[Marxism] Fwd: Incident at Yale sets off a new debate on racial profiling @insidehighered
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Re: [Marxism] Interview with SYRIZA activist and pensioner Sissy Vovou: 'We need your 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. * and note also her comments on fighting for women's rights inside and outside Syriza; a quick google didn't turn up anything on the Independent Greeks and women's rights, but given their support for a Christian Orthodox oriented education system, and their general reactionary nature, they can't be good on this. On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 9:31 AM, Andrew Pollack acpolla...@gmail.com wrote: A great interview. And her closing admonition - criticize us, but help us - is key. Note also her insistence that the horrible conditions facing immigrant refugees must be addressed. That lends added weight to one of Richard Seymour's points about the danger of the coalition with Independent Greeks, i.e. their reactionary stance on immigration. Richard's piece IMO is spot on in general: http://www.leninology.co.uk/2015/01/syriza-anel-coalition.html On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 7:27 PM, Stuart Munckton via Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu wrote: 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. * *reen Left Weekly*/s Vivian Messimeris spoke with SYRIZA activist and pensioner Sissy Vovou in Athens about the effects of austerity and the hope a SYRIZA government brings. You can read all of the Green Left reporting from Greece here https://www.greenleft.org.au/taxonomy/term/154 and follow the Green Left live blog on the elections here http://greenleftgreekelection.tumblr.com/. https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/58105 -- “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/acpollack2%40gmail.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
Re: [Marxism] Interview with SYRIZA activist and pensioner Sissy Vovou: 'We need your 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. * A great interview. And her closing admonition - criticize us, but help us - is key. Note also her insistence that the horrible conditions facing immigrant refugees must be addressed. That lends added weight to one of Richard Seymour's points about the danger of the coalition with Independent Greeks, i.e. their reactionary stance on immigration. Richard's piece IMO is spot on in general: http://www.leninology.co.uk/2015/01/syriza-anel-coalition.html On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 7:27 PM, Stuart Munckton via Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu wrote: 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. * *reen Left Weekly*/s Vivian Messimeris spoke with SYRIZA activist and pensioner Sissy Vovou in Athens about the effects of austerity and the hope a SYRIZA government brings. You can read all of the Green Left reporting from Greece here https://www.greenleft.org.au/taxonomy/term/154 and follow the Green Left live blog on the elections here http://greenleftgreekelection.tumblr.com/. https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/58105 -- “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/acpollack2%40gmail.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] 18 dead, 52 injured in Egypt clashes on anniversary of January 25 Revolution
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Re: [Marxism] Irish politics - a grand coalition of Fianna Fail and Fine Gael
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[Marxism] Venezuelan Government Congratulates Syriza on Election Victory
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Re: [Marxism] Irish politics - a grand coalition of Fianna Fail and Fine Gael
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 26.01.2015 16:22, DW via Marxism wrote: 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. * Phillip, in your opinion would there be any change in politics in Ireland should SF ever form a gov't? Is there that much difference left on any of major issues? My take on this is: Yes and No! Based on their rhetoric (and their nationalist politics, which are critical of neoliberalism), they would probably take a harder line on the Troika and the debt than the current bunch of shysters, but I suspect they would eventually compromise as they did in the North. How quickly this would happen and how easily would depend on the strength of the old neoliberal parties and of the independents and, particularly, the radical left. Einde _ 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: Sol Dollinger interview — conclusion | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist
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[Marxism] A look at SYRIZA’s win -- the numbers behind the vote
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 victory of SYRIZA — Greece’s Coalition of the Radical Left — in the January 25 elections caused enormous outpouring of joy on the streets of Athens and confirmed general expectations. The “poll of polls” done on the day before the election had SYRIZA winning 37.5% and 146 seats. https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/58111 -- “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] SYRIZA AND GREECE – PUTTING HOPE INTO PRACTICE
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[Marxism] Greece
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[Marxism] Venezuela offers SYRIZA 'complete solidarity and support'
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[Marxism] Greece: Tsipras sworn in with civil oath, honours communist resistance fighters
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[Marxism] Fwd: Syriza’s Victory « LRB blog
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 ascent of Syriza signifies the emergence of a trans-European politics in a way the previous rise to prominence of the likes of the Front National and Ukip haven’t. The eurosceptics want to push the European Union away. They want their politics to be more national. What makes Alexis Tsipras radical is not what he wants to do in Greece, but what he wants to do in Europe. Tsipras’s programme will work only if he manages to ignite the Syrizification of the entire Eurozone; if he can win the implicit support of voters in enough national elections across the continent to force Angela Merkel and her fellow pro-austerity north Europeans into the position of isolation that Greece is in now. full: http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2015/01/26/james-meek/syrizas-victory/ _ 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] Cuba's Socialist Renewal blog returns
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://cubasocialistrenewal.blogspot.com.au/2015/01/finally-my-masters-thesis-on-cuba.html Finally, my Masters thesis on Cuba Dear readers of Cuba's Socialist Renewal, After a two-and-a-half year hiatus, I'm pleased to announce that I'll resume posting original translations and commentaries in 2015, beginning with this post. As explained in my last post in August 2012, I began work on a Masters thesis on Cuba's socialist transition, under the auspices of Sydney University's Department of Political Economy—a thesis that would build on the translations and analyses that I've shared with you via this blog. At the outset, I had no intention of setting aside the blog to write the thesis, but the need to focus intensely on the thesis conspired against my best intentions. Other life commitments also had to take precedence for a while, and what I had misunderstood to be a one-year time frame for research, writing and coursework was actually a two-year submission deadline. Naturally, I made the most of that extra year to delve deeper, refine the argument and polish the exposition. I was rewarded for this effort with a most unexpected (yet most gratifying) High Distinction grade. I began the thesis under the supervision of Dr Tim Anderson and completed it under the supervision of Dr Damien Cahill, both from the Political Economy department at Sydney University. I am indebted to them for their encouragement, guidance and patience. The whole process was a steep learning curve for me: I joked with my supervisors that I had to undergo my own 'socialist transition' to academic writing, which differs from blog commentaries in structure, style and rigour. As you can see from a glance at the references list, I made extensive use of original translations posted to this blog as source material. Those of you inclined to read the thesis itself will find that key themes and threads of argument elaborated here are woven into the thesis. In other words, the thesis is a continuation of the work shared with you here since December 2010. As noted in the thesis Introduction, my thesis is a work of conceptual synthesis, historical analysis and reinterpretation. While it stands alone as an academic thesis, it was not written in pursuit of an academic career. Rather, its primary purpose is to serve as a contribution to the wider debate—above all among partisans, solidarity activists and sympathisers of the Cuban Revolution—on the past, present and future of Cuba's socialist project. While I had to make certain unavoidable concessions to academic style, it is written with this wider audience in mind—avoiding, I hope, any lapses into unexplained Marxist jargon or into arcane or incomprehensible 'academese'. I would love to translate this thesis into Spanish, but a golden rule of translation is 'never translate your own work'. Besides, I can translate from Spanish to English reasonably competently, but the other way only crudely. Only a native Spanish speaker with a keen grasp of the Cuban context and of Marxism could do it justice. That's enough about my thesis, except to say that it's freely accessible here by anyone anywhere; and that I welcome any feedback and constructive criticism you may have via email or, if you like, as comments posted below this post. Please feel free to forward the above link (or the associated PDF file) to anyone who may be interested. Over the coming months I will resume translations and commentaries on Cuba's socialist renewal, as I see it, and the context in which this renovation process is now unfolding: the beginning of the end of the US blockade signalled by Obama's December 17 statement on US-Cuba relations. In other words, the Cuban Revolution's triumph over half a century of siege and isolation, and the pursuit of US imperialism's historic objectives by other, less confrontational means. Before concluding this post, I should also mention that I had the honour of being elected president of the Sydney branch of the Australia-Cuba Friendship Society in June. As part of the global Cuba solidarity movement, the Society welcomes the return of all of the Cuban Five to Cuban shores after their long, unjust incarceration in US prisons. Their stoic and dignified resistance symbolises Cuba's epic struggle. Happy New Year to you all. Marce Cameron Sydney, Australia _ 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] Eyewitness to Tsipras victory Speech: 'Greece advances with hope and dignity'
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. * Thousands gathered to watch SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras give his victory speech in front of Athens University on the night of Jaunary 25, after SYRIZA won the Greek elections with more than 36% of the vote. Some were jubilant, but others were visibly moved. SYRIZA member Marina Moutafidou described how she had been waiting for this moment for more than 40 years. https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/58109 -- “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] Kurdish journalist on Rojava's inspiring revolution
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. * *Ozgur Amed* is a journalist, columnist, teacher, and activist from Diyarbakir in south-eastern Turkey. He spoke to *Dylan Murphy*, in conjunction with Rojava Report https://rojavareport.wordpress.com/, about the democratic revolution underway in predominantly Kurdish Rojava in the Syrian state ― opposing both the Assad regime and fanatical Islamic State (IS). Despite sustained attacks by IS on Kobane in Rojava, resistance fighters liberated most of the city ― and Rojava's fascinating and inspiring experiments in direct democracy live on. https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/58108 -- “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
Re: [Marxism] Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Prince Philip: beknighted and benighted
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. * John What I think Abbott is trying to do is to heal the rift between the conservatives and the right wing radicals. The problem for neo-liberals has always been how to bring the conservative majority along with them. Crap about law and order and anti-gay propaganda usually suffice. What Abbott is doing is to play the royal card. Recall the Menzies speech in 1963 at Parliament House in front of the visiting Royalty and his incredible grovel of the quote from the Elizabethan poet Thomas Ford -I did but see her [The Queen] passing by and yet I love her till I die? Abbott's gesture of knighting the Duke is the royal grovel again. But it is farcical because conservative Australia has moved on, not by much, but beyond the Royal grovel. comradely Gary On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 8:16 PM, John Passant via Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu wrote: 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. * I think Abbott knows that politically he is a dead man walking and has decided to release his inner reactionary. That may well explain the enquiry into workplace relations (code for bringing back the highly unpopular vote losing Work Choices) which at least most of the ruling class want. But knighthhoods, and one for Philistine Phil? Seriously? No sensible member of the Australian ruling class sees that as in any way desirable or defensible and it destroys the 'we are all in this Budget fixing together' lie they are trying to promulgate. This latest blunder, one of such magnitude, shows how isolated from and toxic to the public Abbott is and may see him soon rolled. How much longer can the Liberals hang on to and with this buffoon? How much longer will the ruling class put up with their idiot? Not much longer I suspect. http://enpassant.com.au/2015/01/26/tony-abbott-and-prince- philip-beknighted-and-benighted/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/gary. maclennan1%40gmail.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
Re: [Marxism] Syriza projected one seat short of parliament majority; reported alliance w/ Independent Greek Party
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 Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 10:46 PM, Dayne Goodwin daynegood...@gmail.com wrote: . . . and no other party made it over the 3% threshold to win any seats in parliament. wrong! Communist Party had 5.5%, projected 15 seats. _ 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
