Re: [Marxism] Greek Leader Who Said 'Jews Don't Pay Taxes' Named Defense Minister
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * On 1/28/15 4:29 AM, Jim via Marxism wrote: KKE is surely another anti-austerity party, and it has enough seats to form a government coalition with Syriza, even if its ageing Stalinism has made it into yet another quasi-social democratic party. You'd think that would make it a good fit with the left social democratic Syriza. I thought most of us would be aware at this point that the KKE despises Syriza and regards it as pro-austerity. Unlike any CP in the world, it is a throwback to 3rd period Stalinism and as such evokes the social fascism outlook of the pre-Popular Front period. This is why Syriza ended up in bloc with ANEL more than anything else. I think that there's a somewhat idealized view of wielding power here. There's a tendency to idealize the Bolsheviks who never would have descended to such opportunist maneuvers. If you read E.H. Carr, however, you'll discover that they didn't always live up to their lofty ideals. For example, Mustafa Kemal was very amenable to friendly relations to the infant Soviet republic, so much so that the Kremlin looked the other way when he killed the leaders of the Turkish CP. And then there's Fidel. The Cuban revolutionaries were so desperate for friendly relations internationally that they didn't break with Franco's Spain after taking power. When the PRI in Mexico that had taken Cuba's side in its dealings with the OAS massacred students in 1968, the Cuban press said zero. If you are looking for purity, you'd better stick with the newspapers of self-declared vanguard parties that will never be forced to make choices that contradict their principles. _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Greek Leader Who Said 'Jews Don't Pay Taxes' Named Defense Minister
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * While it is true that KKE is running a second Third Period and does sees SYRIZA as almost socialfasiscts, it is not true that SYRIZA was forced by that fact to a coalition with the ultraright of Kamenos. The coalition had obviously been decided before the ballot. SYRIZA had always the ease to form a left government by his own and ask for support in the parliament. The river and the independent Greeks having declared a definite no to new elections threre was no fear. Even in case of refusal by these two bourgeois parties, the hot potato would be left in KKE's hands, to decide by their vote whether a left government could be formed according to the mandate or whether new elections were to be proclaimed, and of course subsequently pay for their decision. For SYRIZA this would be a win win game: either to have the government by his own and now or to take it after the new elections less than month later! JA On 28/01/2015 03:28 μμ, Louis Proyect via Marxism wrote: On 1/28/15 4:29 AM, Jim via Marxism wrote: KKE is surely another anti-austerity party, and it has enough seats to form a government coalition with Syriza, even if its ageing Stalinism has made it into yet another quasi-social democratic party. You'd think that would make it a good fit with the left social democratic Syriza. I thought most of us would be aware at this point that the KKE despises Syriza and regards it as pro-austerity. Unlike any CP in the world, it is a throwback to 3rd period Stalinism and as such evokes the social fascism outlook of the pre-Popular Front period. This is why Syriza ended up in bloc with ANEL more than anything else. _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Greek Leader Who Said 'Jews Don't Pay Taxes' Named Defense Minister
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * On 1/28/15 9:04 AM, ioannis aposperites via Marxism wrote: For SYRIZA this would be a win win game: either to have the government by his own and now or to take it after the new elections less than month later! Nobody on the left views the bloc with ANEL in a positive light. However, the acid test will be over Syriza's record as a governing party. Will it be another PASOK? Some already disposed to this analysis will view the ANEL bloc as early confirmation. Meanwhile Michael Karadjis just posted an article that weighs much heavier in my view against that analysis. Halting the privatization of the Piraeus port should matter a lot more than granting ANEL a ministry post. _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Greek Leader Who Said 'Jews Don't Pay Taxes' Named Defense Minister
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * I've been thinking the same about 'purity' and those who are attacking Syriza for not being pure enough. Many seem to be the same who defend (rightly more than not) Venezuela, Cuba, former USSR, and any of their questionable dealings. But when it is Syriza anything but pure is out of the question. And even more annoying to hear Marxists and Leninist act like both Marx and Lenin didn't explicitly argue in favor of taking part in bourgeois government and against the idea that you should either wait to do anything in the government until class consciousness is at a level open to socialism or forcing it from above. To me it often sounds like, Socialism must come from below! And Syriza won't give it to us from above, so they are bad! It is baffling. Tristan _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Fwd: bellingcat - Is this the Launch Site of the Missile that Shot Down Flight MH17? A Look at the Claims and Evidence
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Re: [Marxism] Greek Elections: SYRIZA Wins … and Forms an Alliance with Reactionary Racists!
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Greek games and scenarios — Crooked Timber
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Well Panos Kamenos is the new head of the cabinet of National Defense. A right wing clown. A short *ridiculum* vitae : Born in 1965 son of Elias BigBigMoney Kamenos he started his political career at New Democracy till 2011 when he refused support to Papademos government, left Samaras and founded the Independend greeks party. Author of a book entitled terrorism, theory and praxis where he had proven that the 17November organization was nothing but a handful of PASOK ministers! His name has been involved, among many other things, into a case of illegal enrichment with fancy luxury yachts and offshore companies and even into a case of a tycoon's kidnapping. A hard core nationalist, with his own political vision: a kind of.. permanent Bonapartistic governance!!! (don't ask me more about) and an homophobic. He will have no problem to deal with and be personally accepted by the army officers, including the many golden dawnites among them. JA On 28/01/2015 01:15 πμ, Thomas wrote: This is welcome news. Who has been selected as the cabinet member in charge of the Greek military, and what are his or her politics? _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Greek games and scenarios — Crooked Timber
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Thomas wrote: Allende’s political party, living in some silly fantasy world, didn’t wish to offend the generals in command and made no effort to organize support inside the Army. Neither did most of the self-styled revolutionaries in the three years they had to organize inside the Army before their end came. Well this is bullshit as well. Anyone who has read the history knows the MIR organized inside the ranks of the military. Of course it was too little, too late, and the sympathetic junior officers were quickly weeded out. Greg _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Greek Leader Who Said 'Jews Don't Pay Taxes' Named Defense Minister
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * [reply inline / bottom-posted] on Tue, 27 Jan 2015 23:36:52 -0500, Sheldon Ranz via Marxism wrote: On the one hand, Nixon and Stalin were two anti-Semites who supplied Israel with arms, so need to worry on that front (unless you're Palestinian). On the other hand, the only other anti-austerity party that got seats was the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn. Talk about being between a rock and a hard place - or to please any Greeks out there, between Scylla and Charybdis. Holy Odysseus, Batman - does Tzipris have tsores! This is not correct: KKE is surely another anti-austerity party, and it has enough seats to form a government coalition with Syriza, even if its ageing Stalinism has made it into yet another quasi-social democratic party. You'd think that would make it a good fit with the left social democratic Syriza. More to the point for Marxists, however, is when you decide not to form a government, even when you can, or even participate as a minority in government. For revolutionaries it would be parliamentarist suicide to do so if there is no revolutionary situation and the overwhelming majority of the population is not with you. (And they aren't with Syriza yet.) -- Jim Moody (j...@redunity.org) on 28/01/2015 _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Palestine ambassador praises Venezuelan support
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Venezuelan assistance to Palestine has played an important role in helping Palestine achieve domestic development goals, said Palestine's ambassador to venezuela, Linda Sabeh Ali. https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/58118 -- “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 _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] DEA statement on Syriza-ANEL deal
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Rough translation of statement by DEA (the component of Syriza aligned with the US ISO) on Syriza's coalition with the right-wing ANEL: Communication from the Internationalist Workers' Left (CMP) for the election result and the political developments CMP | 27/1/2015 http://rproject.gr/article/anakoinosi-tis-diethnistikis-ergatikis-aristeras-dea-gia-eklogiko-apotelesma-kai-tis For members and supporters of SYRIZA, wide left, for activists of social movements, new circumstances arise. 1 . The political overthrow the coalition Samaras and Venizelos in the elections of January 25 is a historic political victory of the forces of social resistance. The forces of the working class and the popular masses in Greece fought hard by the outbreak of the crisis and the beginning of policy memoranda of agreements, the ruling class with the troika and lenders have imposed a brutal austerity policy. It is the result of general strikes, demonstrations, the movement of the squares, the decisive sectoral and local games that continued despite the decline of the great wave of resistance to hot two years 2010-12. During this period the world struggling from below formed a framework demands, hopes and expectations remains active. The robustness of this framework, the requirement for a policy antilitotitas interprets the strength of the world, despite the blows of the mainstream media, insisted on pinning his hopes on the Left. This is the basis of the political victory of SYRIZA, which became massive, and the Communist Party of strength. 2. The massive shift of the world left, manifested to the polls on January 25, gives the SYRIZA more political momentum than reveal the 149 seats in parliament, the minimum distance of the 151 seats in the parliamentary autonomy. ND Samaras, despite the scandalous support from local and international loyalist forces sank to 27.8%, writing a record low of influence. Mainly, however, came from the electoral battle deeply wounded politically and strategically: The differences between the far-right populism (with its emphasis on racism and nationalism) and social radicalism of the traditional center-right will bloom again, inevitably, in the party of Southwest, unknown for now the answer to the question of the single future of the conservative regime's area of the Right. 3. The decision of the leadership of SYRIZA coalition with ANEL Panos Kamenou, mistakenly underestimate this dynamic. There was a mandatory response to the data created by the elections, as was the way of reclaiming vote tolerance by the House, based on the commitments of Thes / niki horizon and the program of the founding conference of SYRIZA. The Conference decision of SYRIZA, which confirmed the founding declaration, reiterating rejection Search political alliances with the center-left, we believe that force (much more!) On the center-right. The red lines of ANEL contradict the mood of a large part of its members and the party SYRIZA, while acting as a transfer belt of system pressure on the government of the Left. Under these conditions, the coalition agreement with ANEL jeopardizes the political project for a government of the Left with a transition policy and strategy. 4. For members and supporters of SYRIZA, wide left, for activists of social movements, new circumstances arise. The implementation of the commitments of Thes / niki will be a first station: reset the minimum wage to pre-crisis levels, the return of 13 pension for low-income pensioners, the revalidation of the CPA, the reintroduction of untaxed income up 12,000 euro, the abolition of ENFIA and excise duty on heating oil, will be the first strong political message stop the downhill austerity. With the mass movement at the forefront, we should open the way for the overall overthrow of austerity. To get them all back! In this course the vindication of ERT strikers, cleaners of the Ministry. Finance, redundant, the assessed and available, it is equally important messages, both to our world and to their opposite. 5. In these new circumstances, the role of the party SYRIZA is irreplaceable. The function-states of organizations, collegiality, the party democracy are not an optional extra, but a condition for the final victory of SYRIZA, the final victory of the entire Left and our world. 01/27/2015 _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] DEA statement on Syriza-ANEL deal
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * better translation http://socialistworker.org/2015/01/28/the-tasks-for-the-left-in-greece On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 10:02 AM, Michael Karadjis via Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu wrote: POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Rough translation of statement by DEA (the component of Syriza aligned with the US ISO) on Syriza's coalition with the right-wing ANEL: Communication from the Internationalist Workers' Left (CMP) for the election result and the political developments CMP | 27/1/2015 http://rproject.gr/article/anakoinosi-tis-diethnistikis- ergatikis-aristeras-dea-gia-eklogiko-apotelesma-kai-tis For members and supporters of SYRIZA, wide left, for activists of social movements, new circumstances arise. 1 . The political overthrow the coalition Samaras and Venizelos in the elections of January 25 is a historic political victory of the forces of social resistance. The forces of the working class and the popular masses in Greece fought hard by the outbreak of the crisis and the beginning of policy memoranda of agreements, the ruling class with the troika and lenders have imposed a brutal austerity policy. It is the result of general strikes, demonstrations, the movement of the squares, the decisive sectoral and local games that continued despite the decline of the great wave of resistance to hot two years 2010-12. During this period the world struggling from below formed a framework demands, hopes and expectations remains active. The robustness of this framework, the requirement for a policy antilitotitas interprets the strength of the world, despite the blows of the mainstream media, insisted on pinning his hopes on the Left. This is the basis of the political victory of SYRIZA, which became massive, and the Communist Party of strength. 2. The massive shift of the world left, manifested to the polls on January 25, gives the SYRIZA more political momentum than reveal the 149 seats in parliament, the minimum distance of the 151 seats in the parliamentary autonomy. ND Samaras, despite the scandalous support from local and international loyalist forces sank to 27.8%, writing a record low of influence. Mainly, however, came from the electoral battle deeply wounded politically and strategically: The differences between the far-right populism (with its emphasis on racism and nationalism) and social radicalism of the traditional center-right will bloom again, inevitably, in the party of Southwest, unknown for now the answer to the question of the single future of the conservative regime's area of the Right. 3. The decision of the leadership of SYRIZA coalition with ANEL Panos Kamenou, mistakenly underestimate this dynamic. There was a mandatory response to the data created by the elections, as was the way of reclaiming vote tolerance by the House, based on the commitments of Thes / niki horizon and the program of the founding conference of SYRIZA. The Conference decision of SYRIZA, which confirmed the founding declaration, reiterating rejection Search political alliances with the center-left, we believe that force (much more!) On the center-right. The red lines of ANEL contradict the mood of a large part of its members and the party SYRIZA, while acting as a transfer belt of system pressure on the government of the Left. Under these conditions, the coalition agreement with ANEL jeopardizes the political project for a government of the Left with a transition policy and strategy. 4. For members and supporters of SYRIZA, wide left, for activists of social movements, new circumstances arise. The implementation of the commitments of Thes / niki will be a first station: reset the minimum wage to pre-crisis levels, the return of 13 pension for low-income pensioners, the revalidation of the CPA, the reintroduction of untaxed income up 12,000 euro, the abolition of ENFIA and excise duty on heating oil, will be the first strong political message stop the downhill austerity. With the mass movement at the forefront, we should open the way for the overall overthrow of austerity. To get them all back! In this course the vindication of ERT strikers, cleaners of the Ministry. Finance, redundant, the assessed and available, it is equally important messages, both to our world and to their opposite. 5. In these new circumstances, the role of the party SYRIZA is
[Marxism] on the admissibility of bourgeois politicians in a united front
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * “Some sectarians have attempted to reduce the difference between the popular front and the workers’ united front to the question of participation of bourgeois or petty-bourgeois politicians or parties in coalitions. This abstract, schematic approach is actually quite similar to that of popular front supporters. The latter see the alliance with liberal-bourgeois parties as a necessary condition for the alliance with the middle classes. The sectarians see the participation of bourgeois politicians in the alliance as the inevitable prelude to class betrayal. “What both overlook is the really decisive issue, namely, the free development of anti-capitalist mass action. If the participation of bourgeois politicians or parties results in – or is used as an excuse for – this mass action being reduced or prevented, then what we have is a popular front, that is, the surrender of the class political independence of the proletariat. The workers’ parties then become the prisoner of the bourgeoisie. But if the participation of bourgeois politicians or groups in the alliance does not put a brake on the developing offensive against the bourgeois state, then these bourgeois politicians are objectively the prisoners of the working class.” Ernest Mandel, “Trotsky as Alternative,” page 124. Partly visible at: https://books.google.com/books?id=MLMAwCErPL0Cpg=PA188lpg=PA188dq=ernest+mandel+%22trotsky+as+alternative%22source=blots=TKj2RpV1Vlsig=3mfUt9xMmCQrQlXD-qQj2jw1LJQhl=ensa=Xei=YhTJVK_yA8SWyASHooDwBwved=0CDwQ6AEwBA#v=onepageq=ernest%20mandel%20%22trotsky%20as%20alternative%22f=false _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Greece’s new government halts sale of Piraeus port
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Also, people can condemn SYRIZA all they want, it doesn;t deal with the actual situation. SYRIZA didn't win a majority. THey wanted to, they very nearly did, and they didn't. The KKE won't deal with them. The KKE's sectarianismk in this regard is to blame. The strangest is seeing some eople say this deal proves the KKE was right to not deal with SYRIZA, missing the blindingly obvious fact that it is the KKE that have left SYRIZA with little choice. Without the KKE, the only other force opposied to the austerity is the Independent Greeks. It owuld be far better oif SYRIZA won a majoroity. It would be far better if there was a left government headed by SYRIZA with the KKE as its partner. Neither were possible. SYRIZA ran on the basis of forming an anti-austerity government with which to confront the forces destroying Greece. It is unlikely that many of the millions who voted for SYRIZA explicitely on this basis, because SYRIZA said it was willing to form fsuch a basis and theey believed it owuld be possible if they gave SYRIZA a vote, it is unlikely many of those millions who voted SYRIZA for the first time ever would have been happy if SYRIZA turned around and said well we nearly got there, we fell short by two seats to have an outright majority, oh well, we can't form government and then forced another election. It is unlikely people would understand or forgive and be prepared to give SYRIZA its vote again, leaving government in the hands of the pro-austerity forces. The far left is too used to being on the sidelines analysing, critcising and condemning. Yes, this situation is far from the ideal one, but that is how, after the campaign to win government, after that phase of the truggle played out, the cards have fallen. We don't have to pretend it is ideal to understand our tasks -- solidarity with the people of Greece in their struggle to halt and reverse the brutal class war against them -- have not changed. Stuart _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Greece’s new government halts sale of Piraeus port
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * In the photo (link below) the new greek minister of foreign affairs Nikos Kotzias, a former Stalinist, on the left in front of the Pireaus University where he teaches, is receiving Dugin: selective affinities http://www.4pt.su/en/node/812 JA _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] S.F. public defender detained outside court, office outraged
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * shocking? more like a commonplace. http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/S-F-public-defender-detained-outside-court-6046088.php A San Francisco deputy public defender was taken into custody Tuesday afternoon at the Hall of Justice after she asked why city police officers were questioning her client outside a courtroom, the public defender’s office said Wednesday. Attorney Jami Tillotson was handcuffed to a bar in a Southern Police Station holding area located at the Hall of Justice at 850 Bryant St. for an hour following what public defender’s office spokeswoman Tamara Barak Aparton called “blatant intimidation” by several police officers. Police officials did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Tillotson’s client had just made an appearance in Department 17 on the second floor with a co-defendant for a misdemeanor shoplifting charge when he left the courtroom and began getting questioned by a plainclothes police officer, Aparton said. Tillotson had been conducting an interview with another client in the courtroom’s holding tank when she was alerted of the situation and rushed out into the hallway. She found her client and his co-defendant “surrounded by police officers,” being asked identifying questions about their height and weight, Aparton said. “She told the interrogating officer that she was the attorney and he said, 'I just need two minutes with him,’” Aparton said. “When she asked why, he just said it was a police investigation. Then he started basically bullying her, telling her she’s interfering. “She wasn’t interfering,” Aparton said. “She was just trying to protect her client’s constitutional right to counsel.” When the officers started taking photos of her client, Tillotson told them that wasn’t necessary, Aparton said, and the officer told her he would arrest her if she continued to interfere. The plainclothes officer then asked a uniformed officer to cuff her, and she was taken to a Southern Station holding cell. Tillotson was released about an hour later, Aparton said. The public defender’s office was planning to release surveillance footage of the encounter later Wednesday. “It’s definitely shocking,” Aparton said. _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Greece’s new government halts sale of Piraeus port
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * On 1/28/15 4:25 PM, ioannis aposperites via Marxism wrote: In the photo (link below) the new greek minister of foreign affairs Nikos Kotzias, a former Stalinist, on the left in front of the Pireaus University where he teaches, is receiving Dugin: selective affinities http://www.4pt.su/en/node/812 I don't think there's anybody on Marxmail who detests people like Dugin more than me. That being said, I am not ready to condemn Syriza because of this, no more so than I would condemn Venezuela or Cuba for its support for Gaddafi and al-Assad. Whenever I run into contradictions such as these, I like to remind myself what Lenin wrote about the Easter Rebellion: On May 9, 1916, there appeared, in Berner Tagwacht, the organ of the Zimmerwald group, including some of the Leftists, an article on the Irish rebellion entitled Their Song is Over and signed with the initials K.R. [Karl Radek]. It described the Irish rebellion as being nothing more nor less than a putsch, for, as the author argued, the Irish question was an agrarian one, the peasants had been pacified by reforms, and the nationalist movement remained only a purely urban, petty-bourgeois movement, which, notwithstanding the sensation it caused, had not much social backing... To imagine that social revolution is conceivable without revolts by small nations in the colonies and in Europe, without revolutionary outbursts by a section of the petty bourgeoisie WITHOUT ALL ITS PREJUDICES [italics in original], without a movement of the politically non-conscious proletarian and semi-proletarian masses against oppression by the landowners, the church, and the monarchy, against national oppression, etc.--to imagine all this is to REPUDIATE SOCIAL REVOLUTION. So one army lines up in one place and says, We are for socialism, and another, somewhere else and says, We are for imperialism, and that will be a social revolution! Only those who hold such a ridiculously pedantic view would vilify the Irish rebellion by calling it a putsch. _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] WHY THE MIDDLE CLASS RADICALZIATION IS IMPORTANT; AT WHAT STAGE IS IS AT; WHAT ARE ITS LIMITATIONS; AND HOW TO WIN BEST ELEMENTS TO TROTSKYISM!
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * https://defendtrotskyism.wordpress.com/2015/01/29/why-trotskyists-in-order-to-win-cadres-to-trotskyism-from-this-middle-class-radicalisation-has-to-fight-for-our-politics-but-any-major-move-in-our-direction-act-as-a-bridge-to-trotskyism-by-anthony/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] WHY THE MIDDLE CLASS RADICALZIATION IS IMPORTANT; AT WHATSTAGE IS IS AT; WHAT ARE ITS LIMITATIONS; AND HOW TO WIN BEST ELEMENTS TOTROTSKYISM!
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Wasn't Trotsky essentially a nationalist racist chauvinist afflicted with a leadership complex and, at best, a very distorted interpretation of Marx? -Original Message- From: Anthony Brain via Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Sent: 29/01/2015 00:38 To: jamie pitman marinercarpen...@gmail.com Subject: [Marxism] WHY THE MIDDLE CLASS RADICALZIATION IS IMPORTANT; AT WHATSTAGE IS IS AT; WHAT ARE ITS LIMITATIONS; AND HOW TO WIN BEST ELEMENTS TOTROTSKYISM! POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * https://defendtrotskyism.wordpress.com/2015/01/29/why-trotskyists-in-order-to-win-cadres-to-trotskyism-from-this-middle-class-radicalisation-has-to-fight-for-our-politics-but-any-major-move-in-our-direction-act-as-a-bridge-to-trotskyism-by-anthony/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/marinercarpentry%40gmail.com _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Kammenos: Doesn't like Jews, but Israel OK
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Maybe Kammenos, the right-wing Independent Greeks leader, doesn't like Jews who he thinks don't pay taxes, but that doesn't make him anti-Israel: If Greece kicks out the so-called troika of the EU, the IMF and the European Central Bank, it will easily cover any funding gap by getting advance payments for the oil and gas resources that may be found on Greek territory, Kammenos said. On hydrocarbons, we're looking forward to cooperation with the United States, Israel and Russia, he said. Greece suspects it may have sizable oil and gas deposits under its waters but has not completed any test drillings yet [Note: since around 2008 an unofficial Israel-Cyprus-Greece alliance exists in the east Mediterranean over natural gas reserves counterposed to Turkey's claims]. The Independent Greeks also expect to raise 250 billion euros by selling financial instruments known as Collateral Debt Obligations, backed by German World War Two reparations it hopes to be awarded once it sues Germany in international courts. Kammenos said Israeli banks would be interested. Full: http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/04/23/uk-greece-interview-idUKBRE83M1CS20120423 Clearly, Syriza and above all the ranks and component parts and the popular mobilisation have their work cut out for them. _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] A few other statements on the Syriza-ANEL deal
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * I don't necessarily agree (or disagree) with what's in these statements, just food for thought about a difficult issue: Syrizas victory ours to celebrate ours to defend http://www.counterfire.org/articles/analysis/17650-syriza-s-victory-ours-to-celebrate-ours-to-defend SYRIZA Independent Greeks Strange bedfellows http://www.analyzegreece.gr/topics/elections-250102015/item/85-theodora-oikonomides-strange-bedfellows On the deal between Syriza and ANEL http://rs21.org.uk/2015/01/26/on-the-deal-between-syriza-and-anel/ and a harsh one, but raising issues not exactly unimportant, such as the parallel between Defense Ministers Kammenos and Pinochet ... Στη συνέχεια, περιστρέφουμε δεξιά http://thewolfatthedoor.blogspot.com.au/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] A few other statements on the Syriza-ANEL deal
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * On 1/28/15 10:09 AM, Michael Karadjis via Marxism wrote: and a harsh one, but raising issues not exactly unimportant, such as the parallel between Defense Ministers Kammenos and Pinochet ... Στη συνέχεια, περιστρέφουμε δεξιά http://thewolfatthedoor.blogspot.com.au/ This is David Schanoes's blog. Schanoes was a Marxmail subscriber for a decade or so. I can't remember whether I removed him or he removed himself. He is a self-styled left-Communist with a tendency so pronounced to expose others as reformist traitors that he could not even sustain a working partnership with Loren Goldner, a long-time self-styled left-Communist himself. _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] reports/comments on new Syriza Greek government
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Greece will not default - PM Tsipras BBC, January 28 New Greek PM Alexis Tsipras says his country will not default on its debts. Addressing his first cabinet meeting since Sunday's victory, Mr Tsipras said he would negotiate with creditors over the €240bn (£179bn; $270bn) bailout. We won't get into a mutually destructive clash but we will not continue a policy of subjection, said the left-wing Syriza party leader. Greek bank stocks lost more than a quarter of their value on Wednesday as prices fell for a third day. Piraeus Bank lost nearly 29%, Alpha Bank 26%, and National Bank and Eurobank around 25%, AFP reported. Germany's vice-chancellor said it was unfair of Greece to expect other states to pick up its bills. . . . http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-31016261 New Greek PM Alexis Tsipras forms cabinet BBC, Jan 27 . . . Key Dates... 12 February: EU leaders' summit in Brussels, which newly-elected Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras is due to attend 16 February: Another Eurogroup meeting due to discuss state of play in Greece 28 February: Current programme of loans to Greece under the European Financial Stability Facility ends. There is still €1.8bn of loans that could be disbursed to Greece if it meets the conditions imposed by the troika First quarter of 2015: Economists estimate that Greece needs to raise about €4.3bn to help pay its way, with Athens possibly having to ask the IMF and eurozone countries 19 March: Another EU leaders' summit http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-31005693 Greek cabinet set for first meeting since poll upset Guy Jackson and John Hadoulis, AFP Business Insider January 28, 2015 Athens (AFP) - Greece's new radical left-led government prepared to meet Wednesday for the first time to hammer out a strategy for renegotiating the country's giant bailout, after storming to power on a promise to reject years of harsh austerity policies. The coalition cabinet, made up of poll winners Syriza and the nationalist Independent Greeks (ANEL), was set to convene at 10:30 am (0830 GMT), three days after Sunday's electoral upset that saw the architects of Greece's sweeping budget cutbacks thrown out of office. In a sign that the new government will take a hard line in haggling over the 240-billion-euro ($269 billion) EU-IMF package with international creditors, 40-year-old Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Tuesday named leftwing economist Yanis Varoufakis as finance minister. A polyglot academic, 53-year-old Varoufakis, is a vocal critic of the conditions imposed by creditors in return for the 2010 bailout and he argues the country's shattered economy will never recover until they are relaxed. Analysts have described Syriza's coalition with ANEL as unnatural and potentially short-lived, saying that the smaller party is unpredictable and that the two parties differ starkly on immigration policy. However, the allies -- who together have 162 seats in the 300-member parliament -- share a common opposition to the EU-IMF bailout. Among their first tasks will be addressing an end-of-February deadline set by the EU for Greece to carry out more reforms in return for a seven-billion-euro tranche of financial aid from the 28-member bloc and the International Monetary Fund. Tsipras, who has vowed to reverse many of the severe spending cuts and other measures that Greece's creditors insist on, must decide whether to prolong the deadline. - EU 'flexible' - Greece's European partners have been quick to pour cold water on the issue of debt forgiveness since Syriza's election win, with German Chancellor Angela Merkel's spokesman saying Monday that Greek membership of the eurozone means... sticking to its previous commitments. However the European Union's governing body indicated Wednesday that it was willing to show flexibility in working with the new Greek leaders to keep the debt-stricken nation in the eurozone. The European Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, France's Pierre Moscovici, said he ruled out any break between the European Commission and the new Greek administration, the French daily Le Parisien/Aujourd'hui en France reported Wednesday. The Commission and the European Union are willing to seek less intrusive, more flexible forms of cooperation with Athens, the paper quoted him as saying. What we all want is that Greece recovers, creating growth and jobs, that it reduces inequality, that it can deal with the problem of its debt and remains in the euro area, he said. . . . - Humanitarian catastrophe - Syriza claims the stringent conditions attached to the bailout -- including wage and pension cuts and widespread privatisations --have caused a
[Marxism] New Greek Finance Minister a libertarian Marxist and game theory expert
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * For ten years from1988 Varoufakis was an academic at theUniversity of Sydney in Australia. http://www.smh.com.au/national/greek-finance-minister-yanis-varoufakis-playing-a-highstakes-political-game-20150128-130e8d.html _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Greek Leader Who Said 'Jews Don't Pay Taxes' Named Defense Minister
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * On 1/28/15 11:01 AM, Jim via Marxism wrote: Russia, Cuba, China, etc. were doomed to fail on this basis: they turned into their opposite soon after their revolutions because revolution was not generalized, causing misery to their populations and actually holding back revolution within and elsewhere. I always am stunned to see events that elapsed over decades involving huge contradictory tendencies reduced to a paragraph although I suppose that this is better than what I have seen on Twitter. _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Greek Leader Who Said 'Jews Don't Pay Taxes' Named Defense Minister
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * [reply inline / bottom-posted] on Wed, 28 Jan 2015 08:28:46 -0500, Louis Proyect via Marxism wrote: I thought most of us would be aware at this point that the KKE despises Syriza and regards it as pro-austerity. Unlike any CP in the world, it is a throwback to 3rd period Stalinism and as such evokes the social fascism outlook of the pre-Popular Front period. This is why Syriza ended up in bloc with ANEL more than anything else. I think that there's a somewhat idealized view of wielding power here. There's a tendency to idealize the Bolsheviks who never would have descended to such opportunist maneuvers. If you read E.H. Carr, however, you'll discover that they didn't always live up to their lofty ideals. For example, Mustafa Kemal was very amenable to friendly relations to the infant Soviet republic, so much so that the Kremlin looked the other way when he killed the leaders of the Turkish CP. And then there's Fidel. The Cuban revolutionaries were so desperate for friendly relations internationally that they didn't break with Franco's Spain after taking power. When the PRI in Mexico that had taken Cuba's side in its dealings with the OAS massacred students in 1968, the Cuban press said zero. If you are looking for purity, you'd better stick with the newspapers of self-declared vanguard parties that will never be forced to make choices that contradict their principles. Of course KKE despises Syriza. But the point responded to was by a contributor who left out KKE when listing those 'parties' opposed to austerity. Dismiss it by all means as a likely suitor for Syriza, but it cannot be ignored on the anti-austerity front, however this all plays out in coming months. The 20th was a wasted century, so it's worse than pointless to idealize the Bolsheviks or any other set of Marxists from that time. One of the most foul ideas to have emerged via Stalin but espoused by those to his left who ought to know better is to imagine that you can have socialism in one country: that is, national socialism. Russia, Cuba, China, etc. were doomed to fail on this basis: they turned into their opposite soon after their revolutions because revolution was not generalized, causing misery to their populations and actually holding back revolution within and elsewhere. And when the party substitutes for the class as leader, then we're certainly up that famous creek without a paddle. -- Jim Moody (j...@redunity.org) on 28/01/2015 _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Fwd: Greek election results: increased uncertainty, excellent situation | ∫connessioni
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Another topic which needs to be commented on is, of course, the collaboration with the «Independent Greeks» for the formation of the government. Many people, in and outside Greece, see this as an obstacle and a burden for the implementation of a «purely leftist» program. Of course I too would find much preferable an absolute majority for SYRIZA. However, one has to work with what one has before them; people make history in conditions they don’t choose themselves. In this context, we also have to take into account the following fact. As I was saying in my previous note, we should not believe that two and a half million people voted for SYRIZA because they were won over by the ideal of anticapitalism or some other set of principles. For many of them, this vote was a line of flight. Nothing more, but also nothing less than that. This kind of attachment may sound opportunistic or confused, but, under certain conditions, this fragility may prove a source of force. In any case, even if SYRIZA had a parliamentary group of 160 by itself, this group would already be a mixed, not monolithic one; even before the election, Tsipras was criticized by purists within and outside his party for accepting as candidates people who had until recently been members of other parties, including «Independent Greeks» and PASOK, as these people did not share any common ideals or struggles with SYRIZA activists. Given the result, it now becomes clearer that there were two options: either accept these people as candidates of your own party before the election, or have to collaborate with them as MPs of a separate party as partners in a coalition afterwards. All things considered, tactically the first option is far better: when somebody has been elected with SYRIZA, in principle s/he owes loyalty to this party’s guidelines and has less margin of imposing conditions on it. full: http://www.connessioniprecarie.org/2015/01/27/greek-election-results-increased-uncertainty-excellent-situation/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Tsipras’s Debt Plan Sends Athens Stock Market Sliding
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Adding to the uncertainty was a report that Mr. Tsipras had basically frozen Greece’s privatization program, which had been a central demand of creditors in approving the country’s international bailouts. The troika had expected Greece to raise tens of billions of euros to pay its debts by privatizing state assets. NY Times, Jan. 28 2015 Tsipras’s Debt Plan Sends Athens Stock Market Sliding By LIZ ALDERMAN ATHENS — The Athens stock market continued its steep slide, and interest rates on Greek bonds spiked further on Wednesday, as investors anticipated difficult negotiations between the new Syriza-led government in Greece and the country’s creditors. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras told his new cabinet on Wednesday that he would move swiftly to negotiate debt relief, but would not engage in a confrontation with creditors that would jeopardize a more just solution for the country. “We are ready to negotiate with our own plan,” he told his ministers. “We will not seek a catastrophic solution, but neither will we consent to a policy of submission.” Later, the new finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, appeared to harden the tone, saying that Greece’s bailout deals were “a toxic mistake” and that the new government was determined to change the logic of how the crisis had been tackled. Mr. Varoufakis said the new government would seek a “Pan-European New Deal” that would be a bridge between previous agreements and a new arrangement with creditors, although he did not elaborate on what such a plan would look like. While many Greeks were hopeful that Mr. Tsipras would follow through with even a fraction of his populist promises, investors were more rattled. The Athens Stock Exchange, which already had billions of euros in value wiped out during Greece’s election campaign, fell around 7.5 percent in midday trading on Wednesday after slumping around 11 percent on Tuesday. Shares in financial companies in Greece plummeted more than 17 percent on Wednesday. The interest rate on Greek 10-year government bonds increased on Wednesday nearly 1 percentage point, to about 10.2 percent, with investors apparently wary of a possible debt restructuring. The yields were at 8.4 percent before the election and below 6 percent for most of the summer, as the Greek economy appeared poised to grow again under the prime minister at the time, Antonis Samaras. European Union officials also outlined a tough-sounding position on Wednesday before what would no doubt be long negotiations over the terms of Greece’s bailout and an effort by the new government to reduce the country’s mountain of debt. Since 2010, the so-called troika of lenders — the European Central Bank, the European Commission and the International Monetary Fund — has extended Greece two bailouts worth €240 billion, or about $270 billion. The vice president of the European Commission, Jyrki Katainen, said that Brussels was eager to start talks with Greece. But noting that he saw no majority in favor of writing off any Greek debt, he added: “We expect them to fulfill everything that they have promised to fulfill.” He emphasized that Brussels could not simply look at the popular anti-austerity excitement surrounding the Greek elections, but that he had to take into account the wishes of people in other countries, including Finns and Germans who were not inclined to give Greece a penny more. “We don’t change our policy according to elections,” he said. Mr. Katainen’s remarks suggested Brussels’s opening bargaining position, and they did not necessarily mean that European officials would not offer concessions. But they put the heat on Athens, especially since there is not much time to reach a deal: Greece’s current European bailout, already extended, ends in late February unless there is another extension. “We need to start working together very soon because the commitments have not changed and time is running out,” Mr. Katainen told reporters. Asked whether Greece would be able to persuade creditors to write off some of its debt, Mr. Katianen said he thought this this was a nonstarter, at least in the Eurogroup, a grouping of finance ministers from the 19 countries, including Greece, that use the euro. “It would be difficult to see that there would be a majority in the Eurogroup supporting a haircut in Greek debt,” said Mr. Katainen, a former prime minister of Finland, which has strongly supported Germany in demanding that Athens pay its bills. In the cabinet meeting on Wednesday, Mr. Tsipras set out his government’s top priorities in order: tackling what he called the country’s
Re: [Marxism] A few other statements on the Syriza-ANEL deal
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * As I said, just food for thought. In any case, while the danger of a coup cannot be ruled out, it is unclear if it is as politically feasible in the current EU climate as it was in Latin America in the 1970s (or Greece at that time). Moreover, the issue once again comes down to what Syriza and the movement behind it does to mobilise at all levels – including in the military. Thus the discussion earlier of the the conscript movement Dyktio-Spartakos is of relevance here. -Original Message- From: Louis Proyect On 1/28/15 10:09 AM, Michael Karadjis via Marxism wrote: and a harsh one, but raising issues not exactly unimportant, such as the parallel between Defense Ministers Kammenos and Pinochet ... Στη συνέχεια, περιστρέφουμε δεξιά http://thewolfatthedoor.blogspot.com.au/ This is David Schanoes's blog. Schanoes was a Marxmail subscriber for a decade or so. I can't remember whether I removed him or he removed himself. He is a self-styled left-Communist with a tendency so pronounced to expose others as reformist traitors that he could not even sustain a working partnership with Loren Goldner, a long-time self-styled left-Communist himself. _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] South African statement mentions Syriza
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[Marxism] Fwd: The shady history of Argentina’s Intelligence Secretariat | World news | The Guardian
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * All you need to know about Argentina's spy suicide mystery. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/27/argentina-intelligence-secretariat-shady-history Monday 26 January 2015 21.28 EST The shady history of Argentina’s Intelligence Secretariat The agency, which president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner wants to dissolve, runs domestic spying on a scale to rival the communist bloc Uki Goñi in Buenos Aires On Monday night, Argentina’s president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, took the bold step of announcing a plan to dissolve the country’s Intelligence Secretariat and send to congress a draft bill for the “reform of Argentina’s intelligence service” in the wake of the death of prosecutor Alberto Nisman nine days ago. A possible explanation for Nisman’s death, which came only days after he announced charges that aimed to put Fernández on trial for an alleged conspiracy with Iran, seems to be hidden inside a complex saga of mind-boggling intrigue involving the intelligence agency she now intends to reform. Created as the Information Division (División Informaciones) by Argentina’s strongman General Juan Perón in 1946, the service’s first task was to arrange the postwar transport of Nazi war criminals to Argentina, some of whom then went on to serve in Perón’s intelligence agency. Since then, the service has changed its name a number of times, its latest incarnation being the Intelligence Secretariat, better known by its Spanish-language acronym SI. Under Fernández, Argentina’s secret service is alleged to have been involved in domestic spying on a scale rivalling that in Eastern European nations before the fall of the Berlin wall. Nisman’s connection at the SI was Antonio, aka “Jaime” Stiuso, an enigmatic figure who for years reputedly ran a vast eavesdropping network that made him the most feared man in Argentina. Few details about the man are in the public domain. He is a 61-year-old communications expert who joined the service in 1972 at 18 years of age. He has three daughters (for whom he reportedly sought security protection from a Buenos Aires court recently) and is reputedly extremely charming. “He’s charismatic, very relaxed, he laughs a lot,” says Rodis Recalt, a journalist from Noticias magazine who interviewed him last month. “After months of tracking him, he called me. I never saw him face to face.” Under Férnandez in recent years, and under Néstor Kirchner, the president’s now-deceased husband and predecessor, Stiuso’s power is alleged to have grown exponentially, thanks to the extensive wiretapping services on political opponents that he allegedly carried out for the Kirchners. “But last October, when Fernández found out through military intelligence that Nisman was preparing charges against her for an alleged cover-up of Iran’s role in the bombing, she became understandably furious that Stiuso had not alerted her,” an intelligence source told the Guardian. By late December, when she began to suspect that it was actually Stiuso who had poisoned Nisman against her, she fired Stiuso and began preparing to dismiss Nisman as well. “She was doubting between replacing Nisman completely, or appointing two assistant prosecutors by his side to neutralise him,” the source maintains. The president’s alleged fury was fuelled by the extensive use of wiretaps provided by Stiuso that Nisman made in his 300-page accusation against her. In an long statement posted to her website last week, Fernández seemed to make the case that Nisman’s accusation was actually written by Stiuso, and that Nisman was then killed by the same people who convinced him to present the charges. “They used him alive and then they needed him dead,” Fernández wrote. “As sad and as terrible as that.” Former president Kirchner introduced Nisman to Stiuso 11 years ago, when Kirchner put the prosecutor in charge of solving the 1994 bombing of the Amia Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires, which killed 85 people, the deadliest terrorist attack in Latin America. “The two developed a father-son relationship,” says the intelligence source, who knew both men well. Only the security cameras on the front gate and an Argentinian flag draped from a white metal pole above the entrance indicate the location of the Judicial Observations Department on Avenida de los Incas 3834, a six-storey redbrick building in the upscale neighbourhood of Belgrano. An endless series of press articles and books allege, and at least one court raid has proven, that housed inside are a vast array of computers and recorders continually monitoring the activity of
[Marxism] Fw: Latest SD Ireland paper
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Original Message From: jmcanu...@tiscali.co.uk Date: 28/01/2015 11:41 To: marxmail marxmailmarx...@lists.econ.utah.edu Subj: Latest SD Ireland paper The contents of the current Socialist Democracy paper are linked here. It contains a special insert on the Irish water mobilisations. Solidarity John McAnulty Stormont House deal: Twin hammers to smash the workers http://www.socialistdemocracy.org/Bulletins/SDBulletinJan2015StormontHouseDeal.html Sectarianism and austerity: Twin pillars of reaction http://www.socialistdemocracy.org/Bulletins/SDBulletinJan2015SectarianismAndAusterityTwinPillarsOfReaction.html Unions, workers and resistance http://www.socialistdemocracy.org/Bulletins/SDBulletinJan2015UnionsWorkersAndResistance.html Close Irish Water Now! http://www.socialistdemocracy.org/Bulletins/SDBulletinJan2015CloseIrishWaterNow.html A silent retreat http://www.socialistdemocracy.org/Bulletins/SDBulletinJan2015ASilentRetreat.html Water doublespeak: When unity means division http://www.socialistdemocracy.org/Bulletins/SDBulletinJan2015WaterDoublespeakWhenUnityMeansDivision.html Jack O’Connor, Irish Water and the Troika http://www.socialistdemocracy.org/Bulletins/SDBulletinJan2015JackOConnorIrishWaterAndTheTroika.html Turning water into a commodity http://www.socialistdemocracy.org/Bulletins/SDBulletinJan2015TurningWaterIntoACommodity.html Socialist Education: What is Islamism? http://www.socialistdemocracy.org/Bulletins/SDBulletinJan2015SocialistEducationWhatIsIslamism.html Irish state reduces women to vessels http://www.socialistdemocracy.org/Bulletins/SDBulletinJan2015IrishStateReducesWomenToVessels.html Greek elections http://www.socialistdemocracy.org/Bulletins/SDBulletinJan2015GreekElections.html _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
