[Marxism] Fwd: AAUP Takes Illinois to Task in Report on Salaita Case - Faculty - The Chronicle of Higher Education
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[Marxism] Fwd: South Africa Xenophobia Requires Critique, Strategic Resistance | Opinion | teleSUR English
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[Marxism] What is Keynesianism in the 21st century?
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[Marxism] Fwd: Eyewitnesses: The Baltimore Riots Didn't Start the Way You Think | Mother Jones
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[Marxism] Fwd: The miners are no-one’s rent-a-mob | Observer Ukraine
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[Marxism] Fwd: As Riots Follow Freddie Gray's Death in Baltimore, Calls for Calm Ring Hollow - The Atlantic
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[Marxism] Cambodia/Kent/Jackson
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: As Riots Follow Freddie Gray's Death in Baltimore, Calls for Calm Ring Hollow - The Atlantic
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. * If it bleeds, it leads - The distortion of news by the corporate media http://blackwestchester.com/2015/04/27/1-peacefully-protest-bmore/ On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 8:54 AM, Louis Proyect via Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu wrote: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/04/nonviolence-as-compliance/391640/ _ 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] From detention centres to concentration camps
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[Marxism] New Post: Black Lives Matter: Detroit Marches for Terrence Kellum
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: AAUP Takes Illinois to Task in Report on Salaita Case - Faculty - The Chronicle of Higher Education
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: AAUP Takes Illinois to Task in Report on Salaita Case - Faculty - The Chronicle of Higher Education
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. * Chancellor Phyllis M. Wise of the Urbana-Champaign campus said the question of whether Mr. Salaita actually had joined the Illinois faculty is clearly a nuanced issue of contract law, to be settled by the courts. She said, The university remains concerned and bewildered that the AAUP apparently continues to maintain that it is entitled to usurp the authority of the federal judicial system regarding determining questions of fact and law currently in dispute. Wow, they're not even trying at this point. - Amith On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 1:11 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 louis. mr. schmidt interprets the report in a way i don't like. The university denied Mr. Salaita the due-process rights that his tenured status should have afforded him ... don't we all believe that Mr. Salaita's due-process rights were violated regardless of tenure? _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/amithrgupta%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] Tsakalotos: Greece's new lead EU negotiator is leftist
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. * Euclid Tsakalotos: from Oxford to Greece's lead bailout negotiator by Helena Smith in Athens The Guardian, April 28 http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/apr/28/euclid-tsakalotos-greece-debt-bailout-varoufakis Is this the man to replace Yanis Varoufakis as Greece's new finance minister? by Mehreen Khan The Telegraph, London April 28 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/11566624/Is-this-the-man-to-replace-Yanis-Varoufakis-as-Greeces-new-finance-minister.html Oxford-educated Euclid Tsakalotos will be taking the lead in Greece's bail-out negotiations. But what do we know about the man set to become the acceptable face of Greece's debt drama? . . . An Oxford-educated economist, Mr Tsakalotos has much in common with the political elite of Westminster, studying politics, philosophy and economics (PPE) as an undergraduate before completing his PhD in economics at Oxford in 1989. The 55-year-old, who was born in Rotterdam, currently serves as the chief economic spokesman and effective shadow finance minister for the Syriza-led government, in charge of international economic affairs. Unlike Mr Varoufakis, Mr Tsakalotos is no party outsider. He has been a member of Syriza for nearly a decade, serving as an MP in the Greek parliament since 2012. Like his fellow Leftist parliamentarians, Mr Tsakalotos's background is as a jobbing Western academic rather than a professional politician, having taught at the universities of Kent and Athens. Described as the brains behind Syriza's economic policy, he is the author of six books, the most recent of which seeks to debunk the causes of Greece's economic turmoil. Published in 2012, Crucible of Resistance: Greece, the Eurozone and the World Economic Crisis, argues that far from being an economic laggard, Greece underwent two decades of neo-liberal modernisation before the onset of the financial crisis in 2008. The result, he argues, was a widening in social inequality and a gaping democratic deficit. In a refrain that will be familiar to many of the single currency's critics, the Marxist economist diagnoses Greece's ailments as not simply the consequences of an economic crisis but a crisis of democracy in the eurozone. But far from advocating a Grexit, as some of the more radical elements within Syriza, Mr Tsakalotos argues Greece should maintains is membership of the euro. A Greek road to socialism where you exit the euro and do your own national strategy seems to be a straight re-run of Britain in the 70s and France in the 80s, he told an audience last year https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5MXaBtDQ9s The national roads seemed to have failed. We need an international flavour to any alternatives. In one of his most recent public speaking appearances, Mr Tsakalotos addressed a conference of Sinn Fein's political delegates in March. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOfKCeMBRGE Receiving a rousing reception from leader Gerry Adams, the economist proved he was not immune to rhetorical flourishes of his more famous finance ministry counterpart. We are not asking for special treatment, but for equal treatment in a Europe of equals, thumped Mr Tsakalotos in perfectly polished English. His visit to Dublin was part of a wider policy for Athens' Leftists to court the support of its fellow southern European partners. Syriza and Sinn Fein as well as Podemos are part of a great realignment in European politics, he told republican supporters, describing the Irish as honourary southerners in Greece's fight for a more equitable monetary union. Mr Tsakalotos is also no new new face at the negotiating table. Although boasting a less inflammatory style than Mr Varoufakis, he has accompanied the finance minister through most of Greece's protracted negotiations over the past three months. Whether or not his presence will now square the circle of Greece's bail-out extension remains open to question, however. The move to push the polarising Mr Varoufakis out of the spotlight has certainly been cheered by markets, and will partially appease the country's paymasters in Brussels. However, the dethroning of Mr Varoufakis may prove to be a mere Pyrrhic victory for the creditor powers and Syriza's opposition parties. The chasm between the demands made by lenders and the political promises of the Leftist government will have to be bridged soon if a disorderly default is to be averted. In the words of Greek journalist Nick Malkoutzis, whether it is Mr Tsakalotos delivering the bitter pill to Syriza or Mr Varoufakis, makes little difference; they are not going to swallow it easily either way http://www.macropolis.gr/?i=portal.en.the-agora.2466
[Marxism] Tsipras expects Greece/Eurozone bargain; will use referendum if deal breaks Syriza election mandate
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. * In his first major television interview[3 hours] since he was elected in January, Tsipras said he believed an initial deal was close and ruled out an early election in Greece. Tsipras also raised the prospect of holding a referendum if creditors demanded reforms that his government deemed unacceptable. International Business Times, April 28 http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/greek-pm-alexis-tsipras-confident-bailout-deal-by-weekend-1498685 Sidelining Varoufakis Won’t Solve Greece’s Real Problem by John Cassidy The New Yorker http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/sidelining-varoufakis-wont-solve-greeces-real-problem Tsipras Signals Possible Greek Referendum on Credit Deal by Niki Kitsantonis New York Times, APRIL 28, 2015 http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/29/business/international/in-greece-tsipras-signals-possible-referendum-vote-on-credit-deal.html Nouriel Roubini on Greece/Eurogroup situation http://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2015-04-28/inside-ford-s-f-150-pickup-slowdown Tsipras warns of referendum if talks on bailout deal fail by Kerin Hope in Athens Financial Times, April 28 [full text] Greece’s leftwing prime minister has warned that he would hold a referendum if international creditors insisted on a “vicious circle of austerity” as the key to unlocking urgently needed bailout money. Hours after making a conciliatory gesture to Greece’s eurozone partners with a reshuffle of his negotiating team on Monday, Alexis Tsipras struck a more defiant note. Although there were “great possibilities for winning this negotiation”, Mr Tsipras said he would go directly to the Greek people if the terms were unacceptable to Athens. “If the solution offered goes beyond our mandate, it will have to be endorsed by the people,” he said in a late night interview with Star Television. Expressing his confidence a deal would be reached, Mr Tsipras said: “We should not give in to panic moves. Whoever gets scared in this game loses.” Mr Tsipras ruled out defaulting on a €750m loan repayment to the International Monetary Fund due on May 12 even though Athens is struggling this week to pay pensions and subsidies, which he said must take priority. Greek officials have been predicting an imminent deal for weeks and many EU negotiators are sceptical an agreement can be reached before the next scheduled meeting of eurozone finance ministers in two weeks. A referendum could lead to weeks of continued uncertainty about Greece’s solvency. A plan by Athens to hold a plebiscite in 2011 was effectively scuppered by eurozone leaders. But some officials also believe it could be a way for Mr Tsipras to win public support for an eventual reform programme. Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the Dutch finance minister who leads the Greek negotiations as head of the eurogroup, said he did not think a referendum was a feasible option for Mr Tsipras given the urgent need for a deal so that bailout cash can be disbursed soon. “It would cost money, it would create great political uncertainty, and I don’t think we have the time,” Mr Dijsselbloem told Dutch radio. “And I don’t think the Greeks have the time for it.” Earlier on Monday Mr Tsipras put Euclid Tsakalotos, the deputy foreign minister for economic affairs and a close associate, in charge of the bailout negotiations, which have made little progress since his radical Syriza party won a general election in January on an anti-austerity platform. Mr Tsakalotos has taken the lead role in the talks from Yanis Varoufakis, the outspoken finance minister who was sidelined after an acrimonious meeting of eurozone finance ministers in Riga last week. Mr Varoufakis retained his cabinet post and will serve on an economic-policy making committee. Eurozone policy makers welcomed the reining in of Mr Varoufakis, but warned Athens that what mattered was the detail of its proposals. _ 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] Michael Roberts: Greece, crossing the red lines
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. * Greece: crossing the red lines Michael Roberts blog April 28, 2015 https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com . . . Tsipras’ move towards making more concessions and perhaps dropping the non-negotiable ‘red lines’ that Syriza won’t allow to be breached would probably get support from the Greek people, at least if the current opinion polls are correct. One poll found that 79% of Greeks want to stay in euro and 50% want to reach a compromise rather than a rupture (36%). Around 63% of Greeks want to avoid a default on the Greek government’s debts. And if there is a deal that breaks the red lines, then Greeks would prefer a national unity government (44%) rather than a referendum (32%) or new elections (19%) to confirm it. Syriza still leads in the polls with 36% of the potential vote compared to 22% for the right-wing New Democracy; 5% for the social democrat Potami, 3% for the bankrupt PASOK and now just 5% for the fascist Golden Dawn and the Communists. . . . Ironically, the Syriza government is still running a budget surplus of €1.7bn in the first quarter of this year. It has managed this by just not paying its bills to government suppliers or to the health service and schools. In doing this, it can meet the wages of public sector workers and pensions. The problem is that unpaid taxes are rising steadily, reaching €3.5bn in Q1, although the growth in this deficit has been slowing. People, especially rich people and businesses, are unwilling to pay their tax bills if they think that Greece will soon be thrown out of the Eurozone and the government will default on its debts and devalue Greek euros. They want to hold onto all the euros they have got. . . . There is a possibility that if Syriza makes enough concessions on: reducing pensions; raising VAT; allowing privatisations and introducing ‘reforms’ in labour markets, then it could get the €7.2bn and also negotiate a third package for after end-June that would meet future ECB and IMF repayments and yet not impose too heavy an austerity package. Apparently, Tsipras, Merkel and the Eurogroup have agreed that the primary budget surplus target will be reduced from 3-4% of GDP a year to around 1.5%. And if the Eurozone economy starts to recover, that could also pull up the Greek economy through higher exports and more inward investment. That is the scenario that Tsipras and the Syriza leaders are looking to. . . . Of course, this ‘way out’ means that Syriza will still be conducting (if ‘lighter’) fiscal austerity by running a surplus on the government budget at a time when Greek unemployment remains at over 25% and the economy is still contracting in real and nominal terms. Indeed, Greeks have already suffered a fiscal austerity adjustment equivalent to 20% of potential GDP since 2009. . . . Back in February, I posed the issue as an impossible triangle. Syriza could not reverse austerity, stay in the euro and remain united as one party in government. One or more of these aims would have to go. It seems that the Tsipras will opt for staying in the euro, even if he cannot reverse austerity or write off Greek government debt. The question then becomes a political one: what will the left within Syriza do? Will they too swallow any deal, especially if Tsipras puts it to a referendum of the people and wins the vote? Or will they split the party and force Tsipras into an alliance with the opposition (national unity) to get any deal approved by parliament? There is still the possibility that the austerity terms demanded by the Troika are just too much for the Syriza leadership to accept and the Greeks will opt to default on the repayments in June. The IMF allows a 30-day ‘grace period’ to meet overdue debts, so default is not technically immediate, although there would probably be a run on the Greek banks. The government would have to impose capital controls to stop money leaving the country or even just under the mattresses. Introducing capital controls is not breaking any Eurozone rules, so technically, Greece would still be a member of the Eurozone. But the run on the banks would mean that the ECB would either have to step in fund the gap or the banks would go bust. The question of Greek membership of the Eurozone would then be posed. . . . The alternative to grasp the nettle: demand the cancellation of the euro and IMF loans (the original demand of Syriza) or default; impose capital controls, take over the Greek banks and appeal to the Greek people for support and the European labour movement. Let the Euro leaders make the move on Eurozone membership, not Syriza. The problem is that now the Greek people have been led to believe that there is only one
[Marxism] Baltimore contacts?
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[Marxism] how Luxemburg was riot- and violence-baited
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[Marxism] Fwd: The Realities of Power
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. * Overcoming the fears associated with seizing power will be one of the biggest obstacles for the American Left to overcome. All measures enacted by the State require the backing of force. The illusion that power is somehow inherently devious or obtrusive to human freedom is ridiculously childish. Without power, no decisions can be made, nothing can be done by any party or class- regardless of whether it is capitalists or workers who act as “dictators” within the system. Socialists have to seize power with the assent of the public in order to make our demands a reality. full: http://www.thenorthstar.info/?p=12260 _ 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] New on Redline 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. * Over the past week, we've been concentrating on demystifying all the propaganda around Anzac Day. New features pieces on the blog include: Labour movement historian Jared Davidson on the response by working class activists to militarism and class exploitation in NZ, 1905-1925: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/04/26/opposing-war-abroad-fighting-the-class-war-at-home-radical-workers-in-new-zealand-1905-1925/ The absurdity and obscenity of Gallipoli as seen through the eyes of three NZ writers: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/04/24/the-absurdity-and-obscenity-of-gallipoli-three-new-zealand-writers-accounts/ Tom O'Lincoln looks at the crap existence that confronted homecoming WW1 soldiers in Australia: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/04/27/after-world-war-1-the-horrors-of-peace-at-home-australia/ Australian cops shut down Aboriginal Anzac Day march: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/04/27/australian-cops-shut-down-aboriginal-anzac-day-march/ Tim Leadbeater writes about his excellent new blog, 100 Years of Trenches: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/04/25/100-years-of-trenches/ And check out our earlier material on WW1 and Anzac Day that is grouped here: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/04/12/as-we-approach-anzac-day/ In Christchurch the new Palestinian Association organised a successful event to commemorate Land Day: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/04/21/palestinian-land-day-commemorated-in-christchurch/ In Wellington Peace Action activists picketed Tony Abbott's appearance at the war memorial: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/04/20/anti-war-action-at-pukeahau-memorial/ British elections: Labour attacks migrant workers: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/04/25/british-elections-labour-attacks-migrant-workers/ Lastly, we have a piece looking at the police murder of Freddie Gray in Baltimore. Here's an extract: with his hands cuffed behind his back, with his legs in shackles, Freddie Gray was thrown into the back of a Baltimore police van, no seatbelt, nothing to secure him in place, and then ridden around for 42 minutes, over bumpy roads, around sharp fast turns, punctuated by sudden reversals and stops, tossing him around the back of the van, bouncing him off its walls, unable to protect or brace himself with his feet or his hands. It’s what Baltimore cops call a “rough ride,” and what Philadelphia cops call a “nickel ride.” By the end of that murderous ride, Freddie Gray was for all practical purposes dead, although it took him another seven days to die. His spinal cord had been almost severed, three neck vertebrae were fractured, his larynx crushed. . . full at: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/04/27/us-the-states-systematic-violence-kills-another-young-black-man/ _ 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
