[Marxism] How the call for an International Women’s Strike on March 8 arose

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How a strike against gender violence last year has evolved into the call
for an International Women’s Strike on March 8

https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/how-call-international-women%E2%80%99s-strike-arose
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[Marxism] International Women's Strike on March 8 marks 'start of a new international feminist movement’

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The International Women’s Strike on March 8 is an international day of
action, planned and organised by women in more than 30 different countries.


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Re: [Marxism] White House blocks CNN, BBC, New York Times, LA Times from media briefing | The Independent

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> On Feb 24, 2017, at 4:19 PM, Louis Proyect via Marxism 
>  wrote:
> 
> http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/white-house-blocks-news-outlets-from-media-briefing-a7598641.html
>  
> 


In case you missed it, Sean Spicer said in December that this is something only 
dictatorships do:

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/watch-sean-spicer-said-in-december-that-only-dictatorships-do-what-the-white-house-did-today/
 


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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: White House bars Daily News, multiple outlets from press briefing - NY Daily News

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 Yes.  Noticed the same shift some time ago, maybe a year or more. My 
recollection is that it started with coverage of unarmed African-Americans 
killed by police.  I recall thinking how unusual it was to find this coverage 
in the Daily News.  Originally Juan Gonzalez stuck out as kind of lefty; then 
with the transformation, blending in to the rest.

Well with digging into the story, along with two other journalism shifts:  1.  
The very recent disappearance of most of the New York City edition of the Wall 
Street Journal, now down Monday-Thursday to two sections, instead of four, with 
the formerly separate New York City section merged into the back of the front 
page section and

2. The incredible shrinking Rolling Stone Magazine hard copy; cut down nearly 
into comic books size, and many less pages.

T

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>To: Thomas F Barton 
>Subject: [Marxism] Fwd: White House bars Daily News, multiple outlets from 
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>It is really interesting how the NY Daily News has shifted to the left 
>in recent years. This is a tabloid read by working class people like bus 
>drivers, Con Ed workers, truck drivers, etc. Might dig into the story of 
>how this happened.
>
>http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/white-house-bars-daily-news-multiple-outlets-press-briefing-article-1.2981448
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[Marxism] Fwd: A CONVERSATION WITH PROFESSOR ROMAN SERBYN | The Day newspaper

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I have been in touch with Serbyn who commented on my "Bitter Harvest" 
review. This is from an interview with him:


Q: In the academic world your work on Podolynsky is well known. 
Podolynsky is a remarkable thinker and personality. He finished medical 
school in Paris, he had Ukrainian aristocratic family roots, and, in 
defiance of his father’s pro-Empire positions, he became a socialist and 
nationalist. I believe your biobibliographic and biographic work on 
Podolynsky is the most complete to date.


RS: Podolynsky is one of the bright lights of 19th-century Ukrainian 
intellectual history. Unfortunately, he became mentally ill at the age 
of 32 and died in 1891 at age 41. Currently, in the West he is linked 
with the ecological movement because of his discussions on conservation 
and the use of solar energy. Ukrainians have always treated him 
primarily as an economist. In fact, by education, he was a medical 
doctor. For the Soviets he was an enigmatic figure because of his 
connections with Marx and the socialist movements in Europe and the 
Russian empire. We have Podolynsky’s letters to Marx; unfortunately, we 
do not have Marx’s replies to Podolynsky. Podolynsky liked Marxist 
socialist economic theories but did not like Marx as a politician 
because Podolynsky was a democrat, and he was most disappointed by 
Marx’s dictatorial behavior at the 1872 conference of the International 
at the Hague, where Podolynsky went to meet the leaders of European 
socialist movements. It was as a socialist that Podolynsky became a 
“nationalist” of sorts. Like Antonovych before him, who left the Polish 
camp to join the Ukrainian people among whom he was living, Podolynsky 
left the Russian revolutionaries to join Drahomanov and the Ukrainian 
hromada. As a young socialist, while studying medicine in Paris and then 
Zurich, he helped the Russian socialist P. Lavrov publish the ОmigrО 
journal Vpered. He was personally acquainted with Bakunin and the less 
familiar, but more important, Tkachev. Podolynsky’s position was that 
socialism in Ukraine would have to be built on Ukrainian roots and 
culture; this is why he found the use of Russian traditions and Russian 
slogans irrelevant in Ukraine. That is why he gradually moved away from 
the Russian socialists and joined Drahomanov, Pavlyk, Shulhyn — the 
Ukrainian radicals of the day. Podolynsky was an authentic democrat, and 
in the Russian dispute between Lavrov and Tkachev (a Blanquist who 
believed in coming to power by putchist methods) he took the side of 
Lavrov against this “Leninist before Lenin” — Tkachev. It was the latter 
that most influenced Lenin. Speaking of Lenin, do you know what Lenin’s 
training was in?


full: 
https://day.kyiv.ua/en/article/close/conversation-professor-roman-serbyn

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Re: [Marxism] Distinction between authoritarian and totalitarian states

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[reply inline / bottom-posted]

Saturday, February 25, 2017, 4:09:37 PM, you wrote:

> Louis,  There is a debate going on among the left cadre
> whether Modi's BJP is aspiring to build a fascist state. BJP and RSS
> have got all the armaments ready to build a totalitarian state.BJP
> is a branch of the all powerful RSS (Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh -
> Translation: National self service group), which actually exterts
> its influence on the administration. In fact, Modi has to bow before
> the authority of RSS leasdership cotorie. Major decisions are taken
> at the Nagpur HQ of RSS, located in Central India. RSS has got many
> shadowy organisation such as Bajrang Dal (the Monkey God Corps),
> Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP for short - the ideological wing of RSS),
> Sanatan Sansthan (the covert organisation that had murdered 3
> prominent intellectuals). It is reported that RSS has under its
> umbrella hundreds of such covert and overt organizations, with
> membership running into 3 or 4 million. Added to this, they have
> many local outfits such as Shiv Sena (Shiva's Army).
> [...]

Shiv Sena is a fascist party local to the state of Maharashtra, particularly in 
Bombay (renamed Mumbai by the fascists), carving its way by being 
xenophobically opposed, often violently, to workers from outside the state. It 
was set up on the initiative of the CIA to destroy leftist trade unions in the 
Bombay mills; it now has its own fascist trade unions. Shiv Sena was in a 
Maharashtra government coalition with the BJP; that co-operation ended in 2014. 
Shiv Sena is not part of the BJP, nor is the breakaway group, the Maharashtra 
Navnirman Sena. Somewhat gratifyingly, these two Senas have literally been at 
each other's throats, spilling fellow fascists' blood.
-- 
In solidarity
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[Marxism] Migrants from the US to Canada

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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/asylum-seekers-on-a-cold-journey-to-manitoba/article34126957/

On the third weekend of February, Justin Giovannetti and photographer Ian 
Willms followed 22 asylum seekers who crossed the American border into Canada 
near the town of Emerson, Man. They are part of a growing tide who, fearful of 
increased security in the U.S. under the Trump administration, are risking 
their lives to go north

* * * *  * * 

There’s a policy of don’t ask, don’t tell. Members of the (Somali) community 
shelter relatives and friends without question and no explanation is expected 
when they’re gone.
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[Marxism] Lynne F. Stewart, Lawyer for Omar Abdel Rahman, Unexpectedly Outlives Him

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Lynne F. Stewart, Lawyer for Omar Abdel Rahman, Unexpectedly Outlives Him
By BENJAMIN WEISER FEB. 24, 2017
When Omar Abdel Rahman 

 died last Saturday while serving a life sentence for a 1995 conviction in a 
plot to blow up New York City landmarks, it came as little surprise that the 
nearly universal view of him as a dangerous terrorist would not be shared by 
his former lawyer Lynne F. Stewart 
.

What was something of a surprise was that Ms. Stewart, who then called 

 Mr. Abdel Rahman “just the latest in a long line of American heroes who were 
convicted wrongfully,” was around to do so.

Three years after she was granted 

 a “compassionate release” from federal prison in her own terrorism case after 
doctors had said that Ms. Stewart, ill with cancer, would not survive beyond 18 
months, she has endured, remaining unmellowed, especially about Mr. Abdel 
Rahman.

“He was a personification of an American hero,” Ms. Stewart, 77, said in an 
interview on Thursday. “I feel very strongly that he suffered. He suffered 
unjustly because he was convicted of this bogus crime.”

Ms. Stewart sought an early release from prison while serving a 10-year 
sentence 

 for smuggling messages from the imprisoned Mr. Abdel Rahman, known as the 
blind sheikh, to his followers in Egypt.

She had been found to have breast cancer, and in 2012, doctors at the Federal 
Medical Center, Carswell, in Fort Worth, said that the cancer had spread to her 
lungs, lymph system and bones, according to court papers filed by her lawyer.

Ms. Stewart said in a 12-page handwritten letter to the judge in 2013: 
“Isolated, in hospital, as I now am, I have time to contemplate life and death. 
I do not intend to go ‘gently into that good night,’ as Dylan Thomas wrote. 
There is much to be done in this world. I do know that I do not want to die 
here in prison — a strange and loveless place. I want to be where all is 
familiar — in a word, home.”

The judge, John G. Koeltl of Federal District Court in Manhattan, ultimately 
granted Ms. Stewart a compassionate release after a request by the government, 
which said that she qualified for such release because she had a terminal, 
incurable illness with a life expectancy of less than 18 months, and because of 
the relatively limited risk, if she were released, of recidivism and danger to 
the community.

Ms. Stewart was interviewed on Thursday in her living room in Brooklyn, where 
she was joined by her husband, Ralph Poynter, and later that day on the phone, 
one day after she had returned home from her latest treatment at Memorial Sloan 
Kettering Cancer Center. Doctors had told her that she had suffered a “couple 
of strokes,” she said.

Read more:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/24/nyregion/lynne-stewart-lawyer-for-omar-abdel-rahman.html?rref=collection%2
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[Marxism] Distinction between authoritarian and totalitarian states

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Louis,  There is a debate going on among the left cadre whether Modi's 
BJP is aspiring to build a fascist state. BJP and RSS have got all the 
armaments ready to build a totalitarian state.BJP is a branch of the all 
powerful RSS (Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh - Translation: National self service 
group), which actually exterts its influence on the administration. In fact, 
Modi has to bow before the authority of RSS leasdership cotorie. Major 
decisions are taken at the Nagpur HQ of RSS, located in Central India. RSS has 
got many shadowy organisation such as Bajrang Dal (the Monkey God Corps), 
Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP for short - the ideological wing of RSS), Sanatan 
Sansthan (the covert organisation that had murdered 3 prominent intellectuals). 
It is reported that RSS has under its umbrella hundreds of such covert and 
overt organizations, with membership running into 3 or 4 million. Added to 
this, they have many local outfits such as Shiv Sena (Shiva's Army). It is 
reported widely that the VHP had imparted military training to more than 2 
hundred thousand volunteers with modern weapons, including use of anti-aircraft 
missile weaponry. With such a strength and clout, they aspire to take control 
of India. We have seen in the last 3 years of BJP rule, many hundreds of 
incidents all over the country of brutal murder and attacks on Muslims and 
Dalits (untouchable lower castes). Today, they have established an iron grip 
over a majority of higher educational institutions and reasearch institutes. 
The press is coerced and subdued in to compliance with the ruling dispensation 
and any movement against the BJP is supressed. Much what they are attempting is 
in the direction of a totalitarian state.But.. something is going drastically 
wrong for them. They are losing one state election after another. The results 
of the ongoing state assembly elections in 5 states, including the most 
populous Uttar Pradesh (1/6 of the country's population) will be out on 11th 
March, 2017. In all likelihood, Modi's BJP is going to bite the dust in all the 
5 states. Modi's exercise in demonetisation had proved to be a monumental 
disaster and he had angered not only the poor, but even the well off and the 
big business, with the GDP rate projected to fall by more that 1.5% (from the 
earlier projected 7.6%). Will the debacles in state elections put the 
authoritarian forces on the backtrack or will they go ahead more vigorously is 
to be seen. Our hope is that democracy in India is strong and our armed forces 
continue to remain non-political, unlike in Pakistan.
Vijaya Kumar Marla
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Re: [Marxism] White House bars Daily News, multiple outlets from press briefing - NY

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On 2/25/17 10:09 AM, Marla Vijaya kumar via Marxism wrote:

Louis, I am surprised by your question, "what the hell is going on
there." Am I to understand that you are not aware of the developments
in India in the past 3 years after Modi's BJP came to power. For most
of our Western comrades, India with 1/5 of the world's humanity
doesn't just figure on their radar. Now that you have a clone of Modi
riding on yourbacks in US, you are concerned.



Actually, the analogy made in the Frontline article with Trump makes 
more sense than the one the Indian FB friend made with Hitler. Years 
ago, the slimy neocon Jeanne Fitzpatrick drew a distinction between 
authoritarian and totalitarian states. Many authoritarian states are 
content to use a parliamentary facade to impose authoritarian rule, with 
Putin and Modi prime examples. This is what Trump is aspiring to rather 
than a totalitarian system in which, for example, fascist youth groups 
run loose on campus breaking up leftist meetings. The question of how to 
resist authoritarian states is a bit more tricky as Putin's grip over 
Russia would indicate.

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Re: [Marxism] White House bars Daily News, multiple outlets from press briefing - NY

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On 2/25/17 10:12 AM, Marla Vijaya kumar via Marxism wrote:


Why doen't the URL figure in the message?
Anyway, it is from the January 20, 2017 issue of Frontline, titled "Big Brother in 
Delhi."



http://www.frontline.in/cover-story/big-brother-in-delhi/article9456559.ece

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Re: [Marxism] White House bars Daily News, multiple outlets from press briefing - NY

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Why doen't the URL figure in the message? 
Anyway, it is from the January 20, 2017 issue of Frontline, titled "Big Brother 
in Delhi."


  From: Marla Vijaya kumar via Marxism 
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Louis,  
 I am surprised by your question, "what the hell is going on there." Am I to 
understand that you are not aware of the developments in India in the past 3 
years after Modi's BJP came to power. For most of our Western comrades, India 
with 1/5 of the world's humanity doesn't just figure on their radar. Now that 
you have a clone of Modi riding on yourbacks in US, you are concerned.

Vijaya Kumar Marla

I am posting a URL from the prestigeous Frontline magazine on Modi's 
(mis)rule.Big Brother in Delhi
Frontline, January 20, 2017
Big Brother in Delhi

  
|  
|  |  
Big Brother in Delhi
 Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who came in with the slogan “minimum government, 
maximum governance”, has become t...  |  |

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Re: [Marxism] White House bars Daily News, multiple outlets from press briefing - NY

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Louis,  
 I am surprised by your question, "what the hell is going on there." Am I to 
understand that you are not aware of the developments in India in the past 3 
years after Modi's BJP came to power. For most of our Western comrades, India 
with 1/5 of the world's humanity doesn't just figure on their radar. Now that 
you have a clone of Modi riding on yourbacks in US, you are concerned.

Vijaya Kumar Marla

I am posting a URL from the prestigeous Frontline magazine on Modi's 
(mis)rule.Big Brother in Delhi
Frontline, January 20, 2017
Big Brother in Delhi

  
|  
|   |  
Big Brother in Delhi
 Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who came in with the slogan “minimum government, 
maximum governance”, has become t...  |  |

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[Marxism] The Economist on Crisis of Globalization

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Very interesting articles on the crisis of globalization from /The 
Economist /- one of the mouth pieces of capitalism. They also contain 
several graphs which I can send to those who are interested.


*In retreat*

*The multinational company is in trouble*

*/Global firms are surprisingly vulnerable to attack/*

Jan 28th 2017, 
http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21715660-global-firms-are-surprisingly-vulnerable-attack-multinational-company-trouble


AMONG the many things that Donald Trump dislikes are big global firms. 
Faceless and rootless, they stand accused of unleashing “carnage” on 
ordinary Americans by shipping jobs and factories abroad. His answer is 
to domesticate these marauding multinationals. Lower taxes will draw 
their cash home, border charges will hobble their cross-border supply 
chains and the trade deals that help them do business will be rewritten. 
To avoid punitive treatment, “all you have to do is stay,” he told 
American bosses this week.


Mr Trump is unusual in his aggressively protectionist tone. But in many 
ways he is behind the times. Multinational companies, the agents behind 
global integration, were already in retreat well before the populist 
revolts of 2016. Their financial performance has slipped so that they 
are no longer outstripping local firms. Many seem to have exhausted 
their ability to cut costs and taxes and to out-think their local 
competitors. Mr Trump’s broadsides are aimed at companies that are 
surprisingly vulnerable and, in many cases, are already heading home. 
The impact on global commerce will be profound.


*The end of the arbitrage*

Multinational firms (those that do a large chunk of their business 
outside their home region) employ only one in 50 of the world’s workers. 
But they matter. A few thousand firms influence what billions of people 
watch, wear and eat. The likes of IBM, McDonald’s, Ford, H, Infosys, 
Lenovo and Honda have been the benchmark for managers. They co-ordinate 
the supply chains that account for over 50% of all trade. They account 
for a third of the value of the world’s stockmarkets and they own the 
lion’s share of its intellectual property—from lingerie designs to 
virtual-reality software and diabetes drugs.


They boomed in the early 1990s, as China and the former Soviet bloc 
opened and Europe integrated. Investors liked global firms’ economies of 
scale and efficiency. Rather than running themselves as national fiefs, 
firms unbundled their functions. A Chinese factory might use tools from 
Germany, have owners in the United States, pay taxes in Luxembourg and 
sell to Japan. Governments in the rich world dreamed of their national 
champions becoming world-beaters. Governments in the emerging world 
welcomed the jobs, exports and technology that global firms brought. It 
was a golden age.


Central to the rise of the global firm was its claim to be a superior 
moneymaking machine. That claim lies in tatters (see Briefing 
). 
In the past five years the profits of multinationals have dropped by 
25%. Returns on capital have slipped to their lowest in two decades. A 
strong dollar and a low oil price explain part of the decline. 
Technology superstars and consumer firms with strong brands are still 
thriving. But the pain is too widespread and prolonged to be dismissed 
as a blip. About 40% of all multinationals make a return on equity of 
less than 10%, a yardstick for underperformance. In a majority of 
industries they are growing more slowly and are less profitable than 
local firms that stayed in their backyard. The share of global profits 
accounted for by multinationals has fallen from 35% a decade ago to 30% 
now. For many industrial, manufacturing, financial, natural-resources, 
media and telecoms companies, global reach has become a burden, not an 
advantage.


That is because a 30-year window of arbitrage is closing. Firms’ tax 
bills have been massaged down as low as they can go; in China factory 
workers’ wages are rising. Local firms have become more sophisticated. 
They can steal, copy or displace global firms’ innovations without 
building costly offices and factories abroad. From America’s shale 
industry to Brazilian banking, from Chinese e-commerce to Indian 
telecoms, the companies at the cutting edge are local, not global.


The changing political landscape is making things even harder for the 
giants. Mr Trump is the latest and most strident manifestation of a 
worldwide shift to grab more of the value that multinationals capture. 
China wants global firms to 

[Marxism] Fwd: Here Comes the Police State: New Laws Aim for Brutal Crackdown on Protest | Alternet

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The police department unions and Trump's elected official supporters are 
moving to put restrictions on mass protests using the excuse of black 
bloc riots to control the entire movement. This suggests that the cops 
had a real interest in sending agent provocateurs into the black bloc 
milieu.


http://www.alternet.org/activism/state-lawmakers-are-brutally-cracking-down-protesters-under-cover-trumps-law-and-order
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[Marxism] Fwd: Kenneth’s three arrows | Michael Roberts Blog

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Kenneth J. Arrow has died at the age of 95.  He was an important 
mainstream economist.  He won a Nobel Prize as a mathematical theorist. 
Indeed, Arrow was the epitome of the neoclassical general equilibrium 
theorists who came to dominate mainstream economics, with the avowed aim 
of using mathematics to deliver economic analysis and answers, in a 
mimic of mathematical physics.


Arrow was a close associate of that other great neoclassical and 
anti-Keynesian theorist, John Hicks.  They both aimed to use general 
equilibrium theory and math to show that markets and economic growth 
under capitalism could achieve equilibrium through supply and demand in 
‘competitive markets’.


Interestingly, Arrow was uncle to a current Keynesian guru of ‘managed 
capitalism’, Larry Summers and also brother-in-law to that other icon of 
1960s mainstream ‘Keynesian’ economics and the then textbook writer to 
university students, Paul Samuelson.  It’s a small world in the 
mainstream – although not as small as the Marxist economics world!


full: 
https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2017/02/25/kenneths-three-arrows/

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