[Marxism] Boris Kagarlitsky: Fate of Donetsk is being decided in Kharkov | Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal

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By *Boris Kagarlitsky*, translated by *Renfrey Clarke* for /Links 
International Journal of Socialist Renewal/


May 3, 2014 -- The preliminary outcome of the revolt in south-eastern 
Ukraine can be described as an unstable equilibrium. Attempting to crush 
the Donetsk republic with the help of their armed forces, the Kiev 
authorities have met with defeat. The army, as expected, has refused 
steadfastly to wage war on its own people, and the forces of the Right 
Sector and National Guard have clearly been insufficient to cope even 
with the militia, not to speak of the mass of protestors.



Full article at http://links.org.au/node/3832

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[Marxism] Alexis Tsipras: 'Release Gerry Adams!'

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"In my capacity as President of SYRIZA and candidate on behalf of the
European Left for President of the European Commission, I ask for the
immediate and unconditional release of Gerry Adams."

https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/56375
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[Marxism] Venezuela marks May Day with large marches; social programs and benefits to be extended

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In his May Day speech at a large rally in Caracas, President Nicolas Maduro
announced the extension of social programs and benefits to workers and the
population in general.

https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/56367

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[Marxism] Workers mark May Day globally

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Millions of workers across the globe hit the streets on May 1 for mass
rallies marking International Workers' Day.

https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/56365

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Re: [Marxism] BBC News - The curious survival of the US Communist Party

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On May 2, 2014, at 7:10 PM, sha...@aol.com wrote:


Hazarding a guess, I would think Hugh De Lacy, Leo Isacson and Vito  
Marcantonio. Bur not really sure about Marcantonio.


I don't know about De Lacy, but Isacson and Marcantonio were not  
Democrats. They were elected on  the ALP (American Labor Party) ticket.






Three Democratic congressmen were secretly Communist Party members.


Does anyone know who they were?



Shane Mage


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always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
kindling in measures and going out in measures.

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Re: [Marxism] Susan Abulhawa: "Palestine can be won in a street fight"

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Yeah, you're right: an injury to one is an injury to... one.
Look, the point of the original slogan is not just an appeal for basic
solidarity borne of decency and humanity -- which Abulhawa clearly lacks --
it's also a strategic appeal for the unity which, if undermined -- as
Abulhawa does -- dooms all sectors of a struggle.


On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 10:11 PM, Joseph Catron  wrote:

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> Right, Andy. The author of *Mornings in Jenin*, which has inspired hundreds
> of thousands in 26 languages, "has nothing to contribute to Palestinian
> liberation."
>
> (rolls eyes, goes back to real things)
>
> On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 4:58 AM, Andrew Pollack 
> wrote:
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> What a fucking hypocrite. Someone who can write this piece of pro-Assad
> > garbage has nothing to contribute to Palestinian liberation.
>
>
> --
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Re: [Marxism] Susan Abulhawa: "Palestine can be won in a street fight"

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Right, Andy. The author of *Mornings in Jenin*, which has inspired hundreds
of thousands in 26 languages, "has nothing to contribute to Palestinian
liberation."

(rolls eyes, goes back to real things)

On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 4:58 AM, Andrew Pollack  wrote:

What a fucking hypocrite. Someone who can write this piece of pro-Assad
> garbage has nothing to contribute to Palestinian liberation.


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Re: [Marxism] Susan Abulhawa: "Palestine can be won in a street fight"

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What a fucking hypocrite. Someone who can write this piece of pro-Assad
garbage has nothing to contribute to Palestinian liberation.

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/09/20139128423864516.html



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> "This global street is where a defenceless oppressed indigenous people have
> a chance at justice. There is nothing for us in negotiations with the
> powerful elite."
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[Marxism] Susan Abulhawa: "Palestine can be won in a street fight"

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"This global street is where a defenceless oppressed indigenous people have
a chance at justice. There is nothing for us in negotiations with the
powerful elite."

http://aje.me/1iNga5u

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Re: [Marxism] [Pen-l] Stephen F. Cohen is not the man he used to be | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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On May 2, 2014, at 7:42 PM, Louis Proyect  wrote:
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> On 5/2/14 7:27 PM, Michael Smith wrote:
>> 
>> There was an earlier Crimean War, you know.
>  
> The other thing to keep in mind is that Putin doesn't care about American 
> bases on his doorstep as long as they are used to keep the jihadists at bay.

I doubt that that's so. Of course he hasn't called me lately -- 
I suppose he's been busy -- so I can't say for sure. 

The Bohm piece you linked overlooks the main point, which is that 
the US has failed in Afghanistan, and is pulling out. The US was 
no more successful in consolidating control over the Affers 
than the Sovs were a few years back. 

So the US keeps a few face-saving 'bases'. So what? It's a 
stalemate, preferably a quiet one. That's always been the 
best state of affairs in Afghanistan. 

It's a very different matter from affirmatively carving the 
Ukraine out into the Euro zone. 

No doubt my pal Volodya would prefer a relatively quiet 
Afghanistan -- an Afghanistan not effectively in current 
play in the Great Game. At this point, who wouldn't -- 
except maybe Delhi? But they're in no position to intervene
directly, and both the Russkis and the Yanks have recently 
had their heads handed to them on a platter in that 
rugged country. 

Let's hope they've both learned their lesson. For our 
lifetime, anyway.  

Michael Smith
m...@smithbowen.net

A man should take care not to be made a proverb; and, therefore, should avoid 
having any one topick of which people can say, "We shall hear him upon it." 

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Re: [Marxism] [Pen-l] Stephen F. Cohen is not the man he used to be | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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On 5/2/14 7:27 PM, Michael Smith wrote:


There was an earlier Crimean War, you know.


That's true but there was a war between France and Prussia around the 
same time, as well as one between Russia and Japan in 1905. Russia only 
became a permanent bogeyman after 1917. Under Czardom, it made alliances 
on an ad hoc basis depending on which state served its immediate 
strategic goals. It aligned itself with Britain in 1914 despite what 
took place beforehand in Crimea.


The other thing to keep in mind is that Putin doesn't care about 
American bases on his doorstep as long as they are used to keep the 
jihadists at bay. It is only when they threaten his control over the 
Ukraine, a nationality that never really existed according to Badiou, 
that he gets all hot and bothered.


http://www.themoscowtimes.com/opinion/article/why-putin-wants-us-bases-in-afghanistan/480087.html
Why Putin Wants U.S. Bases in Afghanistan
By Michael Bohm

On May 9, Afghan President Hamid Karzai announced he would allow the 
U.S. to keep nine military bases in Afghanistan after direct U.S. 
participation in the Afghan war ends in 2014. How has President Vladimir 
Putin responded to the possibility that Afghanistan may turn into “one 
giant U.S. aircraft carrier,” as Kremlin-friendly political analyst Yury 
Krupnov recently put it?


After Karzai’s announcement, you might have expected the Kremlin to 
offer its usual bluster about how the U.S. and NATO are trying to create 
a suffocating “Anaconda ring” around Russia — from the Baltic states, 
Poland, Romania, Georgia and Turkey to Afghanistan, South Korea and 
Japan. You might even have expected a dose of the anti-U.S. demagoguery 
about the U.S. government using Afghan bases to run a lucrative 
narcotics-export business, including daily flights of U.S. cargo 
aircraft filled with heroin destined for Russia and Europe. Or that U.S. 
bases in Afghanistan could be used for an attack on Russia. After all, 
Yury Krupnov and other conservative, pro-Kremlin analysts are 
particularly fond of reminding Russians that a U.S. nuclear missile 
could reach Moscow from the U.S. airbase in ­Bagram, Afghanistan, in 
less than 20 minutes.


Yet the Kremlin was conspicuously silent about Karzai’s recent 
announcement on U.S. bases. At the same time, however, this restraint 
was consistent with Putin’s general position on Afghan security, which 
he first articulated in February 2012 during a speech in Ulyanovsk, the 
home of a joint U.S.-Russian transit center to transport U.S. war 
materiel out of Afghanistan. During his speech — given to a group of 
elite Russian paratroopers, no less — Putin offered clear support for 
the U.S.-led military campaign in Afghanistan.


“We have a strong interest in our southern borders being calm,” Putin 
said. “We need to help them [U.S. and coalition forces]. Let them fight. 
… This is in Russia’s national interests.”




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Re: [Marxism] [Pen-l] Stephen F. Cohen is not the man he used to be | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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On May 2, 2014, at 6:27 PM, Louis Proyect  wrote:
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> Do you actually have an analysis of why NATO needs to close in on Russia?

There was an earlier Crimean War, you know. The map hasn't 
changed all that much.  Indeed I find it remarkable how 
little seems to have changed. It even sheds a retrospective 
light on the Cold War. Perhaps that was just the same old 
story with some of the signs reversed. 

But now we're back to the polarities of Palmerston's day. 
Enlightened opinion deplores the backward old Bear and its 
autocratic political institutions. And of course although 
there are plenty of anti-Semites on all sides, everybody's
bubbeh has told him, repeatedly, that the Czar is the 
*worst*. 
 
>  I can understand why Michael would have become a Maoist when he was young.

Actually, I rather doubt that you can, Louis, but I appreciate the 
imaginative effort. 

 
Michael Smith
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[Marxism] The Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975 with Danny Glover, Kathleen Cleaver and Brian Jones

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For comrades in NYC on Monday.

Program at The New School, Monday, May 5th at 8 pm, 66 W. 12th Street,
co-sponsored by Haymarket Books, discussing the new book.

http://events.newschool.edu/event/the_black_power_mixtape_1967-1975_with_danny_glover_and_special_guests#.U2Qj8OX_dI8.gmail

Event is free but requires registration at Eventbrite.  The film that
inspired the book can be viewed on Netflix.

In Solidarity,
Red Arnie
Bay Area, CA (NYC on Monday)

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Re: [Marxism] BBC News - The curious survival of the US Communist Party

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Hazarding a guess, I would think Hugh De Lacy, Leo Isacson and Vito 
Marcantonio. Bur not really sure about Marcantonio.
 
 
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> http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26126325#story_continues_1


> Three Democratic congressmen were secretly Communist Party members.

Does anyone know who they were?

Glenn

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Re: [Marxism] Stephen F. Cohen is not the man he used to be | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 12:55 AM, Louis Proyect  wrote:

Maybe you'd have a better track record if you spent less time trawling
> Global Research and RT.com as I suspect you do.
>

Lou, do I really have to tell you who fills my inbox with citations of
those domains? Gmail makes it really easy to figure out.

I'll give you two hints: it isn't Marv, and it seems obsessive to the point
of unhealthiness.

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Re: [Marxism] Stephen F. Cohen is not the man he used to be | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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On 2014-05-02, at 5:55 PM, Louis Proyect wrote:

> On 5/2/14 5:42 PM, Marv Gandall wrote:
>> Deschytsia added that Ukraine supports an intensive dialogue with NATO and 
>> is discussing different forms and ways of cooperation.
> 
> So when are the Right Sector pogroms against the Jews happening in Ukraine 
> that you were warning about, Marvin? It turned out that I was right and you 
> were wrong. Maybe you'd have a better track record if you spent less time 
> trawling Global Research and RT.com as I suspect you do.

Pretty lame rejoinder. Quelle surprise. I've never warned about "Right Sector 
pogroms against the Jews happening in Ukraine"; it's you who have been 
obsessing about anti-semitism and Russian fascism, as though these have been 
central facets of the crisis.

As for Global Research and RT.com, I'm familiar with them only from your 
repeated references to these sites. 

As for the subject at hand, NATO and Ukraine, you're clearly a more trusting 
soul than I am. 

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Re: [Marxism] [Pen-l] Stephen F. Cohen is not the man he used to be | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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On 5/2/14 6:10 PM, Michael Smith wrote:

Oh well, that settles*that*! Kieva locuta, causa finita.


Do you actually have an analysis of why NATO needs to close in on 
Russia? During the Cold War, the motive was to open up Russia for 
foreign investment. Right now Russia is the 3rd largest recipient in the 
world after the USA and China. Exxon and BP just met with their Russian 
partners to tell them that nothing has changed. Moscow is filled with 
Gucci shops and Mercedes-Benz dealerships while the Marxist left gets 
harassed by the cops as if Michael Bloomberg was mayor. Where does all 
this identification with Putin come from? I can understand why Michael 
would have become a Maoist when he was young. If you are going to show 
your parents and American society that you are a rebel, there's no 
better stance to take than raising the Red Book even if by that point 
Mao was working on a deal to meet with Nixon and Kissinger.



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Re: [Marxism] [Pen-l] Stephen F. Cohen is not the man he used to be | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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On May 2, 2014, at 3:50 PM, Louis Proyect  wrote:
>  
>   The official noted that in accordance with the Ukrainian legislation 
> Ukraine is a non-aligned state. 

Oh well, that settles *that*! Kieva locuta, causa finita. 

 
Michael Smith
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Re: [Marxism] Stephen F. Cohen is not the man he used to be | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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On 5/2/14 5:42 PM, Marv Gandall wrote:

Deschytsia added that Ukraine supports an intensive dialogue with NATO and is 
discussing different forms and ways of cooperation.


So when are the Right Sector pogroms against the Jews happening in 
Ukraine that you were warning about, Marvin? It turned out that I was 
right and you were wrong. Maybe you'd have a better track record if you 
spent less time trawling Global Research and RT.com as I suspect you do.



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Re: [Marxism] Stephen F. Cohen is not the man he used to be | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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On 2014-05-02, at 3:50 PM, Louis Proyect wrote:

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> Ever since the crisis in the Ukraine broke out, Stephen F. Cohen has been 
> campaigning on behalf of a Kremlin that he warns is being unfairly demonized 
> by the West as part of an effort to start a new Cold War. Some of his 
> arguments can only be described as ludicrous. For example: “That the Ukraine 
> crisis was instigated by the West’s attempt, last November, to smuggle the 
> former Soviet republic into NATO.” In fact, despite the millions of words to 
> this effect from the pro-Putin left, this is what the new foreign minister 
> stated on March 29th:
> 
>   Acting Foreign Affairs Minister of Ukraine Andriy Deschytsia has once 
> again stated that the new Ukrainian government is not intending to lead 
> Ukraine to NATO.
> 
>   “We are considering all options regarding the strengthening of our 
> security and collective security. But we must stick to the existing 
> legislation of Ukraine,” he said at a press conference in Kyiv on Saturday.
> 
>   The official noted that in accordance with the Ukrainian legislation 
> Ukraine is a non-aligned state.

You characteristically neglected to add:

"But the issue whether to change this legislation depends on the Ukrainian 
parliament. The program of the new Ukrainian government does not contain the 
intention of becoming a member of NATO," he said.

Deschytsia added that Ukraine supports an intensive dialogue with NATO and is 
discussing different forms and ways of cooperation.

http://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/198372.html

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[Marxism] Is Bitcoin the Future of Money? | The Nation

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By Doug Henwood

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[Marxism] The Lamentable Demise of the Brecht Forum » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names

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[Marxism] A history of land ownership

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London Review of Books Vol. 36 No. 9 · 8 May 2014

That Disturbing Devil
Ferdinand Mount

Owning the Earth: The Transforming History of Land Ownership by 
Andro Linklater

Bloomsbury, 482 pp, £20.00, January, ISBN 978 1 4088 1574 8

In this case, the elephant is the room. There can be few enormous 
subjects more often dodged than the space we occupy on the surface of 
the earth. Land ownership – its many modes, its distribution, its 
history – is the great ignored in politics today, gingerly taken up if 
at all and quickly put down again in favour of more fashionable topics: 
capitalism, urbanisation, democracy, industrialisation, the role of the 
state. The question ‘Who owns the land?’ has a musty aroma to it.


Andro Linklater tells us at the end of his ambitious odyssey that he was 
aware that his focus on land ownership ‘might seem old-fashioned to the 
point of eccentricity’. Certainly that is the reputation which has stuck 
to his best-known predecessor, Henry George. In his 1879 bestseller, 
Progress and Poverty, George set out the same thumping principle which 
inspires Linklater: ‘The ownership of land is the great fundamental fact 
which ultimately determines the social, the political and consequently 
the intellectual and moral condition of a people.’


In his day, George had quite a following. Progress and Poverty sold more 
than three million copies and was translated into a dozen languages. 
George ran for mayor of New York and finished ahead of Teddy Roosevelt, 
though behind the Tammany Hall candidate. Henry George Foundations still 
exist in London, Melbourne and his native Philadelphia. Liberal 
Democrats in Britain continue to hanker after George’s single land tax 
to replace all other taxes, as do some American conservatives. All the 
same, George and Georgism remain outliers on the landscape of politics.


Yet George’s marginality gave him an unrivalled view of the emerging 
world. The second of ten children of a struggling publisher of religious 
texts, he left school at 14 and sailed before the mast to Melbourne and 
Calcutta, turned to typesetting when he came home, then lit out for the 
gold mines of British Columbia, before drifting into journalism and 
finishing up as managing editor of the San Francisco Times. In roaming 
the frontiers, he saw how land that was valueless yesterday could become 
worth many dollars an acre after it was cleared, surveyed, settled and, 
above all, owned.


Andro Linklater did not live quite the hand-to-mouth life of Henry 
George, but he too was an outlier. Raised in the Orkneys, the younger 
son of Eric Linklater, he had something of his father’s unpigeonholeable 
talent as a writer and the same indifference to the opinion of others. 
He lived with the headhunters of Sarawak, completed Eric’s history of 
the Black Watch, taught in a tough London school, lived on an almost 
uninhabited Hebridean island for five years, never to be tied down to a 
career, nor a search for recognition, let alone celebrity, though 
capable of charming the birds off the trees if there had been any trees 
in the desolate regions he preferred. It is typical of his ornery nature 
that he should have died of a heart attack the week before Owning the 
Earth was first published in New York, because he was on another 
Hebridean island and there was a fatal delay before he could get medical 
treatment.


Unlike George, Linklater sets out to provide a historical framework for 
his argument. He begins with the rude irruption of European adventurers 
into the New World. In the royal charter that Queen Elizabeth conferred 
on Sir Humphrey Gilbert in 1583, she granted him full power over the 
soil of ‘those large and ample countreys [that] extended Northward from 
the cape of Florida … to dispose thereof, of every part thereof in fee 
simple or otherwise, according to the order of the laws of England’. 
That raffish, bisexual gallant, Raleigh’s half-brother, was to control 
the freehold of the Eastern Seaboard all the way up to Newfoundland, 
anywhere which was not already occupied by ‘any Christian prince or 
people’ (no look-in for Native Americans, of course).


This arrogation was all the more sweeping because back in England the 
pattern of land ownership was still very varied. John Darby’s huge 
estate map of Smallburgh, Norfolk, dated a year before Gilbert set sail 
and now in the British Library, shows a rich mixture of strip-fields, 
commons and orchards, as well as the large number of fields already 
enclosed by the landowner and dotted with sheep and cattle. But 
Gilbertia – as the new country might perhaps have been named if Sir 
Humphrey’s frigate, the Squirrel, had not gone down in a storm on the 
return journey – was to be freehold from the start, 

[Marxism] Russia moves against critical media outlets

[Louis Proyect]

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In March, the editor-in-chief of Lenta.ru, a privately owned independent 
news website, was fired after the government issued the station with a 
"warning" because she'd interviewed a controversial Ukrainian political 
figure and ultra-nationalist. The editor was then replaced with a 
Kremlin ally.


TV Rain, Russia's only independent television station, was openly 
criticized by Putin's office for publishing a controversial poll about 
World War II. Some cable operators then dropped the channel and TV Rain 
abruptly lost its lease; it's in the process of being evicted from its 
headquarters.


In February, the general director of Echo of Moscow, the only 
independent radio station in all of Russia, was replaced by Yekaterina 
Pavlova, the former head of the Kremlin-operated Voice of Russia. 
Pavlova's husband, Alexei Pavlov, is the Deputy Chief of the 
Presidential Press and Information Office. The station had also had its 
website blocked inside Russia; it was only unblocked when Echo of Moscow 
agreed to ban opposition leaders like Boris Nemtsov and Alexey Navalny 
from blogging. Both men have also had their personal blogs blocked by 
government censors.


And so, in less than three months, the Kremlin effectively destroyed or 
hijacked much of Russia's last remaining independent media. Meanwhile, 
the Kremlin has reorganized some key Russian state-owned outlets to 
exert greater control over messaging, meaning Russian-language 
programming (TV, radio, internet, and print) is now dominated by 
Kremlin-controlled outlets.


full: 
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[Marxism] East Supplants West (On Film, At Least) » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names

[Louis Proyect]

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New York Indian Film Festival 2014
East Supplants West (On Film, At Least)
by LOUIS PROYECT

In 1998 Andre Gunder Frank’s highly controversial “ReOrient” appeared. 
It argued that “the East” (mainly China and India) would eventually 
supplant “the West” as hegemonic powers, thus reestablishing the 
relationships that existed before 1492 when all of Columbus’s fleet 
could be put on the deck of the flagship of Zheng He’s fleet that made 
multiple voyages to the east coast of Africa in the early 15th century.


I have my doubts about Frank’s overall thesis but on one level it is 
surely borne out by Indian cinema that now makes most American films 
look crude and amateurish by comparison. To see Indian cinema at its 
best, I urge New Yorkers to make it to the New York Indian Film Festival 
that runs from May 5th to the 10th. It can only be described as an 
embarrassment of riches.


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http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/05/02/east-supplants-west-on-film-at-least/



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[Marxism] Afghanistan-A Nightmare of Failure

[Ron Jacobs]

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http://stillhomeron.blogspot.com/2014/05/afghanistana-nightmare-of-failure.html

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[Marxism] Ireland: Adams' arrest hypocritical, politically motivated

[Stuart Munckton]

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In a move denounced by Irish republicans as hypocritical and politically
motived, Sinn Fein president and member of the Irish Dail (parliament)
Gerry Adams was taken into custody by the Police Service of Northern
Ireland (PSNI) on April 30.

...

The Irish Republican News
said
on
May 1 that a recent poll found Sinn Fein was on the brink of becoming the
largest party in both parts of Ireland in the elections. The *Belfast
Telegraph* reported on April 21 that a poll
found
Adams
was the most popular political leader in Ireland's south, with an approval
rating of 48%.

https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/56360

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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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[Marxism] United States: Chicago Socialist Movement to challenge big-business councillor

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United States: Chicago Socialist Movement to challenge big-business
councillor http://links.org.au/node/3831









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Re: [Marxism] Readers of Marx and Engels Decry Publisher��s Assertion of Copyright - Research - The Chronicle of Higher Education

[Einde O'Callaghan]

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We're checking the original language of articles we've removed amd all that 
were in English will go up again without the MECW notes.

Einde O'Callaghan 

Sent from my Sony Xperia™ smartphone

 Lüko Willms wrote 

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>on Donnerstag, 1. Mai 2014 at 15:44, Mark Lause wrote:
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>> but new translations, particularly of unpublished work or
>> other editions would not be subject to the L&E copyrights.
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>  Yes, but this does not depend on the choice of original edition you chose to 
> translate from. Methinks... 
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>  BTW, the MEGA does certainly not only publish in German, since Marx and 
> Engels wrote also in other languages, especially in English. All the news 
> articles for the "New York Tribune" which Marx wrote for his income, were 
> written in English. 
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>Cheers, 
>Lüko Willms
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