[Marxism] European left debates a 'Plan B' against austerity

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Five key figures of the European left have launched a new initiative “for a
Plan B in Europe”.

A statement was jointly published on September 11 by former Die Linke (Left
Party) leader Oskar Lafontaine from Germany; Italian deputy and economist
Stefano Fassina, leader of France's Left Party Jean-Luc Melenchon, and
former deputy and parliamentary speaker Zoe Kostantopoulou and ex-finance
minister Yanis Varoufakis from Greece — both former members of SYRIZA who
resigned after the left-wing party accepted harsh austerity measures in
July.

https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/60305


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[Marxism] UN endorses Sri Lanka 'investigating' its own crimes

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The United Nations Human Rights Council has unanimously adopted a
resolution called “Promoting Reconciliation, Accountability and Human
Rights in Sri Lanka”.

https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/60308


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[Marxism] Squaddism, Trotsky and fighting the fascists

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Squaddism, Trotsky and fighting the fascists

As fascism organises in Australia today, Trotsky's thinking about the squaddism 
of the German Communist Party in the early 1930s seems to me to contain 
important lessons for the left today. 

http://enpassant.com.au/2015/10/12/squaddism-trotsky-and-fighting-the-fascists/
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[Marxism] Argentina: ‘Scioli’s bid reveals the failure of Kirchnerism’ interview with Nicolas del Caño (Left and Workers' Front) in Buenos Aires Herald

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http://www.buenosairesherald.com/article/200657/%E2%80%98scioli%E2%80%99s-bid-reveals-the-failure-of-kirchnerism%E2%80%99

‘Scioli’s bid reveals the failure of Kirchnerism’

*Workers’ Leftist Front (FIT) presidential runner Nicolás del Caño talks to
the Herald*

Nicolás del Caño is the candidate of the Workers’ Leftist Front (FIT) for
the October 25 presidential elections. In August, the 35-year-old Socialist
Workers’ Party (PTS) candidate managed to defeat his internal rival,
historic Workers’ Party (PO) leader Jorge Altamira.

The FIT — created in 2011 — is now seeking to improve on the 3.41 percent
of the vote mustered in the primaries, a commendable percentage for a
Trotskyist front in Argentina, and will try to snatch the fourth place from
Progressives candidate Margarita Stolbizer. Del Caño talked about the
challenges that the front faces with the Herald in his office in the
Congress last week.


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[Marxism] Science Consultant Pushes Back Against Unlikely Opponents

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(Fascinating story about shady consulting company that provides 
testimony for hire in cases involving corporate polluters trying to 
silence critics.)



NY Times, Oct. 12 2015
Science Consultant Pushes Back Against Unlikely Opponents
By BARRY MEIER

Dr. Dennis Paustenbach, the head of the scientific consulting firm 
ChemRisk, has long been a leading expert for companies under legal fire 
for environmental practices or product safety. He and his firm have also 
drawn the scrutiny of investigative journalists.


In 2005, The Wall Street Journal reported on a controversial role 
ChemRisk played during the case that became the basis for the movie 
“Erin Brockovich.” Seven years later, The Chicago Tribune raised 
questions about a study by Dr. Paustenbach on the safety of flame 
retardants. And a 2013 article by the Center for Public Integrity 
examined his efforts to roll back a proposal concerning workplace safety.


Dr. Paustenbach has insisted that ChemRisk’s work is scientifically 
sound and ethical, adding that plaintiffs’ lawyers have been behind the 
attacks on its credibility. And until recently, the company had never 
sued any publications or writers for defamation.


But the firm is now locked in a legal fight with some unlikely and 
defiant opponents: two environmental activists who published an unpaid 
article in The Huffington Post about ChemRisk’s work related to the 
Deepwater Horizon oil spill.


“If they had not said a word and let it go, it would have slipped off 
into obscurity,” said one of the authors of the article, Karen Savage, a 
former middle-school math teacher who noted that the article was 
initially read by only 400 people.


The lawsuit against Ms. Savage, 49, and her co-defendant, Cherri 
Foytlin, 42, highlights how the Internet has blurred the line between 
activists and journalists. But it also raises questions about why 
ChemRisk is pursuing the case when it chose not to sue a more formidable 
adversary, The Wall Street Journal, against which it raised similar 
complaints.


Thomas Clare, a lawyer who has long represented Dr. Paustenbach, said 
the researcher was traveling and unavailable for an interview. In a 
statement, ChemRisk, which is now a unit of Cardno ChemRisk, said its 
goal in bringing the action was to “set the record straight and alert 
anyone who chooses to publish false claims that they will be held 
accountable.”


It also said that Ms. Foytlin and Ms. Savage had intended to write a 
“hit piece,” and as long as the article remained online, its “falsehoods 
will continue to do substantial harm to ChemRisk’s reputation.”


The two women appear unfazed. Without resources to hire a lawyer, they 
initially represented themselves. And last year, after a New York state 
court threw out ChemRisk’s original lawsuit on jurisdictional grounds, 
Ms. Foytlin took to her Facebook page when the company again sued Ms. 
Savage and her in Massachusetts.


“That’s cool fellas,“ wrote Ms. Foytlin, a mother of six who lives in 
Rayne, La. “We’re up for Round Two. Bring it, but you betta go tell ya 
Daddy that people with nothing to lose rarely do. See ya in Boston, Bruh.”


The two women are also fighting back. Pro bono lawyers who now represent 
them recently filed a motion to get ChemRisk’s action dismissed under a 
Massachusetts state law that protects activists from lawsuits intended 
to chill advocacy on public policy issues. Such actions are known as 
strategic lawsuits against public participation, or Slapp suits.


The paths of the women and ChemRisk converged not long after the 2010 
explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. Ms. 
Savage and her four children, who live in Boston, have spent summers in 
Louisiana. At the time of the BP incident, Ms. Foytlin had a part-time 
job writing feature articles for her hometown newspaper, which has since 
closed.


Both women said they became concerned about the potential health risks 
of chemicals released by the rig’s blowout, as well as substances used 
by BP to disperse the spill. Ms. Foytlin said she had taken a 
BP-sponsored trip to the gulf to observe cleanup activities and returned 
with a hacking cough.


“I was having trouble breathing,” she said. “My doctor thought it was 
bronchitis, and that’s when I knew what people were saying about the 
spill were right.”


In 2011, ChemRisk published a study that found no link between the 
volatile chemicals released by the explosion and the health problems 
that cleanup workers reported. ChemRisk described its study as 
“independent,” but Ms. Savage had her doubts, which intensified after 
she read an account in The Wall Street Journal 

Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Did U.S. weapons supplied to Syrian rebels draw Russia into the conflict? - The Washington Post

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Is this true? I was under the impression that US support for rebels had
been largely ineffectual. Why would the US give the rebels an effective
tool like this against the regime?

- Amith

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> American antitank missiles supplied to Syrian rebels are playing an
> unexpectedly prominent role in shaping the Syrian battlefield, giving the
> conflict the semblance of a proxy war between the United States and Russia,
> despite President Obama’s express desire to avoid one.
>
> The U.S.-made BGM-71 TOW missiles were delivered under a two-year-old
> covert program coordinated between the United States and its allies to help
> vetted Free Syrian Army groups in their fight against President Bashar
> al-Assad. Now that Russia has entered the war in support of Assad, they are
> taking on a greater significance than was originally intended.
>
> So successful have they been in driving rebel gains in northwestern Syria
> that rebels call the missile the “Assad Tamer,” a play on the word Assad,
> which means lion. And in recent days they have been used with great success
> to slow the Russian-backed offensive aimed at recapturing ground from the
> rebels.
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> full:
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[Marxism] Fwd: Did U.S. weapons supplied to Syrian rebels draw Russia into the conflict? - The Washington Post

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American antitank missiles supplied to Syrian rebels are playing an 
unexpectedly prominent role in shaping the Syrian battlefield, giving 
the conflict the semblance of a proxy war between the United States and 
Russia, despite President Obama’s express desire to avoid one.


The U.S.-made BGM-71 TOW missiles were delivered under a two-year-old 
covert program coordinated between the United States and its allies to 
help vetted Free Syrian Army groups in their fight against President 
Bashar al-Assad. Now that Russia has entered the war in support of 
Assad, they are taking on a greater significance than was originally 
intended.


So successful have they been in driving rebel gains in northwestern 
Syria that rebels call the missile the “Assad Tamer,” a play on the word 
Assad, which means lion. And in recent days they have been used with 
great success to slow the Russian-backed offensive aimed at recapturing 
ground from the rebels.



full: 
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Did U.S. weapons supplied to Syrian rebels draw Russia into the conflict? - The Washington Post

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On 10/12/15 8:19 AM, A.R. G wrote:

Is this true? I was under the impression that US support for rebels had
been largely ineffectual. Why would the US give the rebels an effective
tool like this against the regime?

- Amith


I suspect that the Saudis would have delivered the TOW's whether the USA 
approved or not. Here's a useful article on the technical aspects of 
these weapons that still fail to do anything about Syrian air power.


https://www.stratfor.com/weekly/anti-tank-guided-missiles-pose-serious-threat
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[Marxism] Fwd: Elvis Has Left the Building: a Reply to Slavoj Žižek

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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Elvis Has Left the Building: a Reply to Slavoj Žižek

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" By 1935, Du Bois had written his BLACK RECONSTRUCTION IN AMERICA, a
Marxist history of the post-Civil War period, but still had not joined the
CPUSA. With the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, the Party would do a classic
political back-flip and abandon their radical militancy in opposition to
racism, disgusting labor activists like A. Philip Randolph in the process.
Du Bois is still a revolutionary and dangerous thinker. "

One example of a Civil War historian who has taken the work of DuBois
seriously is Valdosta State professor David Williams. He explicitly follows
in DuBois' footsteps with recent books such as Rich Man's War: Class,
Caste, and Confederate Defeat in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley, and A
People's History of the Civil War: Struggles for the Meaning of Freedom.


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[Marxism] Call to international Community from HDP

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*Call to the international community*


On October 10th, a Peace Rally that brought together many civil society
organizations, revolutionary unions, and progressive and democratic
parties, among them HDP, was the target of a horrendous attack.
Unfortunately, at least 128 of our fellow citizens were murdered in this
attack, and hundreds wounded. We are concerned that the death toll may
rise, as 48 among the wounded are in critical condition. This attack will
go down as one of the bloodiest in the history of our republic.

There are clear links between the attacks on our party’s rally in Amed on
the 5th of June in 2015, in which five of our citizens died and more than
200 were injured, and the suicide bombing in Suruc on the 20th of July 2015
in which 34 of our citizens were killed during a press conference by youth
from across Turkey in support of Kobane, as well as the suicide bombing on
yesterday’s Peace Rally in Ankara. To date, none of the politicians in
power has been held accountable regarding the previous two attacks. From
the political rhetoric of Prime Minister Davutoglu and the ministers he
appointed, as well as that of President Erdogan, we see no political
accountability with regards to this bloodiest attack in the history of
republic. On the contrary, their public statements show a readiness to
blame the victims of this attack and our party. Such a political tendency
also shows that those responsible for this massacre will also be not
brought to justice, and that even the investigation may be hidden from
public scrutiny. The Prime Minister’s Office has already censored media
coverage of the Ankara Massacre, suggesting that the government will be
protecting not only the agents of this attack, but also those in political
and administrative positions who paved the way for it.

Regarding this chain of massacres, we have a number of expectations and
clear demands from the international community and from political leaders.
In making this call, we wish to underscore that the Ankara massacre and the
aforementioned previous attacks are international in scope, and to make
clear that we see the potential for such events to open the way to regional
insecurity.AKP’s policy of relying on radical groups as proxies, which
began with President Erdogan’s support of, and even channeling through the
intelligence organization MIT, the activities of such groups as ISIS,
Al-Nusra, andAhrar Al-Sham—used particularly against Kurds in Rojava—is at
the heart of today’s tragedy.

President Erdogan aims at the realization of a “Turkey-type presidential
regime” which will render him as the sole political authority in Turkey. In
order to achieve this, Mr. Erdogan needs his party AKP to secure the
majority of the seats in the parliament to form a single-party government.
Pushing HDP under the electoral threshold (10%) stands out as a
straightforward tactic for AKP for this very reason. In order to achieve
this, AKP adopted “escalation of violence” as a strategic approach. In a
context where the ceasefire ended, the attacks against the PKK have
intensified. As the clashes escalated, the death toll of the soldiers were
made a basis for creating a systematic wave of lynchings. AKP led fascist
pogroms targeted HDP buildings as well as Kurdish groups living in the
Western parts of the country on one hand. On the other, Kurdish cities have
been kept under military blockade and curfew. Only in Cizre, 21 civilians
were massacred by the Turkish Armed Forces as well as the police. At a time
when the extreme nationalist and polarizing policies are implemented in
Turkey, the safety of the general elections (November 2015) is a vexing
question to be considered in a serious manner. Our electorates feel under
constant threat in every social space and political activity they attend.
In order to maintain stability in the region, it is crucial to prevent the
devastating effects of the conflict from spreading over a wider geography.
For this very reason, it is extremely important for the international
community to take a firmer stance against President Erdogan and the AKP
government that have already lost legitimacy in the eyes of the public in
Turkey. Hereby, we encourage international community who stand in
solidarity, to extend their condolences directly to the peoples of Turkey--
not to the state representatives who are politically and administratively
responsible from the massacre.



*Selahattin Demirtaş & Figen Yüksekdağ**Peoples’ Democratic Party co-Chairs*

*October 12, 2015*
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Re: [Marxism] Please join us by signing this statement "Hands Off Syria" Applies to Russia Too

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Sign how?

The blog site 
"http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/2015/10/please-join-us-by-signing-this.html; 
appears to have only a space for "comments."

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>  Please join us by signing this statement "Hands Off Syria" Applies
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[Marxism] Help with German translation

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I have a feeling that someone didn't get my joke and really assumed that 
I was giving advice on how to write a pro-Assad article. Can one of our 
German speakers give me some feedback?


http://www.heise.de/tp/foren/S-The-idiot-s-guide-to-writing-an-anti-imperialist-article-about-Syria/forum-296042/msg-26976548/read/
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Re: [Marxism] Please join us by signing this statement "Hands Off Syria" Applies to Russia Too

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You can sign in the comment section or by sending an email to 
c...@linuxbeach.net, as I said in the posting.


Clay

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Sign how?

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Subject: [Marxism] Please join us by signing this statement "Hands Off Syria" 
Applies to Russia Too

 From the Critical-Syria group:


  Please join us by signing this statement "Hands Off Syria" Applies
  to Russia Too
  




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Re: [Marxism] Please join us by signing this statement "Hands Off Syria" Applies to Russia Too

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Include your city and affiliation. I was tickled pink to state 
"CounterPunch Film Co-editor".


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Clay

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  Please join us by signing this statement "Hands Off Syria" Applies
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[Marxism] Fwd: New Syrian rebel alliance formed, says weapons on the way | Reuters

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A Kurdish militia in northern Syria has joined forces with Arab rebels, 
and their new alliance has been promised fresh weapon supplies by the 
United States for an assault on Islamic State forces in Raqqa, a 
spokesman said on Monday.


The alliance calling itself the Democratic Forces of Syria includes the 
Kurdish YPG militia and Syrian Arab groups, some of which fought 
alongside it in a campaign that drove Islamic State from wide areas of 
northern Syria earlier this year.


The Arab groups in the new alliance are operating under the name "The 
Syrian Arab Coalition" - a grouping which U.S. officials have said would 
receive support under a new U.S. strategy aimed at fighting Islamic 
State in Syria.


A spokesman for some of the Arab rebels said they were told by 
Washington that new weapons were being sent to help them launch a joint 
offensive on the city of Raqqa.


"We met the Americans and this has been approved and we have been told 
these new arms ... are on their way," said Abu Muazz, a spokesman for 
the Raqqa Revolutionaries Front, a grouping of mainly Arab tribal 
insurgents who are mostly drawn from the Raqqa area.


He said the group constituted a 3,200-strong, well trained fighting 
force which could begin using the weapons within days of their arrival. 
It has an additional 600 fighters who are currently wounded, he said.


full: 
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/12/us-mideast-crisis-syria-kurds-idUSKCN0S60BD20151012

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[Marxism] Fwd: Ankara bombing and the end of the Turkish Republic | openDemocracy

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https://www.opendemocracy.net/umut-ozkirimli/ankara-bombing-and-end-of-turkish-republic
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[Marxism] Your article on how Syria became "balkanized"

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Dr. Harrington,

I read your article in today's CounterPunch with morbid fascination. It 
encapsulates everything I find problematic in the conspiracy-minded 
Baathist amen corner that explains that everything that has happened in 
Syria as a result of CIA plots, the Mossad or--god knows--maybe the 
Freemasons if you read Lyndon Larouche.


You cite a 1982 article by an Israeli journalist named Oded Yinon who 
had been a member of the Likud Party and who argued that the Arab 
nations surrounding Israel had to go through a dissolution along tribal 
and religions lines in order to weaken its enemies. You go on to write 
that this article was supposedly echoed in a neocon policy paper from 
1996 written by Richard Perle and others.


So where is the dotted line between these policy papers and Syria's 
current situation? Did the CIA organize the protests in March 2011 that 
were fired upon by Assad's snipers? I know some crackpots around the 
Baathist amen corner believe that the snipers were actually agent 
provocateurs working for the Mossad or the CIA.


Have you ever read Leon Trotsky? You really need to find some time in 
your busy schedule teaching Iberian studies to read his marvelous 
history of the 1905 uprising, a dress rehearsal for the socialist 
revolution of 1917, in particular the chapter that deals with the 
protests led by Father Gapon. 
(https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1907/1905/ch06.htm)


Like poor people everywhere in history, they rise up when they get sick 
of the torture, corruption, police spies, hunger, and hopelessness that 
marked the reign of Czar Nicholas and the Baathist family dynasty.


All in all, it is quite remarkable that someone who views himself on the 
left as surely you must can be capable of writing propaganda for such a 
dictatorship.


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Re: [Marxism] Help with German translation

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on Montag, 12. Oktober 2015 at 23:03, Louis Proyect via Marxism wrote:

> I have a feeling that someone didn't get my joke and really assumed that
> I was giving advice on how to write a pro-Assad article. Can one of our
> German speakers give me some feedback?

> http://www.heise.de/tp/foren/S-The-idiot-s-guide-to-writing-an-anti-imperialist-article-about-Syria/forum-296042/msg-26976548/read/

  Yes the author of that comment does. He is acknowledging your blog article 
 
  
http://louisproyect.org/2015/10/10/the-idiots-guide-to-writing-an-anti-imperialist-article-about-syria/
 

  as the source of his comment. Infringing your copyright. 


 
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[Marxism] Beware of stalker

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Duane Filan  is a deranged human being who stalks 
Marxmail subscribers. He has used the tag Duende in the past, if I 
recall correctly. My recommendation is to put him into a spam filter or 
else he will harass you mercilessly with unsolicited emails.


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Re: [Marxism] Help with German translation

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On 10/12/15 5:46 PM, Lüko Willms wrote:



*> I have a feeling that someone didn't get my joke and really assumed that

I was giving advice on how to write a pro-Assad article. Can one of our
German speakers give me some feedback?


*>
http://www.heise.de/tp/foren/S-The-idiot-s-guide-to-writing-an-anti-imperialist-article-about-Syria/forum-296042/msg-26976548/read/


  Yes the author of that comment does. He is acknowledging your blog
article

http://louisproyect.org/2015/10/10/the-idiots-guide-to-writing-an-anti-imperialist-article-about-syria/


  as the source of his comment. Infringing your copyright.



Sort of confirms my suspicion that Germans lack a sense of humor except 
maybe for Katzenjammer Kids.

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[Marxism] [UCE] Re: Help with German translation

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on Montag, 12. Oktober 2015 at 23:57, Louis Proyect via Marxism wrote:

> Sort of confirms my suspicion that Germans lack a sense of humor 

 why that? 

 Don't you feel honored when people take your emanations as model for their 
comments, and acknowledge their source? Should he have translated your article 
word by word instead of just paraphrasing it? 

> except maybe for Katzenjammer Kids.

 ?? except that I heard of that but can't fathom what that has to do with 
Germans. 


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[Marxism] China's economic troubles spell woe for world

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With a 50% drop in commodity prices from their high point in 2011 causing a
30% fall in the terms of trade, per capita real national income contracting
for five quarters in a row, and GDP growth at an anaemic 2%, no growth is
just as likely as slow growth.

Last year's growth in global trade was 3.6%, almost half of the 7% growth
that was the norm before the onset of the Great Recession in 2008.

https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/60307


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