[A-List] What's new at Links: John Bellamy Foster, Fifth International, Fidel Castro, DSP merges, Malaysia, Cuba pamphlet, Morning Star at 80, Honduras, Bolivia

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What's new at Links: John Bellamy Foster, Fifth International, Fidel 
Castro, DSP merges, Malaysia, Cuba pamphlet, Morning Star at 80, Honduras, 
Bolivia

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    John Bellamy Foster: Why ecological revolution?
    <http://links.org.au/node/1454>

By John Bellamy Foster
January 2010 -- It is now universally recognised within science that 
humanity is confronting the prospect -- if we do not soon change course 
-- of a planetary ecological collapse. Not only is the global ecological 
crisis becoming more and more severe, with the time in which to address 
it fast running out, but the dominant environmental strategies are also 
forms of denial, demonstrably doomed to fail, judging by their own 
limited objectives. This tragic failure, I will argue, can be attributed 
to the refusal of the powers that be to address the roots of the 
ecological problem in capitalist production and the resulting necessity 
of ecological and social revolution.

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1454>


    Fidel Castro: 51 years after the revolution, the struggle is now to
    save our species <http://links.org.au/node/1446>

By Fidel Castro
January 3, 2010 -- As the Cuban Revolution celebrated its 51st 
anniversary two days ago, memories of that January 1, 1959, came to 
mind. The outlandish idea that, after half a century -- which flew by -- 
we would remember it as if it were yesterday, never occurred to any of us.

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1446>


    Australia: New era of left unity as DSP votes to merge with the
    Socialist Alliance <http://links.org.au/node/1444>

[The following speech, to the opening rally of the seventh national 
conference of the Socialist Alliance on January 2, 2010, was delivered 
by Peter Boyle, former national secretary of the Democratic Socialist 
Perspective.]
Comrades, My job tonight is to make the unusual - if not unexpected - 
announcement that the Democratic Socialist Perspective (DSP) decided 
today at its 24th congress to effectively dissolve into the Socialist 
Alliance and to transfer all that it has built up, over some four 
decades of its existence, to the Socialist Alliance.

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1444>


    Party of Socialism and Liberty, Brazil: Chavez's call to form the
    Fifth International and the world situation
    <http://links.org.au/node/1453>

By Pedro Fuentes
January 11, 2010 -- At the meeting of left-wing political parties and 
socialists held in Caracas on the eve of the congress of the United 
Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez 
called for the formation the Fifth Socialist International. In a strong 
speech in which he summarised the history of international socialist 
organisations, Chavez said, Confronting the capitalist crisis and the 
threat of war that threatens the future of humanity, it is time to 
convene the Fifth International, towards the unity of the left parties 
and revolutionaries willing to fight for socialism ... of the parties 
and socialist currents and social movements in the world to create a 
common strategy for the fight against imperialism, the overthrow of 
capitalism by socialism.

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1453>


    Socialist Party of Malaysia: `No more racism! Freedom of religion to
    all! <http://links.org.au/node/1452>

Statement by Socialist Party of Malaysia central committee
PSM condemns attacks on churches! Najib and Hishamuddin should take full 
responsibility!
January 8, 2010 -- The Parti Socialist Malaysia (PSM) is shocked to 
learn that three churches have been attacked in the last 12 hours in the 
Klang Valley - the Assumption Church in Jalan Templer, Petaling Jaya, 
the Life Chapel in Section 17, Petaling Jaya, and the Metro Tabernacle 
Church in Desa Melawati, Kuala Lumpur. The three-storey Metro Tabernacle 
church in Desa Melawati, part of the Assemblies of God movement, was set 
ablaze in the attack which took place around midnight.

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1452>


    Free pamphlet to download: `Cuba -- How the workers and peasants
    made the revolution' <http://links.org.au/node/1451>

On January 1, 1959 -- 51 years ago -- the hated US-backed Batista 
dictatorship in Cuba was overthrown by the workers, peasants and 
students. To mark that momentous occasion Links International Journal of 
Socialist Renewal is making freely available Resistance Books' Cuba: How 
the workers and peasants made the revolution, by Chris Slee (2008).

    * Download
      <http://links.org.au/node/1451>


    Britain: `Morning Star' celebrates 80th year of publication
    <http://links.org.au/node/1450>

By Mick Hall
January 6, 2010 -- Despite all its shortcomings and some might say murky 
history, the Morning Star is about to celebrate its 80th year of 
publication. Which in today's economic climate would be an achievement 
for any newspaper, but this is especially so for a radical left of 
centre daily and must surely be something to celebrate.

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1450>


    Honduras: Video -- Which Way? Audio -- Ricardo Salgado discusses
    situation after the `election <http://links.org.au/node/1449>

January 10, 2010 -- In October, 2009, a delegation of human rights 
observers from Chicago visited Honduras to witness the popular 
resistance to the coup d'etat. We interviewed many leaders of the 
movement, and recorded abuses against them perpetrated by the coup 
regime and its military apparatus. This video is a short example of the 
spirit of the resistance by the Honduran people, which continues despite 
the fraudulent election that took place on November 29, 2009.

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1449>


    Australia: International greetings to the Socialist Alliance's 7th
    national conference <http://links.org.au/node/1448>

January 9, 2010 -- Sydney -- The Socialist Alliance conference -- held 
January 2-5, 2010 -- was attended by representatives of a number of 
parties and organisations overseas, who presented verbal greetings to 
the conference. The greetings below were sent by organisations and 
activists unable to attend the conference.

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1448>


    Bolivia: Invitation to the Peoples' World Conference on Climate
    Change and Mother Earth's Rights <http://links.org.au/node/1447>

By Evo Morales, president of Bolivia
January 5, 2010 -- Considering that climate change represents a real 
threat to the existence of humanity, of living beings and our Mother 
Earth as we know it today; Noting the serious danger that exists to 
islands, coastal areas, glaciers in the Himalayas, the Andes and 
mountains of the world, the poles of the Earth, warm regions like 
Africa, water sources, populations affected by increasing natural 
disasters, plants and animals, and ecosystems in general; Making clear 
that those most affected by climate change will be the poorest in the 
world who will see their homes and their sources of survival destroyed, 
and who will be forced to migrate and seek refuge; Confirming that 75% 
of historical emissions of greenhouse gases originated in the countries 
of the global North that followed a path of irrational industrialisation;

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1447>


    Australia: 'It's time for the DSP to merge into the Socialist
    Alliance' <http://links.org.au/node/1445>

[This report, presented by Peter Boyle on behalf of the Australian 
Democratic Socialist Perspective (DSP) national executive was adopted, 
by the 24th DSP congress on January 2, 2010. See also ``Australia: New 
era of left unity as DSP votes to merge with the Socialist Alliance 
<http://links.org.au/node/1444>' <http://links.org.au/node/1444>'.]
We are proposing to take an important step forward in our party building 
effort, an effort that has now spanned some four decades. We propose, at 
this 24th congress, to merge the Democratic Socialist Perspective into 
the Socialist Alliance, to take everything we have learned and built 
over these years of political struggle (organised through the DSP) into 
a broader political organisation, an organisation which has a majority 
of members who don't come from the DSP.

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1445>


    Labour Party Pakistan endorses Fifth Socialist International process
    <http://links.org.au/node/1443>

The Labour Party Pakistan's National Committee meeting on December 
26-27, 2009, held in Islamabad agreed to endorse the declaration for the 
Fifth International. The LPP leadership discussed in detail the 
different aspects of the declaration and found in agreement on the issues.

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1443>

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