Re: [Marxism] British & Irish Politics - anything new?

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Gary MacLennan wrote: 'The question I am asking myself when reading about Johnson an

Re: [Marxism] Unionization rate drops to 6.9% in private sector

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == One of the most worrying things I found when trying to recruit people to the union i

Re: [Marxism] John Mearsheimer: Obama continues imperial policies

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I agree with Lou P here, I think that it is important for socialists both within and

Re: [Marxism] Denis Dutton is dead

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Lou P wrote about Denis Dutton: 'He launched the Bad Writing Contest in the 1990s as

Re: [Marxism] Spiked concerned about police impotence in British student movement

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Following on from what Gary MacLennan wrote about Spiked, this idea that the British

Re: [Marxism] How big or important is the Wikileaks?

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Andy P asked: 'By the way -- has anyone yet made the parallel to Trotsky's publishin

Re: [Marxism] My employer reverses itself on Wikileaks

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Following from the warning to students not to touch the Wikileaks material at Columb

[Marxism] From the Bundeswehr to a New Wehrmacht?

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Further to our recent discussion on the question of military conscription and imperi

Re: [Marxism] Article on Animal Farm needed

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I have forwarded off-list to comrade Kalfat the article by John Molyneux on Animal F

Re: [Marxism] Role of the Army

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Re Kenneth Morgan's posting, it's noteworthy that many of the countries in Western E

Re: [Marxism] Churchill and the Bengal famine

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Lou P cited Scott Horton in Harpers: 'Churchill had condoned the Japanese invasion o

[Marxism] People in Jail -- A Telling Comparison

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Reading a review of a new book on Stalin's purges on the H-Net Russia site, I found

Re: [Marxism] Churchill's Empire

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Johann Hari was cited by Lou P, saying that 'Winston Churchill is rightly remembered

[Marxism] Simon Pirani Replies to International Socialism Review

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Simon Pirani, the author of The Russian Revolution in Retreat, 1920-1924: Soviet Wor

Re: [Marxism] Bono Endorses Scrapping the Minimum Wage

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == No sooner had I wrote about Bono that 'I'm surprised that he hasn't declared himself

Re: [Marxism] Analysis of Miliband election

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I was discussing the Labour leadership contest yesterday evening with some friends j

Re: [Marxism] Evil Bible

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == This site is in many ways a modern-day version of an old book I have, first publishe

Re: [Marxism] Polanski is Free!!

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Here's my pal Arthur Trusscott's take on Polanski and others like him, from New Inte

Re: [Marxism] Not a conspiracy theorist, but a troll

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Lou P wrote: 'Does the team with the most players falling down and grimacing get som

Re: [Marxism] John Cleese rants--soccer v. football

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Sartesian wrote: 'I didn't know the rest of the world took baseball seriously. I kno

Re: [Marxism] Who I am rooting for in the World Cup

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Well, I'm not blowing a vuvuzela for anyone, but here's a fascinating article about

[Marxism] Christian Fascism in the USA?

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Can list members in the USA let those in other countries know what they think about

[Marxism] Christopher Hitchens Exposed -- Again

n and Stalin are merged into one character.' So the absence in Animal Farm of a pig representing Lenin, or of a character that at least partly represented him, has been discussed by a wide variety of writers over no less a time than six decades. Hitchens' unique discove

Re: [Marxism] Spiked online outraged that Gil Scott-Heron won't perform in Israel

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Einde O'Callaghan wrote re Spiked: 'Quelle surprise! -- it's typical of the contrari

Re: [Marxism] Trailer for "The Trotsky"

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == This doesn't sound like anything original. In Britain in the late 1970s we had 'Citi

[Marxism] Christopher Hitchens -- An 'Expert' on George Orwell

o the collection, 'Animal Farm Revisited', John Molyneux also noted the absence of a porcine Lenin, and considered that Orwell merged the characters of Lenin and Stalin in the pig Napoleon. 'Yours faithfully 'Dr Paul Flewers' Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com

Re: [Marxism] The Millibands

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I don't know who said it first, but it's been doing the rounds in Britain. Ralph Mil

Re: [Marxism] Perry Anderson idiocy on China

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I meant to buy the latest NLR, but there was a talk going on in my local bookshop by

Re: [Marxism] German 'Anti-Germans' At It Again

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Einde O'Callaghan wrote about the Anti-Germans: 'In my opinion, what connects all o

[Marxism] German 'Anti-Germans' At It Again

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == This is an interesting piece on the bizarre antics of the German 'anti-Germans'. O

[Marxism] Zionists Heckle Holocaust Survivor Dr Hajo Meyer

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I was forwarded this report by Yael Kahn via Moshé Machover; the Zionists' behaviour

Re: [Marxism] '...ists' or '...ites' (Was Conspiracy and History)

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == >From what I've read, the term 'Trotskyite' has almost always been used in a pejorat

Re: [Marxism] Bernard-Henri Levy bandwagon

Re Lüko's comments re Polanski. I find it remarkable that self-styled human-rights campaigners Levy and Kouchner come out in defence of a child-rapist, not least because they have self-righteously posed as defenders of Enlightenment Decency against barbarism; does anyone else remember their pronoun

Re: [Marxism] Query on British historiography

Re Lou P's query: I ought to know more about this, but from what I know the British revisionist historians tend to be right-wingers who feel that Churchill's line brought Britain unnecessarily into a war with Germany, and as a result lost its Empire. They feel that Britain could have stayed out of

Re: [Marxism] Israeli Organ Theft Story Lacks Guts

A debunking of this tale, 'Baseless Organ Theft Accusations Will Not Bring Israel to Justice', appears at < http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10730.shtml >. 'The fact that Bostrom did not offer evidence for his organ theft claims has given Israel an enormous propaganda gift. Because he offer

Re: [Marxism] Useful background on alleged Pan Am 103 bomber being released

Lou P recommended link to Links: 'For more than a year, US, Scottish and British investigators were convinced that the Syrian-based PFLP-GC was the prime suspect. In October 1990, Washington and London suddenly began pointing the finger at Libya and started unearthing "evidence" out of the blue t

Re: [Marxism] How Orwellian was Orwell?

Lou P cited Richard Vinen in the TLS: 'He [Orwell] was not much interested in Marxist theory and his remark, apropos of TS Eliot, that Anglo-Catholicism was the "ecclesiastical equivalent of Trotskyism", was probably designed to annoy Trotskyites as much as Anglo-Catholics.' The reference to Anglo