[Marxism] Workers at N.Y.U.’s Abu Dhabi Site Faced Harsh Conditions
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == NY Times, May 19 2014 Workers at N.Y.U.’s Abu Dhabi Site Faced Harsh Conditions By ARIEL KAMINER and SEAN O’DRISCOLL ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — The strike had entered its second day when construction workers at Labor Camp 42 got word that their bosses from the BK Gulf corporation had come to negotiate. Mohammed Amir Waheed Sirkar, an electrician from Bangladesh, scrambled down the stairs to meet them. But when he got to the courtyard, he saw the truth: It wasn’t the bosses who had come. It was the police. They pounded on doors, breaking some down, and hauled dozens of men to prison. Mr. Sirkar was taken to a Dubai police station, where officers interrogated him. After a while, new officers arrived. That’s when things got rough. “They beat me up,” he said through an Urdu interpreter, “asking me to confess I was involved in starting the strike.” Others were slapped, kicked, or beaten with shoes, a special indignity in Arab culture. After nine days in jail, Mr. Sirkar was deported, as were hundreds of other workers. The forceful response was typical for the United Arab Emirates, where strikes are illegal and labor conditions grim, but most of the men who went on strike last October were working on a project that originated in America: a large new campus for New York University. Facing criticism for venturing into a country where dissent is not tolerated and labor can resemble indentured servitude, N.Y.U. in 2009 issued a “statement of labor values” that it said would guarantee fair treatment of workers. But interviews by The New York Times with dozens of workers who built N.Y.U.’s recently completed campus found that conditions on the project were often starkly different from the ideal. Virtually every one said he had to pay recruitment fees of up to a year’s wages to get his job and had never been reimbursed. N.Y.U.’s list of labor values said that contractors are supposed to pay back all such fees. Most of the men described having to work 11 or 12 hours a day, six or seven days a week, just to earn close to what they had originally been promised, despite a provision in the labor statement that overtime should be voluntary. The men said they were not allowed to hold onto their passports, in spite of promises to the contrary. And the experiences of the BK Gulf strikers, a half dozen of whom were reached by The Times in their home countries, stand in contrast to the standard that all workers should have the right to redress labor disputes without “harassment, intimidation, or retaliation.” Some men lived in squalor, 15 men to a room. The university said there should be no more than four. “Not happy,” Munawar, a painter from Bangladesh who only gave one name declared, speaking in limited English. Back home, he said, they have lives, families. “Come here,” he concluded, “not happy.” N.Y.U. Abu Dhabi is a bold undertaking, matching the ambitions of one of the world’s wealthiest nations with those of America’s largest private university. It is also one of the most closely watched of a growing number of experiments in academic globalization. N.Y.U.’s president, John Sexton, has called the outpost, an entire degree-granting institution, “an opportunity to transform the university and, frankly, the world.” But Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, is an unlikely setting for a university built on the American model. Academic freedom is unheard-of, criticizing government is a crime and an employment system known as kafala leaves millions of immigrant workers tethered to the companies that sponsor their visas. N.Y.U. has said the campus will be built and run as a “cultural free zone,” where the university’s core values prevail, from the treatment of workers to the protection of scholarly inquiry. The university says that its efforts to ensure humane living and working conditions have been unprecedented. Told of the laborers’ complaints, officials said they could not vouch for the treatment of individual construction workers, since they are not employees of the university but rather of companies that work as contractors or subcontractors for the government agency overseeing the project. Those companies are contractually obligated to follow the statement of labor values. To help monitor the situation, an engineering firm, Mott MacDonald, has been on hand to interview workers and prepare annual reports. The latest, released last month, noted some challenges, including a single contractor who fell behind on one month’s wages, but concluded, “Over all, there is strong evidence confirming the N.Y.U.A.D. project is taking workers’ rights seriously.” The report made no mention of the BK Gulf strike, or the
[Marxism] Second Libyan Upheaval, this Time Against Political Islam, Extremist Militias | Informed Comment
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == In Benghazi on Monday morning, fighting resumed between the “Libyan National Army” forces of Col. Khalifa Hafter and fundamentalist extremists. The latter fired rockets at the Benina military airport overnight, but caused no casualties. It was from this base that aircraft were flown on Friday against positions of the fundamentalists, by air force personnel who had joined Haftar’s movement. Gen. Muhammad Hijazi of the “Libyan National Army” gave an interview to al-Arabiya in which he maintained that the extremist militias were linked to the Muslim Brotherhood in Benghazi and that the officers were determined to crush both. Journalists reporting from Libya such as Mary Fitzgerald are saying that Hafter’s move against the extremists is being well received. Even Aljazeera had a guest on who said that if Hafter hadn’t moved against Ansar al-Sharia, someone else would have, since the string of assassinations and bombings conducted by the extremists in Benghazi is unacceptable to the population. full: http://www.juancole.com/2014/05/revolution-political-extremist.html Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Quick Thoughts: Vijay Prashad on India’s Parliamentary Elections
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[Marxism] Historians reveal African-Americans’ role in WWI—and how it influenced later civil-rights struggles
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Other black soldiers suffered as well. And the problems continued back home, where the hoped-for expansion of civil rights failed to materialize. That partly explains why scholars for years largely neglected the black experience in World War I. The era, Williams says, was seen as a disillusioning moment of racial retrenchment. As he writes, black soldiers returned home to a wave of racial violence unmatched since the aftermath of the Civil War. At least 11 black veterans were lynched in 1919. Some 25 race riots flared up across the country. Black soldiers from the South were urged not to return home in military dress. Some were met at train stations by white mobs and forced to remove their uniforms. full: http://chronicle.com/article/Roots-of-Freedom/146551/ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Was the American Revolution a counter-revolution to protect slavery?
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == A few weeks after the Second Continental Congress authorized a Continental army, white Carolinians uncovered the insurrectionary slave plot they anticipated. The leader was not a slave but a free black man. Jeremiah, a fisherman and boat pilot who knew the shallow waters of Charleston’s harbor, hoped to be the agent of deliverance for thousands of slaves. Several months earlier, he had spread the word that “there is a great war coming soon” and that the British would “come to help the poor negroes.” After arresting him, white authorities charged Jeremiah with plotting an insurrection and intending to pilot the Royal Navy over the treacherous sandbar that blocked the entrance to Charleston’s harbor. On August 18, 1775, white authorities hanged Jeremiah and burned him at the stake, despite the efforts of William Campbell, the newly arrived royal governor, to save his life. Believing that the evidence against Jeremiah was very thin, the governor wrote home that “my blood ran cold when I read what ground they had doomed a low creature to death.” His efforts to save Jeremiah “raised such a clamor amongst the people, as is incredible,” wrote Campbell, “and they openly and loudly declared, if I granted the man a pardon they would hang him at my door.” Executions and burnings at the stake were acts of terror to keep rebellion-minded slaves intimidated. But reducing Jeremiah to ashes or cropping the ears of slaves did not hold back the waves of slave unrest in the summer of 1775. The wave crested in late fall when Virginia’s governor, Lord Dunmore, made official what everyone had known he intended for months. On November 7, 1775, aboard the William, anchored in Norfolk harbor, he drafted a royal proclamation declaring martial law and labeling as traitors to the king any colonist who refused “to resort to his Majesty’s standard.” The proclamation included the dreaded words: “I do hereby further declare all indented servants, Negroes, or others (appertaining to Rebels) free, that are able and willing to bear arms, they joining His Majesty’s Troops as soon as may be, for the more speedily reducing the Colony to a proper sense of their duty, to His Majesty’s crown and dignity.” full: http://louisproyect.org/2013/01/10/lord-dunmore-and-the-ethiopian-regiment/ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] [Left Forum Event] India: In the Wake of Communal Fascism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Subscribers of the Marxmail listserv are cordially invited to Sanhati's annual public meeting at the Left Forum in New York City. The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) governments, in the last ten years, championed the cause of big capital with unbridled enthusiasm. They hastily put India on the well-tread path of neoliberalization and partially subordinated the national economy to global capital. These policies brought immiserization, debt-bondage and mass unemployment to the farmers and laborers. To open up the vast mineral wealth of India to corporate plunder, exemplified by the indiscriminate and illegal allocation of coal mining blocks to companies, there has been a war against the poor in large parts of central and eastern India. Dissent and resistance against these policies has been met with state repression and draconian laws, which created many political prisoners. The emergence of Narenda Modi, who oversaw the mass murder of Muslims in the state of Gujarat, as the figurehead of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), represents a potential intensification of these trends in the direction of communal fascism; the emergence of the Aam Aadmi Party, or the so-called party of the Common Man, was an alternative center of gravity for the urban middle classes. What can we expect in the wake of the general election? Reading list: Statement by Sanhati Collective on the 2014 General Election in India: http://sanhati.com/excerpted/9531/. For details visit: http://www.leftforum.org/content/wake-communal-fascism-india Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] UKRAINE: Excuse Me Mister: How Far Is It From Simferopol To Grozny? | Tahrir-ICN
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == There is an interesting split in perception, on the “Left,” when it comes to imperialism. It seems fair to say we all agree on the need to oppose US imperialism. However, as soon as the picture is complemented by a second state with imperial aspirations, many—especially Western—“leftists” equivocate, and seem willing to choose the perceived lesser of two evils. This dualistic approach has its roots in the Cold War; it is the useless remnant of a period when to be pro-Soviet might have implied being anti-capitalist. It was wrong then, it is wrong now, and it is time to get rid of it. The latest example of this difficulty in renouncing the false choice between evils has come with the crisis in Ukraine. Commentators around the world are drumming up evidence to support the hype that a new Cold War is at hand. Publicly, tensions between the US and Russia appear to be rising; however behind the curtain nothing is all that new. The US, the EU and NATO have always been trying to push their scope of influence eastwards; Russia has never been willing to cede political influence, control over pipelines, or access to resources in its former Soviet territories. More importantly, however, and refuting the vision of a new Cold War at our doorstep, is the fact that the US has been handing out “aid” to Russia since 1992, attached to conditions demanding deregulation imposed by the victory march of Bretton Woods (and later Troika) institutions. We are used to hypocritical US foreign policy; its stance towards Russia serves just as another example. We keep hearing calls out of the White House urging Russia to respect dissent and the opposition. Along with the US’s own draconian attitude toward dissent and opposition, this continuous backdoor support of Putinʼs regime reduces such calls to so much hot air.⁵ Nevertheless, Obama and his Western colleagues stay plenty busy reaffirming themselves with ridiculous sanctions which have no impact whatsoever on Putinʼs or his pet oligarchs’ greed.⁶ At any rate, the previously mentioned US vs. Russia narrative continues to fill the airwaves, and of course the US is not the only one making noise. From an anti-authoritarian standpoint, it is frustrating as well as saddening to see the Kremlin’s propaganda make its merry way around the world wide web. Indeed, Russian mainstream media has much in common with that of the US and EU—each points the finger at the “other side.” “Leftists” and anarchists should, however, be able to see through this game and reject both claims. The “West” does not have a monopoly on imperialism, and it is not by opposing only Western imperialism that we show our solidarity with ethnic minorities, marginalized groups, radical Left opposition or the working class—all of whom will be the main victims of continued aggression. In fact, to do so has dire human and political consequences; it enables the continued oppression and killing of ethnic minorities and weakens those few voices that do manage to get heard from within the opposition movements in Russia and Ukraine. Further, this reckless attitude results in a direct conflict among “leftists.” Many are unwilling to condemn Russian aggression for what it is, fearing this would imply support for their own imperialists, similar to those “leftists” that tried to defend first Qaddafi, later Assad, and now Putin.⁷ ⁸ Two wrongs don’t make a right. full: http://tahriricn.wordpress.com/2014/05/19/ukraine-excuse-me-mister-how-far-is-it-from-simferopol-to-grozny/ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] New Activist Newsletter,
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == May 19, 2014, Issue 202 HUDSON VALLEY ACTIVIST NEWSLETTER, jac...@earthlink.net Articles at http://activistnewsletter.blogspot.com/ 1. Quotes Of The Month — Ida B. Wells (1862-1931) 2. Climate Change Requires A Radical Solution 3. Earth Could Warm 11 Degrees By 2100 4. Western Antarctic Ice Sheet Is Collapsing 5. Climate Change Risks Security And Wars 6. Workers Strike For Living Wage 7. Guantánamo Forced Feeding Stalled 8. Right Wing Party Now Rules India 9. More Women Than Men Earn Minimum Wage 10. Wealth Begets Wealth for Top 1% 11. America: ‘The Majority Does Not Rule’ 12. Neoliberalism's War on Democracy 13. Vets Nix U.S. Troops Near Ukraine 14. Thousands March on Congress 15. ‘Cowboys and Indians’ Say ‘Stop Pipeline’ 16. Arrests in Anti-Drone Protest 17. Urban Air Quality Gets Worse 18. Outdoor Pollution Worst for U.S. Blacks 19. Food Shortage Crisis by Mid-Century? 20. Grave Waste of Food In U.S. 21. The Origins of Jim Crow Segregation 22. Brown V. Board at 60 23. China's Environmental Challenges 24. Gabriel García Márquez Died April 17 25. Mourning The Loss of “Hurricane” Carter 26. Vatican: 3,500 Errant Priests Punished 27. New Hampshire to Legalize Adultery Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] A response to the Kellogg-Riddell exchange on the early Comintern: | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I strongly recommend that you read two important contributions to understanding the role of the early Comintern. The first is an article by Paul Kellogg titled “Substitutionism versus Self‐emancipation: The Theory of the Offensive, the Russo‐Polish War of 1920 and the German March Action of 1921” that can be downloaded from here. I was particularly interested to read this since I had learned from Paul that it was in the works back in April 2013 at the HM Conference. He related a positively hair-raising narrative of the Red Army invading Poland to extend the Bolshevik revolution at the point of a bayonet led by a former Czarist officer who was a raving anti-Semite. This was Mikhail Tukhachevsky, a very capable military man who was among those put up against the firing squad on Stalin’s orders on the eve of WWII. In the interests of transparency, I must confess a strong identification with Paul Kellogg’s analysis, especially on the importance of Comintern’s role in the German disaster of the early 1920s. He has written a defense of Paul Levi who opposed the bumbling diktats of the Kremlin that relies on the same material I found useful—Pierre Broue’s history of the ill-fated German revolution as well as Werner T. Angress’s “Stillborn Revolution; The Communist Bid For Power In Germany, 1921 1923”. Based on my review of the German events, I came to the conclusion that the Comintern imposed a “Zinovievist” party-building model on the Comintern that led to both Stalinists and Trotskyists turning away from what was truly revolutionary about Lenin’s party—its ability to draw revolutionary-minded workers into struggle without bureaucratic or sectarian limitations. The “Zinovievist” model put a premium on “democratic centralism” and discipline for good reasons. After the German disaster, it became necessary to circle the wagons and protect the leadership in Moscow from the responsibility of defending an indefensible policy. Many years later, I saw the same tendencies at work in the American SWP, a group whose “turn toward industry” was just as disastrous but fortunately limited to a marginal sect on the American left rather than the working class in its millions. Paul Kellogg’s article was a review of John Riddell’s Toward the United Front: Proceedings of the Fourth Congress of the Communist International, 1922, a book published by Haymarket. Since I think this is a book that belongs on everybody’s bookshelf, it is too bad that the publisher has put a $55 price tag on it. Years ago, when Riddell was a member of the Trotskyist movement in Canada, Pathfinder Press in the USA—the publishing arm of the SWP—came out with a number of books by Riddell on the Comintern that now no longer appear in their catalogs. This is far worse than Haymarket’s offense. I should add that I have a somewhat different take on where things like the Comintern proceedings belong. They should be on the Marxist Internet Archives along with the rest of the core literature of our movement and not for sale by small propaganda groups or outfits like Lawrence-Wishart. If Haymarket had made such a decision, their political capital would have increased immensely even if their bottom line had decreased. Forget about Pathfinder—they sicced their corporate lawyers on MIA some years ago when the comrades put some of their copyrighted material on the Net. full: http://louisproyect.org/2014/05/19/a-response-to-the-kellogg-riddell-exchange-on-the-early-comintern/ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Then They Came for the Juggalos
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The key question of why this community came together in the first place — while other lower-class groupings across the social terrain are losing ground and influence — is never asked. But this is perhaps exactly what has given the juggalos their power — and in my mind, what has made them dangerous in the eyes of the State. As Ice Cube once said at the Gathering, 'Man, if this shit was political…there'd be no stopping it.' http://www.faygoluvers.net/v5/2014/05/then-they-came-for-the-juggalos -- Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] General strike challenges ISIS in Aleppo town | News , Middle East | THE DAILY STAR
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[Marxism] Ukraine – the Russians are the aggressors | Socialist Resistance
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The movement that brought down the Yanukovich regime was contradictory. It could hardly have been otherwise in a society run by gangster capitalists who atomised mass consciousness and ran political parties as means of sharing the spoils between competing groups of oligarchs. An issue of serious concern has been the presence of the far right both in the mass movement and the newly formed government. We’ll set aside for a moment the widespread presence of the far right in Putin’s Russia. Ukraine has a specific history which has left a legacy of a deep antipathy to everything tainted by the Soviet Union. The famine Stalin inflicted on Ukraine in 1932-3 (which was covered up by many socialists at the time) is estimated to have killed 7.5 million people. Many Ukrainians interpret it as a deliberate act of genocide by the Moscow regime. It is inevitable that a national trauma on that scale will affect the way people view history. It goes some way to explaining why anti-Soviet rhetoric has such an appeal and the far right has successfully exploited the memory of that Stalinist crime. full: http://socialistresistance.org/6085/ukraine-the-russians-are-the-aggressors Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] A History of ‘Price-Tag’ Violence « LRB blog
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 10 May, Amos Oz criticised the so-called ‘price-tag attacks’ carried out by Israeli settlers. The label is used by the culprits themselves to describe retaliatory violence against Palestinians: beatings and arson as well as racist graffiti sprayed on the walls of churches and mosques. Oz described the perpetrators as ‘Hebrew neo-Nazi groups’. The next day, he said: The comparison that I made was to neo-Nazis and not to Nazis. Nazis build incinerators and gas chambers; neo-Nazis desecrate places of worship, cemeteries, beat innocent people and write racist slogans. That is what they do in Europe, and that is what they do here. Oz’s sentiments are shared by Israeli liberals and conservatives, who together condemn the attacks as repugnant. The Jerusalem Post said that ‘price-tag attacks fit the definition of terror no less than [suicide] bus bombings’. But the equation with suicide bombers, like Oz’s provocative comparison with European neo-Nazism, does more to conceal than to reveal the violence perpetrated against Palestinians, above all the violence of the Israeli state. full: http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2014/05/15/neve-gordon-and-nicola-perugini/a-history-of-price-tag-violence/ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] The evolution of direct action in the struggle for Palestinian return
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Recent years have seen a shift away from events that 'commemorate' the Nakba as a historical event as the new generation of activists are seeking and developing new forms of direct action for the right of return amidst what could be seen as a burgeoning anti-colonial struggle in Palestine. http://www.middleeasteye.net/essays/evolution-direct-action-struggle-palestinian-return -- Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] ▶ Gilbert Achcar: Syria and the Arab Uprisings - YouTube
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[Marxism] David Harvey, Piketty and the central contradiction of capitalism | Michael Roberts Blog
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[Marxism] Worth a re-read NY Times in Libyan coup in Feb.
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[Marxism] Behind the lines: Ukrainian leftists in the Donbas | Observer Ukraine
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == An interview with Mykola Tsikhno, co-ordinator of the National Communist Front. Taken by Chris Ford, 16 May 2014; translated by Marko Bojcun Preface Mykola Tsikhno explains in this interview why he and his comrades call themselves national communists. He also refers, but only in passing, to this tradition in the history of the Ukrainian Communist movement. During the Revolution and Civil War of 1917-21 there emerged a political current simultaneously in three parties – the Ukrainian Social Democratic Workers Party, the Ukrainian Party of Socialist Revolutionaries and the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine – that called for an independent Ukrainian republic of workers and peasants, with its own army and foreign policy and with an independent (of the Russian Bolsheviks) representation in the Third (Communist) International. The adherents to this current based their demands on a shared analysis of national oppression as an integral part of class oppression, which led them to envisage the resolution of national oppression simultaneously with overcoming all the inequalities inherent in the division of labour under capitalism. This political current found its ultimate expression in the Ukrainian Communist Party, which was the last surviving legal opposition party in the Soviet Union. Adherents to this current did not choose to call themselves “national communists”, but were rather labelled as such, as “deviationists” from the official line, by their critics in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Third International. Almost all their leading members perished in Stalin’s purges. The term national communism was revived again and applied by Stalin’s agents against the Yugoslav communists and other communists in Eastern Europe who took positions independent of Stalin in the late 1940s and early 1950s. full: http://observerukraine.net/2014/05/19/behind-the-lines-ukrainian-leftists-in-the-donbas/ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] fyi Matrix extract published on Naked Capitalism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/05/michael-perelman-military-keynesianism.html -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.com Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Thailand: Amid coup, Red Shirt leaders not up to job of democracy struggle
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Apologies that link is to an older article by Giles. This is the current article: https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/56500 On 20 May 2014 15:52, Stuart Munckton stuartmunck...@gmail.com wrote: A military coup is developing on May 20 in Thailand. The military has stepped in to declare martial law to “restore peace and order while denying it is a coup. The country’s Constitutional Court had already dismissed the elected government of prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra on May 7. It came after months of violent right-wing protests including sabotage of elections aimed to resolve the country’s political crisis. The military is imposing media ceonsorship and there are reports of soldiers targeting demonstrations by the pro-democracy Red Shirt movement. The Red Shirts launched mass protests against the 2006 coup that overthrew the government of Thaskin Shinawatra (Yingluck’s father). The Red Shirt movement is largely based on the poor, who benefited from some polices of Thaskin’s government. In an the article below, written before the declaration of a state of emergency, *Giles Ji Ungpakorn* discusses how Red Shirt leaders have largely demobilised the mass movement after Yingluck was elected in 2011 and have not taken the lead to organise the poor against the pro-elite right-wing attacks. https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/56422 -- “Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is humanity’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.” — Oscar Wilde, Soul of Man Under Socialism “The free market is perfectly natural... do you think I am some kind of dummy?” — Jarvis Cocker -- “Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is humanity’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.” — Oscar Wilde, Soul of Man Under Socialism “The free market is perfectly natural... do you think I am some kind of dummy?” — Jarvis Cocker Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
