[A-List] What's new at Links: World Cup, Palestine solidarity, Thailand, China, Malaysia, David Harvey, Indonesia, Angola, Greece

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Tue Jun 15 00:04:42 MDT 2010 

What's new at Links: World Cup, Palestine solidarity, Thailand, China, 
Malaysia, David Harvey, Indonesia, Angola, Greece

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    2010 World Cup: Africa's turn or turning on Africa? A political
    economy of FIFA's African adventure <http://links.org.au/node/1738>

By *Ashwin Desai* and *Goolam Vahed, *PowerPoint slideshow by *Patrick 
Bond*.
The awarding of soccer World Cup 2010 to South Africa was hailed as a 
great "victory" for the African continent and the cause of much 
celebration. It heightened expectations not only about the spectacle 
itself but about the benefits that would accrue to South Africa and the 
rest of Africa. This essay examines the notion of the successful bid as 
an "African victory" in the context of global power relations in 
football, South Africa's alleged function as a sub-imperialist power on 
the continent, and xenophobic attacks on African immigrants in South Africa.

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1738>


    `Intensify pressure!' -- (updated June 8) Call by Palestinian
    Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee gains support
    <http://links.org.au/node/1725>

By the *Palestinian BDS National Committee* (BNC)
Occupied Palestine, June 1, 2010 -- Palestinian civil society calls for 
intensifying boycott and sanctions as Israel massacres humanitarian 
relief workers and international solidarity activists.

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1725>


    New book: `Thailand's Crisis and the Fight for Democracy'
    <http://links.org.au/node/1741>

June 11, 2010 -- Associate Professor *Giles Ji Ungpakorn* (pictured 
above) is a political commentator and dissident from Thailand. In 
February 2009 he had to leave Thailand for exile in Britain because he 
was charged with /lèse majesté/ 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A8se_majest%C3%A9> for writing a book 
criticising the 2006 military coup. His latest book will be of interest 
to activists, academics and journalists who have an interest in Thai 
politics, democratisation and NGOs.

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1741>


    World Cup in South Africa: Six red cards for FIFA
    <http://links.org.au/node/1740>

By* Patrick Bond*, Durban
A barrage of flag-waving, /vuvuzela/-blowing hypernationalist publicity 
cannot drown out at least six critiques of the World Cup:

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1740>


    `People's Daily' columnist -- `Time to defend Chinese workers'
    rights' <http://links.org.au/node/1737>

By *Li Hong*
June 7, 2010 -- Wherever exists exploitation and suppression, rebellion 
erupts. If the exploited are a majority of the society, the revolt draws 
even nearer and comes with a louder bout. For the past 30 years 
witnessing China's meteoric rise, multinationals and upstart home 
tycoons have rammed up their wealth making use of China's favourable 
economic policies as well as oversight loopholes. In sharp contrast, 
tens of millions of Chinese blue-collar workers who have genuinely 
generated the wealth and created the prosperity have been left far behind.

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1737>


    Malaysia: PSM congress debates relationship with opposition Pakatan
    Rakyat <http://links.org.au/node/1736>

June 9, 2010 -- The Socialist Party of Malaysia's 12th Congress was held 
in Kuala Lumpur on June 5-6, 2010. Three hundred delegates from nine 
states, and allied organisationd and grassroots committees, attended. 
The congress was officiated by the PSM's national chairperson Comrade 
Nasir Hashim. Three papers were presented on the environmental crisis 
facing the world, leadership transition in PSM and the Malaysian 
governments economic policies. Resolutions (see below) were debated on 
the second day touching on idelogical questions, local government 
elections and the PSM's relationship with the opposition Pakatan Rakyat

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1736>


    Video: David Harvey -- `The crises of capitalism'
    <http://links.org.au/node/1735>

On April 26, 2010, Marxist geographer professor* David Harvey* spoke to 
the the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and 
Commerce (RSA) to explain how capitalism came to dominate the world and 
why it resulted in the current financial crisis. He asks: is it time to 
look beyond capitalism towards a new social order?

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1735>


    Indonesian solidarity with the people of Palestine
    <http://links.org.au/node/1734>

/Protest in solidarity with the Gaza Freedom Flotilla and the people of 
Palestine, outside the US embassy, Jakarta, Indonesia, on June 7, 2010. 
Organised by the Working People's Association (Perhimpunan Rakyat 
Pekerja//)./


    Angola: >From liberation to `capitalismo selvagen'
    <http://links.org.au/node/1733>

By *David Sogge
*June 2010 -- What's in a name? For the ruling party of Angola, it 
seems, quite a lot. In December 2009, that party formally abandoned its 
original name from 1956, /Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola/, 
the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola. Henceforth it would 
be known merely by the old initials: MPLA. Evidently the party thought 
it best to bury and forget terms like "movement" and "liberation". 
Besides, it had long ago dropped the word /Popular / from new nation's 
first name, the /People's / Republic of Angola.

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1733>


    (Updated June 13) Support for Palestinian unions' call for
    international unions to ban Israeli trade and ships
    <http://links.org.au/node/1732>

*Palestinian trade union movement calls on international dockworkers' 
unions to block loading/offloading Israeli ships until Israel complies 
fully with international law and ends its illegal siege of Gaza*
By the *Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee*, Palestine
June 7, 2010 -- The Palestinian trade union movement, as a key 
constituent member of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National 
Committee (BNC) calls on dockworkers' unions worldwide to block Israeli 
maritime trade in response to Israel's massacre of humanitarian relief 
workers and activists aboard the Freedom Flotilla, until Israel complies 
with international law and ends its illegal blockade of Gaza.

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1732>


    What next? The Freedom Flotilla and the struggle to break the siege
    of Gaza <http://links.org.au/node/1731>

By *Rafeef Ziadah*
June 5, 2010 -- While people around the world are still in shock at the 
killing by Israeli commandos of innocent human rights activists on board 
the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, those who have been following Israeli state 
actions for some time are not surprised. This is an ongoing pattern of 
Israeli state terrorism and collective punishment. While we mourn the 
dead on the boats, we must not forget that the flotilla itself is in 
response to an even greater brutality -- the slow starvation of more 
than 1.5 million people trapped in an open air prison called the Gaza Strip.

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1731>


    Greece: At the forefront of Europe's class struggle
    <http://links.org.au/node/1730>

By *Dimitris Fasfalis*
June 7, 2010 -- Workers in Greece today stand in the forefront of the 
converging European class struggles against big capital's attempt to 
make working people pay the costs of its crisis.

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1730>

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