[Marxism] What's new at Links: John Bellamy Foster book, Marta Harnecker, India, Tamils, Pakistan, biochar, LGBT in Cuba, US economy, Swaziland, Malaysia

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What's new at Links: John Bellamy Foster book excerpt, Marta Harnecker, 
India, Tamils, Pakistan, biochar, LGBT in Cuba, US economy, Swaziland, 
Malaysia

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    Envisaging ecological revolution -- Excerpt from John Bellamy
    Foster's new book, `The Ecological Revolution'
    <http://links.org.au/node/1066>

With the permission of *John Bellamy Foster* and Monthly Review Press, 
/Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal/ is publishing an 
exclusive excerpt from Foster's latest book, /The Ecological Revolution: 
Making Peace with the Planet/.
*/Links/ readers are encouraged to purchase a copy of this important new 
book HERE <http://monthlyreview.org/books/ecologicalrevolution.php>.*
The roots of the present ecological crisis, John Bellamy Foster argues 
in /The Ecological Revolution/, lie in capital's rapacious expansion, 
which has now achieved unprecedented heights of irrationality across the 
globe. Foster compellingly demonstrates that the only possible answer 
for humanity is an ecological revolution: a struggle to make peace with 
the planet.

    * Read more the excerpt
      <http://links.org.au/node/1066>


    Marta Harnecker: Ideas for the struggle #1 -- Insurrections or
    revolutions? The role of the political instrument
    <http://links.org.au/node/1059>

[This is the first in a series of regular articles. Please return to 
/Links/ regularly read the next articles in the series.]
By *Marta Harnecker*, translated by *Federico Fuentes* for /Links 
International Journal of Socialist Renewal/
1. The recent popular uprisings at the turn of the 21st century that 
have rocked numerous countries such as Argentina and Bolivia -- and, 
more generally, the history of the multiple social explosions that have 
occurred in Latin America and the rest of the world -- have undoubtedly 
demonstrated *that the initiative of the masses, in and of itself, is 
not enough to defeat ruling regimes.*

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1059>


    India's 2009 general election: Lessons for the left
    <http://links.org.au/node/1065>

By *Dipankar Bhattacharya*, general secretary, Communist Party of India 
(Marxist-Leninist) Liberation
May 24, 2009 -- The results of 2009 elections for the Lok Sabha 
elections (India's lower house of parliament) can be described as a 
string of surprises, not only for many well-entrenched parties and 
seasoned politicians but also for a host of commonsense notions about 
contemporary Indian political reality. Of late, it has become customary 
to look at elections in India through the prism of coalition politics, 
caste equations and regional diversities. Verdict 2009 has given a 
serious jolt to this facile view and reasserted the underlying 
structural dynamics of Indian politics.

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1065>


    Tamil self-determination and the LTTE: Some lessons for the struggle
    <http://links.org.au/node/1064>

By *Reihana Mohideen*
May 21, 2009 -- "To save the lives of our people is the need of the 
hour. Mindful of this, we have already announced to the world our 
position to silence our guns to save our people", said Selvarasa 
Pathmanathan, the head of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam's (LTTE) 
International Diplomatic Relations on May 17, thus flagging the military 
defeat of the LTTE.

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1064>


    Pakistan: Appeal -- Help oppose the Taliban and government military
    operations <http://links.org.au/node/1063>

May 21, 2009 -- This is a formal appeal by the Labor Relief Campaign to 
help in the fight against the Taliban and the Pakistan government's 
military operations. The purpose is to provide immediate help to some of 
the more than 1.5 million internally displaced people from the Malakand 
Division of the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) in Pakistan. This 
displacement has resulted from the fight between the Taliban and the 
Pakistani government.

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1063>


    Blood for oil in Nigeria: Military launches massive attack on Niger
    Delta <http://links.org.au/node/1062>

May 21, 2009 -- The Nigerian military has been accused of killing 
hundreds, maybe thousands, of civilians in the oil-rich Niger Delta. The 
military offensive began eight days ago (May 13, 2009) but has received 
little international attention. We go to Nigeria to speak with Denzil 
Amagbe Kentebe of the Ijaw National Congress. We're also joined by Sandy 
Cioffi, director of the new documentary /Sweet Crude/ about the Niger 
Delta. The village of Oporoza, where much of the film was shot, has just 
been burned down.

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1062>


    CPI (ML) Liberation: A crime against humanity, not a `famous
    victory', in Sri Lanka <http://links.org.au/node/1061>

By the *Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation*

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1061>


    Biochar: An answer to global warming or a menace?
    <http://links.org.au/node/1060>

By *Renfrey Clarke*
May 21, 2009 -- Sometimes you have to hand it to capitalism. It's sheer 
magic the way the system takes promising concepts, steeps them in the 
transformative power of the market -- and turns them into howling social 
and environmental disasters.

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1060>


    International Day against Homophobia celebrated in Cuba -- three
    reports from Havana <http://links.org.au/node/1058>

Havana, 16 May, 2009 -- Prensa Latina -- International Day against 
Homophobia was observed here today, with the participation of a diverse, 
largely youthful public. Mariela Castro Espín, the director of the 
National Center of Sex Education (CENESEX), presided over the 
inauguration of the day's events with a parade and the opening of the 
panel on "Sexual diversity in the Cuban family."

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1058>


    Neoliberal economic policies in the United States: The impact of
    globalisation on a `Northern' country <http://links.org.au/node/1056>

By *Kim Scipes*
Most contemporary discussions of globalization, and especially of the 
impact of neoliberal economic policies, focus on the countries of the 
Global South (see, for example, Bond, 2005; Ellner and Hellinger, eds., 
2003; a number of articles in Harris, ed., 2006; Klein, 2007; /Monthly 
Review,/ 2007; and, among others, see Scipes, 1999, 2006b). Recent 
articles arguing that the globalization project has receded and might be 
taking different approaches (Bello, 2006; Thornton, 2007) have also 
focused on the Global South. What has been somewhat discussed (see 
Giroux, 2004; Piven, 2004; Aronowitz, 2005) but not systematically 
addressed, however, is what has been the impact of globalization and 
especially related neoliberal economic policies on working people in a 
/northern/ country? <http://links.org.au/#_edn1>

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1056>


    Swaziland: Jailed liberation fighter Mario Masuku: `A brief
    autobiography' <http://links.org.au/node/1055>

/ /*Mario Masuku* is the president of the *People's United Democratic 
Movement (PUDEMO)* -- /Insika Yenkhululeko YeMaswati/ -- of Swaziland. 
Since 1983 this organisation has been banned in Swaziland because 
political parties are illegal. PUDEMO has called for multi-party 
democracy since its formation and believes the people shall govern. In 
November 2008, Mario Masuku was again arrested and put in prison by the 
repressive regime of King Mswati III, where he remains. The Swaziland 
government has no case and continues to delay his trial. Most recently, 
Masuku has been subjected to humilating and degrading treatment in 
prison. Meanwhile, on May 9, Mswati was feted in Pretoria at the 
inauguration of South African President Jacob Zuma of the African 
National Congress.

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1055>


    Malaysian socialist MP on `free market fallacies'
    <http://links.org.au/node/1054>

By *Dr* Michael Jeyakumar Devaraj**
May 18, 2009 -- The Socialist Party of Malaysia (PSM) organised a 
fundraising dinner at the Petaling Jaya Civic Centre on May 9, 2009, 
which was attended by some 600 members, friends and supporters. I was 
invited to give a short speech, and this is what I said

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1054>

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