Re: [Marxism] antifa

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"But the idea that the last - Israel
supporters - is in any way a significant percentage is simply false "

It is more subtle. There are, of course, outright supporters of Israel
involved in Antifa and Autonomen groups, especially in Germany. They are
disgusting freaks but have no problem using their shared Islamophobia to
collaborate with the German state and the far-right, for example, in their
recent bid to close pro-Palestine DJs out of a popular Autonomist-aligned
club or their racist attacks on Rasmea Odeh.

In practice it is, however, more like feigned support for Palestine mixed
with bogus anti-Semitism witch-hunts, as outright attacks on Palestine
liberation are no longer acceptable among other left formations. Those
attitudes have been quite common in my experience, and they tail the
politics of Jewish liberal NGOs that have similarly contradictory positions
(IfNotNow, JFREJ, etc.). So they may not be flying the Israeli flag (as in
Germany) but they are still Zionists and have been pretty instrumental in
making Palestine liberation an exception in Left coalitions.

I'd add it's a problem that's not unique to Antifa but it's one place I've
seen it treated as acceptable. I'd also emphasize I am not saying everyone
involved in Antifa has Zionist or Zionist-apologetic politics, but enough
do and in my experience it wasn't discrediting or grounds for
exclusion/expulsion. Naturally I can't cite something more authoritative
than what I've witnessed personally, so I'll just leave it at that!

Amith R. Gupta


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> On 6/5/20 12:36 PM, Jeffrey Masko wrote:
> > Folks I know personally do not sneer at peaceful protests and work to
> > separate their actions so the old tired out narrative of peaceful
> > protest hijacked is provable to be false, along with the idea violence
> > is used that somehow soils the other peaceful protest when the fact is
> > that those who often put their bodies on the line protecting POC are
> > vilified and lumped in with looters (god forbid anyone loot) and
> > property destruction/vandalism.
>
> I am not even sure what it means to protect POC just as long it doesn't
> involve torching a post office or a library. When the Migizi American
> Indian community center burned down, someone excused it because it was
> an accident. It was collateral damage of the targeted building, the
> fucking post office. Who in their right mind would want to torch the
> post office that is paid for by our tax dollars and that Donald Trump
> also wants to destroy? Besides the post office, a library got torched.
>
> In any case, this business about "riots" has wound down, except kept
> alive by Trump and his minions. Almost everybody is involved in
> traditional protests, number one, and, number two, does so without
> needing to be defended. There will still be cop attacks as took place
> near the White House but it is simply beyond the scope of any antifa
> activists to serve as a defense guard when there are 480 cities that
> have seen protests, including tiny upstate NY towns that I have reported
> on. In both Walkill and Monroe, everything happened without any cop
> attacks. I suspect that is true in nearly all cases. This is not Egypt
> in 2011, even though Trump would like to be able to make it so.
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[Marxism] Pentagon disarms National Guard activated in D.C., sends active-duty forces home - The Washington Post

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Washington Post, June 5, 2020 at 6:09 p.m. EDT
Pentagon disarms National Guard activated in D.C., sends active-duty 
forces home

By Paul Sonne, Fenit Nirappil and Josh Dawsey

The Pentagon has told National Guardsmen deployed to the nation’s 
capital not to use firearms or ammunition, and has issued orders to send 
home active-duty troops that the Trump administration amassed outside 
the city in recent days, a sign of de-escalation in the federal response 
to protests in the city.


Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper made the decision to disarm the guard 
without consulting the White House, after President Trump ordered a 
militarized show of force on the streets of Washington to quell 
demonstrations that were punctured by an episode of looting Sunday, two 
senior administration officials said. Trump had encouraged the National 
Guard to be armed.


Initially, a small group of guardsmen deployed in the city had been 
carrying guns while standing outside monuments, but the bulk of the 
forces, such as those working with federal park police at Lafayette 
Square in front of the White House, didn’t carry firearms out of 
caution. Now, all of the roughly 5,000 guardsmen deployed to Washington 
from the District of Columbia and 11 states have been told not to use 
weapons or ammunition.


At a news conference Friday, Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy said that some 
guardsmen in the District had been carrying arms on Monday, but he noted 
that they did not have magazines of ammunition in their firearms. 
Beginning Tuesday, the Trump administration de-escalated further, he 
said, by removing firearms from the equation altogether.


“It was clear that there were enough federal law enforcement that had 
descended on the city, and that would be their principal 
responsibility,” McCarthy said.


The White House was not involved in the decision to disarm the Guard, 
said the two senior officials, who, like others, spoke on the condition 
of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations. The order from the 
Pentagon comes as federal and district officials prepare for an 
estimated 100,000 to 200,000 protesters in Washington on Saturday and as 
the Pentagon looks to dial back the militarization of the response.


Because the District is a special federal jurisdiction without the 
status of a state, the D.C. National Guard is controlled by the 
president, who delegated his authority over the forces to McCarthy. The 
District’s mayor can request the deployment of the D.C. Guard but 
doesn’t have the power to deploy guardsmen herself or control them once 
deployed. Governors control the Guard in other states.


A senior U.S. defense official said Esper communicated the order to 
disarm to the D.C. Guard and other guardsmen earlier in the week through 
McCarthy and Gen. Joseph L. Lengyel, the head of the National Guard. The 
order affected only about 10 guardsmen who had been out on patrol with 
firearms that weren’t loaded but who had ammunition in their packs, the 
senior defense official said.


D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) had requested that the federal 
government deploy the D.C. Guard, initially to respond to the 
coronavirus pandemic, but has since criticized the Trump 
administration’s response in the city, which critics have described as 
an overreaction designed to boost the president politically with 
Americans outside the nation’s capital watching on television.


Trump’s response has included not only deploying D.C. guardsmen, as the 
mayor requested, but also calling up guardsmen from other states, 
sending active-duty forces to sites outside the capital for possible 
operations and bringing in other federal law enforcement officials from 
agencies such as the Bureau of Prisons and Customs and Border Protection 
to patrol the streets. Bowser has decried the fact that some of those 
federal agents have not been wearing identifying uniforms or badges.


The situation grew particularly tense after two helicopters from the 
D.C. Guard began hovering over demonstrators, who are protesting the 
death of George Floyd while in police custody in Minneapolis, blasting 
them with gusty rotor wash from the aircraft. All helicopter flight 
operations in the D.C. Guard have been suspended until an investigation 
of the incident ordered by Esper is complete, said Air Force Lt. Col. 
Brooke Davis, a spokeswoman for the D.C. Guard.


Trump’s insistence on a militarized response in the nation’s capital has 
led to strains with Esper, a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at 
West Point and a former Army officer who took over as defense secretary 
last year. Esper announced publicly Wednesday that he wasn’t in 

[Marxism] America masterminded ‘color revolutions’ around the world. Now the very same techniques are being used at home — RT Op-ed

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This is the new line of the pro-Putin, pro-Assad "left". A Color 
Revolution is taking place in the USA as if Trump were Milosevic or 
Yanukovych. You get that from both Off-Guardian, a conspiracist website 
like Moon of Alabama, and now from RT.com.


https://www.rt.com/op-ed/490575-america-riots-color-revolution/

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[Marxism] As protests grow, big labor sides with police unions – Center for Public Integrity

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This wouldn't be happening if there was a labor movement, as opposed to 
labor unions.


https://publicintegrity.org/inequality-poverty-opportunity/as-protests-grow-big-labor-sides-with-police-unions/

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[Marxism] Police Board President: Officers Struck Me 5 Times With Their Batons During Protest | Chicago News | WTTW

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(You can't make this shit up.)

https://news.wttw.com/2020/06/05/police-board-president-officers-struck-me-5-times-their-batons-during-protest

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Re: [Marxism] New York Times Says Senator’s Op-Ed Did Not Meet Standards

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On 6/5/20 5:30 PM, Ralph Johansen via Marxism wrote:



Maybe they're mollifying their middle-upper class readers with this. But 
when is the last time they published even someone so relatively reticent 
to call for the system's complete overturn as Noam Chomsky?


Now, now. Corey Robin did write an article in praise of the DSA in the 
Sunday Review a while back. And they do have ex-ISOer Keeanga-Yamahtta 
Taylor writing op-ed's.


Then, of course, there was the time that they commissioned Walter and 
Miriam Schneir to write a piece on the SWP for the Sunday magazine. 
Okay, so they torpedoed it because it was to favorable but at least they 
extended an invitation...


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Re: [Marxism] New York Times Says Senator’s Op-Ed Did Not Meet Standards

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Louis Proyect wrote

(The Gray Lady airs its dirty laundry.)

NY Times, June 5, 2020 New York Times Says Senator’s Op-Ed Did Not Meet 
Standards By Marc Tracy, Rachel Abrams and Edmund Lee


Executives at The New York Times scrambled on Thursday to address the 
concerns of employees and readers who were angered by the newspaper’s 
publication of an opinion essay by a United States senator calling for 
the federal government to send the military to suppress protests against 
police violence in American cities.



How hokie can you get. All this scrambling around about the "policy" at 
a  180-year old newspaper, as if they just discovered, my god, that IS a 
problem. We'll have to confer about that. New policies, Yeah.


Maybe they're mollifying their middle-upper class readers with this. But 
when is the last time they published even someone so relatively reticent 
to call for the system's complete overturn as Noam Chomsky?

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Re: [Marxism] The Police Are Rioting. We Need to Talk About It.

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The police are not there to serve you and me, or to do justice. They were 
invented and trained to put down crowd action (such as strikes) by the emerging 
working class in the period 1825-1855, as an excellent history I think posted 
to this list about 10 days ago pointed out, and so far as I can see, their 
training and their charge have not been changed. They are still acting in an 
arrogant and high-handed fashion to divide apart the working class, using force 
and racism, and to destroy capable members of the working class so they cannot 
revolt. The police are not rioting. They are just doing their job.
Wythe Holt

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> NY Times Op-Ed, June 5, 2020
> The Police Are Rioting. We Need to Talk About It.
> By Jamelle Bouie
> 
> If we’re going to speak of rioting protesters, then we need to speak of
> rioting police as well. No, they aren’t destroying property. But it is
> clear from news coverage, as well as countless videos taken by
> protesters and bystanders, that many police are using often
> indiscriminate violence against people — against anyone, including the
> peaceful majority of demonstrators, who happens to be in the streets.
> 
> Rioting police have driven vehicles into crowds, reproducing the assault
> that killed Heather Heyer in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017. They have
> surrounded a car, smashed the windows, tazed the occupants and dragged
> them out onto the ground. Clad in paramilitary gear, they have attacked
> elderly bystanders, pepper-sprayed cooperative protesters and shot
> “nonlethal” rounds directly at reporters, causing serious injuries. In
> Austin, Texas, a 20-year-old man is in critical condition after being
> shot in the head with a “less-lethal” round. Across the country, rioting
> police are using tear gas in quantities that threaten the health and
> safety of demonstrators, especially in the midst of a respiratory
> disease pandemic.
> 
> None of this quells disorder. Everything, from the militaristic posture
> to the attacks themselves, does more to inflame and agitate protesters
> than it does to calm the situation and bring order to the streets. In
> effect, rioting police have done as much to stoke unrest and destabilize
> the situation as those responsible for damaged buildings and burning
> cars. But where rioting protesters can be held to account for
> destruction and violence, rioting police have the imprimatur of the state.
> 
> What we’ve seen from rioting police, in other words, is an assertion of
> power and impunity. In the face of mass anger over police brutality,
> they’ve effectively said So what? In the face of demands for change and
> reform — in short, in the face of accountability to the public they’re
> supposed to serve — they’ve bucked their more conciliatory colleagues
> with a firm No. In which case, if we want to understand the behavior of
> the past two weeks, we can’t just treat it as an explosion of wanton
> violence, we have to treat it as an attack on civil society and
> democratic accountability, one rooted in a dispute over who has the
> right to hold the police to account.
> 
> African-American observers have never had any illusions about who the
> police are meant to serve. The police, James Baldwin wrote in his 1960
> essay on discontent and unrest in Harlem, “represent the face of the
> white world, and that world’s real intentions are simply for that
> world’s criminal profit and ease, to keep the black man corralled up in
> his place.” This wasn’t because each individual officer was a bad
> person, but because he was fundamentally separate from the black
> community as a matter of history and culture. “None of the police
> commissioner’s men, even with the best will in the world, have any way
> of understanding the lives led by the people they swagger about in twos
> and threes controlling.”
> 
> Go back to the beginning of the 20th century, during America’s first age
> of progressive reform, as the historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad does in
> “The Condemnation of 

Re: [Marxism] New York Times Says Senator’s Op-Ed Did Not Meet Standards

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This was no mistake, Louis.

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> (The Gray Lady airs its dirty laundry.)
> 
> NY Times, June 5, 2020
> New York Times Says Senator’s Op-Ed Did Not Meet Standards
> By Marc Tracy, Rachel Abrams and Edmund Lee
> 
> Executives at The New York Times scrambled on Thursday to address the
> concerns of employees and readers who were angered by the newspaper’s
> publication of an opinion essay by a United States senator calling for
> the federal government to send the military to suppress protests against
> police violence in American cities.
> 
> James Bennet, the editor in charge of the opinion section, said in a
> meeting with staff members late in the day that he had not read the
> essay before it was published. Shortly afterward, The Times issued a
> statement saying the essay fell short of the newspaper’s standards.
> 
> “We’ve examined the piece and the process leading up to its
> publication,” Eileen Murphy, a Times spokeswoman, said in a statement.
> “This review made clear that a rushed editorial process led to the
> publication of an Op-Ed that did not meet our standards. As a result,
> we’re planning to examine both short-term and long-term changes, to
> include expanding our fact-checking operation and reducing the number of
> Op-Eds we publish.”
> 
> The Op-Ed, by Tom Cotton, Republican of Arkansas, was posted on the
> Times website on Wednesday afternoon with “Send In the Troops” as its
> headline. “One thing above all else will restore order to our streets:
> an overwhelming show of force to disperse, detain and ultimately deter
> lawbreakers,” the senator wrote.
> 
> More than 800 staff members signed a letter protesting its publication,
> according to a union member involved in the letter. Addressed to
> high-ranking editors in the opinion and news divisions, as well as New
> York Times Company executives, the letter argued that Mr. Cotton’s essay
> contained misinformation, such as his depiction of the role of “antifa”
> in the protests.
> 
> Dozens of Times employees objected to the Op-Ed on social media, despite
> a company policy that instructs them not to post partisan comments or
> take sides on issues. Many of them responded on Twitter with the
> sentence, “Running this puts Black @NYTimes staff in danger.” More than
> 160 employees planned a virtual walkout for Friday morning, according to
> two organizers of the protest.
> 
> Conversation and debate filled videoconference meetings for many
> newsroom departments on Thursday. The newspaper scheduled a town-hall
> meeting for Friday to allow employees to express their concerns to
> company leaders, including A. G. Sulzberger, the publisher; Dean Baquet,
> the executive editor; and Mr. Bennet, the editorial page editor.
> 
> Mr. Bennet said in a video meeting attended by Mr. Sulzberger and
> employees late on Thursday that he had not read Mr. Cotton’s essay
> before it was published, according to two people who were present.
> 
> On Thursday morning, Mr. Sulzberger had sent an email to the staff
> backing the Op-Ed’s publication.
> 
> “I believe in the principle of openness to a range of opinions, even
> those we may disagree with, and this piece was published in that
> spirit,” he wrote. “But it’s essential that we listen to and reflect on
> the concerns we’re hearing, as we would with any piece that is the
> subject of significant criticism. I will do so with an open mind.”
> 
> He added, “We don’t publish just any argument — they need to be
> accurate, good faith explorations of the issues of the day.”
> 
> On Thursday night, Mr. Sulzberger struck a somewhat different tone in a
> Slack message sent to company employees. He said that “a rushed
> editorial process” led to the publication of an Op-Ed “that did not meet
> our standards.” He added that an editor’s note from the newspaper’s
> standards department was on its way.
> 
> “Given that this is not the first lapse, the Opinion department will
> also be taking several initial steps 

[Marxism] The Police Are Rioting. We Need to Talk About It.

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NY Times Op-Ed, June 5, 2020
The Police Are Rioting. We Need to Talk About It.
By Jamelle Bouie

If we’re going to speak of rioting protesters, then we need to speak of 
rioting police as well. No, they aren’t destroying property. But it is 
clear from news coverage, as well as countless videos taken by 
protesters and bystanders, that many police are using often 
indiscriminate violence against people — against anyone, including the 
peaceful majority of demonstrators, who happens to be in the streets.


Rioting police have driven vehicles into crowds, reproducing the assault 
that killed Heather Heyer in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017. They have 
surrounded a car, smashed the windows, tazed the occupants and dragged 
them out onto the ground. Clad in paramilitary gear, they have attacked 
elderly bystanders, pepper-sprayed cooperative protesters and shot 
“nonlethal” rounds directly at reporters, causing serious injuries. In 
Austin, Texas, a 20-year-old man is in critical condition after being 
shot in the head with a “less-lethal” round. Across the country, rioting 
police are using tear gas in quantities that threaten the health and 
safety of demonstrators, especially in the midst of a respiratory 
disease pandemic.


None of this quells disorder. Everything, from the militaristic posture 
to the attacks themselves, does more to inflame and agitate protesters 
than it does to calm the situation and bring order to the streets. In 
effect, rioting police have done as much to stoke unrest and destabilize 
the situation as those responsible for damaged buildings and burning 
cars. But where rioting protesters can be held to account for 
destruction and violence, rioting police have the imprimatur of the state.


What we’ve seen from rioting police, in other words, is an assertion of 
power and impunity. In the face of mass anger over police brutality, 
they’ve effectively said So what? In the face of demands for change and 
reform — in short, in the face of accountability to the public they’re 
supposed to serve — they’ve bucked their more conciliatory colleagues 
with a firm No. In which case, if we want to understand the behavior of 
the past two weeks, we can’t just treat it as an explosion of wanton 
violence, we have to treat it as an attack on civil society and 
democratic accountability, one rooted in a dispute over who has the 
right to hold the police to account.


African-American observers have never had any illusions about who the 
police are meant to serve. The police, James Baldwin wrote in his 1960 
essay on discontent and unrest in Harlem, “represent the face of the 
white world, and that world’s real intentions are simply for that 
world’s criminal profit and ease, to keep the black man corralled up in 
his place.” This wasn’t because each individual officer was a bad 
person, but because he was fundamentally separate from the black 
community as a matter of history and culture. “None of the police 
commissioner’s men, even with the best will in the world, have any way 
of understanding the lives led by the people they swagger about in twos 
and threes controlling.”


Go back to the beginning of the 20th century, during America’s first age 
of progressive reform, as the historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad does in 
“The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern 
Urban America,” and you’ll find activists describing how “policemen had 
abdicated their responsibility to dispense colorblind service and 
protection, resulting in an object lesson for youth: the indiscriminate 
mass arrests of blacks being attacked by white mobs.”


The police were ubiquitous in the African-American neighborhoods of the 
urban North, but they weren’t there to protect black residents as much 
as they were to enforce the racial order, even if it led to actual 
disorder in the streets. For example, in the aftermath of the 
Philadelphia “race riot” of 1918, one black leader complained, “In 
nearly every part of this city peaceable and law-abiding Negroes of the 
home-owning type have been set upon by irresponsible hoodlums, their 
property damaged and destroyed, while the police seem powerless to protect.”


If you are trying to understand the function of policing in American 
society, then even a cursory glance at the history of the institution 
would point you in the direction of social control. And blackness in 
particular, the historian Nikhil Pal Singh argues, was a state of being 
that required “permanent supervision and if necessary direct domination.”


The simplest answer to the question “Why don’t the American police 
forces act as if they are accountable to black 

[Marxism] (3) Michael Moore Presents: Planet of the Humans | Full Documentary | Directed by Jeff Gibbs - YouTube

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It's back up.

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[Marxism] Wafa Mustafa with The Syria Campaign

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-- Forwarded message -
From: Wafa Mustafa with The Syria Campaign mailto:i...@thesyriacampaign.org>>
Date: Fri, Jun 5, 2020, 6:21 AM

Holding a picture of my dad outside a German courthouse

My name is Wafa Mustafa and in July 2013 my father Ali was taken by the Syrian 
regime for protesting against the injustice and oppression he saw in our 
country. I haven’t seen or heard from him since.

Today is a big day as I am once again outside the courthouse in the German town 
of Koblenz to witness the world’s first trial of Syrian state torture. Two 
members of Assad’s regime are on trial for murdering and torturing thousands of 
detainees and it's the first week that survivors are finally speaking out 
against their oppressors in court.

It’s a crucial first step towards accountability in Syria, that might 
eventually expose a chain of command that goes all the way up to Assad. But at 
the same time, people are still suffering in inhumane cells to this day. We 
must not wait until they are killed by COVID or tortured to death to start 
seeking justice.

I am a member of Families for Freedom, a women-led movement of Syrians like me 
searching for our family members amongst the 130,000 people who have been 
detained and tortured by the Syrian regime, ISIS, and other armed groups. 
Together we are pushing the international community to do more to free all 
detainees and missing persons and to hold those responsible to account.

So many families wanted to be here with me today but couldn’t travel due to 
coronavirus restrictions. Instead, I’ve come alone with photos of their 
fathers, sisters, brothers and daughters in the hope that our calls for freedom 
will be heard. These photos of our loved ones, snatched from us and missing 
from every birthday meal and family moment, are the closest we can get to 
representing them here at the trial.

My father is a human rights defender and I have learnt from him and I will 
never stop demanding freedom for those detained. I will continue to campaign 
until my dad is standing by my side and able to speak up for justice using his 
own voice. 

Can you add your strength to our movement by sharing a photo of today's 
demonstration on your Facebook to spread the word about these important trials?


Or if you haven't already, could you sign Families for Freedom's petition 
demanding the release of Syria's detainees 
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[Marxism] Labor Fights for George Floyd in Twin Cities | Cherrene Horazuk | Labor Notes

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[Marxism] Black Lives Matter Protests In Small Towns Are Important

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[Marxism] Fwd: H-Net Review [H-Borderlands]: Hernandez on Rensink, 'Native but Foreign: Indigenous Immigrants and Refugees in the North American Borderlands'

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> From: H-Net Staff via H-REVIEW 
> Date: June 5, 2020 at 12:44:50 PM EDT
> To: h-rev...@lists.h-net.org
> Cc: H-Net Staff 
> Subject: H-Net Review [H-Borderlands]:  Hernandez on Rensink, 'Native but 
> Foreign: Indigenous Immigrants and Refugees in the North American Borderlands'
> Reply-To: h-rev...@lists.h-net.org
> 
> Brenden W. Rensink.  Native but Foreign: Indigenous Immigrants and 
> Refugees in the North American Borderlands.  Connecting the Greater 
> West Series. College Station  Texas AM University Press, 2018.  
> Illustrations. xv + 300 pp.  $40.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-62349-655-5.
> 
> Reviewed by Sonia Hernandez (Texas AM University)
> Published on H-Borderlands (June, 2020)
> Commissioned by Maria de los Angeles Picone
> 
> _Native but Foreign_ offers new perspectives in the intertwined 
> histories of transnational movements and borderlands while focusing 
> on often-neglected peoples. The newest book in the Connecting the 
> Greater West series, Brenden W. Rensink's _Native but Foreign_ 
> connects the disparate histories of peoples in North America by 
> focusing on the diverse but shared experiences of Chippewa, Cree, and 
> Yaqui cultures from the eighteenth through the twentieth century. It 
> retraces these experiences across regions and along the Canadian-US 
> and Mexican-US international boundaries. _Native but Foreign_ helps 
> us better understand how various indigenous communities across North 
> America--while usually not examined as a group nor in the same time 
> period--had much in common as they negotiated their respective 
> livelihoods and attempted to prove that they, too, belonged in US 
> society. It also revisits such concepts and labels as "refugee," 
> "immigrant," "foreign," and "Native American" and explains their 
> changing meaning throughout time as well as their use in various 
> regional contexts. Comparing these three indigenous groups and their 
> uneven integration into US society is at the heart of Rensink's book 
> and argument, which outlines how despite the myriad challenges 
> created by the treatment of indigenous peoples as immigrants, they 
> nonetheless negotiated their political and cultural identities as 
> best they could for their own communities' survival. 
> 
> In the 1880s, as some of the most resistant indigenous peoples, such 
> as "Geronimo," a major Bedonkohe leader among the larger group of 
> Apaches, and others were suppressed, the US government began to view 
> indigenous groups, including the Crees, as a threat given the 
> potential for military collaboration with the Sioux and others in the 
> wake of a declining fur trade during the mid-nineteenth century. 
> Crees, similar to the Chippewa, moved in search of new economic 
> opportunities from Canada to the United States. As they carved out 
> new communities in US-claimed territory, they became "foreigners" (p. 
> 82). Farther south toward the United States border with Mexico, 
> Yaquis, who had experienced decades of exploitation and outright 
> attacks by the Mexican government, sought safer ground as well as new 
> economic opportunities in the United States. 
> 
> While all three groups Rensink examines crossed into the United 
> States during the latter part of the nineteenth century and as some 
> became refugees and immigrants, their experiences concerning efforts 
> to integrate into American society differed greatly. The elimination 
> of bison herds and settler colonial efforts presented difficulties 
> for these groups. While the region south of their Canadian homelands 
> in present-day Montana was "familiar land" for Crees, they were, as 
> Rensink explains, "forced to live in unfamiliar ways" (p. 95). By 
> contrast, Yaquis who crossed into Arizona more easily incorporated 
> themselves into that region's society. Yaquis who gained experience 
> as miners and railroad workers quickly became commodities, as 
> employers demanded a skilled labor force. These skills thus were 
> crucial to overall Yaqui survival. Yaquis also negotiated identity 
> politics when it was advantageous (that is, labor) and blended in 
> with the "Mexican" population yet always embraced and claimed their 
> identity as Yaqui. 
> 
> Other groups also negotiated their survival as best they could. 
> Crees, for example, turned to livestock rustling. However, this 
> created larger problems for the different generations of Crees. While 
> perhaps older Crees were able to engage in such activity, younger 
> generations of 

Re: [Marxism] antifa

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Jeffry Masko writes (in reference to what I wrote): "You assume that
baristas, hair stylists, carpenters aren't putting their bodies on the line
and normally a lot wouldn't be because they are at work." I never even
implied any such thing. All I said was that the unions (and please note:
there are a lot more unions than simply blue collar construction unions)
are missing in action. Sure, there are workers out there (including
baristas and hair dressers, who are also part of the working class, despite
what some seem to think). What's not out there is any serious union
presence. Comrades can debate whether this is necessary. But I don't see
how they can claim it's untrue.

John

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Re: [Marxism] Reflections on my COVID-19 antibodies | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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On 6/5/20 2:18 PM, wytheh...@cox.net wrote:

Louis, you omitted the initial h when copying your URL -- Wythe


A senior moment, I'm afraid.

https://louisproyect.org/2020/06/05/reflections-on-my-covid-19-antibodies/

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Re: [Marxism] Reflections on my COVID-19 antibodies | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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> The last couple of months leading up to a Quest serology test that
> yielded “positive” antibodies for COVID-19 have been a roller coaster
> ride. Take a seat in the car behind me, strap yourself in, and let me
> recount a story that Agatha Christie might have written.
> 
> The tale began last October when I suffered through bronchitis for most
> of the month. This viral infection of the bronchial tubes is just
> another illness to which geezers like me are susceptible. It is usually
> not fatal but can lead to hospitalization. After recovering, I began
> taking measures to avoid getting sick again. They included using Purell,
> avoiding touching my face, and all the other defenses that should
> prevent exposure to any virus, including COVID-19. Being ahead of the
> curve, how the hell did I end up with antibodies?
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[Marxism] New York Times Says Senator’s Op-Ed Did Not Meet Standards

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(The Gray Lady airs its dirty laundry.)

NY Times, June 5, 2020
New York Times Says Senator’s Op-Ed Did Not Meet Standards
By Marc Tracy, Rachel Abrams and Edmund Lee

Executives at The New York Times scrambled on Thursday to address the 
concerns of employees and readers who were angered by the newspaper’s 
publication of an opinion essay by a United States senator calling for 
the federal government to send the military to suppress protests against 
police violence in American cities.


James Bennet, the editor in charge of the opinion section, said in a 
meeting with staff members late in the day that he had not read the 
essay before it was published. Shortly afterward, The Times issued a 
statement saying the essay fell short of the newspaper’s standards.


“We’ve examined the piece and the process leading up to its 
publication,” Eileen Murphy, a Times spokeswoman, said in a statement. 
“This review made clear that a rushed editorial process led to the 
publication of an Op-Ed that did not meet our standards. As a result, 
we’re planning to examine both short-term and long-term changes, to 
include expanding our fact-checking operation and reducing the number of 
Op-Eds we publish.”


The Op-Ed, by Tom Cotton, Republican of Arkansas, was posted on the 
Times website on Wednesday afternoon with “Send In the Troops” as its 
headline. “One thing above all else will restore order to our streets: 
an overwhelming show of force to disperse, detain and ultimately deter 
lawbreakers,” the senator wrote.


More than 800 staff members signed a letter protesting its publication, 
according to a union member involved in the letter. Addressed to 
high-ranking editors in the opinion and news divisions, as well as New 
York Times Company executives, the letter argued that Mr. Cotton’s essay 
contained misinformation, such as his depiction of the role of “antifa” 
in the protests.


Dozens of Times employees objected to the Op-Ed on social media, despite 
a company policy that instructs them not to post partisan comments or 
take sides on issues. Many of them responded on Twitter with the 
sentence, “Running this puts Black @NYTimes staff in danger.” More than 
160 employees planned a virtual walkout for Friday morning, according to 
two organizers of the protest.


Conversation and debate filled videoconference meetings for many 
newsroom departments on Thursday. The newspaper scheduled a town-hall 
meeting for Friday to allow employees to express their concerns to 
company leaders, including A. G. Sulzberger, the publisher; Dean Baquet, 
the executive editor; and Mr. Bennet, the editorial page editor.


Mr. Bennet said in a video meeting attended by Mr. Sulzberger and 
employees late on Thursday that he had not read Mr. Cotton’s essay 
before it was published, according to two people who were present.


On Thursday morning, Mr. Sulzberger had sent an email to the staff 
backing the Op-Ed’s publication.


“I believe in the principle of openness to a range of opinions, even 
those we may disagree with, and this piece was published in that 
spirit,” he wrote. “But it’s essential that we listen to and reflect on 
the concerns we’re hearing, as we would with any piece that is the 
subject of significant criticism. I will do so with an open mind.”


He added, “We don’t publish just any argument — they need to be 
accurate, good faith explorations of the issues of the day.”


On Thursday night, Mr. Sulzberger struck a somewhat different tone in a 
Slack message sent to company employees. He said that “a rushed 
editorial process” led to the publication of an Op-Ed “that did not meet 
our standards.” He added that an editor’s note from the newspaper’s 
standards department was on its way.


“Given that this is not the first lapse, the Opinion department will 
also be taking several initial steps to reduce the likelihood of 
something like this happening again,” Mr. Sulzberger said. He added that 
the opinion section would “rethink Op-Eds, generally” for the social 
media age.


Mr. Bennet had also defended publishing the Op-Ed early on Thursday, 
saying in an article published on the Times website that he disagreed 
with Mr. Cotton’s opinion but believed that it was important to publish 
views that ran counter to his own.


“It would undermine the integrity and independence of The New York Times 
if we only published views that editors like me agreed with, and it 
would betray what I think of as our fundamental purpose — not to tell 
you what to think, but to help you think for yourself.”


Through a Times spokeswoman, Mr. Sulzberger and Mr. Bennet declined 
requests for interviews.


The Op-Ed was 

Re: [Marxism] antifa

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Just for clarification when confronting police lines or when police lines
mobilize, it's not uncommon to put "white bodies" between the riot cops and
POC with the idea that they will get less of a beating. Sometimes it works
that way, other times not so much. In any case, the call is from POC
leaders of the action, whether it be blac blocking or just shielding folks
who are trying to hold a "symbolic space". Not saying I agree with all of
these techniques (they are not tactics), but that's what happens more times
than not in these "riots".
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On 6/5/20 12:36 PM, Jeffrey Masko wrote:
Folks I know personally do not sneer at peaceful protests and work to 
separate their actions so the old tired out narrative of peaceful 
protest hijacked is provable to be false, along with the idea violence 
is used that somehow soils the other peaceful protest when the fact is 
that those who often put their bodies on the line protecting POC are 
vilified and lumped in with looters (god forbid anyone loot) and 
property destruction/vandalism.


I am not even sure what it means to protect POC just as long it doesn't 
involve torching a post office or a library. When the Migizi American 
Indian community center burned down, someone excused it because it was 
an accident. It was collateral damage of the targeted building, the 
fucking post office. Who in their right mind would want to torch the 
post office that is paid for by our tax dollars and that Donald Trump 
also wants to destroy? Besides the post office, a library got torched.


In any case, this business about "riots" has wound down, except kept 
alive by Trump and his minions. Almost everybody is involved in 
traditional protests, number one, and, number two, does so without 
needing to be defended. There will still be cop attacks as took place 
near the White House but it is simply beyond the scope of any antifa 
activists to serve as a defense guard when there are 480 cities that 
have seen protests, including tiny upstate NY towns that I have reported 
on. In both Walkill and Monroe, everything happened without any cop 
attacks. I suspect that is true in nearly all cases. This is not Egypt 
in 2011, even though Trump would like to be able to make it so.


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On 6/5/20 12:15 PM, John Reimann via Marxism wrote:

I never mentioned anything about carpenters or any other sector of the
working class.


Just do me a favor and don't put peaceful in scare quotes again. Mass 
actions are meant to be peaceful. My only difference with some who 
organize them is the need to resort to self-defense when necessary.


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You assume that baristas, hair stylists, carpenters aren't putting their
bodies on the line and normally a lot wouldn't be because they are at work.
This time, they are. In fact, I personally know of a barista (from
Starbucks) and a carpenter (won't say from where) who regularly go out in
the same affinity group. Without a doubt there are hair stylists in
SF/Oakland doing the same thing.

If you aren't active in these groups, you won't get a notice for you to
show up so if you don't know about them that doesn't mean they are not
happening and two, you aren't going to really know they're demographics as
they are not homogeneous. Folks I know personally do not sneer at peaceful
protests and work to separate their actions so the old tired out narrative
of peaceful protest hijacked is provable to be false, along with the idea
violence is used that somehow soils the other peaceful protest when the
fact is that those who often put their bodies on the line protecting POC
are vilified and lumped in with looters (god forbid anyone loot) and
property destruction/vandalism. And the assumption that all of these
"instigators" are white kids with universal privilege is simply not what I
see in the bay area.
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Louis writes: "Why is peaceful in scare quotes? What are people who work as
baristas or
hair stylists supposed to do? Wait until your carpenters put their
bodies on the line? I ordinarily don't pay attention to your workerism
but in this instance it is galling."

I never mentioned anything about carpenters or any other sector of the
working class. Nor have I ever mentioned anything about any particular
sector of the working class. Maybe Louis doesn't see hair stylists or
baristas as part of the working class, but I do. Louis may find it galling
that I see the working class as the only force that can transform society,
but I hardly think that view is "workerism".

John

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[Marxism] Are we on the brink of revolution?

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Washington Post, June 4, 2020 at 6:00 a.m. EDT
Are we on the brink of revolution?
By Christine Adams

The protests that have erupted across the United States following the 
brutal deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and others at the hands of 
the police fit a pattern of long-term structural problems meeting sudden 
crises that historically have shaped revolutions in the past.


As we grapple with what might change in the wake of covid-19 and unrest 
across the country, the case of the French Revolution of 1789 reminds us 
of the contested nature of social change. Revolutions do not necessarily 
erupt at the moment when people are most oppressed. Rather, revolutions 
have more often been the result of “rising expectations.” Periods of 
progress followed by crushed hopes can be especially dangerous, leading 
to rage and violence.


Alexis de Tocqueville was one of the first political theorists to 
highlight what he viewed as a curious paradox: the French Revolution 
erupted not when the nation was in the throes of decline, such as during 
the War of the Spanish Succession (1701—1714) in the later years of the 
reign of Louis XIV, but rather, at a time of relative prosperity in 
France. In his words, “A study of comparative statistics makes it clear 
that in none of the decades immediately following the Revolution did our 
national prosperity make such rapid forward strides as in the two 
preceding it.”


In fact, those parts of France that had experienced the greatest 
improvement saw the most pronounced popular discontent in the late 1780s 
and these became centers of revolutionary activity. Tocqueville 
attributed this to King Louis XVI’s (r. 1774-1793) relatively light hand 
over the country, and his desire to lessen the weight of absolutist 
rule: “For it is not always when things are going from bad to worse that 
revolutions break out. On the contrary, it oftener happens that when a 
people which has put up with an oppressive rule over a long period 
without protest suddenly finds the government relaxing its pressure, it 
takes up arms against it.”


However, historians have identified other factors. Yes, the lives of 
many French people were improving in the second half of the 18th century 
as epidemic disease and food shortages became less common, allowing for 
a decline in mortality. Overseas and domestic trade increased over the 
course of the century, making consumer goods such as sugar and coffee 
more widely available; the slave trade and the labor of enslaved people 
on plantations in France’s Caribbean colonies fueled the availability of 
these goods as well as French prosperity more generally. And Louis XVI, 
influenced by Enlightenment philosophy that called upon kings to rule in 
the interest of their subjects, did take into consideration the 
well-being of the French people. But things were not, in fact, going 
well in France in the years immediately preceding the Revolution in 1789.


The economy was in a downward spin. The Eden Treaty of 1786, negotiated 
to open trade between France and Britain, created terrible pressure on 
French industry and many thousands of textiles workers lost their jobs. 
The year 1788 was a terrible one for agriculture, and led to food 
shortages throughout the country, pushing many to leave home in search 
of employment. These roving bands of men triggered fear among the 
broader population already living close to the edge.


At the same time, the French government was grappling with bankruptcy, a 
legacy of its 18th-century wars, including its assistance to the 
American revolutionaries. The dire state of French finances was made 
public in 1786 when the last of the wartime taxes expired and it became 
clear the government was running a serious deficit. The 
controller-general tried to impose reforms to solve the fiscal crisis, 
including a broad-based tax, but was met with stiff resistance. The 
decision to call the Estates General to bring about financial and 
political reform, including a new constitution for the country, provided 
the catalyst for social unrest and violence, including the storming of 
the Bastille and the Great Fear, peasant riots fueled by panic and 
conspiracy theories that spread across the French countryside in the 
summer of 1789.


The grim situation the French faced in 1788 was made even worse by the 
fact that those suffering knew that life could be better. Why? Because 
they had a glimpse into a better future. The popularization of 
Enlightenment literature that critiqued inequalities in the social and 
political system along with the politicization of the French citizenry 
that had accompanied elections of 

[Marxism] Black History in Three Acts | Boston Review

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The story of how black people confront systems of racial capitalism and 
plot world liberation. A reading list from Robin D. G. Kelley.


http://bostonreview.net/race/robin-d-g-kelley-black-history-three-acts

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On 6/5/20 9:41 AM, John Reimann via Marxism wrote:

The main point is this, though: If you denounce antifa without an
explanation of why they have become so prominent and what is the
alternative, then what is left is simply the implication that we should
return to the nice, safe, "peaceful" marches -- the same approach that has
accomplished nothing.


Why is peaceful in scare quotes? What are people who work as baristas or 
hair stylists supposed to do? Wait until your carpenters put their 
bodies on the line? I ordinarily don't pay attention to your workerism 
but in this instance it is galling.


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[Marxism] bellingcat - Visualizing Police Violence Against Journalists At Protests Across The U.S - bellingcat

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Re: [Marxism] Group linked to far-right ?boogaloo? movement plotted terror attacks against protesters: prosecutors

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Amith R. Gupta writes of Boogaloo "Hmmm, people with questionable views on
race, part of an amorphous and incoherent internet movement that opposes
state violence but has sketchy
characters, who use violence against infrastructure for the purpose of
accelerating social unrest. These men could have basically been Antifa."

If you don't like antifa, fine, but let's try to be accurate here. The
roots of antifa are completely different from those of boogaloo and so are
their politics. They have almost nothing in common, including their
attitude towards private property. And to imply that those in antifa would
be willing to collaborate with, no less allow in their ranks, overt racists
is simply ludicrous.

To make sure I'm not misunderstood: I am not an anarchist and strongly
disagree with that ideology. I disagree that random property damage can
lead the movement forward. I disagree that simply confronting fascists on
the streets is all that is needed and that a political approach is
unnecessary. I know that antifa can be damaging to the movement at times.
But they are far less of a danger than are the liberals. And do far less to
hold the movement back than does the union leadership.

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Re: [Marxism] antifa

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Of course unfocused property destruction does not advance the movement. But
the ritual denunciations of Antifa don't help clarify things either.
Especially in such a group of anarchists which is not really an
organization, there can be all types - woman beaters, racists, and
supporters of Israel included. But the idea that the last - Israel
supporters - is in any way a significant percentage is simply false. It
just doesn't stand to reason, nor does it meet with my personal experience
here in the SF Bay Area.

The main point is this, though: If you denounce antifa without an
explanation of why they have become so prominent and what is the
alternative, then what is left is simply the implication that we should
return to the nice, safe, "peaceful" marches -- the same approach that has
accomplished nothing. Antifa has become so prominent because of the absence
of a large sector of the working class, specifically because of the absence
of the unions. If the union leadership were organizing and mobilizing its
membership, it would be shutting down the country and creating a real
massive working class movement. The presence of a mass or organized workers
would also tend to lead to a serious discussion on both program and tactics.

So, if you want to denounce something, start by denouncing the union
leadership.

John Reimann

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[Marxism] Reflections on my COVID-19 antibodies | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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The last couple of months leading up to a Quest serology test that 
yielded “positive” antibodies for COVID-19 have been a roller coaster 
ride. Take a seat in the car behind me, strap yourself in, and let me 
recount a story that Agatha Christie might have written.


The tale began last October when I suffered through bronchitis for most 
of the month. This viral infection of the bronchial tubes is just 
another illness to which geezers like me are susceptible. It is usually 
not fatal but can lead to hospitalization. After recovering, I began 
taking measures to avoid getting sick again. They included using Purell, 
avoiding touching my face, and all the other defenses that should 
prevent exposure to any virus, including COVID-19. Being ahead of the 
curve, how the hell did I end up with antibodies?


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Re: [Marxism] Roughed Up And Arrested For Protesting, New Yorkers Spend Hours In "Packed" Cells During Pandemic - Gothamist

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This is the sort of thing that's going to happen when people do not accept
the divisions they impose on us.  The more we stand together, the more they
will see us all as enemies and, in their less guarded moments, treat us as
such.

I hope their victim's okay.
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[Marxism] The US protests: Lessons from Syria | AlJumhuriya.net

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[Marxism] We are all Precarious: on the concept of the precariat and its misuses | Richard Seymour on Patreon

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We are all Precarious: on the concept of the precariat and its misuses
I’ve been asked about this essay, originally published on the now 
defunct New Left Project, several times. I’m putting it up here for 
posterity.


Introduction: Standing for the precariat

In its current formulation, the concept of ‘the precariat’ is 
unconvincing, impressionistic and certainly tinged with millennial 
Weltschmerz. It is Guy Standing of Bath University who has done the most 
to popularise the concept and, at the same time, give it some added 
theoretical depth. He argues that the ‘precariat’ is a class-in-becoming 
which, as it is consolidated, will represent a “new dangerous class”, a 
“monster”: “Action is needed before that monster comes to life.” He 
warns that if ‘the precariat’ is not understood – or rather, does not 
understand itself, become a “class-for-itself” in language borrowed from 
Hegelian Marxism – it is taking us toward a “politics of the inferno”. 
This inferno would be a reconfigured fascism, with precarious workers 
playing a role perhaps analogous (not too analogous, Standing insists) 
to that of the old, much maligned, lumpenproletariat. This “dangerous 
class” needs a “Voice” to articulate its particular “bundle of 
insecurities”, lest it be led astray by the far right.


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[Marxism] Agent Provocateurs: Police at Protests Caught Destroying Property

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I have little use for Mint Press but this is worth reading.

https://www.mintpressnews.com/agent-provocateurs-police-caught-destroying-property-protests/268125/

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[Marxism] The FBI Interrogated a Man Arrested for Curfew Violation on his political beliefs

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[Marxism] Roughed Up And Arrested For Protesting, New Yorkers Spend Hours In "Packed" Cells During Pandemic - Gothamist

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[Marxism] PHOTOS: Hundreds show up to Warwick for second Black Lives Matter protest - recordonline.com - Middletown, NY

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Warwick is one of those sleepy villages near my hometown upstate NY like 
Monroe, where 700 people come to a rally after a single Tweet called for 
one. I don't think that even during the heights of the Vietnam antiwar 
movement this was happening.


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[Marxism] Say Their Names! - CounterPunch.org

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By Peter Linebaugh

This Saturday, 6 June, will be the 240th anniversary of the “delivery of 
Newgate” when a London crowd, led by two Afro-Americans named Ben Bowsey 
and John Glover, opened the doors of England’s largest and most feared 
prison, Newgate, and released its prisoners, more than a hundred of them.


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[Marxism] Cops Shoved This Elderly Man to the Ground and Then Said He ‘Tripped and Fell’ - VICE

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[Marxism] From Ireland - solidarity with family of George Floyd

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'Black Lives Matter' mural solidarity with family of George Floyd

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbw-Sk9amBg=youtu.be 


Michelle O’Neill MLA, Leas Uachtarán Shinn Féin and West Belfast MP Paul Maskey 
welcome the painting of a new mural on Belfast's international wall in 
solidarity with the 'Black Lives Matter' campaign and to the family of George 
Floyd who was brutally murdered by Minneapolis police officers.
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[Marxism] The Police Were a Mistake | The New Republic

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American cities would not move toward professionalized and uniformed 
police forces until the 1830s and 1840s, starting with cities like 
Boston and Philadelphia. They drew inspiration from London, where Home 
Secretary Robert Peel had led the creation of the Metropolitan Police in 
1829. Historians often frame Peel’s work in the context of London’s 
population growth and a move toward Victorian-era social and moral 
reform. It also took place against a backdrop of social and political 
tensions over Irish nationalism, labor reform, and Catholic emancipation.


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[Marxism] Termite Capitalism: how private equity is undermining the economy | openDemocracy

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[Marxism] An officer suggested George Floyd had excited delirium.

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