[Marxism] Fwd: Pressure on Tatars Continues In Crimea with TV Station Raid | VICE News
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[Marxism] Fwd: New Greek PM Alexis Tsipras appoints radical economist to new government | World news | The Guardian
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[Marxism] With Left support, Assad continues to kill in East Ghouta
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 from Linux Beach:// / With Left support, Assad continues to kill in East Ghouta http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/2015/01/with-left-support-assad-continues-to.html *Syrian Lives Don't Matter* This could be the sad assessment of world inaction while more that two hundred thousand Syrians have been massacred in less than four years. This has also been the silent banner of much of the Left and the so-called Peace and Just Us movement that has been quick to rush to the defense of Bashar and blame the carnage on NATO somehow. Over a year ago Assad got called out for killing with sarin after he used it on a massive scale just outside of Damascus. He then made a deal with NATO that saw him give up his chemical weapons but continue to kill with chlorine gas and everything else in his arsenal with impunity. Eight months ago, I sat in an audience at USC and listened to David Swanson ridicule http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/2014/05/david-swansons-dream.html the idea that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was responsible for the chemical deaths of over 1400 people in East Ghouta. *More...** * http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/2015/01/with-left-support-assad-continues-to.html _ 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] support Palestinian refugees in Yarmouk camp outside of Damascus!
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[Marxism] Fwd: Leave a Little Light On for Me » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Greek games and scenarios — Crooked Timber
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 welcome news. For English speaking comrades, more about 'DIKTΥO SPARTAKOS' maybe found at: http://nkapatras.blogspot.com/2010/07/dikto-spartakos-network-of-conscripts.html Is there any indication that SYRIZA, in whole or in part, is conscious of the risks of military intervention by the Greek general staff against movement from below for social liberation, and is preparing accordingly for that possiblity? Who has been selected as the cabinet member in charge of the Greek military, and what are his or her politics? Please pass along warmest solidarity greetings to 'DIKTΥO SPARTAKOS' from the Military Project, USA: http://www.militaryproject.org -Original Message- From: ioannis aposperites via Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Sent: Jan 27, 2015 5:25 PM To: Thomas F Barton thomasfbar...@earthlink.net Subject: Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Greek games and scenarios — Crooked Timber 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 27/01/2015 09:24 μμ, Thomas via Marxism wrote: There have been no reports, so far, or even hints of efforts by SYRIZA or anybody else on the left to organize among rank and file soldiers. This is not true. Spartacus soldier's network is precisely organizing rank and file soldiers since 1992: 'DIKTΥO SPARTAKOS', the network of the conscripts What is the Soldiers-Network 'Diktio Spartakos'? . Diktyo Spartakos is the backbone of the antiwar, antinationalist and antimilitary movement. more: http://diktiospartakos.blogspot.gr/ _ _ 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] Dublin working class communities show how resistance is done
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[Marxism] Greek Leader Who Said 'Jews Don't Pay Taxes' Named Defense Minister
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[Marxism] Venezuela: Thousands mark uprising, protest economic war
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 took to the streets of the Venezuelan capital of Caracas on January 23 to commemorate the 57th anniversary of the toppling of the Perez Jimenez dictatorship. Marchers also voiced their support for the government of President Nicolas Maduro in the face of economic war and political destabilisation. https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/58115 -- “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] Jill Leovy’s ‘Ghettoside’
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. * NY Times SUNDAY BOOK REVIEW, Jan. 21 2015 Jill Leovy’s ‘Ghettoside’ By JENNIFER GONNERMAN GHETTOSIDE A True Story of Murder in America By Jill Leovy 366 pp. Spiegel Grau. $28. In her timely new book, Jill Leovy examines one of the most disturbing facts about life in America: that African-American males are, as she puts it, “just 6 percent of the country’s population but nearly 40 percent of those murdered.” Leovy describes neighborhoods steeped in pain: A mother, dressed in a baggy T‑shirt adorned with her murdered son’s picture, spends all day indoors, too terrified to step outside; the brother of a homicide victim purposely meanders through violent streets in the hopes that he too will meet the same fate; grieving parents all wear the same haunted expression, the empty stare that one police chaplain calls “homicide eyes.” Leovy’s focus is South Los Angeles, though similar stories abound in many of the nation’s poorest communities. This is a world that most journalists never cover, and most of America never sees. Leovy, a reporter for The Los Angeles Times, argues that as a nation we have grown far too accepting of our high rate of homicide — all the yellow crime-scene tape and sidewalk candle memorials — in large part because the media has paid too little attention. In response, she started a blog at her newspaper in late 2006 called The Homicide Report, in which she attempted to cover every murder in Los Angeles County in a single year. It was a radical idea — at the time, her paper reported on only about 10 percent of homicides — and also a near-impossible task: In a 2008 article, Leovy acknowledged that the report “has merely skimmed a problem whose true depths couldn’t be conveyed.” In “Ghettoside,” she tackles this “plague of murders,” as she calls it, with a book-length narrative that enables her to write about it with all the context and complexity it deserves. Her protagonist is John Skaggs, a Los Angeles Police Department homicide detective, whom she portrays as both compassionate and relentless: He gives his personal cellphone number to the mothers of men who’ve been murdered, and he treats every homicide case “like the hottest celebrity crime in town,” Leovy writes, no matter how poor and unknown the victim was. Despite his white skin, Skaggs manages to win the trust of the community. The narrative arc of “Ghettoside” traces one of Skaggs’s homicide cases: the murder of Bryant Tennelle. (The book’s title comes from a Watts gang member’s shorthand for his neighborhood and others like it — a term local detectives adopt.) One evening in 2007, Bryant walks outside with a friend not far from his home, carrying a root beer and pushing his bicycle, when a stranger jumps out of a car, shoots him and escapes. Like so many murder victims, Bryant is young (just 18 years old) and nonwhite. But as it happens, he is also the son of Wallace Tennelle, a highly respected African-American detective with the Los Angeles police. Tennelle is the first detective to arrive at the crime scene, only to find his son splayed on the grass, his brain matter everywhere. Reading this scene and the ones that follow — when Tennelle has to reveal to his wife what just happened, when all the family members converge at the hospital — I actually felt physically sick. I can’t ever remember having that reaction to a book before, but in this case it may not be all that surprising. One-third of the way into Leovy’s book, it’s apparent that the true scope of our nation’s homicide problem — the extraordinary pain and trauma and despair that follow the murder of a loved one — is indeed sickening. Leovy reported “Ghettoside” before the issue of police brutality exploded last year in the national news, and her focus is not on the misconduct of police officers. (Instead, she targets their leaders, revealing how the priorities of a police department can reduce the odds that the murders of young black men are solved.) Still, her book does provide new insights into the current debate. She presents a nuanced portrait of the Los Angeles Police Department, showing divisions within the force. Despite public professions of loyalty and solidarity, sometimes even cops dislike their fellow cops: The homicide detectives get furious when patrol officers at a murder scene speak rudely to bystanders — pushing them away rather than figuring out which ones might be potential witnesses and getting their names. Decades of acrimony between the department and civilians have left Skaggs and his fellow detectives feeling, she writes, “like door-to-door salesmen, trying to
[Marxism] Fwd: Greek games and scenarios — Crooked Timber
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[Marxism] Police, Armies, Courts and Laws What they are actually designed to do
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. * Police, Armies, Courts and Laws What they are actually designed to do By Bonnie Weinstein January/February 2015 Socialist Viewpoint, Vol. 15, No. 1 http://www.socialistviewpoint.org/ http://www.socialistviewpoint.org/ The U.S. government, its police, armies, courts and laws are not designed to protect people or keep the peace, they are designed to protect the property and rule of the wealthy. They are tools to keep workers in our place or destroy us if they can’t. They protect and serve the capitalist system and its commanders. The commanders make the laws as they go along. What benefits them is legal, what doesn’t, is illegal, criminal and worthy of their most extreme punishment—prison, torture or death—whatever they deem most effective in protecting their rule. The effectiveness of the system itself is dependent upon its ability to fool most of the people most of the time and that’s what their money buys in the mass media. Their wars causing the deaths of millions are justified by lies fed to the mass media and force-fed to us. They are wars for profit and power—capitalist profit and capitalist power. The job of the media is to convince us that “collateral damage” caused by U.S. bombs is not just unavoidable, but can be blamed on the dead for being in the vicinity of the bomb; that a man can be legally choked to death for selling cigarettes; that a boy can be shot to death for carrying a toy gun—a gun manufactured, advertised, promoted as “fun” by billion-dollar TV commercials; that a young man can be shot to death for walking in the street because, sometime after he was killed, a video was released by the police implying that that same young man might have stolen a box of cigars earlier that day. This rationalization by the police and the media is plainly intended to make the police shooting look justified. This is the job of the capitalist media. The first law of capitalism is profits over people In another example of capitalist injustice, a December 29, 2014 New York Times article by Barry Meier and Hilary Stout titled, “Victims of G.M. Deadly Defect Fall Through the Legal Cracks,” tells about the refusal of a law firm to take a case against General Motors involving the death of a young girl because the “value of her life…was too small to justify the expense and risk of litigation.” “The law firm was unequivocal. It refused to take the case against General Motors involving a car crash that killed 18-year-old Natasha Weigel, saying that the value of her life in a lawsuit was too small to justify the expense and risk of litigation….But when Ms. Weigel’s family shared that report with a major plaintiff’s law firm in Milwaukee, the firm responded with cold, hard math….The family of Amy Rademaker, the other teenager killed in the Wisconsin crash, was also unable to find a lawyer to take on G.M. unless they financed the case themselves…Lawyers said they were aware of six ignition-related lawsuits that the automaker had settled out of court, including some under arrangements that barred public disclosures about them….‘This is so frustrating to me,’ Mr. Rimer said. ‘If we had gone to litigation, this would have gone to the forefront. We could have saved lives.’ “Companies, lawyers and judges have long faced criticism for suppressing information contained in lawsuits about product dangers.” And an earlier article in the New York Times dated November 5, 2014 by James Kanter titled, “Hundreds of Companies Seen Cutting Tax Bills by Sending Money Through Luxembourg,” exposes the gross hypocrisy of the capitalist system of financial justice and law. This article exposes how some of the biggest corporations get away with stealing hundreds-of-billions-of-dollars in taxes through offshore tax scams. And, in fact, how these legal tax scams are carefully drawn up by corporate law firms and made legal by the courts. According to the article: “The list of multinational businesses accused of using European jurisdictions to cut their tax bills grew much longer…when a group of investigative reporters published findings accusing more than 300 companies, including PepsiCo, Ikea and FedEx, of benefiting from preferential deals with the government of Luxembourg…The findings, by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, are based on a trove of leaked documents that included 548 so-called comfort letters that the group said Luxembourg had provided to corporations seeking favorable tax treatment. ‘These companies appear to have channeled hundreds-of-billions of dollars through Luxembourg and saved billions of dollars in taxes….’ …the
Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Greek games and scenarios — Crooked Timber
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. * [“There is no close historical precedent in Europe for a SYRIZA victory--although there are some parallels with the 1970 election of a socialist government led by Salvador Allende in Chile.” Lee Sustar, in Socialist Worker newspaper, January 20, 2015] It may be useful to recall that the Allende regime, an effort to implement some superficial reforms of capitalism, without threatening to get rid of the dominant class of capitalists who ruled the Chilean nation, was exterminated three years later by the Chilean general staff. The reformer Allende was executed. He was replaced by Gen. Augusto Pinochet, whose regime killed, tortured, and exiled tens of thousands of Chileans. Allende’s political party, living in some silly fantasy world, didn’t wish to offend the generals in command and made no effort to organize support inside the Army. Neither did most of the self-styled revolutionaries in the three years they had to organize inside the Army before their end came. For their failure, the penalty was death. Will the Greek generals, forever and always famously loyal to the Greek capitalist elite, tolerate a left regime in Greece, even if its program now is an effort to implement some reforms of capitalism, without threatening to get rid of the dominant class of capitalists and their generals who rule the nation? What will they do when tens of thousands of Greeks, who now believe the SYRIZA election victory means their social liberation, take matters into their own hands, begin to act for themselves from below, and move against their ruling class of tormentors and oppressors far father and faster than SYRIZA parliamentary politicians have any intention of going? Care to take a bet? Όποιος γίνεται πρόβατο τον τρώει ο λύκος! There have been no reports, so far, or even hints of efforts by SYRIZA or anybody else on the left to organize among rank and file soldiers. If not, it will be unnecessary to provide blindfolds should the Greek generals seize power and order military executioners to work. The blindfolds are already in place. -Original Message- From: Louis Proyect via Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Sent: Jan 27, 2015 10:10 AM To: Thomas F Barton thomasfbar...@earthlink.net Subject: [Marxism] Fwd: Greek games and scenarios — Crooked Timber Interesting analysis of the high-stakes poker game about to unfold. http://crookedtimber.org/2015/01/25/greek-games-and-scenarios/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/thomasfbarton%40earthlink.net _ 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: Greek games and scenarios — Crooked Timber
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'd like to propose a slight modification that doesn't alter the thrust of your argument. allende took his own life in exchange for a promise from the coup not to harm his cabinet. this is made clear in guzman's film the battle of chile. the effect and resulting horror is the same. i'm sure we all anticipate a world battle centering around syriza's success. part of that battle will be expanding credibility outside greece with those who today are ignorant of certain facts. i suggest that being particular about allende's death is part of that credibility. - Original Message - From: Thomas via Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu To: Charles Faulkner lacena...@comcast.net Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 11:24:53 AM Subject: Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Greek games and scenarios — Crooked Timber 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. * [“There is no close historical precedent in Europe for a SYRIZA victory--although there are some parallels with the 1970 election of a socialist government led by Salvador Allende in Chile.” Lee Sustar, in Socialist Worker newspaper, January 20, 2015] It may be useful to recall that the Allende regime, an effort to implement some superficial reforms of capitalism, without threatening to get rid of the dominant class of capitalists who ruled the Chilean nation, was exterminated three years later by the Chilean general staff. The reformer Allende was executed. He was replaced by Gen. Augusto Pinochet, whose regime killed, tortured, and exiled tens of thousands of Chileans. Allende’s political party, living in some silly fantasy world, didn’t wish to offend the generals in command and made no effort to organize support inside the Army. Neither did most of the self-styled revolutionaries in the three years they had to organize inside the Army before their end came. For their failure, the penalty was death. Will the Greek generals, forever and always famously loyal to the Greek capitalist elite, tolerate a left regime in Greece, even if its program now is an effort to implement some reforms of capitalism, without threatening to get rid of the dominant class of capitalists and their generals who rule the nation? What will they do when tens of thousands of Greeks, who now believe the SYRIZA election victory means their social liberation, take matters into their own hands, begin to act for themselves from below, and move against their ruling class of tormentors and oppressors far father and faster than SYRIZA parliamentary politicians have any intention of going? Care to take a bet? Όποιος γίνεται πρόβατο τον τρώει ο λύκος! There have been no reports, so far, or even hints of efforts by SYRIZA or anybody else on the left to organize among rank and file soldiers. If not, it will be unnecessary to provide blindfolds should the Greek generals seize power and order military executioners to work. The blindfolds are already in place. -Original Message- From: Louis Proyect via Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Sent: Jan 27, 2015 10:10 AM To: Thomas F Barton thomasfbar...@earthlink.net Subject: [Marxism] Fwd: Greek games and scenarios — Crooked Timber Interesting analysis of the high-stakes poker game about to unfold. http://crookedtimber.org/2015/01/25/greek-games-and-scenarios/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/thomasfbarton%40earthlink.net _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/lacenaire%40comcast.net _ 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: Greek games and scenarios — Crooked Timber
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 1/27/15 5:25 PM, ioannis aposperites via Marxism wrote: This is not true. Spartacus soldier's network is precisely organizing rank and file soldiers since 1992: 'DIKTΥO SPARTAKOS', the network of the conscripts What is the Soldiers-Network 'Diktio Spartakos'? Interesting how the global reach of the Internet helps us understand our tasks as Marxists. _ 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: Greek games and scenarios — Crooked Timber
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. * -Original Message- From: Louis Proyect via Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Sent: Jan 27, 2015 5:41 PM To: Thomas F Barton thomasfbar...@earthlink.net Subject: Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Greek games and scenarios — Crooked Timber 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. * Yes! On 1/27/15 5:25 PM, ioannis aposperites via Marxism wrote: This is not true. Spartacus soldier's network is precisely organizing rank and file soldiers since 1992: 'DIKTΥO SPARTAKOS', the network of the conscripts What is the Soldiers-Network 'Diktio Spartakos'? Interesting how the global reach of the Internet helps us understand our tasks as Marxists. _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/thomasfbarton%40earthlink.net _ 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] Greek Leader Who Said 'Jews Don't Pay Taxes' Named Defense Minister
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 the one hand, Nixon and Stalin were two anti-Semites who supplied Israel with arms, so need to worry on that front (unless you're Palestinian). On the other hand, the only other anti-austerity party that got seats was the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn. Talk about being between a rock and a hard place - or to please any Greeks out there, between Scylla and Charybdis. Holy Odysseus, Batman - does Tzipris have tsores! On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 11:24 PM, Charles Faulkner 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. * thanks for this. troubling. sorry if i missed the discussion but is this the only way they could have a majority? is he a placeholder until they have a clear majority or is there something else at work? isn't he exactly the kind of person you could not trust being a defense minister? where does this choice fit in syriza's three planks? troubling. - Original Message - From: jay rothermel via Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu To: Charles Faulkner lacena...@comcast.net Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 5:29:14 PM Subject: [Marxism] Greek Leader Who Said 'Jews Don't Pay Taxes' Named Defense Minister _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/sranz18%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] The oligarchic rebellion in the Donbas
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 have excerpted what I find the most remarkable part of the article. Kowalewski quotes from the Communist party of the Ukraine. ken h http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article3836#nb19 The Communist Party of Ukraine (CPU), quite influential there, did not hesitate to copy the Nazi discourse on the Jewish ghettos, speaking of the Maidan – “white on the outside, black on the inside” – by comparing it to the black ghettos of the United States, described as being inhabited by idle parasites. Let us quote this vile propaganda: “Huge piles of garbage, all kinds of infections and diseases previously unknown to medicine, is a feature of life on these reservations. Their inhabitants do not work anywhere and only receive money because they wander aimlessly in the streets. They motivate their refusal to work by the fact that they are no longer slaves. Over there, in America, there are graffiti of Martin Luther King. Here at home, the portraits of Tymoshenko and Bandera. Here and there, they are dressed in what kindly souls have given them. Here, as on the other side of the ocean, this mess has the charming name of ‘democracy.’ But in this case we no longer have democracy. At least in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco the police sometimes make raids on such places and simply kill a few rabid Negroes. (...) Even the dark-skinned vendors in Kiev secondhand shops seem a bit more civilized than our ‘light-skinned brothers’ from the western regions of the country, who have gathered on the Maidan. ‘White’ on the outside, but ‘black’ on the inside.” [19] There is nothing surprising in this explosion of racism - the CPU is a colonial party. _ 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's new at Links: SYRIZA wins: Greek election special -- results, 40-point program, international support; eyewitness reports, SYRIZA radical enough?
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: SYRIZA wins: Greek election special -- results, 40-point program, international support; eyewitness reports, SYRIZA radical enough? * * * 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 * * * Greece: SYRIZA’s win -- the numbers behind the victory http://links.org.au/node/4266 By *Dick Nichols*, Athens January 27, 2015 -- The victory of SYRIZA, Greece’s Coalition of the Radical Left, in the January 25, 2015, general election caused enormous outpouring of joy on the streets of Athens and confirmed general expectations.The final result was 36.49% and 149 seats. SYRIZA will now form government in alliance with the socially conservative, but anti-Brussels, Independent Greeks. * Read more http://links.org.au/node/4266 Greece: SYRIZA wins! SYRIZA's 40-point program http://links.org.au/node/4265 January 26, 2015 -- SYRIZA has won a great victory in the Greek general election. It became clear in the final days of the campaign that SYRIZA was headed for such a momentous victory. Their rallies across Greece – in town squares, factories and universities – were thoughtful and inspirational. The working class was making its mind up about SYRIZA. Now it has decided and the results are clear – this is nothing short of an overwhelming expression of the people’s will for change, by and for the people. * Read more http://links.org.au/node/4265 Greece: Is SYRIZA radical enough? http://links.org.au/node/4262 By *Ed Rooksby* January 22, 2015 -- It would have been unthinkable just a few years ago, but a party of the radical left is on the cusp of power in an EU country. The latest opinion polls indicate that SYRIZA will triumph in the Greek national elections to be held on January 25 and although it may not win an absolute majority in parliament it would (assuming it can find coalition partners) certainly be the dominant force in any coalition government that emerged. * Read more http://links.org.au/node/4262 Eyewitness Greece: Looming SYRIZA win alarms elite; Big rally: 'Hope is on its way' http://links.org.au/node/4261 By *Dick Nichols*, Athens January 23, 2015 -- In the days ahead of Greece's January 25 general election, all signs point to victory for the Alexis Tsipras-led Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA). The big unknown is whether the party will win an absolute majority in the 300-seat Greek parliament, freeing it from the need to negotiate with minority parties and ending the chance of a further national poll in case negotiations fail. * Read more http://links.org.au/node/4261 Greece: Venezuela welcomes SYRIZA victory; International left celebrates http://links.org.au/node/4267 [Please return regularly for updates.] January 28, 2015 -- Venezuela's government has congratulated Alexis Tsipras, leader of the left-wing SYRIZA party, who won a huge victory in Greece's parliamentary elections on January 25, 2015, reports TeleSur English. Tsipras has been inaugurated as the country's prime minister. * Read more http://links.org.au/node/4267 Eyewitness Greece: Solidarity in action -- a visit to a Solidarity4All clinic http://links.org.au/node/4264 By *Vivian Messimeris*, Athens January 25, 2015 -- Today we visited one of the solidarity clinics that operates in the suburb of Peristeri. We met with some of the volunteers that work in the clinic that included two doctors as well as other activists. The clinic is staffed by 60 volunteers, including 20 doctors, and offers free medical consultations and pharmaceuticals. * Read more http://links.org.au/node/4264 Eyewitness Greece: Interview with Hara Petsiou, cleaner fired from Ministry of Finance http://links.org.au/node/4263 By *Vivian Messimeris*, Athens January 25, 2015 -- Vivian Messimeris is part of the /Green Left Weekly/ and /Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal/ team covering the January 25 election in Greece. She spoke to *Hara Petsiou* (pictured), a cleaner sacked from her job at the finance ministry. The sacked cleaners are fighting for their jobs. * Read more
[Marxism] Fwd: Youth and Capitalism | 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. * A guest post by Vijaya Kumar Marla http://louisproyect.org/2015/01/27/youth-and-capitalism/ _ 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] NYC forum on Greece
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 Campaign for Peace and Democracy invites you to attend a public forum* *AFTER THE GREEK ELECTIONS:* * THE FUTURE OF AUSTERITY* *IN GREECE, EUROPE AND BEYOND* *Friday, February 6, 2015-7:30pm* New York University Kimmel Center 60 Washington Square South, Room 909 Manhattan Please bring photo ID for admission. Wheelchair accessible. *SPEAKERS:* *NANTINA VGONTZAS* Nantina Vgontzas is a Greek-American sociology PhD student at NYU focusing on political economy and social movements. She is a member of the UAW Graduate Student Organizing Committee and involved in the nationwide Academic Workers for a Democratic Union reform movement. *NATASSA ROMANOU* Natassa Romanou is a Research Professor at Columbia University in Climate Studies, a member of SYRIZA and the ecosocialist group System Change Not Climate Change. She is a founding member, SYRIZA-NY and AKNY. Romanou was in Greece for the elections. *IANNIS DELATOLAS* Iannis Delatolas is an art photographer, a founding member of AKNY, and a supporter of Antarsya-MARS and of the International Socialist Tendency. He has been involved in the antifascist solidarity movement with Greece and in struggles for LGBTQ rights, abortion rights, anti-war, and other social justice causes. *AARON AMARAL* Aaron Amaral is a member of the International Socialist Organization (ISO) and a founding member of AKNY. The ISO sister organization in Greece, Internationalist Workers Left (DEA) participated in the formation of the SYRIZA coalition and is part of the Left Platform within SYRIZA. *ALAN AKRIVOS* Alan Akrivos is a founding member SYRIZA-NY, a member of Socialist Alternative/(CWI),and among the founders of AKNY. He has been active in the struggle to stop the neo-fascist Golden Dawn in NYC, and speaks frequently across the U.S. on issues of international politics, labor, and socialism. *CHAIRS:* *JOANNE LANDY and THOMAS HARRISON* Co-Directors, Campaign for Peace and Democracy *SPONSOR:* Campaign for Peace and Democracy *CO-SPONSORS:* NYU Radical Film and Lecture Series, AKNY-Greece Solidarity Movement/Aristeri Kinisi Neas Yorkis, SYRIZA-NY, ANTARSYA-US*, **Jacobin, New Politics,* *Logos*, International Socialist Organization (ISO)-NY, Socialist Alternative, Democratic Socialists of America-New York City _ 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
