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Stowing himself on a ship, Karski reached London where he had an
interview with the foreign secretary Anthony Eden, the first of many top
officials to effectively ignore his account of the Nazis’ systematic
effort to exterminate European Jewry. The very enormity of Karski’s
report paradoxically worked against him being believed, and paralysed
any action against the killings.

Logistically unable to reach Poland, preoccupied with fighting the war
on many fronts, and unwilling to believe even the Nazis capable of such
bestiality, the Allies put the Holocaust on the back burner.

When Karski took his tale across the Atlantic, the story was the same.
President Roosevelt heard him out, then asked about the condition of
horses in Poland. Another high-ranking official, Felix Frankfurter,
though Jewish himself, told Karski: “I’m not calling you a liar. It’s
just that I have difficulty in believing you.” In desperate frustration
Karski wrote this book to record in searing detail what he had seen with
his own eyes.

full:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/8460682/Story-of-a-Secret-State-by-Jan-Karski-review.html

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[Marxism] UN team identifies detention center at Sri Lankan navy base

2015-11-19 Thread Ken Hiebert via Marxism

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http://news.yahoo.com/un-team-identifies-torture-center-sri-lankan-navy-141528468.html

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — A U.N. team says it found a secret underground 
detention center at a Sri Lankan navy base where many post-civil war detainees 
were believed to have been interrogated and tortured. The navy, however, denied 
there was any such center at the base.
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Re: [Marxism] France votes to become a police state

2015-11-19 Thread Mark Lause via Marxism

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I would note, though, that there is a clear time limit on the state of
emergency.

In the U.S., all sorts of institutional garbage has accompanied the
post-9-11 innovations.  Homeland Security becomes a permanent,
undiscussable institution designated as having the final authority in all
such things.  So long as that's around and growing, the power of the state
will grow accordingly.

ML
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[Marxism] Stop the racists and fascists this Sunday in Australia

2015-11-19 Thread John Passant via Marxism


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Stop the racists and fascists this Sunday

If you want to fight against Islamophobia and racism, join these 
demonstrations across Australia on Sunday taking a stand for decency and 
humanity. Stop the racists and fascists.


http://enpassant.com.au/2015/11/20/stop-the-racists-and-fascists-this-sunday-stand-united-against-racism-and-war/

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[Marxism] Video: Reprimarization: Implications for the Environment and Development

2015-11-19 Thread Left Forum Videos via Marxism

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From Left Forum 2015.

Paul Cooney, Chair — URPE Steering Committee Member/UNGS
Fabian Balardini — BMCC

https://youtu.be/GuSjnrjQTE8
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Re: [Marxism] Yassamine Mather on imperialism and the IS bombings

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https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/11/20/islamic-state-attacks-and-imperialism/

An utterly appalling piece, almost entirely fact-free.


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> https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/11/20/islamic-state-attacks-and-imperialism/
>
> See also Yassamine on the economics and politics of IS:
> https://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/09/12/the-origins-economics-and-politics-of-the-islamic-state/
>
> Yassamine is a veteran of the Iranian revolution and has a very interesting
> back story.  I interviewed her a couple of years ago and continue
> intermittent contact with her.  Here's the interview about Marxism and the
> Iranian revolution:
> https://rdln.wordpress.com/2013/03/08/repression-and-resistance-in-iran-interview-with-yassamine-mather/
>
> Also see her fascinating account of Marxism and the Iranian revolution:
> https://rdln.wordpress.com/2012/09/15/marxism-and-the-iranian-revolution/
>
> I was also fortunate enough in 2008 to do an interview with Torab Saleth,
> one of the leaders of the Iranian Trotskyist movement in the late 1970s and
> early 1980s, in both Europe and Iran.  It's here, below an article by Torab
> abut the workers' movement in Iran today:
> https://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/06/14/the-working-class-movement-in-iran-2014-and-a-2008-interview-with-torab-saleth/
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[Marxism] Yassamine Mather on imperialism and the IS bombings

2015-11-19 Thread Philip Ferguson via Marxism

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https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/11/20/islamic-state-attacks-and-imperialism/

See also Yassamine on the economics and politics of IS:
https://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/09/12/the-origins-economics-and-politics-of-the-islamic-state/

Yassamine is a veteran of the Iranian revolution and has a very interesting
back story.  I interviewed her a couple of years ago and continue
intermittent contact with her.  Here's the interview about Marxism and the
Iranian revolution:
https://rdln.wordpress.com/2013/03/08/repression-and-resistance-in-iran-interview-with-yassamine-mather/

Also see her fascinating account of Marxism and the Iranian revolution:
https://rdln.wordpress.com/2012/09/15/marxism-and-the-iranian-revolution/

I was also fortunate enough in 2008 to do an interview with Torab Saleth,
one of the leaders of the Iranian Trotskyist movement in the late 1970s and
early 1980s, in both Europe and Iran.  It's here, below an article by Torab
abut the workers' movement in Iran today:
https://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/06/14/the-working-class-movement-in-iran-2014-and-a-2008-interview-with-torab-saleth/
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Re: [Marxism] Assad Apologists Collecting for Free Holiday

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One more, because it came out yesterday:

Another participant in this upcoming trip is Ajamu Baraka, who has written
several columns characterizing critics of "anti-imperialist" regimes as
racist.
He repeats the charge in his new column, and takes the widely acknowledged
truth of differential responses to various massacres, and soils the
argument with this:

"And in that sense, while the victims of the violence in Paris may have
been innocent, France was not.  French crimes against Arabs, Muslims and
Africans are ever-present in the historical memory and discourse of many
members of those populations living in France. Those memories, the systemic
discrimination experienced by many Muslims and the collaboration of French
authorities with the U.S. and others that gave aid and logistical support
to extremist elements in Syria and turned their backs while their citizens
traveled to Syria to topple President Assad, became the toxic mix that
resulted in the blowback on November 13."

As long as he's race-baiting, I wonder if he has a clue how deeply Arab
victims of Assad (and Qaddafi etc. etc.)  resent being told they're
imperialist stooges by Westerners of any race?

http://blackagendareport.com/paris_attacks_white_lives_matter

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> P.S. While many of us are actively organizing in defense of Syrian
> refugees - both by organizing for their right to find refuge in a
> supportive environment, and by organizing against the multi-imperialist
> wars which drove them away - the SSM is SUPPORTING their murder, directly
> by supporting Russian et al. aggression and, even more insidiously,
> indirectly by claiming they're returning home already thanks to Russia and
> that therefore our efforts on their behalf are unnecessary:
>
>
> http://www.syriasolidaritymovement.org/2015/11/11/over-1-million-syrians-returned-home-since-beginning-of-russian-campaign/
>
> P.P.S.: The SSM (US, not to be confused with the heroic SSM-UK) organized
> this statement of support for Assad; guess which of our favorite Stalinist
> misleaders signed it? :
>
>
> http://www.syriasolidaritymovement.org/2015/07/22/statement-of-palestinian-groups-and-individuals-in-the-occupied-homeland-refugee-camps-and-the-diaspora-about-the-global-war-on-syria/
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 11:13 AM, Andrew Pollack 
> wrote:
>
>> Quite a collection of nut jobs. (Plus at least one serious person, Glen
>> Ford, who is far too intelligent to still be spouting the
>> "anti-imperialist" line. His friends in Socialist Action unfortunately just
>> encourage his political ignorance on this front.)
>>
>> But notice the threat of legal action at the bottom; since when do
>> movement coalition names fall under copyright law?
>> And as for "illegal activities..."
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 9:19 AM, Louis Proyect via Marxism <
>> marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote:
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>>> (Just received from someone who does not want to be named. The subject
>>> heading is his.)
>>>
>>> As their website http://www.syriasolidaritymovement.org/ clearly shows,
>>> the pro-Assad, pro-Hamas, pro-Hezbollah American wing of the Syrian
>>> Solidarity Movement do not spend all their time attacking or threatening
>>> their UK wing.  They are also very busy trying to secure donations, $20,000
>>> this time, to visit their hero, the war criminal Bashar al Assad.  Over 22
>>> of them, male and female, are looking for gullible sponsors to pay their
>>> air fares to Syria to attend a December 5, 2015 meeting of the Arab Women’s
>>> Progressive League (AWPL), an obscure bunch of female Assadist supporters,
>>> who seem more than happy to give Chileans, Australians and Americans free
>>> holidays to Assadstan, even thoigh the $20,000 they are trying to raise
>>> would be much better spent on feeding and clothing Syrian women and
>>> children rather than giving serial freeloaders another freebie.
>>>
>>> Although these pompous nonentities are claiming that they and they alone
>>> can establish a “back channel” between “Russia and Iran” on the one hand
>>> and the Western democratic powers on the other, they seem to have missed
>>> the point that these parties are currently meeting in Vienna and, as they
>>> all have a considerable diplomatic corps, that

[Marxism] Fwd: Our Town is Burning


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Performer: Daniel Kempin
Lyricist: Mordecai Gebirtig
Composer: Mordecai Gebirtig
Original Title: Undzer shtetl brent!

Mordecai Gebirtig, born in 1877 in Krakow, Poland, was a Yiddish folk 
poet and songwriter. He wrote "Undzer shtetl brent!" in 1936, following 
a pogrom in the Polish town of Przytyk. During the war, the song became 
popular in the Krakow ghetto and inspired young people to take up arms 
against the Nazis. It was sung in many ghettos and camps, and translated 
into Polish and several other languages. Gebirtig was killed in June 
1942 during a roundup for deportation from the Krakow ghetto.


Today, "Undzer shtetl brent!" remains one of the most performed 
commemorative songs.


ENGLISH LANGUAGE LYRICS:
It's burning, brothers! It's burning!
Oh, our poor village, brothers, burns!
Evil winds, full of anger,
Rage and ravage, smash and shatter;
Stronger now that wild flames grow --
All around now burns!
And you stand there looking on
With futile, folded arms
And you stand there looking on --
While our village burns!

Listen to the song here: 
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/media_so.php?ModuleId=10005213=2621

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Re: [Marxism] France votes to become a police state

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on Donnerstag, 19. November 2015 at 20:12, Mark Lause via Marxism wrote:

> I would note, though, that there is a clear time limit on the state of
> emergency.

  This law of 1955, from the time of the colonial war in Algeria, allows a 
prolongation by 3 months. I have not (yet) read the law, so that I don't know 
if the State of Emergency can be extended again by 3 months. 

> In the U.S., all sorts of institutional garbage has accompanied the
> post-9-11 innovations.  

  Hollande and Valls want the constitution be changed to curtail sevaral 
democratic rights. 

  BTW, this is the constitution arising from the 1958 coup d'état by General de 
Gaulle. 

Cheers, 
Lüko Willms
Frankfurt/Main, Germany
http://www.mlwerke.de
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[Marxism] FDR cared more about Polish horses than Polish Jews

2015-11-19 Thread Michael Yates via Marxism

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In the book Human Smoke, Nicholson Baker details how the US would not even take 
in orphaned Jewish children because they might grow up to be Bolsheviks. I have 
no doubt that the current crop of politicians and governors who are railing 
against Syrian refugees would have said the same thing in the 1930s. Just as 
many of them would have been sympathetic to Hitler. 
 
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Re: [Marxism] Leila Khaled in the Philippines

2015-11-19 Thread Philip Ferguson via Marxism

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Thanks.

So Palestinian revolutionary icon Leila Khaled is a "tired old Stalinist"
and she shouldn't speak on ILPS platforms.

Good luck with that approach Andy.

Now, I am done with this conversation.

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> Not a diversion at all. Khaled shares the CPP's Stalinist politics.
> Meanwhile another friend shared on facebook a photo of a huge anti-APEC
> rally in Manila, with BMPS and Sentro banners waving. Those are among the
> groups that left the CPP because of its Stalinism - yes, Ferguson, it still
> exists and is still a danger. And Khaled's consorting with such backward
> forces delays (or at least is a diversion from) building a revolutionary
> party in Palestine.
>
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>> Oops, I do have one more thing to say re Andy.
>>
>> People who might have missed the original article can see it here:
>> https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/11/18/leila-khaled-in-the-philippines/
>>
>> This is what Andy took huge exception to and began to divert into a
>> discussion about Sison and Stalinism and murder.
>>
>> More fool me for having responded in the first place to his diversionary
>> efforts.  I should have just ignored it, since I know the reaction the
>> letters ILPS induce in him.
>>
>> Now, I really am done on the subject, except to say it looks like Leila's
>> Philippines trip has been a big success.
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[Marxism] Fwd: Kurds Can’t Be Syria’s Saviors | Foreign Policy


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There are three reasons the subordinate role for Arab tribal fighters 
undercuts the alliance’s potential. First, the imbalance will undermine 
the military capabilities of the coalition to push against the Islamic 
State in Arab-dominated areas.


Second, the tribal fighters’ status as junior partners in the alliance 
will increasingly reduce their morale — as happened previously, when 
many U.S.-trained rebels abandoned the battlefield because they felt the 
program was aimless and disproportionally focused on counterterrorism. 
Tribal fighters say that U.S. support for the Kurds indicates it is less 
committed to tribes in the long term. They fear that nobody would come 
to their aid if the Islamic State returned to areas from which it had 
previously been expelled, as happened in Iraq over the years or in the 
eastern Syrian province of Deir Ezzor last year, when repeated appeals 
for help went unnoticed by the international community.


“Had it not been for the [international] coalition, ISIS would have 
reached Qamishli,” said a fighter from the Shammar tribe, which leads 
the Kurdish-Arab alliance’s al-Sanadid forces. “And the fact is that 
when ISIS wants, it could reach anywhere.”


Finally, there are widespread fears that as more areas are seized by the 
Kurdish-led alliance, incidents of ethnic cleansing will increase. Last 
month, Amnesty International released a report accusing the YPG of 
committing war crimes, including the forced displacement of Arab 
civilians and demolition of their houses. “Whenever the YPG enters an 
area, they displace its Arab residents,” the Shammari fighter said, 
referring to Arab towns in southern Hasakah. “Fifteen villages were 
leveled to the ground in Tal Hamees, Tel Brak, and Jazaa.”


full: http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/11/18/kurds-cant-be-syrias-saviors/
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Re: [Marxism] Leila Khaled in the Philippines

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Not a diversion at all. Khaled shares the CPP's Stalinist politics.
Meanwhile another friend shared on facebook a photo of a huge anti-APEC
rally in Manila, with BMPS and Sentro banners waving. Those are among the
groups that left the CPP because of its Stalinism - yes, Ferguson, it still
exists and is still a danger. And Khaled's consorting with such backward
forces delays (or at least is a diversion from) building a revolutionary
party in Palestine.

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> Oops, I do have one more thing to say re Andy.
>
> People who might have missed the original article can see it here:
> https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/11/18/leila-khaled-in-the-philippines/
>
> This is what Andy took huge exception to and began to divert into a
> discussion about Sison and Stalinism and murder.
>
> More fool me for having responded in the first place to his diversionary
> efforts.  I should have just ignored it, since I know the reaction the
> letters ILPS induce in him.
>
> Now, I really am done on the subject, except to say it looks like Leila's
> Philippines trip has been a big success.
>
> Phil
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Re: [Marxism] Yassamine Mather on imperialism and the IS bombings


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She works with a CPGB-run group involved with Iranian solidarity. I 
suspect that their politics which is similar to the Alan Woods sect and 
Counterfire has disoriented her.


On 11/19/15 10:40 PM, mkaradjis . wrote:

The fact that she's so good on Iran is one reason I'd expect her to be
better about Syria, given that the Iranian regime that has murdered so
many of her comrades has also been the main source of foreign
intervention on behalf of Assad who has killed so many more than the
Iran regime itself.

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[Marxism] TOMORROW, Nov 20 @ 6PM: Oppose Islamophobia & Police Brutality; Defend Refugees!

2015-11-19 Thread A.R. G via Marxism

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*From the War Resisters League:*

On Friday, Nov. 20 at 6 pm, join us at Union Square (SW corner) to mourn
the deaths in attacks across the world -- in Iraq, Palestine, Yemen,
Nigeria, Afghanistan and France and many more places -- and to demand NO
MORE militarism and NO MORE border crackdowns in response to the attacks.

We'll gather in song and in protest for an hour. If you want to join us
ahead of time at 5 pm to help make signs, come to the War Resisters League
office on Bleecker.

After the protest, many of us will be heading together to the marches to
commemorate the one-year anniversary of Akai Gurley's death and to demand
justice for him and his family, and an end to racist police brutality.
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Re: [Marxism] Yassamine Mather on imperialism and the IS bombings


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She's really quite good on Iran but totally wrong about Syria.

On 11/19/15 8:37 PM, mkaradjis . via Marxism wrote:

https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/11/20/islamic-state-attacks-and-imperialism/

An utterly appalling piece, almost entirely fact-free.

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Re: [Marxism] France votes to become a police state

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on Donnerstag, 19. November 2015 at 22:22, Lüko Willms via Marxism wrote:

> on Donnerstag, 19. November 2015 at 20:12, Mark Lause via Marxism wrote:

>> I would note, though, that there is a clear time limit on the state of
>> emergency.

>   This law of 1955, from the time of the colonial war in Algeria,
> allows a prolongation by 3 months. I have not (yet) read the law, so
> that I don't know if the State of Emergency can be extended again by 3 months.

  Here is the text 
http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?cidTexte=JORFTEXT00695350 

  ON the prolongation, see article 3

> La loi autorisant la prorogation au-delà de douze jours de l'état d'urgence 
> fixe sa durée définitive. 

   

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Re: [Marxism] Assad Apologists Collecting for Free Holiday

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Quite a collection of nut jobs. (Plus at least one serious person, Glen
Ford, who is far too intelligent to still be spouting the
"anti-imperialist" line. His friends in Socialist Action unfortunately just
encourage his political ignorance on this front.)

But notice the threat of legal action at the bottom; since when do movement
coalition names fall under copyright law?
And as for "illegal activities..."

On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 9:19 AM, Louis Proyect via Marxism <
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> (Just received from someone who does not want to be named. The subject
> heading is his.)
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> As their website http://www.syriasolidaritymovement.org/ clearly shows,
> the pro-Assad, pro-Hamas, pro-Hezbollah American wing of the Syrian
> Solidarity Movement do not spend all their time attacking or threatening
> their UK wing.  They are also very busy trying to secure donations, $20,000
> this time, to visit their hero, the war criminal Bashar al Assad.  Over 22
> of them, male and female, are looking for gullible sponsors to pay their
> air fares to Syria to attend a December 5, 2015 meeting of the Arab Women’s
> Progressive League (AWPL), an obscure bunch of female Assadist supporters,
> who seem more than happy to give Chileans, Australians and Americans free
> holidays to Assadstan, even thoigh the $20,000 they are trying to raise
> would be much better spent on feeding and clothing Syrian women and
> children rather than giving serial freeloaders another freebie.
>
> Although these pompous nonentities are claiming that they and they alone
> can establish a “back channel” between “Russia and Iran” on the one hand
> and the Western democratic powers on the other, they seem to have missed
> the point that these parties are currently meeting in Vienna and, as they
> all have a considerable diplomatic corps, that they do not need paupers
> like them to establish any lines of communication for them or between them.
>
> Although many of these 22 freeloaders would be well-known to those who
> follow the microbes of the international terror industry, Issa Chaer, Sami
> Ramadani and Fr. Dave Smith bear closer scrutiny. Why is an Australian
> priest soliciting money to go to Syria on a freebie and why are two male
> London professors, with very senior positions in the pro-Assad Stop the War
> Movement going to an all-female conference in Syria, without using the
> facilities and channels their universities have for such jaunts?
>
> If the peaceful transition we all wish for Syria is to happen, it will not
> be achieved by giving the gadflies of international terrorism free holidays
> with Assad.  Far from donating to this unworthy cause, readers should
> contact the universities that employ Profs Chaer (London South Bank
> University) and Ramadani (London Metropolitan University) and ask them to
> explain why they are allowing these two reprobates bring such disrepute
> upon them.
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Re: [Marxism] Assad Apologists Collecting for Free Holiday

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P.S. While many of us are actively organizing in defense of Syrian refugees
- both by organizing for their right to find refuge in a supportive
environment, and by organizing against the multi-imperialist wars which
drove them away - the SSM is SUPPORTING their murder, directly by
supporting Russian et al. aggression and, even more insidiously, indirectly
by claiming they're returning home already thanks to Russia and that
therefore our efforts on their behalf are unnecessary:

http://www.syriasolidaritymovement.org/2015/11/11/over-1-million-syrians-returned-home-since-beginning-of-russian-campaign/

P.P.S.: The SSM (US, not to be confused with the heroic SSM-UK) organized
this statement of support for Assad; guess which of our favorite Stalinist
misleaders signed it? :

http://www.syriasolidaritymovement.org/2015/07/22/statement-of-palestinian-groups-and-individuals-in-the-occupied-homeland-refugee-camps-and-the-diaspora-about-the-global-war-on-syria/


On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 11:13 AM, Andrew Pollack 
wrote:

> Quite a collection of nut jobs. (Plus at least one serious person, Glen
> Ford, who is far too intelligent to still be spouting the
> "anti-imperialist" line. His friends in Socialist Action unfortunately just
> encourage his political ignorance on this front.)
>
> But notice the threat of legal action at the bottom; since when do
> movement coalition names fall under copyright law?
> And as for "illegal activities..."
>
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 9:19 AM, Louis Proyect via Marxism <
> marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote:
>
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>> (Just received from someone who does not want to be named. The subject
>> heading is his.)
>>
>> As their website http://www.syriasolidaritymovement.org/ clearly shows,
>> the pro-Assad, pro-Hamas, pro-Hezbollah American wing of the Syrian
>> Solidarity Movement do not spend all their time attacking or threatening
>> their UK wing.  They are also very busy trying to secure donations, $20,000
>> this time, to visit their hero, the war criminal Bashar al Assad.  Over 22
>> of them, male and female, are looking for gullible sponsors to pay their
>> air fares to Syria to attend a December 5, 2015 meeting of the Arab Women’s
>> Progressive League (AWPL), an obscure bunch of female Assadist supporters,
>> who seem more than happy to give Chileans, Australians and Americans free
>> holidays to Assadstan, even thoigh the $20,000 they are trying to raise
>> would be much better spent on feeding and clothing Syrian women and
>> children rather than giving serial freeloaders another freebie.
>>
>> Although these pompous nonentities are claiming that they and they alone
>> can establish a “back channel” between “Russia and Iran” on the one hand
>> and the Western democratic powers on the other, they seem to have missed
>> the point that these parties are currently meeting in Vienna and, as they
>> all have a considerable diplomatic corps, that they do not need paupers
>> like them to establish any lines of communication for them or between them.
>>
>> Although many of these 22 freeloaders would be well-known to those who
>> follow the microbes of the international terror industry, Issa Chaer, Sami
>> Ramadani and Fr. Dave Smith bear closer scrutiny. Why is an Australian
>> priest soliciting money to go to Syria on a freebie and why are two male
>> London professors, with very senior positions in the pro-Assad Stop the War
>> Movement going to an all-female conference in Syria, without using the
>> facilities and channels their universities have for such jaunts?
>>
>> If the peaceful transition we all wish for Syria is to happen, it will
>> not be achieved by giving the gadflies of international terrorism free
>> holidays with Assad.  Far from donating to this unworthy cause, readers
>> should contact the universities that employ Profs Chaer (London South Bank
>> University) and Ramadani (London Metropolitan University) and ask them to
>> explain why they are allowing these two reprobates bring such disrepute
>> upon them.
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on Donnerstag, 19. November 2015 at 23:04, Michael Yates via Marxism wrote:

> In the book Human Smoke, Nicholson Baker details how the US would
> not even take in orphaned Jewish children because they might grow up
> to be Bolsheviks. 

  out of sheer antisemitism. 

  Hava a look at those US reactionaries who rail against US support for Israel 
because they see that as a obstacle of unlimited dominiation of the world by US 
imperialism, trying to get out of the dilemma of riding two horses at the same 
time (Alison Weir, Council for the National Interest). 

  Those enemies of humanity would, on the other hand not allow immigration into 
the USA. They never mention the fate of the 908 Jewish refugees on the German 
passenger ship "St. Louis" who were not allowed to disembark in Miami. 

  See -- with all the limitations of a Wikipedia article -- 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_St._Louis 
See also the Evian conference of 1938 where also the USA refused to accept 
Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany except in far too small numbers: 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89vian_Conference 

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[Marxism] Peace prize for Putin

2015-11-19 Thread Michael Yates via Marxism

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In Counterpunch today, Barry Lando makes a case for giving the Nobel Peace 
Prize to Vladimir Putin. Well, he asks, would this be any more absurd than 
awarding it to Obama? And he forgot to mention Kissinger. Jesus, who would 
write an article like this? What is the point of it? Peace through bombs, 
murder, death in large numbers. One disgusting dictator supporting another. 
Maybe Assad could agree to resign, and then he could share in the prize.
   
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[Marxism] The refugees


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The Refugees
by Randall Jarrell

In the shabby train no seat is vacant.
The child in the ripped mask
Sprawls undisturbed in the waste
Of the smashed compartment. Is their calm extravagant?
They had faces and lives like you. What was it they possessed
That they were willing to trade for this?
The dried blood sparkles along the mask
Of the child who yesterday possessed
A country welcomer than this.
Did he? All night into the waste
The train moves silently. The faces are vacant.
Have none of them found the cost extravagant?
How could they? They gave what they possessed.
Here all the purses are vacant.
And what else could satisfy the extravagant
Tears and wish of the child but this?
Impose its canceling terrible mask
On the days and faces and lives they waste?
What else are their lives but a journey to the vacant
Satisfaction of death? And the mask
They wear tonight through their waste
Is death's rehearsal. Is it really extravagant
To read in their faces: What is there we possessed
That we were unwilling to trade for this?
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[Marxism] Why the Syrian Army Remains Loyal

2015-11-19 Thread Ken Hiebert via Marxism

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Asad’s Officer Ghetto: Why the Syrian Army Remains Loyal
http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/23129/asad%E2%80%99s-officer-ghetto_why-the-syrian-army-remains-


The Syrian army’s officer corps has remained intact despite the immense 
pressure of nearly four years of civil and military conflict, a fact that has 
prevented the fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Asad’s regime. The military 
housing system is a crucial aspect of this cohesion: it reveals the world 
Syrian officers inhabit, their relations with the regime and wider Syrian 
society, and the reasons why so few have defected so far. 
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Re: [Marxism] Peace prize for Putin


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On 11/19/15 10:35 AM, Michael Yates via Marxism wrote:

In Counterpunch today, Barry Lando makes a case for giving the Nobel
Peace Prize to Vladimir Putin. Well, he asks, would this be any more
absurd than awarding it to Obama? And he forgot to mention Kissinger.
Jesus, who would write an article like this? What is the point of it?
Peace through bombs, murder, death in large numbers. One disgusting
dictator supporting another. Maybe Assad could agree to resign, and
then he could share in the prize.


I actually think that the idea of a Nobel Peace Prize for Putin makes 
perfect sense. It would be consistent with such past winners: Theodore 
Roosevelt (1906), Woodrow Wilson (1919), George Marshall (1953), Henry 
Kissinger (1973), Menachem Begin (1978), Elie Wiesel (1986), Yitzhak 
Rabin/Shimon Peres (1994), and especially Barack Obama (2009).




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[Marxism] France votes to become a police state

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  Today at near unanimity the National Assembly of the French Republic voted, 
with just 6 deputies saving their honor by voting against, to extend the State 
of Emergency according to a law which was passed in 1955 in order to be able to 
crack down on the Algerians fighting for their independence, without respect 
for democratic rights. 

  It is all about the right to sip a coffee on a street café, and for that they 
have to suspend the basic democratic rights. 

  The police can break into private homes without getting a search warrant from 
a judge before, any kind of public assembly can be prohibited (the 
demonstration at the COP21 international climate conference has already been 
declared illegal), the press can be gagged by the police, and much more. Just 
like the day long assault by special police units with the army on a house in 
St. Denis yesterday. 

  Forget about "liberté, egalité, fraternité" -- the reality is now unbridled 
police powers, racism, repression. 

  France is catched by its past as one of the most barbaric colonial powers. 

  You can dring coffee anywhere, but better avoid France. 


 
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[Marxism] Fwd: Class, Race and Corporate Power | College of Arts & Sciences | Florida International University


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Current Issue: Volume 3, Issue 2 (2015)
Articles

Economic Aid to Egypt: Promoting Progress or Subordination?
Dina Jadallah

Crises and the Myth of the Money Supply
James H. Nolt

Cut from the Same Cloth: The US Textile and Apparel Industry and 
Post-Disaster Designs for Haiti.

Ransford F. Edwards Jr.

Marx in Miami: Reflections on Teaching and the Confrontation with Ideology
Bryant W. Sculos and Sean N. Walsh

Politics of Culture

The Martian: A NASA-tionalist Utopia
Bryant W. Sculos

Perspectives

How the Srebrenica Massacre Redefined US Foreign Policy
David N. Gibbs

http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/classracecorporatepower/
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[Marxism] Fwd: NEW! — Samuel W. Rose: Marxism and mode of production in the anthropology of native North America @FocaalBlog


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This contribution elaborates on the relevance of the concept of mode of 
production in understanding contemporary North American indigenous 
populations. While examination of Native American peoples played a 
crucial role in early Marxist thought, Marxist theory has never been 
popular in examinations of North American Indians and has even been 
rejected by many indigenous intellectuals as ethnocentric, colonialist, 
and otherwise irrelevant to the political interests of indigenous 
peoples. This discussion has two parts: first, I briefly discuss the 
history of Marxist engagements with Native American anthropology, 
showing how this engagement played a crucial role in the development of 
anthropological and Marxist theory. In the second part, I draw from 
Elizabeth Rata’s (2000) concept of neotribal capitalism to discuss the 
relevance and advantage of mode of production–based analyses to Native 
North America.


http://www.focaalblog.com/2015/11/17/samuel-w-rose-marxism-and-mode-of-production-in-the-anthropology-of-native-north-america/
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[Marxism] Assad Apologists Collecting for Free Holiday