[Marxism] Fwd: Let down by Obama, some black voters ask: Is it even worth backing Clinton? - The Washington Post
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * During those two electric Novembers, the chance to elect a black president, and then keep him in office, seized Regenia Motley’s neighborhood. Nightclubs were registering voters. Churches held fish fries after loading buses that ferried parishioners to the polls. A truck hoisted a big sign that said “Obama.” And residents waited in long lines at precincts across the community. But as Motley and some friends sought shade recently under a mulberry tree and looked across the landscape of empty lots and abandoned houses that has persisted here, they wondered whether they would ever bother voting again. “What was the point?” asked Motley, 23, a grocery store clerk. “We made history, but I don’t see change. full: http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/disappointment-in-obama-leads-some-blacks-to-ask-is-voting-even-worth-it/2015/06/09/5922363c-052b-11e5-bc72-f3e16bf50bb6_story.html _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Fwd: The War on Thugs - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * ow did the United States go from a country that incarcerated roughly 500,000 citizens in 1980 to one that incarcerates roughly 2.3 million today? Civil unrest and rising crime were used to focus public debate on ideals of law and order. Those ideals were then employed to justify a criminal-justice system that, given social conditions, runs counter to race-neutral, fair ideals of law and order. But absent an account of how the misapplication of these ideals was overlooked, the story is only partial. Sylvia Wynter, a Stanford scholar of African-American studies, began a 1994 article, ‘No Humans Involved’: An Open Letter to My Colleagues, with the news that public officials of the judicial system of Los Angeles regularly used the acronym NHI to refer to any case involving a breach of the rights of young Black males who belong to the jobless category of the inner city ghettoes. NHI means ‘no humans involved.’ Wynter’s article links the method of dehumanization of American citizens of African descent to the dehumanization of Armenians by Turkish pan-nationalists in the First World War period, and of Jews by Nazis. Dehumanizing propaganda — thug, predator, gang member — is employed to hinder any attempt to explore the root causes of disorder. When blacks protest in response to social injustice, it creates disorder. When crime rates rise, it creates disorder. Propaganda mixed with fear leads to tolerance of injustice. The use of propaganda allows us to overlook gross inequities in the treatment of those to whom the propagandistic vocabulary is applied, inequities that are inconsistent with political equality. full: http://chronicle.com/article/The-War-on-Thugs/230787 _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Fwd: To confront structural racism - bookforum.com / omnivore
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[Marxism] Fwd: Tomgram: Gottesdiener and Garcia, How to Dismantle This Country | TomDispatch
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[Marxism] Iraqi City of Mosul Transformed a Year After Islamic State Capture, Beneath a veneer of order, residents live in fear
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * WSJ, June 10 2015 Iraqi City of Mosul Transformed a Year After Islamic State Capture Beneath a veneer of order, residents live in fear By NOUR MALAS BAGHDAD—In Islamic State’s stronghold of Mosul, the extremist group is working day and night to repair roads, manicure gardens and refurbish hotels. Iraq’s second-largest city has never looked so good thanks to strict laws enforced by the Sunni militants. But beneath that veneer, the group metes out deadly punishments to those who don’t comply with a long list of prohibitions imposed over the year since it took control of Mosul on June 10, 2014, according to interviews with more than a dozen current and former city residents, refugees and Iraqi officials. Gone are the illegal kiosks that crowded sidewalks and the tangled web of electrical wires once connecting rooftops. New lamps light up streets unusually clear of cigarette butts. “I have not in 30 years seen Mosul this clean, its streets and markets this orderly,” said Omar, a resident. He said Islamic State has shown an unusual focus on civil works in recent weeks, which he and others described as part of efforts to win popular support. A luxury hotel stamped with Islamic State logos. Rifle-wielding fighters chaperoning kids at an amusement park. Such is life through the lens of ISIS propaganda in the besieged Iraqi city of Mosul. Mosul and its population are changed in other ways, too. Gone are the iconic shrines and mosques that towered over the city center. The radical fighters blew many of them up because they believe the veneration of shrines is unholy. Ancient churches host garage sales where Islamic State members sell war booty or display wares available to members only. The native Christian population, a minority in the Sunni-majority city once peppered with other religious and ethnic groups, was driven out last year under threat of death. When women step outside, they are fully cloaked with their faces covered. Men have grown mandatory beards. Islamic State has gone unchallenged because residents from Iraq’s aggrieved Sunni minority are too scared of a military campaign that could bring massive destruction and an uncertain future under the Shiite-led government and allied forces who would retake the city, said current and former residents. Such is the dissonance of life for the more than one million people in the most populous city controlled by Islamic State across the territories it holds in Iraq and Syria. In the past year, the group has tightened its grip on Mosul mostly uncontested, building out its administrative and security apparatus. It has cut the city off from the rest of Iraq and the world beyond by shutting off cellphone towers and the Internet. A year after Mosul fell, Islamic State’s grip on the city stands as its biggest strategic and symbolic victory. The campaign to retake Mosul is a linchpin of the U.S.-led coalition’s military strategy against Islamic State. But plans for the counteroffensive have been delayed—something the militants appear to be capitalizing on to persuade the population they are better off under the group’s control. MORE COVERAGE Kurds Say Iraq’s Oil Payments Coming Up Short U.S. Plans to Send Hundreds More Advisers to Iraq “Islamic State is doing everything to keep Mosul. It’s the capital of their caliphate here,” said Fuad Hussein, chief of staff to the president of the semiautonomous Kurdistan region of Iraq, which borders Mosul. “It will be a disaster if it stays in their hands.” Airstrikes have hammered areas around the northern city since a U.S.-led air campaign began in August. This year, Kurdish forces backed by the U.S.-led air attacks cut off a key Islamic State supply line from Syria into the city and now surround it from the east, west and north. The plans for a counteroffensive have been put off because Iraq and the U.S. have shifted their priority to driving Islamic State out of Anbar province and its capital Ramadi, which are closer to the capital Baghdad. Mosul is still almost fully inhabited—a contrast to cities where Iraqi and coalition forces have pushed Islamic State out. U.S. officials say it has about a million residents. Iraqi officials say the population is closer to 1.5 million, including people displaced from Tikrit and Beiji. “Every prisoner in this oppressed city wants salvation from Daesh and a return to normal life,” said Omar, using an Arabic acronym for Islamic State. “But everyone agrees if liberation happens like in Tikrit and Anbar, with destruction and barrel bombs, random shelling and looting, we do not want that kind of
[Marxism] Fwd: Inside an undercover network trying to expose Islamic State’s atrocities - The Washington Post
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * The man’s voice was brisk and low as he called in his report from the dark heart of the Islamic State’s self-proclaimed capital, the north-central Syrian city of Raqqa. Islamic State police are out in force in the city’s central square, he said. They are stopping passersby at random and scrutinizing their mobile phones. Two people have been detained. Islamic State fighters have also set up extra checkpoints on roads approaching the city and seem in an unusually jumpy mood. “Don’t call me back unless I call you,” said the man, who also seemed nervous, before he hung up. full: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/islamic-state-learned-to-exploit-the-internet-activists-are-turning-the-tables/2015/06/09/8d3e490a-0964-11e5-951e-8e15090d64ae_story.html _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Fwd: Woman Charged with Murder After Terminating Pregnancy with 'Abortion Pill' | VICE News
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[Marxism] ‘Paperology’ continues, but mood darkens in Greece talks
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * FT, June 9, 2015 6:28 pm ‘Paperology’ continues, but mood darkens in Greece talks Peter Spiegel in Brussels Eurozone finance ministers gave a green light to extend the European share of Greece's bailout by four months, but the International Monetary Fund (IMF) expressed doubt about the reforms pledged by Athens in return for continued loans. Fears had been rife that without a European bailout extension, Greece would run out of money and be forced to leave the eurozone. But even with the extra time, Athens must still meet reform targets in the coming months to keep receiving funds from its European creditors and the IMF. The back-and-forth was the latest document exchange between Athens and Brussels as Greece tries to break a months-long impasse and gain access to desperately needed bailout cash. The process has become numbingly familiar in recent weeks — so much so that the European Commission has even given it a name: “paperology”. But the most recent exchange differed in one vital respect: the mood of cautious optimism that has surrounded the talks in recent weeks is rapidly giving way to fear and suspicion. Gone this time were the private reassurances that a deal would ultimately be concluded, allowing the Greek government to receive an infusion of euros before its bailout expires at the end of the month. Instead, officials from various institutions involved in the talks now worry that Greece’s hard-left government is dangerously miscalculating. Athens, they believe, is intentionally prolonging the negotiations to the last minute in a belief that its creditors will eventually “blink” and agree to grant wholesale debt relief and new bailout cash with few strings attached. “They do not want a deal with us; they just want debt relief,” a senior official with one of Athens’ bailout monitors said after reviewing Greece’s latest offer. “I don’t think they will move. I think they’re waiting for us to blink, and we won’t,” the official added. “They don’t understand we’re not back in 2012 where the Europeans were willing to just throw money at the problem.” The darkening mood was evident at the European Commission, which has long been viewed as Athens’ best ally in the stand-off. According to officials briefed on Tuesday’s meeting of 29 commissioners in Strasbourg, Jean-Claude Juncker lit into the Greek government, saying Athens had “lost the European Commission”. “They failed to see the best friend of the small and medium-sized member states is the European Commission,” said one official, recounting the EU president’s remarks to his fellow commissioners. In depth Greek officials insist that is not the case. One senior official said the proposal they submitted on Monday night had halved the difference between the budget surplus targets laid out by creditors in a proposal last week, and a counterproposal made by Athens. “The creditors should do the same,” the Greek official said. But creditor officials who have seen the document said that while there was a narrowing of the gap on the surplus targets, there was no discussion of how Athens intended to make up the difference — particularly in the disputed areas of raising value added tax on energy or on pension cuts. Instead, Athens submitted a second paper on debt relief. Creditors have repeatedly insisted the matter was off the table until an agreement on economic reforms that Greece would adopt to release the remaining €7.2bn in the bailout programme. In one sign of the pessimism surrounding the negotiations, several officials suggested that a meeting due to be held on Wednesday between Alexis Tsipras, the Greek prime minister, and his German and French counterparts — all of whom are scheduled to be in Brussels for a gathering of EU and Latin American leaders — might not take place. Mr Juncker told the commission he would not attend if Mr Tsipras “came with the same kind of attitude as he had last week”, officials said, and Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the Dutch finance minister who heads Greek negotiations on behalf of his fellow eurozone finance ministers, also suggested the meeting might be scrapped. Greek officials insisted they, too, did not want Mr Tsipras to participate in a meeting unless there were signs creditors were compromising. “My take is that [the Greeks] are marking time until the drop dead moment has arrived, and then [they believe] we should blink,” said another senior eurozone official involved in the talks. “I am worried that they have still not understood [when] the real drop dead moment is.” _
[Marxism] The Magna Carta 800 years on - taking liberties with history
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[Marxism] Fwd: Review of Edna Greene Medford, Lincoln and Emancipation | InsideHigherEd
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[Marxism] Fwd: Florida Imam With Past FBI Links Accused of Terrorism
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[Marxism] Fwd: Political Marxism and the New Historiography of Capitalism and Slavery: Invitation to an open discussion | s-usih.org
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Political Marxism is a term that causes a good deal of confusion. I was lucky to study, in undergrad, with an excellent representative of the Political Marxist tendency––the political scientist and comparative historian George Comninel––and to receive a pretty good education in its worldview. I think that this experience may still be usefully drawn upon to talk about contemporary Political Marxism. To study the history of capitalism with a Political Marxist is to take on a concern with the fundamental distinction between “capitalism” as a very specific mode of exploitation and “capitalism” as a sort of placeholder word that encompasses modernity, progress, the disenchantment of the world, technological revolutions, consumerism, reification and alienation, etc. A student of Political Marxism learns that for “capitalism” to be “capitalism,” three features must be present: market-driven labor compulsion (that is, hunger, rather than some feudal bully, makes sure that you go out and find a job); a regime of accumulation based on surplus labor extraction (not robbery, nor discovery of some cave full of precious metals, nor the profits from unpaid slave labor); and the presence of a liberal state muscular enough to maintain the “rule of law,” thereby ensuring the protection of private property. full: http://s-usih.org/2015/06/political-marxism-and-the-new-historiography-of-capitalism-and-slavery-invitation-to-an-open-discussion.html _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Fwd: New FBI files show wide range of Black Panther informant’s activities | Reveal
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[Marxism] Reform Is Not in Syriza’s Nature
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[Marxism] Fwd: New FBI files show wide range of Black Panther informant’s activities | Reveal
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[Marxism] Fwd: The Geopolitics of American Global Decline | Alfred W. McCoy
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * (Shades of A.G. Frank's Re-Orient) In a decade or two, should the need arise, China will be ready to surgically slice through Washington’s continental encirclement at a few strategic points without having to confront the full global might of the U.S. military, potentially rendering the vast American armada of carriers, cruisers, drones, fighters, and submarines redundant. Lacking the geopolitical vision of Mackinder and his generation of British imperialists, America’s current leadership has failed to grasp the significance of a radical global change underway inside the Eurasian land mass. If China succeeds in linking its rising industries to the vast natural resources of the Eurasian heartland, then quite possibly, as Sir Halford Mackinder predicted on that cold London night in 1904, “the empire of the world would be in sight.” full: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alfred-w-mccoy/the-geopolitics-of-american-global-decline_b_7534046.html _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Storming Heaven or Blowing Hot Air? A critique of The steam and the piston box: is autonomism an alternative?¹
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[Marxism] Richard Aoki - FBI informant in Black Panther Party
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * More documents about former Black Panther leader Richard Aoki have been released by the FBI under a new Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. http://www.contracostatimes.com/ci_28277394/new-fbi-files-show-wide-range-black-panther As a former friend (and perhaps a reported subject) of the late Aoki, I do not think these documents are FBI fabrications as some of his other and closer friends will be claiming. Perhaps they do not know about Roman Malinovsky? It is important to study police practices if we are serious about studying history and building a movement. In Solidarity, Red Arnie Bay Area, California Educate yourselves because we will need all your intelligence. Rouse yourselves because we will need all your enthusiasm. Organize yourselves because we will need all your strength. Slogan of L'Ordine Nuovo (The New Order) newspaper, 1919, Antonio Gramsci, managing editor. In Solidarity, Educate yourselves because we will need all your intelligence. Rouse yourselves because we will need all your enthusiasm. Organize yourselves because we will need all your strength. Slogan of L'Ordine Nuovo (The New Order) newspaper, 1919, A. Gramsci, managing editor. _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] A Palestinian PhD student studying at UniSA faces missing his first child's birth
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * A small act of Israeli assholeism to add to an endless list of Zionist crimes. Mohammed Sulaiman, from Gaza, won a UniSA scholarship to do a PhD, but says Israelis won't let his pregnant wife leave Gaza to join him despite having a visa. http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/a-palestinian-phd-student-studying-at-unisa-faces-missing-his-first-childs-birth/story-fni6uo1m-1227390245273 -- Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað. _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] What's new at Links: Left gains in Turkey/Kurdistan, FIFA Africa, Ukraine attacks workers' rights; Putin, West do deal on east Ukraine? Scotland
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * What's new at Links: Left gains in Turkey/Kurdistan, FIFA Africa, Ukraine attacks workers' rights; Putin, West do deal on east Ukraine? Scotland * * * Subscribe free to Links - International Journal of Socialist Renewal - at http://www.feedblitz.com/f/?Sub=343373 You can also follow Links on Twitter at http://twitter.com/LinksSocialism or on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=10865397643 Visit and bookmark http://links.org.au and add it to your RSS feed (http://links.org.au/rss.xml). If you would like us to consider an article, please send it to linkssocial...@gmail.com *Please pass on to anybody you think will be interested in Links. *Comments welcome on all articles *Return daily for new articles * * * Turkey's left party leader Selahattin Demirtaş' call for 'new way of life': radical democracy http://links.org.au/node/4458 June 8, 2015 -- /Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal/ -- The June 7, 2015, general election in Turkey saw the radical left People's Democratic Party (HDP) win almost 13% of the vote and around 80 parliamentary seats. It passed the 10% threshold for parliamentary representation for the first time, with a total of almost 6 million votes. The HDP won all the seats in the following Kurdish cities: Batman four, Agri four, Dersim two, Hakari three, Sirnak four, Igdir two. The party won 1 million votes and 11 seats in Istanbul -– a city with a huge Kurdish population although the party also won significant non-Kurdish support there. Thirty-one of the HDP’s 80 new MPs are women, the highest proportion of any party. HDP candidates included Armenians, Yezidis and Assyrians alongside Kurds. The HDP had the only openly gay candidate. On the other hand, the ruling AKP has lost its parliamentary majority and recieved 3 million fewer votes than in 2010. The AKP lost many votes to the HDP in areas where it has had a big Kurdish following. Turkey's parliament consists of 550 seats; 276 seats are required for a single-party majority government. The ruling AKP has only secured 258 with which to try and form a coalition. The HDP’s historic gains make the success of the peace process with the Kurds within Turkey more likely, and will restrict Turkey’s dubious relations with ISIS. The speech below from HDP co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş' 2014 presidential bid outlines the HDP's vision for a new Turkey. * Read more http://links.org.au/node/4458 World soccer corruption, Africa’s ‘illicit financial flows’ and elite silences http://links.org.au/node/4452 By *Patrick Bond*, Durban June 3, 2015 -- The last week has provided extraordinary examples of how corruption erodes the resources and morals of an entire continent – Africa – in part because villains in South Africa made alliances with wicked brothers in Switzerland, Latin America, the Caribbean and, especially, the United States. We now know more about offshore centres of both reactionary finance and corrupt-corporate soccer. It’s long overdue they are exposed to a spotlight, /even if those pointing that light want to leave certain features in the shadows/. * Read more http://links.org.au/node/4452 Turkey: Kurds, the working class and the new left -- interview with Erdem Yörük http://links.org.au/node/4457 June 6, 2015 -- With Turkey’s June 7 parliamentary elections fast approaching, all eyes are on the Peoples’ Democracy Party (HDP) contesting its first ever election as a party, rather than a coalition of nominally independent candidates: a momentous decision on the part of the party leadership, which stands to gain clout in parliament and solidify its position as the electoral standard-bearer of the radical Left—or fall below the constitutionally mandated 10% barrier and be excluded from parliament entirely. * Read more http://links.org.au/node/4457 Neoliberal Ukraine’s labour 'reforms' threaten workers' rights http://links.org.au/node/4456 By*Vitaly Dudin* June 4, 2015 -- Neoliberal modernisation in Ukraine is nothing new. The processes and forces pushing it forward long predate the ousting of Viktor Yanukovych last February. But since the events of 2014, this process has been expedited and has arrived at a key issue: the laws governing the way people work.// * Read more http://links.org.au/node/4456 Scottish politics after May 7 Westminster general election http://links.org.au/node/4455 By *Murray Smith* June 4, 2015 – The day after the May 7 Westminster [British] general election, George Kerevan, newly elected Scottish National Party MP for East Lothian, was walking through his constituency.
Re: [Marxism] Reform Is Not in Syriza’s Nature
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * On 10/06/2015 03:31 μμ, Louis Proyect via Marxism wrote: (Alex Callinicos should get in touch with the author of this op-ed piece to wise him up.) WSJ, June 10 2015 OPINION COMMENTARY Reform Is Not in Syriza’s Nature Asking Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to liberalize Greece would be like asking David Cameron to collectivize Britain. By TAKIS MICHAS Mr. Michas is a political analyst for the website protagon.gr. Takis Michas has been for the last 30 years a proponent of extreme neoliberalism, a kind of neoliberal fundamentalist. He has since the 80's publicly wrote uncountable bullshit of monumental dimensions. To mention just one of them, in his Why not national-socialists? (2013)(http://www.protagon.gr/?i=protagon.el.articleid=26057) he claims that the greek national-Bolshevist (his own word) left, have maliciously characterized golden dawn as nazi instead of national-socialists in order to hide its apparent ideological affinity to it, as it is clearly indicated by their common reference to socialism. No one can tell the difference between Golden Dawn's socialism and SYRIZA's or KKE's socialism, he exclaims! Getting in touch with Michas, can hardly wise anyone up ... JA _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Greece/EU negotiation news today: compromise, memorandum extension ahead
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Greece bailout talks: markets surge on rumours of German compromise Apparent softening of Berlin’s stance towards Athens cheers investors keen to see sustainable rescue after months of wrangling by Phillip Inman, Economics correspondent The Guardian, June 10 http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/jun/10/greece-bailout-talks-markets-surge-on-rumours-of-german-compromise Stock markets surged on Wednesday after reports of a German proposal to allow Greece to receive a drip-feed of loans in return for a staggered reform programme. The softening of the German stance towards Athens cheered investors keen to see a sustainable rescue of the debt-stricken country after more than four months of wrangling. According to the reports, the chancellor Angela Merkel is prepared to accept a much-reduced reform programme, slimmed down to just one or two areas as part of an initial package, to salvage a deal with Greece and prevent it exiting the eurozone. . . . The European commission, the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank, which have lent Greece €240bn (£175bn) between them, had until recently demanded all-encompassing reforms in return for the last tranche of bailout funds worth €7.6bn. News agency Bloomberg said it spoke to at least two German officials close to the bailout talks who described the compromise deal as a possible way to end the impasse between the radical leftist Greek government and its creditors. The report, later denied by the German government as official policy, followed statements by Merkel and the French president, François Hollande, that they were ready to meet Greece’s embattled prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, at a summit in Brussels. Merkel said a solution was possible as she arrived for a summit of EU and Latin American leaders, just hours after the European commission dismissed the latest Athens plan, saying it failed to address the need for deep changes. “The goal is to keep Greece in the eurozone. I always approach these things with the attitude, if there is a will there is a way,” Merkel said as she arrived in Brussels. Europe’s most powerful leader said she was available to meet the radical leftist Greek leader on the sidelines of the summit as he had earlier requested, and Hollande said he was willing to do the same. There had been doubt earlier about whether a meeting would take place, after the European commission rejected the latest Greek proposals as inadequate as a basis for new talks. . . . Germans May Have Found Way to Break Greek Deadlock by Katerina Papathanasiou The Greek Reporter, June 10 http://greece.greekreporter.com/2015/06/10/germans-may-have-found-way-to-break-greek-deadlock Although Germans remain persistent regarding Greek reforms on taxes, state asset sales and retirement benefits, German Chancellor Angela Merkel appears to be more flexible in unlocking further financial aid to Greece if the country decides to initiate at least one major overhaul, two anonymous sources close to the German government told Bloomberg. If Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is willing to take immediate action, liquidity could be released in early July, the sources said, without giving further clues though about which measure should Greece take in order to convince its international creditors. . . . ECB Increases Greek Banks’ ELA by a Hefty 2.3 Billion Euros by A. Makris The Greek Reporter, June 10 http://greece.greekreporter.com/2015/06/10/ecb-increases-greek-banks-ela-by-a-hefty-2-3-billion-euros The European Central Bank (ECB) is said to have significantly increased the ceiling of emergency liquidity assistance (ELA) provided to Greek banks on Wednesday by 2.3 billion euros. According to Greek media, during a teleconference of the central bank’s board, it was decided to raise liquidity to 83 billion euros from 80.7 billion. The situation will be re-evaluated next week. Head of Parliament’s Budget Office Testifies in Bailouts Probe, Sees ‘Memorandums’ Until 2018 by A. Makris The Greek Reporter, June 10 http://greece.greekreporter.com/2015/06/10/head-of-parliaments-budget-office-testifies-in-bailouts-probe-sees-memorandums-until-2018 Greece will most likely remain under “memorandum” regimes until at least 2018 unless there is an “honest agreement” with its creditors, the head of the Greek Parliament‘s Budget Office Panagiotis Liargovas said on Tuesday. He was testifying in an ongoing Parliamentary inquiry examining the conditions that led Greece to accept bailout memorandums in 2010. “Perhaps a different honest agreement with our partners could create the conditions that allow us to gradually — because these things cannot be done in
Re: [Marxism] Against All Odds: Voices of Popular Struggle in Iraq.
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Ali's book is absolutely essential. In addition to the incredible detail on the activities of heroic grassroots groups, his conclusion argues for listening to those voices - including in the face of media accounts which deny their existences - and for the need to look at the multiplicity of players involved. (sound familiar?) On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 3:03 PM, Prashad, Vijay via Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu wrote: POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Today,Tadween and War Resisters League present Ali Issa's Against All Odds: voices of popular struggle in Iraq. When the tide seems to run between the ISIS expansion and the al-Abadi government in Baghdad, what is often forgotten is the upsurge during the US Occupation, sharply in 2011, to forge a new Iraqi sensibility and foundation for politics. Ali collects the voices of important political actors from across Iraq - people such as Hashmeya Muhsin al-Saadawi (Electrical Utility Workers Union of Iraq) and Yanar Mohammed (Organisation of Women's Freedom in Iraq), Nadia al-Baghdadi (Save the Tigris and Marshes Campaign) and Akram Nadir (Kurdish Construction Workers' Organisation). These are brave people in brave organisations who fought hard to create a new kind of Iraq, and who continue to work hard to define the future of their country. Disclaimer: I wrote the foreword to the book. The book is available here: http://tadweenpublishing.com/collections/books/products/pre-order-against-all-odds-voices-of-popular-struggle-in-iraq . Alongside the book, I strongly recommend a long essay (in two parts) at Jadaliyya by Sara Pursley that provides the intellectual defense for the kind of work that these brave Iraqis pursue. They do not believe that Iraq is a false idea, a creature of Sykes-Picot. Matters are more complex, as this important intervention shows: http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/21759/lines-drawn-on-an-empty-map_iraq%E2%80%99s-borders-and-the . Essential reading. Warmly, Vijay. _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/acpollack2%40gmail.com _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Fwd: Smearing the Syrian uprising | SocialistWorker.org
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * ISO publishes Michael Karadjis. Hurrah. http://socialistworker.org/2015/06/10/smearing-the-syrian-uprising _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Review of Patrick Cockburn on Rise of Islamic State
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