[marxmail] EU and IMF Prop Up Egypt’s Dictatorship of General Sisi

2024-04-09 Thread RKOB
*EU and IMF Prop Up Egypt’s Dictatorship of General Sisi* /By Michael Pröbsting, //RCIT, 8 April 2024/ https://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/africa-and-middle-east/eu-and-imf-prop-up-egypt-s-dictatorship-of-general-sisi/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent

[marxmail] Can Grocery Workers Take Back Their Union?

2024-04-09 Thread Steven L. Robinson
Can Grocery Workers Take Back Their Union? Faye Guenther’s multiyear plan to revolutionize the grocery workers union. By Hamilton Nolan/In These Times/ April 9, 2024 A century later, the electrifying heart of Washington’s labor movement can be found in a three-story office

[marxmail] Gaza ceasefire?

2024-04-09 Thread Dayne Goodwin
Israel says ‘date set’ for Rafah invasion amid ongoing Gaza ceasefire talks *Hamas says Israel is not acceding to demands of a military withdrawal and allowing Palestinians to re*turn home. Al Jazeera, April 9

Re: [marxmail] The Wretched of Palestine: Fanon Diagnosed the Pathology of Colonialism and Urged Revolutionary Humanism

2024-04-09 Thread John A Imani
Sorry.  My reply was given as Cde Brasky's post.  The post/reply ought read: Cde Dennis Brasky wrote: “The colonized took up arms not only because they were dying of hunger and witnessing the disintegration of their society,” wrote Frantz Fanon in his incendiary book The Wretched of the Earth.

[marxmail] Rojava: We will defend this life, we will resist on this land

2024-04-09 Thread Chris Slee
https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/rojava-we-will-defend-life-we-will-resist-land "The revolutionary process in Rojava in North East Syria (also known as the Democratic Autonomous Administration of Northern and Eastern Syria, DAANES), based on the pillars of grassroots democracy, women’s

Re: [marxmail] The Wretched of Palestine: Fanon Diagnosed the Pathology of Colonialism and Urged Revolutionary Humanism

2024-04-09 Thread John A Imani
Cde Dennis Brasky forwarded " With total subjugation, the power of the oppressor over the oppressed is absolute. And it is its very unlimited nature that is its limit. The freedom-fighters motto could be "We know what you can do to us but you have no idea what we will be able to do to you" for

[marxmail] When the government wasn’t afraid to let artists tell the truth about capitalism

2024-04-09 Thread John A Imani
(JAI-Long article that may be behind a paywall. If interested, write and I will forward the entire article.) Remembering when the government wasn’t afraid to let artists tell the truth about capitalism

[marxmail] 76 years ago today - the Zionist massacre of Deir Yassin

2024-04-09 Thread Dennis Brasky
Don't know enough about the sordid history of Zionist attacks on the Palestinians long before the current Gaza genocide? Check out Deir Yassin, a major step in The Naqba - The massacre took place on April 9, 1948, when Zionist paramilitaries attacked the village of Deir Yassin near Jerusalem,

[marxmail] tools, automation, and AI

2024-04-09 Thread Barry Brooks
Less work is good, sometimes. The bow for hunters, plows for farmers, automation for factories, and AI for activities that produce nothing tangible. Less work is good except in an economy of wage slaves, where the techniques of reducing work are only good for business. Labor costs are often