Re: [Marxism] Election 2014: President Obama Is Not a Happy Warrior - NYTimes.com
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 11/5/14 10:16 PM, Charlie via Marxism wrote: The jibe at Stephen Greenhouse is insipid compared to your usual level of enormously clever insult. But the main thing is, the article in question is by Kevin Baker, not Stephen Greenhouse. Strange. I could have sworn I saw Greenhouse's byline. In any case, there was no insult intended. I do have to wonder what Charlie's issue is about Stalin and the CP. This is the second time in a row he has shown some pique over this stuff. It would be more productive if he could convey something more substantial in the future when his ox is being gored. _ 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] Oil and gas industries repudiated
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://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/11/05/361875792/chevron-spends-big-and-loses-big-in-a-city-council-race Chevron Spends Big, And Loses Big, In A City Council Race November 05, 2014 9:06 PM ET Richard Gonzales Tuesday's elections weren't just bad news for Democrats. Oil giant Chevron Corp. got clobbered in a hot local election in Richmond, Calif., that was widely seen as a referendum on the company itself. The San Francisco Bay Area community of 107,000 people attracted national attention to its race for city council. Richmond is home to one of Chevron's two West Coast refineries. The city has long been known as a company town: Chevron is Richmond's largest employer and taxpayer. But for the past six years, progressives and their allies have controlled the city council, often tangling with the Fortune 500 company over greenhouse gas emissions, especially after a spectacular refinery fire two years ago. Chevron had hoped to reverse that dynamic by supporting a slate of candidates who are sympathetic to the company's plans for modernizing its refinery. It spent about $3 million to support them, issuing an avalanche of glossy mailers and buying virtually every billboard in town. In contrast, the slate of under-funded progressive candidates led by City Councilman Tom Butt spent only a tiny fraction of that amount on its massive door-to-door campaign. Early returns indicated the progressives' grass roots strategy would be successful. By the end of election night, Butt had captured the mayor's race with more than 51 percent of the votes cast, and the Chevron-backed candidate, City Councilman Nat Bates, garnered just over 35 percent. As a distraught Bates told the Richmond Confidential, It's a bloodbath, obviously. I think the citizens will suffer. Butt, who had accused Chevron of trying to buy the Richmond Council election, was ecstatic over his David versus Goliath victory. To take on a campaign that's funded with $3 million and our modest campaign budget was about $50,000, he said, but we had a lot of grassroots help and we pulled it off. The progressives also won three full-term city council seats, with out-going Mayor Gayle McLaughlin, incumbent Jovanka Beckles, and challenger Eduardo Martinez beating a slate of Chevron-backed candidates. Another incumbent who often sides with the progressives, Jael Myrick, also won a two-year seat. Chevron said it will try to find common ground with the newly-elected city council. This city, which we have proudly called home for more than a century, has far more opportunities than challenges, said a spokesman. The council should remain focused on all those opportunities, and Chevron will remain focused on all those opportunities, and Chevron will continue to work to create economic opportunities for all residents. The outcome will likely energize progressives in and around Richmond, a much-maligned city that recently has made strides in re-casting its former image as a poor and crime-ridden community. Relatively modest home prices have attracted a generation of younger residents who are demanding better schools, safer streets, and cleaner air. University of San Francisco political scientist Corey Cook says the Richmond City Council race proves that money doesn't always win elections. You can throw big money on a 'no' campaign. Voters are inclined to vote no. But Richmonders knew who the candidates were and liked them. It appears the Chevron money itself became an issue in the race, he said. --- http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/05/birthplace-fracking-boom-votes-ban-denton-texas Texas oil town makes history as residents say no to fracking Suzanne Goldenberg, US environment correspondent Wednesday 5 November 2014 13.31 EST The Texas town where America’s oil and natural gas boom began has voted to ban fracking, in a stunning rebuke to the industry. Denton, a college town on the edge of the Barnett Shale, voted by 59% to ban fracking inside the city limits, a first for any locality in Texas. Organisers said they hoped it would give a boost to anti-fracking activists in other states. More than 15 million Americans now live within a mile of an oil or gas well. “It should send a signal to industry that if the people in Texas – where fracking was invented – can’t live with it, nobody can,” said Sharon Wilson, the Texas organiser for EarthWorks, who lives in Denton. An energy group on Wednesday asked for an immediate injunction to keep the ban from being enforced. Tom Phillips, an attorney for the Texas Oil and Gas association, told the Associated Press the
[Marxism] Fwd: BBC News - Inside Kobane: Eyewitness account in besieged Kurdish city
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[Marxism] Fwd: America just took a wrong turn. It's time to take a hard left | Howie Hawkins | Comment is free | The Guardian
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[Marxism] Fwd: A Look at President Erdogan's Opulent $615 Million Palace, Four Times the Size of Versailles | VICE News
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Re: [Marxism] Election 2014: President Obama Is Not a Happy Warrior - NYTimes.com
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[Marxism] Fwd: Specter of 'Russian Taliban' Looms in Ukraine | The St. Petersburg Times | The leading English-language newspaper in St. Petersburg
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: America just took a wrong turn. It's time to take a hard left | Howie Hawkins | Comment is free | The Guardian
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 6, 2014, at 8:35 AM, Louis Proyect via Marxism wrote: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/06/election-green-promise-2016 I recently joined Kshama Sawant, the independent socialist elected to the Seattle city council last year, in calling for meetings across the country to begin laying the foundation for a strong left challenge to both parties of big business in 2016. Based on his great performance in the just-concluded campaign, I hesitate not to say that Howie Hawkins is the best possibility to head the challenge as our presidential candidate--certainly not a clown like Cornel West or a mushhead like Chris Hedges (both of them God- Pushers). 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 _ 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] Fwd: 2014 Midterms: Economy Doomed the Democrats | New R epublic
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. * Also, we might want to keep in mind that Tuesday's elections are not atypical for a midterm election. Normally, in a midterm, the party that's in the White House, loses a significant number of seats in Congress. And for a two term president, the president's party will usually take quite a dribbing in his second midterm election. Just eight years ago, the GOP lost both houses of Congress. Likewise, during Reagan's second term in office, the GOP lost the Senate in that midterm election too. Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant http://www.foxymath.com Learn or Review Basic Math -- Original Message -- From: Louis Proyect via Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu To: Jim Farmelant farmela...@juno.com Subject: [Marxism] Fwd: 2014 Midterms: Economy Doomed the Democrats | New Republic Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2014 08:57:34 -0500 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://www.newrepublic.com/article/120146/2014-midterms-economy-doomed-democrats _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/farmelantj%40juno.com Map Your Flood Risk Find Floodplan Maps, Facts, FAQs, Your Flood Risk Profile and More! http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/545b891b88b4191b2dfcst02vuc _ 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] Chinese President’s Delegation Tied to Illegal Ivory Purchases During Africa Visit
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Re: [Marxism] Marxism Digest, Vol 133, Issue 8
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 is on p113 --- 'In the name of God and of the dead generations from which she receives her old tradition of nationhood, Ireland, through us, summons her children to her flag and strikes for her freedom.' Proclamation of Independence, 1916. 'The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.' Karl Marx, 1852. a.marx...@gmail.com On 6 Nov 2014, at 13:59, marxism-requ...@lists.csbs.utah.edu wrote: Message: 7 Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2014 18:42:53 -0500 From: michael yates mikedjya...@msn.com mailto:mikedjya...@msn.com To: marxmail marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu mailto:marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Subject: [Marxism] Lenin citation needed Message-ID: blu176-w24bf386a9d41cf7a426dcabb...@phx.gbl mailto:blu176-w24bf386a9d41cf7a426dcabb...@phx.gbl Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 In volume 26 of LCW, there is an essay titled Can the Bolsheviks retain state power. In this article Lenin writes: We are not utopians. We know that an unskilled labourer or a cook cannot immediately get on with the job of state administration. In this we agree with the Cadets, with Breshkovskaya, and with Tsereteli. We differ, however, from these citizens in that we demand an immediate break with the prejudiced view that only the rich, or officials chosen from rich families, are capable of administering the state, of performing the ordinary, everyday work of administration. We demand that training in the work of state administration be conducted by class-conscious workers and soldiers and that this training be begun at once, i.e., that a beginning be made at once in training all the working people, all the poor, for this work. I need the page number for this quote. I would deeply appreciate help here. Many thanks in advance. Michael Yates _ 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: [moving beyond capitalism] FOTOS: Unrest in Mexico grows
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. * Does anyone know more about the issues at stake here? Universities throughout Mexico are closing and students are marching this weekend in protest of the disappearance of the 43 students at the hand of authorities. Yesterday marches and demonstrations in Mexico City, held in solidarity with the students of Ayotzinapa, reached unprecedented size and intensity. More marches and demonstrations throughout the country have been planned for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of this week, and calls for the ouster of Mexico's authoritarian neoliberal president, Enrique Peña Nieto, have become louder and more numerous. Adding mometum to the protests are the many universities across Mexico which have announced cessations of activities to show their support for the students of Ayotzinapa. In total, a minimum of 115 universities will cancel classes at some time during this week. Nevertheless, and in stark contrast to these activities, the president of Goldman Sachs, Gary D. Cohn, stated earlier this week his firm conviction that the Mexican Moment will continue. We are very exited with what is happening in Mexico with the reform agenda, he said. Our clients are excited about the opportunities opening up in Mexico, whether they be in petroleum, natural gas, or on the other hand in telecommunications. Asked about the events in Ayotzinapa, Cohn said it would be difficult for them to have any lasting effect on the Mexican economy. It is the Mexicans who seem to be more focused on these events than the rest of the world, he said. I don't want to minimize those events, added Cohn, but these sort of events happen in other parts of the world. Now contrast the sublime remarks of the transnational banker with what happend in Mexico City yesterday: -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Moving Beyond Capitalism discussion group group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to moving-beyond-capitalism-discussion-group+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/moving-beyond-capitalism-discussion-group. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. _ 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] Fwd: [moving beyond capitalism] FOTOS: Unrest in Mexico grows
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. * Did you notice the message on Marxmail on 11/3 titled Keeping Mexico’s Revolutionary Fires Alive? That may help. - Bill On 11/06/2014 11:24 AM, George Snedeker via Marxism wrote: Does anyone know more about the issues at stake here? Universities throughout Mexico are closing and students are marching this weekend in protest of the disappearance of the 43 students at the hand of authorities. --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com _ 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 the Democrats died for their principles
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[Marxism] Syriza's Tsipras offers reassurances
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[Marxism] 100,000 Workers Protest Belgian Austerity Measures
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[Marxism] The Elections
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. * Nowhere do 'politicians' form a more separate and powerful section of the nation than precisely in North America. There, each of the two major parties which alternately succeed each other in power is itself in turn controlled by people who make a business of politics, who speculate on seats in the legislative assemblies of the Union as well as of the separate states, or who make a living by carrying on agitation for their party and on its victory are rewarded with positions. It is well known how the Americans have been trying for thirty years to shake off this yoke, which has become intolerable, and how in spite of it all they continue to sink ever deeper in this swamp of corruption. It is precisely in America that we see best how there takes place this process of the state power making itself independent in relation to society, whose mere instrument it was originally intended to be. Here there exists no dynasty, no nobility, no standing army, beyond the few men keeping watch on the Indians, no bureaucracy with permanent posts or the right to pensions. And nevertheless, we find here two great gangs of political speculators, who alternately take possession of the state power and exploit it by the most corrupt means and for the most corrupt ends--and the nation is powerless against these two great cartels of politicians, who are ostensibly its servants, but in reality dominate and plunder it.--Engels, on the twentieth anniversary of the Paris Commune, in London, March 18, 1891. _ 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] Important Event @NYULaw: Legal Intricacies of BDS, Nov 12, 7-9PM, VH214
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. * New York University School of Law *Law Students for Justice in Palestine, * *Muslim Law Students Association, * *National Lawyers Guild* ~present~ *The Legal Intricacies of the Boycott, Divestment, and * *Sanctions Campaign - a Means for Justice in Palestine* *Wednesday, November 12th from 7-9pm (Dinner Included)* *NYU School of Law, Vanderbilt Hall, Room 214* Featuring *Bina Ahmad* (Russell Tribunal on Palestine) *Andrew Dalack* (National Lawyers Guild’s Palestine Subcommittee) *Shafeka Hashash* (NYU Students for Justice in Palestine) *Ethan Heitner* (Adalah-NY), and *Professor Frank Upham* (NYU Law) *Discussion*: As a prime target in the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) campaign, SodaStream's recent decline in sales by 9% and its subsequent announcement to shut down its controversial factory in an illegal settlement in the West Bank has galvanized many human rights activists. Motivated by the successes of past BDS movements, most famously the campaign to end South African Apartheid, Palestinians activists in 2005 called for a global BDS campaign to compel Israel to meet its obligations under international law. The momentum for the campaign continues to grow. This panel’s session aims to educate the NYU Law student body on what it means to boycott, divest, and sanction Israeli entities in order to end impunity and achieve justice. This peaceful, yet impactful, nonviolent resistance tool is inspiring the globe. The panel will dispel some misconceptions about BDS, discuss how BDS interacts with the law, and how you can help achieve justice in Palestine. Join us over dinner and discussion on this critical and timely topic. *Dinner included. * *See attached flyer. Please disseminate widely. * _ 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: From Sykes-Picot to Islamic State: Imperialism's Bloody Wreckage | Solidarity
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. * This is an article by Yassamine Mather in the latest Against the Current. Mather is a regular contributor to the CPGB newspaper The Weakly Worker and her article unfortunately betrays the weakness of the group's understanding of what has been going on in Syria. You can read the article itself, which has some useful background on Sykes-Picot, etc.: http://www.solidarity-us.org/site/node/4288 But it is laced with false assertions such as this unfortunately: It is ironic to think that only a year ago the debate was about U.S. military intervention on the side of Syrian opposition forces — even then dominated by the very jihadists who later chose the name “Daesh” (in Arabic), or ISIS. You would think she would make even a token effort to acknowledge the de facto alliance between the Baathists and ISIS until it broke down recently. ISIS was in now way part of the Syrian opposition forces. Instead it directed its fire against the FSA primarily and other opposition forces that stood in the way of its caliphate ambitions. All this should be familiar to Marxmail subscribers who have been kept apprised of these developments by Michael Karadjis. It is most unfortunate that Mather sweeps them under the rug. _ 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] what would follow fascism in Italy?
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' recently commented http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism/2014-September/255811.html on an article by Daniel Gaido and Velia Luparello (Strategy and Tactics in a Revolutionary Period: U.S. Trotskyism and the European Revolution, 1943-1946) published in the October 2014, Vol. 48 #4, issue of Science and Society and referred us to his comments on his blog: http://louisproyect.org/2014/09/29/comments-on-strategy-and-tactics-in-a-revolutionary-period-u-s-trotskyism-and-the-european-revolution-1943-1946 Louis ends his blog comments with: Finally, I would urge Gaido and Luparello to consider writing for open access journals like Ron Cox’s “Class, Race and Corporate Power http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/classracecorporatepower/”. The issues they are addressing are of deep concern to Marxist activists, among whom “Science and Society” subscribers would number about as many as could fit into a phone booth, if phone booths still existed. For those interested, yet unable to read the Science and Society article, Gaido and Luparella quote this paragraph from Trotsky's May 1930 'A Letter on 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. Can it be said, for example, that the present German republic is a conquest of the bourgeois revolution? Such an assertion would be absurd. What took place in Germany in 1918–19 was a proletarian revolution, which for lack of leadership was deceived, betrayed, and crushed. But the bourgeois counter-revolution nevertheless was forced to adapt itself to the circumstances resulting from this crushing of the proletarian revolution and to assume the form of a parliamentary “democratic” republic. Is the same – or about the same – eventually excluded for Italy? No, it is not excluded. The enthronement of fascism resulted from the fact that the 1920 proletarian revolution was not carried through to its completion. Only a new proletarian revolution can overturn capitalism. If it should not be fated to triumph this time either (owing to the weakness of the Communist Party, manoeuvres and betrayals of the social democrats, the Freemasons, the Catholics), the “transitional” state that the bourgeois counter-revolution would then be compelled to set up on the ruins of the fascist form of its rule would be nothing else than a parliamentary and democratic state. Trotsky's letter, which is available at the Leon Trotsky Internet Archive/Marxists Internet Archive at http://marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1930/italy.htm , also includes this pertinent paragraph: 4. But does this mean that we communists reject in advance all democratic slogans, all transitional or preparatory slogans, limiting ourselves strictly to the proletarian dictatorship? That would be a display of sterile, doctrinaire sectarianism. We do not believe for one moment that a single revolutionary leap suffices to cross what separates the fascist regime from the proletarian dictatorship. In no way do we deny a transitional period with its transitional demands including democratic demands. But it is precisely with the aid of these transitional slogans, which are always the starting point on the road to the proletarian dictatorship, that the communist vanguard will have to win the whole working class and that the latter will have to unite around itself all the oppressed masses of the nation. And I do not even exclude the possibility of the Constituent Assembly which in certain circumstances, could be imposed by the course of events or, more precisely, by the process of the revolutionary awakening of the oppressed masses. To be sure, on the broad historical scale that is from the perspective of a whole number of years the fate of Italy is undoubtedly reduced to the following alternative: Fascism or Communism. But to claim that this alternative has already penetrated the consciousness of the oppressed classes of the nation is to engage in wishful thinking and to consider as solved the colossal task that still fully confronts the weak Communist Party. If the revolutionary crisis were to break out, for example, in the course of the next months (under
Re: [Marxism] Oil and gas industries repudiated
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. * Chevron “Air War” Fails To Sink Richmond Progressives by Steve Early, November 6, 2014 http://www.beyondchron.org/crude-effective-big-business-air-war-fails-sink-richmond-progressives On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 6:32 AM, Louis Proyect via Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu wrote: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/11/05/361875792/chevron-spends-big-and-loses-big-in-a-city-council-race Chevron Spends Big, And Loses Big, In A City Council Race November 05, 2014 9:06 PM ET Richard Gonzales --- . . . http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/05/birthplace-fracking-boom-votes-ban-denton-texas Texas oil town makes history as residents say no to fracking Suzanne Goldenberg, US environment correspondent Wednesday 5 November 2014 13.31 EST . . . _ 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] Mariátegui book on sale at Monthly Review Press
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. * Here is a real bargain for you. Vanden and Becker's fine anthology of writings by Mariátegui. http://monthlyreview.org/press/news/november-book-of-the-month/ 35% off! _ 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 Faces Behind Ukraine's Rebel Election Observer Mission
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[Marxism] Fwd: The Faces Behind Ukraine's Rebel Election Observer Mission | News | The Moscow Times
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://www.themoscowtimes.com/article/510773.html One of them is U.S. national Frank G. Abernathy, listed as representing the Tennessee-based company EFS Investment Partners LLC, whose Facebook page says it offers financial planning services. --- I am pretty sure that Abernathy is advising Kagarlitsky on how to invest the rubles he is getting from the Kremlin. _ 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
