[Marxism] Abbott unleashes terror against Muslims in Australia
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The Abbott government is pushing racism and Islamophobia to win support for its war in Iraq and to detract attention from its rotten austerity Budget. A war footing and jingoism are the breeding grounds for the ruling class to push fear of the other. The Labor Party is rushing in to support Abbott. As the war deteriorates and the economy worsens the anti-Muslim dog whistles from our politicians will become claxon horns. Opposing the war and fighting against the Budget are linked, and must join up with the fight to defend our Muslim bothers and sisters. http://enpassant.com.au/2014/09/21/abbott-unleashes-terror-against-muslims-in-australia/ 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] Turkey's PKK sending volunteers to join in defence of Syrian Kurds
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Reuters reports below on the PKK’s effort to mobilize young Turkish Kurds join in the defence of their compatriots in the Syrian border town of Kobani. The town is the latest to be threatened by Islamic State forces who have brutally advanced against Kurdish communities in Syria. An estimated 70,000 residents of Kobani have fled across the border into Turkey. The Kurdish communities are being defended against the the better-equpped IS by the People's Protection Units (YPG), in which young women play a prominent role. The units are the armed wing of the left-wing Kurdish Democratic Union party (YPD), the Syrian offshoot of the better known PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party) in Turkey led by Abdullan Ocalan. http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/09/21/syria-crisis-turkey-kurds-idINKBN0HG0AV20140921 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] William Pelz -From Tragedy to Farce: The Rise and Fall of the American Left, 1914-2014
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Re: [Marxism] Workers in Russia protest Moscow's war on Ukraine
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The Aljazeera article is false, in asserting this is the first such mass demonstration in Russia against the war. For accurate information, see the first three links at: https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=russia+protest Solidarity, T -Original Message- From: jay rothermel via Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Sent: Sep 21, 2014 1:49 PM To: Thomas F Barton thomasfbar...@earthlink.net Subject: [Marxism] Workers in Russia protest Moscow's war on Ukraine == Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == NB: Workers in Russia protest Moscow's war on Ukraine. (Defenders of 300 years of Great Russian chauvinism will quickly demur that these protesters are paid dupes and fifth columnists of the IMF, John McCain, Victoria Nuland, USAID, NATO, and the neocon conspiracy. ) Russians stage anti-Ukraine war in Moscow http://www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/2014/09/russians-stage-anti-ukraine-war-moscow-201492114729171223.html Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/thomasfbarton%40earthlink.net 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] Workers in Russia protest Moscow's war on Ukraine
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On Sep 21, 2014, at 1:49 PM, jay rothermel via Marxism wrote: NB: Workers in Russia protest Moscow's war on Ukraine. http://www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/2014/09/russians-stage-anti-ukraine-war-moscow-201492114729171223.html The article cited says precisely nothing to suggest that the demonstrators were Workers, it shows them carrying Ukrainian flags (how can one be antiwar while carrying the banner of one party to that war?), and parrots the governmental and corporate-media phrase Kiev and the West. But we do learn that the rulers of Qatar (funders of Al Nusra) are glad to support antiwar demonstrations--in Moscow! Shane Mage This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire, kindling in measures and going out in measures. Herakleitos of Ephesos 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] Workers in Russia protest Moscow's war on Ukraine
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On Sep 21, 2014, at 1:49 PM, jay rothermel via Marxism wrote: NB: Workers in Russia protest Moscow's war on Ukraine. http://www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/2014/09/russians-stage-anti-ukraine-war-moscow-201492114729171223.html The article cited says precisely nothing to suggest that the demonstrators were Workers, it shows them carrying Ukrainian flags (how can one be antiwar while carrying the banner of one party to that war?), and parrots the governmental and corporate-media phrase Kiev and the West. But we do learn that the rulers of Qatar (funders of Al Nusra) are glad to support antiwar demonstrations--in Moscow! Shane Mage This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire, kindling in measures and going out in measures. Herakleitos of Ephesos 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] Fwd: The Situation in Ukraine | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I have a sense of déjà vu with Ukraine. Not long ago, before Russia poured men and heavy weaponry into Donbas and scattered the Ukrainian military to the four winds, the “anti-imperialist” left was beside itself over war between Russia and NATO. From the rhetoric you’d think a new Operation Barbarossa was in the offing. As about as pure an example of this way of thinking, WSWS.org told its readers on August 11th that “Assault on Donetsk risks war with Russia”, alluding to Samantha Power’s warnings that the US would be “unacceptable”. In reality, the USA had about as much interest in a military confrontation with Russia as did in “regime change” in Syria just a year ago when the same kind of apocalyptic predictions were omnipresent. After the sarin attacks in East Ghouta and Obama’s “red line” bluster, there were the same kinds of doomsday scenarios. Typical was Alan Freeman’s comment on a FB thread: “David, I don’t really know how to begin. The US state is trying to start World War III by mobilising a Europe-US coalition to retake the ground lost to an opposition which, by the admission of its own most prominent defector, commands the support of at most 4 million out of 24 million of the people of Syria.” full: http://louisproyect.org/2014/09/21/the-situation-in-ukraine/ 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] Workers in Russia protest Moscow's war on Ukraine
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On Sep 21, 2014, at 1:49 PM, jay rothermel via Marxism wrote: NB: Workers in Russia protest Moscow's war on Ukraine. http://www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/2014/09/russians-stage-anti-ukraine-war-moscow-201492114729171223.html The article cited says precisely nothing to suggest that the demonstrators were Workers, it shows them carrying Ukrainian flags (how can one be antiwar while carrying the banner of one party to that war?), and parrots the governmental and corporate-media phrase Kiev and the West. But we do learn that the rulers of Qatar (funders of Al Nusra) are glad to support antiwar demonstrations--in Moscow! Shane Mage This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire, kindling in measures and going out in measures. Herakleitos of Ephesos 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] Fwd: Decline and fall: The US SWP’s final embrace of Zionism | Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal
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[Marxism] Vijay Prashad's Syrian contradictions
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == This evening from Linux Beach in San Antonio: Vijay Prashad's Syrian contradictions http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/2014/09/vijay-prashads-syrian-contradictions.html Vijay Prashad's latest defense of Bashar al-Assad, *Obama’s Syrian dilemma* http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/obamas-syrian-dilemma/article6416557.ece?homepage=true, is a bundle of contradictions . The only thing that holds it together is his covert support for Assad. Vijay say near the very beginning of his piece: In Syria, IS faces three adversaries: Kurdish fighters, the Syrian government and an assortment of the Syrian opposition. This is a laugh, after all that has been written on this score, Vijay still counts Assad as a force fighting ISIS in Syria. Sure there have been a few outbreaks but on balance, Assad has been much more friend than foe to ISIS. The sad news this week is that ISIS has succeeded in taking 60 villages away from the badly out-gunned Syrian Kurdish forces and sending another 60,000 of Assad's citizens fleeing across the border to Turkey. The Kurds don't have an air force, but Assad does, well supplied by Putin. So why was Assad's air force MIA, while ISIS took another slice out of Syria? Were they too busy bombing Syrians demanding democracy in Aleppo and Idlib? Vijay takes the position that Obama should team up with Assad to battle ISIS in Syria, rather than those who are really fighting ISIS. In fact, near the end of his piece Vijay seems to contradicted himself when he excuses Assad's failure to take the fight to ISIS with: Mr. Assad will not throw his troops at the IS unless he has an assurance that the rebellion against him is over. So if Assad has yet to throw his troops at the IS [i.e. ISIS], while the Free Syrian Army certainly has, in what sense is he an adversary of IS, to be named ahead of those that have actually been fighting it? This statement is also an admission that both Vijay and Assad know that IS is not a part of the rebellion against him! Vijay goes on to confuse rhetoric with reality when he speaks of: Mr. Obama’s commitment to the overthrow of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad Based on what does he make this claim? Is it like Obama's /commitment/ to a living wage, affordable healthcare, and clean energy? If Obama has been so /committed to the overthrow of Assad,/ why is this morning's CNN headline /US plans to arm Syrian rebels/, sometime in the future, 3.5 years into the conflict? V *More...* http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/2014/09/vijay-prashads-syrian-contradictions.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
