[Marxism] Honduras: Democratic rights accord a win for resistance
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Honduras: Democratic rights accord a win for resistance By Felipe Stuart Couronyer http://www.greenleft.org.au/taxonomy/term/672 John Riddell http://www.greenleft.org.au/taxonomy/term/808 Honduran President Porfirio Lobo Sosa and former president Manuel Zelaya Rosales signed an agreement on May 22: “For National Reconciliation and the Consolidation of the Democratic System in the Republic of Honduras”. ... The present agreement, finalised in Cartagena, Colombia, also bears the signatures of Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and Venezuelan foreign minister Nicolas Maduro (on behalf of President Hugo Chavez) as witnesses. This agreement opens the door to significant changes in the Central American political landscape and to the re-entry of Honduras into the Organization of American States (OAS) and Central American Integration System (SICA). In a May 23 statement, the Political Committee of the National Front for Peoples Resistance (FNRP), the main organisation coordinating popular resistance to the coup, noted that “this agreement for international mediation enables us to put an end to our exile [and] reinforce our process for the refoundation of Honduras”. It issued a “call to all members of the resistance inside and outside Honduras to unite in a great mobilization to greet and welcome our leader and the general coordinator of the FNRP, Jose Manuel Zelaya Rosales, at 11am, May 28, at the International Airport”. The statement noted that the agreement complied with the four conditions set by the FNRP. The FNRP also expressed “thanks for the process of international mediation” carried out by the Venezuelan and Colombian presidents. By signing the Cartagena agreement, the signatories commit themselves to: Guarantee the return to Honduras in security and liberty of Zelaya and all others exiled as a result of the crisis. (Over 200 other exiled leaders of the resistance are able to return under the terms of the agreement.) Assure conditions in which the FNRP can gain recognition as a legal political party. Reaffirm the constitutional right to initiate plebiscites, particularly with respect to the FNRP project of convening a National Constituent Assembly. Create a Secretariat of Justice and Human Rights to secure human rights in Honduras and invite the UN Human Rights Commission to establish an office in Honduras. Constitute a Monitoring (Verification) Commission, consisting initially of the Colombian and Venezuelan presidencies, to help assure the successful implementation of the agreement. full article: http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/47739 -- “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] What's new at Links: Spain, Egypt, Paris Commune, West Bengal, Bin Laden, Portugal, Venezuela, Honduras, Canada, Middle East IMF
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == What's new at Links: Spain, Egypt, Paris Commune, West Bengal, Bin Laden, Portugal, Venezuela, Honduras, Canada, Middle East IMF * * * Subscribe free to Links - International Journal of Socialist Renewal - at http://www.feedblitz.com/f/?Sub=343373 You can also follow Links on Twitter at http://twitter.com/LinksSocialism or on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=10865397643 Visit and bookmark http://links.org.au and add it to your RSS feed (http://links.org.au/rss.xml). If you would like us to consider an article, please send it to li...@dsp.org.au *Please pass on to anybody you think will be interested in Links. * * * Egyptian Socialist Party: Political perspectives for Egyptian socialism http://links.org.au/node/2333 May 27, 2011 -- Below is the political perspectives document of the newly formed *Egyptian Socialist Party* -- one of a number of new pro-democracy parties formed in Egypt since the January 25, 2011, revolution that overthrew the dictator Hosni Mubarak. The party will be officially inaugurated on June 18, in Cairo. * Read more http://links.org.au/node/2333 Spain: The 'indignant' and the Paris Commune http://links.org.au/node/2330 By *Atilio A. Boron* May 24, 2011 -- Perhaps it's one of history's surprises that the popular uprising surging through Spain (and which is beginning to reverberate throughout the rest of Europe) was sparked on the 140th anniversary of the Paris Commune, a heroic moment in which the fundamental demand was also that of democracy. But a democracy conceived as a government by, for, and of the people, and not as a regime serving the interests of patronage and in which the people's interests are inexorably subordinate to the imperative of business profits. * Read more http://links.org.au/node/2330 West Bengal: Collapse of the Left Front government and the way ahead for India's left http://links.org.au/node/2329 By *Dipankar Bhattacharya*, general secretary, Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation [This article is the editorial in the forthcoming June 2011 issue of the CPI (ML) Liberation's journal /Liberation/. It is posted at /Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal/ with permission.] * Read more http://links.org.au/node/2329 Spain: The 'indignant' beat back authorities; 'Nothing will be as it was before' http://links.org.au/node/2337 By *Dick Nichols*, Barcelona May 29, 2011 -- The central plazas of dozens of cities and towns across Spain bear an uncanny resemblance to Tahrir Square in Cairo. They have been taken over by thousands of demonstrators demanding a new system. As of May 29, dozens of other central plazas in Spanish cities and towns look the same --- taken over by thousands of ordinary people demanding a new system. * Read more http://links.org.au/node/2337 The killing of bin Laden and the ugly tribalism of US politics http://links.org.au/node/2336 By *Rupen Savoulian* May 20, 2011 -- Early in May 2011, Osama bin Laden, a Saudi billionaire criminal and religious fanatic, was murdered by US Navy SEAL troops in Pakistan. Bin Laden was a reactionary political figure, who promoted obscurantist, fundamentalist prejudices in the service of criminal wars and terrorism. He was a long-term ally and asset of the United States, whose repugnant views and activities were cultivated throughout the 1980s during Washington's Cold War campaign against the secular, socialist government of Afghanistan. * Read more http://links.org.au/node/2336 End the United States' sanctions against Venezuela http://links.org.au/node/2335 Statement by the *Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network* May 28, 2011 -- On May 24, the United States' State Department unilaterally imposed sanctions against Venezuela's state-owned oil company, Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA), accusing it of undermining the US sanctions against Iran. * Read more http://links.org.au/node/2335 Venezuela: First national meeting of Socialist Workers' Councils discusses workers' control http://links.org.au/node/2334 By *Tamara Pearson* Mérida, May 24, 2011 -- More than 900 workers' council delegates from across Venezuela met at the Sidor steel plant in Puerto Ordaz to advance the organisation of Socialist Workers' Councils and analyse progress, strengths and weaknesses of workers' control in Venezuela. * Read more http://links.org.au/node/2334 Portugal: Left Bloc fires up to fight austerity http://links.org.au/node/2332 By *Dick Nichols* May 22, 2011 -- When the 548 delegates to the seventh national convention of Portugal's Left Bloc came together in a vast sports hall in Lisbon over May 7-8, they had two big questions to
[Marxism] How Bernard-Henri Levy fought his way into chronic interventionism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://www.bookforum.com/inprint/018_02/7708 Summer 2011 The Strenuous Life How Bernard-Henri Levy fought his way into chronic interventionism Christopher Caldwell I. Last year, Karl Zéro, the madcap newsman/comedian who has been a fixture on French television for a decade, asked the sixty-one-year-old celebrity philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy why people hated him so. Perhaps, Zéro speculated, it had to do with dual identity. There was Bernard-Henri Lévy, who launched his career in the 1970s with La Barbarie à visage humain (Barbarism with a Human Face), an attack on Communism, and who in the decades since had written three dozen more books, most of them about current affairs, and many of them best sellers. Then there was BHL (“Bay-Arsh-Ell”), as he was called in the gossip magazines, the very wealthy heir to a lumber fortune, who owned John Paul Getty’s old palace in Marrakech, who had married a fashion model, and who had counted the country’s last three presidents among his personal friends. Zéro seemed to suggest that the glamour and privilege of BHL clashed with the roles that Lévy accorded himself in his writings—Tribune of Democracy and Conscience of France. Lévy had another theory. He believed he provoked strong feelings among French people because he was right so often. “Because I was right about Bosnia,” he said. “Because I was right about Rwanda. Because I was right about Darfur. Because I was right about Communism.” The West has good reason to hope Lévy is right just now. He is credited with—or blamed for—having started the war that NATO is fighting in Libya. Lévy chartered a jet in late February, flew to the Egypt-Libya border, and made contact with the National Transition Council (NTC), a rebel group in Benghazi. He was swept off his feet. This was at the point when a Libyan uprising seemed to have a good chance of driving Múammar Gadhafi from power, although the dictator was beginning a counteroffensive. Lévy phoned Nicholas Sarkozy—a friend of three decades’ standing, with whom he has vacationed several times—to urge him to back the rebel group with air strikes. Lévy set up a meeting between the rebels and Sarkozy on March 10, and Hillary Clinton met their de facto leader, Mahmoud Jibril, in Paris a few days later. Britain’s prime minister, David Cameron, began calling for air strikes himself. On March 17th, ten countries on the UN Security Council passed Resolution 1973, and the French Air Force swung into action to block Gadhafi’s army at the gates of Benghazi. Going to war has looked like a less good idea ever since. Sarkozy and Cameron, writes the military historian Max Hastings in the Financial Times, “have supported the weaker faction in a civil war without knowing who the rebels are or whether their cause is sustainable.” Barack Obama has been willing to invest US machinery in the war (including drones), but not troops or political capital. As prospects on the ground look more dire, Zéro’s question about dual identity takes on a paramount importance. Sarkozy’s future may hinge on whether it was Bernard-Henri Lévy or BHL who prodded him to act. It is one thing to take one’s country to war after consulting with a thoughtful moral philosopher, quite another to do so at the urging of a rich and influential crony. II. Lévy recently wrote of his late mentor at the École Normale Supérieure, the brilliant and doomed Marxist Louis Althusser: “In ‘doing philosophy,’ Althusser used to say, the important word is not ‘philosophy’ but ‘doing.’” Lévy thinks a philosopher must be a man of action, in contrast to those who believe his purpose is to “reflect or meditate or ruminate.” For him, the only kind of intellectual is a public intellectual. The register in which Lévy tends to write is that of Zola’s “J’accuse” and Marx’s “Theses on Feuerbach.” He wants not to interpret the world but to change it. You can see this in his prose. “It is, once again, five minutes to midnight in Benghazi,” he wrote in mid-April in his “notebook” in the French weekly Le Point, but then, it always is. These notebooks have an undercurrent of hot rumor and unverified intuition about them, as when Lévy, in April, derided “the attitude of an Obama whom people here in Benghazi are beginning to suspect of dreaming of a new Dayton Accord, an agreement to partition the country.” The result resembles yellow journalism, except that a sentimental idea of humanity takes the place of the usual nationalism. The “fair wind of democracy,” to use a phrase of Lévy’s, is always blowing at gale force. It is false to say, as some do, that “only France” could produce such a figure as Lévy. He is a type of journalist recognizable in any country—the
Re: [Marxism] Honduras: Democratic rights accord a win for resistance
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I'm afraid there's more to what this dry and uncritical piece wants to paint as a win for the resistance. I don't want to start a pissing contest, but c'mon not one word about what this reconciliation framework, personally facilitated by Chavez and his acceptance of Lobo as the president of Honduras, will do to 'legitimate' this regime rather than the contrary. You think Zelaya will turn the tables? I have my doubts, to say the least. This below is much closer to the mark. from http://upsidedownworld.org/main/honduras-archives-46/3052-zelayas-return-neither-reconciliation-nor-democracy-in-honduras Perhaps most importantly, here in Honduras, nearly all sectors of the massive resistance movement, while celebrating the return of Zelaya, have publicly and outspokenly opposed the re-entry of the Lobo government (which the movement itself does not recognize) into the OAS. Some have gone even further, criticizing the bargaining away of human rights and the anti-democratic procedure of the Cartagena Accords as a threat to democratic processes. A May 23 statement titled Human Rights Are Not Subject to Political Negotiation—issued by the Committee of Relatives of the Detained and Disappeared in Honduras (COFADEH), one of the most respected human rights organizations in the country and a member of the anti-coup Human Rights Platform—rejects the notion of reconciliation under current conditions, which it describes as follows: Nearby, five teachers sustain an indefinite hunger strike due to violations of their social and economic rights; hundreds of campesino families in the zone of Aguán are surrounded by legal and clandestine forces acting against their lives and lands; and an average of 16 violent deaths occur each day throughout the country, in total impunity. On May 26 the influential collective Artists in Resistance issued an open letter to former President Zelaya, in which they welcomed him back, but announced their refusal to perform in Saturday's festivities, stating: Our song and our voice is political and not simply backup for a cathartic euphoria over a success that we have yet to achieve. They also presented a brief assessment of the current state of affairs: We will be there to receive you, compañero Manuel Zelaya, and we will not forget that the Lobo regime is murderous, that it continues murdering the campesinos of Aguán and Zacate Grande; that this very week it has ordered police to stomp on the necks of the students of Luis Bográn, that it ignores the martyrs and desperate hunger strike of the teachers, that it permits the targeted assassinations of artists like Renán Fajardo and Juan Ángel Sorto, that it carelessly ignores the deaths of poets of universal standing like Roberto Sosa and Amanda Castro, that it continues ordering protection for the murderous businessmen of the coup d'état and that it attacks and persecutes its people and has sold off our territory piece by piece, with the help of a police force and army converted by the empire into occupation forces within our country. In a statement on May 27, the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH), the largest and most powerful indigenous organization in Honduras, similarly welcomed Zelaya to the country while condemning the Lobo administration. It reserved its strongest words for the OAS: [I]f you think you will wipe the board clean and start over, you are mistaken; you are mistaken in your cold economic calculations, in your political pragmatism, in your urgent desire to serve imperialism in its project of rearranging the continent; you are mistaken in your hypocrisy of recognizing a murderous regime that is the inheritor of a coup d'état and that has not complied with the conditions for return imposed by the OAS itself, for which it was expelled in the first place. COPINH signs its statement, We will not forget, We will not forgive, and WE WILL NOT reconcile!! So far, only Ecuador has declared its firm opposition to Honduras's reentry into the OAS. President Rafael Correa, himself nearly overthrown in a coup attempt last year, said on May 26, There is one requirement; anything else is impunity. What is the requirement? That those responsible for the coup be punished. Zelaya will walk a treacherous line as he steps off the plane on Saturday. Many Hondurans, for whom he has become a hero of saint-like proportions, will be surprised to discover that his first order of business is a luncheon with Lobo and OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza. But whether or not Zelaya retains his enormous popularity in the months to come, one thing is certain: without justice, there will be neither reconciliation nor democracy in Honduras.
[Marxism] armed resistance in Syria
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Armed residents put up resistance to Syrian army by Bassem Mroue, Associated Press – Mon May 30, 9:42 am ET BEIRUT – Syrian troops shelled a town in the center of the country Monday, and for the first time in the two-month-old revolt against the president, residents armed with automatic rifles and rocket-propelled grenades put up fierce resistance, activists said. State media said four soldiers were killed. Most of the opposition to autocratic President Bashar Assad has taken the form of peaceful protests by unarmed demonstrators, though authorities have claimed throughout the uprising that it was being led by armed gangs and propelled by foreign conspiracies. Two activists in the area said residents of two towns under attack in central Homs province since Sunday had taken up arms against troops and members of the security forces and that there were new casualties, though they did not know how many. . . . The army is facing armed resistance and is not able to enter the two towns, said a Homs resident who has wide connections in the province. The army is still outside the towns and I was told that army vehicles, including armored personnel carriers, were burnt. The other activist said the army is being subjected to stiff resistance by residents using automatic rifles and rocket-propelled grenades in the two towns, Tabliseh and Rastan... . . . 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] Support RAC-LA by Running Down The Walls-Sunday, July 31st, 2011
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Comrades, Please pass along. May thanks for ABCF's efforts. JAI for RAC-LA - Original Message - From: Lane Farnham Sent: Sunday, May 29, 2011 2:48 PM Subject: RDTW 2011 Running Down the Walls 2011 When: Sunday, July 31st, 2011, 10 am - 1 pm Where: MacArthur Park, (south west corner), 2230 W. 6th St., Los Angeles, CA 90057 On Sunday, July 31st, 2011 at 10 a.m., the Los Angeles Anarchist Black Cross will host a 5k run/walk/jog/bike around the festive paths of MacArthur Park, Los Angeles. This run/walk/jog/bike is designed to raise much-needed funds for the ABCF Warchest program, and Revolutionary Autonomous Communities (RAC). We are attempting to reach the goal of $3,500 with the run. Funds will be divided between the two programs: ABCF Warchest: The ABCF Warchest program is now almost 17 years old; funds for the Warchest are divided and distributed through monthly stipends to political prisoners who receive little or no financial aid. Prisoners use this money to cover the basic necessities of everyday living. These funds have been used by prisoners to pay for stamps, shoes, clothes, as well as assisting their families with what little they can. Revolutionary Autonomous Communities (RAC): In the aftermath of the May Day 2007 police riot targeting migrant workers who dared stand up for our human rights, members of the MacArthur Park area and others joined together to support those with no papers and those with no means. RAC-LA came forward to aid the community in self-organizing such that with the help of each other we might make an inhuman way of living a bit more bearable while at same time acquiring the means to one day transform this system into an image of our own humanity. Solidarity Runs: Every year, prisoners and supporters of political prisoners organize solidarity runs with Running Down the Walls. In Sync with each other, we will collectively pound the pavement with our feet and bike tires as we exhibit our strength and stamina as examples of our tireless effort to free our imprisoned comrades. In past years we had runs in: Albuquerque (NM), Arcata (CA), Ashland, (OR), Bellefonte (PA), Boston (MA), Connecticut River, Dannemora (NY), Denver, (CO), Detroit (MI), Elmore (AL), Guelph (CAN), Inez (KY), Los Angeles (CA), Marion (IL), Mexico City (MEX), New York City (NY), USP. Navosta (TX), Pelican Bay (CA), Phoenix (AZ), Sandstone (MN), Tucson (AZ), USP Tucson (AZ), and Toronto (CAN) Raising Funds: The Warchest program was created in November of 1994. Its purpose is to send monthly financial support to Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War (PP/POWs) who have been receiving insufficient, little, or no financial support during their imprisonment. Support the Struggle: We must remember that many of those arrested in the past or present are not far from us. Many of them were and are community and labor activists, queer, and environmental activists; people who decided to speak out against various forms of oppression and paid the price of their freedom for their actions. We must remember that anyone of these people could have at one time stood beside us in a demonstration, at a speak-out, or even at an organizing meeting. At any given moment it could be us who finds ourselves in this situation, so it is imperative that we ensure that a strong enough community of support exists for these people as well as ourselves. The strength of our movement is determined by how much we support our fallen comrades. As Anarchist and former POW Ojore Lutalo says, Any Movement that does not support its political internees, is a sham movement. So please help us, help them! Help us help you! We encourage people to participate in helping us raise funds for the Warchest, which can be done in the following ways: Be a runner: We are asking people or groups who are running to collect as many sponsor for the run as possible. Remember the money received is going to help imprisoned comrades who need your help. The person who collects the most amount of funds will be given a prize for their involvement and dedication to helping our fallen comrades. Sponsor a runner: This can be done through a flat donation to the runner of your choice, each flyer is a sponsor sheet. We ask from those who wish not to run to actively support those who are running in hopes of collecting as much for our comrades as possible. Sponsor Running Down the Walls: Any amount helps. Contact the Los Angeles Anarchist Black Cross if you wish to simply donate money to the cause. Donate to: -The Warchest: Send funds directly to the Los Angeles ABCF (PO Box 11223, Whittier, CA 90603) or to the Philadelphia ABCF (PO Box 42129,
[Marxism] West Bengal Update
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://www.pragoti.org/node/4417 http://www.pragoti.org/node/4419 Welcome to the Mrityu Upatyaka called West Bengal Mon, 2011-05-30 10:10 — chirashree Jiten Nandi of Garbeta, Purnima Gharui of Raina, Ajit Lohar of Saltora, Ramprabesh Ray and Mundakala Ray of Durgapur, Dahiruddin of Raigunj, Mohammed Khodarakha of Suri, Amal Samaddar of Durgapur, Mahbul Sheikh and Masahrul Sheikh of Beldanga. All butchered to death between May 14 and May 24, 2011. Crime? They were CPI(M) activists. Masahrul Sheikh (Natabar) was the 18 year old son of Mahbul Sheikh (55), a CPI(M) worker in Beldanga. He was a migrant worker in Mumbai and had come to visit his family after 11 months. On 24th May, 2011, in Kapasdanga village in Beldanga, Murshidabad, at 11 pm at night, the family’s sparse brick and clay dwelling was bombed and set on fire. Father and son were assaulted, locked up in a room and burnt to death. Mahbul’s mother, 75 year old Saharbanu Bibi (75) along with two children – Nazma Khatun (13) and Shahjamal Sheikh (7) have been grievously injured in the bomb attack. Other family members were held captive outside the house and forced to watch this act of ‘retribution’ in utter helplessness. The police arrived after the mayhem was over. Though the local Congress MLA, Humayun Kabir denies any role of his party in it, seven Congressmen have been arrested by the police after this incident. Amal Samaddar was lynched by a group of Trinamool Congress youths as soon as he returned home to Belgachhi, Baruipur, South 24 Parganas, seven days after the decisive triumph of ‘Ma-Mati-Manush’. Reports trickle in everyday from all parts of Bengal of lynching, dispossession, rape, arson and murder. All the targets are CPI(M) activists. Goaltore, Salboni, Keshpur, Midnapore Sadar, Keshpur, Garbeta, Chandrakona, Haldia, Ramnagar, Bhagwanpur, Nandigram, Chandipur, Tamluk, Khejuri, Simlapal, Katoa, Egra, Nayagram, Bankura - the list gets lengthier by the day. Sceptics assert that Kolkata is safe under the new Chief Minister’s benign smile of triumph; but neighbourhoods in Beleghata, Sealdah, Hatibagan, Narkeldanga, Gardenreach, Beniapukur, Joka, Behala belie the belief. The Chief Minister of Bengal assures the media that there is no post-poll violence perpetrated by her Party in West Bengal. Corporate media whose stars competed for scoops on going to the loo with ‘Didi’ and her daily diet, concentrate on reports of ‘illegal arms seizure’ straight out of official press releases. On the blogosphere, opinion makers claiming to be on the side of the dispossessed and displaced, and basking in the reflected glory of the possibilities of ‘real’ Leftism under ma-mati-manush ,shake their head and opine that this is the inevitable course of justice and retribution against the ‘Stalinism’ and ‘fascism’ or ‘social fascism’ of the last 34 years (all of these words are substitutes for each other in the ‘discourse’ of these opinion makers when it comes to describing the Left Front and especially the CPI(M)). They celebrate the infinite possibilities of a ‘New Left’ even as they draft the damning epitaphs of the ‘Old Left’. Natabar was a migrant worker. Dahiruddin was an agricultural labourer. Ramprabesh Ray, Mundakala Ray, 66 year old Mohammad Khodarakha and the 74 year old Sheikh Israel were peasant leaders. Mangal Hansda is a school teacher battling for his life in Bankura. Pradip Manjhi sells milk at a STD booth in Beleghata, Kolkata. He is battling serious injuries in NRS Hospital. An agricultural labourer Ujjwal Bagdi (21), and Basanti Mitra, a Panchayat member unable to bear repeated physical and mental torture, drank pesticide. Saital Lohar, a young agricultural labour was tortured and made to drink the urine of his assailants. Sarial Mallik had already run away from home but was apparently 'captured'. When his mother, Ashia Begum, a 70 year old woman tried to intervene, she was stripped and beaten. All the targets of this systemised violence in West Bengal without any exception are poor peasants, marginal workers in the unorganized sector and lower middle class white collar workers like school teachers. Most of the targets are from Dalit, Adivasi and Muslim families. This trend of targeted annihilation of Left activists and supporters began in 2007 and had intensified since the Lok Sabha elections in 2009. After May 13, 2011, it is fast turning into a pogrom. An observer from West Bengal who has been documenting this annihilation project reports: ‘The patterns of violence unleashed since 2007 fall into some of these rough categories and have intensified since Friday 13th: murder of activists/supporters/family members, loss of livelihhod/survival routes
Re: [Marxism] How Bernard-Henri Levy fought his way into chronic interventionism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Most French people consider BHL as something of a clown. From the CP to Fascist National-Conservatives to Social Democrats, all think of Bernard Henri Levy as a clown. A clown on the grand stage of human affairs, as he had regular lunches with Mitterand, Chirac and now Sarkozy. Married to a famous French actress, hounded by paparazzi eager for a shot of his famous white shirts, great pal of the King of Morocco, horse breeder, fearless supporter of NATO intervention in the Balkans, heir to a millionaire (after convincing his mother that he was a philosopher), this guy's credentials as a political commentator nears the absolute zero (in Kelvin degress). Caviar Socialist does not even begin to describe BHL. Always on the side of established order, always on the side of the mighty, always on the side of Imperialism, always on the side of the jet set. He feeds his own imperious narcissism by promoting himself as the defender of human rights (that is if the price is right), and can happily switch allegiances from Ben Ali to Benghazi. And convince Sarkozy to support the Libyan rebels, that's just the kind of selfless guy he is. Wait. He got all the facts right about Pakistan (a Jihadi state ruled by ISI), about Israel (their current policies are suicidal) and about Russia (a mafia State). Problem is, the average man on the street in France got the same facts right as him, without being endowed with the same qualifications as a bone fide philosopher. So does that mean that the average man on the street is a philosopher ? Only Socrates would have agreed with that statement, not someone like BHL whose very princely existence depends on being referred to as the French philosopher. His published philosophical works are darned post-modernist, and he has been ridiculed for his propensity to state that truth is non-existent because all truth is constructed, ergo, anything goes (a very satisfactory philosophy, especially when it bears the French cachet and happens to please the French president). Which bring me back to my initial assertion : Most French people consider BHL as a (sinister) clown. 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] How Bernard-Henri Levy fought his way into chronic interventionism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On Tue, 31 May 2011 00:01:31 +0200 Dan d.koech...@wanadoo.fr writes: == Most French people consider BHL as something of a clown. From the CP to Fascist National-Conservatives to Social Democrats, all think of Bernard Henri Levy as a clown. A clown on the grand stage of human affairs, as he had regular lunches with Mitterand, Chirac and now Sarkozy. Scott McLemee accurately sized up this so-called philosopher over a year ago. See: http://www.insidehighereducation.com/views/mclemee/mclemee276 Another thing about BHL is that he seems to take violence against women rather lightly. Recently, he wrote a preface for collection of letters that his old teacher, Louis Althusesser, wrote to his wife Helene, whom of course Althusser strangled to death in 1980. BHL was, several years ago, a vigorous defender of film maker Roman Polansky, when he was facing possible deportment for outstanding rape charges in the US. And most recently, BHL has been an equally vigorous defender of DSK. Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant www.foxymath.com Learn or Review Basic Math Penny Stock Jumping 3000% Sign up to the #1 voted penny stock newsletter for free today! http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4de416f5a6a081ed712st01vuc 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] Costa Rica notes, part 1
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == About halfway to Costa Rica a week ago Sunday on a nonstop TACA Airbus, we ran into some turbulence that lasted a good hour or so. During the worst of it, my wife clutched my arm and said that she hoped the plane would not go down. In my all-so-knowing manner, I told her that most accidents occurred during taking off and landing. She replied that planes do go down in severe turbulence. Not wanting to prolong a stressful conversation, I changed the subject. full: http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2011/05/30/costa-rica-notes-part-1/ 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] Worst Ever Carbon Emissions Leave Climate on the Brink
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == www.guardian.co.uk/environment/.../*carbon*-*emissions*-nuclearpower - 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] Worst Ever Carbon Emissions Leave Climate on the Brink
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == 50 % chance of reaching a global average temperature increase of 4 C by 2100! that's pretty scary. capitalism seems incapable of generating the cooperation necessary to control carbon emissions. and the problems in the nuclear industry will increase reliance on fossil fuels. the full URL for the Guardian article is: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/may/29/carbon-emissions-nuclearpower?intcmp=122 thanks for posting. glenn 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] Worst Ever Carbon Emissions Leave Climate on the Brink
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Glenn, I've been doing a lot debating, arguing, discussing with folks in Germany who are very anti-nuclear and applaud their gov't decision, made under mass pressure and the severe losses by the Merkel gov't party, generally understood to be over their support for nuclear energy. They believe, falsely in my opinion, that they can get rid of nuclear and replace it with solar and wind. Some, few, admit it has to be done with the huge increase in natural gas and coal burning. Still others, again only a few, own up to the fact that Germany will likely have to import massive amounts of energy from nuclear France and Sweden. In other words they will simply be exporting their nuclear. Putin, jokingly, a few weeks ago upon hearing of Germany's decision to abandon nuclear, agreed to start selling the Germans wood to keep them warm in the winter. And so it goes...the 2 C increase will come 4 C. Not good. David 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] How Bernard-Henri Levy fought his way into chronic interventionism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Boy, BHL, DSK, OBL, my head's spinning. 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] Gil Scott heron, RIP
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Why is that an anti-feminist line, isn't it rather a comment on Madison Avenue spiels for toothpaste and mouthwash etc? On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 5:59 PM, Alan Bradley alanb1...@yahoo.com wrote: The revolution will not give your mouth sex appeal. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGaRtqrlGy8 http://www.gilscottheron.com/lyrevol.html Obviously the anti-feminist line is a major flaw in an otherwise awesome song/poem. 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] My favorite passage from B. Traven
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Yeah but, who was B Traven? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_Traven 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
