Re: [Marxism] Piketty and the Crisis of Neoclassical Economics | John Bellamy Foster | Monthly Review
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. * For those who read German: I also published a book with Stephan Kaufman on Piketty: www.bertz-fischer.de/kapitalismusdieersten.html Am 01.11.2014 um 13:43 schrieb Louis Proyect via Marxism: 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. * http://monthlyreview.org/2014/11/01/piketty-and-the-crisis-of-neoclassical-economics/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/vl-box%40stuetzle.in-berlin.de _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] US cuts funding for NGO investigating war crimes in Syria
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Lena Dunham and America’s Wet Dream » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
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. * 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 3 November 2014 17:11, Louis Proyect via Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu wrote: In the meat market of American celebrity, all we have to sell is a little piece of our self, and we’re taught to sell it over and over and over, in whatever way we can. If we’re thin and hot, flog that. If we have the personality of a fart, take out a Facebook ad for it. America is a nonstop branding machine for assholes intent on commodifying their dreadful and utterly banal personalities into a career. Dunham is no different. Her success lies not in the fact that she is uniquely shaped and sized, writes “refreshingly” about tedious uncomfortable sex, gets her tits out all the time and wears truly awful outfits from Urban Outfitters. Her success lies in the fact that she is fat, white, rich, privileged, racist, ignorant and disgusting: just like the heart of American society. That...was f**king brilliant. Just to add, in her book she apparently reveals without shame or purpose that when she was 7 years old she molested her then 1 year old sister. She also claims that the first time she did this, she found that her sister had shoved pebbles in her vagina (a physical impossibility for an infant, which lacks the necessary dexterity). Regardless, the molestation continued throughout their early childhood. Not only that, but when her lesbian sister refused to come out to their parents, Lena outed her sister to them. Her sister subsequently refused to speak to Lena for 2 years. One wonders why on earth she ever spoke to Lena again. What a truly horrible person. Solidarity, Seb _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Cops and White House conspired to keep media out of Ferguson
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Re: [Marxism] Furuhashi posts dodgy tweets
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 Nov 4, 2014, at 9:05 AM, Louis Proyect via Marxism wrote: ...when an Israeli minister of defense says that the FSA should be supported, that has about as much significance as Barack Obama saying that every American should have a job or me telling my neighbor to have a nice day... None are so deaf as those who refuse to hear. When an authoritative figure, in position to give full weight to his words, says an insurgency next door should be supported, that is as close as such a person will ever come to admitting that it IS being supported (Israel in fact is the ONLY foreign country to attack the armed forces of the Syrian regime, claiming as cover self-defense over the Golan). Among others in the crowd who agree that the FSA should be supported are not only Obama and the Israeli government--they include Cameron, Hollande, Erzogan, and (as cover for their active support to various jihadi factions) all the crowned heads and dictators around the Gulf. And who else? Shane Mage Space may appear empty -- a soundless vacuum, but it's not an absolute void. It flows with electric activity that is not visible to our eyes. (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Fwd: Pay Rent or Drink Water: The Human Rights Crisis in Detroit Escalates
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Re: [Marxism] Furuhashi posts dodgy tweets
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 11/4/14 9:41 AM, Shane Mage wrote: When an authoritative figure, in position to give full weight to his words, says an insurgency next door should be supported, that is as close as such a person will ever come to admitting that it IS being supported (Israel in fact is the ONLY foreign country to attack the armed forces of the Syrian regime, claiming as cover self-defense over the Golan). Speaking of Golan: Noam Chomsky: If the US and Israel wanted to assist the rebels – which they do not – they can do it, even without military intervention. For example, if Israel were to mobilise forces on the Golan Heights (of course, it’s the Syrian Golan heights, but by now the world more or less tolerates or accepts Israel’s illegal occupation,) If they would just do that, It would compel Assad to move forces to the South which would relieve pressure against the rebels. But there’s no hint even of that. They’re also not giving humanitarian aid to the huge number of suffering refugees, not doing all kinds of simple things that they could do. full: http://ceasefiremagazine.co.uk/noam-chomsky-syria-descends-suicide-israel-enjoying-spectacle/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Fwd: The Working Families Party in historical context | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Comments on “Strategy and Tactics in a Revolutionary Period: U. S. Trotskyism and the European Revolution, 1943–1946″ | 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. * Came across this introduction by the IMT to a 1930 letter from Trotsky to Italian communists on what might follow the defeat of the fascist regime: A precious lesson from Trotsky on the Constituent Assembly and other matters http://www.marxist.com/trotsky-constituent-assembly090604.htm and these sentences among other relevant comments in Trotsky's 1930 letter Problems of the Italian Revolution : . . . Does this mean that Italy cannot, for a certain time, again become a parliamentary state or become a democratic republic? I consider—in perfect agreement with you, I think—that this eventuality is not excluded. But then it will not be the fruit of a bourgeois revolution, but the abortion of an insufficiently matured and premature proletarian revolution. In the event of a profound revolutionary crisis and mass battles in the course of which the proletarian vanguard will not have been in a position to take power, it may be that the bourgeoisie will restore its rule on democratic bases. . . http://www.marxist.com/problems-italian-revolution-trotsky1930.htm On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 4:40 PM, Louis Proyect via Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu wrote: I looked forward to Daniel Gaido and Velia Luparello’s article “Strategy and Tactics in a Revolutionary Period: U. S. Trotskyism and the European Revolution, 1943–1946″ in the latest “Science and Society” for a couple of reasons. . . I was also very interested in any discussion of the Goldman-Morrow tendency in the SWP since I had written an article about 15 years ago defending their analysis of how European politics would evolve with the collapse of fascism. Gaido and Luparello’s article is also sympathetic to Goldman and Morrow but from a somewhat different perspective than mine. full: http://louisproyect.org/2014/09/29/comments-on-strategy-and-tactics-in-a-revolutionary-period-u-s-trotskyism-and-the-european-revolution-1943-1946/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Thousands Protest Hospital Closures and Medical Staff Layoffs in Moscow
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Re: [Marxism] Thousands Protest Hospital Closures and Medical Staff Layoffs in Moscow
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[Marxism] Stalinist-Trotskyist bromance
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. * One of the things I find so disturbing is the growing affinity between a part of the left that has its roots in the Trotskyist movement and the Novorossiya project in Donbass and Crimea. It involves people like Roger Annis in Canada, Renfrey Clark in Australia, as well as currents associated with John Rees's Counterfire, et al. Today I was reminded of how much of an affinity there is between neo-Stalinism and ortho-Trotskyism when an interview with Colonel Cassad cropped up on CounterPunch. An interview with the guy who blogs as Colonel Cassad was conducted by Jo and Dylan Murphy, members of Peter Taaffe's Socialist Party in Britain. This is the mothership of Socialist Alternative in the USA. They god his name assbackwards: An Interview with Rozhin Boris--it is actually Boris Rozhin. Anyhow, Rozhin is a passionate fan of Joseph Stalin as this article from GlobalVoices indicates: If this is the case, 32-year-old Sevastopol native Boris Rozhin is bucking the trend. Rozhin, who runs the popular blog Colonel Cassad, is unrepentant in his admiration for the Soviet Union, particularly its military achievements in the Second World War. Rozhin is also unapologetic about his admiration for Joseph Stalin, whom he credits with winning the war and accomplishing the Soviet Union's rapid economic growth in the 20th century. His blog carries the half-ironic subtitle, “The Mouthpiece of Totalitarian Propaganda.” The biggest influence on his writing, Rozhin claims, are his communist beliefs, which “incline [him] towards class and dialectical conclusions when analyzing one event or another.” http://globalvoicesonline.org/2014/07/30/russia-eastern-ukraine-unfiltered-colonel-cassad-crimea-stalinism/ The interview is filled with the usual bullshit you get from Borotba, Boris Kagarlitsky and other mouthpieces of a Great Russian chauvinism that hearkens back to Stalin's riding roughshod over lesser nationalities. This final exchange between the ortho-Trots and Colonel Cassad is enough to induce projectile vomiting: Q: The war in Eastern Ukraine has led to an influx of foreign volunteers going to fight for the self-defence militias of Lugansk and Donetsk. According to a report in August by Paula Slier of Russia Today a brigade of international volunteers is to be formed called ‘United Continent’. Do you think parallels can be drawn between this force and the International Brigades that fought against fascism in the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s? A: First you need to understand that the major part of the army of Novorossia are local residents. Volunteers from Russia make up about 10-15 % of the militia. 1-2% of the volunteers who serve in the militias come from other countries – the US, Germany, Italy, France, Spain, Brazil, Colombia, Serbia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Abkhazia, South Ossetia and a number of other countries. The main motivation of these people is to fight against fascism. With the increase in the number of left-wing and communist units in the armed forces of Novorossia (especially in the mechanized brigade, known as the “ghost” Alexey think-tank, which openly advocated the elimination of large capital), this analogy with the International Brigades has become even more apparent. It is understood that, in combat units there are people across the political and ideological views – in one battalion can be found Christian believers (Orthodox, or Mormons), and atheists, communists, and anarchists. The fight against Ukrainian fascism has drawn these seemingly polar ideological and political currents together. It is therefore to strengthen the Armed Forces of Novorossia that Lenin portraits can peacefully coexist with icons. One commander who does not love communists, can still raise people in an attack with screaming, “For the Homeland! For Stalin! “. For many in the the Russian Federation and Europe – this is not just a war, this is our Spain 1936-1938. The present bloody war reflects the profound contradictions of the contemporary global capitalist world. _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Racism: it is not just about colour
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Re: [Marxism] Stalinist-Trotskyist bromance
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. * Not suprising. Both Stalin and Trotsky agreed, contra Lenin, that Russia was socialist. The infamous Socialism in one country delusion. T -Original Message- From: Louis Proyect via Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Sent: Nov 4, 2014 3:28 PM To: Thomas F Barton thomasfbar...@earthlink.net Subject: [Marxism] Stalinist-Trotskyist bromance 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. * One of the things I find so disturbing is the growing affinity between a part of the left that has its roots in the Trotskyist movement and the Novorossiya project in Donbass and Crimea. It involves people like Roger Annis in Canada, Renfrey Clark in Australia, as well as currents associated with John Rees's Counterfire, et al. Today I was reminded of how much of an affinity there is between neo-Stalinism and ortho-Trotskyism when an interview with Colonel Cassad cropped up on CounterPunch. _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Stalinist-Trotskyist bromance
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 11/4/14 4:34 PM, Thomas wrote: Both Stalin and Trotsky agreed, contra Lenin, that Russia was socialist. Not to sound pedantic, but Trotsky adamantly refused to describe Russia as socialist. From The Revolution Betrayed: The Soviet Union is a contradictory society halfway between capitalism and socialism, in which: (a) the productive forces are still far from adequate to give the state property a socialist character; (b) the tendency toward primitive accumulation created by want breaks out through innumerable pores of the planned economy; (c) norms of distribution preserving a bourgeois character lie at the basis of a new differentiation of society; (d) the economic growth, while slowly bettering the situation of the toilers, promotes a swift formation of privileged strata; (e) exploiting the social antagonisms, a bureaucracy has converted itself into an uncontrolled caste alien to socialism; (f) the social revolution, betrayed by the ruling party, still exists in property relations and in the consciousness of the toiling masses; (g) a further development of the accumulating contradictions can as well lead to socialism as back to capitalism; (h) on the road to capitalism the counterrevolution would have to break the resistance of the workers; (i) on the road to socialism the workers would have to overthrow the bureaucracy. In the last analysis, the question will be decided by a struggle of living social forces, both on the national and the world arena. Doctrinaires will doubtless not be satisfied with this hypothetical definition. They would like categorical formulae: yes – yes, and no – no. Sociological problems would certainly be simpler, if social phenomena had always a finished character. There is nothing more dangerous, however, than to throw out of reality, for the sake of logical completeness, elements which today violate your scheme and tomorrow may wholly overturn it. In our analysis, we have above all avoided doing violence to dynamic social formations which have had no precedent and have no analogies. The scientific task, as well as the political, is not to give a finished definition to an unfinished process, but to follow all its stages, separate its progressive from its reactionary tendencies, expose their mutual relations, foresee possible variants of development, and find in this foresight a basis for action. _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] HOW TO CARRY ON THE TRADITION OF TROTSKYIM OF AMERICAN SWP AND THEIR PREDESSORS FROM 1930 TO 1976 IN TODAY'S WORLD AND POLTICS TODAY!
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[Marxism] How not to write an informative headline: Libyan Troops Go Wild In England
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Re: [Marxism] Stalinist-Trotskyist bromance
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. * Louis wrote: From The Revolution Betrayed: 'The Soviet Union is a contradictory society halfway between capitalism and socialism, in which: (a) the productive forces are still far from adequate to give the state property a socialist character' On this matter, they clearly shared a focus on the primacy of the productive forces--- in contrast, eg, to an emphasis upon the relations of production. michael -- - Michael A. Lebowitz Professor Emeritus Economics Department Simon Fraser University University Drive Burnaby, B.C., Canada V5A 1S6 Home: Phone 604-689-9510 Cell: 604-789-4803 _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] The Orientalism and sexism of the leading feminist icon
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 Orientalism and sexism of Lena Dunham: I had this dumb, Western idea,” says Dunham. “Like, I’m going to go to India and it’s gonna be so transcendent that I’m not gonna be afraid of death anymore, and I’m going to lay down so many of my Western anxieties and embrace a new kind of knowingness and bring it back to the U.S.” Oh, and she also felt more sorry for the stray dogs than poor Indians. http://theaerogram.com/lena-dunham-went-to-india-and-felt-really-sorry-for-all-of-the-stray-dogs/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] South America's 'Pink Tide' yet to ebb
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. * Federico Fuentes Since the start of the year, many newspapers have dedicated article after article to predictions of a looming demise of South America's so-called “Pink Tide” The term “Pink Tide” is used to refer to the wave of left-of-centre governments elected in South America in recent years. Several such governments have recently been up for re-election. Pollsters and commentators alike argued that for many, their time in government was up. https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/57661 -- “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 _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Follow-up on Moscow Health Care Protests (attn: Andrew Pollack)
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. * It was only this morning that I came across this excellent, long article in the Moscow Times, published a few days before Sunday's rally, about the proposed health care reforms in Moscow and the public uproar over them. It explains all the issues much better than I could: http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/moscow-s-deputy-mayor-attempts-to-allay-panic-over-health-care-reforms/510297.html I have no contact with the folks who organized the rally, Together for Decent [or Dignified] Medicine, but our comrades from the Russian Socialist Movement were, apparently, at the rally http://anticapitalist.ru/dejstvie/moskva/rsd_podderzhalo_krupnejshij_za_poslednie_godyi_protest_rabotnikov_zdravooxraneniya.html so if you're serious about reaching out to the Muscovites, you might be able contact them via the email for RSM's OpenLeft wing: openleft [at] openleft.ru //openl...@openleft.ru _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Venezuela sends Gaza third aid shipment
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 November 2, the Venezuelan government sent its third shipment of aid to Palestine as part of the measures ordered by President Nicolas Maduro to help Palestinians after Israel’s war. https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/57687 -- “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 _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] {Disarmed} What's new at Links: Gough Whitlam, Communist resistance to the Nazis, Rojava, Europe, Syria, Thomas Sankara, Ireland, Brazil, 'extractivism', Scotland, South Africa, NUMSA
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. * What's new at Links: Gough Whitlam, Communist resistance to the Nazis, Rojava, Europe, Syria, Thomas Sankara, Ireland, Brazil, 'extractivism', Scotland, South Africa, NUMSA * * * Subscribe free to Links - International Journal of Socialist Renewal - at http://www.feedblitz.com/f/?Sub=343373 You can also follow Links on Twitter at http://twitter.com/LinksSocialism or on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=10865397643 Visit and bookmark http://links.org.au and add it to your RSS feed (http://links.org.au/rss.xml). If you would like us to consider an article, please send it to linkssocial...@gmail.com *Please pass on to anybody you think will be interested in Links. *Comments welcome on all articles *Return daily for new articles * * * Australia: How and why the Gough Whitlam government's far-reaching reforms were won http://links.org.au/node/4133 By *Jim McIlroy* November 1, 2014 -- The passing of former Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam at the age of 98 on October 21 provoked a wave of emotion from the community, both young and old. At a time when the federal government is trying to smash the remnants of the progressive reforms initiated during Whitlam's Australian Labor Party (ALP) government --- in office from December 1972 to November 1975 --- the Whitlam era seems like a period from another political universe. * Read more http://links.org.au/node/4133 Rojava's autonomous cantons: What a revolution looks like http://links.org.au/node/4129 /A YPJ fighter (right) next to a very similar picture of a female fighter in the Spanish revolution in the 1930s. The comparison is apt. The presence of such a high proportion of female front line fighters is evidence of a profound social transformation that has been happening in liberated Rojava and within the Kurdish revolutionary movement. / By *Tony Iltis* November 1, 2014 -- On November 1, protests were held worldwide in solidarity with Kobanê. Protests took place in most countries on every continent. Even in Afghanistan, protests were organised in six cities by left-wing anti-occupation groups. After withstanding more than six weeks of intense siege by the terrorist group that calls itself Islamic State (IS), Kobanê (also called Kobani), a small majority-Kurdish town on the Syrian side of the border with Turkey, has become one of the most well-known places on the planet. * Read more http://links.org.au/node/4129 European economic stagnation: diagnoses and treatments http://links.org.au/node/4134 By *Dick Nichols* November 4, 2014 --For 48 hours it looked as if Thursday, October 16, 2014 might join similar October Thursdays in 1907, 1929 and 1979 as another dramatic moment when share market panic triggered economic downturn. * Read more http://links.org.au/node/4134 Critique of Patrick Cockburn's 'Whose side is Turkey on?' http://links.org.au/node/4132 By *Michael Karadjis* October 31, 2014 -/- /The November 6 /London Review of Books/ has published Patrick Cockburn's latest article, 'Whose side is Turkey On?'. Now, as I support the struggle of the Syrian Kurds, led by the Democratic Union Party (PYD) and its armed militia, the YPG, against ISIS' genocidal siege, I have no interest in defending Turkey's shabby role in this, even if I think both the US and Turkey, in their current difference on this issue are both being totally cynical in their different ways. So this critique will not deal with these issues. * Read more http://links.org.au/node/4132 Burkina Faso: 'Thomas Sankara: An African Revolutionary', new book by Ernest Harsch (audio) http://links.org.au/node/4131 *Ernest Harsch* interviewed by *Jim Lance* October 10, 2014 --*Thomas Sankara*, often called the African Che Guevara, was president of Burkina Faso, one of the poorest countries in Africa, until his assassination during a military coup that brought down his government. Although his time in office was relatively short, Sankara left an indelible mark on his country's history and development. * Read more http://links.org.au/node/4131 Ireland: Mass protests, opinion poll confirm dramatic change in Irish politics http://links.org.au/node/4130 November 1, 2014 -- Sinn Fein has topped an opinion poll in the 26 Counties for the first time in the history of polling in the state, gaining four points to move up to 26%. The Millward Brown survey for tomorrow's /Sunday Independent/ questioned 1000 people over the past 10 days. It shows independents also making gains, they increased their support by two points to stand at 23%. * Read more
