Re: [Marxism] Australian Socialist Alliance edges into the Putinite camp

2014-05-06 Thread Nick Fredman
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 06/05/2014, at 8:52 AM, Louis Proyect l...@panix.com wrote: But even more

Re: [Marxism] The Internet Revolution in Cuba

2013-06-04 Thread Nick Fredman
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Until now access has been limited to education and research centers, the five

[Marxism] School of Rebellion: radical ideas and activities for young people

2013-04-27 Thread Nick Fredman
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Radical young people, carers, educators and others will be interested in following

Re: [Marxism] why isn't there a British Syriza?

2013-03-12 Thread Nick Fredman
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 13/03/13 10:41 AM, Gary MacLennan gary.maclenn...@gmail.com wrote: Well Dan

Re: [Marxism] Pathfinder in Cuba

2013-03-10 Thread Nick Fredman
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I think it's far from the case that the US SWP has ever had some monopoly as the

Re: [Marxism] Hugo Chavez 1954-2013

2013-03-06 Thread Nick Fredman
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 7/03/13 5:35 AM, En Passant with John Passant en.pass...@bigpond.com wrote:

Re: [Marxism] Australian IST group uncritically backs the SWP CC

2013-02-18 Thread Nick Fredman
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 19/02/13 10:33 AM, Gary MacLennan gary.maclenn...@gmail.com wrote: Who is

Re: [Marxism] Redfriars - the Public School of the Socialist Workers Party

2013-02-17 Thread Nick Fredman
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 18/02/13 12:44 AM, Louis Proyect l...@panix.com wrote: I think the thing that

Re: [Marxism] The lure of Keynesianism

2013-02-07 Thread Nick Fredman
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 8/02/13 11:04 AM, Louis Proyect l...@panix.com wrote: Here's the Australian

Re: [Marxism] unity on the left in Australia

2013-02-06 Thread Nick Fredman
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 6/02/13 2:02 PM, Michael Fisher michaelfish...@gmail.com wrote: The case

Re: [Marxism] unity on the left in Australia

2013-02-05 Thread Nick Fredman
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 5/02/13 8:30 PM, Tom O'Lincoln suar...@alphalink.com.au wrote: Welll it's not

Re: [Marxism] Paul Le Blanc on the SWP crisis

2013-02-04 Thread Nick Fredman
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 5/02/13 12:45 AM, Anthony Hartin anthony.har...@desy.de wrote: I wasnt very

Re: [Marxism] Paul Le Blanc on the SWP crisis

2013-02-03 Thread Nick Fredman
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 4/02/13 12:56 AM, Louis Proyect l...@panix.com wrote: Ten years ago I was

Re: [Marxism] Paul Le Blanc on the SWP crisis

2013-02-03 Thread Nick Fredman
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 4/02/13 10:27 AM, Louis Proyect l...@panix.com wrote: Munckton Fredman, do

Re: [Marxism] Paul Le Blanc on the SWP crisis

2013-02-02 Thread Nick Fredman
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 2/02/13 8:01 PM, Ratbag Media ratbagra...@gmail.com wrote: How do you KNOW,

Re: [Marxism] Paul Le Blanc on the SWP crisis

2013-02-02 Thread Nick Fredman
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 2/02/13 10:33 AM, Louis Proyect l...@panix.com wrote: [Coey Oakley's article]

Re: [Marxism] [UCE] Re: Paul Le Blanc on the SWP crisis

2013-02-02 Thread Nick Fredman
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 3/02/13 5:38 PM, Alan Bradley alanb1...@yahoo.com wrote:

Re: [Marxism] Mangling the Issues: Callinicos, ³Leninism!#¼óŸuÈ and Austerity

2013-01-30 Thread Nick Fredman
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == full: http://www.thenorthstar.info/?p=5319 A generally good piece but on one

Re: [Marxism] From the crisis in the SWP via 1981 to Socialist Alternative in Brisbane today

2013-01-13 Thread Nick Fredman
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 13/01/13 6:29 AM, En Passant with John Passant en.pass...@bigpond.com wrote: A

Re: [Marxism] Venezuela

2012-12-11 Thread Nick Fredman
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 11/12/12 6:16 PM, Gregory Adler gregadler...@gmail.com wrote: I remember a

Re: [Marxism] Jill Meagher, Reclaim the Night and sectarianism (or not)

2012-12-01 Thread Nick Fredman
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 1/12/12 9:42 AM, Philip Ferguson philipfergus...@gmail.com quoted Jill

Re: [Marxism] Jill Meagher and sectarianism

2012-11-26 Thread Nick Fredman
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 26/11/12 11:37 AM, Philip Ferguson philipfergus...@gmail.com wrote: Nick

Re: [Marxism] Jill Meagher, Reclaim the Night and sectarianism

2012-11-23 Thread Nick Fredman
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 24/11/12 11:08 AM, Philip Ferguson philipfergus...@gmail.com wrote: Indeed,

Re: [Marxism] Cuban hurricane preparation

2012-11-05 Thread Nick Fredman
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Here's something with comparison to the US, Haiti, New Zealand earthquake etc, by

Re: [Marxism] Socialist Alliance's 10-point plan

2012-11-01 Thread Nick Fredman
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Public ownership and democratic control of energy, transport and vehicle industries

Re: [Marxism] Excise Labor's 'left'

2012-11-01 Thread Nick Fredman
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 31/10/12 9:29 PM, En Passant with John Passant en.pass...@bigpond.com wrote:

Re: [Marxism] Socialist Production in Venuzela

2012-10-21 Thread Nick Fredman
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 22/10/12 8:13 AM, audrada...@aol.com audrada...@aol.com wrote:

Re: [Marxism] Chavez re-elected

2012-10-09 Thread Nick Fredman
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 9/10/12 12:59 PM, Stuart Munckton stuartmunck...@gmail.com wrote: The article

Re: [Marxism] More on the Australian merger

2012-09-24 Thread Nick Fredman
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 25/09/12 8:29 AM, Marce Cameron marcecame...@gmail.com wrote: From John

Re: [Marxism] Re. RSP, Socialist Alternative

2012-09-16 Thread Nick Fredman
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Hi Marce, leaden sarcasm rather than subtle irony seems more the norm in internet

Re: [Marxism] How to read Zizek

2012-09-14 Thread Nick Fredman
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 15/09/12 6:03 AM, Lenin's Tomb leninstombb...@googlemail.com wrote: Regarding

Re: [Marxism] Why I am joining Socialist Alternative in Australia (Omar Hassan)

2012-09-13 Thread Nick Fredman
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 14/09/12 11:24 AM, Omar Hassan sherr...@gmail.com wrote: Our strategy has left

Re: [Marxism] Why I am joining Socialist Alternative in Australia

2012-09-12 Thread Nick Fredman
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 13/09/12 9:06 AM, En Passant with John Passant en.pass...@bigpond.com wrote:

Re: [Marxism] What's a good novel for 13-14 year olds?

2012-08-17 Thread Nick Fredman
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Not fiction but maybe one for the history teachers, and parents, and maybe for a

Re: [Marxism] What's a good novel for 13-14 year olds?

2012-08-16 Thread Nick Fredman
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 17/08/12 3:45 AM, Carl G. Estabrook galli...@illinois.edu wrote: Excellent

Re: [Marxism] What's a good novel for 13-14 year olds?

2012-08-16 Thread Nick Fredman
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 17/08/12 10:33 AM, Louis Proyect l...@panix.com wrote:

[Marxism] Australian Jews debate anti-refugee racism and Islamophobia of Australian Jewish News editor

2012-08-10 Thread Nick Fredman
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == There's a good summary of this controversy in Haaretz, see below. The Australian

Re: [Marxism] Doug Henwood tribute to Alexander Cockburn

2012-07-24 Thread Nick Fredman
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The audio interview linked to in this is great and the exuberance Henwood mentions

Re: [Marxism] Sam Farber and Cuba

2012-07-04 Thread Nick Fredman
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Mike G: The tendency is to blame every shortcoming of the Revolution on a

Re: [Marxism] Cuba and AIDS

2012-07-02 Thread Nick Fredman
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == John Wesley said: In the early years of AIDS, persons with that condition were

Re: [Marxism] Prometheus: the Tea Party in Space

2012-06-18 Thread Nick Fredman
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 19/06/12 3:34 AM, Louis Proyect l...@panix.com wrote: Jeff's review didn't

[Marxism] Pilger's ultra-left economism on same sex marriage debated at Green Left

2012-05-19 Thread Nick Fredman
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Green Left yesterday posted an article by John Pilger, 'Bradley Manning, not gay

Re: [Marxism] Victoria TAFE fights for survival

2012-05-08 Thread Nick Fredman
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Jamie Dougney, socialist economist, former Victorian president of the NTEU and

[Marxism] Victoria TAFE fights for survival

2012-05-05 Thread Nick Fredman
, May 5, 2012 By Nick Fredman, Melbourne As part of savage budget cuts, the Victorian Coalition government has slashed $300 million over four years of funding for the provider of public technical and further education, the state¹s 18 TAFE institutes that teach about 400,000 students a year

Re: [Marxism] Samuel Bowles on his firing from Harvard

2012-04-18 Thread Nick Fredman
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Patrick Bond pb...@mail.ngo.za wrote: But the other old question is what happens

Re: [Marxism] Wither the Greens? and Broad Marxism Conference

2012-04-15 Thread Nick Fredman
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 16/04/12 8:12 AM, Alan Bradley alanb1...@yahoo.com wrote: I just wrote the

[Marxism] Victorian government attempts to censor nurses' union Facebook page

2012-03-01 Thread Nick Fredman
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == My partner, a midwife at a Melbourne hospital, is a member of the union waging the

Re: [Marxism] Don't moan, organise

2011-12-05 Thread Nick Fredman
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Ed seems to think this article in regard to what it says about the far left is an

Re: [Marxism] Video of nurses and midwives Respect Our Work rally, Melbourne

2011-11-27 Thread Nick Fredman
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Ed Lewis' contribution to the fight in the Victorian public sector: Potemkin

Re: [Marxism] Video of nurses and midwives Respect Our Work rally, Melbourne

2011-11-26 Thread Nick Fredman
workers, which can be downloaded from http://socialist- alliance.wikispaces.com/file/view/VicPublicSectorPetition.pdf/278878872/VicPublicSectorPetition.pdf On Fri Nov 25 21:56 , Nick Fredman nick.fred...@iinet.net.au sent: http://socialistalliancemelbourne.blogspot.com/2011/11/anf

[Marxism] Video of nurses and midwives Respect Our Work rally, Melbourne

2011-11-25 Thread Nick Fredman
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[Marxism] Victorian nurses and midwives defy bans on industrial action

2011-11-21 Thread Nick Fredman
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == A mass meeting yesterday affirmed a very important challenge to Labor's

Re: [Marxism] Obama visit to Australia is about guns, money and racism

2011-11-18 Thread Nick Fredman
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Ed Lewis: Thanks to Peter Boyle for explaining that Obama's visit was about

Re: [Marxism] Obama visit to Australia is about guns, money and racism

2011-11-17 Thread Nick Fredman
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Ed Lewis: Thanks to Peter Boyle for the Stuff Just About Everyone Already Knows.

Re: [Marxism] Qantas and left media (was Re: Occupy Brisbane)

2011-11-05 Thread Nick Fredman
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Rose: describe internal and external critics of their political strategy or

[Marxism] Electric cars (was re: Socialist Party of Ontario)

2011-11-02 Thread Nick Fredman
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Rod Holt: The bottom line is that until the whole electrical generating system is

[Marxism] Audio of interview with Alex Mitchell

2011-10-27 Thread Nick Fredman
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Alex Mitchell's long career in mainstream journalism in Australia and the UK was

Re: [Marxism] Did Quackery Finish Off Steve Jobs?

2011-10-25 Thread Nick Fredman
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Paul Flewers: To describe the sorts of things to which Jobs was resorting for his

Re: [Marxism] Is the drum circle about to destroy OWS?

2011-10-25 Thread Nick Fredman
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I had a friend who was a pretty good rock drummer and percussionist and who I used

[Marxism] Successful coal seam gas campus divestment campaign

2011-10-16 Thread Nick Fredman
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == This report on what sounds like an excellent campaign is at

Re: [Marxism] [GreenLeft_discussion] Occupy Melbourne commences

2011-10-14 Thread Nick Fredman
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Several 1000s of people here at least, especially since the boycott Israel march

Re: [Marxism] The Australian: OWS spreads to Australia

2011-10-13 Thread Nick Fredman
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Stuart: The organised far left has to understand this dynamic -- the far left

Re: [Marxism] The Australian: OWS spreads to Australia

2011-10-13 Thread Nick Fredman
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Gary: Having said that despite my hearing problems I would not make a big fuss

[Marxism] Reality check (Re: WA Socialist Alliance leaders continue to target dissident member)

2011-10-11 Thread Nick Fredman
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Shane Hopkinson:   My point Graham as you are well aware is that the SA/DSP

Re: [Marxism] Prove anti-semitism and the hot chocs are on me

2011-09-20 Thread Nick Fredman
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Eli Stephens: Of course the Israeli state and its politicians and defenders in

[Marxism] Prove anti-semitism and the hot chocs are on me

2011-09-18 Thread Nick Fredman
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == List members may be interested in some comments I've made on the Green Left site

Re: [Marxism] Ex-RSP members: Let's unite behind Green Left Weekly

2011-09-11 Thread Nick Fredman
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == It's been brought to my attention that there was an error an the URL I posted

Re: [Marxism] Die Linke has the Sexiest Member of Parliament

2011-06-30 Thread Nick Fredman
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == This Bundestag thing is very silly and sexist, but I think the following manages

Re: [Marxism] EI: Jello Biafra bucks international BDS call, will play show in Tel Aviv

2011-06-11 Thread Nick Fredman
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I'm genuinely curious: is anyone surprised? Well disappointed surely when any

Re: [Marxism] Reflections on the World Socialist Web Site

2011-06-04 Thread Nick Fredman
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Rose: GLW and equivalent socialist news sources in Australia simply have little to

Re: [Marxism] Reflections on the World Socialist Web Site

2011-06-04 Thread Nick Fredman
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Manuel: 'hubris we tend to see even on this list (WSWS has some ok analysis...

Re: [Marxism] Reflections on the World Socialist Web Site

2011-06-04 Thread Nick Fredman
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Ed Lewis: And don't worry Nick, Ben and others, no one except a few even smaller

Re: [Marxism] Laurie Penny's ultraleftist stupidity

2011-03-28 Thread Nick Fredman
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Bill Quimby quotes some anarchist dickheads: The emphasis was to be on a 

[Marxism] First large scale survey of the views of Australian Muslims

2011-03-15 Thread Nick Fredman
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Just published in the 'online first' section of the leading organ of Australian

Re: [Marxism] Socialist Alternative's slander of Socialist Alliance on Libya

2011-03-13 Thread Nick Fredman
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == johnedmund...@paradise.net.nz: I believe the appropriate response in these times

Re: [Marxism] Labor stalwarts leave to stand as Socialist Alliance candidates

2011-02-17 Thread Nick Fredman
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 17 Feb, 2011,at 04:23 PM, Stuart Munckton stuartmunck...@gmail.com wrote:

[Marxism] Video: Melbourne solidarity with Egypt rally, Feb 4

2011-02-05 Thread Nick Fredman
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Re: [Marxism] A challenge to mechanical anti-imperialism

2011-02-02 Thread Nick Fredman
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Louis: the search is always for proof that some movement speaking in the name of