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South Africa: At the end of the wage <http://links.org.au/node/1144>

By Dale T. McKinley and Ahmed Veriava, Johannesburg
"I'm collecting a register for the indigent people and I had 37,000
applications from Emfuleni only. Each and every day I come across
children who are left in their homes -- the parents are deceased -- they
are hungry. When I knock at the door, I say how you are surviving and
they say we have been hungry for three days, we haven't got food. You
wouldn't think it's a reality in an urban area like this but it is a
reality. People are unemployed, a lot of people are unemployed."
-- Priscilla Ramagale-Ramakau, government social worker in Sebokeng
July 5, 2009 -- It wasn't always this way for Sebokeng, one of the older
urban ``townships'' in South Africa, a place synonymous with the early
settlement and subsequent massive growth of the black industrial working
class.

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Mass people's resistance in Honduras -- In their own words
<http://links.org.au/node/1143>

Compiled and introduced by Felipe Stuart Cournoyer
July 10, 2009 -- Most of the coverage of the military coup in Honduras
from bourgeois and liberal circles, and from many Western foreign
ministers, has focused on what various governments are doing to
influence or force an outcome to this struggle.Statements from Honduras'
President Manuel Zelaya, his foreign minister Patricia Rodas, and from
leaders of other ALBA countries (especially Venezuela's Hugo Chavez,
Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega, Ecuador's Rafael Correa and Bolivia's Evo
Morales) have emphasised the role of the mass movement in Honduras. So
have the most astute analysts of the rapidly moving events unleashed by
the coup.

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Photo essay: Honduras, July 5: 100,000 gather to greet `Mel', army
shoots and kills protesters <http://links.org.au/node/1139>

Photos and text by James Rodríguez

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`Proud to stand with Palestine' -- The Flame and Green Left Weekly
respond to anti-Arab attack by Murdoch press
<http://links.org.au/node/1142>

By Soubhi Iskander, Stuart Munckton and Emma Murphy
July 4, 2009 -- On July 1, the Rupert Murdoch-owned national daily the
Australian carried an extraordinary attack by Ilan Grapel on Green Left
Weekly and its monthly Arabic-language insert the Flame titled "A
willing ally to Hamas's hatred". The Flame and Green Left Weekly are
guilty of a "radical anti-Israel stance", Grapel said.
Grapel is a researcher with the Australian/Israel and Jewish Affairs
Council.
Grapel alleges that the Flame, "unbeknown to its English readers", also
"supports terrorist groups and promotes violence", and through the
Flame, GLW is "openly promoting extremism".

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Class struggle and ecology: An ecosocialist approach
<http://links.org.au/node/1141>

By Socialist Resistance (Britain)

...we with flesh, blood and brain, belong to nature, and exist in its
midst, and... all our mastery of it consists in the fact that we have
the advantage of all other creatures of being able to learn its laws and
apply them correctly
-- Friedrich Engels.

Ecology as crucial as imperialism
For socialists in the 20th century imperialism was the great dividing
line between those who accepted the logic of capitalist society and
those who were willing to challenge it. In the first decades of the 21st
century it is apparent that imperialism and war will remain inherent
features of late capitalism. To these threats we must add the genuine
and serious risks of severe ecological degradation and climate change
caused by the capitalist economic model as factors that will shape
socialist politics in the coming decades.

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Indonesia: Left debates how to challenge the neoliberal regime
<http://links.org.au/node/1140>

July 4, 2009 -- By Dominggus Oktavianus, Ulfa Ilyas and Rudi Hartono,
translated by Data Brainanta
More than 2500 people from the Volunteers of People's Struggle for the
Liberation of Motherland (SPARTAN) held a festive anti-neoliberalism
protest in front of the National Election Commission on July 1 in
Jakarta. The multi-sector coalition, initiated by the People's
Democratic Party (PRD) to intervene in the 2009 election, held similar
protests involving more than 1200 people in Makassar on the island of
Sulawesi. Hundreds rallied in Surabaya, Medan, Lampung, and protests
occurred in 11 other cities.

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Hondurans pour into the streets to demand Zelaya's return -- `We are
more determined than ever to overthrow this terrible coup'
<http://links.org.au/node/1138>

By Medea Benjamin
Tegucigalpa, July 5, 2009 -- The day started out full of joy, as
thousands of Hondurans converged in front of the National Institute of
Pedagogy, intent on marching about three miles to the airport to greet
the plane that was supposed to bring deposed President Zelaya back to
Honduras.
"Our president's coming home today, this is going to be a great day",
said Jose Rodriguez, a campesino who came from Santa Barbara with his
farmer's group to join the anti-coup movement. The military tried to
stop them from getting to the capital, so they had to divide up and take
local buses from town to town. "It took us two days to get here, and we
slept outside in the forest last night, but we had to be here", said
Rodriguez.

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Photo essay: Honduras, July 4 -- `Mel, Amigo, El Pueblo Está
Contigo' (`Mel, our friend, the people are with you!')
<http://links.org.au/node/1137>

Photos and text by James Rodríguez

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