Re: [Marxism] Ireland water tax - hilarious
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * > On Jan 2, 2016, at 8:53 PM, Philip Ferguson via Marxism > wrote: > > Einde wrote: > >> In one attack a right-wing politician argued against the protestors. >> "You'd almost think that water falls from the sky ..." He missed the >> fact that in Ireland that's exactly where the water comes from. > > That made me laugh out loud mate. I believe this juicy little episode was actually precipitated by Elizabeth Arnett, Chief Spin Doctor for Irish Water: http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/water/irish-water-crisis/commissioner-rejects-claims-irish-water-is-a-mess-31556651.html _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Zizek blames friends again for fabricated quotes
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[Marxism] Fwd: Zizek blames friends again for fabricated quotes
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[Marxism] Xinjiang Seethes Under Chinese Crackdown
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * NY Times, Jan. 3 2016 Xinjiang Seethes Under Chinese Crackdown By ANDREW JACOBS KASHGAR, China — Families sundered by a wave of detentions. Mosques barred from broadcasting the call to prayer. Restrictions on the movements of laborers that have wreaked havoc on local agriculture. And a battery of ever more intrusive ways to monitor the communications of citizens for possible threats to public security. A recent 10-day journey across the Xinjiang region in the far west of China revealed a society seething with anger and trepidation as the government, alarmed by a slow-boil insurgency that has claimed hundreds of lives, has introduced unprecedented measures aimed at shaping the behavior and beliefs of China’s 10 million Uighurs, a Turkic-speaking Muslim minority that considers this region its homeland. Driving these policies is the government’s view that tougher security and tighter restraints on the practice of Islam are the best way to stem a wave of violence that included a knife attack at a coal mine that killed dozens of people in September. The tough security measures are on full view for travelers as they stop at the ubiquitous highway checkpoints that slow movement across this rugged expanse of deserts and snowy peaks. As heavily armed soldiers rummage through car trunks and examine ID cards, ethnic Uighur motorists and their passengers are sometimes asked to hand over their cellphones so that the police can search them for content or software deemed a threat to public security. In addition to jihadist videos, the police are on the lookout for Skype and WhatsApp, apps popular with those who communicate with friends and relatives outside China, and for software that allows users to access blocked websites. “All of us have become terror suspects,” said a 23-year-old Uighur engineering student who said he was detained overnight in November after the police found messages he had exchanged with a friend in Turkey. “These days, even receiving phone calls from overseas is enough to warrant a visit from state security.” Here in Kashgar, the fabled Silk Road outpost near China’s border with Pakistan and Afghanistan, officials have banned mosques from broadcasting the call to prayer, forcing muezzins to shout out the invocation five times a day from rooftops across the city. The new rule is an addition to longstanding policies that prohibit after-school religious classes and children under 18 from entering mosques. (The installation of video cameras on mosque doorways in recent months makes such rules hard to ignore.) Southeast of Kashgar, shopkeepers in the city of Hotan seethed over a government decision to outlaw two dozen names considered too Muslim, forcing parents to rename their children or be unable to register them for school, according to local residents and the police. To the north in Turpan, a fertile oasis famed for its grapes, a vineyard owner complained about new restrictions that bar Uighur migrant laborers from traveling there for the harvest, leaving tons of fruit to wither on the vines. And farther north in Ghulja, an ethnically diverse city near the Kazakh border with a history of tensions, a pair of unemployed college graduates fumed about a crackdown prohibiting young men from wearing beards and women from veiling their faces. Those who ignore the rules are sometimes jailed, residents said. “Me, myself, I’m not religious, but forcing our women to take off their head scarves is an affront to their dignity and makes many people angry,” said one of the men, who, like others interviewed, asked to remain anonymous for fear of punishment by the authorities. Other measures contribute to the widespread perception that Uighur identity is under siege. Schools have largely switched to Mandarin as the main language of instruction instead of Uighur, and the government has begun offering cash and housing subsidies to encourage intermarriage between Uighurs and Hans, the country’s ethnic majority, who have migrated to the region in large numbers. Surveillance, too, has been increased. Since 2014, Uighurs seeking to travel outside their hometowns have been required to carry a special card that lists phone numbers for the holder’s landlord and local police station. Many Uighurs complain that these “convenience contact cards,” as they are called, single them out for scrutiny. “The state’s ability to penetrate Uighur society has become increasingly sophisticated and intrusive,” said James Leibold, an expert on China’s ethnic politics at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia. “But while these new measur
[Marxism] Guardian: Recession, retrenchment, revolution? Impact of low crude prices on oil powers
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[Marxism] Guardian: Rosewood massacre a harrowing tale of racism and the road toward reparations
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Re: [Marxism] FW: Venezuela Passes Law Banning GMOs, by Popular Demand
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * At 10:13 03-01-16 -0500, Richard Fidler Via Marxism Wrote: > >The National Assembly Of Venezuela, In Its Final Session Before A Neoliberal >Dominated Opposition Takes The Helm Of Legislative Power On January 5, >Passed One Of The Most Progressive Seed Laws In The World I think it's great when a popular movement strikes a blow against a filthy multinational like Monsanto. Except that I've been hoping for victories that would actually pass the test of time (and reason). This isn't one of them. Without engaging in another pointless debate on the science, which I'm pretty sure none of us (myself included) is especially qualified to engage in (beyond citing our favorite scientists: the ones that agree with our prejudices), I would just like to point out how this rebellious act will be seen in historical perspective. In 50 years most of us won't be around to discuss it, so I'll just say this now and let historians in 2066 reading these archives judge. This act of defiance will look no different from the following headline that might have appeared a century ago: Breaking News Use of Electricity Banned Throughout Entire Province in Light of Documented Dangers. Action Denounced by Edison, Westinghouse, Siemens; Candle Manufacturers Elated. _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] FW: Venezuela Passes Law Banning GMOs, by Popular Demand
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * http://tinyurl.com/h2xa3v6 The National Assembly of Venezuela, in its final session before a neoliberal dominated opposition takes the helm of legislative power on January 5, passed one of the most progressive seed laws in the world on December 23, 2015; it was promptly signed into law by President Nicolas Maduro. On December 29, during his television show, "In Contact with Maduro, number 52," Maduro said that the new seed law provides the conditions to produce food "under an agro-ecological model that respects the pacha mama (mother earth) and the right of our children to grow up healthy, eating healthy." The law is a victory for the international movements for agroecology and food sovereignty because it bans transgenic (GMO) seed while protecting local seed from privatization. The law is also a product of direct participatory democracy -the people as legislator- in Venezuela, because it was hammered out through a deliberative partnership between members of the country's National Assembly and a broad-based grassroots coalition of eco-socialist, peasant, and agroecological oriented organizations and institutions. This essay provides an overview of the phenomenon of people as legislator, a summary of the new Seed Law, and an appendix with an unofficial translation of some of the articles of the law. Full: http://tinyurl.com/h2xa3v6 _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Fwd: Isis may be weakened by co-ordinated attacks but it is far from being overcome | Voices | The Independent
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(Although the prose is rather tortured ("did not always have negative
effects"), Patrick Cockburn is essentially saying that the USA and
Russia are partners in bombing ISIS in Iraq and Syria.)
Russian intervention damaged Isis and the other jihadi groups in another
way: it energised US military action in Iraq and Syria. Washington made
it clear that it did not intend to co-operate with Russia to destroy
Isis. But superpower rivalry in the Cold War did not always have
negative effects and the US has increased the weight of its air strikes
against Isis in support, primarily, of the Iraqi army and the Syrian and
Iraqi Kurds. In addition, air strikes – combined with the fall in the
price of oil – have largely destroyed the Isis oil economy, once one of
its main sources of revenue.
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/isis-may-be-weakened-by-co-ordinated-attacks-but-it-is-far-from-being-overcome-a6793986.html
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Re: [Marxism] Is there a brig big enough for Briggs?
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * John asked: "Over to you Mr Turnbull. Or are you just a smarmy version of Tony Abbott?" Now, that's what I would call a rhetorical question! comradely Gary On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 8:13 PM, John Passant via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > POSTING RULES & NOTES > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > * > > > Is there a brig big enough for Briggs? > > Why did former Australian government Minister Jamie Briggs distribute a > photo of the female victim to colleagues before and after this blew up? Did > he discuss the photo with anyone? If so, what was the nature of those > discussions? > > We know from the Royal Witch Hunt into Trade Unions that this is a > government keen on stamping out bullies and referring all 'errant' > behaviour to the relevant authorities. Well Mr Turnbull, here is your > chance. Refer the photos and their leaking to the Australian Federal Police > and Fair Work Australia for investigation. > > The AFP can see if taking the photos, distributing them to colleagues and > leaking them to the press are crimes, and who did what in relation to the > leaking and publication. Fair Work can protect the female victim from the > bullying that is the leaking of the photos and their publication by finding > and then taking punitive action against the bullies. > > Over to you Mr Turnbull. Or are you just a smarmy version of Tony Abbott? > > http://enpassant.com.au/2016/01/03/is-there-a-brig-big-enough-for-briggs/ > > _ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/gary.maclennan1%40gmail.com > _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Amadeo Bordiga and the Development of a Revolutionary Core
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[Marxism] Is there a brig big enough for Briggs?
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Is there a brig big enough for Briggs? Why did former Australian government Minister Jamie Briggs distribute a photo of the female victim to colleagues before and after this blew up? Did he discuss the photo with anyone? If so, what was the nature of those discussions? We know from the Royal Witch Hunt into Trade Unions that this is a government keen on stamping out bullies and referring all 'errant' behaviour to the relevant authorities. Well Mr Turnbull, here is your chance. Refer the photos and their leaking to the Australian Federal Police and Fair Work Australia for investigation. The AFP can see if taking the photos, distributing them to colleagues and leaking them to the press are crimes, and who did what in relation to the leaking and publication. Fair Work can protect the female victim from the bullying that is the leaking of the photos and their publication by finding and then taking punitive action against the bullies. Over to you Mr Turnbull. Or are you just a smarmy version of Tony Abbott? http://enpassant.com.au/2016/01/03/is-there-a-brig-big-enough-for-briggs/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Note for the New Year
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Words of encouragement, worth recalling, to a beleaguered left going into another fateful year: Istvan Meszaros, Beyond Capital 1995, p. 614]: To believe, as we are told, that the contradictions on the side of both capital and labor either do not exist, or that they will never be recognized and acted upon by those who are suffering their devastating impact, requires also believing that people are blind idiots and mesmerized forever by the promise of capital’s universally beneficial ‘economic calculation’, despite the system’s monstrous failures directly affecting the life chances of thousands of millions. Marx’s assessment of the development of social consciousness is much more plausible, emphasizing that ‘The recognition of the product as his own and its awareness that its separation from the conditions of its realization is an injustice – a relationship imposed by force – is an enormous advance in consciousness, itself the product of the capitalist mode of production and just as much the KNELL OF ITS DOOM as the consciousness of the slave that he could not be the property of another reduced slavery to an artificial lingering existence, and made it impossible for it to continue to provide the basis of production. Marx-Engels Collected Works 1861-64, p. 246. --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
