[Marxism] teleSUR: New Leftist 'Freedom Brigade' to Join Kurdish Forces in Rojava
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[Marxism] Orange is the new black/freakonomics/abortion/neomalthusianism
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. * Was just watching the first episode of OiB on Netflix and was struck by the scene where one inmate lectures the stereotypical evangelical white trash prisoner on the virtue of aborting children that are destined to be poor, drug-addicted, and violent criminals (literally citing the book Freakonomics as her source) since it reduced violent crime in The US over the long term. I was wondering whether anyone on the left has responded in kind to this neomalthusian argument? (Not abortion or the right to abortion - which I support - but this libertarianesque argument about sparing us from the malevolent, brutish offspring of the poor _ 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] Mystifying 'the value chain'
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * A pervasive economic euphemism is 'the value chain'. This neatly glides over what is meant by 'value' and simply notes, as far as statistics allow, how much each part of the initial development, production and marketing of the overall cycle takes of the final selling price of the good that is sold. The overwhelming lesson is this: to . . . . full at: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/06/14/mystifying-the-value-chain/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Greece talks: Troika turn screws in new bid to break SYRIZA
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[Marxism] An observation by Adam Smith
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Re: [Marxism] Orange is the new black/freakonomics/abortion/neomalthusianism
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. * check a website called The Shame Project on Levitt. On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 9:01 PM, Shalva Eliava via Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu wrote: POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Was just watching the first episode of OiB on Netflix and was struck by the scene where one inmate lectures the stereotypical evangelical white trash prisoner on the virtue of aborting children that are destined to be poor, drug-addicted, and violent criminals (literally citing the book Freakonomics as her source) since it reduced violent crime in The US over the long term. I was wondering whether anyone on the left has responded in kind to this neomalthusian argument? (Not abortion or the right to abortion - which I support - but this libertarianesque argument about sparing us from the malevolent, brutish offspring of the poor _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/michael.perelman3%40gmail.com -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.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] Guatemalans taking their democracy back
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Re: [Marxism] teleSUR: New Leftist 'Freedom Brigade' to Join Kurdish Forces in Rojava
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. * as I just commented on a facebook share of this story: ... and when they're done they'll turn their guns on Assad and Netanyahu... oh, sorry, I got started drinking earlier than usual tonight. Communist my ass. On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 8:45 PM, Joseph Catron via Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu wrote: POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * An International armed group has been formed in Rojava, the Kurdish region in north of Syria, called Internationalist Freedom Brigade consisting of communist and leftist fighters from several countries around the world ... http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/New-Leftist-Freedom-Brigade-to-Join-Kurdish-Forces-in-Rojava-20150613-0023.html -- Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað. _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/acpollack2%40gmail.com _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] The Stuff No ONe Talks About
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[Marxism] Fwd: Judge orders University of Illinois to release Steven Salaita emails | The Electronic Intifada
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[Marxism] Fwd: What White Americans Don't Know and Maybe Never Will | Richard Greener
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Re: [Marxism] Marxism Digest, Vol 140, Issue 25
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-- I'd like to unsubscribe, but your system rejects my efforts. I just need to stop the flood of daily emails from many sources. I don't mind getting your emails. I just can't keep up. Please unsubscribe me. Thanks. Mike Murphy On 6/12/2015 2:00 PM, marxism-requ...@lists.csbs.utah.edu wrote: Send Marxism mailing list submissions to marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/listinfo/marxism or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to marxism-requ...@lists.csbs.utah.edu You can reach the person managing the list at marxism-ow...@lists.csbs.utah.edu When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of Marxism digest... POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Today's Topics: 1. Re: Vlad Kolesnikov: A Real Russian Hero for Russia Day (A.R. G) 2. Erdogan?s humbling is good for Turkey (Ken Hiebert) 3. Fwd: Flakes Alive! - The Baffler (Louis Proyect) 4. Jerry Seinfeld and the hyper-vigilant left-wing outrage machine (Dennis Brasky) -- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2015 15:30:37 +0200 From: A.R. G amithrgu...@gmail.com To: Andrew Pollack acpolla...@gmail.com,Activists and scholars in Marxist tradition marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Subject: Re: [Marxism] Vlad Kolesnikov: A Real Russian Hero for Russia Day Message-ID: CAKbLk6W4yXvZU9rGiWCPM5ZMk+4pWFeDYnbb=vuv46juruj...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Uhh, excuse me, why is MarxMail being used to send out fascist/Neo-Nazi propaganda? This is straight from Svoboda, the far-right Ukrainian party. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svoboda_(political_party)#Allegations_of_neo-nazism_and_political_extremism - Amith On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 2:54 PM, Andrew Pollack via Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu wrote: POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * A hero indeed! We should post and tweet his photo, preferably one with the Ukraine t-shirt, and pair it with our own heroes (i.e. resisters to US wars). Wear it to your next UNAC/IAC event! On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 4:38 AM, Thomas Campbell via Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu wrote: POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * https://therussianreader.wordpress.com/2015/06/12/vlad-kolesnikov-a-real-russian-hero-for-russia-day/ ?At the military enlistment office, I turned on the Ukrainian national anthem?: 17-year-old Vlad Kolesnikov talks about his decision to combat Putin?s propaganda Dmitry Volchek June 10, 2015 svoboda.org Hundreds of people have been writing to Vlad Kolesnikov, a 17-year-old technical college student from Podolsk. They have been writing with offers of assistance and shelter, and to thank him and advise him to be more careful. ?I cannot express in words the emotions I feel reading Facebook,? says Vlad, his voice trembling with emotion. ?There has been so much support from strangers, it is simply incredible.? Vlad has acquired a lot of friends on the Internet, but his own grandfather, a former KGB officer, has condemned him. At the technical college where he studied he was assaulted. (Vlad asked not to write that he had been beaten up: ?It was only a split lip, a couple of bruises, a couple of blows to the head, and three drops of blood.?) And now the police have taken an interest in him. And all because Vlad Kolesnikov not only does not hide his political views but has also decided to declare them openly. Vlad Kolesnikov: Putin sits with his pack of criminals and runs the country with the aid of powerful propaganda. This is my subjective opinion. Maybe I am wrong, but I believe it is true. You know the
Re: [Marxism] Marxism Digest, Vol 140, Issue 25
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * On 6/13/15 12:31 PM, Mike Murphy via Marxism wrote: Hi, Folks-- I'd like to unsubscribe, but your system rejects my efforts. I just need to stop the flood of daily emails from many sources. I don't mind getting your emails. I just can't keep up. Please unsubscribe me. Thanks. Mike Murphy Just a reminder. You can keep up with Marxmail without being a subscriber by bookmarking this: http://www.marxmail.org/maillist.html _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] ARGENTINA: The Scope of a New Strike
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. * Source: http://www.laizquierdadiario.com/ARGENTINA-The-Scope-of-a-New-Strike *Spanish version from La Izquierda Diario http://www.laizquierdadiario.com/Alcances-y-limites-de-un-nuevo-paro-contundente* *See more pictures of the strike http://www.laizquierdadiario.com/El-9J-de-los-trabajadores-y-el-sindicalismo-combativo* As it happened on March 31, last Tuesday, June 9, the Confederation of Transportation called on all the unions to strike. The confederation, which leads the unions and represents the opposition to the government for its ability to paralyze the entire country, had asked the five main unions to joined the strike. The addition of the CGT, CGT (Azul y Blanca) and the CTA turned the measure into a national strike. In a compelling demonstration, the transportation strike and the roadblocks created by the Left and combative sectors were key to provoking similar stands everywhere in the country. The main interruption was caused by the stopping of public transportation; trains, busses, subways and airplanes. Gas stations and freeway tolls were closed. Truckers paralyzed all the loading transportation: garbage collection, transportation flow, banking operations, gas, beverage, dairy products, etc. The participation of the health and administrative sectors was more prominent within the provinces (outside of Buenos Aires), where ATE has a lot of weight. The teachers strike was felt in cities such as Rosario, La Plata, and Entre Rios. In many provinces the roadblock guaranteed that even workers that are not unionized could join in the strike. Evaluating the aftermath of the strike, Hugo Moyano (CGT leader) declared, “there was a wide-reaching participation participation” that “showed disagreement” from part of the workers “directed to the policies implemented by the government.” But, even considering this achievement, the fifth strike against Cristina Kirchner was somehow smaller compared to the strike of March 31. The bureaucracy of Union Leaders Despite the lack of preparation from part of the organizers, the strike was powerful. These CGT leaders did not offer support to workers in conflict that suffer from layoffs, like workers of WorldColor, Cresta Roja or Coca-Cola Femsa. To these leaders it is important to get ready and to show strength positioning themselves alongside those seeking to replace Cristina Kirchner. Since the strike of March 31, they roam the offices of political bosses. Thus, Moyano expressed appreciation for the neoliberal Mauricio Macri and said that there are sectors already working to achieve a political and social life with an eventual national Macri-led government and considered it necessary to leave behind the clashes. The last straw was the declaration of Luis Barrionuevo, who shamefully criticized the lack of dialogue with the government comparing it to the era of the military dictatorship, where we strike, fight ... but we were able to talk and negotiate.” Fighting unionism and the Left Leftist organizations and militant unionism raised their voices on the roadblocks for the workers’ demands, giving the strike great significance. The roadblock at Panamericana was led by the workers of Worldcolor (formerly Donnelley), Lear, Kraft, Pepsico, Cadbury (Kraft Victoria), Printpack, Siderca, aeronautical workers, many other factories of the northern region of Buenos Aires and the the PTS (Socialist Workers’ Party). Ruben Matu, leader of Lear’s workers and PTS candidate for the FIT, proposed an independent political expression completely detached from the capitalists, unlike the bureaucrats who want to channel workers’ anger into the austerity proposals of candidates such as Scioli, Macri or Massa. Ruben Matu said that at the roadblocks were the “workers that today are taking part in the major struggles under way, adding the need to raise an independent voice away from the bureaucracy calling to the strike, in order to fight against the income tax, but also against wage ceilings, job insecurity, and the rights of women.” Nicholas Del Caño, national deputy and presidential candidate for the PTS (FIT), took part at the roadblock in Panamericana, responding to the cowardly remarks of Anibal Fernandez, the chief of presidential cabinet. Fernandez had appealed to a phrase often used to refer ironically to picketing workers who are accompanied by the Left: The essential is invisible to the Trotskyists. Del Caño replied: It seems that Aníbal Fernández is not aware of the problems faced by the 280 workers at Worldcolor, fighting the closing and emptying of the factory being conducted by the employer; or the workers in the former Donnelley, demanding the
[Marxism] Argentina marches for women's lives
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. * Source: http://www.laizquierdadiario.com/Argentina-marches-for-women-s-lives *English version from Socialist Worker http://socialistworker.org/2015/06/11/argentina-marches-for-womens-lives* *Spanish version from La Izquierda Diario http://www.laizquierdadiario.com/Cientos-de-miles-por-NiUnaMenos* Shocked by a spate of high-profile crimes against women, including the murder of a kindergarten teacher in front of her students by an estranged husband on April 15 in Córdoba, a growing movement in Argentina is demanding an end to violence against women. According to official statistics widely criticized for systemic underreporting of such incidents, domestic violence takes the life of at least one woman a day in Argentina, and rates are even higher in neighboring states. In response, the hashtag #NiUnaMenos (Not one less woman) has gone viral on Twitter, with Lionel Messi, one of the best soccer player on the planet, lending his voice on Twitter: We join all Argentineans today in shouting out loud #NiUnaMenos. In an article published in La Izquierda Diario (The Daily Left) from Argentina, Andrea D’Atri and Eduardo Castilla report from the June 4 mass demonstrations in Buenos Aires and the solidarity actions around the country and the region. THE MAIN mobilization in front of the National Congress in Buenos Aires, Argentina, was gigantic, but it also surpassed all expectations in more than 70 cities all across Argentina. And that’s not all—coordinated protests took place from Chile to Uruguay to Mexico on Thursday, June 4. In downtown Buenos Aires, the march grew so massive that it was almost impossible to move, and participants had to wait their turn to take even one step forward. Estimates range between 300,000 and 500,000, making it one of the biggest protests in recent history. At 6:30 p.m., even as thousands began to leave the Plaza de los Dos Congresos, there were still just as many people trying to get into the square. Just going one block could take up to half an hour. People covered almost the entire plaza, but also poured out along Avenida de Mayo, down Avenida 9 de Julio, and filled up several blocks of side streets in all directions. The mobilization had a broad character. It was very different than the march that took place on February 18 in support of the prosecutors in the Alberto Nisman case. That march saw the upper-middle class in the streets in opposition to left-of-center President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner’s national government, but the upper strata were absent on June 4. This time, the majority was a multi-gender crowd of young students and workers (as well as some professionals), many wearing school or work uniforms and coming straight from their factories, offices, hospitals and schools. Feminist, labor, student, social and community organizations turned out in force alongside many people who came to march as individuals. Dozens of busses and vans were parked, which showed that many people had organized themselves from the surrounding towns and suburbs to get the march. And it was obvious that for many of them, marching in Buenos Aires was a new experience because so many had to ask for directions to this or that street. All of this added up to an enormous multitude rejecting the epidemic of murder and violence against women. In a special area in front of the main stage, families hung photos around their necks of slain female relatives. Their faces showed a powerful mix of sadness and pain, mingled with the joy of being surrounded by the solidarity of hundreds of thousands of people across the country. Let’s try to march over there, said one girl to another around 6 p.m. But just then, a column from the Public Employees Association (Asociación Trabajadores del Estado—ATE) began to enter the plaza. So the two young friends were stuck in the middle of the street, hemmed in by the crowd. A few minutes later, on the other side of the plaza, the railroad workers marched in. Meanwhile, the contingent from the pro-Kirchner youth group La Cámpora appeared, headed by Florencio Randazzo (Minister of Interior and Transportation) and Augustín Rossi (Minister of Defense), among other ranking government officials and bigwigs. [image: -] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - VARIOUS POLITICIANS from the bosses’ political parties were out, making a big display of their official staffs. For example, Dulce Granados, a deputy in the National Assembly and the wife of the Buenos Aires Province Minister of Security, showed off a little heart drawn on her right hand while surrounded by dozens of supporters waving placards emblazoned with her own name! The government threw its support
[Marxism] Fwd: Blood Ties | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist
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. * Recently I received a query from someone who follows my blog: What does Marxism say about blood ties? My understanding is that Marx and Engels thought the family was a product of capitalism and that it would wither away when capitalism destroyed itself of its own internal contradictions. I’ve always had a problem with that. Of course, the specific form that the family takes in capitalism is unique to this economic system, but to me, the primacy of blood ties supersedes all else, and if capitalism should fall, there will always be the reality of blood kin. Go anywhere in the world and you’ll see this: kinship is all. Does Marxism disagree? Since others might have the same sorts of questions, I am posting a public reply. http://louisproyect.org/2015/06/13/blood-ties/ _ 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] MRZine's latest crapola tweets
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. * You would think by now that I would be inured to the insanity that appears on this website on a daily basis. I guess that outrage trumps habituation. Yoshie, as you must know by now, is an ardent fan of Bashar al-Assad. Today, she posted a couple of tweets that would lead the innocent reader to believe that Turkey was in cahoots with ISIS. One of them states that Turkey is supplying electricity to a Syrian town that is under ISIS control. To start with, this has been reported in Zaman, a Gülenist newspaper. For those who haven't been following Turkish politics closely, Fethullah Gülen is a bitter enemy of the AKP. So citing Zaman is not quite the same thing as citing the Guardian. But even if that is true, what is the political demand that MRZine would put forward if the idiot in charge could think in political terms? Shut off the electricity? What would that mean for hospitals? For people relying on pumps to get fresh water? For households plunged into darkness? Decades from now when historians look back on this period, they will have a lot of trouble trying to understand how the left lost its mind. My advice to them, long after I am in my grave, is to study the sordid career of Yoshie Furuhashi and the bosses of MR--John Mage and John Bellamy Foster--who gave her this job. _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Fwd: Days of Promise and Danger: an in-depth look at the recent Turkish election | LeftEast
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. * There can be no doubt about who has benefited the most from the AKP’s economic regime: the 1%. The top percentile now owns 54% of the nation’s wealth, up from 39% upon the party’s ascension to power in 2002. With growth so dependent on speculative transactions in real estate and the financial sector, the share of the Turkish economy captured by wages has fallen in this period. Yet the AKP has been able to cut off just enough of an expanding pie—largely by taxing middle-income wages and further abrogating the labor rights of the more established proletariat—to keep many at the very bottom from complete ruination. Though their subordinate position within the neoliberal economy has not changed for the better, large sections of Turkey’s informal proletariat have been satisfied enough by the AKP’s modest redistribution to continue voting for the ruling party. The AKP’s relentless campaign to portray any and all opponents of its political economy as atheist, coup-plotting foreign agents is not the only thing keeping many working-class votes in the ruling party column, though it is not a negligible factor either. Going into this election, the imbalance in media coverage of the four campaigns was astonishing, with some mainstream TV channels giving the AKP an effective monopoly on screen-time. Unwanted reportage, like Cumhuriyet editor Can Dündar’s disclosure of likely Turkish weapons shipments to Islamist rebels in Syria, have been hit with publication bans and those brave enough to resist now face threats of prison time: in Dündar’s case a life sentence! Meanwhile there has been a long string of attacks on HDP offices and activists, culminating in the June 5 bombing of a Diyarbakır rally, which claimed three lives. The intent, it seems, has been to reawaken the association of the Kurds with terrorism, by making them its target… full: http://www.criticatac.ro/lefteast/tk-election-june7/ _ 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] Left Socialist Blog Charlie Hebdo. Lettre aux escrocs de l’islamophobie qui font le jeu des racists. Charb. Review Article.
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. * I rather preferred this parody of it, which was actually funny: http://www.horadopovo.com.br/2015/01Jan/3317-30-01-2015/CAPA/FOTOScapa/p1a1.jpg But it seems that the French government, heroic defenders of free speech that they are, don't agree with me: http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/france-begins-jailing-people-ironic-comments On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 8:25 AM, A.R. G via Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu wrote: Check out this awesome satire y'all: http://i1239.photobucket.com/albums/ff513/CharlieHBryan/CharlieHebdoCover_zps22fa07dd.jpg -- Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað. _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Fwd: The star of Jurassic World isn’t T-Rex. It’s Malcolm | Philip Oltermann | Comment is free | The Guardian
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 real star of the Jurassic Park films was not the T-Rex, brachiosaurus or velociraptor, but Malcolm: the sardonic, black-clad philosopher-fool of this morality tale, who sees from the beginning that the park is an accident waiting to happen – a scientist sex-god who roamed the screens of this Earth long before everyone went mad for Dr Brian Cox and “geek chic”. Michael Crichton, author of the original novel, and Steven Spielberg realised this, and elevated him to the status of protagonist for the sequel, which opens with another palaeontological Easter egg. When we expect the camera to cut to a roaring dinosaur, we instead get a shot of Malcolm yawning on the New York subway. Malcolm, you see, is a chaos theorist, and the Greek word for chaos also means “yawn”. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/12/jurassic-world-t-rex-malcolm-jeff-goldblum-dinosaurs-chaos-theory --- Before saying anything about this retread, I should state for the record that I have a soft spot for some of Spielberg’s work, particularly “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” and “ET”. I also found “Jurassic Park” entertaining but less so for the rampaging Tyrannosaurus Rex than for Jeff Goldblum’s character Dr. Ian Malcolm who had such memorable lines: “What’s so great about discovery? It’s a violent, penetrative act that scars what it explores. What you call discovery, I call the rape of the natural world.” (I wonder what Edward Abbey would have made of this film.) http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/06/12/mindless-entertainment-while-awaiting-the-next-mass-extinction/ _ 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. * 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
[Marxism] Greece defies creditors’ demands for decisions on reform
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * FT, June 13 2015 Greece defies creditors’ demands for decisions on reform Peter Spiegel in Brussels and Michael Hunter in London ATHENS, GREECE - JUNE 11: Supporters of the Greek Communist party's labor union PAME take part in an anti-austerity rally at Syntagma square on June 11, 2015 in Athens, Greece. Greek unions have held protests in Athens and other cities in Greece against the prospect of new austerity cuts demanded by the country's international creditors. Athens insisted on Friday that it was still negotiating with its creditors to unlock €7.2bn in desperately needed bailout aid, but showed little sign of acquiescing to their demands for concessions on economic reform. A day after the International Monetary Fund pulled its officials out of talks and EU leaders said it was decision time for Greece, Athens said it had submitted a new plan that included debt restructuring but excluded cuts to pensions, elements rejected by bailout monitors earlier this week. According to a Greek government official, the plan should also include “low” budget surplus targets this year and next; creditors have sought surpluses of 1 per cent of economic output this year and 2 per cent in 2016. Those levels are significantly below the current bailout programme’s targets, but higher than Athens has sought. Negotiations between Athens and its creditors have ground to a halt just days before a critical meeting of eurozone finance ministers next week that officials believe may be the final chance for a deal to be struck to avoid a Greek default. The IMF on Thursday said that it had pulled out its negotiating team because long-standing differences between the two sides were not being discussed. Senior EU officials signalled they were no longer willing to compromise. The Greek government plan on Friday brushed aside the latest warnings and blamed the IMF pull-out on “an internal dispute” among bailout monitors. Athens said it would be sending top officials to Brussels on Saturday to present its counter-proposals. But its renewed demand for debt restructuring is likely to be met with dismissal from creditors. Although some eurozone officials believe a promise of future debt relief could be part of a final deal, they have repeatedly insisted a writedown would not be part of the current negotiations over the €7.2bn aid tranche. In addition, the IMF has continued to insist that pension cuts totalling 1 per cent of gross domestic output be included in any deal, arguing that Greece’s pension system is unsustainable. While Athens has resisted such cuts, citing already-impoverished pensioners, creditors have asked Greek officials to find cuts elsewhere if it wants to avoid such pension reductions for the poor. Greece’s creditors have become increasingly exasperated at its negotiating strategy in recent days. During a meeting of eurozone finance ministry officials in Bratislava, several governments made clear they no longer supported a follow-on bailout once the current Greek programme ends this month, although the current rescue could conceivably be extended by several months. The warnings from creditors that negotiations are at an end sent financial stocks on the Athens exchange tumbling on Friday while investors also dumped Greek government debt. The euro edged back up after earlier pressure, rising by 0.2 per cent to $1.12, shrugging off comments by Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, who made a rare intervention in the currency markets. Ms Merkel said a single currency that was “too strong” was making it harder for eurozone countries such as Spain and Ireland to reform. Friday’s sharp declines took shares in Greece’s biggest banks down across the board. Bank of Piraeus fell 13.4 per cent and National Bank of Greece, one of the biggest private holders of Greek government debt, fell 11 per cent. The Athens General index was down 5.9 per cent in mid-afternoon trading. Yields on Greek sovereign bonds rose as investors flew from the debt, with benchmark 10-year debt costs rising by 4.7 per cent to yield 11.3 per cent. Athens took the IMF to task for its decision to pull out of the talks, insisting that its withdrawal was due as much to conflict with Greece’s other two bailout monitors — the European Central Bank and the European Commission — as with Greece. Although the IMF has clashed with the commission, particularly on its insistence for pension cuts, those differences were largely set aside last week after the heads of the two institutions — Christine Lagarde at the IMF and Jean-Claude Juncker at the commission — hammered out a
[Marxism] Tsipras: difficult decision ahead but no election or referendum; looking for viable deal (3)
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. * 1) Greece's PM warns of 'difficult compromise' after default threat by Alex Pigman with Helene Colliopoulou in Athens Agence France Presse, June 13 http://news.yahoo.com/greek-counter-proposals-seek-avert-feared-default-051714551.html Brussels - Greek premier Alexis Tsipras warned Greece on Saturday to prepare for a difficult compromise with its EU-IMF creditors as his closest advisors delivered a last-chance proposal to avert a catastrophic default by Athens. . . . If we arrive at a viable accord, even if it is a difficult compromise, we will take up the challenge because our only criteria is to get out of the crisis, Tsipras was quoted as telling Greek officials late Friday in a government statement. In the clearest sign yet that major concessions by Athens may be on their way, Tsipras said: The decisions and how we handle them belong to us completely, despite their difficulty. Whatever needs to be done needs to be done quickly, deputy finance minister Dimitris Mardas told Skai TV in Athens. He predicted there would be a deal. A European source close to the negotiations told AFP that the meeting was underway with its resolution open-ended, and it would possibly take several days. Across the table from the Greeks were the three institutions responsible for overseeing their bailout, the second since 2010: the EU's Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund. The latter are the most pro-austerity of Greece's creditors. The urgency for a deal increased exponentially on Friday when Europe's top economic officials said they had for the first time ever discussed the prospects of Athens defaulting on its debts. In discussions, a default was mentioned as one of the scenarios that can happen when everything goes wrong, a eurozone official told AFP on condition of anonymity after talks in Bratislava Friday. The bombshell came a day after the IMF said it pulled its technical team from Brussels because it was dissatisfied with the state of the negotiations. The Athens stock market crashed 6 percent when news of the contingency plans emerged, and fears are high that markets could tumble further next week without signs of progress over the weekend. The long-running saga over Greece's refusal to agree on reforms demanded by its creditors is set to come to a head at a meeting of eurozone finance ministers in Luxembourg on Thursday. A deal to unlock the last payout of Greece's international bailout is needed by then to give national parliaments time to approve it before the bailout expires on June 30. Also on June 30, Greece faces a huge 1.6 billion euro payment to the IMF and a further 3.4 billion euros to the European Central Bank on July 20. Talk of a 'plan B' if Athens should miss payments has been a huge taboo among Greece's eurozone partners and the switching of gears is the first real sign that they are willing to walk away from the table. No specifics are known on what such a plan would look like, but on the Greek side Athens could see the introduction of capital controls, closure of banks, and the government issuing IOUs to keep the public sector financially viable. Asked if he thought the Europeans were bluffing, Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis said: I hope they are. I don't believe that any sensible European bureaucrat or politician will go down that road (of a Greek default), the outspoken Varoufakis told BBC radio. These drastic measures would also pave the way for an exit by Greece from the euro, but officials are for now ruling out that possibility. All efforts are on a resolution of the Greek crisis within the current programme, a German finance ministry spokesman said on Saturday. Key to the negotiation is two red lines that the Greek government has refused to cross since it came to power in January on a promise to end austerity: no to further pension reform as well as to a demand to increase VAT on electricity. 2) PM to ministers: no elections, no referendum regardless of talks outcome The Greek Prime Minister said that his government was willing to come to a painful compromise or 'say the big no' without new elections or a referendum. by Nikos Tsitsas Times of Change, Greece, June 13 http://www.thetoc.gr/eng/politics/article/pm-to-ministers-no-elections-no-referendum-regardless-of-talks-outcome Alexis Tsipras sought to end speculation over the possibility of elections or a referendum being held, in a meeting yesterday with cabinet ministers and officials tasked with leading Greece’s negotiations with its creditors. With the government facing a choice between accepting a painful deal with Greece’s lenders or the road of default
[Marxism] Fwd: News brief photos: Hundreds occupy intersection then march in protest of OPD killing of Demouria Hogg
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. * Forwarded Message Subject: News brief photos: Hundreds occupy intersection then march in protest of OPD killing of Demouria Hogg Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2015 14:42:26 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: jn...@igc.org My latest news brief and photos, Hundreds occupy intersection then march in protest of OPD killing of Demouria Hogg, are available for download at: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/06/13/18773429.php The addressees of this email and their respective publications are invited to use the news brief and my two photos in any form. They are copy commons. Publication of my news brief or photos by commercial for profit publications, without my express written consent, is prohibited. The two photos by Brooke Anderson are also copy commons. Below is the text of the news brief: Hundreds occupy intersection then march in protest of OPD killing of Demouria Hogg by Jonathan Nack June 13, 2015 OAKLAND - Hundreds of protesters occupied the intersection at Lakeshore Ave. and Lake Park Ave. in the Lake Merritt area of Oakland on Friday, June 12, 2015. Protesters surrounded a group of twelve whom had chained themselves to each other and sat down in the middle of the intersection. The protesters held the intersection for two hours before marching in the street for another two hours. Protesters called for justice for Demouria Hogg, who was killed by Oakland Police on Saturday, June 6, and for justice for all those whose lives that have been stolen by racist policing. The protesters defied Oakland Mayor Libby Schaff's ban on protesting in the street and protesting after dark. OPD was out in force, but stayed back from the large nonviolent crowd and re-routed traffic. The protest began with a vigil at 6 pm and ended around 10 pm. _ 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
