[Marxism] anti-Leninist crap from the RLI
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. * The article linked below is boiler-plate, lying anti-Leninism of the worst kind, and I wouldn't bother bringing it to the list's attention if it weren't being promoted by the Rosa Luxemburg Institute, which is increasingly positioning itself as the Great Global Left think tank. Yeaargh. http://www.rosalux-nyc.org/the-tragedy-of-party-communism/ _ 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: How Greece’s Exit From Euro Could Happen - Bloomberg Business
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[Marxism] Fwd: A Biography of ‘The Nation’: The First Fifty Years | The Nation
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. * (The Nation finally comes clean.) Yet the magazine, along with the rest of the country, gradually wearied of Reconstruction, and its abandonment of the freed slaves makes for painful reading today. Beyond excuse, beyond extenuation, it also defies simple explanation. What can be said is that from 1870 onward, Godkin and The Nation became increasingly the voice not merely of the Eastern establishment, but of the most reactionary elements within that establishment. Bound by his “liberal” principles to oppose any attempt to interfere with the “freedom of contract,” Godkin had always resisted calls for an eight-hour workday and worried that a government able to prohibit children from working in factories—a goal, he allowed, for which “there is a great deal to be said”—might end by telling “us what to eat, drink, avoid, hope, fear, and believe.” When the first great railroad strikes convulsed the United States in July 1877, Godkin was appalled: no government, he wrote, could tolerate conditions in which a few thousand “day-laborers of the lowest class can suspend, even for a whole day, the traffic and industry of a great nation, merely as a means of extorting ten or twenty cents a day more in wages.” Blaming foreign agitators, Godkin called for a show of force: “The kindest thing which can be done for the great multitudes of untaught men who have been received on these shores…is to show them promptly that society as here organized, on individual freedom of thought and action, is impregnable, and can be no more shaken than the order of nature.” full: http://www.thenation.com/article/202001/biography-nation-first-fifty-years _ 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] ‘Patriot’ Terrorist Frames Muslims With Quran Bomb
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Re: [Marxism] What is Grace?
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. * Anthony, Indian Bollywood has become so commercialised and crass, that I will cite on example.The famous Indian singer, Lata mangeshkar (above 80 yrs now) was invited to garce an occasion, which she declined citing her health. Picqued, the sponsors had called up on one mediocre singer to imitate her and it seems she made remarks denigrating the famous singer. Many people were disgusted at this inappropriate display.When she was asked to react, Lata simply said, India is a free country. This is what I call 'Grace'. Lata is the recipent of the highst civilian honour in India, Bharat Ratna (meaning Gem of India), awarded by the Government. It is said, that when she sang a song about the dead soldiers on the India-China war front , the then Prime Minister, Nehru was in tears. And she is famous for her prayer song , Vaishnava Ganato, a fovourite of Mahatma Gandhi.The video I had posted in my fist message on this subject, from the Indian film, 'Anupama, you can see how dignified she seems in her singing, with matching charm of the actress of yester years, Sharmila Tagore..Vijaya Kumar Marla On Thursday, March 26, 2015 7:54 PM, Anthony Boynton 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. * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlFCKZkeBrg _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/marlavk%40yahoo.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] Syriza to retreat?
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. * [This report from South Africa refers to Kathimerini, Athens as source. I didn't find any confirmation at Kathimerini website.] Tsipras to sway leftist party on package of reforms BizNews.com, Johannesburg March 25, 2015 Tsipras’ SYRIZA party won an election in January promising to end the austerity demanded by Greece’s creditors. Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will attempt to sell a package of economic reforms demanded by creditors to his leftist party in the next few days, reports said on Wednesday. According to a report in the daily Kathimerini, Tsipras will try to win over hardliners within his leftist SYRIZA party to back the reform plan, which could include the continuation of a highly unpopular property tax for another year as well as labour and pension reforms. The government will also only carry out privatisations which will allow it to retain a controlling majority while the country’s lenders want the special 30 per cent reduction on VAT enjoyed by the Greek islands to be scrapped. Tsipras is expected to sell the package first to SYRIZA’s political secretariat in the next few days, followed by a gathering of the party’s parliamentary group where he will attempt to convince all his 149 lawmakers to back the reforms during a vote in parliament. The rush to finalise the list of economic reforms by next week comes as officials from the Euro Working Group are scheduled to hold a teleconference call on Wednesday to discuss Athens’s progress so far to unlock badly needed bailout funds. Athens’ left-leaning government needs the money to avoid bankruptcy and a forced exit from the eurozone. Tsipras’ SYRIZA party won an election in January promising to end the austerity demanded by Greece’s creditors. Greek government sources have said Athens’ reform proposals could include raising the retirement age. The government also wants to crack down on money laundering and tax evasion. Once Athens submits the reform list, it will be reviewed by its creditors and experts advising the Eurogroup, before being considered by the panel of eurozone finance ministers. The review process is expected to take at least 24 hours. Greece’s bailout still has 7.2 billion euros (7.9 billion euros) in international aid on hand for the country. Some 1.8 billion euros are additionally available in a central bank programme involving the purchase of Greek bonds. The latter is believed to be more easily and rapidly available to Athens, given the approval procedures involved. According to the daily Kathimerini, Greece is also going to request 1.2 billion euros back from one of the eurozone’s bailout funds, arguing that it transferred too many bonds back to the fund as part of a bailout-extending deal struck in February. http://www.biznews.com/global-investing/2015/03/25/tsipras-to-sway-leftist-party-on-package-of-reforms Eurogroup rebuffs Greek payback bid Deutsche Welle, Berlin and Bonn March 25 Eurozone finance ministers have rejected Greece's bid to get back badly-needed cash, driving Athens closer to the brink of a potential bankruptcy next month. But relief could be on the horizon. The Eurogroup on Wednesday dashed Greece's hopes of a 1.2-billion euro ($1.3 billion) band-aid to slow the bleeding of the country's state coffers. The setback comes after the Greek government appealed for the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) to return the money, which Athens said it had overpaid earlier this month when it transferred 10.9 billions of untapped euros back to the Luxembourg-based rescue fund, intended for the recapitalization of Greek banks. Greece's leftist leaders, which came to power in January, claimed they had found out too late that their predecessors had taken the 1.2 billion euros out of the country's own Hellenic stability fund, and not the EFSF. However, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras' plea fell on deaf ears. In a telephone conference on Wednesday, EU finance ministers agreed that Greece was not legally entitled to the money. Paymaster Germany was among the countries opposing the reimbursement. We see no reason to release it, German Finance Ministry spokesman Martin Jäger told a news conference on Wednesday. However, he added that the fund would still be available to Greece, should it need to recapitalize its banks in future. Running out of money The decision follows reports that Athens will run out of money on April 20 without a fresh cash injection, Reuters said on Tuesday, quoting a source familiar with the nation's finances. With 15.5 billion euros in debts coming due through August, a Greek exit from the eurozone - the so-called 'Grexit' - is looming larger than ever.
[Marxism] Response to PEGIDA in Montreal
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. * English follows the French. [ALERTE anti-raciste; svp diffusez largement] [Anti-Racist ALERT; please share widely] CONTRE LE RACISME ET L'ISLAMOPHOBIE Autodéfense Populaire! Rassemblement pour contrer la manif de PEGIDA Québec SAMEDI 28 MARS, 15h30 (pile!) coin Pie-IX/Bélair carte: https://goo.gl/maps/bqwI2 AGAINST RACISM AND ISLAMOPHOBIA Collective Self-Defense! Gathering to oppose the demonstration of PEGIDA Quebec SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 3:30pm (sharp!) at the corner of Pie-IX and Bélair map: https://goo.gl/maps/bqwI2 [English below] - DE métro St-Michel (ligne bleu) MARCHE: aller à l'est et au sud de Pie-IX et Bélair (environ 20 minutes) AUTOBUS: prendre le bus 141 ou 188 à l'est au coin Pie-IX et Jean-Talon, puis marcher vers le sud à Bélair (environ 10 minutes) - DE métro Pie-IX (ligne vert) AUTOBUS: prendre le bus 139 ou 439 au nord au coin Pie-IX / Bélair, au nord de Belanger, au sud de Jean-Talon (environ 15 minutes) Parce que les fascistes et crypto-fascistes de PEGIDA Québec ont décidé de manifester leur haine envers les musulmans de Montréal réservons leur un petit comité d’accueil pour leur faire comprendre qu'il n'y a pas de place pour les fachos dans nos quartiers. - événement facebook de Action Antifasciste Montréal (contre-manif): www.facebook.com/events/332526340287635/ - événement facebook de PEGIDA Québec (manif): www.facebook.com/events/711478965616078/ - affiche pour la contre-manif disponible ici: http://nooneisillegal-montreal.blogspot.ca/2015/03/contre-le-racisme-et-lislamophobie.html Le groupe raciste, islamophobe et plus généralement anti-immigration «PEGIDA» (Patriotes européens contre l'islamisation de l'Occident; originaire d'Allemagne) est en train d'essayer de manifester ouvertement, choisissant pour leur lancement «canadien» le quartier montréalais du «Petit Maghreb» (un quartier de petits commerces et de résidant-es provenant en majorité du nord de l'Afrique) et planifient de marcher sur Pie-IX au sud de Bélanger, à l'extérieur d'un centre islamique. Plusieurs groupes et individus anti-fascistes et anti-racistes locaux participeront à cette contre-manifestation. Piétinons PEGIDA ! Les racistes ouvertement anti-immigration ne peuvent se voir allouer ce type d'espace à Montréal, et certainement pas dans un quartier à majorité migrante. S'il-vous-plaît, considérez participer à la contre-manifestation en grand nombre. Nous avons besoin d'être en grand nombre. Le chef de PEGIDA est cité dans cet article du Toronto Star - http://on.thestar.com/1BpXOkA - et ils ont obtenu la permission de la police pour manifester. Mais la permission de la police n'est pas la permission des allié-es des migrant-es et des mouvements anti-racistes montréalais ! Encore une fois, venez participer en grand nombre. Plus nombreux et nombreuses nous sommes, le plus en sécurité nous sommes. PEGIDA est lâche et nous voir légions les effraiera. Cette manifestation contre PEGIDA est appuyée et soutenue par Personne n'est illégal-Montréal nooneisille...@gmail.com www.nooneisillegal.org www.facebook.com/NoOneIsIllegalMontreal ++ ++ AGAINST RACISM AND ISLAMOPHOBIA Collective Self-Defense! Gathering to oppose the demonstration of PEGIDA Quebec SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 3:30pm (sharp!) at the corner of Pie-IX and Bélair map: https://goo.gl/maps/bqwI2 - FROM St-Michel métro (blue line) WALK: go east and south to Pie-IX Bélair (approximately 20 minutes) BUS: take the 141 or 188 bus east to Pie-IX and Jean-Talon then walk south to Bélair (about 10 minutes) - FROM Pie-IX métro (green line) BUS: take the 139 or 439 bus north to Bélair, north of Belanger, south of Jean-Talon (approximately 15 minutes) PEGIDA Quebec is organising a demo to spit their hatred on muslims of Montreal. Let's reserve them a welcoming committee so they understand that there is no place for fascism in our neighbourhoods. - facebook event by Anti-Fascist Action Montreal (counter-demo): www.facebook.com/events/332526340287635/ - facebook event by PEGIDA Québec (demo): www.facebook.com/events/711478965616078/ - counter-demo poster available here: http://nooneisillegal-montreal.blogspot.ca/2015/03/contre-le-racisme-et-lislamophobie.html The anti-immigrant, racist and Islamophobic group PEGIDA (Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West, which originates in Germany) is trying to demonstrate openly, choosing to do their Canadian launch in the Petit Maghreb area of Montreal (an area of small businesses and residents predominantly from North Africa) and planning to march on Pie-IX south to Belanger, outside an Islamic Center. Many local anti-fascist
Re: [Marxism] The lioness eats the parrot: a feminist response to an “alternative” reading | اللبوات الغاضبات
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. * Forgot to add it's written collectively and anonymously. On Mar 26, 2015 8:56 PM, MF Kalfat mfkal...@gmail.com wrote: https://labwat.wordpress.com/2015/03/25/the-lioness-eats-the-parrot-a-feminist-response-to-an-alternative-reading-%d9%83%d9%8a%d9%81-%d8%aa%d8%a3%d9%83%d9%84-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%84%d8%a8%d9%88%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a8%d8%ba%d8%a8%d8%ba/ A solid radical feminist discourse is coming from Egypt. This is the latest from a recently created blog, Angry Labwas. Arabic for lioness (to be specific, the Egyptian colloquial version of the standard Arabic word but only with a slight difference), labwa is the closest we have here in sense to bitches. _ 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] Comment on Russia and Ukraine
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. * This is in response to the posting by Roger Annis yesterday, Comment on Russia and Ukraine. Based on your description of the situation in Russia and the Ukraine, it is surprising that a far right gathering would choose to meet in St. Petersburg and not in Kiev. And why would they chose a hotel whose electrical system is so unreliable? Roger Annis said (in part): I have been told by several editors during the course of the past year that they will not publish my articles or those of other writers associated with New Cold War.org because they, the editors, wish to pay heed to the belligerence of Russia in Ukraine, said to be equal to that of the NATO powers, and because, in their view, the extreme right in Russia presents an equal danger to Ukraine and to Europe as does the extreme-right in Ukraine. This is ill-informed and misguided. Ken Hiebert responds: I do't know which publications you are referring to. I expect that through your work on Haiti you have gained a broad audience for your writing. There is no reason why you should change your message to be published in these publications. Perhaps they would be willing to print your articles if they were part of a debate. Maybe opposing articles by yourself and Louis Proyect. If not him, then someone else on this list. Failing all else, I would be willing to write something. if you have given up on being published in these outlets, perhaps you should challenge them openly. If you were to denounce them as ill-informed and misguided, it could get you a broader hearing for your views. _ 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] The lioness eats the parrot: a feminist response to an “alternative” reading | اللبوات الغاضبات
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://labwat.wordpress.com/2015/03/25/the-lioness-eats-the-parrot-a-feminist-response-to-an-alternative-reading-%d9%83%d9%8a%d9%81-%d8%aa%d8%a3%d9%83%d9%84-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%84%d8%a8%d9%88%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a8%d8%ba%d8%a8%d8%ba/ A solid radical feminist discourse is coming from Egypt. This is the latest from a recently created blog, Angry Labwas. Arabic for lioness (to be specific, the Egyptian colloquial version of the standard Arabic word but only with a slight difference), labwa is the closest we have here in sense to bitches. _ 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] Comment on Russian and Ukraine
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. * Roger Annis: PS Thomas says our man in Vancouver should desist from commenting on Russia because he doesn't live there. Hmm, I am guessing from Thomas' name that he is not Russian and cannot call Russia his homeland. Regardless, I trust he is not arguing for some new listserve guideline that contributors should only comment on matters concerning the country where they reside, or some such arbitrary restriction. For Thomas' information, I have spent a great deal of time and resources during the past year on travel precisely so I may be better informed on the events in Ukraine and their international ramifications. Nowhere did I write that Roger Annis should desist from commenting on Russia. What did I imply very strongly was that he should be better informed about what is actually going on here. I don't understand how my surname and Russia's not being my homeland could possibly be a handicap in understanding events here. On the other hand, being completely fluent in Russian (and able to understand Ukrainian a bit when push comes to shove) and having lived in Russia on and off for over twenty years, as well as extensive contact and work with grassroots and leftist organizations should be something of an advantage, no? As for what country is going extreme rightist in a big way and right off the edge of the map, my money is on Putin's Russia: hence the illegal occupation and the invisible invasion of East Ukraine, and the total media and societal hysteria accompanying it. But more than that, and this has been going almost since day one of Putin's deplorable reign, there has been the extreme concentration of all financial and political power in the hands of a very tiny elite, the terrorizing of civil society and minorities, rampant clericalism, waves of xenophobia and homegrown, lethal neo-Nazism on the streets (did you miss the part in my last message, Roger, about hundreds of murders and beatings of foreign students, antifa activists, and Central Asian migrants in Petersburg, Moscow and other parts of the country over the last ten years by skinheads and neo-Nazis? Do the names Stanislave Markelov, Nikolai Girenko, and Timur Kacharava mean anything to you?), topdown attacks on Russian's fine traditions and institutions of education and scholarly research, a bludgeoning of the country's built heritage, especially in Moscow and Petersburg, a bloating of the state security and bureaucratic apparatuses to well beyond their Soviet levels, the official encouragement of the sense of being under attack from the rest of the world. again to the point of hysteria, etc. Occasionally, I repost items to this list from my blog. Here is what I posted there earlier today and yesterday: https://therussianreader.wordpress.com/2015/03/25/crackdown-unionists-kaluga-auto-industry/ This is about trade union activists in Kaluga, which has become a cluster for foreign auto manufacturing plants, being raided and taken downtown for a little shake-up by the anti-extremism police. Anyone with any awareness of how the independent labor movement has been shaping up under Putin's reign would know that this kind of official intimidation is quite routine. Now the eshniki (as the Center E officers are affectionately called) have the added advantage of accusing trade union activists of beings agents of the West and fifth columnists. It's all part of the exciting hysterical zeitgeist here now. This is an even lovelier item, which will give you a good sense of the Black Hundreds-style direction in which parts of the elite and the uncivil part of civil society seem to be pushing the society. I'll quote it in full: https://therussianreader.wordpress.com/2015/03/26/novosibirsk-tannhauser-novopashin/ Alexander Novopashin, prior of Novosibirsk’s Saint Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, has been awarded an Extremism Prevention pin and a Service to the Motherland medal, second degree, as reported on the cathedral’s site and an official legal information website. According to the text of the March 23 decree, signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin, Novopashin received the Service to the Motherland medal, second degree, for “successes achieved in his career, many years of diligent work, and active involvement in public life.” Earlier, on March 21, the archpriest was awarded the pin of the Main Directorate for Extremism Prevention. As reported on the site of Saint Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, the priest has worked on the problem of totalitarian sects for over twenty years. He argues that contemporary sectarianism is one form of the extremist movement. As the noted on the cathedral’s site, “The priest stresses that extremism has many
[Marxism] Who are the socialist group Solidarity in Australia?
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[Marxism] Fwd: Leftists, Liberals, and Ukraine: A Tale of Double Standards, by Stephen Velychenko | KRYTYKA
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[Marxism] background on Yemen
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 hope comrades are agitating in their antiwar/solidarity groups for statements against US support for the Saudi et al. attack on Yemen. The anti-imperialists will no doubt hail the heroic role of Iran in backing the Houthis (that's a joke, son). More rational groups of course need not jump through such hoops. Some useful background: http://merip.org/mero/mero032015 and http://merip.org/mer/latest The articles describe the nonviolent mass movements in the country, supporters of which, judging from my Twitterstream, are against both Houthis/Iran and Saudis/US. _ 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] WikiLeaks publishes TPP full text
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[Marxism] More on scary Russian conference
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. * The Nazi gap, by Anatoly Karlin, UNZ Review, March 26, 2015 http://www.unz.com/akarlin/nazi-gap/? Published originally on the Russia page of Anatoly Karlin's blog. He is a blogger and businessman in San Francisco Bay area, originally from Russia. The Western media is having a field day with this motley gathering of neo-Nazis and assorted freaks at the grandiosely named International Russian Conservative Forum – none of the more serious alternative right European parties, such as the National Front or Fidesz, bothered turning up, and neither did serious Russian nationalists – and for once they might just have a point. The operative word being “just.” Hypocritical as they might try to make Putin out to be with this, it would be wrong to see the March 22 conference as a Russian endorsement, official or informal, of the European far right... _ 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] The working class movement in Iran
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. * A few days ago I mentioned admiring the political work of Iranian Marxist Yassamine Mather. Another Iranian comrade I have a lot of respect for is Torab Saleth, once upon a time a leading figure in the Fourth International section in Iran. Below is a piece on the workers movement from 2014 and also an older interview I did with Torab: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/06/14/the-working-class-movement-in-iran-2014-and-a-2008-interview-with-torab-saleth/ Phil _ 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] Yemen at Crossroads
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Re: [Marxism] The working class movement in Iran
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[Marxism] Revolutionary Ireland - eirigi statement
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[Marxism] background on Yemen unions
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[Marxism] What is Grace?
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[Marxism] TONIGHT 3/26: From Ferguson to Palestine, 7PM, GCASL C95, 238 Thompson Street
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. * This will be the final event of NYU SJP's Israeli Apartheid Week (details below). Video from yesterday's event *Mowing the Lawn: Understanding Israeli Violence in Gaza* will be posted online soon. FROM FERGUSON TO PALESTINE 238 Thompson Street | NYU Global Center for Academic and Spiritual Life C95 | 7PM | Thursday, March 26 https://www.facebook.com/events/802098696493202/ The St. Louis County Police Department that killed Michael Brown, placed Ferguson under siege, and sparked a nationwide movement against racism and police brutality, trained closely with the Israeli military. Over 9,000 American officials, including police, border guards, and military, have trained closely with the Israeli military. This collaboration has ranged from monitoring suspect ethnic demographics to domestic counterinsurgency and crowd control. Join us for a panel discussion with activists and leaders in the African-American and Palestinian community emphasizing the importance for cross solidarity organizing. The summer's events in Palestine and across the United States, specifically in Ferguson, have placed the connection between racist and colonial oppression in both places on full display sparking transnational solidarity and consciousness raising. It is in the spirit of forming a stronger global movement to liberate all peoples that inspires and challenges us to move towards thinking in terms of joint struggle. Cherrell Brown is a national organizer with Equal Justice USA. This past year, Cherrell was part of a delegation to Palestine and has written about the similarities between black struggle in America and the plight of Palestinians. Dr. Robyn Spencer is professor of history at Lehman College and an organizer of the World Stands with Palestine Rally. She has written extensively on the Black Power Movement in America and parallels between the oppression and brutality against African-Americans and Palestinians. Hazem Jamjoum is a Palestinian activist, writer, and Ph.D. student at NYU’s Joint History/Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Program. FOR MORE ISRAELI APARTHEID WEEK EVENTS: http://apartheidweek.org/events/ https://www.facebook.com/events/1772202276338517 BACKGROUND INFORMATION: Apartheid South African Human Sciences Research Council: Israel Practicing Apartheid in the Palestinian Territories http://www.hsrc.ac.za/en/media-briefs/democracy-goverance-and-service-delivery/report-israel-practicing-apartheid-in-palestinian-territories Not an analogy: Israel and the crime of apartheid http://electronicintifada.net/content/not-analogy-israel-and-crime-apartheid/8164 Factsheet: What is Apartheid? http://www.stopthewall.org/downloads/pdf/4PageFactSheetOctober9.pdf The Israeli Invasion of Gaza United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs: Gaza Situation Report post-war http://www.ochaopt.org/documents/ocha_opt_sitrep_28_08_2014.pdf Amnesty International on Gaza War Crimes https://www.amnesty.org/en/articles/news/2014/07/israelgaza-attacks-medical-facilities-and-civilians-add-war-crime-allegations/ UNSG Ban Ki-Moon: Israeli attack on Gaza school a “criminal act” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/03/ban-ki-moon-gaza-school-attack-un_n_5645595.html Institute for Middle East Understanding: 50 Days of Death and Destruction http://imeu.org/article/50-days-of-death-destruction-israels-operation-protective-edge Ferguson and Palestine Ebony Magazine: The Ferguson/Palestine Connection http://www.ebony.com/news-views/the-fergusonpalestine-connection-403#axzz3TwMTqXSl Ferguson activists visit Palestine http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/rania-khalek/watch-ferguson-activists-bring-message-love-and-struggle-palestine Boycott-Divest-Sanction Palestinian Campaign for the Academic Cultural Boycott of Israel http://www.pacbi.org/ NYU Students for Justice in Palestine presents ISRAELI APARTHEID WEEK March 23-26, 2015 I have witnessed the systematic humiliation of Palestinian men, women and children by members of the Israeli security forces. Their humiliation is familiar to all black South Africans who were corralled and harassed and insulted and assaulted by the security forces of the apartheid government.” Archbishop Desmond Tutu Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) is an international series of events http://apartheidweek.org/events/ that seeks to raise awareness about Israel’s apartheid policies towards the Palestinians and to build support for the growing Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign. 119 faculty at NYU https://docs.google.com/forms/d/15Mi6JLAhQnlg4ssnzTlkAtOSAv6W1i9IkIO6YduZ-tk/viewform have thus far signed onto an open letter calling for
[Marxism] racialized sexism and sexualized racism - the plight of young Black females
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[Marxism] TONIGHT 3/26: From Ferguson to Palestine, 7PM, GCASL C95
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. * This will be the final event of NYU SJP's Israeli Apartheid Week (details below). Video from yesterday's event *Mowing the Lawn: Understanding Israeli Violence in Gaza* will be posted online soon. FROM FERGUSON TO PALESTINE 238 Thompson Street | NYU Global Center for Academic and Spiritual Life C95 | 7PM | Thursday, March 26 https://www.facebook.com/events/802098696493202/ The St. Louis County Police Department that killed Michael Brown, placed Ferguson under siege, and sparked a nationwide movement against racism and police brutality, trained closely with the Israeli military. Over 9,000 American officials, including police, border guards, and military, have trained closely with the Israeli military. This collaboration has ranged from monitoring suspect ethnic demographics to domestic counterinsurgency and crowd control. Join us for a panel discussion with activists and leaders in the African-American and Palestinian community emphasizing the importance for cross solidarity organizing. The summer's events in Palestine and across the United States, specifically in Ferguson, have placed the connection between racist and colonial oppression in both places on full display sparking transnational solidarity and consciousness raising. It is in the spirit of forming a stronger global movement to liberate all peoples that inspires and challenges us to move towards thinking in terms of joint struggle. Cherrell Brown is a national organizer with Equal Justice USA. This past year, Cherrell was part of a delegation to Palestine and has written about the similarities between black struggle in America and the plight of Palestinians. Dr. Robyn Spencer is professor of history at Lehman College and an organizer of the World Stands with Palestine Rally. She has written extensively on the Black Power Movement in America and parallels between the oppression and brutality against African-Americans and Palestinians. Hazem Jamjoum is a Palestinian activist, writer, and Ph.D. student at NYU’s Joint History/Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Program. FOR MORE ISRAELI APARTHEID WEEK EVENTS: http://apartheidweek.org/events/ https://www.facebook.com/events/1772202276338517 BACKGROUND INFORMATION: Apartheid South African Human Sciences Research Council: Israel Practicing Apartheid in the Palestinian Territories http://www.hsrc.ac.za/en/media-briefs/democracy-goverance-and-service-delivery/report-israel-practicing-apartheid-in-palestinian-territories Not an analogy: Israel and the crime of apartheid http://electronicintifada.net/content/not-analogy-israel-and-crime-apartheid/8164 Factsheet: What is Apartheid? http://www.stopthewall.org/downloads/pdf/4PageFactSheetOctober9.pdf The Israeli Invasion of Gaza United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs: Gaza Situation Report post-war http://www.ochaopt.org/documents/ocha_opt_sitrep_28_08_2014.pdf Amnesty International on Gaza War Crimes https://www.amnesty.org/en/articles/news/2014/07/israelgaza-attacks-medical-facilities-and-civilians-add-war-crime-allegations/ UNSG Ban Ki-Moon: Israeli attack on Gaza school a “criminal act” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/03/ban-ki-moon-gaza-school-attack-un_n_5645595.html Institute for Middle East Understanding: 50 Days of Death and Destruction http://imeu.org/article/50-days-of-death-destruction-israels-operation-protective-edge Ferguson and Palestine Ebony Magazine: The Ferguson/Palestine Connection http://www.ebony.com/news-views/the-fergusonpalestine-connection-403#axzz3TwMTqXSl Ferguson activists visit Palestine http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/rania-khalek/watch-ferguson-activists-bring-message-love-and-struggle-palestine Boycott-Divest-Sanction Palestinian Campaign for the Academic Cultural Boycott of Israel http://www.pacbi.org/ NYU Students for Justice in Palestine presents ISRAELI APARTHEID WEEK March 23-26, 2015 I have witnessed the systematic humiliation of Palestinian men, women and children by members of the Israeli security forces. Their humiliation is familiar to all black South Africans who were corralled and harassed and insulted and assaulted by the security forces of the apartheid government.” Archbishop Desmond Tutu Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) is an international series of events http://apartheidweek.org/events/ that seeks to raise awareness about Israel’s apartheid policies towards the Palestinians and to build support for the growing Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign. 119 faculty at NYU https://docs.google.com/forms/d/15Mi6JLAhQnlg4ssnzTlkAtOSAv6W1i9IkIO6YduZ-tk/viewform have thus far signed onto an open letter calling for
