[Marxism] Coronavirus - learning from Darwin
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. * Interesting article by longtime public health professional and Marxist & anti-imperialist activist Daphna Whitmore: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2020/02/28/coronavirus-we-need-to-learn-from-darwin/ _ 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] Jesse Jackson on 'democratic socialism'
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 important word in ‘democratic socialism’ is ‘democratic’ by Jesse Jackson Chicago Sun-Times, Feb. 24 https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2020/2/24/21151126/democratic-socialism-bernie-sanders-elizabeth-warren-presidential-primary-jesse-jackson _ 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] Bernie Sanders’s Scandinavian fantasy
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. * Washington Post, Feb. 27, 2020 Bernie Sanders’s Scandinavian fantasy By Fareed Zakaria Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) says that his proposals “are not radical,” pointing again and again to countries in Northern Europe such as Denmark, Sweden and Norway as examples of the kind of economic system he wants to bring to the United States. The image he conjures up is of a warm and fuzzy social democracy in which market economics are kept on a tight leash through regulation, the rich are heavily taxed and the social safety net is generous. That is, however, an inaccurate and highly misleading description of those Northern European countries today. Take billionaires. Sanders has been clear on the topic: “Billionaires should not exist.” But Sweden and Norway both have more billionaires per capita than the United States — Sweden almost twice as many. Not only that, these billionaires are able to pass on their wealth to their children tax-free. Inheritance taxes in Sweden and Norway are zero, and in Denmark 15 percent. The United States, by contrast, has the fourth-highest estate taxes in the industrialized world at 40 percent. Sanders’s vision of Scandinavian countries, as with much of his ideology, seems to be stuck in the 1960s and 1970s, a period when these countries were indeed pioneers in creating a social market economy. In Sweden, government spending as a percentage of gross domestic product doubled from 1960 to 1980, going from approximately 30 percent to 60 percent. But as Swedish commentator Johan Norberg points out, this experiment in Sanders-style democratic socialism tanked the Swedish economy. Between 1970 and 1995, he notes, Sweden did not create a single net new job in the private sector. In 1991, a free-market prime minister, Carl Bildt, initiated a series of reforms to kick-start the economy. By the mid-2000s, Sweden had cut the size of its government by a third and emerged from its long economic slump. Versions of this problem and these market reforms took place all over Northern Europe, creating what is now called the “flexicurity” model, combining flexible labor markets with a strong and generous safety net. I remember meeting the Danish prime minister, Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, who enacted many of the reforms in Denmark in the 1990s. He emphasized that the first part of the model was key: ensuring employers had the flexibility to hire and fire workers easily, without excessive regulation or litigation. In addition, he stressed, countries such as Denmark had to stay extremely open, erecting no barriers to free trade, to gain access to markets abroad and keep their local companies competitive. When looking across Northern Europe today, one finds many innovative market-friendly policies such as educational vouchers, health-care deductibles and co-pays, and light regulatory burdens. None of these countries, for example, has a minimum wage. It is true that these countries have a generous safety net and, in order to fund it, high taxes. What is not often pointed out, however, is that in order to raise enough revenue, these taxes fall disproportionately on the poor, middle and upper middle class. Denmark has one of the highest top income tax rates in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, 55.9 percent, but that rate is applied to anyone making 1.3 times the average national income. In the United States, this would mean that any income above $65,000 would be taxed at the rate of 55.9 percent. In fact, the highest tax rate in the United States, 43 percent, applies to income that is 9.3 times the national average, which means that only those with incomes over approximately $500,000 pay this rate. The biggest hit to the poor and middle classes in Northern Europe comes because they, like everyone, pay a national sales tax (value-added tax) of about 25 percent. These countries raise more than 20 percent of their taxes this way. In the United States, the average sales tax rate is 6.6 percent and accounts for only 8 percent of tax revenue. One final statistic: A 2008 OECD report found that the top 10 percent in the United States pay 45 percent of all income taxes, while the top 10 percent in Denmark pay 26 percent and in Sweden 27 percent. Among wealthy countries, the average is 32 percent. The basic point is worth underlining because the American left seems largely unaware of it, and it has only become more true over the past decade: The United States has a significantly more progressive tax code than Europe, and its top 10 percent pays a vastly greater share of the country’s taxes than their European
Re: [Marxism] Syria: Slaughter in Idlib (re: How Much Does the Pentagon Pay for the YPG?)
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. * Chris: > "The strongest armed group in Idlib today is Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, a very reactionary group with a history of persecuting religious minorities. Thus the war in Idlib is now a conflict between what academic Gilbert Achcar calls 'two counter-revolutionary poles' ". Louis: You got to get out of the habit of citing authority. Gilbert also voted to give the Isaac Deutscher prize to the ultra-toxic Roland Boer. He is not always right. Me: More importantly, you need to avoid quoting people out of context. When using this phrase, which he has used for years, Gilbert is talking in sweeping terms about the entire Arab Swing period, including in Syria, but that is not a tactical prescription for every theatre of war. Gilbert does believe what he calls the '3rd pole' - the democratic forces - are more or less crushed in Syria, and while this is increasingly true, I think he simplistically jumped to that conclusion earlier than was warranted. Even then, however, it is not possible to quote his sweeping formula as a "line" on the slaughter in Idlib right now, which is essentially how your article came across, and how it used his quote out of context. I accept your regret about omitting reference to forces still resisting HTS as well as Assad, but even if put in this does not appear to be the position of SA/GLW. I happen to be on a list-serve with Gilbert and others who deal with Syria. Gilbert does not often throw in his opinion, but the titles of last few links he has sent were: The fall of Kafranbel; Investigating airstrikes on hospitals in Syria; US visa denied to researcher who exposed Assadist chemical lies;Too little, too late: Where Turkey undermined the rebellion; Syria: Fall of Saraqeb delivers Assad a strategic and symbolic prize. AS these were not his personal writing, I think it is OK I send the name of the articles here. It is fairly obvious where he stands on these issues: on Assad's conquest of Kafranbel and Saraqeb, its bombing of hospitals, on Assadist and "anti-imperilaist" lies about Assad's chemical warfare etc; Turkey's role is rightly condemned overall, but indeed "too little too late" is a perfect description of its current standing up to Assad in Idlib. If we talk about "two counterrevolutionary poles" in Idlib, even if we could be that simplistic, then how do we understand that Assad's string of conquests in the last month - Maraat al-Nuuman, Saraqeb, Atareb, Kafranbel - have all been precisely the centres of democratic resistance throughout the war. It is no coincidence that Assad and Putin, while pretending to be most concerned about HTS, have mercilessly bombed these towns throughout the war, and that they were first on the list to be conquered. Actually, their continued existence till now contradicts Gilbert's own more extreme analyses on the destruction of the democratic opposition, but it is clear where he stands. Does this mean however that, now these towns have been overrun, and thus the domination of HTS over what is remaining is even stronger, that the current massacre can be reduced to a conflict of counterrevolutions? That would be an extremely undialectical and simplistic, and in context, politically immoral, position to take. One side has an airforce and a foreign invader that is bombing hospitals, schools, refugee camps, refugees on the road, entire cities into dust. One side has driven some 2 million people into camps along the Turkish border. There is no "neutrality" here. If you want to use the "clash of counterrevolutions" thesis in a more logical way, I would say that if HTS had massive armed forces and an airforce with an awesome array of barrel bombs, cluster bombs and the rest, and it was invading the Alawite-dominated coastal provinces or besieging and bombing central Damascus, driving a couple of million Alawites into the sea, then we could make a comparison with what Assad is doing in Idlib. A situation, that is, with the same reality as Hamas breaking out of Gaza with its airforce and besieging, conquering and carpet bombing Tel Aviv and Jaffa, driving the Jews into the sea. On Saraqeb this is a quote from the article Gilbert sent: “We wanted a free Syria for all Syrians but they wanted an Islamic state. We continued against all the odds: we challenged the regime, Ahrar al-Sham, Islamic State and al-Nusra. In the end the jihadists took over but we left our city with dignity knowing how much we endured to keep Saraqeb free.” _ 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] Tribal Nation Condemns ‘Desecration’ to Build Border Wall
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. * NY Times, Feb. 27, 2020 Tribal Nation Condemns ‘Desecration’ to Build Border Wall By Simon Romero LUKEVILLE, Ariz. — Cut down a saguaro cactus in Arizona and you can face years in prison. But over the past several weeks, work crews have been destroying dozens of the protected cactuses, which can live for 200 years, to build a new wall on the southwestern border. The remains of chopped-up saguaros are now visible along a swath of the Sonoran Desert in southern Arizona, part of what Native American leaders warn is a range of environmental and archaeological threats posed by the Trump administration’s scramble to build the wall. Work along the border, according to tribal leaders of the Tohono O’odham Nation who live on both sides of the border, is blasting ancient burial sites and siphoning an aquifer that feeds a desert oasis where human beings have slaked their thirst for 16,000 years. The outcry by tribal citizens reflects the latest phase in the quarreling over the border wall, after federal courts allowed the Trump administration to speed construction by waiving dozens of laws, including measures protecting endangered species and Native American burial sites. Federal officials have cited President Trump’s national emergency declaration in 2019, aimed at curbing unauthorized immigration, as justification for the waivers. Dynamite blasts are now echoing throughout lands assigned the highest degree of permanent protection by Congress as workers lay the foundation for the wall. To mix concrete, crews are drawing water from a spring near where ancient bone fragments were unearthed last year. The work is occurring at sites inside the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, which President Franklin D. Roosevelt established by proclamation in 1937. The area has been designated by UNESCO, the United Nations cultural organization, as an internationally protected biosphere reserve. “To state it clearly, we are enduring crimes against humanity,” said Verlon M. José, the governor of the Tohono O’odham in northern Mexico and a former vice chairman of the tribal nation on the American side of the border. “Tell me where your grandparents are buried and let me dynamite their graves,” said Mr. José, emphasizing how visceral an issue the blasting has become among O’odham-speaking peoples. “This wall is already putting a scar across our heart.” The Border Patrol, which is overseeing the wall construction within the national monument, is hitting back at such assessments. John Mennell, a Border Patrol spokesman, disputed the claims by O’odham leaders and said that “no biological, cultural or historical sites were identified within the project area.” In a statement, Mr. Mennell added that the agency has “a history of voluntary compliance where it is necessary to minimize impacts,” and that workers were destroying only cactuses “determined not to be in a healthy enough state to be relocated.” At a congressional hearing about these activities on Wednesday, Representative Ruben Gallego, Democrat of Arizona, compared the blasting at sites held to be sacred by Native Americans to the war crime of destroying sacred cultural sites during international conflicts. He also accused federal authorities of “gaslighting” by contending that the construction work was aimed at preserving lands near the border. The government has suggested that building a wall would prevent migrants from trampling over the desert in vehicles and on foot. The White House and Department of Homeland Security did not send representatives to the hearing. On the same day as the hearing, the Border Patrol and Army Corps of Engineers invited reporters to view a controlled detonation during border wall construction. After grievances by O’odham citizens intensified in recent months, Representative Raúl M. Grijalva, a Democrat representing southern Arizona, homed in on the use of explosives at an area of the monument that many O’odham consider a sacred Indigenous site. Citing O’odham leaders, Mr. Grijalva said in a video posted on Twitter that the site, known as Memorial Hill, “is the resting place primarily for Apache warriors that had been involved in battle with the O’odham, and then the O’odham people in a respectful way laid them to rest on Monument Hill.” Objections to the border wall are now multiplying from the some 28,000 enrolled members of Tohono O’odham (pronounced To-HO-no AW-tham). Many live in the tribal nation’s reservation in Arizona, which is near Organ Pipe, while about 2,000 others live in an adjacent area of northern Mexico. Before the American
Re: [Marxism] Syria: Slaughter in Idlib (re: How Much Does the Pentagon Pay for the YPG?)
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 2/27/20 6:53 PM, Chris Slee via Marxism wrote: The relevant paragraph from my article reads: "The strongest armed group in Idlib today is Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, a very reactionary group with a history of persecuting religious minorities. Thus the war in Idlib is now a conflict between what academic Gilbert Achcar calls 'two counter-revolutionary poles' ". You got to get out of the habit of citing authority. Gilbert also voted to give the Isaac Deutscher prize to the ultra-toxic Roland Boer. He is not always right. Furthermore, if you had been covering Idlib more thoroughly for the past few years, you'd have more credibility. You obviously see it as a cabal of Turkish and Islamicist goons, just as you see Rojova as paradise on earth. Maybe 7 years ago (I can't be bothered tracking in down), your comrade Tony Iltis wrote that the FSA was dominated by bandits and warlords. Your problem is that you reflect the bias of the YPG, whose ineffable leader once said that if Assad was overthrown, the country would go to the dogs. I don't imagine that any of this would have any impact on you. I am writing for the benefit of people who haven't lost their senses. _ 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] Syria: Slaughter in Idlib (re: How Much Does the Pentagon Pay for the YPG?)
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. * Michael Karadjis says: "the US has lent its airforce to the YPG/SDF for years". But the US has "lent" its airforce only to fight ISIS, not to resist the Turkish invasion of northern Syria. The limited military supplies which the US has given to the SDF are no match for NATO-armed Turkey. Michael says: "...several weeks ago Chris sent a GLW article to the list, written, sadly, by himself (I expected better of Chris), which said, in the context of this horrific slaughter going on, that the only resistance to evil in Syria is of course "Rojava", while the "conflict" in Idlib is between two bad sides". The relevant paragraph from my article reads: "The strongest armed group in Idlib today is Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, a very reactionary group with a history of persecuting religious minorities. Thus the war in Idlib is now a conflict between what academic Gilbert Achcar calls 'two counter-revolutionary poles' ". https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/northern-syrias-two-wars Michael is right to point out that there are still people in Idlib struggling for democracy, who have "resisted HTS even as they fought off Assad". It is a deficiency of my article that I did not make this point. Michael says: "...humanity requires we give TOTAL support to any military action by Turkey, in support of the independent rebel groups there, to resist Assad's genocidal attacks and his regime's complete reconquest of the region". Probably most people in Idlib would prefer to be under Turkish protection than under Assad's rule. Such protection, if it continues, would develop into military occupation, and would be very oppressive. But still, most people in Idlib would probably regard it as a lesser evil. People in some other parts of Syria have a different view of who is the lesser evil. Kurds and religious minorities tend to view Turkey as a greater evil. Hence the acceptance of some Assad regime troops and Russian troops in northeastern Syria as a deterrent to the further expansion of the Turkish-occupied area. Chris Slee From: Marxism on behalf of mkaradjis . via Marxism Sent: Thursday, 27 February 2020 12:56:19 AM To: Chris Slee Subject: [Marxism] Syria: Slaughter in Idlib (re: How Much Does the Pentagon Pay for the YPG?) 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 don't agree that the YPG/SDF are mercenaries, Chris is right that they fight their own fight which just happens, for years and years, to be in full agreement with US aims in Syria, though at times it also corresponds to Russian aims. It's no use arguing about how many hundreds of millions of dollars: the US has lent its airforce to the YPG/SDF for years, as entire cities were obliterated. It's simply hilarious that some western YPG cheerleaders still play "anti-imperialism" and call the Syrian rebels "US-backed" etc, while of course the US never flew a single plane for any rebel group, and actively blocked them from getting manpads to shoot down Assad planes. While Assad has bombed everywhere in Syria probably 100s of 1000s of times over 8 years, the one and only time the US ever shot down an Assadist warplanes in all these years was when Assad tried to attack the US's SDF allies. Of course, all this alliance of interests with US and/or Russia could conceivably be a long coincidence, but I don't think it can be analysed outside of the arch-opportunist politics of the PYD leadership. As Louis said, its fundamental problem was that it refused, from day 1, to join the revolution against Assad, to even attempt to seek out alliances. This is now a bigger problem: can Chris find us any statement in which the PYD/YPG/SDF declares some kind of human solidarity with the people of Idlib and northwest Syria as they are facing this genocidal slaughter by Assad and Russia? Of course the answer is no. And even worse are their western cheerleaders. For example, several weeks ago Chris sent a GLW article to the list, written, sadly, by himself (I expected better of Chris), which said, in the context of this horrific slaughter going on, that the only resistance to evil in Syria is of course "Rojava", while the "conflict" in Idlib is between two bad sides. That was an appalling article. Mind you, it was written before Assad's recent reconquest of all the great revolutionary cities and towns: Maraat al-Nuuman, Saraqeb,
[Marxism] Fwd: H-Net Review [H-Asia]: Basu on Sarkar, 'Trouble at the Mill: Factory Law and the Emergence of Labour Question in Late Nineteenth-Century Bombay'
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. * Best regards, Andrew Stewart - - - Subscribe to the Washington Babylon newsletter via https://washingtonbabylon.com/newsletter/ Begin forwarded message: > From: H-Net Staff via H-REVIEW > Date: February 27, 2020 at 5:04:50 PM EST > To: h-rev...@lists.h-net.org > Cc: H-Net Staff > Subject: H-Net Review [H-Asia]: Basu on Sarkar, 'Trouble at the Mill: > Factory Law and the Emergence of Labour Question in Late Nineteenth-Century > Bombay' > Reply-To: h-rev...@lists.h-net.org > > Aditya Sarkar. Trouble at the Mill: Factory Law and the Emergence of > Labour Question in Late Nineteenth-Century Bombay. Oxford University > Press, 2017. 368 pages. $62.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-947442-4. > > Reviewed by Subho Basu (McGill University) > Published on H-Asia (February, 2020) > Commissioned by Sumit Guha > > Basu on Sarkar, _Trouble at the Mill_ > > In the late nineteenth century Bombay became a vast and thriving > city. In Bombay too there came into existence a textile industry > controlled by an indigenous capitalist class. Commencing its journey > in 1856 in Tardeo, the new industry flourished in the closely packed > area of Girangaon, literally translated as "mill village." By 1885 > Girangaon had close to twenty-five cotton textile mills within an > area of twenty-five square kilometers.[1] There also came into > existence textile mills in the interior of Bombay presidency, the > hinterland of Bombay city in Ahmedabad, Nadiad, and other lesser > known towns. The spectacular rise of cotton textile industry and the > concomitant growth of the labor movement in the city from the late > nineteenth century onwards attracted the attention of historians such > as Morris D Morris, Richard Newman, Rajnarayan S. Chandavarkar, and > Sashibhusan Upadhaya.[2] > > In a departure from extant historiography on Bombay labor politics > and industrial relations, Aditya Sarkar's new tome is a critical > engagement with the history of factory legislation in the presidency. > The background to the story could be located in the passage of the > Factory Act of 1881 and the increasing role of the state in shaping > industrial relationships. The chief provisions of this act stipulated > that no child should be employed under the age of seven, children > under the age of twelve should not work in any factory more than nine > hours, and children should not be employed in certain dangerous work > that could cause injury or death. In 1884 the Bombay government > further appointed a commission to inquire into the conditions of > working classes. In 1890, the government of India, rather than the > government of Bombay presidency, appointed a commission to > investigate working conditions in the factories. In the meantime, an > international labor conference in Berlin, which began on March 4, > 1890, recommended that no child should be employed in a factory if > below the age of twelve, or, in tropical lands, ten and, on attaining > the age of fourteen, a child should be regarded as a young person. It > further stipulated that children should not be employed at night or > work for more than six hours a day. Intervening in gender > relationships, the conference concluded that no woman should work for > more than eleven hours a day, or be employed at night. More > importantly, except in certain classes of factories, all operatives > were deemed entitled to a weekly holiday. In the light of this > international conference, in 1891 a new amendment of the Indian > factory act came into existence, which further stipulated that > "children"--a term applied to persons between nine and fourteen years > old--would be allowed to work for seven hours and women were allowed > to work at night in factories where a proper system of shifts had > been adopted, but in line with Berlin conference it restricted the > latter's hours. > > Sarkar uses these acts as a backdrop to interrogate the emergence of > what he terms the "labor question" in Bombay presidency in the late > nineteenth century. Sarkar uses the term to refer to the dialectical > interplay between two kinds of industrial relations regimes: a > regulatory domain of labor legislation and a domain of strikes and > industrial conflicts reflecting workers' resistance to the designs of > capital and colonial state. He argues that the latter demonstrates > the limits of such legislation. In a tightly woven and dexterously > written narrative, Sarkar seeks to map connections between law, > social relations of domination, and emerging forms of labor's > resistance. He provides important insights into several
[Marxism] Airstrike Hits Turkish Forces in Syria
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. * NY Times, Feb. 27, 2020 Airstrike Hits Turkish Forces in Syria By Carlotta Gall ISTANBUL — The Turkish army suffered mass casualties in an airstrike in northwest Syria late Thursday, an attack that could dramatically change the course of the Syrian war. At least 22 Turkish soldiers were killed, said Rahmi Dogan, the Turkish governor of the southern province of Hatay, where the Turkish casualties were arriving. News reports citing social media messages and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a war monitoring group, put the number of Turkish dead as high as 34. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey held an emergency meeting Thursday evening in Ankara, Turkish media reported. He has been calling for Syrian government and Russia forces to cease their two-month offensive in Idlib Province and to pull back from Turkish positions, which have been encircled and cut off by Syrian government forces. Turkish officials said the strike had been carried out by Syrian government forces, but Russian jets have been conducting most of the airstrikes in the area in recent weeks. Russian officials could not be reached for comment late Thursday. Turkey has lost 13 soldiers since deploying reinforcements into the province in recent weeks which has caused growing concern in Turkey. The main opposition party has questioned the wisdom of Turkey’s involvement without air support or American or NATO support. The attack occurred on a Turkish observation post at Al Bara, south of Idlib city. The post is one of 12 Turkish positions set up over a year ago as part of a de-escalation agreement with Russia. A Turkish military convoy traveling to resupply the post on Thursday first came under attack and then jets bombed the post itself, Abu Yahya, a senior official of the Turkish-backed Syrian fighting force in Idlib province, said in an interview. No Syrian fighters were hurt in the bombing. The resupply convoy and the post were solely Turkish. The Turkish-backed Syrian fighters have made significant gains in battles against Syrian government forces further east recently. They captured the town of Saraqib on the main M5 highway through the province on Wednesday and were engaged in fierce battles further south on Thursday. _ 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] "Coronavirus" Covid 19 and expecting the unexpected
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 evidence does not seem to confirm the worst of fears as far as a global and deadly pandemic of what is called "coronavirus". In fact, from what we know at this point, there doesn't seem to be reason why it should become any worse that the so-called Swine Flu of ten years ago. It does, once again, confirm the unpredictability of today's world. https://oaklandsocialist.com/2020/02/27/coronavirus-covid-19-and-expecting-the-unexpected/ John Reimann -- *“In politics, abstract terms conceal treachery.” *from "The Black Jacobins" by C. L. R. James Check out:https:http://oaklandsocialist.com also on Facebook _ 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] Turkey to allow Syrian refugees free passage to Europe | Middle East Eye
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[Marxism] BREAKING: Chicago Police Facebook Fan Page Threatens Bernie Sanders | Washington Babylon
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[Marxism] The stock market
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[Marxism] The Anti-Union Dimension of Cutting Food Stamps | Washington Babylon
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[Marxism] Marx’s law of profitability at SOAS | Michael Roberts Blog
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. * Last week I gave a lecture in the seminar series on Marxist political economy organised by the Department of Development Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). The Marxist Political Economy series is a course mainly for post-graduates and has several lecturers on different aspects of Marxian economics. Course Handbook – Marxist Political Economy 2019-20 (8) Mine was on Marx’s law of the tendency of the rate of profit to fall. Not surprisingly, the department team has noticed that I am apparently ‘obsessed’ by this law, at least according to critics of it. https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2020/02/27/marxs-law-of-profitability-at-soas/ _ 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] Photos: Nevada Nuclear Test Sites | The New York Review of Books | Daily
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[Marxism] Show Me The Words That Will Reorder the World, Or Else Keep Silent: The Ninth Newsletter (2020).
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Re: [Marxism] About advice
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 2/26/20 11:57 PM, Anthony Boynton via Marxism wrote: Our dear friend and moderator just wrote, "I don't write advice to Australian socialists about what tactic to use with respect to the Labour Party. How do people like you and Tony Iltis have the gall to advise us about the Democratic Party?" It depends on what you mean by advice. I advised Australians on this mailing list that they are romanticizing the YPG. On the other hand, I would not advise them on whether to vote for the Green Party or for the Labour Party in Australia because I simply don't know enough about these parties. What I am opposed to is the "Coyoacan Complex" in which you find would-be Trotsky's using their authority to influence the tactics of the left in a country thousands of miles away. Not that I have much authority except to run this mailing list. _ 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
