Western Sahara: recent developments in light of the UN Security Council decision
United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon, left, arrives for a meeting with the Polisario Front's representative at the U.N. in Bir-Lahlou, in the disputed territory of Western Sahara, March 5. By Hassan Abenay
Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network broadsheet, September 2016
By Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network, posted at Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal with permission
Technology, labour and welfare in the 21st century
By Mike Treen, Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal
CITES comes to South Africa: Militarizing game parks and marketing wildlife are unsustainable strategies
Rendere lo stupro inimmaginabile
[Original in English here.] di Kamala Emanuel
Struggle over the Cuban press intensifies (Part II)
Jose Ramirez Pantoja.
100 days of the Duterte presidency: the present tactical period and our tasks
By Sonny Melencio October 3, 2016 -- Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Partido Lakas ng Masa -- This article has been presented and discussed by the leadership and organizers of the Partido Lakas ng Masa (PLM) to mark the coming 100-day anniversary of the Duterte administration. It is a contribution to the discussion among the Left and progressive forces on how to view this administration and the tasks ahead.
Ideas for the struggle #6 - The need to unite the political left and the social left

1. The rejection by a majority of the people of the globalization model imposed on our continent intensifies each day given its inability to solve the most pressing problems of our people.

Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil capitalism and the crisis of the Earth system

Pablo Solon on ‘Vivir Bien’: Going beyond capitalism?
To overcome the systemic crisis of humanity and Mother Earth we must turn to indigenous ecological concepts, says Pablo Solón in his new book Introduction and translation by Richard Fidler September 30, 2016 -- Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Life on the Left -- In his balance sheet of Bolivia’s “process of change,” Bolivian intellectual and activist Pablo Solón advanced some proposals for a new course inspired by the ideas of Vivir Bien, a philosophy associated with the indigenous peoples of the Andean countries of South America. Vivir Bien, roughly translated as “living well,” is incorporated as a guiding principle of the state in the new constitutions of Ecuador and Bolivia.[1]
Precarious employment and the role of trade unions in post-socialist Central Europe
Taxis drivers in Budapest protest against Uber. By Tibor Meszmann September 29, 2016 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Left East — Since the outbreak of the global economic crisis in 2008, precarious employment has increasingly become the focus of attention for socially responsive international organizations and critical scholars and activists. Precarious employment has found its place at the centre of employment and social policy debates.
Making rape unthinkable
By Kamala Emanuel September 28, 2016 — Links International Journal of