[Marxism] Mass protest in Serbia and an attempt of state-led demobilisation | Lefteast

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The regime of Aleksandar Vučić and the machinery of the Serbian 
Progressive Party managed to almost completely privatise state, 
municipal and public institutions for their own benefit, starting in 
2014 when Vučić became a prime minister for the first time. In the years 
since, many people left Serbia in pursuit of work and better living 
conditions. The lives of those who remain in Serbia are instrumentalized 
by the Progressive Party.


https://www.criticatac.ro/lefteast/mass-protest-in-serbia-and-an-attempt-of-state-led-demobilisation/

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[Marxism] Fwd: protest in Hamilton Montana

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(HT to Alan Ginsberg.)

This is fantastic

About 200 demonstrators lined both sides of Highway 93 at the Main 
Street intersection.


The protest was organized by a Corvallis High School senior and her friends.

https://nbcmontana.com/news/local/supporters-of-black-lives-matter-movement-protest-in-hamilton

Statistics re Hamilton

2018 pop. 4809

2010 -- 95% white, 0.3% African American

2013 "metropolitan" area pop -- 12,979

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton,_Montana#2010_census



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[Marxism] Black Protest and the Revival of Folk Music in Ian Zack’s “Odetta” | Aaron Coats | Chicago Review of Books

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https://chireviewofbooks.com/2020/05/01/odetta-ian-zack/


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[Marxism] Beyond Protest

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http://stillhomeron.blogspot.com/2019/08/beyond-protest.html
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[Marxism] Thousands protest in Istanbul, evoke Yellow Vests

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https://www.france24.com/en/20181222-thousands-protest-istanbul-against-higher-living-costs

 “Thousands of protesters on Saturday took to the streets in Istanbul to
demonstrate against the rising cost of living and crippling inflation in
Turkey.

“Surrounded by a heavy police presence, the protesters held banners with
references to the "yellow vest" movement in France, which began as a
demonstration against fuel price hikes but snowballed into anti-government
protests, an AFP correspondent reported.

“The protest, organised by the KESK, a confederation of public service
workers unions, drew people from all over Turkey including the northwestern
provinces of Edirne, Bursa and Yalova, the correspondent said.

“They shouted "work, bread, freedom" and also carried banners saying "the
crisis is theirs, the street is ours" and "Haziran" which means June in
Turkish.

“June refers to the mass 2013 demonstrations against President Recep Tayyip
Erdogan's rule sparked by the planned redevelopment of Gezi Park in
Istanbul”
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[Marxism] Thousands protest Erdoğan’s occupation threats

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Thousands protest Erdoğan’s occupation threats in Kobane:

https://anfenglishmobile.com/rojava-northern-syria/thousands-protest-erdogan-s-occupation-threats-in-kobane-31375

People of Qamishlo and Gire Spi rally against occupation:

https://anfenglishmobile.com/rojava-northern-syria/people-of-qamishlo-and-gire-spi-rally-against-occupation-31379

Northern Syrian political parties: We won’t allow an invasion:

https://anfenglishmobile.com/rojava-northern-syria/northern-syrian-political-parties-we-won-t-allow-an-invasion-31376

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[Marxism] A Protest Against 'Climate of Fear' at U of Michigan over standing for Palestinian Rights

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(Informed Comment) – In response to the furor that arose this fall over 
the disciplining of Professor John Cheney-Lippold for declining to write 
a letter of recommendation for a student to do summer study at Tel Aviv 
University, the administration of the university has appointed a faculty 
commission (which is light on humanists) to consider the issues raised, 
and has circulated a questionnaire to solicit reactions of the faculty.


Professor Alan Wald, H. Chandler Davis Collegiate Professor Emeritus in 
English and American Culture, kindly permitted Informed Comment to 
reprint here his response to the questionnaire, in which he questions 
the paternalistic assumption that the university is the custodian of 
faculty conscience in these matters.

– JC

https://www.juancole.com/2018/12/michigan-standing-palestinian.html
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[Marxism] Paris protest: ‘People are in the red. They can’t afford to eat’ | World news | The Guardian

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/24/paris-fuel-tax-protest-macron-france-poverty
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Re: [Marxism] a protest

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Mark
I would tend to go for the Three Stooges myself.  But the truth is probably
that what the Democrats are most concerned with is any attack on the status
quo. They will move heaven and earth to prevent a broad democratic movement
emerging such as Corbynism in the UK. By that reckoning a narrow victory in
the House and "as you were" in the Senate was all they wanted.

I cannot advise US comrades because I am tucked away down under.  The
formula that Trotksyism taught me was that first the Social Democrats have
to fail before Fascism can gain real purchase. Brazil seems a classic
instance of that.  In Australia the Labor Party is about to take over next
year.  Their failure is almost predestined. By that reckoning we should
have a far right wing upsurge from 2022 on wards, when  I will be entering
my 80s. Oh Joy!

comradely

Gary

On Wed, Nov 7, 2018 at 12:56 PM Mark Lause  wrote:

> As in 2016, the question is whether Donald Trump is a political genius or
> the Democrats function rather like the Three Stooges trying to build a
> house.  I know which option makes the most sense to me.
>
>
> Of course, now there is no
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Re: [Marxism] a protest

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Gary MacLennan has expressed by exact feelings.

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Re: [Marxism] a protest

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 (trying again . . .. .)

As in 2016, the results pose the question as to whether Donald Trump is a
political genius or the Democrats function rather like the Three Stooges
trying to build a house.  I know which option makes the most sense to me.

By all accounts on the ground, the Democrats did few of the things they
needed to do to maximize the outcome.  In Texas, where Latino votes were
key, the party did nothing to organize transportation for people to get to
the polls.  That used to be the bare minimum the organization would do.
Various organizations here and there have tried to pick up the slack--the
NAACP here, for example, but the results have been spotty.

This really reflects the transformation of political parties in the U.S.
which have come to function mostly as fund-raising organs that funnel money
into television advertising.  Look at how some of the Democratic candidates
like Stacey Abrams, Beto O'Rourke, and Andrew Gillum have earned a
reputation as exceptionally charismatic, etc.  What makes them  stand out
from the others seems to be their ability to actually stand up and talk to
other sentient human beings.  A commentary on the state of political
affairs here.

(btw, Ted Cruz has just been declared the winner in Texas, assuring
Republican control of the U.S. Senate.)

Cheers,
Mark L.
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[Marxism] a protest

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I am watching the results come in from the East Coast, currently the
Republicans are ahead in the 60 seats that have been called. I want to run
around and scream in protest against being in a position where I am hoping
for the Democrats to save us. I despise the Democrats with every fiber of
my being. I totally endorse every single word of Richard Seymour's
criticism of them and their overweening arrogance and stupidity.

But here we are- Waiting for Pelosi. Jeezuss and his holy mother help us.

comradely

Gary
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[Marxism] Germany protest: Tens of thousands march against far right - BBC News

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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45851665
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[Marxism] [UCE] Protest Kavanaugh & FBI Cover Up but where is union leadership?

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Thousands of people around the country have been marching and sitting in to
protest the planned coronation of serial sexual predator, bully and proven
liar Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. Here in the SF Bay area, a
protest is planned for this Thursday, Oct. 4 at the SF Civic Center.

The FBI “investigation” will be nothing but a coverup unless there is a
mass outpouring of anger. Part of that anger should be directed against the
planned FBI cover-up. The New Yorker, for example, reports that:

Elizabeth Rasor, a former girlfriend of Mark Judge has made repeated
attempts to contact the FBI. She says she has information to impart. The
FBI apparently is not interested.
Despite the extremely limited time frame of the “investigation”, as of
Sunday the FBI had not contacted Blasey Ford.
A former classmate of Deborah Ramirez recalled hearing her tell about her
experience with Kavanaugh within days of his molestation of her (Ramirez).
He, too, tried contact the FBI. To no avail. “I thought it was going to be
an investigation, but instead it seems it’s just an alibi for Republicans
to vote for Kavanaugh,” he said.

*But we must also ask ourselves: Where… where… is the union leadership? *

Read entire article here:

https://oaklandsocialist.com/2018/10/02/protest-kavanaugh-protest-fbi-cover-up/

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[Marxism] Nicaragua protest leaders call 24-hour strike to oust Daniel Ortega | World news | The Guardian

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I wonder how many leftists in their 20s and 30s are getting their news 
on Nicaragua from the Guardian. This article 
(https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/14/nicaragua-strike-protest-ortega-latest) 
cites Enrique Bolanos who says, "So he must be like Ceaușescu in Romania 
or like Maduro in Venezuela and do everything to stay in power because 
the worst thing [he] can do is quit.”


I have a different memory of Bolanos. He was the head of COSEP that 
along with La Prensa constituted the internal counter-revolution that 
shared Reagan's military goal of getting the people to "cry uncle".


Bolanos was president of Nicaragua from 2002-2007 and then succeeded by 
Daniel Ortega. This "Ceausescu" was elected because the people got tired 
of being hungry apparently.


Here's an article from the 2001 Nation Magazine 
(https://www.thenation.com/article/letter-nicaragua/) describing the 
state of the rural poor in the last year of Aleman's presidency. Bolanos 
was Aleman's vice-president and would succeed him from 2002-2007:


Meanwhile, the situation for some Nicaraguans is desperate. On a trip to 
the city of Matagalpa, I visited a barrio where coffee workers have 
taken refuge after being dismissed by plantation owners in the northern 
mountains. The price that can be had for a 100-kilo sack of coffee has 
dropped from $120 to $50 in the past two years, and drought has also hit 
the area. According to local officials, at least 1,800 families have 
come out of the mountains begging for food. Doribel Blandon, 30, said 
she was born on a plantation and had worked her whole life there until 
recently. “They threw us out three weeks ago,” she said. “The government 
hasn’t given us any idea what we might do. In fact, they haven’t come to 
speak to us.”


She and other internal refugees led me to a house where a local family 
had given shelter to a young woman from a coffee-picking family who had 
given birth two days before. Miglia Zamora, 20, lay in a dark room, only 
a blanket between her and the concrete floor, her infant daughter lying 
next to her. “I don’t know what will happen,” she said. “We don’t know 
where food or clothing will come from.”


One local pro-Bolaños voter, Carolina Escorcia, 20, tells me she has 
been advised by her party that the above scenes are staged by the 
Sandinistas to make the government look bad. But as I’m speaking to the 
former coffee workers, word arrives that food is being distributed 
nearby. With plastic plates in hand, many of the people bolt and go 
sprinting up the dusty street out of sight. They don’t appear to be 
acting. They’re hungry.



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Re: [Marxism] Vietnamese Protest an Opening for Chinese Territorial Interests

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Something I wrote 4 years ago about similar protests four years ago,
which combined mass workers riots against exploitative Chinese and
Taiwanese bosses, with oppositional movements which focus their attack
on the CPV around the idea that the party is "betraying the Vietnamese
nation" by not going to war with China over their rocky islands
dispute (notwithstanding the fact that they do have a case in as much
as Imperial China is the undoubted aggressor in the islands):
https://mihalisvn.blogspot.com/2018/06/normal-0-false-false-false-en-au-x-none.html
(I have no idea why it produces sch a weird url)

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> NY Times, June 12, 2018
> Vietnamese Protest an Opening for Chinese Territorial Interests
> By Richard C. Paddock
>
> BANGKOK — Anti-China protests erupted throughout Vietnam and more than 100
> people were arrested late Sunday after demonstrators stormed a provincial
> government building east of Ho Chi Minh City, the local news media reported.
>
> Many Vietnamese harbor resentment against China, Vietnam’s northern
> neighbor, and were said to be angry about a measure that would allow the
> leasing of land to foreigners for 99 years in three special economic zones.
>
> The government, which was scheduled to adopt the measure this week, said it
> would delay action until later this year, according to media reports.
>
> Hundreds of protesters carrying signs and banners took to the streets in
> Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and several other cities over the weekend.
>
> On Sunday evening, hundreds of demonstrators in Binh Thuan Province defied
> tear gas and fire hoses to storm the office of the People’s Committee. The
> authorities said that dozens of police officers were injured in clashes and
> that the protesters burned cars and vandalized the building.
>
> The Vietnamese public was already angry over China’s claim to much of the
> South China Sea, including coastal waters that Vietnam claims. Now, many
> fear that the proposed economic zones would be dominated by Chinese
> investors, including possibly state-owned companies.
>
> Past protests against China have become a focal point for a range of
> grievances against the Vietnamese government, including the seizure of
> farmland to build malls and factories.
>
> Sunday’s protests were reminiscent of riots that broke out in 2014 after
> China placed an oil rig in waters off Vietnam. The government initially
> allowed peaceful protests, but they quickly grew out of control, and more
> than 200 factories owned by Chinese and other foreign companies were looted
> and set ablaze around Vietnam.
>
> The worst rioting occurred at a steel factory being built in Ha Tinh
> Province by a subsidiary of Taiwan’s giant Formosa Plastics Group, where the
> company employed thousands of laborers from mainland China. Protesters
> stopped buses, pulled off Chinese passengers and beat them. Four people were
> killed.
>
> Two years later, the same factory caused one of Vietnam’s largest
> environmental disasters when it flushed cyanide and other chemicals through
> its waste pipeline, killing marine life along a 120-mile stretch of
> coastline.
>
> Many people were sickened from eating poisoned fish and the coastal fishing
> economy collapsed, prompting numerous demonstrations along Vietnam’s central
> coast.
>
> In November, a 22-year-old blogger, Nguyen Van Hoa, was sentenced to seven
> years in prison for producing videos and writing about the protests.
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[Marxism] Vietnamese Protest an Opening for Chinese Territorial Interests

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NY Times, June 12, 2018
Vietnamese Protest an Opening for Chinese Territorial Interests
By Richard C. Paddock

BANGKOK — Anti-China protests erupted throughout Vietnam and more than 
100 people were arrested late Sunday after demonstrators stormed a 
provincial government building east of Ho Chi Minh City, the local news 
media reported.


Many Vietnamese harbor resentment against China, Vietnam’s northern 
neighbor, and were said to be angry about a measure that would allow the 
leasing of land to foreigners for 99 years in three special economic zones.


The government, which was scheduled to adopt the measure this week, said 
it would delay action until later this year, according to media reports.


Hundreds of protesters carrying signs and banners took to the streets in 
Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and several other cities over the weekend.


On Sunday evening, hundreds of demonstrators in Binh Thuan Province 
defied tear gas and fire hoses to storm the office of the People’s 
Committee. The authorities said that dozens of police officers were 
injured in clashes and that the protesters burned cars and vandalized 
the building.


The Vietnamese public was already angry over China’s claim to much of 
the South China Sea, including coastal waters that Vietnam claims. Now, 
many fear that the proposed economic zones would be dominated by Chinese 
investors, including possibly state-owned companies.


Past protests against China have become a focal point for a range of 
grievances against the Vietnamese government, including the seizure of 
farmland to build malls and factories.


Sunday’s protests were reminiscent of riots that broke out in 2014 after 
China placed an oil rig in waters off Vietnam. The government initially 
allowed peaceful protests, but they quickly grew out of control, and 
more than 200 factories owned by Chinese and other foreign companies 
were looted and set ablaze around Vietnam.


The worst rioting occurred at a steel factory being built in Ha Tinh 
Province by a subsidiary of Taiwan’s giant Formosa Plastics Group, where 
the company employed thousands of laborers from mainland China. 
Protesters stopped buses, pulled off Chinese passengers and beat them. 
Four people were killed.


Two years later, the same factory caused one of Vietnam’s largest 
environmental disasters when it flushed cyanide and other chemicals 
through its waste pipeline, killing marine life along a 120-mile stretch 
of coastline.


Many people were sickened from eating poisoned fish and the coastal 
fishing economy collapsed, prompting numerous demonstrations along 
Vietnam’s central coast.


In November, a 22-year-old blogger, Nguyen Van Hoa, was sentenced to 
seven years in prison for producing videos and writing about the protests.

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[Marxism] The protest songs that drove the Wobblies a century ago are still lighting fires | Kim Kelly | The Chicago Reader

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[Marxism] 6. protest in Oakland: A new movement struggling to be born? (John Reimann) 9. The Socialist Case for Gun Control (Louis Proyect)

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I am glad that there is some recognition here, of the qualitatively new
phenomenon that went to the streets yesterday.
When this issue was raised on the list recently, there was a lot of
push-back on simple common-sense. No doubt there will still be that same
push-back.
What is the saying - the masses are ahead of the party (could substitute
enlightened leftists)?
No doubt these marches, are a long way from an understanding of the need
for socialism.
But - I am sure it is a 'starter' phenomenon.
Hari Kumar
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Re: [Marxism] Iran protest

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On 12/31/17 2:18 PM, Ron Jacobs via Marxism wrote:

Actually, there's plenty of doubtthe fact that MEK and pro- shah
factions are some of the loudest cheerleaders is just one reason to doubt
the veracity of that statement.


Ron Jacobs:

One disturbing aspect of Mossaddessin’s text is his referral to the 
support that the NCRI and PMOI [MEK] have received from various members 
of the US government. Especially disturbing is his quoting of Daniel 
Pipes, the neoconservative apologist for the worst of Israel’s 
oppressive tactics in Palestine. One would think that he would see this 
support for what it truly is: an attempt to manipulate these 
organizations into doing Washington’s dirty work in replacing the 
theocratic regime in Iran. Conversations I have had with grassroots 
supporters of the PMOI, however, make it clear that the majority of its 
members understand that their revolutionary vision of Islam is no more 
palatable to US goals for the region than that of the fundamentalists.


full: 
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On 2017-12-31 20:18, Ron Jacobs via Marxism wrote:



Chris Slee wrote " there's no doubt that this is a genuine people's
uprising..."
Actually, there's plenty of doubt


Ron,

It really sounds like you've given up on progressive protest/action 
taken up by the working class (or equally bad, that this will only 
happen under the magical leadership of a particular vanguard party). 
When Chris wrote that "there was no doubt," that was because it is 
obvious when protests erupt more or less spontaneously on that scale, 
that it wasn't simply staged. Unless you're believing in an unlikely 
conspiracy theory. Yes, it was acknowledged that rightist elements may 
have initiated protest action but that doesn't explain the "uprising" 
that we are talking about. As long as the protests are being repressed, 
you can be sure that all kinds of right wing and anti-Iran forces in the 
world will be "protesting" with them, verbally that is. I just hope the 
left doesn't repeat the enemy-of-my-enemy mistake that largely prevented 
solidarity with the Syrian revolution, where similar concerns were 
cited.


- Jeff


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Chris Slee wrote " there's no doubt that this is a genuine people's
uprising..."
Actually, there's plenty of doubtthe fact that MEK and pro- shah
factions are some of the loudest cheerleaders is just one reason to doubt
the veracity of that statement.
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[Marxism] Fwd: Protest Tea: Victoria Lomasko’s “Other Russias” - Los Angeles Review of Books

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https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/protest-tea-victoria-lomaskos-other-russias/

I reviewed the book as well:

https://louisproyect.org/2017/02/26/other-russias/
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[Marxism] One protest placard

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"I'm taking care of your mom. .  but I can't go see mine."
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[Marxism] international protest against Filipino murders of alleged drug users

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[Marxism] Fwd: Protest at U of Minnesota delays speech by Israeli professor for half hour | Inside Higher Ed

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Those arrested -- apparently not students but backed by a 
pro-Palestinian group on campus -- are claiming their free speech rights 
were violated. Meanwhile, university officials are saying that the 
protest crossed the line past acceptable forms of protest.


And the incident has revived a debate in higher education over use of 
the "heckler's veto," in which protesters take their shouts into the 
lecture hall. In recent years, there have been major debates over such 
incidents at Brown University, Florida Atlantic University and the 
University of California at Irvine. (The Florida Atlantic and Irvine 
incidents also involved speakers from Israel.)


full: 
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[Marxism] Germans protest in 14 cities against Merkel's stance on Greece

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https://www.popularresistance.org/germans-protest-in-14-cities-against-merkels-stance-on-greece/
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[Marxism] Gaza protest declares: Venezuela, Palestine is with you!

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The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in the Gaza Strip
organized a rally in solidarity with Venezuela, in defense of Venezuela
against the U.S. imperialist targeting of Venezuela's Bolivarian project,
in particular a recent decree by the U.S. administration imposing new
economic sanctions on Venezuela and labeling the country a 'national
security threat' to the United States, a move that is a clear threat of
escalated U.S. intervention against Venezuela and its elected government
...

http://pflp.ps/english/2015/03/21/gaza-protest-declares-venezuela-palestine-is-with-you

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Re: [Marxism] Germans Protest European Austerity Measures

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On 19.03.2015 13:52, Louis Proyect via Marxism wrote:


NY Times, Mar. 19 2015
Germans Protest European Austerity Measures
By RHEA WESSEL and JACK EWING

FRANKFURT — Protesters set cars on fire and clashed with police 
officers on Wednesday as they marched toward the European Central 
Bank’s new headquarters in a demonstration against austerity and 
capitalism that took on a markedly more heated tone than past protests.


Reading this report you wouldn't get any idea that the main protest 
involved 20,000 people from all over Germany on a working day. All the 
reports in the bourgeois media have concentrated on the actions of a 
small minority - and there are also plausible allegations that agents 
provocateurs, particularly from militant Nazi groups, were involved in 
at least some of the actions.


Here is a more balanced consideration of the events and a discussion of 
the tasks facing activists: 
http://left-flank.org/2015/03/20/frankfurt-2015-anti-capitalism-makes-a-comeback/


Einde O'Callaghan
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25.000 protest the against austerity in Frankfurt
Written by Editorial board of Der Funke (IMT Germany)
March 20
http://www.marxist.com/germany-25000-protest-the-against-austerity-in-frankfurt.htm

The City of Frankfurt was the scene of a 25.000 strong anti-austerity
demonstration on Wednesday, March 18, the day of the inauguration and
grand opening gala of European Central Bank's (ECB). The new
skyscraper attracted crowds of protestors from all over Germany. As
the protest took off the crowds moved into the stronghold of many
German and international banks. The construction of the new ECB
premises in the East End of the city had cost approximately 1.3
billion EURO. The demonstrations were called by the broad Blockupy
alliance which included many left groups, social movements, trade
unionists and a host of other individuals. The organisers loaded two
special trains and over 60 coaches from 39 European cities with
protestors for the demonstration.

In recent weeks, the determination of the demonstrators to voice
opposition against the ECB, EU, big business and the German government
had grown as a consequence of the general anger towards austerity
policies. Demonstrators were particularly angry about the austerity
forced onto Southern Europe and the blackmail that the new Greek
government has experienced by these institutions. In Frankfurt, for
instance, prominent local trade unionists met to set up a Greece
solidarity group and launch an awareness campaign against the recent
propaganda around the events in Greece.

For the bulk of the demonstrators, this Wednesday was a sunny and
peaceful day of protest in the city centre where well over 20.000
gathered in the early afternoon for a rally and demo. Sahra
Wagenknecht, deputy chair of the parliamentary group of Die Linke
(German Left Party), said, The ECB is the most powerful institution
of the EU and an undemocratic shadow government which displays its
power in an unscrupulous way. There was a militant mood, lots of
music, and apart from Sahra Wagenknecht speakers included
representatives from the Spanish Podemos and Greek Syriza as well as
the Canadian author Naomi Klein. After the rally, demonstrators
marched through the shopping area and banking district. There was no
violence, but rather a mood of determination and optimism. Comrades of
Der Funke (IMT Germany) were also present, selling lots of journals
and literature at their stall while collecting lots of email addresses
from individuals interested in Marxism.

Yet, the message that the national and international mainstream media
conveyed was one of violence, riots, and a state of emergency.
Pictures of burning barricades and cars, broken windows, and injured
policemen and civilians overshadowed the event. Many media and
bourgeois politicians eagerly used this propaganda to discredit the
movement altogether. The state had mobilised well over 10.000
policemen from all over Germany that utilized teargas and water
cannons. The outburst of violence early in the morning, when the
police attacked left autonomous activists and possibly some police
provocateurs, served as a godsend for the bourgeois media who quickly
used it to discredit the movement in the eye of ordinary workers. In
spite of the claims of the media the main demonstration was a peaceful
affair blockading the gala on ECB premises.
. . .


On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 3:09 AM, Einde O'Callaghan via Marxism
marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu wrote:

 On 19.03.2015 13:52, Louis Proyect via Marxism wrote:

 NY Times, Mar. 19 2015
 Germans Protest European Austerity Measures
 By RHEA WESSEL and JACK EWING

 FRANKFURT — Protesters set cars on fire and clashed with police officers
 on Wednesday as they marched toward the European Central Bank’s new
 headquarters in a demonstration against austerity and capitalism that took
 on a markedly more heated tone than past protests.

 Reading this report you wouldn't get any idea that the main protest involved
 20,000 people from all over Germany on a working day. All the reports in the
 bourgeois media have concentrated on the actions of a small minority - and
 there are also plausible allegations that agents provocateurs, particularly
 from militant Nazi groups, were involved in at least some of the actions.

 Here is a more balanced consideration of the events and a discussion of the
 tasks facing activists:
 http://left-flank.org/2015/03/20/frankfurt-2015-anti-capitalism-makes-a-comeback/

 Einde O'Callaghan


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NY Times, Mar. 19 2015
Germans Protest European Austerity Measures
By RHEA WESSEL and JACK EWING

FRANKFURT — Protesters set cars on fire and clashed with police officers 
on Wednesday as they marched toward the European Central Bank’s new 
headquarters in a demonstration against austerity and capitalism that 
took on a markedly more heated tone than past protests.


The rally, organized by a group called Blockupy and German workers’ 
unions, drew thousands of people as the central bank inaugurated its new 
tower. In the morning, as a group of roughly 400 demonstrators tried to 
cross a bridge over the Main River and head toward the tower, they were 
blocked by the police. Smaller groups burned police cars, furniture, 
trash and bikes nearby. Hundreds of police officers in riot gear guarded 
an area around the bank, and officers sprayed tear gas at protesters who 
had been throwing rocks.


More than 200 demonstrators were injured by police bats and tear gas, 
Blockupy said, and the police said 94 officers were injured. “The 
violent acts of some activists were neither planned nor wanted,” said 
Frauke Loew, a Blockupy spokeswoman.


The size and intensity of the protests sent a strong signal that the 
German Blockupy movement was back after an earlier wave of activism 
petered out in 2012. But in contrast to the earlier, mostly mellow 
protests, there was a distinctly violent element on Wednesday, 
reflecting the political polarization that has built in the eurozone 
after four years of harsh cuts in government spending and astronomical 
unemployment in Greece and other troubled countries.


Blockupy is a left-wing alliance of dozens of activist groups from 
across Europe. Its members include one of the largest German labor 
unions, the United Service Union, known as Ver.di, and Syriza, the 
left-wing, anti-austerity Greek political party that is now leading the 
government in Athens.


The European Central Bank is one of Greece’s main creditors, and it is 
part of the so-called troika of international organizations that are 
supervising the Greek bailout program that the government of Prime 
Minister Alexis Tsipras is trying to renegotiate. The central bank, 
along with the European Commission and the International Monetary Fund, 
is widely blamed for imposing austerity measures on countries that have 
needed bailouts.


Rosina Sfyridou, a German of Greek descent who lives in Frankfurt and 
was among a small group carrying a Syriza flag near the Main River at 
midday, said she wanted to fight for democracy and social justice, and 
not only in Greece.


“The troika is making life difficult,” she said. “Schools are closing. 
Greeks can’t get proper health care. I have family there; we’re closer 
to the problem.”


Panagiotis Tsianakas, another German of Greek descent, headed to a 
central square to hear a speech by a Syriza representative, Giorgos 
Chondros. “The European finance ministers are brushing democracy to the 
side,” Mr. Tsianakas said.


Antagonism has been growing between Greece and Germany, Athens’s biggest 
European lender. “Our battle in Greece is a battle for all Europeans,” 
Mr. Chondros told a cheering crowd of about 8,000. “We need a European 
organization against austerity, and that organization has started here 
today.”


Employees of the central bank began moving into the new headquarters, 
which cost about $1.27 billion, near the end of last year. Away from 
downtown Frankfurt on a park-like site overlooking the Main River, the 
600-foot-high tinted-glass tower is a more potent symbol of the central 
bank’s power than the generic gray high-rise in central Frankfurt that 
it previously occupied.


The inauguration ceremony was scaled back in response to the protests. 
In addition, some European Central Bank employees were encouraged to 
work from home on Wednesday, though a central bank spokesman said the 
institution was “fully operational.”


Mario Draghi, president of the bank, acknowledged in a speech 
inaugurating the headquarters that European unity was being strained and 
that “people are going through very difficult times.”


As a European Union institution “that has played a central role 
throughout the crisis, the E.C.B. has become a focal point for those 
frustrated with this situation,” Mr. Draghi said in prepared remarks. 
“This may not be a fair charge — our action has been aimed precisely at 
cushioning the shocks suffered by the economy. But as the central bank 
of the whole euro area, we must listen very carefully to what all our 
citizens are saying.”


Since 2012, activists have occasionally handed out leaflets in front of 
the central bank’s 

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DemocracyNow! March 19
http://www.democracynow.org/2015/3/19/blockupy_thousands_protest_in_frankfurt_calling

Blockupy: Thousands Protest in Frankfurt Calling on Eurozone to
Dismantle Laboratory for Austerity

Watch Naomi Klein Address Blockupy Protest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRji3E0JKvs

 We speak with German climate justice activist Tadzio Mueller, who
took part in the Blockupy protest.
. . .
TADZIO MUELLER: Well, thank you very much for having me on the show.
The first thing to say is that there were two things that happened
yesterday. There were blockades of the opening of the new ECB tower
block.
. . .
So that’s what happened in the morning, and that’s where you saw the
major clashes, that also produced the images you probably saw on TV.
And then, in the afternoon, there was a rally and a major march. And
if there were maybe 5,000 or 6,000 at the blockades in the morning,
the rally and the march gathered up to about 30,000 people. So those
were kind of two sort of separate events. And the mood at the first
event, the blockades, was definitely very confrontational. But the
mood in the afternoon was very different. It was very colorful. It was
sunny. Folks were there from all over the continent. There was a real
sense of a Europeanization of the struggle from below against the
austerity diktats from above.
. . .
TADZIO MUELLER: . . .
When the Greeks voted for a different government, Syriza,
anti-austerity government, a few months ago, it became very clear that
European elites had a fight on their hand, whereas for many years it
seemed that they were able to push these austerity projects from the
top without much coordinated resistance or without resistance that
managed to occupy certain levers of power. When, on the 25th of
January, the Greek people voted for an anti-austerity government for
the first time, which at this point enjoys 70 to 80 percent support in
the Greek population, despite being in a very difficult situation—when
this new government, this new hope, came to power in Greece, European
elites realized now they had a real fight on their hands. And they’ve
been trying to strangle this new hope in Greece ever since.

And this is why the protests at the European Central Bank yesterday
were so tense and also filled with rage, because, on the one hand, you
had this supposedly grandiose opening of a new institution that says,
Hey, we’re, you know, the sort of pinnacle of European integration
and of European capitalism, and at the same time, you’ve got this
massive assault on social movements, on workers, in the entire
European—in the entire eurozone, and especially the European
periphery, and there, foremost Greece. And that’s essentially the
connection that drove folks yesterday in large numbers to come and
protest and blockade the ECB in Frankfurt.

AMY GOODMAN: And so, in this last minute we have left, Tadzio, explain
what happened, the people who were injured and also the cars that were
set afire.

TADZIO MUELLER: OK. Now, there were these blockades, and it is true
that folks from the blockades were clearly out to engage the police.
And I think we can say that this actually—it’s understandable why
there is this rage. If you look at Greece, you’ve got youth
unemployment of 50 percent, you’ve got increase in suicides. It’s a
terrible situation. And folks in Europe were trying to express their
rage at the evacuation of democracy on the continent. However,
expressing rage is not the same as having a political strategy to
change the things that are actually causing the suffering that is
causing your rage. So, actually, there was a lot of rage in the street
in the morning, but in the afternoon and evening, that had been
transformed into a sense of hope, into a sense that we can lead a
European struggle from below against these institutions and maybe win.
So my hope would be, let’s not just focus on the burning cars, because
in fact what we need to focus on is the ECB and their policies,
because they’re burning the continent.
. . .


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 NY Times, Mar. 19 2015
 Germans Protest European Austerity Measures
 By RHEA WESSEL and JACK EWING

 FRANKFURT — Protesters set cars on fire and clashed with police officers on
 Wednesday as they marched toward the European Central Bank’s new
 headquarters in a demonstration against austerity and capitalism that took
 on a markedly more heated tone than past protests.
 . . .

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[Marxism] 10,000 protest austerity @new ECB bldg. in Frankfurt

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An expected 10,000 people are taking part in protests in Frankfurt,
Germany on Wednesday over the opening of new headquarters for the
European Central Bank. The protests, arranged under the ‘Blocupy’
banner, chose the opening due to the bank’s role in the implication of
austerity policies across the continent, particularly in Greece.

“We want the austerity politics to end,” Ulrich Wilken, one of the
organisers, told Reuters. “We want a loud but peaceful protest,” he
said.


ECB's Celebration of Its New $1.4 Billion Tower Is Spoiled by Protesters
by Angela Cullen and Jeff Black

(Bloomberg) -- Anti-austerity protesters seeking to spoil the
inauguration of the European Central Bank’s new headquarters in
Frankfurt’s east end set vehicles alight, erected barricades and left
a trail of destruction across the city.

Police deployed water cannons to restore calm and keep the
demonstrators at bay in the area surrounding the 1.3 billion-euro
($1.4 billion) tower, after setting up barbed wire and road blocks.
. . .
Protesters said police deployed tear gas.

“We were moving toward the ECB and then tear gas cartridges were fired
from the police lines,” said Martin Dolzer, a member of the Left party
from Hamburg. The smoke “spread over a broad area; it was a very
strong irritant.”

Police are equipped with pepper spray and it’s possible they used the
substance in defense, said Rogalski.
. . .
“In the past, we protested against things like the rescue of the banks
in Europe,” Werner Renz, a representative of protest group Attac, said
on Tuesday. “The focus of our protests this year is on Greece. We need
more of Athens in Europe and less of Berlin. There is no way Greece
can repay all its debt. The situation can’t be solved by austerity
alone.”
. . .
Dozens of groups, including Syriza followers, are joining in the
rally. The demonstrators planned to blockade the area around the ECB
in “transnational actions of civil disobedience,” Blockupy said on its
website. The ECB issued guidance to staff on dressing to avoid drawing
attention.

“Expansive monetary policy serves the financial markets and the
wealthy first and foremost,” Sahra Wagenknecht, a lawmaker for the
Left party in the Bundestag in Berlin who will address the crowds,
said in an e-mail. “The money doesn’t reach the real economy as
investment.”

A rally outside the city hall at the Roemerberg, Frankfurt’s medieval
square, is scheduled to run from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., ending with a march
through the city to the Alte Oper near Deutsche Bank AG’s headquarters
into the evening. Some public transport services will be disrupted or
diverted, and traffic will be rerouted.
. . .
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-18/ecb-besieged-by-protests-as-draghi-celebrates-1-4-billion-tower


‘Blockupy’ Protests Break Out in Frankfurt as ECB Opens New Building
ECB President Mario Draghi defends bank policies
by Natalia Drozdiak and Sarah Sloat
Wall Street Journal
March 18, 2015

FRANKFURT—Violence erupted in parts of Germany’s financial capital
Wednesday alongside demonstrations timed to disrupt the inauguration
of the European Central Bank’s new headquarters.

Thousands of activists descended on Frankfurt to protest against
austerity, some of whom set cars alight or shattered glass near the
new building. By noon, police had detained about 350 protesters and
arrested five, a police spokeswoman said. At least 90 police and
firefighters were injured by stones or tear gas.

“We’re doing this on the day of the inauguration because there’s
nothing to celebrate,” said Hannah Eberle, a spokeswoman for Blockupy,
the group behind the protests. “There’s a crisis in Europe, especially
southern Europe, and people are being asked to tighten their belts and
we don’t accept that.”

Blockupy announced plans in advance to gather around the ECB’s new
building—which cost more than €1 billion ($1.06 billion) to build,
compared with an initial estimate of €850 million—to obstruct streets
with sit-ins and blockades. The anti-austerity group planned speeches
and music aimed at disrupting the inauguration, where ECB President
Mario Draghi spoke.

One man held up a sign that read “ECB Monetary Fascism.” Another sign
read “Caviar for All.”

Police erected barriers near the ECB building in Frankfurt’s Ostend
district while city authorities suspended some public transport.
Police said it was difficult to estimate how many people attended
Wednesday’s demonstrations, but about 10,000 gathered in the Römer
square in the afternoon Ahead of the demonstrations, police planned to
deploy around 8,000 officers.

The activists, joined by representatives from leftist political
parties including 

[Marxism] Thousands Protest Hospital Closures and Medical Staff Layoffs in Moscow

[Thomas Campbell via Marxism]

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Re: [Marxism] Thousands Protest Hospital Closures and Medical Staff Layoffs in Moscow

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great article
anyone got more on the organizations involved, how to support? (issues are
obviously similar to healthcare facility closures and layoffs elsewhere,
including the US)

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