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
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