[Marxism] Khalida Jarrar freed

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Khalida Jarrar, a member of the central leadership of the PFLP, has been
freed after 14 months without trial in a Zionist prison:

https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/06/08/khalida-jarrar-freed/
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[Marxism] JWSR: Vol 22, No 1 (2016): Special Issue: Ireland in the World-System

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For anyone who might be interested, I just noticed that the latest edition of 
the Journal of World-system Research has been published: 

http://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/jwsr

Here's the Table of Contents:

Symposium: Race in the Capitalist World-System 

Introduction: 
Globalization and Race in World Capitalism



William I. Robinson 


What is Racism?



Ramon Grosfoguel


Challenging the Global 
Apartheid Model: A World-Systems Analysis



Wilma A. Dunaway,   
Donald A. Clelland  


Genocide, Race, 
Capitalism: Synopsis of Formation within the Modern World-system



James V. Fenelon


Cruise Ships: 
Continuity and Change in the World System



Francisca Oyogoa


Racialized and Gendered 
Mass Deportation and the Crisis of Capitalism



Tanya Golash-Boza   


Race in the Capitalist 
World-System: Response to Symposium Essays



Bill Fletcher, Jr.  

Special Issue: Ireland in the World-System

Introduction: Ireland 
in the World-System



Aidan Beatty,   
Maurice Coakley,
Sharae Deckard  


An Irish Revolution 
Without A Revolution



Aidan Beatty


Contesting a 
World-Constitution? Anti-Systemic Movements and Constitutional Forms in 
Ireland, 1848-2008



Thomas Murray   


Northern Ireland: From 
Imperial Asset to International Encumbrance



Tommy McKearney 


Loose Ends: 
Considerations on the Aftermaths of the Celtic Tiger and the Northern 'Troubles'
 

[Marxism] URGENT: This Thursday, June 9th, protest Gov. Cuomo’s attack on Palestinian rights!

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*Please forward widely*.

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 PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY

*Thursday, June 9th, 5:30 PM*
*Outside Gov. Cuomo's office, 633 3rd Avenue between 40th and 41st*
Organized by Adalah-NY: The New York Campaign for the Boycott of Israel;
Jewish Voice for Peace-NY; and Jews Say No!

*Tell Gov. Cuomo: We will proudly continue to stand for justice and boycott
Israel until it complies with international law and respects Palestinian
human rights!*

State-sanctioned backlash against the movement for Palestinian human rights
has reached a new low: Gov. Cuomo just signed a McCarthyite executive order
requiring state agencies to divest from organizations that support the
Palestinian call to boycott companies profiting from, or cultural
institutions complicit in, Israel's oppression of the Palestinian
people. Furthermore, the order requires the creation of a publicly
available blacklist of all companies and institutions that support the
movement.

Boycott is a time-honored tool of communities across the globe. Cuomo’s
move is blatantly unconstitutional and is shamelessly designed to attack
the movement for Palestinian human rights.

*Please join us! *Tell Gov. Cuomo: We will continue to stand for justice
and boycott Israel until the Palestinian people achieve freedom, justice,
and equality. *We will continue to boycott Israel because it is the right
thing to do. *

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[Marxism] Fwd: All the Way | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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Currently being featured on HBO, “All the Way” derives its title from 
LBJ’s 1964 campaign slogan “All the Way with LBJ”. That year SDS urged a 
vote for Johnson but under the slogan “Part of the Way with LBJ”. For 
some former SDS’ers like Carl Davidson, you can expect the slogan to be 
dusted off and used once again for Hillary Clinton with Donald Trump 
being the scariest Republican candidate since Barry Goldwater—or was it 
Ronald Reagan, I can’t remember.


full: https://louisproyect.org/2016/06/07/all-the-way/
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[Marxism] [UCE] Fwd: The Democratic Primary: Big Stake for the Green Party

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http://www.thenorthstar.info/?p=12599
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[Marxism] The Ukraine in Canadian politics

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The Ukraine and its history remain a factor in Canadian politics.
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Alberta Wildrose Members Apologize For Comparing Carbon Tax To The Holodomor
Members of Alberta's Wildrose Opposition have apologized for comparing the NDP 
government's carbon tax to a famine caused by Soviet government policies in 
Ukraine during the 1930s that killed millions of people.

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2016/06/05/alberta-wildrose-members-sorry-for-comparing-ndp-carbon-tax-to-ukraine-famine_n_10296722.html
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[Marxism] Fwd: An Interview with Noam Chomsky | The Colossus

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(Chomsky is an idiot.)

Q: We’re seeing at the moment a mirrored rise of populist movements on 
both the Left and the Right. The right-wing movements are taking on an 
increasingly racist and neo-fascist character. To what extent, and for 
what reasons, does the Left bear responsibility for the rise in 
popularity of these extreme and dangerous forces?


A: It’s responsible in a number of respects. In the last generation the 
Left in the United States, Britain and much of the West has been driven 
by issues which are extremely important but are not class issues — 
identity politics basically. Women’s movements, gay rights, Black Lives 
Matter: all these things are extremely important, but they divert the 
Left away from the fundamental class issues which are being picked up by 
the Right, like Trump and elsewhere. That’s a real failure, and it’s 
connected with the attack on the labour movement and the decline of the 
labour movement. Here’s where maybe Corbyn’s hopeful, if he can fight 
off [those] that are trying to destroy him  — from the Guardian all the 
way over.


full: https://thecolossus.co/2016/06/01/an-interview-with-noam-chomsky/
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Re: [Marxism] Viola Liuzzo

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She was also the wife of a Teamster official; in fact I vaguely remember a
couple years ago someone pointed out (maybe on another list) that her own
history usually got lost in favor of the brief mention - however important
- of the husband's affiliation. I think the Militant ran something on the
union holding a memorial service for her; folks can do a search at MIA.
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[Marxism] Viola Liuzzo

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Later today I will be blogging about the HBO film "All the Way" that 
stars Bryan Cranston as LBJ. In doing some background reading on LBJ in 
Kenneth O'Reilly's superlative "Nixon's Piano", I ran across the name of 
Viola Liuzzo, a woman from Detroit who was killed by the KKK in 1965 
while transporting marchers back to their home from the Selma to 
Montgomery freedom march. Out of curiosity, I checked what Wikipedia had 
to say about here. It really gives you a sense of the sea change that 
has taken place in the American working class.


---

Liuzzo was born Viola Fauver Gregg on April 11, 1925, in the small town 
of California, Pennsylvania, the elder daughter of Eva Wilson, a 
teacher, and Heber Ernest Gregg, a coal miner and World War I veteran. 
He left school in the eighth grade, but taught himself to read. Her 
mother, Eva Wilson Gregg, had a teaching certificate from the University 
of Pittsburgh. The couple had one other daughter, Rose Mary, in 1930. 
While on the job, Heber's right hand was blown off in a mine explosion, 
and, during the Great Depression, the Greggs became solely dependent on 
Eva’s income. Work was very hard to come by for Mrs. Gregg, as she could 
only pick up sporadic, short-term, teaching positions. The family 
descended further into poverty and decided to move Georgia to 
Chattanooga, Tennessee, where Eva Gregg found a teaching position, when 
Viola was six.[4]


The family was very poor and lived in one-room shacks with no running 
water. The schools Liuzzo attended did not have adequate supplies and 
the teachers were too busy to give extra attention to children in need. 
Because the family moved so often, Liuzzo never began and ended the 
school year in the same place. Having spent much of her childhood and 
adolescence poor in Tennessee, Viola experienced the segregated nature 
of the South firsthand. This would eventually have a powerful impact on 
Liuzzo’s activism. It was during her formative years that Liuzzo 
realized the unjustness of segregation and racism, as she and her 
family, in similar conditions of great poverty, were still afforded 
social privilege and amenities denied to African Americans under the Jim 
Crow laws.[5] Although her parents argued against it, Liuzzo dropped out 
of school in the tenth grade. She and her father often argued about her 
social activities and, at the age of 16, Liuzzo ran away and married a 
much older man. The marriage lasted only one day.

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[Marxism] Free Alawite Movement kills Asma's bodyguard

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Bodyguard to Assad’s wife killed by anti-regime Alawites, Syrian media 
and attackers say

Published June 6th, 2016 - 11:10 GMT

http://www.albawaba.com/loop/bodyguard-wife-assad-killed-car-bomb-848826

Multiple Syrian and other media outlets are reporting that Alaa 
Makhlouf-the personal bodyguard to Syrian first lady Asma al-Assad-was 
killed via a car bomb on Saturday, June 4th by members of the Free 
Alawite Movement. Syria Mubasher and Baladi appear to have been the 
first outlets to break the story, citing regime sources and the Free 
Alawite Movement’s Facebook page respectively.
“We’ve killed Alaa Makhlouf, bodyguard to the wife of Bashar the beast,” 
the group declared coldly on Facebook after the attack. The attack took 
place in central Damascus. Rumors of a possible assassination against 
Makhlouf had been circulating for three months, Baladi claims.
The assassination is a blow to members of Syrian president Bashar 
al-Assad’s inner circle. While many in his family remain alive, some of 
those closest to him have been killed over the course of the harrowing 
five-year-long civil war that has left over 400,000 dead.
The fact that the attack was carried out by Assad’s fellow Alawites 
shows the division within that community. Many Alawites remain loyal to 
the president, but some have supported the uprising since it began in 
2011.
Makhlouf was from the village of Qardahah in the Latakia governorate-an 
Assad stronghold. He had served as Asma al-Assad’s bodyguard for an 
unknown number of years 


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[Marxism] No Escape From Black Holes? Stephen Hawking Points to a Possible Exit

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(I find myself utterly captivated by these kinds of articles even if I 
can't understand a single word.)


NY Times, June 7 2016
No Escape From Black Holes? Stephen Hawking Points to a Possible Exit
By DENNIS OVERBYE

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — “A black hole has no hair.”

That mysterious, koan-like statement by the theorist and legendary 
phrasemaker John Archibald Wheeler of Princeton has stood for half a 
century as one of the brute pillars of modern physics.


It describes the ability of nature, according to classical gravitational 
equations, to obliterate most of the attributes and properties of 
anything that falls into a black hole, playing havoc with science’s 
ability to predict the future and tearing at our understanding of how 
the universe works.


Now it seems that statement might be wrong.

Recently Stephen Hawking, who has spent his entire career battling a 
form of Lou Gehrig’s disease, wheeled across the stage in Harvard’s 
hoary, wood-paneled Sanders Theater to do battle with the black hole. It 
is one of the most fearsome demons ever conjured by science, and one 
partly of his own making: a cosmic pit so deep and dense and endless 
that it was long thought that nothing — not even light, not even a 
thought — could ever escape.


But Dr. Hawking was there to tell us not to be so afraid.

In a paper published to be published this week in Physical Review 
Letters, Dr. Hawking and his colleagues Andrew Strominger of Harvard and 
Malcolm Perry of Cambridge University in England say they have found a 
clue pointing the way out of black holes.


“They are not the eternal prisons they were once thought,” Dr. Hawking 
said in his famous robot voice, now processed through a synthesizer. “If 
you feel you are trapped in a black hole, don’t give up. There is a way 
out.”


Black holes are the most ominous prediction of Einstein’s general theory 
of relativity: Too much matter or energy concentrated in one place would 
cause space to give way, swallowing everything inside like a magician’s 
cloak.


An eternal prison was the only metaphor scientists had for these 
monsters until 40 years ago, when Dr. Hawking turned black holes upside 
down — or perhaps inside out. His equations showed that black holes 
would not last forever. Over time, they would “leak” and then explode in 
a fountain of radiation and particles.


Ever since, the burning question in physics has been: When the black 
hole finally goes, does it give up the secrets of everything that fell in?


Dr. Hawking’s calculation was, and remains, hailed as a breakthrough in 
understanding the connection between gravity and quantum mechanics, 
between the fabric of space and the subatomic particles that live inside 
it — the large and the small in the universe.


But there was a hitch. By Dr. Hawking’s estimation, the radiation coming 
out of the black hole as it fell apart would be random. As a result, 
most of the “information” about what had fallen in — all of the 
attributes and properties of the things sucked in, whether elephants or 
donkeys, Volkswagens or Cadillacs — would be erased.


In a riposte to Einstein’s famous remark that God does not play dice, 
Dr. Hawking said in 1976, “God not only plays dice with the universe, 
but sometimes throws them where they can’t be seen.”


But his calculation violated a tenet of modern physics: that it is 
always possible in theory to reverse time, run the proverbial film 
backward and reconstruct what happened in, say, the collision of two 
cars or the collapse of a dead star into a black hole.


The universe, like a kind of supercomputer, is supposed to be able to 
keep track of whether one car was a green pickup truck and the other was 
a red Porsche, or whether one was made of matter and the other 
antimatter. These things may be destroyed, but their “information” — 
their essential physical attributes — should live forever.


In fact, the information seemed to be lost in the black hole, according 
to Dr. Hawking, as if part of the universe’s memory chip had been 
erased. According to this theorem, only information about the mass, 
charge and angular momentum of what went in would survive.


Nothing about whether it was antimatter or matter, male or female, sweet 
or sour.


A war of words and ideas ensued. The information paradox, as it is 
known, was no abstruse debate, as Dr. Hawking pointed out from the stage 
of the Sanders Theater in April. Rather, it challenged foundational 
beliefs about what reality is and how it works.


If the rules break down in black holes, they may be lost in other places 
as well, he warned. If foundational information disappears into a gaping 
maw, 

[Marxism] Fwd: TASS: World - Israel fully supports Russia’s actions to fight terrorism in Syria — ambassador

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Israel just expressed its support to Russia to smash the Zionist plot to 
overthrow democratically elected president.


http://tass.ru/en/world/879577
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[Marxism] Is Canada ready for a world awash in $0 oil?

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I'd be interested in the comments of subscribers to this list.
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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/is-canada-ready-for-a-world-awash-in-0-oil/article30259443/

A draft federal-government study obtained by the CBC under an Access to 
Information request, prepared by the government trend-forecasting office Policy 
Horizons Canada, starkly makes the case that oil may be on the verge of 
becoming almost worthless.

The researchers analyzed worldwide pricing and technology and policy trends 
that are driving the price of non-fossil electricity sources downward at a far 
faster pace than expected – along with surprisingly rapid technology-driven 
decreases in the price of grid-level energy storage and alternative-energy 
vehicles, manufacturing and heating. They found that we could be much closer 
than we think to an era when renewable and alternative-energy sources become 
significantly cheaper than fossil fuels.


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[Marxism] Feminists and refugees Australian style

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If Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull really is a feminist, as 
he claims, why is he locking up innocent women and girls on Nauru and 
Manus Island and subjecting them to rape, torture and other abuses? 
Bring them here. Let them stay. That is what a feminist would do.

http://enpassant.com.au/2016/06/07/feminists-like-turnbull-and-refugee-women-on-nauru/


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