[Marxism] Trump EPA OKs 'Emergency' to Dump Bee-Killing Pesticide on 16 Million Acres - EcoWatch
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[Marxism] We Will Not Negotiate • Commune
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’m standing on a lonely, dog-shit-covered pier at the western tip of Long Island, the winter wind eating through my denim jacket. Before me lies Roosevelt Island. once home to New York’s hospitals, prisons, and asylums, now full of luxury apartment and a Cornell University “tech campus” meant to drain money and talent from Silicon Valley. Beyond that is Manhattan’s east side—United Nations headquarters, the gaudy Trump World Tower, and the subdued money behind the bricks of tony Sutton Place. To the north rises the steel hulk of the Queensboro Bridge, which ferries 170,000 automobiles a day between Manhattan and its sister to the east, while behind me sit a shuttered restaurant, a rotting wooden pier, and a series of brick warehouses. This site, hard by the shore of the East River, was to be the footprint for Amazon’s “HQ2,” where tens of thousands were supposed to toil for the world’s most aggressive retailer. But now the deal is dead, cut down by a swell of opposition from neighborhood activists and elected officials that caught the company and its supporters flat-footed. https://communemag.com/we-will-not-negotiate/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Why We’re Underestimating American Collapse – Eudaimonia and Co
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Re: [Marxism] Haiti and the collapse of a political and economic system – The Haitian Times
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. * How Trump's attacks on Venezuela triggered a revolution in Haiti: https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/how-trump-attacks-venezuela-triggered-revolution-haiti From: Marxism on behalf of Louis Proyect via Marxism Sent: Tuesday, 19 February 2019 12:14:04 AM To: Chris Slee Subject: [Marxism] Haiti and the collapse of a political and economic system – The Haitian Times 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://haitiantimes.com/2019/02/12/haiti-and-the-collapse-of-a-political-and-economic-system/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/chris_w_slee%40hotmail.com _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] City of a Million Dreams: A History of New Orleans at Year 300: Jason Berry: 9781469647142: Amazon.com: Books
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. * Berry reviewed an earlier book, Ned Sublette's *The World That Made New Orleans*, also quite good. https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/17/books/review/Berry-t.html On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 2:28 PM Louis Proyect via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > (Heard the author being interviewed yesterday morning. The book sounds > really interesting.) > > In 2015, the beautiful jazz funeral in New Orleans ... > https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1469647141/ > _ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/fred.r.murphy%40gmail.com > _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] A Tuba to Cuba; Cuban Food Stories | 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. * In June 2017, Donald Trump announced a get-tough policy with Cuba that would reverse Barack Obama’s easing of restrictions. In 2018, Cuba was dragged into imperialism’s growing confrontations with the governments of Venezuela and Nicaragua. As the last three states in this hemisphere that refuse to go along with the rightwing Lima Group agenda, they were naturally singled out by John Bolton as his targets in an “axis of evil” speech on November 1, 2018. As the clearest indication that Trump wants to isolate Cuba, he recently attacked an agreement reached by professional baseball and Cuba to allow Cuban players to join American teams without defecting. Therefore, the arrival of two new documentaries about Cuba are most timely. Like “Buena Vista Social Club”, “A Tuba to Cuba” and “Cuban Food Stories” are less about ideology and much more about allowing American audiences to see the reality of Cuban life. If you’ve seen “Buena Vista Club”, you’ll realize that I am offering high praise when I tell you that they are just as good as Wim Wenders’s 1996 tribute to elderly musicians who tour the USA. full: https://louisproyect.org/2019/02/18/a-tuba-to-cuba-cuban-food-stories/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] ‘The Border’ Is a Stunning and Timely Conclusion to Don Winslow’s Drug-War Trilogy
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[Marxism] Legal Rights for Lake Erie? Voters in Ohio City Will Decide
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[Marxism] Worst. Split. Ever. | Richard Seymour on Patreon
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've said before that this is not 1981. There is no generalised anti-socialist climate in this country at the moment, no deep-rooted backlash against the unions, no pervasive sense that Labour's problems stem from having been too statist, and so on. Actually-existing-Corbynism, more Wilsonite than Bennite, is very popular. Chris Leslie merely seems aloof from reality when he bangs on about 'communism' and 'marxism'. Nor, even if conditions were similar to 1981, do these vain Blairites have the heft or hard-headedness of the old hammers of the Left. https://www.patreon.com/posts/worst-split-ever-24784500 _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Old Gods, New Enigmas: Marx’s Lost Theory - book review - Counterfire
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[Marxism] Haiti and the collapse of a political and economic system – The Haitian Times
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[Marxism] Panama Papers ‘tightened the noose’ on offshore assets of Maduro’s inner circle | World news | The Guardian
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