au/node/852


    Thailand: Activist Giles Ji Ungpakorn faces arrest for `insulting'
    monarchy (now with excerpts from Coup for the Rich)
    <http://links.org.au/node/850>

Readers of Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal are urged to 
send letters of protest and calling for all charges against Giles Ji 
Ungpakorn to be dropped. Send them to the Thailand's Prime Minister 
Abhisit Vejjajiva at Government House, Bangkok, Thailand,  fax number 
+66 (0) 29727751. Please also write letters of protest to the ambassador 
of the Royal Thai embassy in your own country.

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/850>


    Malaysian police detain anti-war protesters; PSM slams minister's
    'double standards' <http://links.org.au/node/848>

January 10, 2009 -- The police have arrested 21 people, including member 
of parliament for Klang MP Charles Santiago and several top leaders of 
the Socialist Party of Malaysia (Parti Sosialis Malaysia -- PSM, at an 
anti-war vigil at Dataran Merdeka, Kuala Lumpur. The vigil was organised 
by Anti-War Coalition to show support to the victims of war and 
aggression in Palestine and Sri Lanka.

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/848>

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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 
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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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