[Marxism] Photos of 'Thatcher's dead' celebrations

[Stuart Munckton]

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http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/margaret-thatcher-dead-video-cheering-181

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Re: [Marxism] She should rot in hell

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 I have been very struck by the absolute necessity to celebrate her death
publicly. On one level it is Épater la bourgeoisie.  They should hear the
faint echo of the tumbrels as the crowd chants "We're having a party
because Thatcher's dead".  On another level it is essential to assert the
People's Truth in the face of the lies and hypocrisy of Official "Truth".
To adapt the language of the Occupy movement, it's very much a case of
"This is what the truth looks like".
Then there is the contemporary resonances of the Austerity Program - the
absolute logic of Thatcherism.

Good riddance to bad rubbish as we used to say as kids.

comradely

Gary

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Re: [Marxism] Fireworks in Liverpool...

[Stuart Munckton]

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And celebrations on Falls Road in Belfast -- you can hear bin lids being
banged... extremely symbolic given the banging of bin lids on Falls Road to
announce the death of each of the 10 men Thatcher let starve to death.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Zu_tOotMx5U


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Re: [Marxism] She should rot in hell

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The dirty witch is dead,
but the stink remains all over the world.
She had destroyed not only the lives of British workers, but of the whole world.
There not a day, we have not cursed her.
I wish she should have faced a gory death, instead of a normal one.
Vijaya Kumar Marla

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Re: [Marxism] Fireworks in Liverpool...

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I'm loving this.

Gary

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[Marxism] Fireworks in Liverpool...

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Crowd sing and chant and let off fireworks in Liverpool, a city Thatcher
tried so hard to destroy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwi3Vgmggak&feature=youtu.be

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[Marxism] May the judged by their judges when you rot down in Hell

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Under Thatcher, this Pogues song exposing her regime's crimes, was banned.
(clip on hoow the song was banned and pulled from TV:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbcsOzmVmy0

Strets of Sorrow/Birmingham Six
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iYqWtIm0zI

...There were six men in Birmingham
In Guildford there's four
That were picked up and tortured
And framed by the law
And the filth got promotion
But they're still doing time
For being Irish in the wrong place
And at the wrong time

In Ireland they'll put you away in the Maze
In England they'll keep you for seven long days
God help you if ever you're caught on these shores
The coppers need someone
And they walk through that door...

A curse on the judges, the coppers and screws
Who tortured the innocent, wrongly accused
For the price of promotion
And justice to sell
May the judged be their judges when they rot down in hell...

May the whores of the empire lie awake in their beds
And sweat as they count out the sins on their heads
While over in Ireland eight more men lie dead
Kicked down and shot in the back of the head



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[Marxism] Elvis C Tramp the dirt down

[Gregory Adler]

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy3-R97wDKs
He didn't want to work on Maggies farm

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[Marxism] From the Mixed-Up Files of Mr. Jon Lee Anderson | Corey Robin

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Great take-down of Jon Lee Anderson's garbage on Hugo Chavez.

http://coreyrobin.com/2013/04/08/from-the-mixed-up-files-of-mr-jon-lee-anderson/


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[Marxism] Celebrating a passing

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Much pious nonsense has sprouted in the media over the death
of the odious baroness-herewith a joyous correction to that
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-04-09/thatcher-divides-in-death-as-in--life/4617348

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Re: [Marxism] She should rot in hell

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2305760/Lefts-chorus-hatred-Champagne-streets-students-union-cheers-vile-internet-taunts.html


On 8 April 2013 22:51, Einde O'Callaghan  wrote:

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>> I hope Briish comrades on this list do their duty and let us know what is
>> being said on the ground among the people.  Such is the dominanace of
>> "official truth" in the bourgeois media here in Australia that it is hard
>> to get beyond the "tributes pour in" line. Though stuff is fltering
>> through.  Thus the deputy editor of the Sun did say "nasty things" were
>> being said about Thatcher on Twitter.  My heart leaped with relief.
>>
>> Lou, as is his wont when a hero of the bourgeoisie dies, prefaced his post
>> with "rot in hell".  I second that heartily. It is so important that there
>> be a people's carnival over Thatcher's death. Her heirs and wannabes in
>> the
>> Tory and Labour parties need to be "encouraged".
>>
>>  Well, for those who are on Facebook or Twitter there's lots of pictures
> of people out on the streets celebrating and the right-wing press are
> foaming at the mouth about the "disrespect" that the great unwashed are
> showing for their heroine. On Twitter the main tag seems to be #Thatcher.
> You'll get both pro- and anti-Thatcher tweets under that tag
>
> Ken Livingstone, the former Labour Mayor of London, was thrown off a live
> television broadcast for suggesting that she was to blame for everything
> that was wrong with Britain today. And George Galloway has provoked the
> outrage of the right-wing press for having the gall that workers should
> "stamp the dirt down on her grave." The manager of an off-licence (liquor
> store) in London was suspended for tweeting that in his branch of a large
> chain there would be a £10 reduction on a bottle of champagne for those who
> felt like having a little celebration (without even a mention of what they
> might want to celebrate).
>
> That's just a fraction of what I've been able to pick up from here in
> Germany.
>
> Incidentally, earlier this evening if you typed the words "Thatcher death"
> into Google the first suggestions you got for completing the entry were
> "Thatcher death party" and "Thatcher death party kit" and also among the
> top 10 suggestions were: "Thatcher death party packs", "Thatcher death
> pack", "Thatcher death countdown" and "Thatcher death t-shirts".
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[Marxism] The Making of the English Working Class

[Michael Fisher]

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It is 50 years since the publication of E P Thompson's 'The Making of the
English Working Class'.

A BBC radio programme broadcast yesterday discusses it's significance:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01rr8ng/Night_Waves_Landmarks_The_Making_of_the_English_Working_Class/

For all its flaws, for me the book was an extremely important attempt to
recover agency, subjectivity and experience from the violence of liberal,
Stalinist and neo-Trotskyist abstractions.

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[Marxism] John PIlger: How Thatcher helped Pol Pot

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On 25 June 1991, after two years of denials, the government finally
admitted that the SAS had been secretly training the "resistance" since
1983.

http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/53763


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[Marxism] Radio Marathon for Immigration Reform

[Joaquín Bustelo]

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TV report on Atlanta progressive Spanish language Radio Marathon in support
of a just immigration reform and the April 10th marches in Atlanta, D.C.
and other cities.

http://www.wsbtv.com/videos/news/radio-hosts-using-airwaves-to-rally-for/vxZ2C/

The station's website is here:

http://www.radio1310am.com/index.php/es/?lang=es

My alter-ego is news and programming director of the station.

Joaquín

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[Marxism] Thatcher obit

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Here, richly, with ridiculous display,
The Politician¹s corpse was laid away.
While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged
I wept: for I had longed to see him hanged.

With the modification of the relevant personal pronouns, Hilaire Belloc¹s
famous ditty seems particularly apt today.
How to remember Margaret Thatcher? Shall we recall the friend of Augustus
Pinochet, the woman who protested bitterly about the arrest of Chile¹s
murderous dictator, a man to whom, she said, Britain owed so much? What
about the staunch ally of apartheid, the prime minister who labelled the
ANC Œterrorists¹ and did everything possible to undermine international
action against the racist regime? The anti-union zealot who described
striking miners defending their livelihood as an Œenemy within¹, hostile
to liberty? The militarist who prosecuted the Falklands war, as vicious as
it was pointless? The Cold Warrior, who stood by Reagan¹s side, while the
US conducted its genocidal counterinsurgencies in Latin America? The
British chauvinist who allowed Bobby Sands to slowly starve to death?
Naturally, the Left must resist any and all attempts to posthumously
sanctify this evil woman, particularly as the very publications that
launched disinformation campaigns about Hugo Chavez with his corpse still
warm suddenly denounce any discussion of genuine history as an outrageous
attack on the recently departed. Stay tuned for a ghastly parade of social
democrats paying tribute to a woman who despised their kind ­ and worse
still, the disinterment of various ex-radicals to mutter about how, while
they hated Thatcher back in the day, they now belatedly mourn the passing
of a political giant.


Full http://overland.org.au/blogs/new-words/2013/04/on-margaret-thatcher/



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[Marxism] How Thatcher smashed the unions

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In the 1970s, the British unions were thriving. About 50% of all workers
were members, there was a robust shop stewards movement, and delegate
structures were bursting with life and energy. Within 10 years, the
movement had lost half its members and was politically defeated.

http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/16729
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Re: [Marxism] She should rot in hell

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I hope Briish comrades on this list do their duty and let us know what is
being said on the ground among the people.  Such is the dominanace of
"official truth" in the bourgeois media here in Australia that it is hard
to get beyond the "tributes pour in" line. Though stuff is fltering
through.  Thus the deputy editor of the Sun did say "nasty things" were
being said about Thatcher on Twitter.  My heart leaped with relief.

Lou, as is his wont when a hero of the bourgeoisie dies, prefaced his post
with "rot in hell".  I second that heartily. It is so important that there
be a people's carnival over Thatcher's death. Her heirs and wannabes in the
Tory and Labour parties need to be "encouraged".

Well, for those who are on Facebook or Twitter there's lots of pictures 
of people out on the streets celebrating and the right-wing press are 
foaming at the mouth about the "disrespect" that the great unwashed are 
showing for their heroine. On Twitter the main tag seems to be 
#Thatcher. You'll get both pro- and anti-Thatcher tweets under that tag


Ken Livingstone, the former Labour Mayor of London, was thrown off a 
live television broadcast for suggesting that she was to blame for 
everything that was wrong with Britain today. And George Galloway has 
provoked the outrage of the right-wing press for having the gall that 
workers should "stamp the dirt down on her grave." The manager of an 
off-licence (liquor store) in London was suspended for tweeting that in 
his branch of a large chain there would be a £10 reduction on a bottle 
of champagne for those who felt like having a little celebration 
(without even a mention of what they might want to celebrate).


That's just a fraction of what I've been able to pick up from here in 
Germany.


Incidentally, earlier this evening if you typed the words "Thatcher 
death" into Google the first suggestions you got for completing the 
entry were "Thatcher death party" and "Thatcher death party kit" and 
also among the top 10 suggestions were: "Thatcher death party packs", 
"Thatcher death pack", "Thatcher death countdown" and "Thatcher death 
t-shirts".


Einde O'Callaghan


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[Marxism] Suggestion for corporate media in reporting Thatcher's death

[Stuart Munckton]

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What they should do, of course, is take all the editorials and op eds with
their descriptors of "authoritarian" and "tyrant" and their tales of
economic destruction and class hatred and rising corruption and society
breakdown and support for dictators and just do a simple find/replace,
 removing "Hugo Chavez" and inserting "Margaret Thatcher". Just to save
some time.


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[Marxism] Thatcher's Funeral: Mock the Week

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Hilarious run of jokes about Thatcher's death and funeral from 2008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFzNhLRAgEU&feature=share&list=PL776FF79003A863AD
and I think the best musical meditation on the excuse to party:Hefner --
the day that Thatcher dies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFzNhLRAgEU&feature=share&list=PL776FF79003A863AD

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[Marxism] WikiLeaks strikes again!

[Dennis Brasky]

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http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/wikileaks-strikes-again-website-publishes-17-million-documents-us-foreign-policy?akid=10300.201902.QlNCTh&rd=1&src=newsletter821581&t=10

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[Marxism] rotting in hell

[Gary MacLennan]

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Thankfully the Irish Times has a column on the celebrations among some
"Britons". The words "Rejoice" are at least being seen.

Re Meryl Streep's comments: She is obviously a bright peson, but it is sad
to se her throw praise at such an evil opportunistic, vain and ultimtely
stupid person such as Margaret Thatcher.

comradely

Gary

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[Marxism] Unhitched: Trial of Christopher Hitchens Event in Boston on April 19

[Douglas Greene]

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6:30PM April 19, 2013
Community Church of Boston
Lothrop Auditorium
565 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02116
http://www.communitychurchofboston.org

Presentation and Q&A with author Richard Seymour

On Friday April 19th, join Richard Seymour, one of Britain’s leading 
young radical intellectuals and principal contributor to the popular 
blog, Lenin’s Tomb, for a discussion of his recent book, Unhitched: The Trial 
of Christopher Hitchens.

In his younger years, a career-minded socialist, Hitchens emerged 
from the smoke of 9/11 a neoconservative “Marxist,” an advocate of 
America’s invasion of Iraq filled with passionate intensity. Throughout 
his life, he played the role of universal gadfly, whose commitment to 
the truth transcended the party line as well as received wisdom. But how much 
of this was imposture? In this highly critical study, Richard 
Seymour casts a cold eye over the career of the “Hitch” to uncover an 
intellectual trajectory determined by expediency and a fetish for power, which 
is also a cautionary tale for our times.

This event is free and open to the public. See the Facebook Event Page.
versobooks.com

RICHARD SEYMOUR: One of Britain’s leading young radical intellectuals, Richard 
is the principal contributor to Lenin’s Tomb
(http://www.leninology.com/), one of the UK’s most popular blogs. A regular 
columnist for the 
Guardian, Seymour is also the author four books, most recently “American 
Insurgents: A Brief History of American Anti-Imperialism” (Haymarket 
2012) and “Unhitched: The Trial of Christopher Hitchens” (Verso 2013). 
He is a founding member of the International Socialist Network.


PRAISE FOR RICHARD SEYMOUR’S “UNHITCHED”


“Clever, incisive…’Unhitched’ offers a more thorough and in-depth 
discrediting of Hitchens than anything previously published. And in 
doing so, Seymour has made an important contribution to understanding 
the political role of the intellectual celebrity in our time.” – In 
These Times


“Richard Seymour’s ‘Unhitched,’ a slim and scathing denunciation of 
turncoat scoundrel Christopher Hitchens, is a thoroughly satisfying and 
politically important book by one of the few remaining great radical 
left journalists.” – Rabble


“Seymour reveals Hitchens as having had a lifelong admiration both 
for the United States and for empires as civilizing forces.” –Washington Post 
Book World


“Richard Seymour employs a unique technique to shred Hitchens’s 
political philosophy to pieces: Seymour puts the late writer on trial.” 
–The Christian Science Monitor


By way of preview, please see, “Case Closed: Hitchens in the Dock” by Jack 
McCarthy in CounterPunch. Jack writes that, ‘the future the gold 
standard for the deconstrucrion of Hitchens will be Richard Seymours’ 
“Unhitched: The Trial of Christopher Hitchens.


Sponsored by:


Verso Books
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Re: [Marxism] She should rot in hell

[Gary MacLennan]

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I hope Briish comrades on this list do their duty and let us know what is
being said on the ground among the people.  Such is the dominanace of
"official truth" in the bourgeois media here in Australia that it is hard
to get beyond the "tributes pour in" line. Though stuff is fltering
through.  Thus the deputy editor of the Sun did say "nasty things" were
being said about Thatcher on Twitter.  My heart leaped with relief.

Lou, as is his wont when a hero of the bourgeoisie dies, prefaced his post
with "rot in hell".  I second that heartily. It is so important that there
be a people's carnival over Thatcher's death. Her heirs and wannabes in the
Tory and Labour parties need to be "encouraged".

comradely

Gary


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> NY Times April 8, 2013
> Margaret Thatcher Dies; Remade Britain
> By ALAN COWELL
>
> LONDON — Margaret Thatcher, a towering, divisive and yet revered figure
> who left an enduring impact on British politics, died on Monday of a
> stroke, her family said.
>
> “It is with great sadness that Mark and Carol Thatcher announced that
> their mother Baroness Thatcher died peacefully following a stroke this
> morning,” a statement from her spokesman, Lord Tim Bell, said.
>
> Lady Thatcher had been in poor health for months. She served as prime
> minister for 11 years, beginning in 1979. She was known variously as the
> ‘Iron Lady,’ a stern Conservative who transformed Britain’s way of thinking
> about its economic and political life, broke union power and opened the way
> to far greater private ownership.
>
> She was leader of Britain through its 1982 war in the Falklands and
> stamped her skepticism about European integration onto her country’s
> political landscape for decades.
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[Marxism] Notes on modern art, part two

[Louis Proyect]

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Two documentaries I received as part of my year-end bounty of screeners 
meant to help NYFCO members pick winners at our December meeting were 
focused on artists who are arguably among the most important in the 
world. “Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry” and “Gerhard Richter Painting” are both 
now available on Netflix screening and very much worth watching. Around 
the same time I viewed them, the MOMA show on the birth of abstract art 
had begun. In my last post on modern art, I tried to get to the bottom 
of its origins using the analysis of Meyer Schapiro. With Ai WeiWei and 
Gerhard Richter, you are confronted by the dialectic of art and politics 
operating in an epoch that might be described as post-modern if not 
necessarily subscribing to the ideology deployed in its name. In 
following up on their work, I have learned a great deal about the 
current state of fine art that is worth sharing with you.


full: 
http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2013/04/08/notes-on-modern-art-part-two/



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[Marxism] THE LABOR CLASS AT TOUGALOO (1962-63 era) -- ACTIVIST TRAINING FOR ACTION

[Hunter Gray]

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THE LABOR CLASS AT TOUGALOO:  FALL TERM 1962 [HUNTER BEAR]

I do continue to hold, as I wrote earlier, that  " . . .the primary weapon of a 
worker is the withdrawal of labor."  From strikes can come -- and often do --a 
wide variety of tactically nonviolent supportive strategies.  "In our hands is 
placed a power greater than their hoard of gold. . ." ["Solidarity Forever", of 
course.]

Any effective organizer has to be -- to put it bluntly -- something of a 
propagandist.  In every course I've ever taught, I've always been able, some 
way and some how, to work in two of the several "pet themes" of mine:  American 
Indians and the Labor Movement.  I even did that in my one academic year of 
high school teaching back in the days of dinosaurs.  [I have to add that to 
this day I am always sadly surprised at the dearth of knowledge about those 
matters with students from non-Indian and non-union family backgrounds.]

In late August, 1962, with my second year of teaching at Tougaloo College -- 
just a few miles north of Jackson -- coming up, and following  a few weeks of 
reflective thinking back home in Northern Arizona, it seemed to me that an 
effective approach in Jackson, heart of the Missississippi version of police 
state, would be a widespread economic boycott of the downtown merchants [all of 
whom were white].  I was the advisor to the slowly growing Jackson NAACP Youth 
Council which was mostly centered in the city itself. But at Tougaloo College, 
which in the spring of 1961, had produced a visit by several of its students to 
the all-white library in town [they were quickly arrested] and which had hosted 
the Freedom Riders later that summer when they returned to Jackson for court 
appearances, and which often featured very appropriate speaker/visitors 
[including Martin King], there was clearly very substantial activist potential.

In addition to typing out on mimeograph paper [on a very hot August afternoon] 
the first of what became the regularly issued "North Jackson Action,"  I 
scheduled a course on the Labor Movement.  I was well known on the college's 
small campus and the class drew around 35 students, almost all of them activist 
oriented.  And, as I always had, I made my activist pitch in my other classes.

But the Labor Class at Tougaloo was something very well timed -- and special.  
The basic framework was a history of the American labor movement with emphasis, 
of course, on its high points of activism -- lots on the Western metal miners 
[including take-overs of the mines at Cripple Creek], a great deal on the IWW 
[including its early sit-ins in New York state, the "free speech" fights to win 
the right to organize in places like Spokane], rise of the CIO [including the 
San Francisco General Strike] -- into the then current times. We examined 
picketing and mass march and related approaches.  I contacted a good number of 
international unions which quickly obliged my request for bundles of labor 
newspapers.  At every point, we discussed the applicability of union labor 
strategies to the situation we faced in the very economic and political heart 
of the Magnolia State. We used a number of labor films.  To convey a sense of 
the oft-need for enduring, long term "oak wood" durability and effectiveness 
[as well as innovative strike support tactics], we had the great film, Salt of 
the Earth -- as always sent obligingly and quickly  by always "with it" Juan 
Chacon,  president of the large Mine-Mill district union in southwestern New 
Mexico and male lead in the movie.  [We also showed Salt and other labor films 
in Jackson itself.]  

In October, the Jackson Youth Council began planning the economic boycott of 
Jackson.  Members of the Labor Class, as well as other Tougaloo students, began 
to mobilize fellow students who joined the effort.

The boycott of the white Jackson merchants began on December 12, 1962 -- and 
our slogans, "Put your money on strike" along with "WWW" ["We Will Win"] were 
written and printed, spoken, and shouted at least a million times.  The boycott 
was extremely effective.  Five months after its inception, on May 12, 1963, we 
threw down the gauntlet to the entire Mississippi political and economic power 
structure -- and the large scale nonviolent [but bloodily resisted by the 
Adversary] Jackson Movement took off.  Widely supported by the Black community 
in Jackson and surrounding rural counties, it shook Jackson to its very 
foundations and its wide ranging ramifications were considerable and extremely 
positive to the very Four Directions.

See:  http://hunterbear.org/a_piece_of__the_scrapbook.htm  (three consecutive 
pages on the foregoing Jackson activism 1962-63)

Hunter Gray [Hunter Bear]

HUNTER GRAY [HUNTER BEAR/JOHN R SALTER JR]

[Marxism] The Queen Mother of Global Austerity and Financialization » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names

[Louis Proyect]

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http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/04/08/the-queen-mother-of-global-austerity-financialization/


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[Marxism] Chiquita Sues to Block Release of Files on Colombia Terrorist Payments

[Dennis Brasky]

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Chiquita is the renamed United Fruit which helped overthrow the Arbenz
government in Guatemala in 1954 -

Chiquita Sues to Block Release of Files on Colombia Terrorist Payments

Banana Giant Fears National Security Archive "Media Campaign"

Company Says SEC Should Withhold Info on Illegal Transactions

For more information contact:
Michael Evans 202/994-7000 or mev...@gwu.edu

Washington, DC, April 8, 2013 -- Chiquita Brands International last week
filed a "reverse" Freedom of Information lawsuit to block the release of
records to the National Security Archive on the company's illegal payments
to Colombian terrorist groups, according to the complaint filed in U.S.
District Court. At issue are thousands of documents the company turned over
to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) from 1998-2004 as part of
an investigation of the company's illegal transactions with leftist
insurgents and right-wing paramilitaries from the United Self-Defense
Forces of Colombia (AUC).

Two years ago, the Archive published "The Chiquita Papers," a declassified
collection of more than 5,000 pages of internal Chiquita documents turned
over to the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation
as part of a criminal investigation of more than $1.7 million in payments
to the AUC over six years, and for nearly three years after the group was
formally designated as a terrorist organization. That case resulted in a
2007 sentencing agreement in which Chiquita admitted to more than ten years
of payments to a variety of Colombian guerrilla and paramilitary groups.

The Chiquita Papers included evidence that Chiquita and its Colombian
subsidiary had received tangible benefits from those transactions,
undermining one of the key aspects of the company's defense: that it had
never received "any actual security services or actual security equipment
in exchange for the payments." Chiquita's "reverse" FOIA complaint now
claims that the news headlines based on the documents were part of "a media
campaign to publicize biased mischaracterizations of the documents."

"We strongly reject Chiquita's assertion that we mischaracterized
information found in their own corporate records," said Michael Evans,
director of the Archive's Colombia Documentation Project. "Chiquita
admitted to more than a decade of regular payments to death squads and
narcotraffickers," he added. "Now, Chiquita wants to cover up the documents
that would let us judge for ourselves whether those payments were extortion
or security for banana operations, or both."

Among the evidence that Chiquita did, in fact, benefit from its "sensitive
payments" is a 1994 legal memo indicating that Colombian insurgents
provided security at some of Chiquita's plantations in Colombia. The memo
says that the general manager of Chiquita operations in Turbo told company
attorneys that "Guerrilla Groups" were "used to supply security personnel
at the various farms." A subsequent draft of the same memo includes
annotations asking, "Why is this relevant?" and, "Why is this being
written?"

Another document published by the Archive in April 2011 shows that Chiquita
also paid right-wing paramilitary forces for security services--including
intelligence on guerrilla operations--after the AUC wrested control of the
region from insurgents in the mid-1990s. The March 2000 memo, written by
Chiquita Senior Counsel Robert Thomas and based on a conversation with
managers from Chiquita's wholly-owned subsidiary, Banadex, indicates that
paramilitaries formed a front company to disguise "the real purpose of
providing security." The unidentified Banadex official said Chiquita
"should continue making the payments," because the company "can't get the
same level of support from the military."


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[Marxism] The 65th anniversary of a critical turning point in Palestinian history

[Dennis Brasky]

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http://electronicintifada.net/content/we-must-never-forget-
massacre-deir-yassin/12341?utm_source=EI+readers&utm_
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[Marxism] Obama: Thatcher Was Champion for Freedom and Women

[Louis Proyect]

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Obama: Thatcher Was Champion for Freedom and Women
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: April 8, 2013 at 10:31 AM ET

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says former British Prime 
Minister Margaret Thatcher was both a great champion of freedom and an 
example to women everywhere.


In a statement issued Monday by the White House, Obama said Britain's 
first woman prime minister showed "our daughters that there is no glass 
ceiling that can't be shattered."


Obama says many Americans remember Thatcher, who died Monday from a 
stroke at age 87, standing "shoulder to shoulder" with President Ronald 
Reagan during the Cold War. He says she showed then that leaders don't 
have to be swept along by the currents of history, but can shape them 
"with moral conviction, unyielding courage and iron will."



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[Marxism] Tomgram: Bill McKibben, How Do You Solve a Problem Like the Democrats? | TomDispatch

[Louis Proyect]

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[Marxism] Syria Survey: Housam Najjair Planning a Return to Tripoli

[Louis Proyect]

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Irish-Libyan veteran of anti-Qaddafi struggle offers analysis of 
quandaries in Libya and Syria today.


http://syriasurvey.blogspot.com/2013/04/housam-najjair-planning-return-to.html


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[Marxism] Strike to destroy Thatcher's rotten legacy

[En Passant with John Passant]

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The current British government is mounting attack after attack on workers and 
the poor to restore profit rates and shovel more and more of the wealth we 
create to the rich bludgers. That is Thatcher's legacy. Dancing and partying at 
Thatcher's death won't change that. It won't combat and redress the horrible 
anti-working policies that Thatcher put in place and which the Cameron 
government has continued, extended and deepened. A general strike can. The best 
way I reckon to respond to Thatcher's death would be to bury her legacy - the 
current British government - with a general strike, something major unions have 
been discussing. 

http://enpassant.com.au/2013/strike-to-destroy-thatchers-rotten-legacy/

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[Marxism] Reading the Communist Manifesto today

[En Passant with John Passant]

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The ideas set out in the Communist Manifesto can still help us make sense of 
this world. That's why it is worth reading it today. But we need to do more 
than just read. The task remains what it was when the Manifesto was first 
penned: to fuse the ideas with the real movement, and to be part of the 
struggle for a classless society that operates according the maxim "From each 
according to their ability, to each according to their need". 

http://enpassant.com.au/2013/04/08/reading-the-communist-manifesto-today/

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[Marxism] Reading the Communist Manifesto today

[En Passant with John Passant]

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The ideas set out in the Communist Manifesto can still help us make sense of 
this world. That's why it is worth reading it today. But we need to do more 
than just read. The task remains what it was when the Manifesto was first 
penned: to fuse the ideas with the real movement, and to be part of the 
struggle for a classless society that operates according the maxim "From each 
according to their ability, to each according to their need". 

http://enpassant.com.au/2013/04/08/reading-the-communist-manifesto-today/ 

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[Marxism] San Fran Symphony workers strike for cultural rights

[Stuart Munckton]

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The strike of musicians at the San Francisco
Symphony
has
already had an immediate impact on the institution.

Only a few days after walking out, management called off a large East Coast
tour. For the Symphony, which has posted a deficit for each of the past
four seasons, this will hurt.

http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/53760




-- 
“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

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