[Marxism] Messages to the Spanish people from Egypt
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqdKYluS2yUfeature=player_embedded#at=26 goog_285213417All of the Egyptian people are behind you and anyone who wants to make a revolution, anyone who wants to achieve something. There is a saying: If the people want life, destiny should give it to them. -- “Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is humanity’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.” — Oscar Wilde, Soul of Man Under Socialism “The free market is perfectly natural... do you think I am some kind of dummy?” — Jarvis Cocker Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Scheduled Downtime
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == If you really want to frighten the bejeezus out of some fundamentalists, just get some old tennis shoes and dry ice, put the latter in the former, place on the doorstep of your favorite fundie, ring the door bell and walk away. A variation of the old halloween shit-in-a paper-bag-on-fire trick. Greg On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 10:30 PM, Dennis Brasky dmozart1...@gmail.com wrote: == Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The Rapture? Armageddon? The Mets beat the Yankees tonight - I'm ready! Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/gregmc59%40gmail.com Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Battle for Chile online?
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Does anyone know if the three parts of the The Battle for Chile are anywhere online with english subtitles? I saw that it's on youtube, but without subtitles. Thanks! Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Still Here: Sanguinary Skies and All
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Decades ago, a buddy and I, traveling in my old Chev station wagon, left Casper, Wyoming in the evening traveling east on a main highway [two lane, of course, as they almost all were in those days.] Although winter, there was little snow. Acting on youthful inspiration [some of which I still retain], we decided to take in the Black Hills and, in addition, follow my shortcut instincts and turn off on a reasonably well traveled ranch dirt road pointing vaguely northeastward. We were on that lonely trek for close to three hours -- and at least four barb wire cattle gates -- and it was very, very dark. But our faith in ourselves continued unabated and finally -- finally -- we saw a couple of lonely cars rushing along a highway a few miles to the east. We entered that and then, almost immediately, saw the lights of a small town well ahead to the north. Turned out to be tiny Newcastle, Wyoming, with a Great Western Motel, right on the edge of the Hills. Neither of us ever admitted it but I think we were both relieved. But I wasn't especially surprised when I awoke this morning at 3:30 a.m., looked out the window, and saw the lights of Pocatello on the other side of the Valley. Things were intact world-wise -- so far, so good. Of course, the End is supposed to commence at 4 p.m. our time -- Mountain Time. But, really, I'm not worried. Before I turned in last night, I quipped that the End isn't in our Catholic Missal and I don't think it's in the Book of Mormon, either. More to my serious, personal point, I can't recall any appropriate Native prophecies with a precise chronological fix. [The sometimes touted Mayan one might be the closest -- but I'm inclined to take that symbolically.] But this early morning did put me in mind of very early January 1, 2000. Back in that comparatively halcyon time, Bill Clinton's FBI Director, Louis Freeh, had been publicly warning for months that the time turn-over into the New Century might well produce massive computer breakdowns and, simultaneously, a huge militia upsurge -- especially in the West. Well, there were militias in those days [as there are a few nowadays], almost all of them rather pathetic wannabee soldiers, and almost all of them quite harmless except to the earth and grass and trees. A very few were genuinely dangerous -- the Oklahoma City bombing was tragically real. But then and now, I and many others suspect that the Freeh obsession with militias had a lot to do with Clinton's high priority attack on firearms and firearm owners generally, despite the fact that most of the latter, then and now, scorn militia play-games. So, when I looked out my window in the very early hours of the New Century, and saw -- unsurprisingly -- the lights of Poky, heard NO gunfire off yonder anywhere, noted my computer was essentially fine -- I just went back to sleep. Louis Freeh carried on into Bush 2 but dropped the militia thing at that point and began talking about radical anarchists and such. And then came The One Big Menace, much inflated but with some clearly threatening facets, that's still with us -- and that's now led to the new Peace President's three wars in Muslim countries, continued domestic repression, and the extension of the Patriot Act -- lineal descendant of Bill Clinton's militia-focused Anti-Terrorism Act. This morning, I didn't go back to sleep. Poured a cup of strong black coffee and a glass of cold pure mountain water and lit my tobacco pipe. First thing I saw was a fill-in short on Turner Classic Movies. It was a 1950s state police training film, obviously set in California, with a focus on tear gas usage. Although one segment involved conventional holed-up outlaws, the most interesting piece was the usage of the Gas on simulated strikers in front of a U.S. Steel property. The strike leader was played by a very dark Chicano-type with a waving fist and a truly hateful face. Tear gas took care of all of that with dispatch. [Sort of like driving insects off with DDT.] Well, the class struggle hasn't changed an iota since then save perhaps to recently get much sharper -- nor have its basic components for Good [strikes and demonstrations] and for Evil [police and corporate repression.] It was encouraging to read the Nation piece [via Portside] which indicates AFL-CIO now plans to shift much of its heretofore political action dinero into direct organizing at the points of production. Well, a great many of us -- including myself -- have advocated that for a very, very long time indeed. Let's hope it actually happens. [I did, of course, renew my UAW/National Writers Union dues the other day for yet another year.] I don't think the Creator -- and Its many entities
[Marxism] Four lessons for China from the collapse of the Soviet Union
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Global Times (5/19/11) Four lessons from the collapse of the Soviet Union By Liu Shulin A tide of reform spread in the socialist states in the 1980s. However, just like running faces bigger risk of falling down than walking, the reforms in socialist countries are even vulnerable. The lessons from the failure of Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) are valuable for China, which is experiencing reform today. Firstly, the party should not give up its leadership of the country during the reforms. The CPSU, though it had been plagued by corruption to a severe degree, could have been resurrected. But in the clamor of limitless openness, the CPSU had lost its control of the intelligentsia, theory circles and the media. Secondly, reforming should not abandon the principle of public ownership as economic foundation. The socialist public ownership has determined the nature of socialism and guaranteed the people can manage themselves. It is also the most substantial part of the socialist system. As long as the position of public ownership is sustained, the foundation of socialist countries stays, no matter how the reforms proceed. On July 1, 1991, the Soviet Union's Supreme Soviet passed a privatization law, which regulated that the State-owned enterprises could be turned to collective or shareholding enterprises, and they could be sold or auctioned. In the same month, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev wrote to the G7 summit to inform them that the first two years of the plan would see 80 percent of medium- or small- sized enterprises sold to individuals and then the mode of massive private enterprises was promoted. Privatization generated the privileged class and produced class differentiation in the Soviet Union, which could only lead to two results: a reshuffle of the country because of a sharp U-turn in policy on the part of the ruling party, or an angry public struggling with the new reality. Thirdly, reforming doesn't simply mea! n denyin g previous leaders. Nikita Khrushchev repudiated Joseph Stalin in the Secret Speech in 1956. And from then on the anti-Stalin movement lasted several decades in the Soviet Union, and led to the disastrous consequences of denying the history of the Soviet Union, and finally opposing the systems and goals of communism. However, merely denying the past does not help solve the problem. During the reforms in the 1980s, Gorbachev changed the direction of the Soviet Union based on the so-called new thinking. What was the ultimate purpose of the reform? Should the reform persist in following the principles of socialism? On these fundamental issues, Gorbachev showed nothing but enormous blindness. Fourthly, the reform should not rely on external powers. The US never changed its goal of trying to peacefully transform the Soviet Union and other socialist countries. It took steps to put ideological pressure on socialist countries, while the leaders of the Soviet Union who supported reform took no precautions at all. Gorbachev cared about evaluation and praise from the US, and his efforts to promote openness and the so-called cultural autonomy were all in the hope of obtaining US support. Moreover, he is claimed to have first called the US president after the attempted coup by Soviet hardliners and left his house arrest only after asking the US president for instructions. It is understandable to keep contact with the Western countries under the open situation, but it is necessary to maintain a sober mind, and to take effective precautions. The author is a professor at the School of Social Sciences at Tsinghua University. opin...@globaltimes.com.cn. __._,_.___ Reply to sender | Reply to group | Reply via web post | Start a New Topic Messages in this topic (1) RECENT ACTIVITY: Visit Your Group Switch to: Text-Only, Daily Digest • Unsubscribe • Terms of Use . __,_._,___ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Obama Officials Refuse to Investigate New Evidence in National Guard 1970 Kent State Shootings
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[Marxism] Sexual Affronts a Known Hotel Hazard
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == (I have to admit that when I first heard about DSK's sexual assault on a housekeeper, I had a hard time imagining such a thing taking place. The guy was certainly a predator but the described encounter seemed at variance with his standard modus operandi which was using his official power to take advantage of women he worked with. But this article reminded me that the hotel encounter is a staple of pornographic movies. There's a Curb Your Enthusiasm episode that plays it for laughs. A male hotel detective goes to a room occupied by two women to investigate some problem and is forced into bed by them. DSK sounds exactly the kind of guy who might have had a big porn stash that would have had scenes where a man takes advantage of a housekeeper. Of course, in porn the women are always willing. The scumbag DSK confused his own sexual fantasy with reality.) NY Times May 20, 2011 Sexual Affronts a Known Hotel Hazard By STEVEN GREENHOUSE A lot of people were shocked by the charges that the head of the International Monetary Fund sexually assaulted a hotel housekeeper in New York last weekend. But housekeepers and hotel security experts say that housekeepers have long had to deal with various sexual affronts from male guests, including explicit comments, groping, guests who expose themselves and even attempted rape. “These problems happen with some regularity,” said Anthony Roman, chief executive of Roman Associates, a Long Island company that advises hotels on security matters. “They’re not rare, but they’re not common either.” Hotels are reluctant to discuss such incidents, but security experts say the accusations against Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the I.M.F. chief, will prompt some hotel managers to review their security practices to better protect their housekeeping staff. Zemina Cuturic, a refugee from Bosnia who works at the Tremont Chicago Hotel, said she remained frightened whenever she had to clean Room 410 because of what happened there a year ago. She was vacuuming, she said, and the guest, who had left the room minutes earlier, suddenly reappeared and “reached to try to kiss me behind my ear.” “I dropped my vacuum, and then he grabbed my body at the waist, and he was holding me close,” Ms. Cuturic recalled. She persuaded the guest to let her go, and she fled. “It was very scary,” she said. Ms. Cuturic reported the incident to hotel management, but decided against going to the police. “I was kind of scared that he’d come back the next day if I did,” she said. A Tremont official said the hotel, part of the Starwood chain, has a full-time security guard whose only job is to watch over the housekeeping staff. In the incident that Ms. Cuturic described, the official said that management confronted the man and insisted that he leave the hotel. Housekeepers, nearly all of whom are women, talk of guests who offer them $100 or $200 for sex, apparently thinking that the maids, often low-paid immigrants, are desperate to earn more money. Some women complain of episodes in which they were bending over to, say, clean a bathtub, and a guest sneaked up and stuck his hand up their skirt. Tom Whitlatch, president of Risk Services, a security consulting firm, said many hotel companies were taking a new look at safety after the accusations against Mr. Strauss-Kahn, who has resigned from the I.M.F. to focus on fighting the charges against him. “I can assure you that the big hotel chains are aware of this incident and are saying, ‘We need to make sure our housekeepers are trained about this and we’re doing enough to prevent things like this from happening,’ ” he said. Mr. Whitlatch said that there was little that hotels could do to prevent some of the incidents, but that training and good security procedures could reduce the risks to housekeepers. Kathryn Carrington, a retired housekeeper who worked 30 years at the Grand Hyatt in Manhattan, recalled several occasions when she went into a room to clean, only to have a male guest emerge from the shower in his bathrobe, which then suddenly opened. In one case, she said, a guest propositioned her, saying, “I see a pretty dark girl. Can you do something for me?” Ms. Carrington acknowledged that she used to carry a can opener with her in case she ever needed to defend herself from a guest. The Grand Hyatt’s management was very supportive, she said. “They’d tell you, ‘If any situation occurred, get to the nearest phone and call the supervisor and leave the room. Someone else will help you do the room,’ ” she said. The Hyatt Corporation declined an interview request, but said in a statement, “The safety and security of guests and associates is one of our top concerns.” It noted that
[Marxism] Joseph Massad: Emperor Obama Vs the Arab people
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == In 1960, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan delivered an important speech titled Wind of Change, first in Accra and later in Cape Town, signaling British decolonisation of its African territories and warning the South African regime to move away from its apartheid policies. In 2011, US President Barack Obama begged to differ. While dubbing his speech Winds of Change, in reference to the uprisings ongoing across the Arab World, his speech made it clear that the same winds were not yet blowing in Washington DC, and perhaps never will. President Obama's second speech on the Arab world, delivered on 19 May, showed such constancy and lack of change in US policy as his first speech, delivered in Cairo on 4 June 2009. This is not to say that the two speeches lacked flair and imperial hubris in the delivery, but rather that their characteristic lack of substance or novelty, let alone their decorative and gratuitous verbosity, demonstrate that imperial climate control in Washington can never be 'changed', not even by the wind of the Arab uprisings. The problem with US policy in the Arab world is not only its insistence on broadcasting credulous US propaganda - easily fed to Americans, yet with few takers elsewhere in the world - but also that it continues to show a complete lack of familiarity with Arab political culture and insists on insulting the intelligence of most Arabs, whom it claims to address directly with speeches such as Mr Obama's ... http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/05/2011521115956696675.html -- Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað. Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Scheduled Downtime
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Don't know if this has made it to the list yet Some people set up a website offering post-rapture insurance to look after the pets of those raptured to Heaven. Basically, send us $$$ and we'll come by and take care of your dog for you after Jesus takes you off. They had a few hundred people actually send them the money, too. http://eternal-earthbound-pets.com/Home_Page.html ML Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Battle for Chile online?
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 5/21/2011 5:50 AM, sandia wrote: == Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Does anyone know if the three parts of the The Battle for Chile are anywhere online with english subtitles? I saw that it's on youtube, but without subtitles. Thanks! Nope. Haven't seen it anywhere else. -- - Juan Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] 30th Anniversary/Hunger Striker Patsy O'Hara
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Today is the 30th anniversary of the death of Patsy O'Hara (Peatsaí Ó hEadhra). Here is my tribute to Patsy and all the militants of the Irish Republican Socialist Party and the Irish National Liberation Army: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYhCUYRZPac This remembrance of Patsy was posted on the Republican Socialist forum maintained by the IRSP. He was a gallant comrade who is forever in our hearts. Patsy O'Hara was born on 11 July 1957 in Derry City in Ireland's occupied six counties. The catalysts for his political activism were witnessing the violence against civil rights marchers in the late 1960s and his presence at the Battle of the Bogside in August 1969. He joined the Official Irish Republican Army's youth wing in 1970 and Official Sinn Fein a year later. He was active with the Officials until 1973, when, in his own words, it became apparent that they were firmly on the path to reformism and had abandoned the national question. The year after resigning from the Officials, he was interned in Long Kesh prison camp for six months. After his release in 1975, he joined the INLA and the Irish Republican Socialist Party. He resided in Dublin from 1977 to 1979, where he was active with the IRSP and served on its Ard-Chomhairle (National Executive). After returning to Derry in early 1979, he was arrested and charged with possession of a grenade. Sentenced to eight years in the H- Blocks of Long Kesh Prison, he participated in the blanket protests and became Officer Commanding of the INLA prisoners of war. He was the first INLA prisoner to go on hunger strike in 1981. 61 days later, at 11:29 pm, he became the first INLA prisoner to die on hunger strike. He was joined in death by a fellow hunger striker, the Provisional IRA's Raymond McCreesh. The two men joined the strike on the same day and died on the same day two months later. His funeral was the largest for any individual in the history of Derry, attended by thousands from all over Ireland. He died as he lived: a Republican Socialist. Remember him with honour and pride. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Charset: UTF8 Note: This signature can be verified at https://www.hushtools.com/verify Version: Hush 3.0 wpwEAQECAAYFAk3YGnYACgkQz2PtBuiIezkXZwQAph8E3HX62BdBh4FPFWetKK1sMfWt 3dHn3DQxq52gxyD8Wa5qKct6oETj0BZYto05QzexbVvuTMJwreLbSkfb2fENJBRI1RSu PbOKYG/sIA+UuAn1eWxJT0qElB/fLVGs8+NOU0J1sj1yFFYRSjBwZeHgLFTD3Uh8j+wH uHfTPu4= =ziiU -END PGP SIGNATURE- Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Four lessons for China from the collapse of the Soviet Union
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Vladimiro Giacche wrote But in the clamor of limitless openness, the CPSU had lost its control of the intelligentsia, theory circles and the media. This is incredible: limitless openness? Wrong as CPSU policy and therefore wrong for the CCP? As opposed to what is in place now in China? The intended context is clear enough: that the Chinese Peoples Republic is a socialist state (as by implication was the USSR under the CPSU, in the period referred to here if not more generally), that to maintain the viability of this socialist state the legal and political, as well as the ideological apparatus, the superstructure that is, must be consonant with and fully supporting the socialist material base. Is the admission of corporate entities to membership in the CCP consistent with maintaining a socialist state? Is the reversion to all essentials of a regime of private property, whatever control remains with the CCP and its corrupt cadre, despite all centrifugal capitalist forces in play, remotely compatible with a socialist regime? Is the admission of large elements of foreign capitalist control of production and allocation of resources and profit in China in furtherance of a socialist project? Was there not an admission of failure on the part of the CCP to institute socialism during or following the period of Mao's ascendancy, subsequently self-described as militarily and in terms of the global economy a weak and vulnerable state, socialism in one country, and a decision that the solution was not simply a special period or the equivalent of an NEP but a rapid, incremental, hothouse transition to (still a fragile, vulnerable, paranoid) capitalism, in the shadow of a number of Asian states which had their day in the sun and faded, by all measures irreversible without a revolution from below? Does limitation of the intelligentsia and the ideological apparatus then not imply that the danger of openness is the threat entailed to the viability of a Chinese capitalist state, quite explicitly controlled from the top and based on the fundamental antagonism between wage labor and capital, not by any stretch a socialist state? Why was this article posted? Who is this epigone? So what else is new? Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Harold Camping and Jack Barnes
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[Marxism] Fwd: NEW RELEASE: Work-sharing or subsidized leave policies might help ease the pain of U.S. recovery.
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == -- Forwarded message -- From: Center for Economic and Policy Research c...@cepr.net Date: Thu, May 19, 2011 at 9:42 AM Subject: NEW RELEASE: Work-sharing or subsidized leave policies might help ease the pain of U.S. recovery. To: pegdobb...@gmail.com [image: CEPR logo]http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=s9udwD7vJ4NkeoGOXSFqsccxuej9fQ8u NEW RELEASE: Danish and German Policies Yield Contrasting Experiences with the Great Recession *Work-sharing or subsidized leave policies might help ease the pain of U.S. recovery.* * * -- *For Immediate Release:* May 19, 2011 *Contact: *Alan Barber, (202) 293-5380 x115 *Washington, D.C.*- Two years into the official recovery from the Great Recession, millions of Americans are still without work. While the recession hit countries around the world, many weathered the crisis better than the United States. A new reporthttp://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=Pcqf06pKijc3q3r%2BM9PLqMcxuej9fQ8ufrom the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) looks at 21 countries at a similar level of economic development to the United States and explores why some countries fared better than others. The report, “Labor Market Policy in the Great Recessionhttp://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=DqGg6TF5sISYcp0II9sH%2F8cxuej9fQ8u,” focuses on Denmark and Germany, countries with very different experiences before and after the recession, and considers some possible lessons for the United States. Denmark, which was widely seen as one of the world's most successful labor markets before the downturn, has struggled in recent years. By contrast, Germany, which went through a long, difficult transition after the unification of East and West Germany in the early 1990s, has outperformed the rest of the world's rich countries since 2007. The secret to Germany's successful market performance, the report says, was the country's ability to spread the pain of the downturn broadly. German companies cut hours rather than workers, while partially compensating the workers for the lost hours. Germany's job-sharing institutions were so successful that unemployment actually fell during the recession there, said CEPR economist John Schmitt,http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=IPbfXt6F8Wqwh0QMYJ0JGMcxuej9fQ8uwho wrote the report. In the United States, the incentives encourage firms to lay workers off, rather than reduce hours. Denmark is renowned for its expensive and effective system of training, education, and job placement efforts for unemployed workers. Nevertheless, since the onset of the downturn, the Danish unemployment rate has almost doubled. Training, education, and job placement work well when the economy is close to full employment. But, the experience of Denmark shows that these 'supply-side' approaches just don't work if there aren't jobs to place people in, said Schmitt. The report argues that work-sharing could help to lower the U.S. unemployment rate, which currently hovers near nine percent. Work-sharing programs pay part-time unemployment benefits to workers who have their hours cut. Twenty states currently operate such systems, but lack of publicity and some bureaucratic problems with the available programs have meant few employers have made use of the systems during the current recovery. The report also suggests that a temporary tax credit to employers who cut hours rather than workers could encourage firms to not only implement work-sharing, but also expand paid sick days, paid vacation, paid holidays, paid family leave, and other forms of paid leave for workers. ### View our latest: Reportshttp://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=HWBN4bfvU9faQ6aDdFBhOMcxuej9fQ8u Op-eds Columnshttp://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=eat5LdKHgDwIViPy0NFkdscxuej9fQ8u Data Byteshttp://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=tLauNIFAAklffFEPBo7bh8cxuej9fQ8u Eventshttp://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=RiXCabE806eKnXuJ9et2Mscxuej9fQ8u About The Center for Economic and Policy Research is an independent, nonpartisan think tank that was established to promote democratic debate on the most important economic and social issues that affect people's lives. CEPR's Advisory Board includes Nobel Laureate economists Robert Solow and Joseph Stiglitz; Janet Gornick, Professor at the CUNY Graduate Center and Director of the Luxembourg Income Study; and Richard Freeman, Professor of Economics at Harvard University. http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=mxuGJRMwIntFN%2BgCovgBhMcxuej9fQ8u http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=wpoOY%2FGPK2SI26RgOxobhccxuej9fQ8u [image: CEPR RSS
Re: [Marxism] Four lessons for China from the collapse of the Soviet Union
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Because I found it interesting. Fullstop. If you don't agree you can easily skip it or delete the file. It happens sometimes with articles posted on this list... Why was this article posted? Who is this epigone? So what else is new? Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/md1101%40mclink.it Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Battle for Chile
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I found it on fenopy.eu as a bittorrent but there seems to be a small fee for downloading it and it doesn't say if either download has engliswh subtitles. Here is where I found it: http://fenopy.eu/?keyword=%22Battle+for+Chile%22x=48y=7 steve heeren Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Portuguese Left Bloc meets to discuss austerity fight back
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Portugal: IMF-EU imposes austerity, left fires up for fight Dick Nichols, Lisbon When the 548 delegates to the Seventh National Convention of Portugal’s Left Bloc came together in a vast sports hall in Lisbon onver May 7-8, they had two big questions to answer. The first was what alternative should they propose at the June 5 Portuguese elections to the €78 billion (about $103 billion) “rescue package” negotiated between the European Union, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund (the “troika”) and the Socialist Party (PS) government of prime minister Jose Socrates? The second was how to build greater unity among all those forces opposed to austerity — representing millions of Portuguese — so that a government of the left becomes thinkable in a country used to a back-and-forth shuffle of PS and Social Democratic Party (PDS) administrations? http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/47642 -- “Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is humanity’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.” — Oscar Wilde, Soul of Man Under Socialism “The free market is perfectly natural... do you think I am some kind of dummy?” — Jarvis Cocker Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Gramsci and Us: Building Socialist Hegemony Today - video
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEHmOaY7DBkfeature=player_embedded from http://marxdialecticalstudies.blogspot.com Cheers, Red Arnie Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] A documentary of an all girls high school in Iran
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[Marxism-Thaxis] Fwd: NEW RELEASE: Work-sharing or subsidized leave policies might help ease the pain of U.S. recovery.
-- Forwarded message -- From: Center for Economic and Policy Research c...@cepr.net Date: Thu, May 19, 2011 at 9:42 AM Subject: NEW RELEASE: Work-sharing or subsidized leave policies might help ease the pain of U.S. recovery. To: pegdobb...@gmail.com [image: CEPR logo]http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=s9udwD7vJ4NkeoGOXSFqsccxuej9fQ8u NEW RELEASE: Danish and German Policies Yield Contrasting Experiences with the Great Recession *Work-sharing or subsidized leave policies might help ease the pain of U.S. recovery.* * * -- *For Immediate Release:* May 19, 2011 *Contact: *Alan Barber, (202) 293-5380 x115 *Washington, D.C.*- Two years into the official recovery from the Great Recession, millions of Americans are still without work. While the recession hit countries around the world, many weathered the crisis better than the United States. A new reporthttp://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=Pcqf06pKijc3q3r%2BM9PLqMcxuej9fQ8ufrom the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) looks at 21 countries at a similar level of economic development to the United States and explores why some countries fared better than others. The report, “Labor Market Policy in the Great Recessionhttp://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=DqGg6TF5sISYcp0II9sH%2F8cxuej9fQ8u,” focuses on Denmark and Germany, countries with very different experiences before and after the recession, and considers some possible lessons for the United States. Denmark, which was widely seen as one of the world's most successful labor markets before the downturn, has struggled in recent years. By contrast, Germany, which went through a long, difficult transition after the unification of East and West Germany in the early 1990s, has outperformed the rest of the world's rich countries since 2007. The secret to Germany's successful market performance, the report says, was the country's ability to spread the pain of the downturn broadly. German companies cut hours rather than workers, while partially compensating the workers for the lost hours. Germany's job-sharing institutions were so successful that unemployment actually fell during the recession there, said CEPR economist John Schmitt,http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=IPbfXt6F8Wqwh0QMYJ0JGMcxuej9fQ8uwho wrote the report. In the United States, the incentives encourage firms to lay workers off, rather than reduce hours. Denmark is renowned for its expensive and effective system of training, education, and job placement efforts for unemployed workers. Nevertheless, since the onset of the downturn, the Danish unemployment rate has almost doubled. Training, education, and job placement work well when the economy is close to full employment. But, the experience of Denmark shows that these 'supply-side' approaches just don't work if there aren't jobs to place people in, said Schmitt. The report argues that work-sharing could help to lower the U.S. unemployment rate, which currently hovers near nine percent. Work-sharing programs pay part-time unemployment benefits to workers who have their hours cut. Twenty states currently operate such systems, but lack of publicity and some bureaucratic problems with the available programs have meant few employers have made use of the systems during the current recovery. The report also suggests that a temporary tax credit to employers who cut hours rather than workers could encourage firms to not only implement work-sharing, but also expand paid sick days, paid vacation, paid holidays, paid family leave, and other forms of paid leave for workers. ### View our latest: Reportshttp://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=HWBN4bfvU9faQ6aDdFBhOMcxuej9fQ8u Op-eds Columnshttp://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=eat5LdKHgDwIViPy0NFkdscxuej9fQ8u Data Byteshttp://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=tLauNIFAAklffFEPBo7bh8cxuej9fQ8u Eventshttp://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=RiXCabE806eKnXuJ9et2Mscxuej9fQ8u About The Center for Economic and Policy Research is an independent, nonpartisan think tank that was established to promote democratic debate on the most important economic and social issues that affect people's lives. CEPR's Advisory Board includes Nobel Laureate economists Robert Solow and Joseph Stiglitz; Janet Gornick, Professor at the CUNY Graduate Center and Director of the Luxembourg Income Study; and Richard Freeman, Professor of Economics at Harvard University. http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=mxuGJRMwIntFN%2BgCovgBhMcxuej9fQ8u http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=wpoOY%2FGPK2SI26RgOxobhccxuej9fQ8u [image: CEPR RSS Feed]http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=WRCLG2E04np4nDDbDSeQhMcxuej9fQ8u Center for Economic and Policy Research, 1611 Connecticut Ave, NW, Suite 400, Washington, DC 20009 Phone: (202) 293-5380, Fax: (202) 588-1356
