Re: [Marxism] [Pen-l] No, Ukraine is not being run by fascists - The Week

[Joseph Catron]

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On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 4:05 AM, Louis Proyect  wrote:

There are 1500 subscribers on Marxmail and I imagine that most of them
> understand this from having read Trotsky or Marxist scholars such as Franz
> Neumann.
>

Understand what? You haven't explained what any of this has to do with your
and Clay's farcical fascism=anti-Semitism formulations. If Trotsky or
Neumann said anything similar, then they were clearly mistaken as a matter
of historical fact, not my opinion.

As defensive mechanisms, this recurring "but I'm a Marxist!" routine isn't
terribly impressive, unless we're ranking it as a comedy routine. You could
be an Orléanist, and fascism - as a point of objective history - would no
more necessitate the burning of synagogues.

(For how many decades, until the German invasion of Italy, was Margherita
Sarfatti, aside from being one of Mussolini's many mistresses, a key figure
in the Italian Fascist party? Do you think she was the only one? Pshaw. And
if you, Trotsky, and Neumann aspire to redefine "fascism" in a way that
excludes actual, historically-existing Fascism - well, I just can't imagine
the point.)

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[Marxism] Mark Steel on Tony Benn -- defiantly, stroppily, youthfully socialist to the end

[Stuart Munckton]

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(there are some more penetrating analysis of Tony Benn and his
contradictions going around, but on a basic human level, this is great as
ever by Mark Steel -- who had only just written an equally great, and
moving obit for RMT leader Bob Crow. A bad week for the British left.)

The older you get, apparently, the more you abandon the daft socialist
ideas of your youth to become sensible and conservative. There will never
be a greater retort to this miserable myth than the life of Tony Benn.

https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/56086

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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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Re: [Marxism] [Pen-l] No, Ukraine is not being run by fascists - The Week

[Louis Proyect]

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On 3/14/14 6:20 PM, Joseph Catron wrote:

If one cannot grasp the possibility of a party that reveres anti-Semitic
forces of the past reorienting itself toward different enemies today, one
is wholly incompetent to understand contemporary far-right politics.


You need to develop a class analysis, Joseph. I know that you are not a 
Marxist but if you are going to intervene in these discussions, you have 
an obligation to engage with us in Marxist terms. When we Marxists talk 
about fascism, it is in terms of a dynamic that is unfolding in 
capitalist society when parliamentary democracy has exhausted itself and 
the ruling class throws its weight behind violent groups whose ideology 
is a mixture of super-nationalism and themes lifted from the socialist 
movement. Mussolini, for example, was a socialist deputy at one time. 
His "corporatism" was a distorted version of leftist concepts but robbed 
of the idea of class conflict.


There are 1500 subscribers on Marxmail and I imagine that most of them 
understand this from having read Trotsky or Marxist scholars such as 
Franz Neumann. You have to make an effort to catch up on the abc's of 
Marxism or else you will distract us from the serious discussion that is 
necessary.



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Re: [Marxism] The Myth of Bernie Sanders » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names

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What is "the political Left in the United States" that is being discussed
in this piece?  What happened to make people hallucinate such a unitary,
well-disciplined coherent entity?

In the interests of accuracy, perhaps they should consider chasing Bigfoot.

ML

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[Marxism] Putin during and after Sochi

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Re: [Marxism] The first victims of fascist violence

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On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 3:08 PM, Greg McDonald  wrote:

>
> Excuse me while I shed some crocodile tears.
>
> According to Ihor Slavhorodsky, head of the Donetsk regional branch of the
> Svoboda party, Cherniavsky was the organization's activist and spokesman.
>
> So we know he was a local activist. If I wanted to go CT, I might even
suspect that he was chosen to be the first to die because he fit the
profile, he was right wing. But consider also this letter from Donrtsk
published prophetically 3 days before this stabbing:

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/116960/letter-donetsk-not-pro-russia-its-menaced-russian-tourists

Donetsk, where I live, was the political base of Viktor Yanukovych, the
> former president of my country. Donetsk gave (political) life to
> Yanukovych. Donetsk will (politically) smash him. This opinion has been
> common in Kiev since the beginning of the Ukrainian revolution. Today it
> has become a reality. There are zero Yanukovych supporters in Donetsk these
> days. People are angry because they have been massively fooled by him and
> his regime.
>
The revolution gives us this chance, but the counter-revolution has come,
> and come from abroad, from Russia. Russia has invaded the Crimean
> peninsula, as I am sure you know. Ukrainian sailors and soldiers in Crimea
> are under siege on their bases or blockaded in their ships, being treated
> as if they have no right to know the truth and to feel righteous anger.
> These brave men tell us, the 45 million people who support them, that they
> will stay loyal to their oaths of service to Ukraine. I pray that they stay
> alive and no one has to die.
>
> But Crimea is not the only place where we see Russians. Here in
> southeastern Ukraine they come as what we like to call "tourists." This
> means busloads of people are coming from across the border of Russia, armed
> with bats and other unpleasant things, who come to beat Ukrainians who
> support their new government. They came to Kharkiv and beat the students
> there, and now they have come here.
>


>
>
On March 6th, about ten thousand people took part in demonstrations for
> peace and for the unity of Ukraine at Lenin Square in Donetsk. No one was
> surprised to see around 1,500 hired mercenaries and pro-Russian activists
> at the same time in the same place.
>


> When the demonstration came to an end, some especially aggressive
> pro-Russian protestors started a fight with pro-Ukrainian ones. Shakhtar
> Ultras, that is, the supporters of the local football club, made an attempt
> to protect peaceful demonstrators, which led to an even bigger fight.
> Police stepped in but it was obviously impossible to avoid spilling blood.
>
> What's happening in Kharkiv and Donetsk now reflects someone's strong
> intention to provoke and impose an illusion of a local civil conflict. The
> pro-Ukrainian side in Donetsk is very strong and entirely aware of the
> future they would lose if they join Russia. The pro-Russian side is mostly
> represented by aggressive thugs, "tourists" from Russia and older people
> who watch Russian television and do not use the Internet. Their time for
> dealing with the natural confusion of the moment is now being brutally
> stolen by this violent distraction.
>

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Re: [Marxism] [Pen-l] No, Ukraine is not being run by fascists - The Week

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On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 2:52 PM, Louis Proyect  wrote:

> This is a joke, right? There have been hundreds of articles on
> Counterpunch, Salon.com, The Nation, DissidentVoice, The Guardian, The
> Independent, the LA Times, WSWS.org, Alternet, Commondreams, Huffington
> Post, and countless other websites and blogs likening the Ukraine to
> Germany in 1932. If you aren't aware of it, that's fine. But I think most
> other people understand that this is going on. It is a well-orchestrated
> campaign out of the Kremlin and it is utter bullshit. Ukraine 2014 is not
> in the danger of a fascist take-over.
>

Meanwhile, I'm see what certainly looks like fascism coming from Russia,
and not the fascist gang stuff, but with state power. We have aggressive
armies on the move, we have troops incognito, covered by a bold face lie,
an armed invasion of a sovereign state, claims of national duties and
national prerogatives that reach beyond borders and justify armed
intervention even ahead of any violence, demagogic lies about the
opposition. the arrest of anti-war protesters and a crack down on the
independent press in Russia. We have a rigged vote covering an armed
annexation. We have bus loads of "Crimea" protesters [thugs] coming in from
Russia to insure a majority. We have the Crimea independent media in
Crimea  shutdown, people hear Russia propaganda only ahead of the vote.

While all this is going on, which smells more like a fascist takeover than
anything I've seen in a long time. The Putin propaganda mill has got us
busy arguing about the rise of fascism among the masses that just overthrew
the corrupt pro-Russian president.

This is absolutely insane. We are arguing with people who don't even know
which side of the barricade to stand on. And that's giving them the benefit
of the doubt.

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Re: [Marxism] [Pen-l] No, Ukraine is not being run by fascists - The Week

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On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 12:01 AM, Clay Claiborne  wrote:

Some people on this list certainly know how to use wiggle room. If I recall
> my prior reading correctly, one of the main proofs that this current crops
> of rightist were fascist was their reverence for the WW2 fascists, and they
> certainly were anti-Jewish.


Well, yes. Understanding the working of political forces in real life, as
opposed to abstract theory, is very much a matter of "wiggle room."

And the transition of the European far-right away from anti-Semitism as a
driving force is so well-known (and so bloody obvious), I'm honestly
surprised anyone here could remain unaware of it.

If one cannot grasp the possibility of a party that reveres anti-Semitic
forces of the past reorienting itself toward different enemies today, one
is wholly incompetent to understand contemporary far-right politics.

What else can I say?

(shrugs)

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Re: [Marxism] The first victims of fascist violence

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Excuse me while I shed some crocodile tears.

"In Donetsk on Friday morning, the mood was solemn and the tension was
palpable, said Oleksiy Matsuka, the editor in chief of Novosti Donbassa.
Mourners laid flowers and said prayers at the site where one young man,
22-year-old Dmytro Cherniavsky, was stabbed to death, he said.

According to Ihor Slavhorodsky, head of the Donetsk regional branch of the
Svoboda party, Cherniavsky was the organization's activist and spokesman.

"Svoboda member Dmytro Cherniavsky is among those who died in Donetsk
today," Slavhorodsky wrote on his Facebook page."

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Re: [Marxism] [Pen-l] No, Ukraine is not being run by fascists - The Week

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Some people on this list certainly know how to use wiggle room. If I recall
my prior reading correctly, one of the main proofs that this current crops
of rightist were fascist was their reverence for the WW2 fascists, and they
certainly were anti-Jewish.

On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 2:41 PM, Joseph Catron  wrote:

> So what? "Fascist" does not mean "opposed to Jews
> over all others."
>

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Re: [Marxism] [Pen-l] No, Ukraine is not being run by fascists - The Week

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On 3/14/14 5:41 PM, Joseph Catron wrote:

If you want to debate with RT.com, the place to do it is their comments
section.


This is a joke, right? There have been hundreds of articles on 
Counterpunch, Salon.com, The Nation, DissidentVoice, The Guardian, The 
Independent, the LA Times, WSWS.org, Alternet, Commondreams, Huffington 
Post, and countless other websites and blogs likening the Ukraine to 
Germany in 1932. If you aren't aware of it, that's fine. But I think 
most other people understand that this is going on. It is a 
well-orchestrated campaign out of the Kremlin and it is utter bullshit. 
Ukraine 2014 is not in the danger of a fascist take-over.



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Re: [Marxism] [Pen-l] No, Ukraine is not being run by fascists - The Week

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On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 11:25 PM, Louis Proyect  wrote:

Don't be so literal-minded. I am talking about a range of anti-Semitic
> attacks that usually involve attacks on cemeteries, beating up yeshiva
> students, breaking the windows of Jewish shops, etc. Read William Shirer if
> you need more information. Or RT.com, they've telling the world that a new
> Kristallnacht is imminent.
>

Unless I've missed some essential element, this line of argument is
essentially like a person saying, "But the English Defence League couldn't
possibly be fascists. Why, they just love Jews! See, they even have a
Jewish division."

Which is factually true. So what? "Fascist" does not mean "opposed to Jews
over all others." Otherwise Kach and Kahane Chai couldn't possibly be
fascists either, and Mussolini would have never had a single Jewish
supporter.

A man who hears of European fascism, and starts his investigation of it by
looking for attacks on Jews, is a man living a number of decades ago.

If you want to debate with RT.com, the place to do it is their comments
section.

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[Marxism] The first victims of fascist violence

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http://mashable.com/2014/03/14/ukraine-donetsk-two-dead/


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Re: [Marxism] [Pen-l] No, Ukraine is not being run by fascists - The Week

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On 3/14/14 5:16 PM, Joseph Catron wrote:

I don't see anyone but Lou
obsessed with the burning of synagogues.


Don't be so literal-minded. I am talking about a range of anti-Semitic 
attacks that usually involve attacks on cemeteries, beating up yeshiva 
students, breaking the windows of Jewish shops, etc. Read William Shirer 
if you need more information. Or RT.com, they've telling the world that 
a new Kristallnacht is imminent.



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Re: [Marxism] [Pen-l] No, Ukraine is not being run by fascists - The Week

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On 3/14/14 4:25 PM, Joseph Catron wrote:

This reminds me of exchanges I used to have about ultra-Zionism with
liberal Zionists on Doug H's LBO-Talk list. "But you're talking about
extremist positions!" they would say. "They're only publicly advocated by
the Israeli ministers of foreign affairs, the interior ..."



When are people going to get into their heads that it is the American 
bourgeoisie that is calling the tunes, not a party that got 10 percent 
of the votes in the last Ukrainian election. Billions of dollars are at 
stake. Why would the Ukrainian state allow synagogues to be burned if it 
turned American politicians against it? In fact the only synagogue that 
has been burnt in recent memory was seen by the Jewish officialdom as 
more likely to be of Russian inspiration than the native fascists. Just 
in case people don't know how to access Google/News, put this in your 
browser's url field and press the return key: https://news.google.com/ 
(The return key is on the right side of your keyboard.) Let me know when 
you hear about Jews being forced to wear yellow stars or anything like that.




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[Marxism] Neil Rothnie (North Sea Oil Worker and Trade Unionist) on Bob Crow

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I am no longer under any illusion that the RMT represents something “different” 
in the trade union movement. It is just the best of a movement that has been in 
decline for decades and has failed to meet the challenge of a new period of 
capitalist crisis. No leader, however charismatic, was going to change that.


full text at...

http://peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2014/03/14/bob-crow/



http://shaunpmay.wordpress.com
 
http://spmay.wordpress.com
 

 

  

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[Marxism] Playlist Details | KDVS

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Speaking in Tongues

Richard Estes

During the first half hour, Louis Proyect, The Unrepentant Marxist, 
returns to talk about film.


Afterwards, Susan Spronk provides background about ongoing protests in 
Venezuela, The Third Insurrectionary Moment of the Venezuela Right, 
within the context of the bureacratization of the Bolivarian Revolution.


http://kdvs.org/playlist-details/25690/


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Re: [Marxism] Don't believe the Russian propaganda about Ukraine's 'fascist' protesters

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On 3/14/14 3:05 PM, Marv Gandall wrote:

I don't think we're that far apart, but I may be wrong.


Well, at least you have finally eased up on "the fascists are 
coming--hide the silverware" talking points that I have heard maybe 65 
times over the past 3 weeks.


The one thing I'll never get is how people on the left continue to make 
the same points that have been made repeatedly as by others if to show 
that they are true believers and not a sinner like me. Frankly, I always 
preferred Lucifer to the stupid angels in "Paradise Lost".


Actually, in some ways it brings me back to my days in the SWP when 
someone was about to be expelled. Every fucking member of the branch had 
to get up and testify why so-and-so had to be thrown out. I was at my 
first branch meeting in 1967 when Arne Swabeck got the heave-ho for 
Maoist deviations. I sat there as just about everybody got up and made 
the same stupid presentation about the crimes of Maoism--that some 
birdbrain pronounced Mayoism.


That should have been my last meeting.


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Re: [Marxism] Don't believe the Russian propaganda about Ukraine's 'fascist' protesters

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On 2014-03-13, at 6:48 PM, Louis Proyect wrote:

> To recapitulate my views on the Ukraine briefly as I have been developing 
> them over the past few weeks:
> 
> 1. Poverty, corruption and hatred toward Russian domination fueled the 
> protests that led to the collapse of Yanukovych's government.
> 
> 2. Sympathy for the far right as indicated by polling about attitudes toward 
> the fighting forces in WWII amounts to 16 percent nationwide and only nears a 
> majority in Galicia, a province that has 10 percent of the country's 
> population. In Kyiv, 89 percent of the population views the Red Army 
> favorably, as opposed to 2 percent favorable toward the armed wing of 
> Bandera's ultraright group.
> 
> 3. In the past 15 years, there are only two reports of violent attacks on 
> Jews in the Ukraine. Social scientists who follow anti-Semitic trends view 
> France and Britain as far more worrisome.
> 
> 4. There is nothing more progressive about Russia in comparison to the EU. 
> The Eurasian Trade organization is not COMECON and Putin is not Brezhnev.
> 
> 5. Fascism is not on the agenda anywhere in Europe despite the fact that 
> there are fascists everywhere. If you are going to worry about the 
> ultraright, worry about France where Le Pen got twice the vote of Svoboda.
> 
> 6. The new power in Ukraine is poised to impose a Greek-style austerity. 
> People who have been suffering from a total economic collapse are not likely 
> to rally around a government imposing it because it invokes nationalistic 
> themes. In fact, as I indicated already, there are reports that the average 
> citizen who supported Euromaidan views it as having a "dirty past", according 
> to the Estonian foreign minister.
> 
> That's about it, I guess.

I don't think we're that far apart, but I may be wrong. Here are my comments:

a) You understate the ethnic divisions between west and east Ukraine which were 
as important in fuelling the protests as the living conditions and corruption 
of the Yanukovych government. The ethnic divisions were present before the 
arrival of Yanukovych, and the Crimean crisis, if anything, has exacerbated 
them. 

b) In rejecting the hysterics of those who believe there has been a fascist 
coup in the Ukraine, you bend the stick back too far in dismissing the 
pro-fascist groups as having little or no significance. While it's true the 
wartime historical memory of the Ukrainians is pro-Soviet, that's less 
important than the leading role played by the far right in the recent protests 
which led to the change in regime. By most accounts, and as you would expect, 
that's won Svoboda and the lesser pro-fascist groups the increased respect of 
the masses, especially in the western half of the country. In the absence of 
any remotely comparable left parties, they stand to make the most gains if the 
right of centre Yatsenyuk government should falter. The previous 
Yushchenko-Tymoshenko leadership contributed to their present legitimacy by 
burnishing the image of Bandera and the other pro-fascists who fought on the 
Nazi side. 

c) I'm not as convinced that the new government is poised to initiate a 
Greek-style austerity. The US/EU/IMF axis is not stupid, and, in the present 
volatile conditions with the far right waiting in the wings, it likely 
understands its immediate need is to restore order and consolidate the 
pro-Western regime before risking an attack on fuel and food subsidies and 
other social programs. I'm attaching a recent opinion piece by the Larry 
Summers, who knows his way around the issue, which I think is a good indicator 
of the slow pace of "reform" being contemplated. 

d) It's equally difficult to anticipate how much, if any, mass resistance there 
would be to austerity. The expected challenge from the left to the capitalist 
states and traditional parties in the crisis-racked European periphery never 
really materialized except in Greece. In Ukraine, the potential for a 
class-based response led by a left-wing party is out of the question since, to 
my knowledge, no such party exists - even in embryo. Socialist ideology and 
left-wing parties were rejected in reaction to the Soviet experience, and 
replaced by an idealized view of Western bourgeois democracy and conservative 
leaders like Reagan and Thatcher. The identification with nation rather than 
class, and the promise of EU membership, may be sufficient to persuade the 
Ukrainian masses to reluctantly bear the "necessary sacrifices" that their 
leaders and Western governments will be demanding. 

‘Potemkin money’ is the wrong way to help Ukraine
By Lawrence Summers
Financial Times
March 9 2014

Events in Ukraine have underscored the importance of effective external support 
for successful economic and politica

[Marxism] Syria's war, 3 years on: 'a horror film', in faces of the dead and voices of revolt | Molly Crabapple | Comment is free | theguardian.com

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For the last decade, the left has struggled against the murderous 
idiocies of the War on Terror. Guantanamo. Iraq. Weddings drone-bombed 
in the name of “freedom”. When Syrian activists and the Free Syrian Army 
began asking for weapons and no-fly zones in what actually was a fight 
for freedom, the Western left mostly looked away.


Some even painted the opposition as CIA shills. More than a year after 
the revolution started, President Obama doled out bits of aid to the 
opposition – MRE’s, night-vision goggles, a few dozen fighters trained 
in Jordan. But the left, which had ignored the substantial support Assad 
was receiving from Russia, Iran and Hezbollah, declared these token 
gestures proof of the opposition’s service to American empire. Assad, an 
eager participant in George W Bush’s illegal renditions, was twisted 
into a figure of resistance.


During the Bush administration, Amal Hanano had marched against the Iraq 
War. During the Syrian War, she felt betrayed by her former comrades. 
Amal went to a MoveOn.org candlelight vigil for Syria last August:


They were chanting to ‘stop the war in Syria’ and were shocked when 
I asked them where they were for the past two and a half years, while a 
war was being waged on the Syrian people. ... The anti-war movement in 
America did not care about Syria; they only cared about their 
ideological anti-government positions.


The left did not see Syria. We saw Afghanistan and Iraq.

full: 
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[Marxism] A Message to the "Antifascists" from a Young Petersburg Leftist Activist

[Thomas Campbell]

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A young Petersburg leftist activist named Alexander Nazarov made the
following comment on his Facebook page earlier today. What he says here is
obvious to anyone with a brain and elementary powers of observation who has
been living in Russia the past five or ten years (if not longer), but it
had to be said now. I think people outside Russia who don't understand
these "alphabetical truths" (home truths), as the Russians say, should
refrain from commenting on "the situation" in Ukraine and Russia.

"It's been funny to watch as people absolutely incapable of doing anything
at home [in Russia] have been vigorously calling for the 'restoration of
order' in a neighboring country, [Ukraine]. Day and night, they have been
seeking out 'fascists,' provocateurs, and victims on Maidan and in Crimea,
while paying no attention to what has been happening right under their own
noses.

"The only thing these latter-day 'antifascists' want to avoid seeing is
that there has been fascism here in Russia for a long time already. [It has
been manifested] in assaults on migrants, in the ongoing homophobic
hysteria, in flagrant censorship, in cutbacks to social services, in
political show trials and folks sent to prison for political or trade union
activism, in the implantation of right-wing reactionary views in society,
in increasing social stratification, in insane laws passed with such speed
we don't have time to react to them, and in many other things.

"But this is of no interest to anyone, because it's not a YouTube video or
a comment on Facebook, and basically we got used to all of it long ago. And
it's okay: life goes on. And now our neighbors in Ukraine can get used to
it, too."

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Re: [Marxism] NEW TITLE by Benjamin Kunkel - UTOPIA OR BUST: A GUIDE TO THE PRESENT CRISIS

[Louis Proyect]

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On 3/14/14 1:05 PM, VersoMail Verso wrote:


NEW TITLE


UTOPIA OR BUST: A Guide to the Present Crisis

by Benjamin Kunkel


“Six elegantly turned essays on contemporary Marxist thinkers” -
Prospect

http://www.versobooks.com/books/1567-utopia-or-bust




I'm too swamped to ask for a review copy but I regard N+1 very highly.

http://louisproyect.org/2013/12/11/n1-bruce-robbins-and-vivek-chibber/


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[Marxism] Fracking, Russia and the Left

[Clay Claiborne]

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Amy @ DN is doing fracking again today. It seems that fracking is a caus
celeb for the Left, or maybe I'm just bitter because it gets more attention
than children being murdered in Syria. RT is also very big on protesting
fracking.

So one day I Google fracking + russia, and this is what I summarize in
about 15 min. Russia is far behind US,UK and Canada on fracking technology.
Russia's shale is not as easily frackable. Russia is discussing a joint
venture with Shell to develop fracking in Russia.

So Russia has good economic reasons for opposing fracking NOW! I wonder how
much its, shall we say "influence" in the Left is responsible for this
relatively robust anti-fracking movement?

I also wonder how they react as Russia brings fracking on-line in the
coming decade and changes its tune.



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Re: [Marxism] No, Ukraine is not being run by fascists - The Week

[Eli Stephens]

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Leftist Germans recognize fascists when they see them, even if some U.S.
Leftists want to minimize the danger:

http://rt.com/news/merkel-ukraine-answer-sanctions-658/

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Re: [Marxism] No, Ukraine is not being run by fascists - The Week

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On 3/14/14 11:23 AM, Eli Stephens wrote:

"Svoboda is ultimately unlikely to wield much more influence in Ukraine than
the National Front in France or the British National Party in the U.K"

Really? Didn't we just read this a few paragraphs earlier:

"Svoboda, whose members now head the defense, agriculture, and environment
ministries; party ideological chief Oleksandr Sych is deputy prime minister.
Dmytro Yarosh, the head of Pravy Sektor, is deputy secretary for national
security."

Somehow I don't remember either the NF or BNP having quite the same presence
in government.

A guide to who's-who in the government:

http://www.pslweb.org/liberationnews/news/whos.html


Not everybody has access to Nexis like me. So when I researched the 
number of anti-Semitic attacks in Ukraine since 2003, I was at a bit of 
an advantage. (There were two.)


But everybody has access to Google/News. Just check it every few days to 
see if anything shows up. Actually there was one item from the Daily 
Beast (ie. Newsweek) that is relevant:


http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/03/03/who-s-really-behind-ukraine-s-synagogue-attacks.html

World News
03.03.14
Who’s Really Behind Ukraine’s Synagogue Attacks?

Surprisingly, Jewish leaders aren’t blaming the local neo-Nazis.

Ukraine has never been a very good country for the Jews. The 19th and 
early 20th centuries were marred by pogroms against Jewish communities. 
Under Soviet occupation, many Jews that stayed in Ukraine faced the 
state sponsored anti-Semitism of the Communist system. More recently, a 
few neo-Nazi groups have openly participated in the popular uprising 
that ousted President Viktor Yanukovych baring at times swastikas.


Nonetheless, leaders of Ukraine’s small Jewish community (experts 
estimate there are between 80,000 and 350,000 Jews in Ukraine) say they 
are more worried about anti-Semitic attacks from Russian operatives and 
Yanukovych loyalists than the nationalists who gathered in Kiev and 
other cities to oust him.


“In general, in Ukraine there have not been many of these attacks and 
less than in Western Europe and Europe as a whole,” Joseph Zissels, the 
president of the Ukrainian Jewish community known as the Vaad, said in a 
phone interview from Kiev. Zissels added it’s unclear who has been 
behind these attacks, but he suspects the recent vandalism against 
synagogues was provocations from Russian or pro-Russian forces who 
sought to occupy his country.


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[Marxism] Argentina. Towards the National Combative Unions Conference

[Juan Andres Gallardo]

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http://www.ft-ci.org/Argentina-Towards-the-National-Combative-Unions-Conference?lang=en
Argentina. Towards the National Combative Unions Conference14/03/2014
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AUTHORPTS, 
ARGENTINA
GROUPPTS (PARTIDO DE LOS TRABAJADORES SOCIALISTAS/ SOCIALIST WORKERS
PARTY), FROM 
ARGENTINA
TRANSLATORGLORIA GRINBERG 

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*Towards the National Combative Unions Conference.*

MARCH 03 2014
The Kraft factory shop steward committee, led by Javier Hermosilla and
Lorena Gentile, Raúl Godoy, ex deputy for Neuquén province and a Zanon
worker, José Montes, trade union representative from Astillero Río
Santiago, the Alicorp (ex Jabón Federal) shop steward committee,
represented by Franco Villalba, Eduardo Ayala, leader of the graphic
workers and from the group Agrupacion Bordó, Claudio Dellecarbonara, rank
and file delegate from Buenos Aires Subways and a lead member of AGTSYP
Union--all leaders within the PTS--together with Rubén 'Pollo' Sobrero,
general secretary from the Haedo Railways Union, Carlos 'Perro' Santillán,
general secretary from SEOM (Jujuy province), hundreds of shop steward
committees and combative rank and file delegates from the metal, tyre, air
transportation, telecommunication and paper industries and from the
teachers' unions that oppose the government, (SUTEBA, ATEN, ADEMYS and
others), federal and state workers from ATE, the shop steward committee
from Castro Rendón Hospital, Neuquén province, and other unions are calling
to a National Meeting of Combative Unions that will be taking place on
March 15th in the Atlanta indoor stadium.
Representatives of current workers' struggles, such as the metal workers
from the Liliana Factory (Rosario city), workers from the Kromberg
automotive parts factory (Pilar Industrial park), teachers from across the
country, and state workers from Jujuy province will all be taking part, as
will Ramón Cortés, one the Las Heras oil workers sentenced to life
imprisonment.


*Unions' conference - ATLANTA Stadium -Saturday, March 15th. 12 p.m.We are
calling for the unity of all the combative unions.*

After a decade of the Kirchners in office, the realities facing the working
class and the poor make clear that only ones who have benefited during this
period are the bosses, the multinationals and large corporations, the
landlords, the bankers and the corrupt politicians close to power.
The working class, on the other hand, has suffered through the structural
adjustment program carried out by the government with inflation and
devaluation, a decrease in the purchasing power of our salaries, and
outsourcing and labour liberalization, with suspensions and layoffs.
In addition, the raising of interest rates has choked the families in debt
and benefitted the bankers. This so called "government of the people"
supported trade union bureaucrats who became bosses and now keep on ruling
the trade unions. This is the case of Pedraza, who was the murder of
Mariano Ferreyra (Partido Obrero militant who was killed on 2010 during a
train workers' protest) in order to stick up for his businesses with the
bosses.
The government criminalizes protests by persecuting thousands of activists.
The worst case is that of the oil workers from Las Heras, who were
sentenced to life imprisonment in a fraudulent trial.
Workers' organizations must fight together for our salary and for our jobs.
They are two sides of the same coin, contrary to what the unions'
bureaucrats say, who urge us to accept wage cuts using the argument of the
bosses that we could suffer layoffs or suspensions.
The situation of the retired and those receiving government aid isn't any
better.
While the Kirchner government pays the external debt and its interests
rates, and decides make deals (??) with Repsol. The provincial governments
give away our natural resources to the mining, oil and soy companies as the
poor and the workers continue suffering austerity and hunger.
As this situation is developing, workers' struggles have increased, but
they are being isolated because the union bureaucrats are doing nothing for
them. On the contrary, they have meetings with the bosses' politicians, and
they are part of their political parties' lists.
Some sectors of the political and unions' opposition proposed a consejo
económico y social,whose aim is to put pressure on the workers' struggles.
By not developing a plan to continue the fight that started with the
successful general strike of November 20, 2012, the CGT 

[Marxism] Former Egyptian General Calls Promise of Free Elections a ‘Farce’

[Louis Proyect]

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NY Times, Mar. 14 2014
Former Egyptian General Calls Promise of Free Elections a ‘Farce’
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK

CAIRO — Critics of the military takeover here often say the generals’ 
promise of free elections is little more than a bad joke. Now a 
prominent former military man who cheered the takeover seems to agree: 
Ahmed Shafik, a former general and prime minister and the runner-up in 
the last presidential election, has called it a “farce.”


Mr. Shafik had not planned on making his opinion quite so public. But 
these days in Egypt, conversations are often not as private as they seem.


“I know very well they will fix all the ballot boxes,” Mr. Shafik said 
in a leaked recording of a private conversation that he authenticated 
Thursday. He said in the recording that he would not run because the new 
government was rigging the race in favor of Field Marshal Abdul-Fattah 
el-Sisi, who led the ouster of President Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim 
Brotherhood last summer and is expected to enter and win the election to 
succeed him.


“I have taken myself out of this loop because the election is going to 
be a farce,” Mr. Shafik said, adding that “they will fix everything for 
him” and “this is going to be a comedy show.”


His comments stunned Egypt because Mr. Shafik comes from the same 
military elite as Field Marshal Sisi. Questioning the field marshal’s 
candidacy is almost heretical in the pro-military and anti-Islamist 
circles both officers represent, and Mr. Shafik’s comments were a rare 
hint of possible dissent among the business and military elite.


His cynicism about elections could pose awkward questions for the White 
House as well. After last summer’s military takeover, the Obama 
administration suspended a portion of the $1.3 billion in annual 
American military aid for Egypt until the new government demonstrated 
progress toward democracy, and the White House is still looking for a 
justification to restore the money.


In a statement Thursday, Mr. Shafik confirmed that he had made the 
recorded comments. “I say in public what I say in private,” he said, 
adding that he believed that military leaders would resolve all the 
concerns. “My confidence that the armed forces will ensure a transparent 
democratic and electoral process is complete and unquestionable.”


Mr. Shafik said in his statement Thursday that he had been troubled in 
part by the military’s overt institutional support for a presidential 
campaign by its chief commander. “Unimaginable,” he said. “It 
contradicts all the rules and the traditions that stipulate the armed 
forces’ complete distance from the electoral process,” he said.


The military leaders, he said, had subsequently rectified what he called 
that “misunderstanding.” But he said he remained concerned about the 
lack of guarantees against government interference in the electoral 
process in favor of one candidate, which he said had been the case in 
previous elections.


Human rights groups and international election experts have said that 
there is little chance the coming elections will meet the highest 
standards of fairness and openness. Last summer, the military said it 
was heeding the public call to remove Egypt’s first freely elected 
president. The government has since outlawed the Muslim Brotherhood; 
jailed almost all of its leaders, including Mr. Morsi, and thousands of 
its members; killed more than 1,000 of its supporters; and silenced 
almost all sympathetic media


Mr. Shafik, who has lived in the United Arab Emirates since he lost the 
2012 race, said in the recording that he would be prepared to run for 
president again if Field Marshal Sisi did not.


In his statement Thursday, though, he said that to avoid splitting the 
vote he had thrown his support behind “the most powerful of the 
candidates and the closest to winning the presidency, His Excellency, 
the Field Marshal Abdel Fattah Sisi.”


Mayy El Sheikh contributed reporting.


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[Marxism] Russia Blocks Web Content Amid Tension Over Ukraine

[Louis Proyect]

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NY Times, Mar. 14 2014
Russia Blocks Web Content Amid Tension Over Ukraine
By ELLEN BARRY

MOSCOW — The Russian authorities on Thursday blocked three websites and 
a blog, including platforms used by the opposition figures Aleksei A. 
Navalny and Garry K. Kasparov, saying that Russia’s general prosecutor 
had ordered the sites closed because they had encouraged “illegal 
activities and participation in public events held in violation of the 
established order.”


The moves came amid rising tensions over the crisis in Ukraine, and a 
day after a sudden personnel reshuffle that installed a pro-Kremlin 
journalist at the helm of one of Russia’s most popular independent 
online news sites, Lenta.ru. The step came after the site published an 
interview with the leader of a Ukrainian nationalist organization. On 
Thursday, the site announced that 39 of its 84 employees had resigned.


Russia’s Internet has remained largely free, but a law that took effect 
on Feb. 1 allowed the authorities to order providers to block sites 
containing “extremist” content or calls for unauthorized public 
gatherings. Thursday was the first time that the authorities had used 
the law to block posts by prominent opposition figures. In addition to 
Mr. Kasparov’s site, the order blocked access to Daily Journal and 
Grani.ru, both sites that routinely carry content critical of Kremlin 
policy.


Two Moscow-based Internet providers had also blocked access to the site 
for the radio station Ekho Moskvy, which carries Mr. Navalny’s blog. The 
station’s editor, Aleksei A. Venediktov, told Interfax that he had 
received a warning from the general prosecutor on Thursday and decided 
to drop Mr. Navalny’s blog so that the site could remain open.


He said the station would send formal queries to the prosecutor and 
Roskomnadzor, the federal agency that oversees the media, to ask what 
“extremist” material had been found in Mr. Navalny’s writing and to file 
a legal complaint about the blocking of the station’s site. A spokesman 
for Roskomnadzor told Interfax that Mr. Navalny’s blog violated the 
terms of his house arrest, which barred him from using the Internet. 
Late in February, a judge ruled that Mr. Navalny had violated a travel 
ban from a pending criminal case.


Mr. Navalny’s spokeswoman, Anna Veduta, said she believed the decision 
was based on the court order against Mr. Navalny, but that he had not 
been writing blog entries himself, and recent posts were the work of his 
wife and supporters. “This is another illegal act, which is part of the 
campaign we are seeing to cleanse the media” on Russia’s Internet, Ms. 
Veduta said.


Mr. Navalny’s blog on LiveJournal, Russia’s most popular social media 
site, published a post on Crimea on Wednesday, describing antigovernment 
protests in Kiev as “a people’s revolt against corrupt and thieving 
authorities,” and dismissing the government’s claim that Russians in 
Crimea were under threat — a pretext for government intervention in the 
region.



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Re: [Marxism] No, Ukraine is not being run by fascists - The Week

[Eli Stephens]

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"Svoboda is ultimately unlikely to wield much more influence in Ukraine than
the National Front in France or the British National Party in the U.K"

Really? Didn't we just read this a few paragraphs earlier:

"Svoboda, whose members now head the defense, agriculture, and environment
ministries; party ideological chief Oleksandr Sych is deputy prime minister.
Dmytro Yarosh, the head of Pravy Sektor, is deputy secretary for national
security."

Somehow I don't remember either the NF or BNP having quite the same presence
in government.

A guide to who's-who in the government:

http://www.pslweb.org/liberationnews/news/whos.html

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[Marxism] Anarchists from Petrozavodsk, Russia were kidnapped and seriously injured by unknown people in masks. | Автономное Действие - анархисты, либертарные коммунисты, антифа

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[Marxism] Egypt's Rulers Have a New Friend in DC: The Israel Lobby

[Louis Proyect]

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[Marxism] The Myth of Bernie Sanders » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names

[Louis Proyect]

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Re: [Marxism] WWIII? Really?

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MREs?!?! What a fucking sick joke. The tankies of course are still gonna go
wild with this in their week of action which they're building furiously for.

"No MREs! No MREs!"

"Obama, Obama, You can't hide, We charge you with providing weapons of
alimentary destruction!"

What makes this joke even sicker is the continuing starvation in Syria due
to Assad sieges.


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> U.S. Balks at Ukraine Military-Aid Request; U.S. Officials Wary of
> Inflaming Russia, Agree Only to MREs
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> By Adam Entous
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> WASHINGTON--Ukraine's interim government has appealed for U.S. military
> aid, including arms, ammunition and intelligence support, according to
> senior U.S. officials. But the Obama administration has agreed to send only
> military rations for now, wary of inflaming tensions with Russia.
>
> The U.S. decision reflects the Pentagon's reluctance to be seen as
> directly supporting Ukraine's beleaguered armed forces during the standoff
> with Russia, which has seized the Ukrainian region of Crimea.
>
> The risk of escalation was underscored by Russia's move on Thursday to
> conduct another military exercise near Ukraine. The Kremlin also confirmed
> it has sent six Sukhoi fighter jets and three transport planes to another
> former Soviet republic, Belarus, for joint patrols.
>
> Belarusian officials said the move came in response to increased air
> patrols in the region by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization amid the
> Ukraine crisis.
>
> Amid such shows of force, U.S. officials acknowledge the Obama
> administration faces a difficult balancing act. It wants to show support
> for Ukraine's interim leaders without further antagonizing an unpredictable
> Moscow or inadvertently emboldening the Ukrainian military to take steps
> that could spark violence.
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Re: [Marxism] Henri Curiel, citizen of the third world - Le Monde diplomatique - English edition

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Thanks for this, Louis. By coincidence a few weeks back I ordered this:
http://www.revolutionaryhistory.co.uk/content/book-index-contents/rh1004.htm
... which is a special issue on European Left support for the Algerian
Revolution (I was looking for, and found, useful parallels and context for
today re Syria). When I saw Curiel's name I recognized it from
Beinin/Lockman's histories of the Egyptian labor and communist movements
and didn't realize he had gone on to Algeria solidarity. Nice surprise.


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[Marxism] Crimea Vote Galvanizes Separatists in Russia

[Michael Karadjis]

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Crimea Vote Galvanizes Separatists in Russia

Moscow Times
Mar. 13 2014 21:10

By Yekaterina Kravtsova

For separatist groups in Dagestan, Tatarstan and other regions of 
Russia, the Kremlin's support of a referendum on independence in 
Ukraine's Crimea peninsula would seem to provide an opportunity for 
their own movements, which have long been repressed by Russian 
authorities.


The Kremlin, evidently, does not agree. President Vladimir Putin has 
long been a vocal opponent of regional separatist movements in Russia, 
having risen to power by waging a bloody war against rebels in Chechnya, 
and last year he signed into law a bill that stipulates prison time for 
those who make separatist appeals.


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[Marxism] Three political films | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

[Louis Proyect]

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http://louisproyect.org/2014/03/14/three-political-films/

Reviewed:

1. "The Jews of Egypt": interviews with "rootless cosmopolitans" and 
Reds who were exiled after Nasser took over.


2. "Xingu": a biopic about the brothers who fought for indigenous rights 
in the Brazilian rainforest.


3. "Big Men": Oil company machinations in Ghana.


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[Marxism] White men get rich from legal pot, Black men stay in prison

[Dennis Brasky]

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Re: [Marxism] Short reply to the U.S. Dept of Labor's "List of Books t hat Shaped Work in America"

[Jim Farmelant]

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That list seemed to include mostly liberal and right-wing books (including two 
by Ayn Rand and two by Milton Friedman).  No radical left-wing books like Harry 
Braverman's book, Labor and Monopoly Capital, which actually analyzed how work 
processes have changed under modern capitalism.



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Subject: [Marxism] Short reply to the U.S. Dept of Labor's "List of Books that 
Shaped Work in America"
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 09:31:51 -0400

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http://lawcha.org/wordpress/2014/03/12/department-labors-list-books-shaped-work-america-ignores-critical-books/

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[Marxism] WWIII? Really?

[Louis Proyect]

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Wall Street Journal, Mar. 14 2014

U.S. Balks at Ukraine Military-Aid Request; U.S. Officials Wary of 
Inflaming Russia, Agree Only to MREs


By Adam Entous

WASHINGTON—Ukraine's interim government has appealed for U.S. military 
aid, including arms, ammunition and intelligence support, according to 
senior U.S. officials. But the Obama administration has agreed to send 
only military rations for now, wary of inflaming tensions with Russia.


The U.S. decision reflects the Pentagon's reluctance to be seen as 
directly supporting Ukraine's beleaguered armed forces during the 
standoff with Russia, which has seized the Ukrainian region of Crimea.


The risk of escalation was underscored by Russia's move on Thursday to 
conduct another military exercise near Ukraine. The Kremlin also 
confirmed it has sent six Sukhoi fighter jets and three transport planes 
to another former Soviet republic, Belarus, for joint patrols.


Belarusian officials said the move came in response to increased air 
patrols in the region by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization amid the 
Ukraine crisis.


Amid such shows of force, U.S. officials acknowledge the Obama 
administration faces a difficult balancing act. It wants to show support 
for Ukraine's interim leaders without further antagonizing an 
unpredictable Moscow or inadvertently emboldening the Ukrainian military 
to take steps that could spark violence.


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[Marxism] Save CCSF protest

[Ron Jacobs]

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http://www.saveccsf.org/student-rally-save-our-school-agrella-must-go/

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[Marxism] The Islamophobes Have Arrived

[Ron Jacobs]

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http://stillhomeron.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-islamophobes-have-arrived.html

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[Marxism] "Is fascism returning to Europe?" panel discussion video

[Louis Proyect]

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http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/44818827


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[Marxism] Tony Benn has just died

[Einde O'Callaghan]

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Tony Benn, the veteran Labour Left leader has just died:



Einde O'Callaghan


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