2,000,000th article read; 1,500,000th visitor: more milestones for Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal

October 5, 2011 -- Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- In the late afternoon of October 5, 2011, Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal passed another historic milestone -- its 2,000,000th article read (since statistics began being kept on April 4, 2008). The reader from South Africa entered site at the popular "Dissecting those 'overpopulation' numbers", an excerpt from the just published Too Many People? Population, Immigration and the Environmental Crisis by Ian Angus and Simon Butler.

That reader was the 1,509,498th visitor to Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal.

Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal's mission has been to promote the revival of a democratic, ecological, thinking, activist socialism, and to encourage and publicise the activities and views of active socialists around the world who are rebuilding the socialist and radical alternative in deed as well as word.

Links' success is especially gratifying because at the beginning there were some who claimed -- when we took the decision to go solely online, rather than continue to produce the excellent but largely unread hard-copy version -- that Links was being "closed down" and was part of an abandonment of our fundamental socialist principles. Well, there are now 2 million arguments against that pessimistic forecast.

Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal would like to thank all its readers, contributors, collaborators and well wishers for their assistance in passing this important milestone, in particular the comrades of the  Socialist Alliance and Green Left Weekly in Australia, without whom Links could not appear. We'd like give special mention to our comrades in Canada -- such as Ian Angus, John Riddell and Richard Fidler -- the Socialist Party of Malaysia, the Labour Party Pakistan, the Partido Lakas ng Masa in the Philippines, socialist activists in Indonesia, the Communist Party of India (ML) Liberation, Socialist Worker and Socialst Aotearoa in New Zealand, Patrick Bond from South Africa, and the many other left parties, workers' groups, liberation movements and individual activists who continue to make Links an important asset for the entire world socialist movement.

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Who in the world is reading Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal?

Country totals from May 15, 2011, to October 4, 2011 (155,621)

	United States (US)	46,106
	Australia (AU)	19,899
	United Kingdom (GB)	11,872
	Canada (CA)	8,049
	India (IN)	7,546
	South Africa (ZA)	5,432
	Philippines (PH)	4,238
	Malaysia (MY)	3,745
	Germany (DE)	2,542
	Thailand (TH)	2,303
	New Zealand (NZ)	1,969
	Pakistan (PK)	1,789
	Indonesia (ID)	1,638
	Mexico (MX)	1,604
	Spain (ES)	1,598
	France (FR)	1,568
	Sweden (SE)	1,443
	Netherlands (NL)	1,436
	Iceland (IS)	1,221
	Brazil (BR)	1,152
	Singapore (SG)	1,077
	Turkey (TR)	960
	Greece (GR)	949
	Taiwan (TW)	926
	Ireland (IE)	881
	Belgium (BE)	848
	Norway (NO)	816
	Argentina (AR)	813
	Colombia (CO)	799
	Italy (IT)	795
	Russian Federation (RU)	738
	Egypt (EG)	735
	Denmark (DK)	700
	Switzerland (CH)	687
	Korea, Republic of (KR)	684
	Venezuela (VE)	676
	Japan (JP)	543
	Vietnam (VN)	527
	Israel (IL)	520
	Chile (CL)	473
	United Arab Emirates (AE)	447
	Poland (PL)	423
	Ukraine (UA)	409
	Hong Kong (HK)	402
	Sri Lanka (LK)	401
	Bangladesh (BD)	393
	Nepal (NP)	373
	Romania (RO)	370
	Finland (FI)	333
	Nigeria (NG)	330
	Saudi Arabia (SA)	319
	Croatia (HR)	314
	Peru (PE)	313
	Austria (AT)	304
	Portugal (PT)	295
	Zimbabwe (ZW)	274
	Asia/Pacific Region (AP)	248
	Kenya (KE)	219
	Czech Republic (CZ)	214
	Bolivia (BO)	197
	Iran, Islamic Republic of (IR)	196
	Hungary (HU)	191
	Serbia (RS)	183
	Ecuador (EC)	181
	Holy See (Vatican City State) (VA)	173
	Tunisia (TN)	155
	Cambodia (KH)	151
	Slovenia (SI)	146
	Palestinian Territory (PS)	145
	Dominican Republic (DO)	135
	Costa Rica (CR)	132
	Bulgaria (BG)	131
	Lebanon (LB)	120
	Mauritius (MU)	119
	Qatar (QA)	114
	Nicaragua (NI)	114
	Puerto Rico (PR)	113
	Honduras (HN)	102
	El Salvador (SV)	101
	Ghana (GH)	101
	Luxembourg (LU)	100
	Trinidad and Tobago (TT)	100
	Morocco (MA)	96
	Tanzania, United Republic of (TZ)	95
	Swaziland (SZ)	93
	Namibia (NA)	93
	Guatemala (GT)	92
	Slovakia (SK)	91
	Kuwait (KW)	83
	Uruguay (UY)	80
	Panama (PA)	75
	Ethiopia (ET)	75
	Uganda (UG)	72
	Lithuania (LT)	71
	Malta (MT)	69
	Bahrain (BH)	66
	Iraq (IQ)	66
	Jamaica (JM)	64
	Estonia (EE)	62
	Syrian Arab Republic (SY)	62
	Cyprus (CY)	58
	Cuba (CU)	56
	Botswana (BW)	56
	Senegal (SN)	52
	Algeria (DZ)	49
	Sudan (SD)	49
	Latvia (LV)	49
	Jordan (JO)	47
	Malawi (MW)	46
	Myanmar (MM)	43
	Mozambique (MZ)	42
	Brunei Darussalam (BN)	42
	Belarus (BY)	42
	Zambia (ZM)	40
	Fiji (FJ)	38
	Moldova, Republic of (MD)	38
	Georgia (GE)	37
	Cote D'Ivoire (CI)	37
	Lao People's Democratic Republic (LA)	35
	Bosnia and Herzegovina (BA)	35
	Macedonia (MK)	34
	Bahamas (BS)	33
	Oman (OM)	30
	Albania (AL)	30
	Barbados (BB)	29
	Paraguay (PY)	28
	Bhutan (BT)	27
	Papua New Guinea (PG)	27
	Guyana (GY)	26
	Angola (AO)	25
	Cameroon (CM)	23
	China (CN)	23
	Kazakstan (KZ)	23
	Maldives (MV)	20
	Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (LY)	20
	Afghanistan (AF)	19
	Belize (BZ)	19
	Armenia (AM)	19
	Macau (MO)	18
	Lesotho (LS)	17
	New Caledonia (NC)	17
	Azerbaijan (AZ)	15
	Cayman Islands (KY)	15
	Virgin Islands, British (VG)	15
	Guam (GU)	15
	Timor-Leste (TL)	14
	Haiti (HT)	14
	Rwanda (RW)	13
	Montenegro (ME)	11
	Yemen (YE)	10
	Mongolia (MN)	10
	Saint Lucia (LC)	10
	Netherlands Antilles (AN)	9
	Isle of Man (IM)	9
	Jersey (JE)	9
	Burundi (BI)	9
	Togo (TG)	9
	Turks and Caicos Islands (TC)	8
	Uzbekistan (UZ)	8
	Seychelles (SC)	8
	Bermuda (BM)	8
	Mauritania (MR)	7
	Gambia (GM)	7
	Sierra Leone (SL)	7
	French Guiana (GF)	6
	Benin (BJ)	5
	Reunion (RE)	5
	Vanuatu (VU)	5
	Madagascar (MG)	5
	Suriname (SR)	5
	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (VC)	4
	Solomon Islands (SB)	4
	Aruba (AW)	4
	Virgin Islands, U.S. (VI)	4
	Guernsey (GG)	3
	Antigua and Barbuda (AG)	3
	Congo, The Democratic Republic of the (CD)	3
	American Samoa (AS)	3
	Burkina Faso (BF)	3
	Grenada (GD)	3
	Gabon (GA)	3
	Djibouti (DJ)	3
	Palau (PW)	3
	Dominica (DM)	3
	Andorra (AD)	3
	Kyrgyzstan (KG)	3
	Tajikistan (TJ)	3
	Gibraltar (GI)	3
	Saint Kitts and Nevis (KN)	3
	Faroe Islands (FO)	2
	Kiribati (KI)	2
	Samoa (WS)	2
	Greenland (GL)	2
	Guinea (GN)	2
	Monaco (MC)	2
	Mali (ML)	2
	Somalia (SO)	2
	Martinique (MQ)	2
	Niue (NU)	1
	Cape Verde (CV)	1
	Guadeloupe (GP)	1
	Tonga (TO)	1
	French Polynesia (PF)	1
	Saint Helena (SH)	1
	Equatorial Guinea (GQ)	1
	Liberia (LR)	1
	Northern Mariana Islands (MP)	1
	Sao Tome and Principe (ST)	1