[Marxism] Israel's 51 not 50 day war on Gaza

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[Marxism] Charleston killings 'a symbolic attack on the Black community'

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The murder of nine people in a historic Black South Carolina church is both
a deep tragedy and a strong symbolic attack on the Black community, civil
rights activist and writer Kevin Alexander Gray told TeleSUR English.

https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/59275


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Re: [Marxism] Charleston killings 'a symbolic attack on the Black community'

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The point could have been made more strongly, had the author been aware
that the massacre occurred on the anniversary and at the locale of Vesey's
rebellion.
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[Marxism] Fwd: Inside Islamic State group's rule: Creating a nation of fear

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[Marxism] past the tipping point for climate change?

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If this dire prediction is true, then the working class will have failed to
live up to its historic mission to rid the world of a mindless
profits-first socio-economic system.

http://jonathanturley.org/2015/06/19/scientists-humanitys-end-is-now-in-sight/#more-91283
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Re: [Marxism] Israel's 51 not 50 day war on Gaza

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"For the Times, 50 days means the war started on 8 July, when Hamas’
military wing fired rockets into southern Israel, not on 7 July, when
Israel, as even some Israeli media acknowledge, broke its ceasefire
agreement with Hamas by killing seven of its members in an air
strike."

That chronology is a bit oversimplified (in the review, not the book
which I haven't read yet, but am sure is great). Here's what I recall
from the Palestinian side:

"On Sunday evening [July 7] and Monday morning [July 8], three Israeli
strikes had killed nine Palestinians in al-Bureij refugee camp and
Rafah. Hamas’ al-Qassam Brigades said seven of the men killed in Rafah
- Ibrahim 'Abdeen by shelling and Ibrahim al-Bal'aawy, Abdul-Rahman
az-Zamely, Mustafa Abu Morr, his twin brother Khaled Abu Morr, Yousef
Sharaf Ghannam, and Jom'a Abu Shallouf in a later air strike on a
tunnel - had been its fighters ...

"Mazen al-Jadya and Marwan Salim, killed by an earlier air strike on
al-Bureij, had been fighters for the Abd al-Qadir al-Husseini Brigades
[of Fatah]."

http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-braces-israel-declares-operation-protective-edge-and-resumes-house-bombings-1554935452

But by July 7, any ceasefire was pretty well smashed already as a
result of Israel's relentless attacks on both the West Bank and the
Gaza Strip:

http://smpalestine.com/2014/07/07/infographic-effects-of-israeli-military-activity-since-june-12-2014

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[Marxism] Fwd: The Economics of Hollywood » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names

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The name Edward Jay Epstein might ring a bell as the author of Inquest, 
a 1966 tracing of Oswald’s footprints prior to the JFK assassination. 
After reading his The Hollywood Economist 2.0: The Hidden Financial 
Reality Behind the Movies published 49 years later, I am left with the 
feeling that he has uncovered a more serious if less violent crime: the 
degradation of American film by an industry much more committed to the 
bottom line than culture.


While I have written over the years about how commerce trumps art, 
including for CounterPunch and Class, Race and Corporate Power , I now 
understand the nuts and bolts behind commerce’s triumph. Epstein 
describes in meticulous detail that would make a CPA envious exactly how 
we have descended from “Citizen Kane” to films such as “Transformers” 
shown at multiplexes. Ironically, it was the latter day versions of 
William Randolph Hearst—the inspiration for Charles Foster Kane—who 
transformed the film industry into what it is today, a globalized 
behemoth that not only churns out films geared to children and teens but 
one that appeals to their basest instincts, the equivalent in some ways 
of selling crack cocaine to high schoolers.


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[Marxism] Fwd: Inside the Islamic State by Malise Ruthven | The New York Review of Books

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As Atwan points out, these horrifying scenes are expertly disseminated 
by the ISIS media department, which is run by a French-born 
Syrian-American trained in Massachusetts. The public information 
department is led by a Syrian, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani al-Shami, whom 
Atwan describes as “the most significant figure in Islamic State after 
Caliph Ibrahim and his deputies.” This Goebbels of the Islamic State has 
been responsible for some of its most inflammatory propaganda, including 
an online speech urging “lone-wolf” jihadists living in the West to kill 
“citizens of countries which have entered into a coalition against 
Islamic State” by “any means you chose,” such as deliberately running 
over people with vehicles. His speech was followed in quick succession 
by hit-and-run attacks in Canada, France, and Israel.


Atwan explains how the Islamic State’s media department employs an army 
of journalists, photographers, and editors to produce slick videos with 
high production values that are disseminated on the Internet without 
their source being detected. Activists use “virtual private networks” 
that conceal a user’s IP address, in conjunction with browsers—including 
one originally developed for US Navy intelligence—that enable the viewer 
to access the “dark Internet,” the anonymous zone frequented by child 
pornographers and other criminals.


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[Marxism] Spain's new leftist female mayors

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Voters in Spain have put two outsiders in the office of mayor in Madrid 
and Barcelona. Both are strong, popular figures heading parties 
associated with the new Spanish left. Both are women. The similarities 
between the two candidates and the two cities end there.


full: http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2015/06/19/tomas-casas/audis-away/
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[Marxism] Fwd: struggle of Lebanese electricity workers

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Subject: struggle of Lebanese electricity workers

An incredible document about an incredible struggle and its political
context:
http://cskc.daleel-madani.org/content/electricity-workers-lebanon-and-fate-labour-national-development-and-governance#footnoteref2_myu4ouh




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[Marxism] Championing Environment, Francis Takes Aim at Global Capitalism

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NY Times, June 19 2015
Championing Environment, Francis Takes Aim at Global Capitalism
By CORAL DAVENPORT

WASHINGTON — The encyclical on the environment that Pope Francis 
released on Thursday is as much an indictment of the global economic 
order as it is an argument for the world to confront climate change.


It offers blistering criticism of 21st-century capitalism, expressing 
skepticism about market forces, criticizing consumerism and cautioning 
about the costs of growth.


But where Francis’ environmental and economic agendas meet, he leaves 
something of a paradox, and ammunition potentially for both sides in the 
debate over how to address climate change.


While urging swift action to curb the burning of fossil fuels that have 
powered economies since the Industrial Revolution, he also condemns the 
trading of carbon-emission credits, saying it merely creates new forms 
of financial speculation and does not bring about “radical change.” But 
carbon trading is the policy most widely adopted by governments to 
combat climate change, and it has been endorsed by leading economists as 
a way to cut carbon pollution while sustaining economic growth.


The approach has taken on increased importance in the push for 
governments to sign a United Nations climate change accord in Paris in 
December that would commit every nation to enacting ambitious policies 
to cut their use of fossil fuels.


Francis’ encyclical also amplifies the argument that rich countries 
should shoulder the economic burden of cutting emissions, an issue that 
has blocked progress in global climate change negotiations for years.


While environmentalists around the world praised the document, some of 
its core messages could give pause to environmental economists and 
negotiators who have sought to find a path to a new United Nations 
accord that is politically palatable to major economies and corporations.


In particular, environmental economists criticized the encyclical’s 
condemnation of carbon trading, seeing it as part of a radical critique 
of market economies.


“I respect what the pope says about the need for action, but this is out 
of step with the thinking and the work of informed policy analysts 
around the world, who recognize that we can do more, faster, and better 
with the use of market-based policy instruments — carbon taxes and/or 
cap-and-trade systems,” Robert N. Stavins, the director of the 
environmental economics program at Harvard, said in an email.


The approach by the pope, an Argentine who is the first pontiff from the 
developing world, is similar to that of a “small set of socialist Latin 
American countries that are opposed to the world economic order, fearful 
of free markets, and have been utterly dismissive and uncooperative in 
the international climate negotiations,” Dr. Stavins said.


Francis’ embrace of the issue of climate change, and his broader 
critique of global capitalism, stem from his signature economic concern: 
eradicating poverty. He has won wide popularity, particularly on his 
home continent, for an economic agenda focused on the poor.


Over the past two years, the global development institutions most 
focused on addressing poverty — including the World Bank, the African 
Development Bank and the Asian Development Bank — have published 
economic research identifying climate change as a leading driver of 
poverty, contributing to rising sea levels that harm coastal areas in 
Southeast Asia, causing crop failure in Africa, and driving a slowdown 
in growth across the developing world. That research has informed the 
pope’s focus on climate change.


In the encyclical, Francis writes of “the intimate relationship between 
the poor and the fragility of the planet,” and says, “Both everyday 
experience and scientific research show that the gravest effects of all 
attacks on the environment are suffered by the poorest.”


Jim Yong Kim, the president of the World Bank, praised the document. 
“Today’s release of Pope Francis’ first encyclical should serve as a 
stark reminder to all of us of the intrinsic link between climate change 
and poverty,” he said.


He added, “As the effects of climate change worsen, we know that 
escaping poverty will become even more difficult.”


Francis has sought to use his moral authority to press for changes to 
economic policy, and environmentalists hope it will add weight to his 
push on climate change.


But the encyclical’s criticism of market forces, and its references to 
sacrificing economic growth to protect the environment, could have the 
unintended consequence of strengthening the arguments of opponents of 
climate change poli

[Marxism] Ishmael Reed Gets in the Ring

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[Marxism] Fwd: Egypt’s Destiny Between Four Political Forces and Four Dates » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names

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History rarely repeats itself but the wise always learn from its 
lessons. The 2011 Egyptian uprising was a remarkable event that 
displayed many positive attributes about the Egyptian youth and their 
future aspirations. But the moment the revolutionary partners broke 
ranks within days of toppling Egypt’s former dictator, there was not 
much chance to advance the march towards genuine change. Their dream was 
easily hijacked. Those who were advocating gradual change and a 
reformist agenda have in essence put their trust in, and subjugated 
their agenda to, the same people who have benefited the most from the 
corruption and repression of Mubarak’s regime. A revolutionary path does 
not necessarily mean a resort to violence or chaos. It means in essence 
a complete break from the former regime and its compromised institutions 
and personalities, and building a new state from the ground up. Such 
undertaking is indeed enormous but the Egyptian state is so deeply 
entrenched in repression and corruption, anything short of its total 
dismantlement would simply not result in any meaningful change.


Still, the success of a revolutionary path has a dilemma. It cannot 
succeed without the MB because of their discipline and ability to 
mobilize large segments of society. But it also cannot succeed with them 
alone. To recreate that moment of unity that was displayed in Tahrir 
Square, defeated Mubarak’s regime, and broke its security apparatus is 
the first step towards ending Sisi’s neo-Mubarakist regime. Yet both 
sides have to agree on the strategic goals of this renewed partnership 
and offer real confidence-building measures. Such strategy must be 
centered on a revolutionary path, which all have advocated, in order to 
achieve three main goals: (a) the end of the Egyptian military 
involvement in politics, the forced retirement of its most senior 
officers, and the restructuring of its institutions to focus solely on 
the defense of the country against external threats, coupled with the 
complete dismantlement of its economic empire, (b) the dismantlement of 
the deep state in all its aspects from the police, security apparatus, 
and the intelligence agencies, to the compromised judiciary, corrupt 
business conglomerates, and their media empires, and (c) the future 
state must be formed on the basis of building genuine democratic 
institutions with guaranteed rights, freedoms, and protections of 
minorities, as well as a pledge from all partners not to impose social 
agendas, nor promote or seek competitive politics until the deep state 
is dismantled and democratic institutions are in place and functioning.


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[Marxism] 'You rape our women and are taking over our country,'

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Questions on US coverage. In its opening paragraph the Telegraph uses two
phrase I haven't heard in US coverage. "Rape" and "White Supremacy"  Why is
that?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/11684957/You-rape-our-women-and-are-taking-over-our-country-Charleston-church-gunman-told-black-victims.html

A white supremacist gunman told his black victims "you rape our women and
> you’re taking over our country" as he massacred nine people
> 
> inside a historic African-American church in the southern city of
> Charleston.


Are they protecting white supremacy? What about the sexual angle?


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[Marxism] New DNA Results Show Kennewick Man Was Native American

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NY Times, June 19 2015
New DNA Results Show Kennewick Man Was Native American
by Carl Zimmer

In July 1996, two college students were wading in the shallows of the 
Columbia River near the town of Kennewick, Wash., when they stumbled 
across a human skull.


At first the police treated the case as a possible murder. But once a 
nearly complete skeleton emerged from the riverbed and was examined, it 
became clear that the bones were extremely old — 8,500 years old, it 
would later turn out.


The skeleton, which came to be known as Kennewick Man or the Ancient 
One, is one of the oldest and perhaps the most important — and 
controversial — ever found in North America. Native American tribes said 
that the bones were the remains of an ancestor and moved to reclaim them 
in order to provide a ritual burial.


But a group of scientists filed a lawsuit to stop them, arguing that 
Kennewick Man could not be linked to living Native Americans. Adding to 
the controversy was the claim from some scientists that Kennewick Man’s 
skull had unusual “Caucasoid” features. Speculation flew that Kennewick 
Man was European.


A California pagan group went so far as to file a lawsuit seeking to 
bury the skeleton in a pre-Christian Norse ceremony.


On Thursday, Danish scientists published an analysis of DNA obtained 
from the skeleton. Kennewick Man’s genome clearly does not belong to a 
European, the scientists said.


“It’s very clear that Kennewick Man is most closely related to 
contemporary Native Americans,” said Eske Willerslev, a geneticist at 
the University of Copenhagen and lead author of the study, which was 
published in the journal Nature. “In my view, it’s bone-solid.”


Kennewick Man’s genome also sheds new light on how people first spread 
throughout the New World, experts said. There was no mysterious 
intrusion of Europeans thousands of years ago. Instead, several waves 
spread across the New World, with distinct branches reaching South 
America, Northern North America, and the Arctic.


“It’s probably a lot more complicated than we had initially envisioned,” 
said Jennifer A. Raff, a research fellow at the University of Texas, who 
was not involved in the study.


But the new study has not extinguished the debate over what to do with 
Kennewick Man.


Dr. Willerslev and his colleagues found that the Colville, one of the 
tribes that claims Kennewick Man as their own, is closely related to 
him. But the researchers acknowledge that they can’t say whether he is 
in fact an ancestor of the tribe.


Aruna Balasubramanian, 6, looked at a female mummy at the “Secrets of 
the Silk Road” exhibit at the Penn Museum in Philadelphia.Exhibition 
Review: ‘Secrets of the Silk Road’ at Penn Museum - ReviewFEB. 20, 2011
Nonetheless, James Boyd, the chairman of the governing board of the 
Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, said that his tribe and 
four others still hope to rebury Kennewick Man and that the new study 
should help in their efforts.


“We’re enjoying this moment,” said Mr. Boyd. “The findings were what we 
thought all along.”


The scientific study of Kennewick Man began in 2005, after eight years 
of litigation seeking to prevent repatriation of Kennewick Man to the 
Native American tribes. A group of scientists led by Douglas W. Owsley, 
division head of physical anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution, 
gained permission to study the bones.


Last year, they published a 670-page book laying out their findings.

Kennewick Man stood about 5 foot 7 inches, they reported, and died at 
about the age of 40. He was probably a right-handed spear-thrower, 
judging from the oversized bones in his right arm and leg.


Based on the chemical composition of his skeleton, the scientists 
concluded that he originally lived on a distant coast. However he got to 
Kennewick, the Ancient One had been embraced by the community there: his 
body was buried carefully after his death, the scientists noted.


The archaeologist James Chatters initially described the skull as 
Caucasian, and produced a reconstruction of his face famously suggesting 
that Kennewick Man looked a bit like the actor Patrick Stewart. But 
eventually Dr. Chatters decided against the European hypothesis, swayed 
by the discovery of other old Native American skulls with unusual shapes.


Other scientists, including Dr. Owsley and his colleagues, suggested the 
skull resembled those of the Moriori people, who live on the Chatham 
Islands 420 miles southeast of New Zealand, or the Ainu, a group of 
people who live in northern Japan. They speculated that the ancestors of 
the Ainu might have paddled canoes to the New World.

[Marxism] Fwd: Kennewick man, science and Marxism

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(Written long before I began blogging.)

The Marxism list has just spent several days debating out the issues
surrounding the discovery of a 9000 year old skeleton with "non-Indian"
features on the Columbia River in Washington State. One on side you have
what I basically would call a "Sokal-esque" defense of the scientists'
prerogatives. It argues that science is somehow untainted by the class
struggle unless you are talking about Stalin's Russia or Hitler's 
Germany. In a free society, the more science the better. In totalitarian 
societies, science is abused in order to promote the goals of the 
dictatorship. If there are occasional abuses in bourgeois democracies, 
as Alan Sokal put it to me, the antidote is more science. This kind of 
"free marketplace of ideas" approach to the question has little to do 
with Marxist views on science. During the height of the Social Text 
controversy, there was a very poor understanding of this.


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[Marxism] ISIS-Imposed Fuel Embargo Threatens Syria’s Medical Centers

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(So do you think this will have any effect on people like Patrick 
Cockburn who make an amalgam between ISIS and Syrian rebels? Nah, 
probably not.)


NY Times, June 19 2015
ISIS-Imposed Fuel Embargo Threatens Syria’s Medical Centers
By BEN HUBBARD

BEIRUT, Lebanon — Islamic State fighters are preventing fuel shipments 
from reaching rebel-held parts of northern Syria, causing severe 
shortages that are grounding ambulances, paralyzing medical centers and 
shutting down bakeries, according to antigovernment activists and aid 
workers.


Adding to the misery, international aid groups said, the forces of 
Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad, are targeting medical centers in 
opposition areas, killing some workers and forcing facilities to shut down.


The fuel shortages highlight how more than four years of war in Syria 
have ravaged the economy and allowed the warring parties to use the 
country’s scarce resources as a vise to squeeze their enemies.


Since the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, seized oil-rich 
regions in Syria’s north and east, it has used the output to finance its 
efforts to build an Islamic caliphate that straddles the Syria-Iraq border.


Traders from elsewhere in Syria, such as the rebel-held regions in the 
northwest, have long bought locally refined petroleum products in 
Islamic State-controlled areas and trucked them home, where residents 
came to rely on them to power their cars and fuel generators that ran 
clinics, bakeries and other essential facilities.


But this month, the jihadists began barring fuel trucks from leaving 
their areas, activists, aid workers and truckers said.


“They are using fuel as a weapon,” said Dr. Khaled Almilaji, of the 
Canadian International Medical Relief Organization, which supports 
medical facilities in northern Syria.


The fuel embargo, Dr. Almilaji noted, comes as the Islamic State has 
been clashing with rebel groups as it seeks to expand in Aleppo 
Province. Dr. Almilaji said he presumed that the fuel cutoff was aimed 
at weakening the rebels to ease a jihadist advance.


But the cutoff has affected more than the rebels’ ability to fill up 
their trucks, he said. Clinics lacking electricity cannot treat the 
wounded, give dialysis or provide other essential services, the doctor 
said. Medical committees in Idlib and Hama Provinces have warned that 
they will have to shut down facilities soon if they do not receive fuel.


The shortages have also limited the movements of emergency medical 
workers in areas where the government frequently drops barrel bombs that 
destroy buildings and often leave civilians buried in the rubble.


“The most important thing is the ambulances and the civil defense 
trucks,” Dr. Almilaji said. “They cannot move in Aleppo and Idlib now, 
so if any barrel bombs are dropped, they can’t go dig the people out.”


Civilians across rebel-held parts of the northwest have described a 
mounting crisis as fuel supplies have dwindled, causing bakeries to cut 
production and grounding traders who move merchandise.


“For the time being, everything has stopped,” said an activist who would 
give only his first name, Hassan, adding that the price of a liter of 
gasoline, when available, had gone up fivefold.


A driver from the town of Jarjanaz said by phone that Islamic State 
fighters had stopped him at a checkpoint as he was leaving their area 
and forced him to abandon his tanker truck.


“They said it was not allowed,” the driver said, speaking on the 
condition of anonymity because he works in Islamic State areas and 
feared retribution. “You can’t discuss with them. If they say it is not 
allowed, you have to obey.”


International aid groups sounded the alarm on Thursday about Syrian 
government attacks on medical facilities in opposition-controlled areas. 
Doctors Without Borders said that a hospital in Dara’a Province in the 
south had been destroyed after being struck by four barrel bombs this week.


The hospital was the only one in the province providing dialysis and 
neonatal care and has been closed indefinitely because of damage caused 
by the bombing, the group said in a statement.


Also on Thursday, Physicians for Human Rights said that May had been the 
worst month for attacks on health care facilities since the start of the 
conflict in March 2011, with 14 centers attacked and 10 medical workers 
killed. The Syrian government was responsible for all of the attacks, 
the group said.


Somini Sengupta contributed reporting from the United Nations, and 
Hwaida Saad from Beirut.

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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Egypt’s Destiny Between Four Political Forces and Four Dates » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names

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It may be just coincidence but this column is published on the eve of the
6/20-21 global days of action in solidarity with Egyptian political
prisoners:
http://egyptsolidarityinitiative.org/prisonersolidarity/
(includes links to facebook events for each city)


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> History rarely repeats itself but the wise always learn from its lessons.
> The 2011 Egyptian uprising was a remarkable event that displayed many
> positive attributes about the Egyptian youth and their future aspirations.
> But the moment the revolutionary partners broke ranks within days of
> toppling Egypt’s former dictator, there was not much chance to advance the
> march towards genuine change. Their dream was easily hijacked. Those who
> were advocating gradual change and a reformist agenda have in essence put
> their trust in, and subjugated their agenda to, the same people who have
> benefited the most from the corruption and repression of Mubarak’s regime.
> A revolutionary path does not necessarily mean a resort to violence or
> chaos. It means in essence a complete break from the former regime and its
> compromised institutions and personalities, and building a new state from
> the ground up. Such undertaking is indeed enormous but the Egyptian state
> is so deeply entrenched in repression and corruption, anything short of its
> total dismantlement would simply not result in any meaningful change.
>
> Still, the success of a revolutionary path has a dilemma. It cannot
> succeed without the MB because of their discipline and ability to mobilize
> large segments of society. But it also cannot succeed with them alone. To
> recreate that moment of unity that was displayed in Tahrir Square, defeated
> Mubarak’s regime, and broke its security apparatus is the first step
> towards ending Sisi’s neo-Mubarakist regime. Yet both sides have to agree
> on the strategic goals of this renewed partnership and offer real
> confidence-building measures. Such strategy must be centered on a
> revolutionary path, which all have advocated, in order to achieve three
> main goals: (a) the end of the Egyptian military involvement in politics,
> the forced retirement of its most senior officers, and the restructuring of
> its institutions to focus solely on the defense of the country against
> external threats, coupled with the complete dismantlement of its economic
> empire, (b) the dismantlement of the deep state in all its aspects from the
> police, security apparatus, and the intelligence agencies, to the
> compromised judiciary, corrupt business conglomerates, and their media
> empires, and (c) the future state must be formed on the basis of building
> genuine democratic institutions with guaranteed rights, freedoms, and
> protections of minorities, as well as a pledge from all partners not to
> impose social agendas, nor promote or seek competitive politics until the
> deep state is dismantled and democratic institutions are in place and
> functioning.
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[Marxism] Despite Tensions, U.S. Company Officials Attend Russian Economic Forum

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NY Times, June 19 2015
Despite Tensions, U.S. Company Officials Attend Russian Economic Forum
By ANDREW E. KRAMER

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — For a few days at least, profits seem to be 
trumping politics in Russia.


On Thursday, Kremlin officials proclaimed their success in wooing at 
least 24 chief executives to attend an economic conference here, some 
arrived despite objections of their home governments.


The three-day event, which runs through June 20, also drew Greece’s 
prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, who had been talking to the Russian gas 
company Gazprom about pipeline deals to lift revenue for his debt-ridden 
country. Mr. Tsipras was expected to speak at the business gathering on 
Friday.


Last year, American and some European chief executives largely boycotted 
the event, the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. Showing up 
is not illegal under European Union rules and American sanctions imposed 
on Russia for annexing Crimea and supporting rebels in eastern Ukraine, 
but the White House has discouraged attendance.


“Through our combined sanctions, restrictive measures and reduced 
diplomatic engagement, we have sent a clear signal to Russia’s 
leadership that we will not return to ‘business as usual,’ ” said a 
statement from United States government. “We have communicated our 
position to the U.S. business community in multiple fora.”


That did not stop 12 chief executives from United States companies from 
showing up, according to Yuri Ushakov, an adviser to President Vladimir 
V. Putin. In total, Mr. Ushakov said, 70 American company officers 
attended, though the full list of attendees was not made public on the 
event’s website.


The published forum program listed as attending Jim Rogers, chairman of 
the Miami financial company Beeland Interests; John Wories, president of 
Amsted Rail; and Jacob Frenkel, chairman of J. P. Morgan Chase 
International. David Bonderman, a founder of TPG capital, a private 
equity investor with shares in a grocery store chain here, also 
reportedly planned to attend.


Dmitry Peskov, Mr. Putin’s press secretary, told RT (formerly Russia 
Today) that “business circles are interested in Russia, as evidenced by 
the guest list of the forum.”


The forum was hosting more representatives of international businesses 
than last year “despite attempts by some countries to isolate Russia,” 
Sergei E. Prikhodko, a deputy prime minister, said in an opening speech.


The European business contingent was even larger than that from the 
United States. Among the prominent chief executives attending were the 
directors of BP, the British oil company, and the French bank Société 
Générale.


In one contract, the chief executive of the Royal Dutch Shell oil 
company, Ben van Beurden, agreed with Gazprom’s director, Alexey Miller, 
to build a third liquefied natural gas plant on Sakhalin Island in Siberia.


European and United States sanctions do apply to the oil industry, but 
only to drilling work in the Arctic Ocean at depths greater than 150 
meters, or about 500 feet, and to technology used in hydraulic fracturing.


The St. Petersburg forum, held during the city’s period of midsummer 
white nights, is Russia’s version of Davos. It is a prized chance to 
mingle with Kremlin insiders and cut deals.


The executives came even as the luster of the event was wearing off. 
Russia is sliding into a recession this year and faces risks from a 
shaky cease-fire in Ukraine. The Russian economy depends heavily on an 
oil industry hampered over the last year by a steep drop in crude 
prices. Russia could benefit greatly from investment and technology 
transfers from the multinational companies, but those are unlikely under 
the international sanctions.


A former finance minister, Aleksei L. Kudrin, cautioned of a “creeping 
change in the concept of how the market should work” in Russia; the 
government and Parliament are wiggling back toward ideas of pervasive 
state control, an old problem in Russia.


Russia will be able put an end to its economic doldrums only if domestic 
politics loosen to allow a freer atmosphere for businesses, Mr. Kudrin 
said. He suggested President Putin could call a snap election to win a 
new mandate for economic reforms that would help diversify the economy 
away from oil dependence. Mr. Putin has three years remaining on his 
six-year term.


This year, the event became a chance to resist sanctions.

European Union ambassadors agreed on Wednesday to extend by six months 
the sanctions on financial companies — and some oil and defense 
companies — calmin

[Marxism] Review: ‘Folk City’ at the Museum of the City of New York

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NY Times, June 19 2015
Review: ‘Folk City’ at the Museum of the City of New York
By JON PARELES

A well-worn 12-string guitar that belonged to Lead Belly, scratched up 
from years of strumming, and the sounds of Pete Seeger picking a banjo 
and praising hard-working Americans greet a visitor to the new 
exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York. With photographs, 
documents, instruments, videos, manuscripts and plenty of songs for 
headphone listening, the show is a fond recap of the folk revival from 
its agitprop origins and idealistic fervor to its fleeting pop peak.


The exhibition itself, “Folk City: New York and the Folk Music Revival,” 
touches very lightly on the many paradoxes and contradictions of the 
folk boom: the way rural music found its strongest champions in New York 
City, the way tradition was simultaneously venerated and tossed aside, 
the competing imperatives of politics, entertainment, musicality, 
authenticity and pop careerism. Those are explored more thoroughly in a 
companion book by the exhibition’s curator, Stephen Petrus, and Ronald 
D. Cohen.


But in its artifacts and matter-of-fact wall labels, the museum show 
captures the ambition, the ferment and the (sometimes contentious) sense 
of community that made a few blocks of Greenwich Village into a cultural 
bellwether in the 1950s and early 1960s.


One centerpiece of the exhibition is a group of penciled lyrics by Bob 
Dylan for four songs — “Masters of War,” “Blowin’ in the Wind,” “Mr. 
Tambourine Man” and “Maggie’s Farm” — that represent both the height of 
the folk revival and Mr. Dylan’s decision to move beyond protest songs. 
Next to the conclusion of “Masters of War” — “I’ll stand over your 
grave/Till I’m sure that you’re dead” — he drew a guitarist standing 
over two tombstones.


Overhead is the marquee-like sign for Gerdes Folk City — though it’s 
from the club’s second Village location, from 1970 to 1987, at 130 West 
Third Street. It was rescued by a waitress during demolition after the 
club closed and stored in a garage in upstate New York.


And there are more guitars, also scratched and scuffed with use, from 
Judy Collins, Bob Gibson, Eric Andersen and Odetta. Odetta, who died in 
2008, was a classically trained, deeply bluesy and utterly riveting 
singer. Her guitar, “Baby,” is displayed in front of a dashiki she wore 
onstage in 1969 — well after the folk revival, but fully emblematic. 
Alongside Mr. Andersen’s guitar is the grease-stained napkin on which he 
first scrawled the chorus for his song about civil rights marchers, 
“Thirsty Boots.”


Some memorabilia inspire a certain temporal envy. There’s a $2 ticket 
for a Bob Dylan concert at Town Hall in 1963. A flier for the original 
Gerdes Folk City announces headliners from what was probably December 
1962, with successive six-night stands for Doc Watson, Jean Ritchie and 
John Lee Hooker, traditional musicians who suddenly had New York City 
audiences.


“Folk City” finds the roots of the folk revival in what might be called 
a vast left-wing conspiracy: the Popular Front cultural efforts of the 
Communist Party and others during the Great Depression. (The walls of 
the exhibition rooms are painted red.) At the time, bulky but portable 
recording technology had recently made it possible to collect music 
performed outside professional studios by farmers, prisoners, fishermen, 
backwoods fiddlers and itinerant blues singers.


Ethnomusicologists like Alan Lomax sought them out and brought back 
their music for study, radio broadcasts and album releases by record 
companies in New York City. Many of the tunes were old, durable and of 
unknown authorship: music made by ordinary people, not urban professionals.


Radicals who extolled “the people” rejoiced that they had found the 
people’s music. Adding new lyrics, they sought to harness the old tunes 
for causes like the labor movement, civil rights and anti-fascism. The 
exhibition shows publications like the 1932 “Red Song Book,” which 
included songs from the Soviet Union alongside Appalachian strikers’ 
songs. Also on display is the 1939 album with Paul Robeson’s patriotic 
orchestral history lesson, “Ballad for Americans.” He performed it — 
unimaginably nowadays — at the 1940 presidential conventions for both 
the Communist and Republican Parties.


Performers with rural roots, like Woody Guthrie, Huddie Ledbetter 
(a.k.a. Lead Belly) and Joshua (later Josh) White were welcomed in New 
York and started collaborating. A neatly handwritten letter from Guthrie 
to Henrietta Yurchenko, an ethnomusicologist and radio broadcaster, 
extols Lead Belly, noting that they had been pla

Re: [Marxism] Charleston killings 'a symbolic attack on the Black community'

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It's also possible the gunman was enough of a jackass he didn't know
about that and was just among for a black gathering near Juneteenth:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/06/19/juneteenth-charleston-ame-shooting/28964807

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Re: [Marxism] Charleston killings 'a symbolic attack on the Black community'

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Sorry, I meant "was just AIMING." A poor choice of words, I realize in
retrospect.

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[Marxism] The Russian Roots of Nazism

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I see that this book was published in 2008, but this is the first that I have 
heard of it.

ken h

The Russian Roots of Nazism  White Émigrés and the Making of National 
Socialism, 1917–1945
http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/history/twentieth-century-european-history/russian-roots-nazism-white-emigres-and-making-national-socialism-19171945?format=PB#.VYPHvSjWeRQ.facebook


This book examines the overlooked topic of the influence of anti-Bolshevik, 
anti-Semitic Russian exiles on Nazism. White émigrés contributed politically, 
financially, militarily, and ideologically to National Socialism. This work 
refutes the notion that Nazism developed as a peculiarly German phenomenon: it 
arose primarily from the cooperation between völkisch (nationalist/racist) 
Germans and vengeful White émigrés. From 1920–1923, Adolf Hitler collaborated 
with a conspiratorial far right German-White émigré organization, Aufbau 
(Reconstruction). Aufbau allied with Nazis to overthrow the German government 
and Bolshevik rule through terrorism and military-paramilitary schemes. This 
organization's warnings of the monstrous 'Jewish Bolshevik' peril helped to 
inspire Hitler to launch an invasion of the Soviet Union and to initiate the 
mass murder of European Jews. This book uses extensive archival materials from 
Germany and Russia, including recently declassified documents, and will prove 
invaluable reading for anyone interested in the international roots of National 
Socialism.

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Re: [Marxism] The Russian Roots of Nazism

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I read Kellogg's book some time back, when it first came out, and felt that
the author rather overestimated the impact of the right-wing Baltic
Germans. I think that they played a catalytic role in the rise of fascism
in Germany, but I don't think that Nazism would have been qualitatively
less genocidal, or that the drive to the East for living space would have
been less fervent, had their influence been less.

Many of the ideas that the Nazis promoted during the Weimar years were
versions, amplified to varying degrees, of ideas already floating around on
the German right prior to the influx of Baltic Germans. The quest for
Eastern territories was quite a common demand on the nationalist right; the
Nazi eugenics policies were not at all uncommon not only on the German
right, but in only slightly less harsh forms in many countries amongst
people of many political standpoints. The anti-Bolshevism of the Baltic
German right-wingers added to the anti-communist sentiment on the German
right, but there was plenty of that around before they arrived.

Anti-Semitism had been on the rise in Germany even prior to the First World
War, and it developed strongly towards and after the end of the war, with
the idea of Germany's defeat being the fault of 'the stab in the back' (by
you-know-who).

I can't recall what Kellogg wrote about the arrival of the Protocols of the
Elder of Zion into Germany, but the connection with the Baltic German right
seems to be coincidental rather than direct. According to Norman Cohn's
Warrant for Genocide, the standard account of the history of the Protocols,
this document was first introduced into Europe from Russia by White-Guard
Russians. It came to Germany with the German troops retreating from the
East. The Protocols keyed in with the rising tide of anti-Semitism in
Germany (and elsewhere), and proved very popular with right-wingers.

I think, altogether, that Kellogg rather overstated his case. If one bears
that in mind, the book is nonetheless useful in bringing to light
information that is not broadly known.

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[Marxism] “Sexual Abuse… It’s Not Just In Aboriginal Communities”

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PADDY GIBSON -- Researcher from the Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning
-- in this 2 part interview explores the reality of the Northern Territory
Intervention and the spin being generated over the closure of communities
in Western Australia.He also explains the significance of  the widespread
protest movement that has developed in response to the threatened  WA
closures.

I URGE you to listen to both audio interviews. Set time aside -- they're
short --or download the files because Gibson cuts through the bullshit to
explore the horrendous reality of the existence currently being imposed on
Aboriginal Australia and especially on Aboriginal children.

Gibson also offers a POV that undermines the ready liberal facade that
seeks to sweeten the current brutality of what's happening.

CAAMA (out of Alice Springs) is a great media resource that warrants your
attention.

http://caama.com.au/sexual-abuse-its-not-just-in-aboriginal-communities


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[Marxism] SEIU Tops in Bitter Internal War

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http://sternburgerwithfries.blogspot.com/2015/06/leaked-memo-seiu-uhws-dave-regan-wages.html
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[Marxism] Greece: Thousands protest austerity, as SYRIZA refuses demands for more cuts

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Thousands of Greek people took to the streets of Athens on June 17 to
reject austerity measures and support the SYRIZA-led government.

https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/59282

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through disobedience and through rebellion.” — Oscar Wilde, Soul of Man
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“The free market is perfectly natural... do you think I am some kind of
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[Marxism] Letter from the US: The racist Charleston massacre has clear political roots

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The mass murder of nine African Americans in Charleston, South Carolina by
a white racist has been widely denounced. But to understand this hate crime
– a terrorist attack - it has to be put into a broader political context.

The killer, 21-year-old Dylann Roof, deliberately spared the life of one
woman, telling her he wanted her to report on what he had done. He told
her, among other things, that he decided to kill Black people because they
“are taking over the country”.

In short, his motives were blatantly political. And the killings occur in
the political context of the rise of the new Black Lives Matter movement
with its mass mobilisations since Ferguson last August, and the racist
counter-movement spearheaded by the police in reaction to it.

https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/59284

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“Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is humanity’s
original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made,
through disobedience and through rebellion.” — Oscar Wilde, Soul of Man
Under Socialism

“The free market is perfectly natural... do you think I am some kind of
dummy?” — Jarvis Cocker
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