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Andy mentioned that the tour was organised out of Australia. That
doesn't surprise me at all, we have an unusually large segment both of
the left and of the Arabic population that shill for Assad here. With
the left it probably relates to a bit of isolation, just catching onto
bits and pieces of shallow "anti-imperialist" BS from abroad and from
some celebrity leftists; with sections of the Arabic community, of
course it is by no means overwhelming or even majority, but when we hear
of Arab and especially Syrian activists in the US, UK etc, we often hear
of a lot of activism around the Syrian revolution; for some reason,
Sydney in particular seems a hotbed of Lebanese-Syrian
Christian/Alawite/Islamophobic Shabia types (they go way back before the
outbreak of the Syrian uprising), including a significant base of the
Syrian National Socialist Party (SSNP), you know, the ones that wave the
swastika.
That said, I have no idea who this mob are. They are the 'Social Justice
network', who have a website that looks brand new
(http://socialjustice.net.au/). The usual list of "home" "about",
"contact" etc at top of webpage, but one additional one, "international
tours of peace to Syria." A FB page where one in two posts is dedicated
to attacking the Greens (even posting a vicious red-baiting article from
Murdoch's idiosyncratically right-wing 'Australian' attacking a leading
left-wing Green, Lee Rhiannon, as a Stalinist), even for Greens support
for ... "terrorism," and the other half are posts about their tours to
"Potemkin villages", not in Communist states, but in Assad's fascist
state.
It is often noted that Australian fauna and flora are interesting.
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From: Andrew Pollack via Marxism
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2016 10:36 AM
To: Michael Karadjis
Cc: Activists and scholars in Marxist tradition
Subject: Re: [Marxism] Mondoweiss pimps for Assad
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see also Louis's earlier piece:
https://louisproyect.org/2014/01/18/mondoweiss-as-a-baathist-outlet/
and a great guide - ironically at mondo - by Ramah Kudaimi:
http://mondoweiss.net/2013/08/dos-and-donts-for-progressives-discussing-syria/
On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 8:31 PM, Louis Proyect <l...@panix.com> wrote:
On 4/25/16 5:47 PM, Andrew Pollack via Marxism wrote:
http://mondoweiss.net/2016/04/say-hello-to-zenobia-a-report-from-palmyra-rising-from-the-ashes/
The delegation was organized by an explicitly pro-Assad group and the
reportback is unabashedly pro-regime, pro-Russia genocide.
I just posted a comment:
Sad to see Jeff Klein writing this kind of garbage. I knew him back in
the
late 80s when he was involved with Tecnica and when both of us had
high
hopes that the FSLN could have succeeded in building an alternative to
neoliberalism. But writing this kind of pap for a blood-drenched
tyranny
whose top capitalist crony of Bashar al-Assad was revealed to be
hiding
billions in Panama banks really makes me want to throw up.
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