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The global food crisis <http://www.links.org.au/node/384>
Slideshow created by Peter Boyle
* Read more <http://www.links.org.au/node/384>
Venezuela's labour movement at the crossroads; Stalin Borges Perez
on May Day <http://www.links.org.au/node/388>
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Militants mark May Day in Timor Leste, Pakistan and Malaysia
(video)
<http://www.links.org.au/node/387>
Timor Leste: Workers and students rally for May Day in Dili
By *Mericio Akara*
DILI, May 1, 2008 -- A May Day rally attended by some 700 workers
organised by the Trade Union Confederation of Timor Leste demanded the
implementation of labour laws, just wages that comply with the minimum
wage regulations and lowering of prices. Demonstrators consisted of
workers from several companies in Dili, students and civil society
activists. The Luta Hamutuk Institute sent along its members to
participate also.
* Read more <http://www.links.org.au/node/387>
Individual versus social solutions to global warming
<http://www.links.org.au/node/386>
By *Terry Townsend*
/A talk to the Climate Change Social Change Conference held in Sydney
from April 11 to 13, organised by /Green Left Weekly <http://
www.greenleft.org.au>/. For more articles, audio and video from the
conference, click here. <http://www.links.org.au/taxonomy/term/138>
/
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Nepal: Republican resurgence led by the red flag
<http://www.links.org.au/node/385>
By *Lal Bahadur Singh*, /Liberation/, magazine of the *Communist Party
of India (Marxist-Leninist) (Liberation)*
Kathmandu -- ``Nepal Stuns World, Itself: Poll Peaceful, Turnout 60%''
-- that was the banner headline of the /Kathmandu Post/, the leading
Nepal newspaper, on April 11, 2008, the morrow of the historic
constituent assembly elections. It was stunning indeed that the
constituent assembly elections in a Nepal torn by civil strife were
held in a remarkably peaceful atmosphere, and with a huge
participation of the people. However the real stunner was yet to come
some hours later when by the midnight of April 11 it became clear that
a Red Star was rising in full bloom over Sagarmatha, i.e. Everest, the
highest peak in the world, in the erstwhile Himalayan Kingdom.
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Indonesia: Call for Venezuela-style oil nationalisations; Papernas
May Day statement <http://www.links.org.au/node/383>
April 29, 2008 -- About 1000 workers, students and urban poor held a
pre-May Day demonstration outside GKBI Towers in Jakarta, a flashy
skyscraper that is the Indonesian headquarters of companies like
ExxonMobil, ANZ Bank, Cable & Wireless, Credit Lyonnais Capital, Coca-
Cola, Dow Chemical, France Telecom, KPMG, McKinsey & Company, OCBC
Bank and the Swiss Bank.
* Read more <http://www.links.org.au/node/383>
South Korea: The general election and leftwing politics
<http://www.links.org.au/node/382>
By *Won Youngsu*
April 30, 2008 -- For the South Korean left, the general election of
April 9 was another fiasco following the presidential election last
December, in which the election of Lee Myung-bak brought forth the
return of the conservative government, while Democratic Labor Party
(DLP) candidate Kwon Young-gil received just 3 per cent of vote, less
than the previous result in 2002 -- a drop of 300,000 votes.
* Read more <http://www.links.org.au/node/382>
John Bellamy Foster on the global financial crisis
<http://www.links.org.au/node/381>
'Nobody knows where the toxic debt is buried and how much there
is'
John Bellamy Foster is editor of the Monthly Review <http://
www.monthlyreview.org/index.php>, a prominent political journal
established by the Marxist economist Paul Sweezy in the 1940s. Foster
is a professor of sociology at the University of Oregon in Eugene,
USA. He has written widely on political economy and has established a
reputation as an environmental socialist.
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Zimbabwe and the strategy of resistance
<http://www.links.org.au/node/380>
By *Dale T. McKinley*
The character and content of the past and ongoing political, economic,
social/humanitarian and (progressive) organisational crisis in
Zimbabwe has received huge amounts of analytical and empirical
attention from the broad left in Southern Africa and, to a lesser
extent, from the global left. Several books, numerous essays/articles,
frequent seminars/workshops and countless blogs and emails have been
offered on almost every aspect of the crisis. While these efforts have
certainly provided much-needed intellectual stimulation/debate,
important information, degrees of organisational impetus and knowledge-
generation about the crisis, and have often catalysed practical
efforts to assist, and be in solidarity with, progressive forces in
Zimbabwe, the Achilles heel of the struggle for a new Zimbabwe -- the
strategy and tactics of resistance/opposition --- has, for the most
part, been treated as a ``poor cousin'', forever condemned to sit on
the margins of the main ``conversation'' and struggle.
Read more <http://www.links.org.au/node/380>
/Links/ seeks to promote the international exchange of information,
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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