[Marxism] What's up with the working class (the NZ example)

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Unfortunately, not a lot in much of the First World.

In NZ, however, it is particularly bad.  The working class prefers to burst
into tears rather than rebellion when faced with workplace closures etc.

Wages have been stagnant for years and years - probably a generation by now
- and yet worers by and large accept this as 'the new normal'.

Why is this?

https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/08/27/whats-up-with-the-working-class-in-new-zealand/
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[Marxism] Documenting U.S. Role in Democracy’s Fall and Dictator’s Rise in Chile | Pascale Bonnefoy | The New York Times

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https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/10/14/world/americas/chile-coup-cia-museum.html


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[Marxism] JOANNE LANDY 10/15/41--10-14-17

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JOANNE LANDY 10/15/41--10-14-17

Joanne died in hospice in Manhattan at 11:44 pm, 16 minutes before her 
76th birthday


I was at her bedside for the last 30 hours. To the end, as she had 
resisted in the political sphere, she resisted the twin blows of cancer 
and stroke.


There is much more to be said about her than I can find words for in my 
grief. New Politics held a celebration for her last spring, shortly 
after her diagnosis (video below). Among the great things she did was to 
support Solidarnosc. At 1:14:20 To honor her a Polish heavy metal group 
performed before a huge audience “I Disagree.” At the New Politics event 
Joanne speaks briefly (1:27:20), followed by all singing The 
Internationale, Joanne with raised fist and red hair.


Memorial celebration to be announced.

Jesse Lemisch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXxJsPnB3tw
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[Marxism] Fwd: Yes, White Supremacists, some Vikings were Muslims & Thor was Brown

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https://www.juancole.com/2017/10/supremacists-vikings-muslims.html
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[Marxism] Fwd: ZCommunications » For George Pepper, the Blacklist Isn’t Over

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[Marxism] The new golden age of Goldman-Sachs under Trump

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http://ourfinancialsecurity.org/2017/10/afr-report-the-new-golden-age-of-goldman-sachs/
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[Marxism] Fwd: Ai Weiwei Explores the “Human Flow” of Refugees and Finds an America That Lost Its Conscience

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https://theintercept.com/2017/10/14/ai-weiwei-explores-the-human-flow-of-refugees-and-sees-an-america-that-lost-its-conscience/
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[Marxism] NYTimes: Documenting U.S. Role in Democracy’s Fall and Dictator’s Rise in Chi

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>
> An exhibition at the Museum of Memory and Human Rights in Santiago
> displays once-secret documents that describe covert operations and
> intelligence gathering on the Pinochet dictatorship.
>
> https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/14/world/americas/chile-
> coup-cia-museum.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad&smid=nytcore-ipad-share
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[Marxism] Fwd: On your Marx: meet the modern-day communists | World news | The Guardian

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[Marxism] Political Economy of Opioid Drugs - tonight on 60 Minutes

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Another dimension to the crisis. See teaser:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-the-dea-efforts-to-crack-down-on-the-opioid-epidemic-were-derailed/

Best,
Brian McKenna

-- 
Brian McKenna, Ph.D.
Anthropologist
Department of Behavioral Sciences
CASL 4025
University of Michigan-Dearborn
Dearborn, Michigan
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[Marxism] Fwd: Becoming a Steelworker Liberated Her. Then Her Job Moved to Mexico. - The New York Times

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Best read on the NY Times website for the graphics. I generally post an 
entire article to get around the paywall problem comrades might run into 
but this is an exception.


https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/14/us/union-jobs-mexico-rexnord.html
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[Marxism] Australia Debates: Does a Warming Planet Really Need More Coal?

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NY Times, Oct. 15 2017
Australia Debates: Does a Warming Planet Really Need More Coal?
By JACQUELINE WILLIAMS

ABBOT POINT, Australia — In a desolate corner of northeastern Australia, 
about 100 miles from the nearest town, a grassy stretch of prime grazing 
land sits above a vein of coal so rich and deep that it could be mined 
for decades.


The Australian government is considering a proposal to build one of the 
world’s largest coal mines in this remote locale, known as the Galilee 
Basin, where acacia and eucalyptus trees grow wild between scattered creeks.


An Indian conglomerate, the Adani Group, has asked for a 
taxpayer-financed loan of as much as $800 million to make the enormous 
project viable, promising to create thousands of jobs in return.


But the plan has met intense opposition in Australia and abroad, 
focusing attention on a question with global resonance: Given the threat 
of climate change and the slowing global demand for coal, does the world 
really need another giant mine, especially at the public’s expense?


Adani has proposed building six open-cut pits and five underground 
complexes capable of producing as much as 66 million tons of coal a 
year. New infrastructure to support the mine — a rail line to the coast 
and an expanded port — would also make it economically feasible to 
extract coal from at least eight additional sites in the Galilee Basin.


That could more than double coal output in Australia, which already 
produces more coal than any other nation except China, the United States 
and India. About 88 percent of the 487 million tons of coal mined 
annually in Australia is exported.


For many environmentalists, what happens in this mining case is a test 
of the world’s commitment to fighting climate change. Its failure would 
register as an unmistakable sign of an international shift away from the 
fossil fuels behind climate change. But if Australia agrees to subsidize 
the mine — even though several commercial banks have shunned it — the 
project would demonstrate the lasting allure and influence of the coal 
industry.


“How it can be constructed — at a time when the whole world is committed 
to move away from fossil fuels — is madness that most people just can’t 
understand,” said Geoffrey Cousins, president of the Australian 
Conservation Foundation.


The project, known as the Carmichael mine, has provoked strong 
resistance in part because of its proximity to the Great Barrier Reef, a 
natural wonder that is already dying because of overheated seawater 
blamed on climate change. Adani plans to deliver most of the coal to 
India on shipping routes that critics say would further damage the 
ecosystem of the world’s greatest system of reefs.


The debate over the mine has dominated headlines in Australia for months 
and fueled one of the most fervent environmental campaigns in the 
nation’s history. Protests have grown in size and frequency, and polls 
show Australians who oppose the mine outnumber those who support it by 
more than two-to-one.


A group of Indigenous Australians is also challenging Adani’s claim to 
the land.


But Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull supports the project, and it just 
needs financing to proceed. A government agency established to support 
private-sector infrastructure investment is reviewing Adani’s loan 
request, and the company has said it is also lining up money overseas.


“This is a tipping point,” said Maree Dibella, a coordinator of the 
North Queensland Conservation Council, referring to the mine’s role in 
the global campaign against coal.


Around the Galilee Basin, where a population of less than 20,000 is 
scattered across an area the size of Britain, opinion is divided.


Bruce Currie, a cattle farmer who lives near the site and has traveled 
to India to investigate Adani’s record, said he is worried the mine will 
drain too much groundwater, calling it “yet another burden our small 
business has to bear.”


Several hours drive north in Collinsville, one of the area’s oldest 
mining communities, Roderick Macdonald, 57, a retired miner, said Adani 
had come to the town promising to build mining camps and employ local 
people.


“From what I can hear and see, Mr. Adani’s going to do nothing for this 
town,” Mr. Macdonald said, referring to Gautam Adani, the billionaire 
founder and chairman of the company.


But others in the region are more hopeful. Mining accounts for as much 
as 7 percent of the Australian economy, and the northeastern state of 
Queensland, where the Galilee Basin lies, has suffered a downturn in 
recent years because of slowing demand for natural resources, especially 
from China.


“I 

[Marxism] The 20 Years That Made New York City

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(Mike Wallace is one of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice's 
Marxist professors. His earlier book on NYC co-written with Edwin G. 
Burrows is a masterpiece.)


NY Times Sunday Book Review, Oct. 15 2017
The 20 Years That Made New York City
By JOSEPH BERGER

GREATER GOTHAM
A History of New York City From 1898 to 1919
By Mike Wallace
Illustrated. 1,182 pp. Oxford University Press. $45.

“Gotham,” by Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace, the magisterial Pulitzer 
Prize-winning history of New York City published in 1999, ran 1,424 
pages, and covered roughly 375 documented years — from 1524, when 
Giovanni da Verrazano anchored in the Narrows off Staten Island without 
making the acquaintance of the resident Lenape people, all the way to 
1898, when the five boroughs were consolidated into a single throbbing 
metropolis. Wallace’s just-as-magisterial sequel, “Greater Gotham,” 
itself more than a thousand pages long, covers a mere 20 years, stopping 
with the end of World War I. But, oh, what years they were!


The city we recognize today was pretty much formed in those two decades, 
the era of Teddy Roosevelt, the Titanic, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory 
fire, the Wobblies, the Shuberts, Lily Bart and Irene and Vernon Castle. 
The iconic skyline began sprouting buildings like the Flatiron and the 
Woolworth. Grand Central and Penn Station became fevered hubs. The first 
subway line, a nine-mile jaunt from City Hall to 145th Street, opened in 
October 1904, and other lines along with new steel bridges 
(Williamsburg, Manhattan and Queensboro) soon connected the outer boroughs.


Times Square blossomed into the world’s crossroads, enhanced by new 
palatial theaters that make up today’s Broadway. Tin Pan Alley’s 
tunesmiths filled the nation’s hearts with songs still sung in 
Manhattan’s jazz clubs and fueled the city’s swank night life. Canny 
immigrant garment makers, glimpsing profits in a new gadget, the 
nickelodeon, gave birth to America’s movie industry (even if most of 
that industry soon departed for sunnier Hollywood).


Though some were founded earlier, the great Metropolitan and Natural 
History museums, the New York Public Library and the Bronx Zoo became 
the splendid institutions they are today. The erection of the Polo 
Grounds and Ebbets Field fueled a local rivalry between the Giants and 
Dodgers that would also include a team of Polo Grounds renters — the 
newly christened Yankees. Lillian Wald, Margaret Sanger, Abraham Cahan, 
A. Philip Randolph, Emma Goldman, Big Bill Haywood and a band of 
muckraking journalists championed the welfare and labor benefits that 
New Yorkers currently enjoy and set up organizations to help the huddled 
masses pouring in from abroad.


Wallace, a professor of history at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, 
tells the story of those two decades with encyclopedic sweep and 
granular detail, but with enough verve and wry humor to make this 
doorstopper immensely readable. Even weathered aficionados of city lore 
will find moments of revelation. Newcomers will be fascinated by how it 
all came to be.


What makes the book so entertaining is that it is not a conventional 
chronicle of how government leaders handled that era’s crises. Rather 
the book is as much a social and cultural history as it is a political 
narrative. We learn about changes in how people were housed, how they 
got to work, how they enjoyed their pleasures and vices. We learn how 
new zoning regulations shaped the cityscape and why and how skyscrapers 
were built. We learn almost as much about vaudeville, ragtime, 
Victrolas, Ash Can painters and the realist works of Theodore Dreiser 
and Edith Wharton as we do about City Hall and Tammany Hall, centers of 
the era’s corrupt politics.


We learn how Jim Crow segregation in housing and jobs was almost as 
omnipresent as it was in the South, and how the police sided with whites 
in conflicts with blacks, yet we also learn how an emergent Harlem 
became a bulwark in the fight against racism. We learn, too, how New 
York grew into a union town, despite the presence of a hired group of 
strikebreakers and an initial snubbing by unions of unskilled immigrant 
Italians, Jews, blacks and women.


The animating theme of the book is consolidation. Wallace shows how 
plutocrats like J.P. Morgan and Cornelius Vanderbilt joined political 
leaders in pressing for the merger of Manhattan with the four other 
boroughs. They wanted to lessen what was called “ruinous competition,” 
just as they had done in engineering the consolidation of the smaller 
companies that became United States Steel, American Telephone and 
Telegraph, and Nabisco. Alon

[Marxism] Catalan live blog still running... with problem fixed

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Green Left Weekly's Barceolona correspondent Dick Nichols has, for at least
a week now, been running an ongoing liveblog on the situation in Catalonia
that summarises the main developments daily. It is a must read for quick
summaries of the situation, however a couple of days a go a bug in the live
blog killed it, but it has now been fixed...

https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/live-blog-catalonias-independence-struggle



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