Re: [Marxism] Amy Goodman publicizes racist: More of the red-brown alliance in action

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To be fair, I very much doubt Amy Goodman knew anything about Zaya's
background. I also unknowingly quoted him in some discussion, though only
on a purely factual matter. If you look at this wikipedia page on him,
there is nothing about nazi connections, in fact his work looks rather
impressive:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred-Maurice_de_Zayas?fbclid=IwAR2Cbu8DNIEWnBFNcoUUmIHBy_u5IGNlggnkxC8B7nOV_5jMui1k6uXSris
The link, I think, is that he did genuine research on the mass expulsion of
the German population from eastern Europe and the Balkans in 1945, one of
the world's largest ever forced population movements, some 13 million
German civilians uprooted, who form some 20% of today's population of
Germany. This valid work is what seems to have attracted the attention of
the German far-right, but unfortunately there is now overwhelming evidence
that Zayas himself has right-wing and anti-Semitic ideas.
Just on Amith's comment:

>
> • "Israel emerged out of terrorism against the indigenous population" and
> its representatives should be denied U.N. accreditation. Source
> "
>
> So to criticize leftists at DN for bringing on a right-wing mouthpiece like
> de Zayas, you guys cite a leftist blog (CounterVortex) that cites
> right-wing mouthpieces and Zionist war propaganda (like UN Watch)?
>
> There is nothing "problematic" about half of those quotes.
> 


I agree there is nothing problematic about half the quotes, it is the other
half that are the problem ("George W. Bush and Tony Blair too are
Pharisees."!) Weinberg himself is anti-Zionist so his inclusion of this bit
is confusing, likewise his point about the US destabilising the middle
east, but further down he seems to be saying that, yes, some of these
points are valid, but he put them next to the bad ones in order to put them
in context, ie, a far rightist can appear anti-imperialist and anti-Zionist
when taken out of context. He says for example yes the US destrabilised
Iraq, but not Syria. On the Israel bit, he says "this (ie, the anti-Semitic
stuff) taints whatever points he may have about the origins of Israel
(although it is hardly the only state to have "emerged out of terrorism
against the indigenous population").
Admittedly, at first sight, the list does seem a bit of a shocker though,
and he could have avoided that if he's done it better.
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[Marxism] Watch "Trudeau Pushes Trump’s Regime Change in Venezuela" on YouTube

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Why is Canada violating the UN Charter and leading the way for regime change in 
Venezuela? Paul Jay and Yves Engler join Sharmini Peri

 https://youtu.be/RCq3tMtCrSI

 
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[Marxism] His Master’s Voice | www.splicetoday.com

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His Master’s Voice
Ken Silverstein


New York Times “reporter” spit shines Venezuelan opposition leader with 
help provided by his lobbyist.


https://www.splicetoday.com/politics-and-media/his-master-s-voice
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Re: [Marxism] Amy Goodman publicizes racist: More of the red-brown alliance in action

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Weinberg unfriended and blocked me after I pointed out telesur broke the
story on false positives long before countervortex.

On the other hand his running battle with Verizon was hilarious, although
I’m sure he does not think so.
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Re: [Marxism] Amy Goodman publicizes racist: More of the red-brown alliance in action

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On 1/29/19 1:49 PM, John Reimann via Marxism wrote:


https://countervortex.org/node/16232?fbclid=IwAR3bvY7IR69dbjwAorVT-aLItywJ5ZxYH5KBlrUiF5oZGbsHHthjXwKzk6k



This is Bill Weinberg's website. I've been forced to unfriend twice on 
FB. The first time it was over his really obnoxious attacks on Jill 
Stein during the 2016 election. He made voting for Hillary Clinton a 
litmus test for the left.


About a year ago I decided to send him a friend request after the 
bitterness over the elections died down. A few days after the Yellow 
Vest movement began making news, he began making an amalgam between them 
and Marine Le Pen. Interestingly enough, the only other FB friend who 
took this tack was Daniel Lazare, who is infamous for his pro-Assad 
drivel. Hmm. I wonder how these two birdbrains could oppose each other 
so vehemently on Syria can agree on the Yellow Vests.

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[Marxism] Latest on Redline blog

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To: trade union and general list (individual names suppressed)

Hi folks,

recently we have run a series of articles by (now retired) veteran
shopfloor trade union activist Don Franks on unions past and present plus
an article on the Resident Doctors strike.

Peggy Stewart on the RDA strike actions:
https://rdln.wordpress.com/2019/01/17/why-resident-doctors-are-striking/

Don Franks on Organising on the Job - the little purple hat:
https://rdln.wordpress.com/2019/01/24/organising-on-the-job-the-little-purple-hat/

Reclaiming the best of the past:
https://rdln.wordpress.com/2019/01/20/unions-reclaiming-the-best-of-our-past/

Unions need "much larger systematic change":
https://rdln.wordpress.com/2019/01/08/unions-need-much-larger-systematic-change/

Three suggestions for the NZ Council of Trade Unions:
https://rdln.wordpress.com/2019/01/04/three-suggestions-for-the-nz-council-of-trade-union/

An important campaign in efence of women's rights has also been launched in
relation to gender self-ID:
https://rdln.wordpress.com/2019/01/17/speak-up-for-women-launches-campaign/

Please share the urls for these articles with anyone you think might be
interested.  And please think about posting something in the Comments
section of any of these articles.

All the best for 2019.
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[Marxism] Lessons of Defeat: Testimonies of the Arab left | The Point Magazine

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https://thepointmag.com/2019/politics/lessons-of-defeat-testimonies-of-the-arab-left
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[Marxism] Jewish Currents | The Lost World of Yiddish Anarchists

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https://jewishcurrents.org/conversation/the-lost-world-of-yiddish-anarchists/
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Re: [Marxism] IMPORTANT GILETS JAUNES INFO

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A more polished translation available at
https://www.dropbox.com/s/tc1xqm2pa7sb45i/2019-01-27_Appel-de-la-Assemblee_GJ.pdf?dl=0

My understanding is that February 5 is a one-day strike called by the CGT
but that some GJ forces are calling to extend it as in the Assemblies
statement.


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> PLEASE READ AND CIRCULATE -- IMPORTANT GILETS JAUNES INFO
>
> Note by David:
>
> Many many have wondered about the politics of the Gilets Jaunes because
> their protests have been so elemental and hostile to the existing
> political forces. Some, like Kester Ratcliff, have decided the GJ are
> unalterably right-wing in nature, but he's not the only one.
>
> Below, my Parisian correspondent summarizes and translates various
> portions of the statement issued by the first Assembly of the Assemblies
> in Commercy that ought to lay such fears to rest and inspire admiration
> and solidarity for the Gilets Jaunes. Do note that this (so far) most
> authoritative communication from the assembled GJ calls for a general
> strike on February 5.




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Re: [Marxism] Amy Goodman publicizes racist: More of the red-brown alliance in action

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*Also worth noting, to his credit: ARR did not cite UN Watch or other
Israeli propaganda in criticizing DN for hosting this man. He (mostly)
focused on the things that genuinely make de Zayas problematic, like his
association with AfD.

Amith R. Gupta
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Re: [Marxism] Amy Goodman publicizes racist: More of the red-brown alliance in action

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" But the assembled quotes from de Zayas do point up how an unprincipled
anti-Americanism can lead to extremely problematic territory. To wit:
...
• "Israel emerged out of terrorism against the indigenous population" and
its representatives should be denied U.N. accreditation. Source
"

So to criticize leftists at DN for bringing on a right-wing mouthpiece like
de Zayas, you guys cite a leftist blog (CounterVortex) that cites
right-wing mouthpieces and Zionist war propaganda (like UN Watch)?

There is nothing "problematic" about half of those quotes. The Old
Testament, like most ancient religious literature, is a barbaric book.
Nuremburg was an exercise in victor's justice, which is why subsequent
international criminal tribunals tried to make serious structural changes
to the process, including standardizing (or attempting to standardize)
international criminal law. The Allies did commit horrific wartime
atrocities, just as the Axis powers did, even if genocide wasn't one of
them. And Israel is unambiguously a regime that emerged out of terrorism
against the indigenous population. And even as the piece notes that UN
Watch is "pro-Western" (which is misleading, unless by "Western" you mean
"Israel"), it still depends on UN Watch for half of the material and even
repeats Israeli propaganda. It is also worth noting how the implicit
suggestion is that being "pro-Western" or pro-Israel and attempting to
discredit human rights agencies that monitor Israeli abuses -- which are
happening in real time -- does not qualify as racism or right-wing activism
(at least, not enough to stop quoting them), while this man's affiliations
with groups that downplay atrocities that happened historically do.

That de Zayas is apparently a German fascist or has fascist supporters is
being used by this blog as a launching point to assail not only Democracy
Now but a series of totally valid and fundamentally left-wing political
causes including anti-Zionism and anti-imperialism. It smells like an
Anti-Deutsch blog.

And it is transparent they aren't just going at DN for the mistake of
hosting a fake expert with Nazi ties (which is a reasonable criticism), but
actually substantively opposed to opposition to imperialism and Zionism (or
at least, totally clueless about both things) and they are using this man's
appearance to give it the veneer of being principled leftists.

Amith R. Gupta


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> > On Jan 29, 2019, at 1:49 PM, John Reimann via Marxism <
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> >
> https://countervortex.org/node/16232?fbclid=IwAR3bvY7IR69dbjwAorVT-aLItywJ5ZxYH5KBlrUiF5oZGbsHHthjXwKzk6k
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> >
> >
> > Amy Goodman has put on her show one Alfred de Zayas, a supposed "former
> UN
> > expert" on human rights. He was put on to discuss Venezuela. As the
> article
> > reveals, de Zayas is a supporter of the AfD in Germany. He only "opposes"
> > US imperialism because he supports Putin and Russian imperialism. We see,
> > once again, how all these radical lefts, or in the case of Goodman a left
> > liberal, are fodder for the red-brown alliance because they completely
> miss
> > the main point: The class conflict.
>
> It seems worth pointing out that Bill acknowledges it was Alexander Reid
> Ross who first brought this to his attention:
>
> https://twitter.com/areidross/status/1089301480803229697
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Re: [Marxism] Amy Goodman publicizes racist: More of the red-brown alliance in action

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> On Jan 29, 2019, at 1:49 PM, John Reimann via Marxism 
>  wrote:
> 
> https://countervortex.org/node/16232?fbclid=IwAR3bvY7IR69dbjwAorVT-aLItywJ5ZxYH5KBlrUiF5oZGbsHHthjXwKzk6k
>  
> 
> 
> Amy Goodman has put on her show one Alfred de Zayas, a supposed "former UN
> expert" on human rights. He was put on to discuss Venezuela. As the article
> reveals, de Zayas is a supporter of the AfD in Germany. He only "opposes"
> US imperialism because he supports Putin and Russian imperialism. We see,
> once again, how all these radical lefts, or in the case of Goodman a left
> liberal, are fodder for the red-brown alliance because they completely miss
> the main point: The class conflict.

It seems worth pointing out that Bill acknowledges it was Alexander Reid Ross 
who first brought this to his attention:

https://twitter.com/areidross/status/1089301480803229697

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[Marxism] Amy Goodman publicizes racist: More of the red-brown alliance in action

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Amy Goodman has put on her show one Alfred de Zayas, a supposed "former UN
expert" on human rights. He was put on to discuss Venezuela. As the article
reveals, de Zayas is a supporter of the AfD in Germany. He only "opposes"
US imperialism because he supports Putin and Russian imperialism. We see,
once again, how all these radical lefts, or in the case of Goodman a left
liberal, are fodder for the red-brown alliance because they completely miss
the main point: The class conflict.

John Reimann

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[Marxism] MR Online | Vintage comics against war

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Paul Buhle reviews:

The Unknown Anti-War Comics. Edited by Craig Yoe. San Diego: IDW Books, 
2018. 233pp, $29.99.


https://mronline.org/2019/01/27/vintage-comics-against-war/
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[Marxism] IMPORTANT GILETS JAUNES INFO

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(From David McDonald on FB)

PLEASE READ AND CIRCULATE -- IMPORTANT GILETS JAUNES INFO

Note by David:

Many many have wondered about the politics of the Gilets Jaunes because 
their protests have been so elemental and hostile to the existing 
political forces. Some, like Kester Ratcliff, have decided the GJ are 
unalterably right-wing in nature, but he's not the only one.


Below, my Parisian correspondent summarizes and translates various 
portions of the statement issued by the first Assembly of the Assemblies 
in Commercy that ought to lay such fears to rest and inspire admiration 
and solidarity for the Gilets Jaunes. Do note that this (so far) most 
authoritative communication from the assembled GJ calls for a general 
strike on February 5.


Last weekend more than 350 delegates came to the first
Assembly of the Assemblies taking place in Commercy (Lorraine). They 
represented 75 assemblies from across the country.


[The Assembly adopted on Sunday a text to present to local assemblies 
for discussion and adoption.

I translated some excerpts: -- my correspondent talking]

We, Gilets Jaunes from traffic circles, parking lots, town squares, 
assemblies, protests, we gathered on the 26 and 27 of January 2019 ...


Since November 17, from the smallest village in rural areas to the 
biggest city, we rose up against this most violent, unjust and 
unbearable society... [We want] for our families and children to live in 
dignity. 26 billionaires own as much as half of mankind, we can't accept 
that... End social inequality! We demand the immediate raise of wages, 
minimum social incomes, pensions..., the unconditional right to housing 
and health care, education, free public services for all. It's for these 
rights that ... we organize these actions, protests ... With our yellow 
vests we reclaim our right to be heard, we who are never heard. ... the 
government's response? Repression, contempt, vilifying us... A few died 
and thousands where injured, weapons were massively used at close 
range... More than 1,000 were convicted and are in jail. And now this 
so-called anti-casseur law*, whose real aim is to deny us the right to 
protest... To protest is a fundamental right. End the impunity of the 
police forces!


Amnesty for all the repression victims! And what a sham this 'great 
debate' ... The real democracy, we are practicing it in our assemblies, 
our traffic circles...


The demands and strategic proposals most discussed [in local assemblies] 
include: eradication of poverty in all its manifestations; 
transformation of the institutions (RIC, Constituent Assembly; end the 
privileges of those elected [MPs, senators, ...]); environmental 
transition; equal rights for all, whatever their nationality, whether 
valid or handicapped, man/woman; end the abandonment of 'quartiers 
populaires' [working-class ghettos], rural areas and the overseas 
departments and territories [Martinique, Guadeloupe, Reunion ...]


We call to pursue the Acts [Saturday protests] (Act XII against police 
brutality outside police stations, Act XIII, XIV, ...), continue 
occupying traffic circles, block the economy, build a massive renewable 
strike, starting February 5.


Form committees in workplaces, schools, and elsewhere so that this 
strike can be built at the grassroots level by the strikers 
themselves... Don't stay isolated, join us! We propose to all the Gilets 
Jaunes to circulate this resolution.
If you---as a group of gilets jaunes---approve it, send your signature 
to Commercy. Don't hesitate to discuss and express proposals for the 
future assembly of the assemblies, that we are already preparing.


Note [by my correspondent]
* casseur: literally the one who smash [windows]---refers to those who 
smash stores/banks windows, ...
Under this (newly adopted by the Parliament) law anyone deemed a 
'casseur' by the authorities can be banned from demonstrations. The 
government also plans on intensifying searches, criminalizing 
protesters, ... Marine Le Pen, who likes to portray herself as a 
supporter of the Gilets Jaunes, immediately announced that she would 
vote for the law.

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[Marxism] Page from Karl Marx's manuscript sold for 523, 000 USD - China Plus

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The Marx and Engels manuscript pages were likely stolen from the International 
Institute of Social History in Amsterdam Netherlands


http://chinaplus.cri.cn/news/china/9/20180522/134465.html

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[Marxism] Use of Force in France’s ‘Yellow Vest’ Protests Fuels Anger

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NY Times, Jan. 29, 2019
Use of Force in France’s ‘Yellow Vest’ Protests Fuels Anger
By Elian Peltier

PARIS — As he joined a “Yellow Vest” protest in Bordeaux, in 
southwestern France, Jean-Marc Michaud felt elated. His wife worked 
nearby and they had not seen each other in a month, so the march was a 
perfect opportunity to reunite.


Instead, his life took a serious turn for the worse at the protest in 
early December, when a rubber projectile fired by the police destroyed 
his right eye. Mr. Michaud, 41, who lives on France’s western coast, now 
joins demonstrations to protest both economic distress and police violence.


“The government claims that we are looters and violent protesters, but 
so many of us are just peaceful civilians,” said Mr. Michaud, a 
horticulturist who now wears an eye patch and says his arms were raised 
when he was shot. “The government isn’t listening to us, and now they 
are trying to silence us with repression in the streets.”


Anger at officers’ use of force has helped fuel the nationwide Yellow 
Vest movement that began as protests against a fuel tax increase and 
that has grown into a broader revolt against President Emmanuel Macron’s 
government.


There has been particular outrage at serious injuries caused by rubber 
balls, about the size of golf balls, that the police fire at 
demonstrators with specially made guns — wounds that have made headlines 
for weeks. Among Western European countries, experts say, only France 
and Northern Ireland use such tools.


The latest controversy erupted on Saturday, when Jérôme Rodrigues, a 
well-known figure in the movement, suffered an eye injury as he was 
streaming live video on Facebook of a protest in Paris. Before he was 
hit, he warned that hard-left agitators were fomenting violence, and 
advised demonstrators to disperse.


Mr. Rodrigues and his lawyer said he had been hit by both a rubber ball 
and a “dispersal grenade,” which explodes and sprays smaller rubber pellets.


“He will be handicapped for life,” the lawyer, Philippe de Veulle, told 
BFMTV. “It is a tragedy for him and his family.”


Since violent clashes began in November, 11 people have died, and 1,900 
protesters and 1,200 law enforcement officers have been injured, 
according to the Interior Ministry. Independent counts by the newspaper 
Libération and the journalist David Dufresne say that 109 protesters 
have been seriously injured, including 18 who have become blind in one 
eye and four who have lost a hand.


“We weren’t afraid of the police, but this has changed,” said Fiorina 
Lignier, a 20-year-old philosophy student who lost an eye at a Yellow 
Vest protest in Paris on Dec. 8. “They are more offensive, more 
repressive, blind in their actions.”


A rubber ball “rips the skin apart and can fracture the bones, as if 
someone had been violently hit with a truncheon,” said Chloé Bertolus, a 
facial surgeon at the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital in Paris, who said she 
and her team had operated on at least 16 wounded protesters.


Christian Mouhanna, a sociologist at the National Center for Scientific 
Research, said the use of force had profound implications for opinions 
of the police, whose harshest tactics were applied in minority 
communities and to people on the political fringes.


“Through the Yellow Vests protests, many working or middle-class French, 
usually calm and mostly white, have discovered that in France, police 
violence can also target them,” he said. “The police have become the 
symbol of the government’s refusal to negotiate.”


The police have faced extraordinary challenges in containing the Yellow 
Vests. Demonstrations often are not announced in advance, and they 
attract people who loot, set fires and attack security officers while 
staying close to peaceful protesters, making it hard to pick them out.


But Mr. Macron’s political opponents and rights groups have denounced 
the police response, especially the rubber projectile guns, as 
disproportionate. The government has disregarded a call by the country’s 
ombudsman to stop using them.


Interior Minister Christophe Castaner disputed at first the notion that 
the police had used violence, and he later argued that without 
projectile launchers, security forces would have to use lethal weapons.


“Let’s be clear, we’ve never seen such a level of violence,” said 
Stanislas Gaudon, a representative for the union Alliance Police 
Nationale. “Some protesters have wanted to hurt police forces in a very 
worrying way.”


Those forces, already stretched by terrorist threats, are facing 
exhaustion, he added. Of the 60 riot police companies nationwide, 50 
have been 

[Marxism] Page from Karl Marx's manuscript sold for 523, 000 USD - China Plus

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First Bolton, now Abrams. A nationalist and a neoconservative, 
politicians of intrigue and death-squads. Passionate American 
imperialists, advocates of "regime change" in Iran and North Korea and 
confrontation with China. Veterans of the Iraq inferno. The trail of 
bodies stretches back decades, and over continents.


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[Marxism] A comradely critique of an autonomist

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A comradely critique of an autonomist
Colin Barker (January 2019)
In 2013, in the journal ROAR, Jerome Roos set out a rich and in many ways 
attractive
case for the politics of ‘autonomy’.1 Finding myself at odds with his line of 
argument, I spent
some time during 2014 developing some critical notes. Rather late in the day, I 
now offer
these notes for wider discussion. In no way should these notes be treated as an 
ad hominem
critique. Jerome has informed me that his own views have evolved over the past 
half-decade,
the true sign of a creative thinker. I hope the matter of the arguments matters 
more than who
utters them and when.


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[Marxism] Israel to host summit for Europe's emerging nationalist bloc - Israel News - Haaretz.com

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[Marxism] Bret Stephens, the ‘Times,’ and Fearmongering Over Venezuela

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By Greg Grandin

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[Marxism] I’m a socialist and a historian, socialism is blooming again in N.J. - this time in the age of Trump. | nj.com

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[Marxism] Charter Schools Suffer Setback in Aftermath of Los Angeles Strike

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NY Times, Jan. 29, 2019
Charter Schools Suffer Setback in Aftermath of Los Angeles Strike
By Jennifer Medina and Dana Goldstein

LOS ANGELES — Carrying protest signs, thousands of teachers and their 
allies converged last month on the shimmering contemporary art museum in 
the heart of downtown Los Angeles. Clad in red, they denounced 
“billionaire privatizers” and the museum’s patron, Eli Broad. The march 
was a preview of the attacks the union would unleash during the 
teachers’ strike, which ended last week.


As one of the biggest backers of charter schools, Mr. Broad helped make 
them a fashionable and potent cause in Los Angeles, drawing support from 
business leaders like Reed Hastings, the co-founder of Netflix; 
Hollywood executives; and lawmakers to create a wide network of more 
than 220 schools.


Mr. Broad was so bullish about the future of charter schools just a few 
years ago that he even floated a plan to move roughly half of Los 
Angeles schoolchildren — more than 250,000 students — into such schools. 
In 2017, he funneled millions of dollars to successfully elect 
candidates for the Board of Education who would back charters, an 
alternative to traditional public schools that are publicly funded but 
privately run.


His prominence has also turned him into a villain in the eyes of the 
teachers’ union. Now Mr. Broad and supporters like him are back on their 
heels in Los Angeles and across the country. The strike is the latest 
setback for the charter school movement, which once drew the endorsement 
of prominent Democrats and Republicans alike. But partly in reaction to 
the Trump administration, vocal Democratic support for charters has 
waned as the party has shifted further to the left and is more likely to 
deplore such schools as a drain on traditional public schools.


When the Los Angeles mayor, Eric Garcetti, announced a deal between the 
teachers’ union and the school district after the weeklong strike, it 
became immediately clear that the fate of charter schools was part of 
the bargain: The union extracted a promise that the pro-charter school 
Board of Education would vote on a call for the state to cap the number 
of charters.


It was the latest in a string of defeats for a movement that for over a 
decade has pointed to Los Angeles and California as showcases for the 
large-scale growth of the charter school sector.


Backers of charter schools argue that they provide a much-needed choice 
for parents in poor neighborhoods, where low-performing schools are 
often the norm. Many supporters expressed frustration that student 
achievement had not been a focus of the debate around the Los Angeles 
strike. Overall, the city’s public school students tend to perform worse 
in reading and math than their counterparts in many other large urban 
school districts across the country, according to the National 
Assessment of Educational Progress. The low performance of district 
schools, charter supporters say, has led to about a fifth of the 
district’s students being enrolled in charter schools.


“Why would they dive in to make this political statement?” said Myrna 
Castrejón, the president of the California Charter Schools Association. 
Addressing the teachers’ union, she said: “Do you hate us that much that 
you would bargain away the future of poor children and Latino children 
for this?”


Charter schools, which are generally not unionized, were not officially 
on the bargaining table in the protracted negotiations between the union 
and the district. It is the state, not the school district, that crafts 
the laws governing charter schools and their growth. But it was always a 
central message of the union during the strike: Charter schools, they 
argued, were taking students and money away from traditional public schools.


Still, charter schools have proven popular among many parents in Los 
Angeles. Some schools have long waiting lists and the district already 
has more students enrolled in charters than any other public school 
system in the country.


It is still unclear how much practical impact the deal will have on 
charters. Charter school supporters are lobbying the school board, which 
has steadfastly supported charters for more than a decade, to vote down 
the resolution for a charter school cap this week. Even if it passes, 
advocates are certain to take the fight to Sacramento, where a bill 
calling for a moratorium seems likely. They will argue that charters 
have given poor students and students of color essential options for 
better schools.


But the defeat in the court of public opinion is clear: After years of 
support from powerful local 

[Marxism] Declassified Documents Show Moscow’s Fear of an Afghan Flip, U.S. Diplomat’s Meeting with Afghan Leader Helped Put Soviets Over the Edge

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President Trump’s claim that the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979
to get rid of terrorists who were coming over the border is false,
according to declassified U.S. and Soviet documents posted today by the
National Security Archive at George Washington University.

Just as false, according to the documents, were the repeated U.S. media
assertions at the time, driven by President Carter’s national security
adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, that the Soviet motivation was “the age-long
dream of Moscow to have direct access to the Indian Ocean” (Document 8).

Soviet Politburo documents that first became available in the 1990s show
the real Soviet fear was that the head of the Afghan Communist regime,
Hafizullah Amin, was about to go over to the Americans.  (Egyptian
president Anwar Sadat famously flipped in 1972, ejected thousands of Soviet
advisers, and became the second largest recipient, after Israel, of U.S.
foreign aid.)

Two October 1979 events in particular set off Moscow’s alarms, according to
the documents and subsequent analyses by Afghan veteran Gen. Alexander
Lyakhovsky and senior Soviet diplomat Georgy Kornienko: Amin’s murder of
his predecessor Taraki on October 8, and Amin’s reception of acting
American Chargé d’Affaires Archer Blood on October 27.

None of the Soviet documents list terrorists going into the USSR as a
concern in 1979.  The Soviet worry was the incompetence and worse of their
Afghan Communist clients, the declining Soviet influence (much less
control) in the country, and the possibility of Afghanistan going over to
the Americans.

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This contradicts the claim of President Carter's national security adviser
Zbigniew Brzezinski -

“It should by now be generally accepted that the Soviet invasion of
Afghanistan on Christmas Eve 1979 was deliberately provoked by the United
States. In his memoir published in 1996, the former CIA director Robert
Gates made it clear that the American intelligence services began to aid
the mujahidin guerrillas not after the Soviet invasion, but six months
before it. In an interview two years later with *Le Nouvel Observateur*,
President Carter's national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski proudly
confirmed Gates' assertion. "According to the official version of history,"
Brzezinski said, "CIA aid to the mujahidin began during 1980, that's to
say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan. But the reality, kept
secret until now, is completely different: on 3 July 1979 President Carter
signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the
pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. And on the same day, I wrote a note to the
president in which I explained that in my opinion this aid would lead to a
Soviet military intervention."

Asked whether he in any way regretted these actions, Brzezinski replied:
"Regret what? The secret operation was an excellent idea. It drew the
Russians into the Afghan trap and you want me to regret it? On the day that
the Soviets officially crossed the border, I wrote to President Carter,
saying, in essence: 'We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its
Vietnam War.'"

https://sites.temple.edu/.../brezenski-memoranda-to.../



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[Marxism] Canada Is Complicit in Venezuela's US-Backed Coup D'état.

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 Most Canadians think of their country as a force for good in the world, but 
recent efforts by Justin Trudeau’s government to overthrow Venezuela’s elected 
government have once again revealed the ugly truth about the Great White North. 
We are an important partner in imperialism, willing to interfere in the 
internal affairs of other countries, up to and including the use of military 
force, to benefit the perceived self-interest of our elites.

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[Marxism] On Venezuela - bookforum.com / omnivore

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Multiple links.

https://www.bookforum.com/blog/20677
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[Marxism] Nothing Before Us | George Scialabba

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Reviews of:

--It’s Better Than It Looks: Reasons for Optimism in an Age of Fear by 
Gregg Easterbrook. PublicAffairs, 352 pages.


--21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari. Random House, 
400 pages.


--America: The Farewell Tour by Chris Hedges. Simon & Schuster, 400 pages.

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[Marxism] Militares venezolanos entregan a Maduro - Por: Heinz Dieterich

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Tweeted by "Crying Freeman", a Nicaraguan: "Prominent Latin American 
Marxist intellectual and father of 21st Century Socialism Heinz 
Dieterich says Maduro's removal from power is already underway and it is 
being carried out by those closest to him."


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