[Marxism] What's new in Links: climate justice; Venezuela; cricket; Bolivia; Colombia; Pakistan

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    Video: Patrick Bond on the global fight for climate justice
    <http://links.org.au/node/311>

On March 4, *Patrick Bond* addressed a meeting organised by /Climate and 
Capitalism/ <http://climateandcapitalism.com/> blog in Toronto, Canada, 
and supported by Socialist Project in Canada 
<http://www.socialistproject.ca/environment/patrick_bond.html> and 
/Socialist Voice <http://www.socialistvoice.ca/>/, among others. Bond 
will also be a featured speaker at the Climate Change l Social Change 
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/conference.php> conference in Sydney, 
Australia, April 11-13. Watch Patrick Bond's presentation below.

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/311>


    Venezuela: ‘Traditional left’ prevails in PSUV elections
    <http://links.org.au/node/310>

By *Kiraz Janicke*

Caracas, March 10, 2008 - The so-called ``traditional'' or moderate left 
wing prevailed in the elections for the provisional national executive 
of Venezuela's new United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) on March 
9. The party's vice president, Alberto Müller Rojas, announced the 
results of the elections for the fifteen principal delegates to the 
national executive and fifteen substitute delegates at a press 
conference , after 87.7% of the votes had been scrutinised.

    * 1 comment <http://links.org.au/node/310#comments>
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    Cricket, excess and market mania <http://links.org.au/node/309>

By *Srinivasan Ramani*

The Indian Premier League is seen as a bonanza for cricket viewers, 
players and corporate owners, but hidden behind the glitz is the fact 
that it represents a distorted form of commodity and consumer excess. 
The Indian Premier League (IPL), a corporate-driven tournament featuring 
a set of city teams playing Twenty20 cricket, has made news with a 
multimillion dollar player auction. Players from various cricket-playing 
nations were ``bought'' and ``sold'' through bids made by the 
corporate-owned teams (the franchisees).

Cricket in India has become the only sport that has captured widespread 
mass and media attention. The popularity of the sport has increased in 
leaps and bounds, and the way the sport has been managed and 
administered has reflected the dominant mode of economic transactions in 
the country.

    * 1 comment <http://links.org.au/node/309#comments>
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    Video: Evo Morales on the Emergence of Bolivia's Indigenous Movement
    <http://links.org.au/node/308>

Watch Bolivia's President Evo Morales on the emergence of Bolivia's 
Indigenous movement.


    Colombia: Was the United States involved in the murder of FARC-EP
    leaders? <http://links.org.au/node/306>

By* James J. Brittain** <http://links.org.au/#_edn1>*

    * 1 comment <http://links.org.au/node/306#comments>
    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/306>


    Pakistan's struggle for democracy: The lawyers' movement one year on
    (+ video) <http://links.org.au/node/305>

By *Farooq Tariq*, Lahore

March 7, 2008 -- 2008 will be a year of decisive struggle in Pakistan. 
Over the past year an advocates' (lawyers') movement rose to confront 
the dictatorship of President Pervez Musharraf. Its aim is to create an 
atmosphere where the judiciary can work independently, without being 
under the influence of any regime, whether military or civil. Only a 
year old, it has achieved impressive results.
Read more <http://links.org.au/node/305>

/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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