[Marxism] Fwd: Clancy Sigal, novelist who wrote 'Going Away' after being blacklisted in Hollywood, dies at 90 - LA Times

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[Marxism] Alerting developments on Syria

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(Posted by Omar Sabbour on FB.)

Alerting developments on Syria - Warning for Syria groups

1) The end of the CIA "vetting" program of "arming rebels".

For those who have closely followed Syria over the years, they will know 
of course that the CIA programme has not been dictated by actually 
providing weapons to the rebels directly (groups which received weapons 
directly from the US tended to have agreed not to use them against 
Assad, such as the SDF, New Syrian Army, Mou'tasem Brigade, Hamza 
Division), but in "co-coordinating" (i.e. controlling) the arms supply 
to them coming from other parties (i.e. Qatar, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and 
private parties - references for this can be found at the bottom [1]). 
This control has been exercised via two main "Operation Centres" - the 
MOC in Jordan and the MOM in Turkey - and has taken the form of 
determining the quantity and quality of weapons which are allowed to go 
in (for instance advanced weaponry are either restricted - such as 
anti-tank missiles - or altogether blockaded - such as anti-aircraft 
missiles; whilst the flow of regular weaponry and ammunition varies 
according to events and strategic interests on the ground) and which 
groups receive them.


Of course the CIA and Jordanian intelligence had already been banning 
(the already previously restricted [2]) arms going into the South for 
the purpose of anti-Assad operations for years 
(https://mkaradjis.wordpress.com/…/us-and-jordan-demand-sou…/), whilst 
in the North the CIA had restricted allowing arms to rebel operations 
even against ISIS [3] - though the degree of US control here had been 
much less than in the south, as the US had been circumvented more by 
Turkey (whilst Turkey always pressured the US to allow in an effective 
supply of weaponry to the rebels, by contrast Jordan had an effectively 
identical position to the US vis a vis Syria: i.e. supporting the 
survival of the opposition but not empowering it to overthrow Assad).


What this news piece means, in other words, is that the US is going to 
try and institute a total blockade of any rebel weaponry going into 
north or south Syria. This essentially means a return to the US policy 
before the CIA program (i.e. 2011-late 2013), which consisted of 
"unofficially" (i.e. not through the MOC or MOM) seizing even light 
weaponry shipments - this CIA policing policy at the time was described 
as "choking" the Syrian rebel supply [4].


In combination with what appears to be Turkey's selling out of the 
rebellion, this is essentially merely a "publicisation" of the 
undeclared US-Russian-Turkish arrangement aimed at ending the armed 
resistance to Assad which had begun with the fall of Aleppo (when the US 
actually bombed rebel areas of the city during the siege and US 
officials even justifying the Russian bombardment - whilst Turkey 
blocked arms supplies going in during the siege [5]). Supporters of 
Turkey need understand that whilst Turkey did indeed want to empower the 
rebels militarily to overthrow Assad (unlike Jordan), it has never been 
brave enough to cross the US red-lines which were explicitly against 
this policy [6].


2) The capture of Mosul by the Iraqi government

Warning to Syrian groups: With the capture of Mosul it is very likely 
that you will find the Iraqi government reshifting its full efforts to 
helping Assad in Syria. Of course, there are already about a dozen or so 
core Iraqi PMU groups which are part of the Iraqi Military (not Army, 
which is a noteworthy distincion) and are salaried by the central 
government - but have not had so-called official "permission" to fight 
there by the Prime Minister Abadi (although obviously the permission is 
very much present by the fact that they're paid and armed by the 
government) - who have been fighting in Syria for a long time. A few 
weeks ago I read that one of the PMU groups who hadn't yet intervened in 
Syria "asked Abadi" for permission to do so. As so many others have 
already done so without waiting for "official permission", the fact that 
this group has bothered to "ask" raises the notion that the Iraqi 
government might "officially" adopt intervention in Syria. As a result 
you might very well have much more PMU units (and one should know that 
there are a lot more of those - with tens of thousands of more fighters 
- than the ones already present in Syria) who've been tied down in Iraq 
against ISIS coming to fight in Syria - and these units would likely be 
backed much more directly by the central government, security forces and 
Army (i.e. even if the regular Army divisions don't actively cross the 
border into Syria, they will likel

Re: [Marxism] Fwd: The Chapo Dilemma | Souciant

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I've been introduced to them recently and find the show quite funny,
sometimes insightful and even sometimes informative: recently Christman did
a show by himself and without jokes relayed the story of the Milwaukee SP
mayors and congressman from the 20s until the last SP mayor resigned in
1960, which I knew little about. I couldn't fault his conclusion that this
height of US socialist electoral success was more negative cooption than
positive reform because it wasn't grounded in revolutionary politics.
They've also had China Mieville and other interesting and serious guests.

But yeah while vulgarity and a certain level of obnoxiousness can be funny
and cathartic, this juvenile use of 'austistic' and 'retard' as insults is
highly grating (I say juvenile particularly as I recently busted our
eldest, 12-year-old child calling a virtual player who hadn't performed
adequately on FIFA17 'autistic' to the laughter of his visiting friend, and
I suspect it's a vogue slur among kids as 'gay' was a few years ago). As is
their casual use of 'bitch' and 'ironic' gender-based putdowns, including
by Amber Frost.

Autism as part of a spectrum of traits or maybe more accurately a
multi-dimensional map of neural typicality and atypicality is something
affecting increasing numbers of people. Partly that might be just
recognition from broader diagnoses but there might be factors leading to an
actual increase like the trend towards later parental age. Anyway a stupid
thing to joke about if your purported aim is to build a left that's both
radical and broad.

I've also from association with this lot listened to some of Katie Halper
recently, and her schtick seems along the same lines as a funny yet tough
hard leftist around the DSA, who represents numerous young and youngish
people currently radicalising, but maybe less obnoxious.


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[Marxism] The U.S. Tested 67 Nuclear Bombs in Their Country. Now They’re Dying in Oklahoma.

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[Marxism] Fwd: The rise of the internet's 'dirtbag left' - Macleans.ca

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More on Chapo Trap House.

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[Marxism] Fwd: The Chapo Dilemma | Souciant

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[Marxism] Fwd: Jeremiah Moss Was Here | Village Voice

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On a gray, drizzly Friday in July, I joined Jeremiah Moss for a walk. We 
met at the Astor Place cube, as the artist Tony Rosenthal’s 1967 black 
Cor-Ten steel sculpture Alamo is known, in the shadow of two buildings 
that exemplify everything Moss hates about contemporary New York. To the 
south stood the awkwardly amoebic Astor Place Tower; looming behind us, 
the gleaming black glass of 51 Astor Place, a/k/a the Death Star. If 
real estate money had its way, this neighborhood — gateway to the once 
irresistibly gritty East Village — would be rebranded “Midtown South.”


In his new book, Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul (Dey 
Street), Moss offers a wrenching, exhaustive chronicle of the 
“hyper-gentrification” of New York — and the relentless monotony of 
chain stores and luxury high-rises that continues to suffocate small 
businesses and displace the poor, working-class, immigrant, and ethnic 
communities and artists, eccentrics, and bohemians who have made the 
city what it is. Vanishing New York is an urban-activist polemic in the 
tradition of Jane Jacobs’s Death and Life of Great American Cities: 
Every page is charged with Moss’s deep love of New York. It is both a 
vital and an unequivocally depressing read.


full: 
https://www.villagevoice.com/2017/07/18/jeremiah-moss-was-here-vanishing-new-york/

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[Marxism] Fwd: Midnight Return | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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Opening at the Laemmle theater in Los Angeles tomorrow, “Midnight 
Return” is a documentary about the narrative film “Midnight Express” 
that came out in 1978 and which was based on the actual escape from a 
Turkish prison by Billy Hayes, a hash smuggler. I saw the film that year 
and was shocked by the brutality of prison life, the sadism of everybody 
involved in the judicial and penal system, and walked out of the theater 
persuaded—like most people—that the Turks were monsters.


Writer-director has a lengthy background in soap operas, something that 
might have habituated her to extract the maximum amount of melodrama in 
tale that needs none. It is a remarkable tale of how an American hippie 
from Long Island was arrested in the Istanbul airport with 4.4 pounds of 
hashish taped to his midsection in October, 1970. At the time, Istanbul, 
like Kabul, was a magnet for many people my age who were looking to 
elevate themselves spiritually either with or without drugs. Most people 
left Istanbul with a gram or two of hashish but Billy Hayes clearly 
hoped to make a living out of drug dealing for the time being. What he 
didn’t anticipate was stepped up security for terrorism, which was 
triggered by the PLFP’s hijacking of a jumbo jet a month earlier. When 
he was being patted down by airport security, they immediately concluded 
that he was packing explosives rather than hashish.


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[Marxism] New York Farmworkers to Argue in State Supreme Court for Right toOrganize - NYTimes.com

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[Marxism] Fwd: Zach Medeiros, “Solidarity with the Oppressed, Not the Oppressors: Why We Should Support Syrian Revolutionaries” – Coalition for Peace, Revolution, and Social Justice (CPRSJ)

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[Marxism] Fwd: This Brooklyn Artist Is Taking On the Media | Village Voice

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[Marxism] Fwd: Qasion News Agency | An Opposition Source To Qasioun: "The US Support Program Doesn't Even Exist"

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[Marxism] Fwd: White Liberal Guilt, Black Opportunism and the Green Party | Black Agenda Report

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[Marxism] Fwd: Billionaire In Panic Over Dems’ Self-Destruct

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[Marxism] Fwd: Excerpts From The Times’s Interview With Trump - The New York Times

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(Maybe he should get Putin to punch the guy out if he tries anything 
fishy in the shower room at one of Trump's golf courses.)


HABERMAN: He was very deferential to you. Very.

TRUMP: He’s a great guy. Smart. Strong. Loves holding my hand.

HABERMAN: I’ve noticed.

TRUMP: People don’t realize he loves holding my hand. And that’s good, 
as far as that goes.


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[Marxism] FW: Spanish Marxist on Catalonia referendum October 1

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‘If I were Catalan, I would have no choice but to vote yes to independence’
Jaime Pastor, interviewed by Josep Casulleras Nualart

Introduction
On October 1, by decision of the Catalan government, the region’s voters will be
asked in a referendum “Do you want Catalonia to become an independent state in
the form of a republic?”

The referendum, which is the culmination of years of mass mobilizations by
Catalans in favour of independence, has come under sharp attack by the Spanish
government headed by Mariano Rajoy, which in recent years has used the
Constitution, the central parliament and the courts to deny the Catalan people
the right to determine independently the constitutional status of their nation.
This is a case of longstanding oppression. Under the regime of General Francisco
Franco, which emerged triumphant in the Spanish Civil War, Catalans were even
denied the right to use their own majority language, Catalan.

A recent article published in the web-based daily Público entitled “Legitimacy
and legality. With the right to vote on October 1” attracted considerable
controversy. The author, Jaime Pastor, an influential Marxist activist and
intellectual, criticized leaders of Spain’s new left party Podemos who have
aligned themselves with the dominant Spanish nationalism in attacking the
October 1 referendum in Catalonia. Pastor is the author of, inter alia, a book
on the national question, the Spanish state and the left that in my opinion
contains one of the best explanations anywhere of the historical development of
the Marxist approach to the national question.[1]

Pastor’s article focused in particular on the prevalent misreading in Spain of
the international jurisprudence on the exercise of self-determination by
minority nations within existing states. In the following interview he defends
the Catalan referendum and addresses some of the major political implications of
the October 1 vote.

Jaime Pastor is a political science professor at the Universidad Nacional de
Educación a Distancia [National University of Distance Education] in Madrid and
editor of Viento Sur, a journal of ideas and analysis. The interview was first
published in Catalan. I have translated the Spanish text, which was published in
Viento Sur.

Of particular interest to Canadian socialists attempting to understand the
Quebec national question is the fact that Pastor speaks as a leftist in the
dominant nation, Spain, who advocates a vote for independence in the dominated
Catalonia. The reasons he gives — above all, the inability to remedy Catalonia’s
inequality under the existing Spanish constitutional and political regime —
could apply, mutatis mutandis, in Canada, where outside of Quebec (and now the
indigenous communities) there is an historic unwillingness to even discuss, let
alone accommodate, the demands of Québécois and indigenous peoples for
autonomous status as distinct nations within or without the Canadian social
formation. 

Most recently, the modest request by Quebec premier Philippe Couillard, a
staunch federalist, for a dialogue with Canadians aimed at eventually re-opening
constitutional talks in the hope of finally getting Quebec’s approval of the
1982 Constitution was met with a prompt No by Prime Minister Trudeau, who had
not even read Couillard’s 200-page book.[2]

Following Pastor’s argument, which I find compelling, I would argue that the
historical record proves that the Canadian left, and indeed consistent
democrats, must go beyond the defense of the right of self-determination and
support the demand of most progressives in Quebec (including in the left party
Québec solidaire) for independence, even if only to provoke a public rethinking
of the undemocratic nature of Canadian state structures and how they might be
reconceived and reconfigured, with or without Quebec, to facilitate the pursuit
of a progressive social agenda and solidarity among the constituent peoples
within the existing state.

This is timely reading during the official celebrations of what the dominant
authorities term the 150th anniversary of “Canada” — in fact, the granting by
the British monarchy in 1867 of home rule to four of its overseas colonies in
North America, with the definitive denial of nationhood to the Francophone and
indigenous peoples.[3]

– Richard Fidler

Interview with Jaime Pastor

You said “If I were Catalan, I would go to vote.” What would be your vote?

I am not an independentist, but I recognize that the attempt to federalize the
Spanish state has proved impossible. And I recognize that there is no desire for
a federal agreement among the majority of the Spanish parties. In that context,
I would h

[Marxism] Roleplaying The Resistance: Liberal Grifters In the Age Of Trump

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[Marxism] A brief history of the Sunday, February 16, 2003 "The World Says No to War" mass march and rally in San Francisco

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The first meeting called to organize for the 2003 massive “The World Says No to 
War" protest in San Francisco against Bush’s build-up for the Iraq war was 
organized by Bay Area United Against War, which was a tiny, dwindling coalition 
at the time. 

Specifically, it was organized by Carole Seligman and Bonnie Weinstein (now 
co-editors of Socialist Viewpoint magazine). The two of us, in our frustration 
with Bush’s war plans and the disorganization of the antiwar movement, first 
sent out a call from BAUAW via email and snail mail to as many Bay Area groups 
as possible; then the two of us personally went around to the major groups at 
the time—Not In Our Name, United For Peace and Justice and ANSWER—and got an 
agreement with these groups to call an organizing meeting to plan for a 
demonstration to oppose the pending war on Iraq. 

The momentum was there. There was a call for massive demonstrations on February 
15th that went out from Europe, and we had originally scheduled the San 
Francisco demonstration for that date. However, when it became clear that a 
huge momentum was building to protest the upcoming war, we were contacted by 
the Chinese New Years Parade committee who requested that we change our 
demonstration to Sunday, February 16th, in order not to compete with the 
Chinese New Years Parade on Saturday, and we did. A representative from the 
Chinese New Years Parade became part of the coalition to build the 
demonstration and attended the coalition planning meetings.

In exchange for our cooperation, the Chinese New Years Parade committee 
advertised the Sunday, February 16th “The World Says No To War” march on their 
website and on their phone message center for their parade. As a result there 
was a large contingent from Chinatown that marched on Sunday after their Parade 
on Saturday. 

The demonstration was a huge success. Jeremy Corbyn, Danny Glover, Bonnie 
Raitt, Martin Sheen, along with the five co-sponsoring groups, spoke, as well 
as many, many others.

The five co-sponsors for this demonstration were Bay Area United Against War, 
Not In Our Name, ANSWER, United for Peace and Justice and the Vanguard 
Foundation. There were at minimum, 250,000 people who marched that day.

As we know, in spite of the massive opposition to the war across the globe, 
Bush launched the “Shock and Awe” assault on Iraq on March 19, 2003.

Comradely,

Bonnie Weinstein

Some links about the history of the demonstration:
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/war-in-iraq-begins 

http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/West/02/16/sprj.irq.sf.protests/index.html 

http://articles.latimes.com/2003/feb/17/local/me-peace17 


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> On 7/20/17 9:13 AM, DW via Marxism wrote:
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>> "In 2003, UNAC and ANSWER led massive protests against Bush's war. "  No,
>> they didn't. ANSWER did along with another broader based united front, but
>> UNAC didn't even exist then.
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[Marxism] Loyalty Down: Rick Wartzman Discusses How Business Leaders Betrayed the American Workforce – Capital & Main

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Actually the story is even more sordid. UNAC is the result of ex-Trotskyist
Socialist Action (US) adapting to WWP.
btw MIA has recently uploaded more documents by Sam Marcy & Co. from the
1950s and '60s laying out their ideological and strategic turn toward
anti-working class Stalinism in the form of Global Class War (i.e. campist)
theory.


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> International Action Center - participated in a fascist-inspired "anti
> globalization conference" in Russia in 1915. Organizer of the conference
> was the fascist-linked Alexander Dugin, and outright fascists/racists such
> as the Confederate League of the South were also in attendance. See:
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[Marxism] UNAC

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The issue of UNAC - a wholly owned subsidiary of the Workers World party -
has come up. UNAC and the WWP's other wholly owned subsidiary - the
International Action Center - participated in a fascist-inspired "anti
globalization conference" in Russia in 1915. Organizer of the conference
was the fascist-linked Alexander Dugin, and outright fascists/racists such
as the Confederate League of the South were also in attendance. See:

http://threewayfight.blogspot.com/2015/02/moscow-conference-draws-fascists-neo.html

This is where the classless "anti-US imperialism" and "anti-globalization"
leads.

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[Marxism] Here's why Radiohead should be condemned for playing in Israel

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The filthy gloating of this Zionist rag shows exactly why Radiohead playing
Israel is a big deal. It is a cultural normalization of the ethnic
cleansing of Palestine and the illegal occupation of the country by
Zionists.
http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/Radiohead-overcomes-BDS-pressure-f
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The boycott of South Africa -particularly the cultural and sporting aspects
had great effect in building the anti-apartheid campaign world wide. In
Australia the campaign against tours by the Springboks rugby union team and
the SA cricket teams eventually lead to their being banned from world
competition and provided great moral support to the struggle in South
Africa and a real blow to  the sports-mad supporters of the regime.

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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: As Trump shores up Assad's genocidal regime, America's hard left is cheering him on - Opinion - Israel News | Haaretz.com

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A very good article, but I wish people like Oz would stop already with
this populist tendency to use the "hard left" labelling of liberals
like Blumenthal and Norton, who wouldn't know what a class analysis
even means. "The far right and far left" are united on this etc. No,
they're not (except wsws). There are good reasons why the big majority
of leftists from Trotskyist, semi-Trot (eg state-caps) and anarchist
backgrounds have been fairly good on Syria. It has been the
Stalinist/ex-Stalinist/centre left/left-liberal milieu that as a whole
has been the worst. Oz even says in his article, referring to
Blumenthal, "These are the words not of a Leftist or
"anti-imperialist", but of a Westerner fully embracing the expansion
of Bush, Obama and now Trump's 'war on terror’." Yes, precisely. But
"not of a leftist" is anything but "hard left".

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> This evidence-free, propaganda heavy position on Syria has been fawned over
> by the far-right. Blumenthal’s work has received gushing praise from
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> and former KKK leader David Duke.
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> full: http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/1.802391
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This evidence-free, propaganda heavy position on Syria has been fawned 
over by the far-right. Blumenthal’s work has received gushing praise 
from America’s leading racist commentators including Ann Coulter, Pamela 
Geller and former KKK leader David Duke.


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[Marxism] Fwd: Clancy Sigal (1926-2017) | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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Re: [Marxism] YPG

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On 7/20/17 9:13 AM, DW via Marxism wrote:

Louis P:
"In 2003, UNAC and ANSWER led massive protests against Bush's war. "  No,
they didn't. ANSWER did along with another broader based united front, but
UNAC didn't even exist then.

David


Right, I meant UFPJ.
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Re: [Marxism] YPG

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Louis P:
"In 2003, UNAC and ANSWER led massive protests against Bush's war. "  No,
they didn't. ANSWER did along with another broader based united front, but
UNAC didn't even exist then.

David
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[Marxism] Fwd: A New History of the Right Has Become an Intellectual Flashpoint - The Chronicle of Higher Education

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A controversy over a Duke professor's book about the new right.

http://www.chronicle.com/article/A-New-History-of-the-Right-Has/240700
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[Marxism] Enforcing the Red Scare-

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Re: [Marxism] YPG

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|Taylor Report| 
The Myth of the Kurdish YPG's Moral Excellence

July 17th, 2017
Featured Guest: STEPHEN GOWANS, author of Washington’s Long War On Syria.




Comrades should be aware that Gowans is an exceedingly obscure figure. 
His blog is ranked globally at 854,918 by Alexa. And like most 
Assadists, he is preaching to the choir. I wouldn't have ever brought 
this up with my fellow Syrian solidarity activists but I didn't see much 
point in intervening at his talk in NYC. There is a sectarian cult 
around Assad that--quite frankly--is dormant in activist terms. In 2003, 
UNAC and ANSWER led massive protests against Bush's war. Today they do 
nothing because there is nothing to do. Nobody ever took to the streets 
to protest Western intervention in Syria except in September 2013, after 
Obama's "red lines" were crossed. Now, with the announcement that the 
USA will abandon the rebels totally, they will have nothing to do. You 
think that they will bother to protest the bombing of Raqqa? Forget 
about it. They are *for* that kind of intervention even if they don't 
come out and say it.

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[Marxism] Fwd: Capitalism – where Marx was right and wrong | Michael Roberts Blog

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[Marxism] YPG

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|Taylor Report| 
The Myth of the Kurdish YPG's Moral Excellence

July 17th, 2017
Featured Guest: STEPHEN GOWANS, author of Washington’s Long War On Syria.  


Photo omitted - shows Kurdish shoulder patch with US flag
An image from a pro-Kurdish fighter posted on Reddit


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changed its ideology to “democratic federalism,” influenced by Murray Bookchin 
of the US. Its outlook resembles the old Bundist movement whose leaders 
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[Marxism] Fwd: [New post] Why Do Fights Occur So Often In Taiwanese Legislature?

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> From: "New Bloom Magazine" 
> Date: July 20, 2017 at 4:58:39 AM EDT
> To: "Richard Sprout" 
> Subject: [New post] Why Do Fights Occur So Often In Taiwanese
Legislature?
> 
> 
> New post on New Bloom Magazine
>   
> 
> 
> Why Do Fights Occur So Often In Taiwanese Legislature?
> by Brian Hioe
> by Brian Hioe
> 語言:
> English
> Photo Credit: SET
> PERHAPS IN international coverage of Taiwan’s democracy, both with
regard to its history and its present, some clarification is required
about the meaning of Taiwanese democracy instead of simply being happy
that the international media is paying attention to otherwise obscure
Taiwan.
> 
> With recent international coverage about a recent fight within the
Legislative Yuan between KMT and DPP legislators regarding the
distribution of borough chiefs and the broader history of legislative
fighting in Taiwan, many in Taiwan have reflected upon why exactly it is
that Taiwan’s legislature so frequently has fights take place within it.
Indeed, fights within Taiwan’s Legislative Yuan are fairly common, and
international media has a way of occasionally discovering and
rediscovering this phenomenon over and over. Nevertheless, the question
is worth reflecting on as something which probably has ties to the
structural nature of Taiwanese democracy.
> 
> Some deem fights within legislature to be an expression of the highly
polarized nature of Taiwanese politics, with sharp divisions between the
pan-Blue and pan-Green alliances. This has a large degree of truth. The
primary political cleavage in Taiwan is not between the political Left
and Right, per se, but between unification with China or independence
for Taiwan. These are differences in conceptions of Taiwan’s political
division which are inherently oppositional, without a lack of
substantial capacity for a middle ground position which blends both
political poles, as occurs with the Left-Right political spectrum.
> 
> Photo credit: CNA
> This explains in part why pan-Blue and pan-Green political actors
would be willing to lob fists at each other altogether too willingly in
legislature is because their vision of Taiwan’s future are inherently at
odds with each other and each views the other side as an existential
threat. Again, issues of unification/independence are obviously not the
only issue that pan-Blue and pan-Green legislators fight about, but
unification/independence remains the primarily dividing issue between
the two main political camps in Taiwan, and other issues arrange
themselves around this split. Again, the fundamental split within
Taiwanese politics being between unification/independence is a way in
which Taiwanese democratic politics fundamentally differs from other
two-party democracies, and is an unsettled legacy of Taiwan’s
authoritarian period.
> 
> Consequently, there is quite simply no way for Taiwanese legislators
from both political camps to have a collegial relation, as one might see
between members of otherwise rival political parties in other contexts.
One observes, for example, that there is very little political discourse
in Taiwan which touts the benefits of bipartisan politics as a universal
good, although bipartisan does occur within legislature nonetheless.
> 
> Yet, likewise, it is because of Taiwan’s only recently
post-authoritarian nature which fights break out so often in
legislature. As the KMT was the former ruling party during the
authoritarian period and the DPP was the political party which formed
out of the democracy movement which fought against the KMT, blood was
literally split in battle between the two sides for Taiwanese democracy
to be established. It is no surprise that antagonisms continue to exist
between both sides in addition to that the pan-Blue and pan-Green camp
have at heart fundamentally oppositional political visions.
> 
> Likewise, seeing as the democracy movement seems to have enshrined the
crucial role of the mass movement in Taiwanese politics, the fact that
pan-Blue and pan-Green political actors literally fought each other
during the period of KMT authoritarianism and the rising democracy, at
far greater intensity than occasional fisticuffs in legislature,
probably also contributes to why political violence is somewhat
normalized in even electoral politics. Taiwanese democracy, after all,
was realized in struggle.
> 
> Indeed, returning to the fact that discussion upon why the Taiwanese
legislature so frequently descends into fights between legislator as
prompted by international media, one observes that T

[Marxism] Exploited, Abused, Neglected - Mental Illness and Solitary Confinement in Texas Prisons- HARD CRACKERS

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