[DEBATE] : What's new at Links: Food crisis; Bellamy Foster on fin crisis; Venezuela; May Day; global warming; Nepal; Korea, Zimbabwe

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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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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>

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strategy and tactics within the international left. It is a forum for 
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