[marxmail] East Side Freedom Library event: Taking on Amazon

Please join us for a special conversation about the emerging intersectional movement to take on the behemoth of Amazon: https://mailchi.mp/ eastsidefreedomlibrary/ register-now-for-our-special- event-about-amazon-workers- and-labor-in-america?e= f94a40bbd9 ( https://mailchi.mp/eastsidefreedomlib

[marxmail] Belarus: Last Act Yet to be Written

"A central feature of the events in Belarus is going more or less unreported: Fully one half of the Belarusian economy is through state-owned enterprises. This fact has given Belarus dictator Alexander Lukashenko something of a base among industrial workers, until now. "A repressive government and

Re: [marxmail] book review: "Reflections on a radical past"

Having had numerous run-ins with PL in the 60s, in the anti-war movement, in the labor movement and in the Peace and Freedom Party, let me say that vid I found them uniformly anti-democratic, thuggish and anti-intellectual. If anyone is interested, and I hope you're not, I can write something mor

[marxmail] 'Go Away! Go Away!' Factory Workers Heckle Belarusian Strongman as Nationwide General Strike Kicks Off

'Go Away! Go Away!' Factory Workers Heckle Belarusian Strongman as Nationwide General Strike Kicks Off "Lukashenko is a former president," said one strike leader. "He needs to go." by Jake Johnson, Common Dreams, August 17 https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/08/17/go-away-go-away-factory-workers

[marxmail] A revolutionary interview

/Jean Paul Marat: Tribune of the French Revolution, /Pluto Press, 2012 Dear friends, If you have an interest in French Revolution history, you may enjoy watching an interview I did last week about my biography of Jean Paul Marat.  Interviewer Randy Credico’s enthusiasm for the subject was s

[marxmail] Remembering Roger Casement

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Re: [marxmail] book review: "Reflections on a radical past"

Ken -- Ellen Israel's memoir of Cuba travel doesn't state that the NLF pushed for a particular line, and that's not how I read the review either. Ellen writes: "One of the most significant outcomes of the 1963 and 1964 Cuba trips was that they became a catalyst for the anti-Vietnam War effort.

Re: [marxmail] book review: "Reflections on a radical past"

The reviewer writes, "Having met in Cuba representatives of the Vietnamese National Liberation Front, Ellen and others pushed to make the anti-war movement an anti-imperialist movement back home on the campus." This sentence might lead you to believe that in advancing their line on the anti-war

[marxmail] Whither MeToo?

Has the sexual/political stick been bent too far (so to speak)?  Should we all be joining Joseph Kishore and "David North" in their crusade against MeToo? Questions, perhaps naive ones, inspired by the linked piece in Salon. Is there a line to be drawn by the Left, and if so, where should it be

Re: [marxmail] The government is looking the other way while Britain's rivers die before our eyes | George Monbiot | Opinion | The Guardian

On 8/17/20 3:51 PM, johnny hazard via groups.io wrote: Pay wall? I have always opened the Guardian free before. That's a surprise. In any case... The government is looking the other way while Britain's rivers die before our eyes George Monbiot George Monbiot

Re: [marxmail] The government is looking the other way while Britain's rivers die before our eyes | George Monbiot | Opinion | The Guardian

Pay wall? I have always opened the Guardian free before. On Monday, August 17, 2020, 6:53:43 AM CDT, Louis Proyect wrote: You can judge the state of a nation by the state of its rivers. Pollution is the physical expression of corruption. So what should we conclude about a country wh

[marxmail] The background to the NY Times article on Adolph Reed Jr. and the “cancelled” meeting | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

On August 14, NY Times sports reporter Michael Powell weighed in on the virtual meeting for Adolph Reed Jr. that fell through in May after DSA’s Afrosocialists and Socialists of Color Caucus demanded a debate. On June 12, Reed and co-thinker Walter Benn Michaels didan interview

[marxmail] The Hidden Price of an Education: Black and Working-Class in Academe

In August 2004, I entered a doctoral program at Carnegie Mellon University. My family is from Braddock, Pennsylvania, a largely black neighborhood with working-class roots, and they were ecstatic that I would be their first doctor. I did not know in 2004 that pursuing my graduate degrees would lea

[marxmail] H-Net Review [H-Early-America]: McIlvenna on Witzig, 'Sanctifying Slavery and Politics in South Carolina: The Life of the Reverend Alexander Garden, 1685-1756'

Best regards, Andrew Stewart - - - Subscribe to the Washington Babylon newsletter via https://washingtonbabylon.com/newsletter/ Begin forwarded message: > From: H-Net Staff via H-REVIEW > Date: August 17, 2020 at 9:20:18 AM EDT > To: h-rev...@lists.h-net.org > Cc: H-Net Staff > Subject: H-N

[marxmail] When Adolph Reed Jr. criticized Ellen Meikins Wood for the same kind of analysis puts forward today

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[marxmail] Class Cancelled - Asad Haider

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[marxmail] COUP 53: New Documentary on Overthrow of Iran's Mosaddeq

https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/iran/2020-08-16/new-film-iran-1953-coup-tells-story-through-documents *Washington

Re: [marxmail] The Left Has Turned Into a Guild Hall

> If these articles really are a dime a dozen, why don't they dominate the > "left" discourse? Why are the people who write them deplatformed? I said the podcasts were a dime a dozen. But you are right, the articles complaining are also popping up all over. And they are simply not published by

[marxmail] The Empire of All Maladies | Nick Estes

Debates about the epidemiological vulnerability of Indigenous people first came to prominence in the 1970s as historians backed away from narratives of European cultural superiority in search of more scientific explanations. This biological turn identified microbes as a primary culprit in the m

[marxmail] Don’t just look at covid-19 fatality rates. Look at people who survive — but don’t entirely recover.

Don’t just look at covid-19 fatality rates. Look at people who survive — but don’t entirely recover. Emergency room doctors and nurses in protective gear at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Yonkers, N.Y., on June 3. Emergency room doctors and nurses in protective gear at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Yon

[marxmail] From farm to factory: the unstoppable rise of American chicken | Environment | The Guardian

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[marxmail] The government is looking the other way while Britain's rivers die before our eyes | George Monbiot | Opinion | The Guardian

You can judge the state of a nation by the state of its rivers. Pollution is the physical expression of corruption. So what should we conclude about a country whose rivers are systematically exploited,dumped on

Re: [marxmail] Mourn? Or organize? | Michael James | Communist Party USA

I am a retired psychotherapist in New Zealand and strangely I found the whole article somewhat refreshing at first sight. The profession does not often get such marxist attention. BUT. There is a battle for the psyche in the mental health professions. Under capitalism the bourgeois practices and

[marxmail] Mourn? Or organize? | Michael James | Communist Party USA

https://www.cpusa.org/article/mourn-or-organize/ Mourn? Or organize? Michael James Goin’ crazy? Thinking about seeing a shrink? Be careful! Mental health professionals are complete lackeys in service to capitalism. Karl Marx wrote that any psychology that ignores economics, class struggle, and

Re: [marxmail] Cosmonaut

I must confess that I do find their "post-Soviet kitsch" amusing . . . Cheers, John On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 8:57 AM wrote: > Does anyone have background info on this site? I caught the glimmering of > an idea in their piece on "revolutionary sobriety," but am wary and not all > that amused by t

Re: [marxmail] What's Left - Podcast

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[marxmail] Free culture in the time of the virus | Adam Stoneman | Culture Matters

 https://www.culturematters.org.uk/index.php/culture/theory/item/3464-free-culture Free culture in the time of the virus Adam Stoneman Adam Stoneman explains how the Covid crisis is an opportunity to share digital cultural experiences more freely. The image above is 'Hands', by Theresa Easton