Re: [Marxism] Delhi State 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. * Charles, It is a peculiar situation, with only 2 parties in the state assembly and one bagging more than 95% of the seats and the other with just 3 seats. Naturally, BJP will be the opposition, whether they qualify to be an official opposition group.As regards the AAP's leftist credentials, it is just an anti-establishment party and its leaders have vehemently denied it being a leftist party. But it is against monopoly capital and religeous fundamentalism and as you said, events may push it to the left. Vijaya Kumar Marla On Tuesday, February 10, 2015 8:53 PM, Charles Faulkner lacena...@comcast.net wrote: thank you. congratulations to delhi from san francisco. hopefully, power won't corrupt the aap as it has so many other parties that swept to power as the reformist party. it would be lovely to see the people of delhi push the aap in a leftward direction as the party has resisted so far. it is being reported that the aap will consent to the bjp being the leader of opposition even though it is short the some 3-4 seats necessary. what is the thinking here? From: Marla Vijaya kumar via Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu To: Charles Faulkner lacena...@comcast.net Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2015 6:49:37 AM Subject: [Marxism] Delhi State 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. * Today's poll results of Delhi State (India's capital Region) has given a big moral boost to all those who oppose the Fascist BJP, which is holding power In India. The AAP (Common Man's Party), headed by Arvind Kejrival had bagged 67 of the 70 seats, with BJP sulking far behind with 3 seats. The Congress Party, which ruled the state for 15 years, drew a blank.According to poll analysts, the massive verdict is the result of disenchantment of the poor and middle classes with the undiluted neo-liberal policies put in place by Modi in his 8 months of rule. People of Delhi have not taken kindly to issues like 1) BJP and its outfits fanning religious tensions between Hindus and Muslims and Chritians 2) Unpreceedented rise in power and water tariffs, following their privatisation 3) Issues of womens' safety (many orthodox and fanatic BJP leaders blamed women for the rapes) 4) CorruptionModi promised Good Days, with his rise to power. But now, the tweets go about declaring that with the defeat of BJP in Delhi, Good Days are really going to arrive.Modi statred a campaign Clean India Campaign: but the tweeters decalred that with the sweeping out of BJP, the Clean India program has really taken off. Incidentally, AAP's polly symbol is 'broom'.But it is remarkable that disenchantment has set in among the common people in India in just 8 months of Modi assuming power. Delhi has about 11 million voters and has a mix of people from all regions of India. It shows how neo-liberalism can alienate people very quickly. Modi afterall belives in passing the benifits to the top 1% and has no scruples about looting the 99%.See:http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-india-s-ruling-party-trounced-in-delhi-in-big-blow-for-pm-modi-2059840 http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/elections/delhi-elections-2015/top-stories/Delhi-elections-2015-How-a-small-IIT-B-team-shaped-AAPs-Delhi-poll-campaign/articleshow/46173477.cms Vijaya Kumar Marla _ 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
[Marxism] Delhi State 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. * Today's poll results of Delhi State (India's capital Region) has given a big moral boost to all those who oppose the Fascist BJP, which is holding power In India. The AAP (Common Man's Party), headed by Arvind Kejrival had bagged 67 of the 70 seats, with BJP sulking far behind with 3 seats. The Congress Party, which ruled the state for 15 years, drew a blank.According to poll analysts, the massive verdict is the result of disenchantment of the poor and middle classes with the undiluted neo-liberal policies put in place by Modi in his 8 months of rule. People of Delhi have not taken kindly to issues like 1) BJP and its outfits fanning religious tensions between Hindus and Muslims and Chritians 2) Unpreceedented rise in power and water tariffs, following their privatisation 3) Issues of womens' safety (many orthodox and fanatic BJP leaders blamed women for the rapes) 4) CorruptionModi promised Good Days, with his rise to power. But now, the tweets go about declaring that with the def eat of BJP in Delhi, Good Days are really going to arrive.Modi statred a campaign Clean India Campaign: but the tweeters decalred that with the sweeping out of BJP, the Clean India program has really taken off. Incidentally, AAP's polly symbol is 'broom'.But it is remarkable that disenchantment has set in among the common people in India in just 8 months of Modi assuming power. Delhi has about 11 million voters and has a mix of people from all regions of India. It shows how neo-liberalism can alienate people very quickly. Modi afterall belives in passing the benifits to the top 1% and has no scruples about looting the 99%.See:http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-india-s-ruling-party-trounced-in-delhi-in-big-blow-for-pm-modi-2059840 http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/elections/delhi-elections-2015/top-stories/Delhi-elections-2015-How-a-small-IIT-B-team-shaped-AAPs-Delhi-poll-campaign/articleshow/46173477.cms Vijaya Kumar Marla _ 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] Summer of Blood: The Peasants' Revolt of 1381
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[Marxism] Gaza on the verge of collapse
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[Marxism] Education for anti-capitalists
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Re: [Marxism] Delhi State 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. * thank you. congratulations to delhi from san francisco. hopefully, power won't corrupt the aap as it has so many other parties that swept to power as the reformist party. it would be lovely to see the people of delhi push the aap in a leftward direction as the party has resisted so far. it is being reported that the aap will consent to the bjp being the leader of opposition even though it is short the some 3-4 seats necessary. what is the thinking here? - Original Message - From: Marla Vijaya kumar via Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu To: Charles Faulkner lacena...@comcast.net Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2015 6:49:37 AM Subject: [Marxism] Delhi State 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. * Today's poll results of Delhi State (India's capital Region) has given a big moral boost to all those who oppose the Fascist BJP, which is holding power In India. The AAP (Common Man's Party), headed by Arvind Kejrival had bagged 67 of the 70 seats, with BJP sulking far behind with 3 seats. The Congress Party, which ruled the state for 15 years, drew a blank.According to poll analysts, the massive verdict is the result of disenchantment of the poor and middle classes with the undiluted neo-liberal policies put in place by Modi in his 8 months of rule. People of Delhi have not taken kindly to issues like 1) BJP and its outfits fanning religious tensions between Hindus and Muslims and Chritians 2) Unpreceedented rise in power and water tariffs, following their privatisation 3) Issues of womens' safety (many orthodox and fanatic BJP leaders blamed women for the rapes) 4) CorruptionModi promised Good Days, with his rise to power. But now, the tweets go about declaring that with the def eat of BJP in Delhi, Good Days are really going to arrive.Modi statred a campaign Clean India Campaign: but the tweeters decalred that with the sweeping out of BJP, the Clean India program has really taken off. Incidentally, AAP's polly symbol is 'broom'.But it is remarkable that disenchantment has set in among the common people in India in just 8 months of Modi assuming power. Delhi has about 11 million voters and has a mix of people from all regions of India. It shows how neo-liberalism can alienate people very quickly. Modi afterall belives in passing the benifits to the top 1% and has no scruples about looting the 99%.See:http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-india-s-ruling-party-trounced-in-delhi-in-big-blow-for-pm-modi-2059840 http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/elections/delhi-elections-2015/top-stories/Delhi-elections-2015-How-a-small-IIT-B-team-shaped-AAPs-Delhi-poll-campaign/articleshow/46173477.cms Vijaya Kumar Marla _ 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
[Marxism] Stiglitz on Greek economic situation
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 Greek Morality Tale by Joseph Stiglitz Project Syndicate February 2, 2015 http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/greece-eurozone-austerity-reform-by-joseph-e--stiglitz-2015-02 NEW YORK – When the euro crisis began a half-decade ago, Keynesian economists predicted that the austerity that was being imposed on Greece and the other crisis countries would fail. It would stifle growth and increase unemployment – and even fail to decrease the debt-to-GDP ratio. Others – in the European Commission, the European Central Bank, and a few universities – talked of expansionary contractions. But even the International Monetary Fund argued that contractions, such as cutbacks in government spending, were just that – contractionary. We hardly needed another test. Austerity had failed repeatedly, from its early use under US President Herbert Hoover, which turned the stock-market crash into the Great Depression, to the IMF “programs” imposed on East Asia and Latin America in recent decades. And yet when Greece got into trouble, it was tried again. Greece largely succeeded in following the dictate set by the “troika” (the European Commission the ECB, and the IMF): it converted a primary budget deficit into a primary surplus. But the contraction in government spending has been predictably devastating: 25% unemployment, a 22% fall in GDP since 2009, and a 35% increase in the debt-to-GDP ratio. And now, with the anti-austerity Syriza party’s overwhelming election victory, Greek voters have declared that they have had enough. So, what is to be done? First, let us be clear: Greece could be blamed for its troubles if it were the only country where the troika’s medicine failed miserably. But Spain had a surplus and a low debt ratio before the crisis, and it, too, is in depression. What is needed is not structural reform within Greece and Spain so much as structural reform of the eurozone’s design and a fundamental rethinking of the policy frameworks that have resulted in the monetary union’s spectacularly bad performance. . . . So it is not debt restructuring, but its absence, that is “immoral.” There is nothing particularly special about the dilemmas that Greece faces today; many countries have been in the same position. What makes Greece’s problems more difficult to address is the structure of the eurozone: monetary union implies that member states cannot devalue their way out of trouble, yet the modicum of European solidarity that must accompany this loss of policy flexibility simply is not there. Seventy years ago, at the end of World War II, the Allies recognized that Germany must be given a fresh start. They understood that Hitler’s rise had much to do with the unemployment (not the inflation) that resulted from imposing more debt on Germany at the end of World War I. The Allies did not take into account the foolishness with which the debts had been accumulated or talk about the costs that Germany had imposed on others. Instead, they not only forgave the debts; they actually provided aid, and the Allied troops stationed in Germany provided a further fiscal stimulus. When companies go bankrupt, a debt-equity swap is a fair and efficient solution. The analogous approach for Greece is to convert its current bonds into GDP-linked bonds. If Greece does well, its creditors will receive more of their money; if it does not, they will get less. Both sides would then have a powerful incentive to pursue pro-growth policies. Seldom do democratic elections give as clear a message as that in Greece. If Europe says no to Greek voters’ demand for a change of course, it is saying that democracy is of no importance, at least when it comes to economics. Why not just shut down democracy, as Newfoundland effectively did when it entered into receivership before World War II? One hopes that those who understand the economics of debt and austerity, and who believe in democracy and humane values, will prevail. Whether they will remains to be seen. http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/greece-eurozone-austerity-reform-by-joseph-e--stiglitz-2015-02 _ 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 odds against Syriza
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. * Below, the link to a very good background piece on the almost impossible task facing Greece - small, poor, and bankrupt - to escape from the straitjacket of eurozone austerity, even under a popular leadership like Syriza committed to radical change. The new government has now reportedly indicated it is prepared to accept 70% of the austerity package earlier imposed on the country by the EU, ECB, and IMF. The callous hardline taken by the “troika” and the German government as well as the established governing parties in even highly indebted states like Spain, is essentially political. The debt relief Greece seeks could be easily provided by its European and international creditors, but they want to make an example of a humbled Syriza that the equally discontented Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, and other Europeans, inspired by the electoral success of the left-wing Greek party, won’t dare emulate. The article is by Susan Webber, a former Wall Street analyst who blogs under the name Yves Smith on the widely read nakedcapitalism site. http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/02/outlook-darkens-for-syriza-and-greece.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] What's new at Links: SYRIZA, solidarity with Greece, Anwar Ibrahim, Thomas Sankara, Podemos, IMF Ebola, Ukraine, Cuba, S. Africa, Scotland
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, solidarity with Greece, Anwar Ibrahim, Thomas Sankara, Podemos, IMF Ebola, Ukraine, Cuba, S. Africa, Scotland * * * 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: European elites declare war on SYRIZA government; Thousands rally in Athens http://links.org.au/node/4285 By *Dick Nichols* February 8, 2015 – If anyone was still wondering whether European politics and a Europe-wide class struggle actually exist, reactions from all political quarters to the first two weeks of Greece’s new SYRIZA-led government would have cleared up any lingering doubts. * Read more http://links.org.au/node/4285 Malaysian socialists condemn bogus guilty verdict on Anwar Ibrahim http://links.org.au/node/4290 By *S. Arutchelvan*, secretary general, PSM February 10, 2015 -- The Parti Sosialis Malaysia (Socialist Party of Malaysia, PSM) is appalled at the disgraceful judgement by the highest court in the nation on [opposition leader] Anwar Ibrahim’s sodomy II case. Any person following the trial in the Federal Court would have made a overwhelmingly foregone conclusion that Anwar is innocent and he should be free man today. This hope was dashed and now in shambles. * Read more http://links.org.au/node/4290 Thomas Sankara and Burkina Faso's 'Black Spring' http://links.org.au/node/4289 /*Thomas Sankara: An African Revolutionary*/ By Ernest Harsch, Ohio University Press, 2014. 163 pages Review by *Ernest Tate* February 9, 2015 -- A press report in 1983 that a popular uprising in Upper Volta, a small and poor land-locked country in Western Africa, had led to an obscure, but charismatic army officer becoming head of state was truly inspiring news for all those looking for some kind of breakthrough against imperialism in that part of the world. * Read more http://links.org.au/node/4289 Vincenç Navarro: Why Podemos is a big threat to Spain's political establishment http://links.org.au/node/4288 January 28, 2015 -- Following SYRIZA’s victory in the Greek election on January 25, a number of commentators have turned their attention toward Spain, where the left-wing Podemos party, which originally emerged from the /Indignados/ protest movement, has been receiving strong polling numbers since the end of 2014. Here *Vicente Navarro* writes on the growth of Podemos and his role in shaping the party’s economic program. * Read more http://links.org.au/node/4288 Africa: How the IMF worsens the Ebola crisis http://links.org.au/node/4287 By *Jérôme Duval*, translated by *John Catalinotto* February 6, 2015 -- Although the International Monetary Fund (IMF) claims it is part of the solution, the IMF is really part of the problem of underdevelopment and has been for decades. The latest proof of this is that the conditions imposed on countries in need have had serious impacts on the development of these countries’ public health services. In some countries this means letting epidemics destroy the lives of thousands of people. The latest example involves the Ebola epidemic. * Read more http://links.org.au/node/4287 Ukraine: US/NATO pushes to arm Kyiv's bloody war in the east http://links.org.au/node/4286 By *Roger Annis* February 6, 2015 -- The Kyiv and NATO-driven civil war in Ukraine is taking new and dangerous turns. The United States is threatening to significantly increase its military support to Kyiv's army and the extreme-right militias allied with it, notably in the form of advanced heavy weapons, including artillery systems and anti-tank weaponry. The NATO countries as a whole are increasing their military presence in eastern Europe, including creating rapid-deployment infantry bases. * Read more http://links.org.au/node/4286 European Greens on SYRIZA win: 'We want to cooperate with the new Greek government' http://links.org.au/node/4284 January 26, 2015 -- The following statement on the victory by SYRIZA in the January 25 Greek election was issued by *Monica Frassoni* and *Reinhard Bütikofer*, co-chairs of the European Green Party. * *
[Marxism] Greece needs an exit strategy
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[Marxism] Ireland: Shinners seize the moment
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 bould Shinners have certainly stolen a march, a big one, on both Fianna Fail and the government by announcing their 100th anniversary celebrations of the Rising. And that these celebrations are open to all. In other words, they are effectively acting as if they are the government and the state and the inheritors of the mantle of 1916, all rolled into one. Their programme begins early – it starts this August by marking the 1915 funeral of Fenian O’Donovan Rossa, one of the events that showed the size and power of the Irish Volunteers (the Citizen Army also took part). And, of course, it was at Rossa’s funeral where Pearse gave his famous graveside oration, culminating with the words “Ireland unfree will never be at peace.” An exhibition on the Rising, Revolution 1916 Eiri Amach, will run for no less than 33 weeks at the Ambassador Hotel at the top of O’Connell Street. International Women’s Day, March 8, will be dedicated to the role of women in the Rising and the dual fight for the rights of Ireland and of women. (Ironic, considering the Shinners tawdry shilly-shallying on the very basic right of women to access abortion.) A visual spectacular is planned for the GPO, running the actual 100th anniversary of the dates of the Rising – April 24-29. A 3D video will tell the story of the rebellion, with the GPO itself even appearing to come under shell fire and be engulfed with flames, as it was in 1916. full at: https://theirishrevolution.wordpress.com/2015/02/08/shinners-seize-the-moment-socialist-republicans-need-a-serious-alternative/ _ 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] Erwin Baur interview, part one
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 the third in a series of interviews Nelson Blackstock and I conducted with veterans of Bert Cochran and Harry Braverman’s Socialist Union in the late 1990s. Now 95 years old, Erwin Baur is one of the few remaining revolutionaries who had first-hand experience in the CIO organizing drives of the 1930s. In this first part of the interview, Erwin Baur talks about becoming a socialist in high school after coming into contact with a Russian immigrant who admired Leon Trotsky. He then discusses the Little Steel Strike of 1937 and how he disagrees with Gus Hall’s assessment of its outcome. After losing his job at Youngstown Steel and Tube as a result of his role in the strike, he moves to Salem, Ohio and gets a new job where he meets Laverne Halsey, the plant “Bolshevik” who was victimized for his role in a 1933 auto workers strike and who got firsthand experience with Stalinism in the USSR. Finally, he discusses Bert Cochran’s entry into the trade union movement. For more on Erwin and his wife Estar, who was also a long-time member of the Socialist Workers Party and the Socialist Union, I recommend Charles Williams’s “Introduction to When the UAW Was Young” that appeared in the November/December 2007 Against the Current ( http://www.solidarity-us.org/node/1176). full: http://louisproyect.org/2015/02/11/erwin-baur-interview-part-one/ _ 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
