[Marxism] Syria/Idlib: OGN Interview with HTS Military Leader

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Quite interesting and informative!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GZ8llIUkHk=youtu.be


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[Marxism] Gaza: The Day after the Cease Fire

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From comrades in Israel / Occupied Palestine

https://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/africa-and-middle-east/the-day-after-the-cease-fire-in-gaza/ 



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[Marxism] Let Malibu Burn

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Mike Davis article from 1995.

http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~stolfi/misc/misc/SoCalFires.html
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[Marxism] Marx at 200

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As we draw to the end of the bicentennial of Marx's birth, his remains
vital for a n understanding of the workings of the world:

What is Marxism? 

What is exploitation?


How capitalism works – and why it doesn’t


4,000 words on *Capital*


Karl Korsch on “tremendous and enduring” impact of Marx’s *Capital* (1932)



Capital, the working class and Marx’s critique of political economy


Marx’s critique of classical political economy


From the vaults: two articles on wages, profits, crisis


Capital and the state


How capitalist ideology works


Pilling’s *Marx’s *Capital*: philosophy, dialectics and political economy*

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[Marxism] Trump's New Neoliberalism | New Compass

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http://new-compass.net/articles/trumps-new-neoliberalism
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[Marxism] What They Had | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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A couple of weeks ago a publicist asked me to have a look at a 
documentary titled “Distant Constellation” set in an Istanbul old age 
home. I warned her that I had misgivings about such a film but would 
give it a shot since I have valued her efforts on behalf of 
non-commercial films. Within fifteen minutes, however, I realized that 
the film was too close to home. The residents of the nursing home were 
either suffering from dementia or unable to present a cogent account of 
their lives there. The title of the film derives from one of the elderly 
patient’s speculations about life on other planets.


The Guardian review of the film begins with a Philip Roth quote: “Old 
age isn’t a battle; old age is a massacre.” That summed it up for me.


full: https://louisproyect.org/2018/11/14/what-they-had/
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[Marxism] Garden Earth: A fixed meat ration is not the path to sustainable food systems

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Gunnar Rundgren nails it:

"The environmental impact of the food chain is too high. The main driver of
destruction is the globalized fossil fuel economy and industrial
agriculture of plants and animals. Once we redesign agriculture into
sustainable and regenerative systems where land, people and food are
“re-coupled”, diets will be diverse and adapted to the local ecological
conditions, population densities, etc. The notion of some kind of globally
averaged diet is flawed. The share of animal products in peoples’ diets
will vary from very high to very low depending on the conditions, in the
same way it has always done. "


FULL paper here:

https://gardenearth.blogspot.com/2018/11/a-fixed-meat-ration-is-not-path-to.html?fbclid=IwAR3T_qz3WB8vEAINgp_BMmCo25X7r_W3m9tjUAZlX3wzSbaO4D4Qe36qlIs



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[Marxism] Gérald Bloncourt, Haitian Photographer and Activist, Dies at 91 - The New York Times

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Gérald Bloncourt, who after being expelled from Haiti for his role in 
antigovernment protests in 1946 went to Paris and turned his zeal for 
social justice into photography that captured the humanity of immigrants 
and factory workers, died on Oct. 29 in Paris. He was 91.


https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/09/obituaries/grald-bloncourt-dead.html
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[Marxism] Israeli historian says most of the state's archives are off limits to researchers

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Israeli historian Rona Sela has spent 20 years uncovering Palestinian
visual history that has been kept in the dark in Israel's state and
military archives. She says the methodical plunder of Palestinians
'
cultural assets predates the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948,
what Palestinians call the 'Nakba
'
or 'catastrophe.'

"The looting and seizure, as far as I found, started in the 1930s in a
systematic and organised manner ... by Haganah forces [Zionist paramilitary
group]. The seizure intensified, of course, with the Nakba in 1948. I found
materials taken in 1967, 1982, 1991 and ... in the last few years."

"Israel is terrified of the contents of its own archives, and doesn't want
its history to be exposed," says Mahmoud Yazbak, a professor at the
University of Haifa. "The government's ... aim is to hide the past from
researchers in order to prevent it from being part of the present and the
future."

"The fact that these documents have been taken away from Palestinian hands
is a sign of contempt for Palestinian history," says Yazbak. "It's an
attempt to suggest Palestinians have no history, no documents, no
belongings."

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[Marxism] Can the working class change the world?

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My review of the excellent new book by Michael Yates.

<
https://climateandcapitalism.com/2018/11/13/can-the-working-class-change-the-world/
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[Marxism] How Kyrsten Sinema Won Her Senate Seat and Pulled Off a Historic Arizona Triumph

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(For all those DSA'ers dreaming about how the DP will become the party 
of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders, the reality is that the 
momentum is behind people like Kyrsten Sinema, who is a disgusting 
nativist opportunist. Well, who knows if she really hates immigrants. It 
is entirely possible that she became a nativist to get votes in the same 
way that FDR downplayed civil rights to mollify the Dixiecrats. In any 
case, it just shows the futility of trying to turn the DP into a social 
democratic vehicle.)


NY Times, Nov. 14, 2018
How Kyrsten Sinema Won Her Senate Seat and Pulled Off a Historic Arizona 
Triumph

By Simon Romero

PHOENIX — Kyrsten Sinema’s first foray into politics ended in failure 
when she campaigned as an antiwar activist and finished dead last out of 
five candidates in a race for a seat in the Arizona Legislature.


Sixteen years later, Ms. Sinema has achieved a historic political 
triumph, becoming the first woman ever to represent Arizona in the 
Senate, and the first Democrat from the state to win a Senate seat since 
the 1980s.


How did Ms. Sinema do it? She transformed herself into a conservative 
Democrat who ran a disciplined campaign designed to attract Republican 
and independent voters who were frustrated with President Trump. And she 
capitalized on a changing Arizona, where the grip that Republicans have 
long had on the suburbs around Phoenix may be weakening.


“Sinema is the single best politician in Arizona today,” said Stan 
Barnes, a longtime Republican strategist in Phoenix. “She has a 
magnetism that can win people over.”


Beyond Ms. Sinema’s talent at working a room, Democrats and Republicans 
around the United States are now trying to decipher whether her defeat 
of her Republican opponent, Martha McSally, offers a kind of playbook 
that others with similar ambitions can study.


Ms. Sinema finished last in her first campaign in 2002 for a seat in the 
Arizona House of Representatives as an independent affiliated with the 
Green Party.


But she switched to the Democratic Party in 2004 and won a seat in the 
state Legislature. Ms. Sinema began showing an independent streak, 
speaking openly about her sexuality — she will be the first openly 
bisexual member of Congress — and her belief in secular government. 
While Ms. Sinema was raised in a Mormon family, she now ascribes to no 
religion.


Ms. Sinema, 42, gained a reputation for working with ideological rivals 
in the Republican-controlled chamber while marking up wins like the 
defeat of a measure that would have banned the recognition of same-sex 
marriage and civil unions in Arizona.


She then won a seat in 2012 in the United States House of 
Representatives, campaigning against a Republican opponent who accused 
her of practicing “pagan rituals” during antiwar protests. Ms. Sinema 
took the temperature of her Phoenix district, which included many 
Republicans and independent voters, and moved further to the center once 
in Washington.


While describing herself as bipartisan, her pro-business votes won her a 
rare endorsement for a Democrat from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce when 
she ran for re-election in 2014. She joined the Blue Dog Coalition, the 
group comprising relatively conservative Democrats, and drew criticism 
from the left for a voting record in which she often sided with 
President Trump and other Republicans.


Meanwhile, other forces were reshaping Arizona’s political landscape. 
Republicans still outnumber Democrats in the state, but so do 
independents. Arizona, despite the bluster of some of its Republican 
activists, is the state that has been home to Republicans willing 
sometimes to criticize President Trump, including John McCain, the 
iconic senator who died over the summer at the age of 81, and Jeff 
Flake, who is vacating the seat won by Ms. Sinema.


Still, momentum seems to be on the side of Democrats, a trend that 
accelerated in the closing weeks of the campaign. Since the primaries in 
August, for every two voters that registered as Republicans in the 
state, three registered as Democrats, according to the Arizona Secretary 
of State’s office.


“I kind of smile when someone asks how Sinema pulled it off,” said 
Alejandra Gomez, executive director of the Arizona Center for 
Empowerment, a group that supports immigrant rights and public education.


“I mean, we pulled it off,” said Ms. Gomez, emphasizing how her group 
and other grass-roots organizers registered about 190,000 people to vote 
in Arizona ahead of this year’s election. “We knocked on the doors of 
over a million people of color. Think about that. There’s a lot of talk 
about 

[Marxism] Prepare for surprisingly little | Richard Seymour on Patreon

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So, Tories, you have a choice. You can have this lovely Brexit deal, or 
you can trade it all in for what's in this box. The box is Pandora's. It 
is the whirlwind of chaos that disloyalty to the luckless leader, your 
walking scapegoat, will unleash.


Before Christmas, we will find out what Tory 'rebels' are made of. 
Judging from past performance, and based on the preliminaries to today's 
emergency cabinet meeting, I would guess very little.


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[Marxism] The Million Trumps of India - Los Angeles Review of Books

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