[Debate] What's new at Links: Tariq Ali on Syria, E. Timor & Cuba, Rio+20, Flint sit-down strike, #Occupy, Pakistan/Afghanistan, climate jobs, Cuba, Colombia, China

[glparramatta]

What's new at Links: Tariq Ali on Syria, E. Timor & Cuba, Rio+20, Flint 
sit-down strike, #Occupy, Pakistan/Afghanistan, climate jobs, Cuba, 
Colombia, China

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    Tariq Ali: Western intervention in Syria would be a disaster
    <http://links.org.au/node/2682>

/December 28, 2011 -- *Tariq Ali* interviewed on Russia Today./


    East Timor celebrates medical milestone, with Cuba's assistance
    <http://links.org.au/node/2674>

December 27, 2011 -- Tim Anderson is a senior lecturer in political 
economy at the Univeristy of Sydney. He has closely followed Cuba's 
medical outreach programs for several years. He hosted an East Timorese 
graduate of Cuba's program on a visit to Sydney health institutions in 
October that was organised by the Australia Cuba Friendship Society.

  * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/2674>


    Bolivia's proposals on the 'rights of nature' for Rio+20
    <http://links.org.au/node/2680>

December 19, 2011 -- The proposals developed by the *Plurinational State 
of Bolivia* bring together and build upon the progress made in the World 
Charter for Nature  (1982), the Rio Declaration (1992), the Earth 
Charter (2000) and the World People's Conference on Climate Change and 
the Rights of Mother Earth (2010).

  * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/2680>


    United States: 'With Babies & Banners' -- 75 years since the 44-day
    Flint sit-down strike <http://links.org.au/node/2679>

December 30, 2011 -- Flint-based filmmaker Michael Moore has described 
the 1936 Flint sit-down strike as the "first Occupy" movement. Whether 
this is strictly accurate or not, the 1936-37 occupation/strike was a 
ground-breaking development in the US labour movement. To mark this 
anniversary, /Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal/  is 
making available the classic 1977 documentary on the strike and the role 
of women in it, */With Babies & Banners/* (via the link at the top of 
this article, *or click here*).

  * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/2679>


    United States: Occupy wake-up call caps remarkable year
    <http://links.org.au/node/2678>

*[For more on the #Occupy movement, click here 
<http://links.org.au/taxonomy/term/613>.] *

By *Jane Slaughter*
December 30, 2011 -- It's been an exhilarating year. Crowds of people 
finally moved into resistance after decades of misrule. The year began 
with... What no one could have predicted was that a relatively small 
number of young people at Occupy Wall Street would touch off a wave of 
imitators across the country, from Detroit to Abilene.

  * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/2678>


    Pakistan and Afghanistan: Conference of progressive parties' joint
    declaration <http://links.org.au/node/2677>

Statement by *Afghan and Pakistan progressive and left parties*
December 26, 2011 -- The progressive and democratic forces of Pakistan 
and Afghanistan met here in Lahore for two days [December 21-22, 2011] 
in the first ever joint conference. This is a historic step for the 
progressive forces of both sides to sit together and share the 
sufferings of our people at the hands of US-led NATO forces as well as 
the religious extremists in the form of the Taliban.

  * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/2677>


    South Africa: One million climate jobs: A just transition to a low
    carbon economy to combat unemployment and climate change
    <http://links.org.au/node/2676>

December 28, 2011 -- South Africa's Million Climate Jobs Campaign has 
released a new booklet describing how the transformation of the economy 
to one that protects people and the environment, can confront two of 
South Africa's biggest threats: climate change and unemployment.

  * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/2676>


    Cuba: Interview with Mariela Castro, director of the National Centre
    for Sex Education (CENESEX) <http://links.org.au/node/2675>

By *Bernard Duraud*

*[See also "Rainbow Cuba: the sexual revolution within the revolution 
<http://links.org.au/node/2671>".]*

The daughter of Cuba's President Raul Castro and the late Vilma Espin, a 
key figure in the Cuban Revolution, Mariela Castro Espin, director of 
Cuba's National Center for Sex Education (CENESEX), is a tireless 
campaigner for the rights of gays, lesbians and transsexuals, who have 
suffered discrimination for a long time. She is the initiator of 
important changes that concern them.

  * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/2675>


    Colombia rising? <http://links.org.au/node/2673>

By *Anthony Boynton*, Bogotá, Colombia
December 26, 2011 -- It may not be the mother of all bubbles, but it is 
a whopper. Colombia's economy is rising as fast as a hot air balloon, 
but one that is almost certain to burst. Mining, petroleum, industrial 
agriculture and construction are all growing at record rates -- fueled 
by a flood tide of investment, much of it foreign investment -- directed 
by the World Bank and its local allies within the government of 
President Juan Manuel Santos, and made possible by the dispossession of 
millions of Colombians from the countryside through decades of violence 
combined with disastrous flooding caused by global warming.

  * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/2673>


    China: Workers' action and collective awakening -- the 2010 auto
    workers' strike wave <http://links.org.au/node/2672>

By *Wang Ken*, translated by *Ralf Ruckus*

On May 17, 2010, a strike erupted at the Honda parts plant in Nanhai, a 
city located in the Chinese centre of the manufacturing industry in 
Guangdong province. More than 1800 workers participated, and the strike 
disrupted all of Honda's spare parts production facilities in China and 
led to the paralysing of Honda's car production in China. On May 28, the 
strike wave spread to a Hyundai carfactory and on May 29 to US-American 
Chrysler's joint venture Jeep factory, both in Beijing. On June 18, 
Toyota's second car plant in Tianjin had to close, due to a strike.

  * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/2672>

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