[Marxism] Los! Hau Bele! -- `Yo! Si Puedo' comes to Timor Leste: Cuba assists the eradication of illiteracy | Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal

2009-09-25 Thread glparramatta
In Timor Leste [East Timor], which is one of the world’s newest countries and Australia’s poorest Asia-Pacific neighbour, Cuba is delivering an educational aid program which aims to eradicate illiteracy, currently affecting nearly 50% of the adult population, within a period of less than 10 years.

[Marxism] NEW IN PAPERBACK: EDWARD CARPENTER: A LIFE OF LIBERTY AND LOVE

2009-09-25 Thread Verso Mail
NEW IN PAPERBACK: EDWARD CARPENTER: A LIFE OF LIBERTY AND LOVE By Sheila Rowbotham Published 5th October, 2009 - Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award

[Marxism] Honduras - end nears? Coup regime begns talks as resitsance grows

2009-09-25 Thread Stuart Munckton
http://www.greenleft.org.au/2009/811/41737 Honduras: Coup regime starts talks as resistance grows Federico Fuentes, Caracas The coup regime in Tegucigalpa is crumbling in the face of growing resistance from Honduran people and international condemnation. Having seized power in a militar

[Marxism] Chavez interview with Larry King

2009-09-25 Thread Pat Costello
http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/bestoftv/2009/09/25/lkl.chavez.long.cnn.html YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.eco

Re: [Marxism] NEW IN PAPERBACK: EDWARD CARPENTER: A LIFE OF LIBERTY AND LOVE

2009-09-25 Thread martin empson
There is a fascinating extended review and interview with Sheila Rowbotham on SW's website here:   http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=16830   Some really intersting nuggets of history even if you don't have time to read the whole biography. Particularly interesting is the way that people

[Marxism] Photos of U. of California protests over cutbacks

2009-09-25 Thread Louis Proyect
http://zunguzungu.wordpress.com/2009/09/24/walkout/ YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%

[Marxism] Australian solidarity with Honduras english and espanol: Nota de prensa Aporrea Honduras

2009-09-25 Thread Lara
Press Release to Aporrea, Venezuela Australian Social Organisations demonstrate in support of Zelaya This 24th September 2009 the Iberoamerican Plaza in Sydney was the gathering place of various Australian Solidarity networks to express their support for the President of Honduras Manuel Zelaya an

Re: [Marxism] Los! Hau Bele! -- `Yo! Si Puedo' comes to Timor Leste: Cuba assists the eradication of illiteracy | Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal

2009-09-25 Thread Lüko Willms
glparramatta (glparrama...@greenleft.org.au) wrote on 2009-09-25 at 18:27:32 in about [Marxism] Los! Hau Bele! -- Wer ist Bele, und warum soll ich ihn hauen? Los! Antworte! Neugierig, Lüko Willms Frankfurt, Germany __

[Marxism] Capitalism: a Love Story

2009-09-25 Thread Louis Proyect
My take on Michael Moore's latest: http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2009/09/25/capitalism-a-love-story/ YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http:

[Marxism] Nuclear power--the double standard

2009-09-25 Thread Louis Proyect
http://papadablogger.blogspot.com/2009/09/nuclear-power-double-standard.html YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman

[Marxism] Book recommendations from Max Elbaum

2009-09-25 Thread Louis Proyect
Friends and family, It's another year in which many friends have written and published books. And very good ones too! In today's so-called "media environment" it's not easy for volumes that aren't promoted by corporate giants to gain a significant audience. So that's an additional reason to che

[Marxism] Recovery?

2009-09-25 Thread S. Artesian
I don't think this is what Fontella Bass had in mind, singing the song by that name in the 1960s: August 2009--- Released 8:30 A.M. EDT September 25, 2009 (M3-1(09)-08) Note: All figures in text are in seasonally adjusted current dollars For Data - (301) 763-4673 For Questions - Chr

Re: [Marxism] Recovery?

2009-09-25 Thread S. Artesian
Speaking of recovery... did anyone look at the Fed's "Shared National Credit Review"? This is the Fed's annual review on the quality of the loans issued by the financial sector in amounts greater than $20 million, and banks and non-bank financial entities like hedge funds, spun-off structured i

[Marxism] VIDEO: G20 protester snatched by men in military fatiques

2009-09-25 Thread Pat Costello
like something out of a Matt Damon movie. they throw him in an unmarked car and roar off. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8CNa_viKg0&feature=player_embedded YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submiss

Re: [Marxism] VIDEO: G20 protester snatched by men in military fatiques

2009-09-25 Thread Bhaskar Sunkara
I call bullshit, but I reserve the right to be wrong. On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Pat Costello wrote: > like something out of a Matt Damon movie. they throw him in an unmarked car > and roar off. > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8CNa_viKg0&feature=player_embedded > > > > > >

Re: [Marxism] VIDEO: G20 protester snatched by men in military fatiques

2009-09-25 Thread Pat Costello
a little more info: http://rawstory.com/2009/09/video-appears-to-show-us-troops-kidnapping-protester/ G20 cops dressed in camo ’snatch’ protester By Muriel Kane Friday, September 25th, 2009 -- 11:10 am G20 security officials took responsibility Friday afternoon for a video that seemed to depict

[Marxism] Good AlJazeera story on Detroit workers & economic crisis

2009-09-25 Thread jayroth6
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJ7VL907Qb0&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCo63ntCxNA&NR=1 includes a visit with Grace Lee Boggs YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.e

[Marxism] Ann Coulter: Ready for the ash-can? A Marxist view.

2009-09-25 Thread jayroth6
"Guilty" by Ann Coulter Book Review by Caleb T. Maupin I don't know why I read this book, but for some reason it caught my fancy and attention. I wondered how Ann Coulter would suffice now that her political party was out of office, and her previous mantra of accusations of all who dissented f

[Marxism] American Girl homeless doll only $95 (hairbrush $7 extra)

2009-09-25 Thread Pat Costello
http://www.examiner.com/x-1022-Orlando-Parenting-Examiner~y2009m9d25-American-Girl-introduces-homeless-doll YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your optio

[Marxism] [Jewbonics] Water in the Gaza Concentration Camp

2009-09-25 Thread Dennis Brasky
Jewbonics has posted a new item, 'Water in the Gaza Concentration Camp' > > Correctly characterizing the Gaza strip in a typology of repressive > institutions isn’t easy. Without question, it’s a refugee camp, but a quite > developed refugee camp, and some of its inhabitants have been there for 60

[Marxism] Character of Assembly Line Work

2009-09-25 Thread ehrbar
Discussion question 263 in my on-line class on Marx's *Capital* is: "Do you know production processes in which humans participate without having to spend any effort?" Pseudonym Kay answered: > A lot of manufacturing jobs actually do not require humans to spend > any effort. The technology availa

Re: [Marxism] Character of Assembly Line Work

2009-09-25 Thread Néstor Gorojovsky
I would add that the "contemplative" mood described below is of itself a most demanding job, because it requires full attention of the worker to a most boring process, and diminishes the worker´s abilities to the single ability of pushing buttons. It would be funny if it wasn´t tragic, to stress th

Re: [Marxism] American Girl homeless doll only $95 (hairbrush $7 extra)

2009-09-25 Thread Einde O'Callaghan
Pat Costello wrote: > http://www.examiner.com/x-1022-Orlando-Parenting-Examiner~y2009m9d25-American-Girl-introduces-homeless-doll > This can only be described as sick, sick, sick! The commodification of homelessness at prices that the real homeless could never afford. Einde O'Callaghan ___