Re: [Marxism] Leila Khaled in the Philippines

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Ken, this arose as I posted the url for a piece about Leila Khaled speaking
at an ILPS event in Manila.

I am not opposed to her taking advantage of any platform she can get.

This has nothing to do with what Sison may or may not have done 30 or 40
years ago.

It's as irrelevant as where people fighting repressive regimes get their
guns from or whose train Lenin rode in in 1917.

Phil


On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 6:46 PM, Ken Hiebert  wrote:

>
> Phillip Ferguson said (in part):
>
> Andy, if it is OK for people fighting for liberation in the Middle East to
> get guns from imperialism (and I think it is), then it is OK for Leila
> Khaled to take advantage of a mass audience offered to her in the
> Philippines.
>
> The charges about threatening to kill Walden Bello were, afaik, dealt with
> years ago and it turned out they did no such thing, although they certainly
> attacked Bello strongly over some stuff - if I recall rightly it was dodgy
> NGO stuff.
>
> What does "ultra-Maoist" mean in the context of 2015?
>
> The NPA has - and celebrates - gay marriage in its ranks and the CPP is
> heavily involved in the gay and trans movement in the Philippines (in fact
> they lead such a movement).  Is that 'ultra-Maoist' too?
>
>
>
> Ken Hiebert replies:
>
> Andrew Pollack's accusation that Sison was responsible for the death of CPP 
> members did not provoke a denial from Philip, but he did balk at the 
> suggestion that Walden Bello had been targeted.  This seems to be a detail if 
> you are not willing to deny that the CPP killed its own members.
>
>
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[Marxism] The state of the working class in NZ

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https://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/12/16/the-state-of-the-working-class-in-new-zealand-today/
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[Marxism] Work til you drop - capitalism versus us

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Whatever happened to the leisure society?
https://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/12/16/the-state-of-the-working-class-in-new-zealand-today/

Pensions and retirement - the problem is capitalism, not an aging
population:
https://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/12/16/the-state-of-the-working-class-in-new-zealand-today/

The pensions/retirement issue is a really good example of capitalist
ideology at work.  Such ideology is not, or not usually, some kind of
conspiracy which is beamed into our heads via the media but arises
spontaneously out of the realities and limits of capitalism, which appear
as 'natural' limits.

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[Marxism] Portugal's political crisis—what do people think?

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After the Socialist Party (PS) had reached its agreements with the
Portuguese Communist Party (PCP), Left Bloc and the Greens (PEV) on the
basis of an anti-austerity alternative to the conservative Portugal Ahead
coalition of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) and the Democratic and
Social Centre-People's Party (CDS-PP), the web site Esquerda.net, interviewed
a range of Portuguese people

to get their comments. Translation by Dick Nichols
.

http://links.org.au/node/4594


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[Marxism] Fwd: Michael Griffin, 'Islamic State: Rewriting History' and Patrick Cockburn, 'The Rise of Islamic State' | Inside Higher Ed

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Re: [Marxism] Leila Khaled in the Philippines

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MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE DONE???
First of all, Sison's own supporters admit the killings, they just say the
policy was later abandoned (in a "rectification" campaign).
Secondly, I don't know where you got your training, Ferguson, but where I
come from ANY violence against a comrade or coworker is 100% expressly
forbidden. And apologizing for it or lying about it is morally
reprehensible.
The fact that you defend murder chills my blood. And the fact that, in a
moment when Palestinian youth are mobilizing without and even against the
old factions, you are still promoting tired old Stalinists, convinces me
that your ideas are an obstacle to the reorganization of the global left.

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> Ken, this arose as I posted the url for a piece about Leila Khaled speaking
> at an ILPS event in Manila.
>
> I am not opposed to her taking advantage of any platform she can get.
>
> This has nothing to do with what Sison may or may not have done 30 or 40
> years ago.
>
> It's as irrelevant as where people fighting repressive regimes get their
> guns from or whose train Lenin rode in in 1917.
>
> Phil
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 6:46 PM, Ken Hiebert  wrote:
>
> >
> > Phillip Ferguson said (in part):
> >
> > Andy, if it is OK for people fighting for liberation in the Middle East
> to
> > get guns from imperialism (and I think it is), then it is OK for Leila
> > Khaled to take advantage of a mass audience offered to her in the
> > Philippines.
> >
> > The charges about threatening to kill Walden Bello were, afaik, dealt
> with
> > years ago and it turned out they did no such thing, although they
> certainly
> > attacked Bello strongly over some stuff - if I recall rightly it was
> dodgy
> > NGO stuff.
> >
> > What does "ultra-Maoist" mean in the context of 2015?
> >
> > The NPA has - and celebrates - gay marriage in its ranks and the CPP is
> > heavily involved in the gay and trans movement in the Philippines (in
> fact
> > they lead such a movement).  Is that 'ultra-Maoist' too?
> >
> >
> >
> > Ken Hiebert replies:
> >
> > Andrew Pollack's accusation that Sison was responsible for the death of
> CPP members did not provoke a denial from Philip, but he did balk at the
> suggestion that Walden Bello had been targeted.  This seems to be a detail
> if you are not willing to deny that the CPP killed its own members.
> >
> >
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[Marxism] "Interview with the GDR’s Margot Honecker--‘The past was brought back’ "

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Workers World

November 16, 2015

Interview with the GDR’s Margot Honecker--‘The past was brought back’ 

By Workers World staff 

Interview: Antonis Polychronakis

Margot Honecker, born in 1927, former minister of education of the German 
Democratic Republic and widow of longtime Socialist Unity Party (SED) Secretary 
General and GDR State Chairperson Erich Honecker (1912-1994), had not commented 
publicly for a long time from her self-chosen place of exile near Santiago de 
Chile. In October, however, the Athenian and Macedonian News Agency (ANA-MPA) 
published the following interview in highly abbreviated form (the long version, 
published here, was reserved for subscribers). The German daily newspaper Junge 
Welt published the complete interview exclusively in the German language, and 
thanks the Greek colleagues for their kind permission to print. 

Workers World thanks both Junge Welt and the Greek journalists for permission 
to publish this interview, which contains much information about the history of 
the German Democratic Republic and its position on the front line of the class 
war between two social systems from 1945 to 1989. Translation from German by 
Greg Butterfield and John Catalinotto.

Antonis Polychronakis: How did the events of 1989 come about? How did you and 
your spouse personally experience them?

Margot Honecker: If you mean by “the events of 1989,” those of the fall of that 
year, and particularly the events in the GDR, which I describe as a 
counterrevolution, one would have to write books about it. And many indeed have 
already been written. That cannot be described adequately with a brief answer. 
Perhaps only this: There was an objective link between foreign and internal 
political factors. The arms race the United States in the Reagan era forced 
upon the Soviet Union reached its desired objective: that the Soviet Union 
armed itself to death. The consequent economic burden for the USSR led to 
serious social dislocations in the country, which meant that the leading power 
of the socialist camp could hardly do justice to its domestic and foreign 
policy responsibilities. The Soviet Union tried to regain mastery of its 
situation through reforms, and these were initially well intended. But soon the 
so-called reformers grabbed hold of the central foundations of politics and 
economics and steered a course toward economic disaster and the destabilization 
of society. The end result was the surrender of all Soviet achievements. It was 
not only that these changes were applauded in the West. Also, in some socialist 
countries neighboring the GDR, “reformers” were active and were supported by 
the West.

The GDR was involved in this global conflict. In the end, it was part of the 
socialist community. And in the 1980s, the GDR was also faced with the need to 
develop or correct its economic policies. There were shortcomings in supply, 
deficits in social life, which led to dissatisfaction. We have not always done 
our homework properly — partly from our own inability, partly we were blocked.

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[Marxism] John Wight and Mossad see eye to eye

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John Wight: "Barrel bombs are an atrociously indiscriminate weapon, for 
sure, and their use rightly comes under the category of atrocity. 
However just as the atrocity of the allied firebombing of Dresden in 
1945 did not invalidate the war against European fascism then, neither 
does the atrocity of Syrian barrel bombs invalidate the war against its 
Middle East equivalent today. When the survival of a country and its 
culture and history is at stake, war can never be anything other than 
ugly, which is why the sooner it is brought to a conclusion in Syria the 
better."


Tim Arango reporting in today's NY Times:
Speaking on Israeli radio on Sunday, Shabtai Shavit, a former chief of 
Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service, said the international 
coalition that has been fighting the Islamic State for more than a year 
must “stop talking and start doing.”


He continued: “With this enemy, we have to push aside arguments on law, 
morality and comparisons of security and the rights of the individual. 
That means to do what they did in World War II to Dresden. They wiped it 
off the map. That is what has to be done to all the territorial enclaves 
that ISIS is holding.”

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[Marxism] Two articles on New Cold War

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http://newcoldwar.org/russias-fsb-says-plane-over-egypt-was-downed-by-a-bomb/

http://newcoldwar.org/western-bomb-conspiracy-wheel-spins-as-investigations-of-egypt-to-russia-flight-continue/

This shift in line does not do much for the credibility of Russian media or for 
the credibility of New Cold War.

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[Marxism] A Manhattan Hardware Store Welcomes Refugees as Governors Vow to Shut Them Out

[Louis Proyect via Marxism]

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(I've been shopping here ever since I moved into my building 3 blocks 
north on Third Ave in 1979. You have to be careful, however, because 
they are price-gougers to some extent. I never paid much attention to 
the people working there but they always struck me as ethnically diverse 
and a bit distant. It turns out that they are mostly refugees from 
places torn by war and political persecution. I guess that compensates 
for the price-gouging, at least in my book.)


NY Times, Nov. 18 2015
A Manhattan Hardware Store Welcomes Refugees as Governors Vow to Shut 
Them Out

About New York
By JIM DWYER

Chris Christie of New Jersey and at least 25 other governors have said 
they do not want Syrian refugees to come to their states.


Then again, there is Wankel’s, a family-owned hardware store that opened 
on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in the 19th century. For decades, it 
has hired people who came to the United States fleeing violence and 
persecution.


“People coming from really bad situations, trying to make a better life 
in America,” said Sean Wankel, 32, vice president of Wankel’s. “Or a life.”


The refugees come to Wankel’s through resettlement agencies like 
Catholic Charities or the International Rescue Committee and stay for a 
few months or years as they get their bearings in a new world. On a wall 
map, colored pins mark the three dozen countries from which the Wankel 
workers have come.


Felix Royce, 39, started in the store two months ago. Like many before 
him, he is new to retail work; in Nigeria, he had been a pastor and an 
author. He said the picture on his book jacket made him a target of the 
Boko Haram, a murderous sect of anti-Western Islamists who rose in a 
swamp of official corruption and violence. Among Boko Haram’s infamous 
atrocities was the kidnapping of scores of schoolgirls in 2014.


“They organize mock street fights and send little kids with suicide 
bombs,” Mr. Royce said. “ISIS is more sensible than Boko Haram. You 
would have insiders, police officers and politicians who collaborate 
with the Boko Haram. You didn’t know who to trust.”


In fear of his life, he said, he made his way to Houston and applied for 
asylum, appearing without a lawyer three times in front of immigration 
judges before being formally admitted to the United States. He, his wife 
and their two children now live in the Bronx, aided by the International 
Rescue Committee.


“I am sitting here,” he said, “trying to put my life together. We are 
just trying to find our feet.”


Mr. Royce said he had been closely following the news of the attacks in 
Paris on Friday evening by bombers and gunmen connected to the Islamic 
State, also called ISIS or ISIL.


A tiny fraction of the refugees leaving Syria have been permitted into 
the United States — fewer than nine a week between Oct. 1, 2011, and 
Sept. 30 of this year, a total of 1,854 — as an estimated four million 
people fled the deteriorating nation. President Obama said the United 
States would accept 10,000 refugees from Syria in the coming fiscal 
year. Republicans in Congress and in statehouses are objecting, saying 
that terrorists like those involved in the Paris attacks could 
camouflage themselves in the stream of legitimate refugees.


Representative Paul D. Ryan, Republican of Wisconsin, the newly 
inaugurated House speaker, called for a “pause” in the refugee 
resettlement program. Mr. Christie, seeking the Republican presidential 
nomination, released a letter he sent to the president.


“I write to inform you that I will not accept any refugees from Syria in 
the wake of the deadly terrorist attack in Paris,” he wrote, saying 
federal screening procedures were inadequate. “Neither you nor any 
federal official can guarantee that Syrian refugees will not be part of 
any terroristic activity.”


New Yorkers might imagine police barricades being set up around the 
World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, to prevent people from fleeing the 
collapsing towers because no one could guarantee they would not be part 
of any future terroristic activity.


It is not clear whether Mr. Christie or any other governor can refuse to 
“accept” refugees. As a practical matter, New Jersey does not have 
border controls, and probably could not set up traffic lanes for 
citizenship papers at places like the Lincoln Tunnel.


Other Republican candidates, including Ted Cruz and Jeb Bush, said they 
would permit Christian refugees from Syria, but not Muslims.


At the hardware store where he has found work, in a city where he and 
his family have taken refuge, Mr. Royce was polite in assessing the 
proposed restrictions.


“Some people are sayi

[Marxism] Hans Mommsen, Who Studied Volkswagen’s Role in Nazi Era, Dies at 85

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NY Times, Nov. 18 2015
Hans Mommsen, Who Studied Volkswagen’s Role in Nazi Era, Dies at 85
By MARGALIT FOX

Hans Mommsen, considered the leading German historian of the Third 
Reich, whose work encompassed the origins of the Holocaust as well as a 
widely publicized report documenting Volkswagen’s wartime use of slave 
labor, died in Tutzing, near Munich, on Nov. 5, his 85th birthday.


His wife, Margareta Mommsen, confirmed his death.

The Volkswagen study, published in 1996, was the product of some $2 
million in financing by Volkswagen and eight years’ research by 
Professor Mommsen and his co-author, Manfred Grieger. Carl Hahn, the 
Volkswagen chairman who commissioned it, did so expressly to examine the 
wartime role of the company, one of a number of German concerns to use 
slave labor in those years.


The finished report, “Das Volkswagenwerk und Seine Arbeiter im Dritten 
Reich” (“Volkswagen and Its Workers During the Third Reich”), drew on 
rarely seen company archives. Spanning more than a thousand pages, it 
chronicled Volkswagen’s use of slaves — among them Soviet prisoners of 
war and Jews from Auschwitz, Dachau and Bergen-Belsen — to build 
automobiles and armaments during the Nazi era.


The son of a distinguished multigenerational family of historians, 
Professor Mommsen was known internationally for his writings on the Nazi 
regime and on the Weimar Republic it had supplanted. Writing in The New 
York Times in 1997, the Israeli writer and historian Amos Elon called 
him “the dean of German Holocaust studies.”


Historians have often characterized the Third Reich as a streamlined, 
top-down operation that crisply carried out Hitler’s orders. Professor 
Mommsen, in contrast, challenged the idea that Nazi ideology — and the 
workings of the Nazi machine — stemmed solely from Hitler and his 
high-ranking associates.


He described the Reich as a more chaotic entity than was generally 
supposed, a tangled, inefficient web of factions competing for the 
Führer’s favor. While in no way absolving Hitler of responsibility for 
the Holocaust, Professor Mommsen characterized him as a sometimes weak 
leader who could be goaded by underlings into setting murderous policies 
in motion.


“You are confronted with never-ending rivalries between the Nazi 
chieftains, while the system is held together by the Führer cult,” 
Professor Mommsen said in a 1997 interview with Yad Vashem, the 
Holocaust memorial and research center in Jerusalem. “The political 
decision-making process remained completely informal, and there was no 
institutional facility in which to discuss critical issues between 
divergent power holders. As a consequence, the alleged unity of the will 
did not really exist.”


Professor Mommsen did not, however, endorse the position of the American 
political scientist Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, whose best-selling 1996 
book, “Hitler’s Willing Executioners,” argued that the Holocaust had 
sprung in no small measure from the mass anti-Semitism of ordinary Germans.


“He does not have any understanding of the diversities within German 
anti-Semitism, and he does not know very much about the internal 
structure of the Third Reich, either,” Professor Mommsen, who often 
opposed Mr. Goldhagen in public debates, said of him in the Yad Vashem 
interview.


Hans Mommsen was born on Nov. 5, 1930, in Marburg, Germany. His 
great-grandfather Theodor Mommsen received the 1902 Nobel Prize in 
Literature for his historical writings, notably a study of ancient Rome. 
Hans’s father, Wilhelm, was a historian who lost his academic post in 
1945 after he was accused of being insufficiently de-Nazified.


Hans’s identical twin brother, Wolfgang, who died in 2004, was also a 
noted historian, as was an older brother, Karl.


Hans Mommsen studied at the universities of Marburg, Tübingen and 
Heidelberg. He taught at Heidelberg before joining the faculty of Ruhr 
University Bochum, in west-central Germany. At his death he was an 
emeritus professor of modern history there.


Professor Mommsen’s Volkswagen report was notably critical of Ferdinand 
Porsche, a Nazi Party member who had founded Volkswagen in the 1930s. 
(After the war, Porsche introduced the sports car that bears his name.)


Volkswagen had the enthusiastic support of Hitler, who wanted to produce 
an affordable “people’s car” — the Beetle, introduced in the late ’30s. 
During the war years, Professor Mommsen’s report asserted, Porsche had 
regarded the company’s use of slave labor, and the many deaths that 
resulted, with casual indifference.


Porsche, the authors wrote, “walked through these crimes like a 
sleepwalker.”


By the time their

[Marxism] Axis of Resistance, incorporated

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International support
Far-right

Assad has attracted support from the far-right both before and during 
the Syrian Civil War. Former leader of the Ku Klux Klan David Duke 
hosted a televised speech on Syrian national television in 2005.[190] 
The Ukrainian far right figure Georgy Shchokin was invited to Syria in 
2006 by the Syrian foreign minister and awarded a medal by the Ba'ath 
party, while Shchokin's institution the Interregional Academy of 
Personnel Management awarded Assad with an honorary doctorate.[191] In 
2014, research by the Simon Wiesenthal Center concluded that Bashar 
al-Assad had, like his father Hafez al-Assad, sheltered Nazi war 
criminal Alois Brunner in Syria. Brunner was Adolf Eichmann’s top 
lieutenant and was believed to have advised the Assad regime on torture 
techniques[192] and on purging Syria's Jewish community.[193] Brunner is 
thought to have died in Syria of natural causes in 2010.


The National Front in France has been a prominent supporter of Assad 
since the civil war,[194] as has the former leader of the neo-fascist 
Third Way (Troisième voie) organization.[190] In Italy, the far right 
parties Forza Nuova and CasaPound have both been supportive of Assad, 
with Forza Nuova putting up pro-Assad posters and the party's leader 
praising Assad's commitment to the ideology of Arab nationalism in 
2013,[195] while CasaPound has issued statements of support for 
Assad.[196] Syrian Social Nationalist Party representative Ouday Ramadan 
has worked in Italy to organize support movements for Assad.[197] Other 
far-right political parties expressing support for Assad include the 
National Democratic Party of Germany,[198] the National Revival of 
Poland,[190] the Freedom Party of Austria,[199] the Bulgarian Ataka 
party,[200] the Hungarian Jobbik party,[201] the Serbian Radical 
Party,[202] the Portuguese National Renovator Party,[203] as well as the 
Spanish Falange Española de las JONS[204] and Authentic Falange 
parties.[205] The Greek Neo-Nazi political party Golden Dawn has spoken 
out in favor of the Assad regime,[206] and the more radical Strasserist 
group Black Lily has claimed to have sent mercenaries to Syria to fight 
alongside the Syrian regime, specifically mentioning their participation 
in the Battle of al-Qusayr.[207]


Far-right politician Nick Griffin, the former leader of the British 
National Party, has been chosen by the Assad regime to represent the 
United Kingdom as an ambassador and at regime-held conferences; Griffin 
had been an official guest of the Assad regime three times since the 
outbreak of the civil war.[208] The European Solidarity Front for Syria, 
representing several extreme right political groups from across Europe, 
has had their delegations received by the Syrian national parliament, 
with one particular delegation being met by Syrian head of parliament 
Mohammad Jihad al-Laham, Prime Minister Wael Nader Al-Halqi and Deputy 
Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad.[197] Most recently, Assad met with Filip 
Dewinter of the Belgian far-right party Vlaams Belang.[209]



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[Marxism] Fwd: Putin the ‘Only Defender of Christianity’ – Bashar Assad

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Re: [Marxism] Leila Khaled in the Philippines

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No, Andrew I don't defend murder.

This whole thing began because, after I posted a PFLP piece about Leila
Khaled - NOT about Sison - you launched into a big attack on Sison!!!  You
are obsessed with the dude.  You attempted to divert it into an entire
different discussion, which had nothng to do with the PFLP piece and what
Leila Khaled said at the conference.  Then you launch into hyperbole
accusing me of defending murder.  And I assume it is Leila Khaled you are
calling a "tired old Stalinist".  I'll leave it to other comrades to draw
their own conclusions about that sot of name-calling.

You are sadly living in the past - obsessed with 'Stalinists' when it is a
meaningless term in the 21st century.

I have no intention of carrying on further discussion with anyone obsessed
with reliving the Trotsky-Stalin dispute and who sees Stalinism - and wants
to denounce it - any time they see anyone speaking at an ILPS event.
Grief, you need to move on,

Phil



On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 3:14 AM, Andrew Pollack 
wrote:

> MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE DONE???
> First of all, Sison's own supporters admit the killings, they just say the
> policy was later abandoned (in a "rectification" campaign).
> Secondly, I don't know where you got your training, Ferguson, but where I
> come from ANY violence against a comrade or coworker is 100% expressly
> forbidden. And apologizing for it or lying about it is morally
> reprehensible.
> The fact that you defend murder chills my blood. And the fact that, in a
> moment when Palestinian youth are mobilizing without and even against the
> old factions, you are still promoting tired old Stalinists, convinces me
> that your ideas are an obstacle to the reorganization of the global left.
>
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 2:59 AM, Philip Ferguson via Marxism <
> marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote:
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>> Ken, this arose as I posted the url for a piece about Leila Khaled
>> speaking
>> at an ILPS event in Manila.
>>
>> I am not opposed to her taking advantage of any platform she can get.
>>
>> This has nothing to do with what Sison may or may not have done 30 or 40
>> years ago.
>>
>> It's as irrelevant as where people fighting repressive regimes get their
>> guns from or whose train Lenin rode in in 1917.
>>
>> Phil
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 6:46 PM, Ken Hiebert  wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > Phillip Ferguson said (in part):
>> >
>> > Andy, if it is OK for people fighting for liberation in the Middle East
>> to
>> > get guns from imperialism (and I think it is), then it is OK for Leila
>> > Khaled to take advantage of a mass audience offered to her in the
>> > Philippines.
>> >
>> > The charges about threatening to kill Walden Bello were, afaik, dealt
>> with
>> > years ago and it turned out they did no such thing, although they
>> certainly
>> > attacked Bello strongly over some stuff - if I recall rightly it was
>> dodgy
>> > NGO stuff.
>> >
>> > What does "ultra-Maoist" mean in the context of 2015?
>> >
>> > The NPA has - and celebrates - gay marriage in its ranks and the CPP is
>> > heavily involved in the gay and trans movement in the Philippines (in
>> fact
>> > they lead such a movement).  Is that 'ultra-Maoist' too?
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Ken Hiebert replies:
>> >
>> > Andrew Pollack's accusation that Sison was responsible for the death of
>> CPP members did not provoke a denial from Philip, but he did balk at the
>> suggestion that Walden Bello had been targeted.  This seems to be a detail
>> if you are not willing to deny that the CPP killed its own members.
>> >
>> >
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[Marxism] Leila Khaled in the Philippines

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Oops, I do have one more thing to say re Andy.

People who might have missed the original article can see it here:
https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/11/18/leila-khaled-in-the-philippines/

This is what Andy took huge exception to and began to divert into a
discussion about Sison and Stalinism and murder.

More fool me for having responded in the first place to his diversionary
efforts.  I should have just ignored it, since I know the reaction the
letters ILPS induce in him.

Now, I really am done on the subject, except to say it looks like Leila's
Philippines trip has been a big success.

Phil
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[Marxism] Fwd: Interview with Radio Zamaneh: On the Syrian Democratic and Revolutionary Opposition | Syria Freedom Forever – سوريا الحرية للأبد

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Finally, it seems necessary to repeat that any possibility for the self 
determination of the Kurdish people and concrete and long term 
amelioration of the living conditions of the Kurdish people, just as for 
the other religious and ethnic minorities in Syria, are linked to the 
deepening and victory of the revolutionary process in Syria and the 
achievement of its objectives against the Assad regime and the Islamic 
reactionary forces. The autonomous regions of Rojava are indeed a result 
of the mobilisation of the mass popular movement from below by the 
people of Syria (Arabs, Kurds and Assyrians together) against the 
criminal Assad regime began in March 2011. The rise of the popular 
uprising pushed the Assad regime to conclude a deal with the armed 
forces of the PYD in July 2012 in which they withdrew from several 
regions, current Rojava cantons, to redeploy its armed forces in other 
regions to repress them.


https://syriafreedomforever.wordpress.com/2015/11/17/interview-with-radio-zamaneh-on-the-syrian-democratic-and-revolutionary-opposition/
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[Marxism] Lessons of a factory occupation, 1981, Laurence Scott's, Manchester

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I've just put up on Redline a fascinating three-part piece on a factory
occupation that took place at Laurence Scott and Electromotors in
Manchester in 1981.  The pieces were written during the occupation, by one
of the leading shopfloor militants, Dave Hallsworth, and by two supporters
of the occupation.
See:
https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/11/19/lessons-of-a-factory-occupation-laurence-scotts-manchester-1981/

Twenty years later Dave wrote a retrospective piece on the struggle at the
factory and what it showed about the wider state of the trade union
movement in Britain at the time.  It appears here:
http://www.spiked-online.com/Printable/0002D3D5.htm

Dave joined the british navy as a 14-year-old boy and witnessed firsthand
the horrors of British imperialism inflicted around the globe.  He then met
a young woman in the Young Communist League and married her.  For making
trouble he was expelled out of the Royal Navy.  He joined the CP, but he
and Elsie parted company with the British CP following the 1956 revelations
about Stalin and the crushing of the Hungarian workers' revolt.  For
supporting the Hungarian rising him and Elsie were denounced as
'Trotskyites', so decided to check out what the 'Trotskyites' were about,
and passed through the Healy movement and then into Cliff's IS and,
subsequently, just before the occupation began, the RCT (which later became
the RCP).  The obit appears here:
http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/3797#.Vk0fyrLQpcZ

Phil
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[Marxism] Five years since the Pike River killings

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Today, Nov 19, is the 5th anniversary of the deaths - in fact, killings -
of 29 miners at the Pike River mine in Westland, New Zealand.

The company was shown - even in the bourgeois court - to have put profit
above safety, and being responsible for the deaths.

The killings at Pike River were not only the result of the company,
however, but of both Labour and National governments and the leadership of
the main union (the EPMU, whose leader is now the leader of the Labour
Party).

The bodies of the 29 men have never been gotten out of the mine, despite
promises by the prime minister at the time that they would be retrieved.

Our collection of articles is here:
https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/11/18/never-forget-pike-river-the-lessons-we-need-to-draw/

On Tuesday night, TV1 showed a new documentary on the tragedy, called 'The
Women of Pike River', which focused on half a dozen female family members
and their struggle since the November 2010 blasts.  It is currently showing
at film festivals.  It's not especially political but it does bring out
some of the most important points and it's interesting in watching the
changing behaviour of the prime minister over time - from posing as their
friend who would ensure the bodies were retrieved, to very briefly chatting
to them on a picket line to later totally ignoring them and not even making
eye contact.  For info on the documentary see:
http://www.nziff.co.nz/2015/christchurch/the-women-of-pike-river/
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[Marxism] Sanders vs. McLevy

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Reason Magazine columnist Jesse Walker just published a piece singing
the praises of Jasper McLevy - another self-avowed socialist politician
from pre-WWII New England, but one that even a libertarian could admire
because he was a fiscal conservative:

https://reason.com/blog/2015/11/18/what-bernie-sanders-wont-say-in-his-soci

Apparently, Walker didn't do his homework on Sanders:

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/10/31/socialist-even-conservative-could-love-burlington-mayor-sanders-was-able-out-republican-republicans/SCmh2TLifXxXRPFKC8NMjO/story.html
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Re: [Marxism] Sanders vs. McLevy

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On 11/18/15 8:58 PM, Shalva Eliava via Marxism wrote:

Reason Magazine columnist Jesse Walker just published a piece singing
the praises of Jasper McLevy - another self-avowed socialist politician
from pre-WWII New England, but one that even a libertarian could admire
because he was a fiscal conservative:

https://reason.com/blog/2015/11/18/what-bernie-sanders-wont-say-in-his-soci


I really can't stand these people. Koch funded, "freedom" loving, 
self-regarding Ivy graduates who don't know what it means to be desperate.

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[Marxism] Europe after Paris attacks: Elites seek to exploit terror

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As the initial horror and outrage of the attacks in Paris on November 13
subside, the impacts they are already having on French and European society
are becoming clearer.

A state of emergency has been declared by the French government and will
persist for up to three months.

French officials announced on November 17 that France would see an extra
115,000 police officers, gendarmes and soldiers deployed across the country.

In this context, rational debate is being restricted and progressive
movements are on the defensive.
https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/60699

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original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made,
through disobedience and through rebellion.” — Oscar Wilde, Soul of Man
Under Socialism

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[Marxism] Half of New Yorkers Say They Are Barely or Not Getting By, Poll Shows

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NY Times, Nov. 18 2019
Half of New Yorkers Say They Are Barely or Not Getting By, Poll Shows
By ALEXANDER BURNS and GIOVANNI RUSSONELLO

Half of New York City residents say they are struggling economically, 
making ends meet just barely, if at all, and most feel sharp uncertainty 
about the future of the city’s next generation, a new poll shows.


The poll, conducted by The New York Times and Siena College, shows great 
disparities in quality of life among the city’s five boroughs. The 
stresses weighing on New Yorkers vary widely, from the Bronx, where 
residents feel acute concern about access to jobs and educational 
opportunity, to Staten Island, where one in five report recently 
experiencing vandalism or theft.


But an atmosphere of economic anxiety pervades all areas of the city: 51 
percent of New Yorkers said they were either just getting by or finding 
it difficult to do so.


Even in Manhattan, three in 10 said they were just getting by. 
(Fifty-eight percent said they were doing all right or thriving 
financially — the highest response of the five boroughs.)


In some respects, the poll echoed the “tale of two cities” theme of 
Mayor Bill de Blasio’s 2013 campaign: Residents of the Bronx and 
Brooklyn shared the most pronounced sense of economic insecurity, and 
the lowest confidence in local government and the police — a distinctly 
different experience from the rest of the city.


In those boroughs, nearly three in five residents said they were 
straining to make ends meet. In the Bronx, 36 percent said there had 
been times in the past year when they did not have the money to buy 
enough food for their family; only one in five said they and their 
neighbors had good or excellent access to suitable jobs.


But if the city appears divided into broad camps of haves and have-nots, 
it was, perhaps surprisingly, the less privileged segments of New York 
that shared the most positive outlook on the future.


Four in 10 Brooklyn residents said their neighborhood was getting 
better, and 36 percent of Bronx residents said the same. Manhattanites 
and Staten Islanders were most likely to say things were getting worse 
in their area.


Almost two years into the term of a liberal mayor elected in a populist 
landslide, the city’s poor and minorities, and the residents of the 
Bronx and Brooklyn, describe lives fraught with more difficulty than 
others. But they also express more optimism.


Matt Walker, 28, a resident of Flatbush, Brooklyn, said in a follow-up 
interview that finding long-term employment was a challenge. Mr. Walker, 
who is an engineer, said he had recently lost a “middle management-type 
position” and was searching for stable work.


“I’ll probably find another job in a month or two, because of my field, 
engineering,” Mr. Walker said. “A lot of people say it’s difficult to 
find a steady job that pays enough and that you can hold on to. If 
anything goes wrong with the company, you’re out the door.”


By almost every measure, residents of the Bronx had the deepest concerns 
about their neighborhoods: Half of respondents there said it was likely 
that a young person in the neighborhood would abuse drugs or alcohol. 
Thirty-seven percent said it was likely that a young person in the 
neighborhood would join a gang, whereas 19 percent of Manhattan 
residents and 16 percent of Staten Island residents said the same.


Just six in 10 Bronx residents said it was likely that a young person in 
their neighborhood would graduate from high school, compared with about 
three-quarters of New Yorkers over all. Meanwhile, 44 percent of 
respondents in the Bronx said it was probable that the children around 
them would grow up having a relative who is incarcerated. (The citywide 
number is lower, about one-third, but it rises to 52 percent among 
African-Americans.)


Government is not seen as addressing the problems that trouble these 
areas: In the Bronx, only one in five respondents gave local government 
high marks for meeting their needs. In Brooklyn, that figure was a bit 
higher, at 26 percent, compared with roughly a third in Manhattan, 
Queens and Staten Island.


Don Levy, director of the Siena College Research Institute, said 
residents of Manhattan and Queens, as well as whites in general, were 
clearly more likely to say that they were doing all right or living 
comfortably. “But a majority of residents of the Bronx or Brooklyn and 
nearly three-quarters of those earning under $50,000 are either just 
getting by or finding it difficult to manage financially,” Mr. Levy said.


The citywide survey of 1,961 adult New Yorkers was conducted by 
telephone from Oct. 29 to Nov.

[Marxism] Fwd: The Shia jihad and the death of Syria’s army | Middle East Eye

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Division 9 is the largest and most important military force for Assad in 
southern Syria. It houses the only tank division, and has around 4,000 
troops within four brigades.


However, most of the troops within the division are now non-Syrians: 
“Without the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Lebanese 
Hezbollah the army could not stand up. Seventy percent of the troops in 
Division 9 are Iranian troops or Lebanese Hezbollah, the rest are 
shabiha. Only two to three percent are regular Syrian soldiers,” Khaled 
said.


full: 
http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/shia-jihad-and-death-syria-s-army-1508759016

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Re: [Marxism] Half of New Yorkers Say They Are Barely or Not Getting By, Poll Shows

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This is patently false! Labor's share is amd always has been rising! Just ask 
Michael Roberts. Please stop posting underconsumptionist propaganda...


> On Nov 18, 2015, at 9:30 PM, Louis Proyect via Marxism 
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> NY Times, Nov. 18 2019
> Half of New Yorkers Say They Are Barely or Not Getting By, Poll Shows
> By ALEXANDER BURNS and GIOVANNI RUSSONELLO
> 
> Half of New York City residents say they are struggling economically, making 
> ends meet just barely, if at all, and most feel sharp uncertainty about the 
> future of the city’s next generation, a new poll shows.
> 
> The poll, conducted by The New York Times and Siena College, shows great 
> disparities in quality of life among the city’s five boroughs. The stresses 
> weighing on New Yorkers vary widely, from the Bronx, where residents feel 
> acute concern about access to jobs and educational opportunity, to Staten 
> Island, where one in five report recently experiencing vandalism or theft.
> 
> But an atmosphere of economic anxiety pervades all areas of the city: 51 
> percent of New Yorkers said they were either just getting by or finding it 
> difficult to do so.
> 
> Even in Manhattan, three in 10 said they were just getting by. (Fifty-eight 
> percent said they were doing all right or thriving financially — the highest 
> response of the five boroughs.)
> 
> In some respects, the poll echoed the “tale of two cities” theme of Mayor 
> Bill de Blasio’s 2013 campaign: Residents of the Bronx and Brooklyn shared 
> the most pronounced sense of economic insecurity, and the lowest confidence 
> in local government and the police — a distinctly different experience from 
> the rest of the city.
> 
> In those boroughs, nearly three in five residents said they were straining to 
> make ends meet. In the Bronx, 36 percent said there had been times in the 
> past year when they did not have the money to buy enough food for their 
> family; only one in five said they and their neighbors had good or excellent 
> access to suitable jobs.
> 
> But if the city appears divided into broad camps of haves and have-nots, it 
> was, perhaps surprisingly, the less privileged segments of New York that 
> shared the most positive outlook on the future.
> 
> Four in 10 Brooklyn residents said their neighborhood was getting better, and 
> 36 percent of Bronx residents said the same. Manhattanites and Staten 
> Islanders were most likely to say things were getting worse in their area.
> 
> Almost two years into the term of a liberal mayor elected in a populist 
> landslide, the city’s poor and minorities, and the residents of the Bronx and 
> Brooklyn, describe lives fraught with more difficulty than others. But they 
> also express more optimism.
> 
> Matt Walker, 28, a resident of Flatbush, Brooklyn, said in a follow-up 
> interview that finding long-term employment was a challenge. Mr. Walker, who 
> is an engineer, said he had recently lost a “middle management-type position” 
> and was searching for stable work.
> 
> “I’ll probably find another job in a month or two, because of my field, 
> engineering,” Mr. Walker said. “A lot of people say it’s difficult to find a 
> steady job that pays enough and that you can hold on to. If anything goes 
> wrong with the company, you’re out the door.”
> 
> By almost every measure, residents of the Bronx had the deepest concerns 
> about their neighborhoods: Half of respondents there said it was likely that 
> a young person in the neighborhood would abuse drugs or alcohol. Thirty-seven 
> percent said it was likely that a young person in the neighborhood would join 
> a gang, whereas 19 percent of Manhattan residents and 16 percent of Staten 
> Island residents said the same.
> 
> Just six in 10 Bronx residents said it was likely that a young person in 
> their neighborhood would graduate from high school, compared with about 
> three-quarters of New Yorkers over all. Meanwhile, 44 percent of respondents 
> in the Bronx said it was probable that the children around them would grow up 
> having a relative who is incarcerated. (The citywide number is lower, about 
> one-third, but it rises to 52 percent among African-Americans.)
> 
> Government is not seen as addressing the problems that trouble these areas: 
> In the Bronx, only one in five respondents gave local government hig

[Marxism] Guardian: Gender pay gap closing partially because of men's declining wages, report says

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I was tempted to think that this EPI report on the dialectic between men and 
women's wages was really significant:

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/nov/18/gender-pay-gap-men-wages-economic-policy-institute-report

...until I remembered the wisdom of the Falling Rate of Profit guru Andrew 
Kliman (intellectual father of Michael Roberts):

"Or consider women. [Underconsumptionist heretics] have not a word to say about 
their wages. Is this due to sexism? I doubt it. I suspect, instead, that they 
chose to ignore the strong growth of women’s wages because it does not fit in 
well with the class war/declining labor share thesis. The real “median usual 
weekly earnings” of women employed full-time rose by 22% between 1979 and 2007, 
even if we use the CPI-W to adjust for inflation. They rose by 27% if we use 
the CPI-U-RS and by 35% if we use the PCEPI. How was this possible? Is the 
accelerated class war being waged only against male workers?
A Congressional Budget Office (2011) study reported on trends in real median 
hourly wages among workers with different levels of educational attainment. It 
shows that there was substantial wage growth among women with at least some 
college education and among men with at least a 4-year college degree. How can 
the class war/declining labor share thesis explain this?
(http://www.marxisthumanistinitiative.org/economic-crisis/more-misused-wage-data-from-monthly-review-the-overaccumulation-of-a-surplus-of-errors.html)






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Re: [Marxism] Europe after Paris attacks: Elites seek to exploit terror

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On 19.11.2015 03:04, Stuart Munckton via Marxism wrote:

As the initial horror and outrage of the attacks in Paris on November 13
subside, the impacts they are already having on French and European society
are becoming clearer.

A state of emergency has been declared by the French government and will
persist for up to three months.

French officials announced on November 17 that France would see an extra
115,000 police officers, gendarmes and soldiers deployed across the country.

In this context, rational debate is being restricted and progressive
movements are on the defensive.
https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/60699

It has been announced that the international demonstrations during the 
Climate Summit have been banned - but the organisers hope to continue 
with the counter summit:


https://alternatiba.eu/appel-pour-le-maintien-des-mobilisations-citoyennes-pour-le-climat/

Einde O'Callaghan
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[Marxism] My 17 November interview with Sharon Firebrace on Razor Sharp

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This is the link to my 33 minute interview with Sharon Firebrace on 
Razor Sharp on Tuesday 17 November. We cover the Paris attacks, the 
extremism of both sides, namely our governments and ISIS, the economic 
extremism waged against workers and the poor and much much more.


http://enpassant.com.au/2015/11/19/my-17-november-interview-with-sharon-firebrace-on-razor-sharp/

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