[Marxism] New on Redline blog
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. * Most recently on Redline blog: Review of the film 'Just Mercy': https://rdln.wordpress.com/2020/02/03/film-review-just-mercy/ Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine: Zionists use Holocaust Forum to cover up their crimes against the Palestinians: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2020/02/01/popular-front-for-the-liberation-of-palestine-zionists-use-holocaust-forum-to-cover-up-their-crimes-against-the-palestinians/ Samidoun (Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network) on Trump “deal of the century” to crush Palestinian freedom crush Palestinian freedom: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2020/02/02/samidoun-palestinian-prisoner-solidarity-network-on-trump-deal-of-the-century-to-crush-palestinian-freedom/ Britain exits the European Union and takes a sharp right turn: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2020/01/20/britain-exits-the-european-union-and-takes-a-sharp-right-turn/ The timely death of the British Labour Party: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2020/01/14/the-timely-death-of-the-british-labour-party/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] New on Redline blog
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. * Woman: Deleted - the Council of Disobedient Women on the wording of NZ's new abortion legislation: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2019/10/11/woman-deleted/ Jordanian teachers' big victory: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2019/10/10/jordanian-teachers-successful-strike-has-lessons-for-here/ Labour vs working class immigrants - yet again: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2019/10/09/labour-vs-working-class-immigrants-again/ Government spin on poverty accepted by union leadership: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2019/10/10/government-spin-accepted-by-union-leadership/ Talking Freer Lives - a Marxist gender-critical perspective from Australia: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2019/10/11/talking-freer-lives-a-marxist-gender-critical-perspective-from-australia/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
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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. * Veteran working class activist Don Franks on Unions need "much larger systematic change": https://rdln.wordpress.com/2019/01/08/unions-need-much-larger-systematic-change/ Don on Three suggestions for the NZ Council of Trade Unions: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2019/01/04/three-suggestions-for-the-nz-council-of-trade-union/ Marx Bicentennial (articles on Marx, esp political economy): https://rdln.wordpress.com/2018/12/28/200th-anniversary-year-of-marxs-birth/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
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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. * French public sector workers fighting back: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2018/04/14/french-public-sector-workers-fighting-back/ Rank-and-file articles on the current struggle by health workers in NZ: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2018/04/13/support-the-health-workers-struggle/ Palestine: PFLP says March of Return is "referendum on our rights": https://rdln.wordpress.com/2018/04/09/pflp-leader-jamil-mizher-march-of-return-is-a-referendum-on-our-rights/ On the Gaza border:a wanton massacre: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2018/04/07/on-the-gaza-border-a-wanton-massacre/ _ 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
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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. * We're just getting back into the swing of things at the blog. First off is an assessment of Jim Anderton, who passed away on Sunday. He was the only MP to leave Labour in opposition to the 'new right' anti-working class policies of the notorious fourth Labour government but, ultimately sided with the Labourites over the invasion of Afghanistan, destroying his own Alliance party in the process. My parents were Andertonites until their deaths, so I have a mixed view of him. As a human being, he was kind, thoughtful and generous; but he was also a major political figure and has to be judged politically: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2018/01/09/jim-anderton-1938- 2018-new-zealands-last-social-democrat/ On the international front, we're running a fascinating article written by veteran Iranian socialist and former Fedayeen activist Yassamine Mather on 'comrade Azam', the most prominent female leader of the Fedayeen organisation in Iran in the 1970s and early 1980s. https://rdln.wordpress.com/2018/01/07/revolutionary-women-comrade-azam-the- fedayeen-and-the-iranian-revolution/ Barbara Gregorich wrote us a review of veteran activist Howard Petrick's one-man play about Vincent Dunne, a great US workers' leader and one of the key people responsible for unionising Minneapolis in the 1930s: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2018/01/05/a-play-about- something-that-matters-howard-petrick-as-v-r-dunne/ This year is also the 25th anniversary of the publication of Barbara's ground-breaking book on women in baseball in the US. Check out "Women at Play". Check out http://www.barbaragregorich.com/ Yassamine Mather has also sent us an acclount of the new wave of protests in Iran: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2018/01/03/no-longer- should-there-be-a-choice-between-bad-and-worse-mass- protests-break-out-in-iran/ On background, check out Torab Saleth's 2014 article on the working class 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/ (At the end of the article is a 2008 interview I did with Torab on the Iranian revolution.) On workers' struggles, we have run a report by Haitian marxists on a significant workers' victory there, obtained by militant struggle: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2018/01/03/haiti-militant- action-by-workers-results-in-significant-victory/ And by the Workers Fight group in Britain on the fight against casualisation: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2018/01/02/casualisation-and- the-fight-against-it-in-britain/ And Luigi Morris of left Vloice in the States writes about the continuous struggle between workers and bosses over working hours: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/12/18/the-bosses-time- and-our-time-an-endless-fight-over-working-hours/ Also, scroll down the Redline front page for more articles about the fight for human emancipation, for a world of freedom and plenty. _ 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] New on Redline blog
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. * Lutte Ouvriere on how Guianan workers are showing the way forward to French workers: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/11/11/guianan-workers-show-the-way-to-french-workers/ In Australia both the Liberals and the Labor Party are responsible for the horrors at Manus Island refugee detention centre: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/11/10/liberals-and-labor-both-responsible-for-the-horrors-of-manus-island-refugee-detention/ Death of veteran Irish socialist-republican Liam Sutcliffe (Liam was involved in the 1956-62 borfder campaign, blowing up of Nelson's Pillar in 1966 and prominent in Saor Eire in the early 1970s): https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/11/09/death-of-veteran-irish-socialist-republican-liam-sutcliffe/ Veteran NZ working class activist Don Franks on Thoughts after the Texas killings: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/11/08/thoughts-after-the-texas-murders/ NZ Marxist Daphna Whitmore on Manus Island and the NZ government: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/11/04/manus-island-its-a-f-disgraceful/ The Spark on the inspirational 1987 BCBSM strike in Detroit: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/11/03/an-inspirational-strike-the-1987-bcbsm-strike-and-its-lessons-for-workers-today/ Daphna Whitmore on the need to globalise the struggle for a living wage: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/10/31/a-living-wage-time-to-shift-the-boundaries-and-think-global/ _ 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
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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. * In New Zealand, every political party says it is against "child poverty" and wants to reduce the level of "child poverty". Veteran working class activist Don Franks suggests "child poverty" is bullshit; the problem is adult poverty and none of the parties will be reversing that: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/09/09/child-poverty-the-bullshit-factor/ Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has retweeted an intersting tweet noting that immigration does not affect wages and jobs in Britain: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/09/07/immigration-wages-employment-a-note-from-britain/ Continuing the critique of David Harvey's playing down of the importance of imperialism, Walter Daum makes some comments on Harvey, Baran-Sweezy and imperialism: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/09/06/david-harvey-and-imperialism-some-further-comments/ See also Walter's piece on Luxemburg's *Accumulation of Capital* a hundred years on: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/09/05/rosa-remixed-up-100-years-after-the-accumulation-of-capital/ Veteran left activist Phil Duncan looks at why the NZ working class today is so passive and politically under developed: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/08/27/whats-up-with-the-working-class-in-new-zealand/ PFLP in solidarity with US antio-racist campaigners: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/08/21/pflp-in-solidarity-with-us-anti-racist-campaigners/ _ 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
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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. * Phil, I don't know what email program/settings you are using but your url's are broken. Take a look at http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism/2017-August/277790.html and you'll see what I mean. On 8/30/17 8:58 PM, Philip Ferguson via Marxism wrote: Another busy week at the blog. Check out: The real scandal around Winston Peters' superann is that some people want to undermine the universal nature of pensions and have the pension means-tested: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/08/30/ winston-peters-super-the-real-scandal/ Immigration is a key political issue because it shows whether people stand for pulling up the drawbridge on a cosy little privileged NZ or show solidarity with the workers of the world and the right to free movement: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/08/29/election-time-is- open-season-on-immigration/ And, for background reading, see, The Case for Open Borders: https://rdln. wordpress.com/2015/05/12/the-case-for-open-borders/ Ultra-rightist groups in the USA have been emboldened by the trump presidency. Among those taing them on have been San Francisco wharfies: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/08/27/san-francisco-wharfies-strike- action-against-far-right/ A legacy of defeats and the impact of living in a member of the imperialist club have had a debilitating effect on workers' consciousness and preparedness to struggle in New Zealand: https://rdln.wordpress.com/ 2017/08/27/whats-up-with-the-working-class-in-new-zealand Global action against extra-judicial killings in the Philippines: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/08/26/global-action-against-philippines- extrajudicial-killings/ A group of artists are continuing the conversation Metiria Turei MP started – demanding a more compassionate social welfare system. They asked artists who have been on a benefit in NZ (DPB, sickness, invalids, jobseeker, whatever) to draw a picture of themselves, and write a couple of sentences next to it about their experiences. See: https://rdln.wordpress. com/2017/08/24/we-are-beneficiariesthe-worst-thing-was-seeing-my-mum-single- broke-crying-in-a-winz-office/ (Scroll down from there to see the others) Phil for the Redline blog collective _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/lnp3%40panix.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
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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. * Another busy week at the blog. Check out: The real scandal around Winston Peters' superann is that some people want to undermine the universal nature of pensions and have the pension means-tested: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/08/30/ winston-peters-super-the-real-scandal/ Immigration is a key political issue because it shows whether people stand for pulling up the drawbridge on a cosy little privileged NZ or show solidarity with the workers of the world and the right to free movement: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/08/29/election-time-is- open-season-on-immigration/ And, for background reading, see, The Case for Open Borders: https://rdln. wordpress.com/2015/05/12/the-case-for-open-borders/ Ultra-rightist groups in the USA have been emboldened by the trump presidency. Among those taing them on have been San Francisco wharfies: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/08/27/san-francisco-wharfies-strike- action-against-far-right/ A legacy of defeats and the impact of living in a member of the imperialist club have had a debilitating effect on workers' consciousness and preparedness to struggle in New Zealand: https://rdln.wordpress.com/ 2017/08/27/whats-up-with-the-working-class-in-new-zealand Global action against extra-judicial killings in the Philippines: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/08/26/global-action-against-philippines- extrajudicial-killings/ A group of artists are continuing the conversation Metiria Turei MP started – demanding a more compassionate social welfare system. They asked artists who have been on a benefit in NZ (DPB, sickness, invalids, jobseeker, whatever) to draw a picture of themselves, and write a couple of sentences next to it about their experiences. See: https://rdln.wordpress. com/2017/08/24/we-are-beneficiariesthe-worst-thing-was-seeing-my-mum-single- broke-crying-in-a-winz-office/ (Scroll down from there to see the others) Phil for the Redline blog collective _ 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
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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. * Global action against Philippines extra-judicial killings: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/08/26/global-action-against-philippines- extrajudicial-killings/ USA: tearing down the monuments to racist terror: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/08/25/usa-pulling-down- the-monuments-to-racist-terror/ The Guardian: A tide of hate and pearl-clutching judgementalism in New Zealand: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/08/21/the-guardian-a- tide-of-hate-and-pearl-clutching-judgmentalism-in-nz/ A group of artists are continuing the conversation Metiria Turei MP started – demanding a more compassionate social welfare system. They asked artists who have been on a benefit in NZ (DPB, sickness, invalids, jobseeker, whatever) to draw a picture of themselves, and write a couple of sentences next to it about their experiences. (Metiria Turei was co-leader of the Greens; she has been forced out of politics by a campaign against her after she publicly declared that she had cheated on social welfare in the 1990s. Check out the artists' work: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/08/22/we-are-beneficiaries/ https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/08/21/we-are-beneficiariesi-had-to-ask- friends-for-food-parcels/ https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/08/19/we-are-beneficiaries-it-was-hell- then-and-it-is-still-hell-now/ https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/08/21/we-are-beneficiaries-its-a-cruel- trick-making-you-feel-so-unwelcome/ https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/08/24/we-are-beneficiariesthe-worst-thing- was-seeing-my-mum-single-broke-crying-in-a-winz-office/ For the campaign against Metiria Turei, see: https://rdln.wordpress.com/ 2017/08/09/anti-working-class-scumbags-score-tawdry-victory- over-beneficiaries/ 70th anniversary - bloody partition of India: https://rdln.wordpress.com/ 2017/08/25/70th-anniversary-bloody-british-partition-of-india/ _ 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
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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. * below is a list of some of the stuff we've out up on the blog recently. Jacinda - Labour's most pleasant leader: https://rdln.wordpress.com/ 2017/08/02/jacinda-labours-most-pleasant-leader/ Yet more bad news for Labour: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/07/31/more-bad-news-for-labour/ On the 45th anniversary of his murder: remembering Palestinian revolutionary intellectual Ghassan Kanafani: https://rdln.wordpress.com/ 2017/07/31/remembering-ghassan-kanafani-april-8-1936-july-8-1972/ 'The Young Karl Marx' - movie review: https://rdln.wordpress.com/ 2017/07/26/movie-review-the-young-karl-marx/ Marx versus the Keynesians and the austerians: https://rdln. wordpress.com/2017/07/29/marx-versus-the-keynesians-and-the-austerians/ Important workers' victory in the Caribbean - Guadeloupe banana workers win struggle: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/07/28/ victory-in-guadeloupe-banana-workers-strike/ The 'fire next time' - 50th anniversary of Detroit ghetto rebellion: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/07/28/the-fire-next-time- remembering-the-detroit-1967-rebellion/ France after Macron's victory - only the collective strength of the working class can bring change: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/07/25/ france-only-the-collecive-strength-of-the-working-class-can-bring-change/ Happy reading, Phil F for the Redline blog collective _ 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] New on Redline blog
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. * >From the vaults - Pacific Islanders in NZ still at the bottom of the heap (2003): https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/07/11/from-the-vaults-pacific-islanders-in-nz-still-at-the-bottom-of-the-heap-2003/ >From the vaults - Behind NZ imperialism's intervention in the Solomon Islands (2003): https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/07/09/from-the-vaults-behind-the-solomons-intervention/ NZ governments like to present themselves as the 'good cops' on the block, but this is just a kind of 'boutique imperialism' (to borrow a term from Tom O'Lincoln). See this article from 1997/98 about NZ's fake 'honest broker' image: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/11/18/new-zealand-honest-broker-of-the-pacific/ _ 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
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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. * We have had a very busy time on Redline in the past fortnight or so. We've endeavoured to get up a chunk of material on the Grenfell Tower fire in London, for instance. Here is a very powerful piece by one of the firefighters who fought the inferno. He deals with the experience of the fire, the deaths, and also some reflections on firefighter pay and conditions: https://rdln. wordpress.com/2017/06/23/grenfell-tower-the-voice-of-a-firefighter/ Here is Paul Embery, the firefighters' union's London organiser, warning of the dangers as a result of the closure of fire stations in London: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/06/17/firefighter-organiser-2014-warning-re- closures-of-london-fire-stations/ Here is an interview we did last year with Paul about issues facing firefighters (and much more): https://rdln.wordpress. com/2016/07/15/interview-british-firefighter-organiser- paul-embery-on-firefighters-issues-the-state-of-the- british-working-class-and-the-brexit-vote/ An interesting short piece by an ex-firefighter in Britain: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/06/17/ex-firefighter-on- the-grenfell-tragedy/ And, of course, the tenants had been predicting the fire for some time: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/06/17/grenfell-fire-tenants-predicted-the- disaster/ *An important victory in Ireland* Several years ago, at a protest against the vicious austerity programme of the coalition Fine Gael/Labour government, a number of protesters sat down around the car of deputy prime minister Joan Burton, who was also the minister of social welfare, and one of the most anti-working class politicians in the government. She and her party (Labour) connived with the police to get very serious charges of false imprisonment brought against a number of the local working class activists. They have now been found not guilty in a unanimous jury verdict. Moreover, the state and the cops tried to prevent pickets outside the court and ban defendants from speaking publicly against the case. This was a very serious test case for free speech, the right to organise and protest, and it has been won: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/06/30/jobstown-not-guilty-working-class- activists-beat-labour-state-assault-on-right-to-protest-in-ireland/ Here is a short video with a statement by the Jobstown Accused as they walked free from the court: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/07/01/jobstown- innocent-labour-guilty-statement-of-victorious-working-class-activists/ *An important victory in London* Cleaners at the LSE in London, mainly migrant workers, have won an important victory against casualisation: https://rdln.wordpress.com/ 2017/06/20/important-workers-victory-in-london-the- cleaners-at-the-london-school-of-economics/ *Other features* If North Korea didn't exist, the US imperialists would have to invent it: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/06/23/if-north-korea-didnt-exist-the-us-would-create-it/ We've put up a piece by a member of the Working Class History Association in the States on the origins of the police force: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/06/27/the-police-were- created-to-control-working-class-and-poor-people/ We've also been running a series of articles by an American reader about his experience as an older worker in an increasingly casualised workforce in 21st century America. Here's pt 6: https://rdln.wordpress.com/ 2017/06/30/our-brand-is-uselessness-part-6/ Irish comrades write about the discovery of substantial human remains at a Catholic nun-run 'home' for mothers and babies: https://rdln.wordpress.com/ 2017/06/29/ireland-even-more-sins-by-the-catholic-church/ *Theory* We're very aware that we exist in the West (the imperialist world) and solidarity with the struggles of the oppressed peoples of the globe are crucial - workers in the West need to see ourselves as part of a global class, otherwise we're in danger of simply fighting for ourselves at the expense of the working class in the rest of the world: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/07/02/the-relevance- of-lenins-imperialism-and-the-split-in-socialism-today/ And we should look at Jeremy Corbyn's election campaign in this light. JC supports every repressive institution of the British imperialist state: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/06/09/british-election-results/ In solidarity, Philip Ferguson for the Redline blog collective _ 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] New on Redline (Marxist site based in New Zealand)
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. * Hi folks, while NZ workers remain almost perversely passive in the face of stagnant living standards, workers in other countries are fighting for better. We've put up some stories about some of these fights. Workers have defeated an anti-working class and anti-union bill brought forward by the Spanish government: https://rdln.wordpress.com/ 2017/04/13/spanish-lessons-for-nz-workers-use-class- struggle-methods-to-defeat-government-attacks/ At the start of this month, workers in Argentina staged a general strike: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/04/08/argentinian- lessons-the-april-6-general-strike-shows-us-how-to-fight/ In France, a working class candidate has made a big impression challenging the parties of the right (including the French Labourites): https://rdln. wordpress.com/2017/04/13/working-class-candidate- upsets-the-establishment-in-french-presidential-election-debate/ In New Zealand, however, all the parliamentary parties stand for essentially the same thing: managing the system based on the exploitation of workers. In this situation, maybe what we need is a campaign for positive abstention in the September elections: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/04/09/for-a-campaign-of- positive-abstention-in-the-2017-elections/ Meanwhile, in the other obscenities of capitalism pile, Trump's missile attack in Syria has sent the stock values of weapons manufacturers up by % billion US dollars, the chief beneficiary being Raytheon, a company in which Trump held (possibly still does) shares: https://rdln.wordpress.com/ 2017/04/10/bombing-syria-a-nice-little-earner-for-trumps- favourite-manufacturer-of-weapons-of-mass-destruction/ And in the scapegoating department, Labour is at it again: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/04/10/twyford-is-at-it-again/ Lastly, in new stuff, we have a review of an important new book about how the state of Israel was founded on the use of terrorism: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/04/14/in-review-state-of- terror-how-terrorism-created-modern-israel/ Good reading (and please do think about leaving comments in the comments sections underneath articles). And anyone interested in writing stuff, do contact us. Phil for the Redline blog collective _ 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] New on Redline blog
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. * Kenan Malik on British Labour Party: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/03/27/kenan-malik-on-british-labour-party/ Duneidn library workers show solidarity with Auckland workers: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/03/26/solidarity-with-the-auckland-libraries-workers-statement-by-dunedin-workers/ >From the vaults: political correctness and social control: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/03/25/from-the-vaults-political-correctness-and-social-control/ >From the vaults: race relations and social control: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/03/24/from-the-vaults-race-relations-and-social-control-written-in-19992000/ Yemen - the ignored war: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/03/24/yemen-the-ignored-war/ Martin McGuinness: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/03/23/martin-mcguinness-1950-2017/ Palestine - on hunger strike against administrative detention: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/03/21/17151/ _ 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] New on Redline blog
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. * Get out the Vote? Maybe not: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/02/27/get-out-the-vote-maybe-not/ Capitalism and democracy just don't mix: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/02/28/capitalism-and-democracy-they-just-dont-mix/ Capitalism brings greatest inequality ever: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/02/26/capitalism-brings-greatest-inequality-ever/ India: how and why the poor don't count: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/02/21/india-how-and-why-the-poor-dont-count/ A collection of articles on fighting factory closures: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/02/06/when-workers-occupy/ Phil _ 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] New on Redline blog
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. * Hi folks, an update on material we've been putting up on Redline over the past week or two. Treatment of Palestinians within Israel: https://rdln.wordpress.com/ 2017/02/03/treatment-of-palestinian-within-israel/ Links to our list of articles on the NZ Labour Party: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/02/03/redline-on-the-labour-party/ A review of the film *Hidden Figures*, about black women working for NASA in the 1960s: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/02/07/film-review- hidden-figures/ A look at Trumpism under noses in this country: https://rdln.wordpress.com/ 2017/02/09/trumpism-under-our-noses/ Links to collection of articles on Labour and anti-Chinese racism: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/02/12/the-labour-party- and-anti-chinese-racism/ Links to collection on Labour and anti-Pacific Islands racism: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/02/12/labour-and-racism- against-pacific-islanders/ The normality that produced Donald J. Trump: https://rdln.wordpress.com/ 2017/02/11/the-normality-that-produced-trump/ Review of a book looking at Australian rebel working class women: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/02/13/from-the-vaults- australian-rebel-working-class-women-2000/ Apple's cash hoard and the problems of contemporary capitalism: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/02/14/apples-cash-hoard-and-the-problems-of- capitalism/ Good reading! Phil for the Redline blog collective _ 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] New on Redline: NZ Labour supports US warmongering plus a whole lot more
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. * Daphna Whitmore on NZ Labour Party leader Andrew Little's support for US warmongering: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/01/25/labour-supports-us-warmongering/ Connect to podcast interview with Tony Norfield on modern imperialism, the global financial system, problems with the term 'neoliberlaism' and much more. . .: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/01/25/tony-norfield-on-the-global-financial-system-why-neoliberalism-is-a-misleading-term-and-much-more/ Me from 1998 on political correctness and social control: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/01/25/from-the-vaults-political-correctness-and-social-control/ Phil _ 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] New on Redline
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. * Hegel's Logic and the ideological breakdown of the status quo: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/01/23/hegels-logic-and-the-ideological-breakdown-of-the-status-quo/ Trump and the rottenness at the heart of capitalist political culture: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/01/21/trump-and-the-rottenness-at-the-heart-of-capitalist-political-culture/ _ 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] New on Redline
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. * Firefighters black entire fleet of engines: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/01/11/firefighters-black-entire-unsafe-fleet/ Militant in America: 1998 interview with veteran shopfloor and marxist activist Fred Ferguson: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/01/11/from-the-vaults-militant-in-america-interview-with-fred-ferguson-1998/ Gattaca and the nervous nineties: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/01/07/from-the-vaults-gattaca-and-the-nervous-nineties/ Eirigi New Year statement 2017: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/01/05/eirigi-new-year-statement-2017/ Engels on Marx on the working day: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/01/04/engels-on-marx-on-the-working-day/ This is what workers resistance looks like: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/01/01/this-is-what-resistance-looks-like/ _ 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] New on Redline
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. * Trump, Friedman, Israel and Zionism: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/12/27/trump-friedman-israel-and-zionism/ Productive and unproductive labour in capitalist society: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/12/27/productive-and-unproductive-labour-in-capitalist-society/ Guaranteed Income, Universal Basic Wage or the Abolition of the Wages System: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/12/25/guaranteed-income-universal-basic-wage-or-the-abolition-of-the-wages-system/ Palestinian struggle - active solidarity more important than UN resolutions: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/12/24/palestinian-struggle-active-solidarity-more-important-than-security-council-resolutions/ _ 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] New on Redline
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. * Labour's continuing malaise: good for the left: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/12/02/labours-continuing-malaise-good-for-the-left/ The conflict in Syria and the western left - an alternative view: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/12/03/the-conflict-in-syria-and-the-western-left-an-alternative-view/ New Zealand workers, longer hours and less resistance: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/12/02/nz-workers-longer-hours-and-less-resistance/ Phil _ 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] New at Redline
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. * All links no good; lead to request to get statistics for web site. T -Original Message- >From: Philip Ferguson via Marxism <marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> >Sent: Nov 21, 2016 6:52 PM >To: Thomas F Barton <thomasfbar...@earthlink.net> >Subject: [Marxism] New at Redline > > 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. >* > >Prisoners go on strike in United States: >https://wordpress.com/stats/day/20101343 > >US: good results for Working Class Party in Michigan: >https://wordpress.com/stats/day/20101343 > >Stuck in a Groove - Susil Gupta responds on the working class in the Third >World and imperialist world: https://wordpress.com/stats/day/20101343 > >Democracy US style - a whole government that no-one has elected: >https://wordpress.com/stats/day/20101343 > >France: mobilisations continue against new labour law: >https://wordpress.com/stats/day/20101343 > >Current state of the class struggle in NZ: >https://wordpress.com/stats/day/20101343 >_ >Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm >Set your options at: >http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/thomasfbarton%40earthlink.net _ 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] New at Redline
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. * Prisoners go on strike in United States: https://wordpress.com/stats/day/20101343 US: good results for Working Class Party in Michigan: https://wordpress.com/stats/day/20101343 Stuck in a Groove - Susil Gupta responds on the working class in the Third World and imperialist world: https://wordpress.com/stats/day/20101343 Democracy US style - a whole government that no-one has elected: https://wordpress.com/stats/day/20101343 France: mobilisations continue against new labour law: https://wordpress.com/stats/day/20101343 Current state of the class struggle in NZ: https://wordpress.com/stats/day/20101343 _ 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] New on Redline blog
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. * Democracy US style - an entire government that no-one has elected: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/11/18/democracy-us-style-an-entire-government-that-has-not-been-popularly-elected/ France - analysing the mobilisations against the new labour law: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/11/18/france-mobilisations-continue-against-proposed-new-labour-law/ (reprinted from International Viewpoint) Former Labour party leader goes back to business consultancy (where he belongs): https://wordpress.com/stats/insights/rdln.wordpress.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] New on Redline blog
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. * This week the Rail Maritime Transport union in NZ discussed disaffiliating from the NZ Labour Party, a step we at Redline strongly favour. The article below about the RMT move contains links to our articles on unions and the NZ Labour Party: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/11/01/rail-maritime-transport-union-discussing-disaffiliation-from-labour/ Ditch Labour, fight for workers' rights: this article contains links to pieces on alternatives: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/11/01/ditch-labour-fight-for-workers-rights/ Writing from Canada, Nizar Visram sees the US presdiential contest as tweedlee-dee and tweedle-dum: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/11/01/us-presidential-election-tweedledum-vs-tweedledee/ A reader in New York, however, disagrees with parts of Nizar's analysis - see the discussion section below the article. We reprint Australian Marxist Corey Oakley's important article on Syria and the western left: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/10/29/the-war-in-syria-and-responses-of-the-left-in-the-west/ And a recent presentation by Yassamine Mather on the left and what's happening in Syria now: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/10/29/the-left-and-whats-happening-in-syria-now/ And several old articles from our former publications on Labour and immigration policy: Labour's repressive 2008 immigration legislation - an attack on all workers: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/10/28/from-the-vaults-labours-repressive-2008-immigration-legislation-an-attack-on-all-workers/ When Labour began the dawn raids and then tried to rewrite history: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/10/27/from-the-vaults-when-labour-began-the-dawn-raids-and-then-tried-to-rewrite-history/ Immigration and citizenship: Labour versus workers: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/10/27/from-the-vaults-immigration-and-citizenship-labour-versus-workers/ Phil _ 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] New on Redline - workers' liberation blog
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. * Some recent pieces on Redline blog: The great Irish workers leader James Connolly on "All hail the mob - the incarnation of human progress": https://rdln.wordpress.com/ 2016/08/24/all-hail-the-mob-the-incarnation-of-human-progress/ The grubby history of the Olympic Games (short version): https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/08/23/the-grubby-history- of-the-olympic-games/ A wonderful display of solidarity with the Palestinians by Glasgow Celtic soccer fans (short video): https://rdln.wordpress.com/ 2016/08/22/celtic-soccer-fans-back-palestinians/ When revolution was in the air - we interview two readers who were active in working class, anti-Vietnam War and civil rights movements in the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s (writer Barbara Gregorich and dulcimer player Phil Passen): https://rdln.wordpress.com/ 2016/08/18/when-revolution-was-in-the-air-barbara-gregorich-and-phil-passen- interviewed/ The changing global working class - today a majority of the working class is in the Third World; what political implications does this have for advocates of workers' liberation globally?: https://rdln.wordpress.com/ 2016/08/12/imperialism-study-group-some-notes-on-the- changing-global-working-class/ And in Firefighter News we look at the new Fire & Emergency Service and more: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/08/07/15680/ Phil for the Redline blog collective _ 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] New on Redline
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. * Update on the Bilal Kayed and other Palestinians' hunger strike and international solidarity: How about this for an intro: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/08/09/mobilising-around-the-world-in-support-of-bilal-kayed-and-the-palestinian-hunger-strikers/ The group of workers that we probably cover most on Redline is firefighters. Here's ourlaest Firefighters' News: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/08/07/15680/ Voting for the right lizard: Trump, Clinton and the evil of lesser-evilism: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/08/06/voting-for-the-right-lizard-trump-clinton-and-the-evil-of-lesser-evilism/ The stock market, profits and irrationality: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/08/05/the-stock-market-profits-and-irrationality/ Questions and answers on Palestinian hunger strikes: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/08/04/questions-and-answers-on-palestinian-hunger-strikes/ Cheers, Phil _ 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] New on Redline blog
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. * Notes for first session of the Imperialism study group. We begin by looking at the economic aspects of Lenin's pamphlet on imperialism: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/07/20/imperialism-study-group-notes-for-discussion-1-the-economics-of-lenins-imperialism/ Redline talks to Paul Embery, national organiser of Trade Unionists Against the EU and London regional organiser of the Fire Brigades Union about issues facing British firefighters, the Brexit vote, and much more: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/07/15/interview-british-firefighter-organiser-paul-embery-on-firefighters-issues-the-state-of-the-british-working-class-and-the-brexit-vote/ We're currently working on a series of interviews. The next one is with Marxmail regular Mark Lause about his new book. It will be going up in a couple of days time, so look out for it. The one after that is with Barbara Gregorich, which I'm finding fascinating. That is still being done - we do a bit each week - so look out for that in a few weeks time. There's material abut supporting the irish revolutionary current, eirigi: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/07/13/support-the-irish-revolution-donate-to-eirigi/ And there's a piece on the importance of Hegel for Marxists: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/07/12/the-reason-for-revolution-why-understanding-hegel-is-important-for-marxists/ Phil _ 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] New on Redline
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 torture and slaying of two-year-old Moko Rangitoheriri by people who were supposed to be looking after him is another stark reminder of the rate of child murder in New Zealand. Don Franks looks at what is happening in 'Against Torture': https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/06/29/against-torture-2/ We farewell Marg Jones, a colourful communist and member of a very colourful New Zealand family, at age 96 (the family includes veteran communists, NZ's most famous forger and its leading libertarian): https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/06/28/farewell-marg-jones/ An Irish revolutionary perspective on the Brexit vote: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/06/27/the-brexit-vote-an-irish-revolutionary-perspective/ A note from the best of all possible worlds: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/06/27/a-note-from-the-best-of-all-possible-worlds/ Legislation that allows bosses to fire workers without a reason in the first 90 days hasn't created more jobs: https://wordpress.com/stats/insights/rdln.wordpress.com Phil _ 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
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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. * Hi folks, as usual a busy time on the blog, although we have all been busy with other stuff like work-work, children and family, political activities and so on. We are just about to start our Imperialism study group and we're currently discussing with some other people around the country the idea of a national educational event later in the year. If you're interested in either of these, please get in touch asap. Now to the new stuff on the blog: Are public hospitals, like Dunedin hospital, examples of 'socialism in action', a view recently put forward by Andrew Tait, one of the leaders of ISO. We say no. Read our articles - and you can link to Andrew's from there: Sloppy food and politics: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/05/17/sloppy-food-and-politics/ Is Dunedin Hospital red? How (not) to propagandise for socialism: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/05/19/is-dunedin-hospital-red-how-not-to-propagandise-for-socialism/ We reprint a statement by a British socialist group on the Hillborough Stadium collapse in which 96 soccer fans lost their lives and where the state and the media continually blamed the fans. Finally, after almost 30 years, the fans have been vindicated. See: : https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/05/20/british-marxist-workers-group-on-hillsborough-findings/ Radio NZ recently interviewed veteran Iranian Marxist Yassamine Mather, whose work we regularly feature on Redline: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/05/18/interview-on-iran-with-yassamine-mather/ Also see our own interview with Yassamine from a couple of years ago: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2013/03/08/repression-and-resistance-in-iran-interview-with-yassamine-mather/ And Yassamine's article on what happened in Iran following the 1979 toppling of the shah: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2012/09/15/marxism-and-the-iranian-revolution/ Further on Iran, we have run several articles by Torab Saleth, who was a leader of the Iranian section of the Fourth International during the 1979 revolution and for a short period thereafter. See, for instance, his analyses of how the mullahs, rather than the socialists, ended up in power in 1979 and how they have been able to hold onto it ever since: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/12/23/veteran-iranian-revolutionary-on-the-class-nature-of-the-regime/ Torab also wrote recently about the current state of the workers' movement in Iran: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/06/14/the-working-class-movement-in-iran-2014-and-a-2008-interview-with-torab-saleth/ Along with (directly below) the article on the workers' movement is a 2008 interview I did with Torab. Sean Bresnahan of the 1916 Societies looks at the low turnout in the Stormont Assembly elections: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/05/12/low-election-turnout-voters-withdrawing-consent-the-stormont-case/ We run a statement by a US socialist group on the current political and economic situation there: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/05/10/us-marxist-workers-group-on-political-and-social-situation-there/ Happy reading! _ 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
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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. * Firefighters coverage on Redline: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/04/26/firefighters-coverage-on-redline/ Gallipoli and NZ imperialism: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/04/25/gallipoli-and-new-zealand-imperialism/ Slump capitalism and the end of history: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/04/24/from-the-vaults-slump-capitalism-and-the-end-of-history-1997/ The Bernie Sanders campaign and the US left: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/04/21/the-bernie-sanders-campaign-and-the-us-left/ CLR James, Malcolm X and the politics of rebellion: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/04/21/c-l-r-james-malcolm-x-and-the-politics-of-rebellion/ Dead in Porirua: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/04/23/dead-in-porirua/ _ 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
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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. * *Gallipoli and NZ imperialism* The poppies are out again. We’re all expected to give to the RSA and to wear one of their poppies to show our respect for NZ combatants who died in wars abroad. But it doesn’t really take more than a second or two of reflection about Gallipoli, the centrepiece around which war is recalled in NZ and poppies worn, before a couple of questions present themselves. Why was New Zealand invading Turkey? What was World War One about? And there’s the rub. full at: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/04/19/gallipoli-and-new-zealand-imperialism/ *UN leadership contest - Helen Clark is the ultra-establishment candidate: * https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/04/15/un-leadership-contest-helen-clark-is-the-ultra-establishment-candidate/ *Michael Roberts on the Panama Papers*: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/04/14/michael-roberts-on-the-panama-papers/ *Shakespeare 400 years on*: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/04/10/shakespeare-400-years-on/ *Tax havens - natural and inescapable product of capitalism: * https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/04/09/tax-havens-natural-and-inescapable-product-of-capitalism/ *Free trade isn't the problem - it's capitalism:* https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/04/08/free-trade-isnt-the-problem-its-capitalism/ *Whose time is it anyway - distribution workers, time and alienation: * https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/04/07/whose-time-is-it-anyway-time-distribution-workers-and-alienation/ _ 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
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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. * Daphna Whitmore on the government's new ten-year project aimed at improving the life chances of young New Zealanders: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/02/28/a-better-start-or-a-detour/ Ben Hillier and Diane Fieldes of the Australian revolutionary organisation Socialist Alternative look at nationalism v internationalism: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/02/27/internationalism-versus-nationalism/ Education for anti-capitalists: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/02/27/education-for-anti-capitalists/ _ 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
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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. * Tony Norfield's 'The City: London and the global power of finance' (this book comes from Tony's PhD on British imperialism today): https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/02/19/tony-norfields-the-city-london-and-the-global-power-of-finance/ Small win for the firefighters: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/02/16/small-win-for-firefighters/ This is a tiny article about a small dispute but is one of our most successful articles; when the firefighters union put it up on their facebook page, it had 7,000 views in the first 24 hours. This month marks 65th anniversary of the single most significant dispute in NZ labour history, the 1951 waterfront lockout. Our lockout material can be linked to here: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/02/13/the-1951-waterfront-lockout-began-65-years-ago-today/ Maori, identity, equity and the economy: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/02/13/maori-equity-and-the-economy/ Redliner Daphna Whitmore looks at some recent work by Ross Himona on the way in which cultural constructions are hindering the fight for the material things Maori need to improve their position Maori rich-poor divide reflects world trend: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/02/06/maori-rich-poor-divide-reflects-world-trend/ While Maori remain disproportionately poor, there is now a clearly identifiable Maori rich elite and substantial Maori middle class Building the Irish revolutionary movement: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/01/29/interview-with-john-mccusker-a-leading-figure-in-eirigi/ Resistance movements during World War 2: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/01/23/14129/ Who pays for free education?: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/02/04/who-pays-for-free-education/ And a couple of Michael Roberts' excellent pieces: New recession coming: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/02/16/new-recession-coming/ Global GDP no good news for capitalism: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/02/03/global-gdp-no-good-news-for-capitalism/ _ 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
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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. * Hi folks, Below are recent pieces that have gone up on Redline blog, ranging from Rosa Luxemburg to the NZ Labour Party to the 1916 Irish rebellion. We've stuck up some interesting thoughts by Jara Handala, a socialist activist in Britain and former member of that country's biggest left group, the SWP. The piece is interesting because it's a very sober assessment: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/01/19/disengaging-in-britain/ The NZ Labour Party has appointed a new general-secretary. This business figure reconfirms that Labour is not only a capitalist party in terms of politics, but in social composition it is dominated by the liberal professional class: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/01/16/new-labour-party-general-secretary-indicative-of-partys-managerial-capitalism/ British Marxist Kenan Malik looks at the Charlie Hebdo killings, censorship and politics one year on: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/01/16/kenan-malik-on-charlie-hebdo-one-year-on/ One of the main features of Redline since we set up in mid-2011 has been examining the lack of working class resistance in this country. Links to a bunch of our articles on this subjected can be found here: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/01/16/whatever-happened-to-workers-resistance/ We remember Rosa Luxemburg, murdered on January 15, 1919, with several pieces. Thousands turn out to commemorate Luxemburg and Liebknecht: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/01/14/thousands-turn-out-for-luxemburg-and-leibknecht/ Rosa Luxemburg on tariffs, protectionism, reformism: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/01/15/rosa-luxemburg-on-tariffs-protectionism-reformism/ Rosa Luxemburg - murdered by social democrats, January 15, 1919: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/01/07/rosa-luxemburg-murdered-by-social-democrats-january-15-1919/ This year marks the 100th anniversary of the 1916 Rising in Ireland. Several members of the Redline collective are members of Clann eirigi; eirigi is a new Irish revolutionary movement that started ten years ago to fight for national liberation and socialism. This piece contains info on some events in Christchurch and Dunedin marking the 100th anniversary and links to articles on the Rising at The Irish Revolution site, which is connected to Redline. See: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/01/12/100th-anniversary-of-irelands-1916-rebellion/ See also: The Key-English government in the context of capital accumulation in NZ: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/01/10/the-key-english-government-in-the-context-of-capital-accumulation-in-new-zealand-today/ Our pieces on work/life balance issues: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/01/11/worklife-balance/ And we've put up a great piece on the unions and the fight for equal pay in Australia that recently appeared in the print review, *Marxist Left Review*, an excellent journal put out by Socialist Alternative (SA) in Australia: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/01/07/equal-pay-is-a-class-issue-trade-unions-and-the-fight-for-equal-pay-in-australia/ Phil for Redline Blog Collective _ 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
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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. * this week we have some important major articles new on Redline. Malcolm Deans, secretary of Unions Otago and an activist in the Aotearoa Workers Solidarity Movement, writing in a personal capacity, looks at the attack by Talleys on its workers, which is turning into a very important industrial dispute. Talley has been mobilising the courts, iwi leaders and whatever forces it can against meat workers. Malcolm provides an in-depth account of this dispute here: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/11/05/meatworkers-battle-with-talleys-important-for-all-workers/ In "'Respect for diversity': modern NZ capitalism's necessary ideology", Philip Ferguson looks at how changes in NZ capitalism, class relations and demography have given birth to new, dominant forms of ideology which have been dominant for several decades in NZ now, while much the left remains stuck in the 1970s/1980s, acting as if the old conservative traditionalism that was obsolete by the 1980s was still dominant: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/10/31/respect-for-diversity-modern-nz-capitalisms-necessaryby-ideology/ Much of the left, most particularly the dominant liberal left, also lives on a diet of scaremongering about particular individuals, with the fears about them usually being misplaced. Today we've out up a couple of articles from 2005 and 2006 looking at how so much of the left misinterpreted what Don Brash was about when he became leader of the National Party, leading up to the 2005 election: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/11/04/from-the-vaults-two-articles-on-don-brash-the-left-and-21st-century-nz-bourgeois-ideology/ This month marks the 4th anniversary of the Pike River disaster in which 29 mine workers were, in effect, killed by the bosses' pursuit for profit at the expense of workers' safety. We've collected our set of articles on the Pike River disaster and who was responsible here: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/11/04/never-forget-pike-river-the-lessons-we-need-to-draw/ And Don Franks has penned a poem in solidarity with the workers at New World: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/10/30/new-world-nightmare/ We've also put up again our piece from some years ago on the origins of Labour Day in New Zealand: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/10/26/labour-days-origins-in-new-zealand/ Don't forget to pass on the urls to anyone you think might be interested in any of these pieces and please think about writing something in the comments section under any of the above articles. All the best, Philip Ferguson for the Redline blog collective _ 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
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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. * "Yet the ruling class, certainly its main elements, have long since abandoned the kind of social views that were dominant a generation and more ago. The ruling class oversees a now entrenched system of political correctness in practically every significant institution of modern New Zealand society, from schools to universities to the military to the public sector to the private sector. ‘Respect for diversity’ is, indeed, crucial to 21st century NZ capitalist society. Several factors have brought this situation about. . ." full at: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/10/31/respect-for-diversity-modern-nz-capitalisms-necessaryby-ideology/ *Never forget the Pike River mine disaster (2010): the lessons we need to draw:* https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/11/01/never-forget-pike-river-the-lessons-we-need-to-draw/ Corbyn supporter changes mind: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/11/01/corbyn-supporter-changes-mind/ OPEC, oil, imperialism: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/10/21/from-the-vaults-oil-opec-and-imperialism-1980/ _ 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
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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. * Susanne Kemp on Palestine/PFLP News: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/10/20/palestinepflp-news/ Tony Greenstein on A third Intifada?: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/10/19/beginning-of-a-third-intifada/ Moshe Machover on Jeff Halper's 'War against the People': https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/10/13/in-review-jeff-halpers-war-against-the-people/ Yassamine Mather on the poisoned fruits of imperialist intervention in the Middle East: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/10/19/syria-iraq-the-poisoned-fruits-of-imperialist-intervention/ Sabena Norten on Zinoviev's book on German social-democracy: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/10/15/marxist-classics-an-appreciation-of-zinovievs-the-war-and-the-crisis-of-socialism/ Tony Norfield on how British imperialist plunder helped Labour create a welfare state after WW2: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/10/15/the-british-welfare-state-model-something-were-not-told/ Plus a 1980 article by Tony on the end of US dollar supremacy: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/10/14/the-demise-of-us-dollar-supremacy/ _ 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
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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. * Hi folks, as usual we have been very busy at the blog. Our biggest new piece is one offered to us by a fellow blogger about his experiences as a worker in the modern NZ office; in his case he was doing data processing. It's a fascinating tale of alienation and employer mechanisms of control in offices across twenty-first century NZ. Read it at: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/08/27/diary-of-an-office-worker-2/ Last Sunday, QA dragged has-been Don Brash out of the cobwebs to tell us that low productivity growth in NZ is the fault of too many people coming into the country. He seemed mystified that the economic reforms of the late 80s and early 90s hadn't produced the results they were supposed to. Instead of drawing the logical conclusion that there must therefore be something wrong with his theory, he trawled around for a scapegoat. The real reason for sluggish productivity growth, we suggest, is that employers are relying so much on making workers work harder, faster, longer, rather than investing on the level required in new plant, technology, machinery and RD. See: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/08/26/the-ridiculousness-of-don-brash-on-immigration-and-low-productivity-growth/ Mike Roberts look at the new wave of turmoil in global markets: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/08/25/yet-more-market-turmoil/ Philip Ferguson looks at the anti-Chinese racism of the early NZ Labour Party and the infatuation of people like Michael Joseph Savage with 'racial purity: 'https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/08/24/labours-racist-roots-2/ We also look at the problem of blaming 'bad banks' for our woes, when the problem is actually in the productive economy itself: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/08/23/from-the-vaults-bad-banks-or-bad-capitalism/ Another article suggests that it is long since time that we had a campaign to get unions to disaffiliate from the anti-worker Labour Party and started to build a new movement of, for and by workers: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/08/22/12932/ There has been quite an interesting discussion in the comments section for the article on disaffiliation; you might be interested in joining in the discussion. We've also had over 500 views on the piece on how the 'left' in the Australian Labor Party essentially simply services the right. If you haven't already looked at this article you might take a look: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/08/21/how-the-left-in-the-australian-labor-party-services-the-right/ And for a take on the role of lefts in Labour parties in general, see: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/08/21/labour-parties-and-their-left-oppositions/ Lastly, in the month that has marked the70th anniversary of the atomic bomb being dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, folks might be interested in reading about wartime opposition to the dicatorship in Japan: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/08/21/wartime-resistance-in-imperial-japan/ All the best, Philip Ferguson for the Redline blog collective PS: Please do think about leaving comments in the comments section under any articles that particularly interest you. _ 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
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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. * One of the most interesting pieces this week is 'A Nightmare in Whiteware', which is an account of work on the dryer line at Fisher and Paykel in Auckland. It was written in the early 1990s but retains great relevance as the method of labour organisation used, Teamwork, is essentially a form of speed-up and is widely used today. In addition to the worker's account, we explain why employers resort to speed-up as opposed to simply investing in more machinery and technology to make workers more productive. https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/08/02/from-the-vaults-a-nightmare-in-whiteware-the-teamwork-system-exploitation-and-alienation/ Today's awful politicians looks at Mana Party leader Hone Harawira's 'bruddah' letter to Obama: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/07/31/todays-awful-politicians/ Don Franks looks at prison violence: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/07/27/prison-violence-wheres-it-heading/ Mike Roberts examines whether Paul Mason's 'postcapitalism' is utopian or scientific: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/07/28/12729/ Philip Ferguson looks at the entrenchment of the 'White NZ' policy 1910-1920, including the ignominious role of the NZ Labour Party: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/08/02/the-making-of-the-white-new-zealand-policy-pt-9-white-new-zealand-entrenched-1910-1920/ Don Franks looks at how it's OK for people in uniform to kill civilians (especially if they're brown) but just don't kill a lion. . .: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/08/04/just-dont-shoot-a-lion/ Nizar Visram looks at Greek austerity and African debt peonage: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/08/03/greek-austerity-and-its-resemblance-to-african-debt-peonage/ Yassamine Mather looks at how the Turkish regime, supported by the US, is attacking the Kurdish movement which has been successfully fighting against IS: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/08/03/us-backed-turkish-regime-attacks-kurds-fighting-is/ Phil (for the Redline blog collective) _ 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
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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. * New health and safety bill before parliament: Time for workers to take charge of health and safety: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/06/22/time-for-workers-to-take-charge-of-health-and-safety/ Protecting NZ capitalism is not in the interests of workers anywhere: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/06/21/from-the-vaults-protecting-new-zealand-capitalism-is-not-in-the-interests-of-workers-anywhere/ The White New Zealand policy, pt 6: (re)presenting the parliamentary debates of the late 1890s - the data: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/06/20/white-new-zealand-policy-pt-6-representing-the-parliamentary-debate-the-late-1890s-the-data/ Phil _ 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
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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. * Salif Keita: musician of the world (from our From the vaults section, 1997): https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/06/13/from-the-vaults-salif-keita-musician-of-the-world-1997/ The West on the rampage (again 1997, but highly relevant): https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/06/13/from-the-vaults-the-wet-on-the-rampage-1997/ Review of New Zealand and the New World (Dis)Order: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/06/12/from-the-vaults-new-zealand-and-the-new-world-disorder-reviewe1997/ New Zealand nationalism, racism and the immigration non-debate: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/06/11/nz-nationalism-racism-and-the-immigration-non-debate/ Ireland: the class struggle is the source of the national struggle - interview with eirigi general-secretary Brendan Mac Cionnaith: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/06/12/ireland-the-class-struggle-is-the-source-of-the-national-struggle/ And an excellent piece by James Heartfield on the postmodern abyss from a quarter of a century ago: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/06/10/from-the-vaults-staring-into-the-postmodern-abyss-1990/ _ 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
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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. * Hi folks, another big week at the blog, with several inspiring stories. In the south of Ireland, the working class and young people secured a big majority for the right of same-sex couples to marry. In swathes of the most hardcore working class areas of Dublin, the vote for same-sex marriage equality was 80%. See: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/05/24/big-gay-rights-victory-in-ireland/ See also our earlier, main article on the referendum; it looks at the changes in southern Irish society that made this sweeping victory possible: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/04/07/irish-society-and-politics-and-the-referendum-on-gay-marriage/ In Turkey right now, car workers are waging a massive battle against employers and the old state-controlled yellow union they were corralled into: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/05/26/turkish-car-workers-take-on-bosses-state-and-yellow-union/ Michael Roberts looks the international liberal establishment's concern about equality and the limitations to such concerns: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/05/26/hillary-clinton-joseph-stiglitz-tony-atkinson-and-the-problem-of-inequality/ At present we're sticking up a series of articles from the magazine 'revolution' and the the paper The Spark that a number of us at Redline were involved in. The most recent one is a still very relevant article on the productivity trap, which bosses try to lure workers and unions into: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/05/23/the-productivity-trap-heads-they-win-tails-we-lose/ One of our Irish republican friends writes about imperialist strategy after Vietnam: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/05/23/after-vietnam-changes-in-imperialist-strategy/ We look at the growth of zero-hours contracts in Britain: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/05/20/zero-hours-contracts-and-living-wages-british-style/ Don Franks looks at Andrew Little's woes as the National Party government outflank Labour from the left with the latest budget: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/05/21/andrews-little-poem/ In the next couple of days we'll have a Redline look at the budget, so keep an eye out for that. And in 'Pimping for Israel' we look at how fake anti-establishment star Lady Gaga (and others) are happy to crap on the Palestinians by playing in and endorsing Israel: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/05/18/pimping-for-israel-lady-gaga-madonna-and-dionne-warwick/ Hope you find some worthwhile reading there, and please circulate the urls of any stories that might be of interest to people you know. In solidarity, Philip Ferguson for the Redline blog collective _ 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
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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. * another busy week at the blog. While John Key returns from hobnobbing with the brutal Saudi dictatorship, Palestinian writer Khaled Barakat calls for solidarity with the people of Yemen, suffering bombing and invasion by Washington's Saudi proxies: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/05/14/palestinian-writer-and-activist-khaled-barakat-calls-for-action-against-saudi-invasion-war-crimes-in-yemen/ Yassamine Mather looks at the change to the Saudi absolute monarchy's succession line might be linked to an intensification of their war in Yemen: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/05/13/saudi-arabia-changing-the-succession-to-intensify-the-war/ Closer to home, Tim Bowron looks at the role of New Zealand and Australian imperialism in East Timor: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/05/13/east-timor-and-anzac-imperialism/ Philip Ferguson looks at the issue of whether NZ is a neo-colony itself or a junior imperialist player: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/05/05/new-zealand-neo-colony-or-junior-imperialist/ Daphna Whitmore reports on the public meeting in Auckland for Amira Hass, the dissident Israeli writer: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/05/08/amira-hass-israeli-jewish-dissidence-in-times-of-bantustanisation/ Don Franks looks at how the anti-working class character of the Labour Party is revealed (yet again); this time as their general-secretary wants to have the state take benefit and subsidies money away from people who don't register to vote: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/05/10/labour-party-obey-or-starve/ From the excellent Australian Red Flag site, Cathy Lewis looks at the dispossession of Australian Aboriginals and over 200 years of resistance: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/05/14/australia-capitalism-expropriation-and-aboriginal-resistance/ Philip Ferguson continues his series on the disgraceful 'White New Zealand' policies of the late 1800s and early 1900s. Part five examines the parliamentary debates of the early 1890s, as the system of discrimination was being institutionalised: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/05/14/institutionalising-the-white-new-zealand-policy-the-parliamentary-debates-of-the-early-1890s/ Tim Bowron addresses workers' need for open borders: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/05/12/the-case-for-open-borders/ Lastly, from his excellent thenextrecession blog, we have a string of economic pieces by Michael Roberts: Business cycles, unit roots and animal spirits: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/05/13/business-cycles-unit-roots-and-animal-spirits/ Austerity: has it really worked for the capitalists: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/05/12/austerity-has-it-really-worked-for-the-capitalists/ IMF discovers low investment is cause of low growth - what a shocker!: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/05/06/imf-discovers-low-investment-is-cause-of-low-growth-what-a-surprise/ Whew! It has been a very busy week. All the best, Philip Ferguson for the Redline blog collective _ 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
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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. * Over the past week, we've been concentrating on demystifying all the propaganda around Anzac Day. New features pieces on the blog include: Labour movement historian Jared Davidson on the response by working class activists to militarism and class exploitation in NZ, 1905-1925: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/04/26/opposing-war-abroad-fighting-the-class-war-at-home-radical-workers-in-new-zealand-1905-1925/ The absurdity and obscenity of Gallipoli as seen through the eyes of three NZ writers: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/04/24/the-absurdity-and-obscenity-of-gallipoli-three-new-zealand-writers-accounts/ Tom O'Lincoln looks at the crap existence that confronted homecoming WW1 soldiers in Australia: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/04/27/after-world-war-1-the-horrors-of-peace-at-home-australia/ Australian cops shut down Aboriginal Anzac Day march: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/04/27/australian-cops-shut-down-aboriginal-anzac-day-march/ Tim Leadbeater writes about his excellent new blog, 100 Years of Trenches: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/04/25/100-years-of-trenches/ And check out our earlier material on WW1 and Anzac Day that is grouped here: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/04/12/as-we-approach-anzac-day/ In Christchurch the new Palestinian Association organised a successful event to commemorate Land Day: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/04/21/palestinian-land-day-commemorated-in-christchurch/ In Wellington Peace Action activists picketed Tony Abbott's appearance at the war memorial: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/04/20/anti-war-action-at-pukeahau-memorial/ British elections: Labour attacks migrant workers: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/04/25/british-elections-labour-attacks-migrant-workers/ Lastly, we have a piece looking at the police murder of Freddie Gray in Baltimore. Here's an extract: with his hands cuffed behind his back, with his legs in shackles, Freddie Gray was thrown into the back of a Baltimore police van, no seatbelt, nothing to secure him in place, and then ridden around for 42 minutes, over bumpy roads, around sharp fast turns, punctuated by sudden reversals and stops, tossing him around the back of the van, bouncing him off its walls, unable to protect or brace himself with his feet or his hands. It’s what Baltimore cops call a “rough ride,” and what Philadelphia cops call a “nickel ride.” By the end of that murderous ride, Freddie Gray was for all practical purposes dead, although it took him another seven days to die. His spinal cord had been almost severed, three neck vertebrae were fractured, his larynx crushed. . . full at: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/04/27/us-the-states-systematic-violence-kills-another-young-black-man/ _ 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
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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. * Hi folks, with Easter coming up, this update is coming early. We've stuck up three important articles on workers' rights in the past few days. Phil Duncan looks at the background to the tussle between Cotton On workers at the company's Auckland distribution centre and the bosses who were trying to take away their breaks. This round has gone to the workers: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/04/02/workers-at-cotton-on-win-pay-and-teabreak-victory/ The settlement in the Cotton On case came just after we'd posted up a major feature article on the importance of distribution workers in 21st century capitalism. While the article deals with the US it is very relevant here. Indeed, drive around chunks of 'industrial Auckland' and what you will largely see are distribution centres more than factories. The importation of industrial and manufacturing products that were once produced here has put distribution workers here at a pivotal place in contemporary capitalism (and,. as Marx noted, sections of workers involved in the sphere of circulation produce surplus-value): https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/04/01/the-importance-of-circulation-workers-in-21st-century-capitalism/ Lastly, however bad conditions of workers in New Zealand are, workers in the Third World have it far worse. Read about the Mexican farm workers' strike in which fruitpickers, many of them impoverished and semi-literate workers from the south of Mexico, are pitted against some of the biggest and richest companies in the world: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/04/01/mexican-farm-workers-strike/ In the next day or two, we'll doing something on an impressive transport workers strike in Argentina - so look out for that. Also, check out our piece on the Northland 'buy-election' result: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/03/29/the-dark-lord-takes-the-north-land-peters-win-no-victory-for-the-working-class/ And an excellent piece by Kenan Malik on why young people in Europe would join a group like ISIS: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/04/01/why-are-young-people-in-european-joining-jihadi-groups/ And, over Easter, you might have time to peruse the following collections of articles on the blog: *The state of the working class in New Zealand today: * https://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/12/16/the-state-of-the-working-class-in-new-zealand-today/ *This is what workers' resistance looks like: * https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/03/12/this-is-what-resistance-looks-like/ *Education for anti-capitalists:* https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/03/29/education-for-anti-capitalists/ Have a good Easter break, Phil for Redline blog collective _ 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
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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. * No to NZ and all western military intervention in the Middle East: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/02/27/no-to-all-western-military-intervention-in-the-middle-east/ War pigs: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/02/25/war-pigs/ Herbert Marcuse and the passivity of the NZ working class: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/02/26/herbert-marcuse-and-the-passive-state-of-the-new-zealand-working-class/ _ 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
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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. * This week we've been starting to get busy again with the blog. I've just stuck up a piece by Michael Roberts on deflation and what it means for workers and for the global economy. See: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/01/24/what-does-deflation-mean-for-economies/ Since 9/11, a whole bunch of new laws have been passed in New Zealand expanding the powers of the state and threatening our democratic rights. Cam Walker looks at changes since 2007. The article also includes the list of current organisations and movements that the NZ government designates as 'terrorist', some of whom are clearly progressive/liberation movements. See: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/01/23/the-terrorism-suppression-act-since-2007/ Meanwhile, John Key argues that NZ military involvement in Iraq/Syria is the price that must be paid for membership of the selective club involving Britain, the USA, Canada, Australia and NZ. Veteran activist Don Franks investigates: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/01/22/looking-inside-john-keys-club/ We've also re-put up an article we posted right near the blog's beginning in 2011, looking at GST and taxation and demystifying them: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/01/21/understanding-gst-and-tax-policy/ We've collected together a number of articles on the 1960s that have appeared on Redline since we began. The sixties were a fascinating time, when everything seemed possible: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/01/18/the-sixties/ We've re-put up a couple of critical articles on Labour Party history: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/01/20/labour-always-in-the-rearguard-never-the-vanguard/ https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/01/19/more-on-the-fourth-labour-government/ Lastly, some weekend leisure: I’ve gotta put a plug in for my current favourite musician. If you like folk, but harder and more sinewy than the old duffel-coat brigade variety, check out Seth Lakeman, the youngest of the three very talented Lakeman brothers (the others being the oldest, Sean, and the middle one Sam). I wrote a review of Seth’s last two albums here: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/12/30/seth-lakemans-workers-lives-review-of-tales-from-the-barrelhouse-and-word-of-mouth/ Seth comes from, and still lives in, the West Country in England. Devon to be precise. Most of his songs are about ordinary people’s lives, drawing on the history of Devon, Cornwall, Dorset etc. His ‘Live at the Minack Theatre’ DVD is my all-time favourite live music DVD, equal with Cream’s 1968 Royal Albert Hall gig. The Minack Theatre, by Land’s End, is a stunning venue. Check out, for instance Seth there at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwLK0rJ3keA Some more Seth. Another of my great favourities of his: Blood Red Skies, which is his variation on the Reynardine theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Glp_V–Hya8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Glp_V--Hya8 And here’s a song which was something of a breakthrough of his (title track of his second album, which was nominated for a prestigious Mercury Prize); it’s the story of a young servant who killed herself after being impregnated by the young master, her grave is on Dartmoor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLrOR6swYPI Another great favouritie of mine is Irish socialist-republican and great singer-songwriter Damien Dempsey. ‘Damo’ toured here earlier this year, just him and his guitar. Here’s a review of his Christchurch gig, which was packed out with young Irish: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/03/28/damo-does-the-dux-gig-review/ The review contains a link to one of my great favourites of his – Masai. All the best for 2015. Phil for the Redline blog collective _ 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
