Re: [Marxism] President Bernie Sanders?
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. * I think it's more likely, the Democrats would nominate the corpse of Lyndon LaRouche, because it would be less likely to say something objectionable. Should Sanders start winning primaries, the DNC will simply start changing the rules governing the selection of delegates--the old trick from 1968. And, if hell should freeze over and Sanders were to win the nomination, the DNC would surely hold a celebratory parade for him through Dallas . . . right past the school book depository. Of course, should the Democratic Party actually nominate even a nominal socialist, it might well require a reassessment of our understanding of the political order. I don't see any reason to expect that will happen. _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] President Bernie Sanders?
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. * Please note that I have corrected this article. The second poll referred to was actually one taken state-by-state and it showed a 72% favorable rating for Sanders in his home state, not in Alabama. The way the article was written was not really clear, but on rereading it, that is clearly what it meant. I apologize for this mistake. On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 2:28 PM John Reimann <1999wild...@gmail.com> wrote: > In two polls, Sanders beats Trump in 3 key states & gets 72% favorable > rating in Alabama. His campaign must be taken seriously this time. > Meanwhile, he is building ties to the tops of the Democratic Party and to > liberal capitalists, especially Silicon Valley capitalists. > Should the workers movement support him? > Should socialists? > In either case, what is the alternative? > https://oaklandsocialist.com/2019/04/23/president-bernie-sanders/ > > -- > *“In politics, abstract terms conceal treachery.” *from "The Black > Jacobins" by C. L. R. James > Check out:https:http://oaklandsocialist.com also on Facebook > -- *“In politics, abstract terms conceal treachery.” *from "The Black Jacobins" by C. L. R. James Check out:https:http://oaklandsocialist.com also on Facebook _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] The Blackfoot and the Barbarians | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist
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Re: [Marxism] The Mueller Report: Glenn Greenwald vs. David Cay Johnston on Trump-Russia Ties, Obstruction & More
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. * I agree with Michael Karadjis that Trump views China rather than Russia as the major rival to US imperialism. But this does not exclude some rivalry and conflict between the US and Russia. An example is US anger over Turkey's decision to buy S-400 missiles from Russia. Michael dismisses the idea that Turkey would try to invade northeastern Syria. But Turkey's invasion of Afrin shows its determination to crush the democratic experiment in northern and eastern Syria. A Turkish invasion of northeastern Syria can not be ruled out. Turkey would have to consider Russia's reaction to such an invasion. While Russia gave permission for the Afrin invasion, it would not necessarily do so for northeastern Syria. Russia seems to prefer a negotiated agreement between Assad and the Democratic Autonomous Administration. It could use the threat of allowing a Turkish invasion as a tactic to pressure the DAA to accept a bad deal. Chris Slee From: mkaradjis Sent: Tuesday, 23 April 2019 12:41:13 PM To: Chris Slee; Activists and scholars in Marxist tradition Subject: Re: [Marxism] The Mueller Report: Glenn Greenwald vs. David Cay Johnston on Trump-Russia Ties, Obstruction & More Actually I think the Mueller report shows that Trump was up to his eyeballs in collaboration with the Russian Tsars, and I’m not sure why there has been a rush to exonerate him on the left, when the report clearly does not do that at all. Just to make clear, I don’t think Trump’s election victory had much to do with the obvious attempts by Russia to interfere in the US elections, the obvious and proven collusion by Trump and his entire team with the Russians, and wikileaks blatant collaboration with Trump-Putin – I agree entirely with all the points that Trump won because of Clinton and the failures of US capitalism under Obama, but that’s a different matter. Was this collaboration due to Trump being an agent of the Russian oligarchy as John claims? Trump may well have more special links with the Russian oligarchs than others have, but I just don’t think that is necessary to explain US policy. The position of the Trump team that China rather than Russia was the major rival to US imperialist interests was entirely logical; as any study of the massive export of Chinese capital, compared to the pathetic level of Russian capital export (Michael Probsting’s book ‘Anti-Imperialism in the age of great power rivalry, and Louis’ review of it here on marxmail for reference) would suggest. Russian imperialism also rivals US imperialism (as do EU and Japanese imperialisms), but I’ve always thought it a mistake to view economically weak Russian imperialism as the major rival of US imperialism. Certainly there is the fact that Russia has greater military power than any of the other rivals to US imperialism, so it can throw its weight around more, and there is its diplomatic weight and the ideological echoes of history that weigh on US and Russian ruling class attitudes to each other in terms of “credibility” and such, but while these are important factors they should not be confused with more fundamental rivalry. Actually on the question of “sub-imperialism” which Patrick Bond hammers on about, I’ve always found it very useful, except when it comes to drawing the line questions. While the BRICS are a good metaphor for sub-imperialism, I think we could very usefully add states such as Saudi Arabia, Iran and Turkey, while I think China has clearly emerged as an imperialist power more so than Russia. Russia if anything has more characteristics of sub-imperialism than China does, and I think it is useful to see US-Russia relations in that light. The fact that neither the Obama nor Trump administrations has had any problem with the 4-year Russian terror-bombing of Russia and effective occupation of parts of that country, and of parts of Syria’s state apparatus, is not some coincidence or something unique about both leaders, it is US imperialism looking after its interests. The fact that more anti-Russian voices under both administrations have tended to be oppositional, and thus rhetorical, is also the opposite of coincidence. It corresponds completely to the attitude of major US ally in the region, Israel, with its very close relations with Moscow, and increasingly with US allies in the Gulf, especially under Trump as the US-Saudi-UAE alliance has strengthened while these same states are developing excellent relations with Moscow and recognising Assad’s regime. >From the onset of Russian intervention to bolster Assad – about a year after >US intervention
[Marxism] President Bernie Sanders?
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 two polls, Sanders beats Trump in 3 key states & gets 72% favorable rating in Alabama. His campaign must be taken seriously this time. Meanwhile, he is building ties to the tops of the Democratic Party and to liberal capitalists, especially Silicon Valley capitalists. Should the workers movement support him? Should socialists? In either case, what is the alternative? https://oaklandsocialist.com/2019/04/23/president-bernie-sanders/ -- *“In politics, abstract terms conceal treachery.” *from "The Black Jacobins" by C. L. R. James Check out:https:http://oaklandsocialist.com also on Facebook _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] bellingcat - The Yemen Project: Announcement - bellingcat
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[Marxism] Notes from Hell: Inside a Bulgarian Prison | Lefteast
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Re: [Marxism] Anti-Imperialism in the Age of Great Power Rivalry | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist
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Re: [Marxism] Krugman on two parties
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. * Both parties defend "American value," as defined by centuries of practice. :-) On Tue, Apr 23, 2019, 10:38 AM Richard Fidler 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. > * > > But it's all about the Republicans -- and thus an apparent argument in > favour of the Democrats as the party that will still defend "American > values." > > -Original Message- > From: Marxism [mailto:marxism-boun...@lists.csbs.utah.edu] On Behalf Of > Anthony Boynton via Marxism > Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 10:29 AM > To: rfid...@ncf.ca > Subject: [Marxism] Krugman on two parties > > 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. > * > > Despite the bullshit, Krugman’s analysis of the two parties is > substantially correct. > > > > The Great Republican Abdication: A party that no longer believes in > American values. > > New York Times by Paul Krugman Opinion Columnist April 22, 2019 > > > > _ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/markalause%40gmail.com _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Vice Sports: Mexican Boxer Destroys American Fighter Wearing Trump Wall Shorts
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[Marxism] Babylon at the Movies: KUBRICK / TARKOVSKY | Washington Babylon
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[Marxism] US Steamrolling Basic Diplomatic Laws Left & Right | Washington Babylon
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Re: [Marxism] The Ramapoughs
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. * I feel like this article really downplayed the racism of the Trump Administration; Trump himself once argued that he had more indigenous blood than the Ramapoughs did (essentially calling them fakers) when he was battling with them over tribal recognition that would have threatened his casino business prospects. That the federal government is defending them under its interpretation of RLUIPA -- a law that has benefits for right-wing Christians just as it benefits minority ethnic/religious groups -- hardly suggests that they're really allies generally, particularly in the primary fight that the Ramapoughs are fighting, which is against an oil/gas pipeline. I feel like the purpose of the article is to steer white liberals away from supporting the Ramapoughs by using guilt-by-association with Trump. Amith R. Gupta On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 9:10 AM Louis Proyect 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. > * > > (In 2011, I reviewed an HBO documentary titled “Mann vs. Ford” about the > struggle of Ramapough Indians to make Ford Motors accountable for the > toxic spills from their Mahwah plant. You can see the film for only > $2.99 on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4VKDusnSL4) as well > as other streaming sites. The Ramapough were part of the Lenape > linguistic group (aka Delaware) that were to N.Y. and New Jersey that > the Lakota or Blackfoot were to the northern Plains. In the film I am > currently working on, to be titled “Utopia in the Catskills”, I devote a > fair amount of time to the Monsee Indians, another Lenape band, that > “sold” Manhattan to the Dutch. Closely related to the Lenape Indians, of > course, were the Mahicans who James Fenimore Cooper wrote about. Cooper > and Washington Irving were deeply enamored of the Catskill Mountains and > used it as a background for their novels and short stories. In reality, > the Borscht Belt was not exactly “the Catskills” despite it being > referred to as such customarily. By the time you got to my home town > Woodridge, which was identified as the “Utopia in the Catskills” in a > 1947 article in the leftist PM newspaper, the only mountains were those > of the Shawangunk Ridge nearby Ellenville. In the article below, you’ll > see a reference to Rachel Meeropol, who is the daughter of Robert > Meeropol and the niece of our comrade Michael Meeropol.) > > NY Times, April 23, 2019 > Native Americans Find Surprising Ally in N.J. Fight: Trump Administration > By Sarah Maslin Nir > > MAHWAH, N.J. — A knee-high pile of rocks sits in a far corner of a gated > community set among rolling hills known as the Polo Club. > > To the Ramapough Lenape Nation, which owns a patch of land in the gated > community and piled the stones here, it’s an altar. > > To the Township of Mahwah, the 15-foot-long mound is a violation of town > code. And since 2017, the town has regularly issued flurries of > citations: for the rock pile, for a collection of fallen trees tipped > upright and arranged in a circle, and for using a residentially zoned > plot for religious use, even when no one is there. > > So many summonses — the Ramapough estimated they receive up to $12,500 a > week in fines — that the town says the tribe owes more than $4 million. > > The tribe has refused to pay the fines or apply for the permits that the > town says are required, and instead has concentrated its energy on a > lawsuit it filed last year, contending that Mahwah and the club are > using zoning rules and fines to persecute it. > > The conflict is the latest episode in a series of longstanding disputes > over the government’s treatment of Native Americans — over planned > pipelines, water rights and how the United States handles funds and > natural resources that it holds in trust. > > But in this case, the federal government — often a tribe’s adversary — > has come to the Ramapoughs’ aid. The federal Justice Department filed a > letter last month expressing its support for the tribe, suggesting that > the tribe had cause to believe that the town’s behavior has > “significantly chilled Ramapough’s use of the land for religious > purposes” in violation of federal protections. > > The Justice Department letter comes on the heels of a ruling in Trenton > that clarified the Ramapoughs’ status as a state-recognized tribe. > > “Freedom of religion is so endem
Re: [Marxism] Krugman on two parties
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. * But it's all about the Republicans -- and thus an apparent argument in favour of the Democrats as the party that will still defend "American values." -Original Message- From: Marxism [mailto:marxism-boun...@lists.csbs.utah.edu] On Behalf Of Anthony Boynton via Marxism Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 10:29 AM To: rfid...@ncf.ca Subject: [Marxism] Krugman on two parties 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. * Despite the bullshit, Krugman’s analysis of the two parties is substantially correct. The Great Republican Abdication: A party that no longer believes in American values. New York Times by Paul Krugman Opinion Columnist April 22, 2019 _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Krugman on two parties
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. * Despite the bullshit, Krugman’s analysis of the two parties is substantially correct. The Great Republican Abdication: A party that no longer believes in American values. New York Times by Paul Krugman Opinion Columnist April 22, 2019 So all the “fake news” was true. A hostile foreign power intervened in the presidential election, hoping to install Donald Trump in the White House. The Trump campaign was aware of this intervention and welcomed it. And once in power, Trump tried to block any inquiry into what happened. Never mind attempts to spin this story as somehow not meeting some definitions of collusion or obstruction of justice. The fact is that the occupant of the White House betrayed his country. And the question everyone is asking is, what will Democrats do about it? But notice that the question is only about Democrats. Everyone (correctly) takes it as a given that Republicans will do nothing. Why? Because the modern G.O.P. is perfectly willing to sell out America if that’s what it takes to get tax cuts for the wealthy. Republicans may not think of it in those terms, but that’s what their behavior amounts to. The truth is that the G.O.P. faced its decisive test in 2016, when almost everyone in the Republican establishment lined up behind a man fully known to be a would-be authoritarian who was unfit morally, temperamentally and intellectually for high office. In their chilling book “How Democracies Die,” Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt call this “the great Republican abdication.” The party’s willingness to back behavior it would have called treasonous if a Democrat did it is just more of the same. Levitsky and Ziblatt say that when mainstream politicians abdicate responsibility in the face of a leader who threatens democracy, it’s usually for one of two reasons. Either they have the misguided belief that he can be controlled, or they’re willing to go along because his agenda overlaps with theirs — that is, they believe that he’ll give them what they want. At this point it’s hard to imagine that anyone still believes that Trump can be controlled. But he is delivering on the Republican establishment’s agenda — certainly far more than any Democrat would. The key point is that Republicans are committed to a policy agenda that is deeply unpopular. By large margins, the American public believes that corporations and the wealthy don’t pay their fair share in taxes. By even larger margins, the public opposes cuts to safety-net programs like Medicaid. Yet as far as I can tell, every G.O.P. budget proposal over the past decade has combined big tax cuts for the rich with savage cuts in Medicaid. If the Republican agenda is so unpopular, how does the party win elections? Partly by lying about its policies. But mainly the G.O.P.’s political achievements depend on identity politics — white identity politics. Exploiting racial resentment to capture white working-class voters, while pursuing policies that benefit only the wealthy, has been the core of the party’s political strategy for decades. That’s why, in an increasingly diverse country, Republican support has stayed overwhelmingly white. In a fundamental sense, Trumpism is the culmination of that strategy. Commentators keep calling Trump a “populist,” but the only way in which he actually caters to working-class white voters is by appealing to their racial animus. He may be successful in doing so partly because it’s the only thing about his political persona that’s sincere: All indications are that he really is a racist. His substantive policies, however, have followed the standard right-wing agenda: In 2017 he passed a huge tax cut, largely for corporations, that disproportionately benefited the wealthy, and almost succeeded in repealing Obamacare, in the process gutting Medicaid. And these policies have endeared him to the G.O.P.’s money men. “Deep-pocketed Republicans who snubbed Donald Trump in 2016 are going all in for him in 2020,” reports Politico. They’re doing so even though they know that Trump was installed in office in part thanks to Russian aid, that his financial entanglements with foreign governments pose huge conflicts of interest and that he consistently shows a preference for dictatorships over our democratic allies. As I said, the modern G.O.P. is perfectly willing to sell out America if that’s what it takes to get tax cuts for the wealthy. Once you accept this reality, two conclusions follow. First, anyone expecting bipartisanship in dealing with the aftermath of the Mueller report — in particular, anyone suggesting that Democrats should wait for G.O.P. support before proceeding with investigations th
[Marxism] The Ramapoughs
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 2011, I reviewed an HBO documentary titled “Mann vs. Ford” about the struggle of Ramapough Indians to make Ford Motors accountable for the toxic spills from their Mahwah plant. You can see the film for only $2.99 on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4VKDusnSL4) as well as other streaming sites. The Ramapough were part of the Lenape linguistic group (aka Delaware) that were to N.Y. and New Jersey that the Lakota or Blackfoot were to the northern Plains. In the film I am currently working on, to be titled “Utopia in the Catskills”, I devote a fair amount of time to the Monsee Indians, another Lenape band, that “sold” Manhattan to the Dutch. Closely related to the Lenape Indians, of course, were the Mahicans who James Fenimore Cooper wrote about. Cooper and Washington Irving were deeply enamored of the Catskill Mountains and used it as a background for their novels and short stories. In reality, the Borscht Belt was not exactly “the Catskills” despite it being referred to as such customarily. By the time you got to my home town Woodridge, which was identified as the “Utopia in the Catskills” in a 1947 article in the leftist PM newspaper, the only mountains were those of the Shawangunk Ridge nearby Ellenville. In the article below, you’ll see a reference to Rachel Meeropol, who is the daughter of Robert Meeropol and the niece of our comrade Michael Meeropol.) NY Times, April 23, 2019 Native Americans Find Surprising Ally in N.J. Fight: Trump Administration By Sarah Maslin Nir MAHWAH, N.J. — A knee-high pile of rocks sits in a far corner of a gated community set among rolling hills known as the Polo Club. To the Ramapough Lenape Nation, which owns a patch of land in the gated community and piled the stones here, it’s an altar. To the Township of Mahwah, the 15-foot-long mound is a violation of town code. And since 2017, the town has regularly issued flurries of citations: for the rock pile, for a collection of fallen trees tipped upright and arranged in a circle, and for using a residentially zoned plot for religious use, even when no one is there. So many summonses — the Ramapough estimated they receive up to $12,500 a week in fines — that the town says the tribe owes more than $4 million. The tribe has refused to pay the fines or apply for the permits that the town says are required, and instead has concentrated its energy on a lawsuit it filed last year, contending that Mahwah and the club are using zoning rules and fines to persecute it. The conflict is the latest episode in a series of longstanding disputes over the government’s treatment of Native Americans — over planned pipelines, water rights and how the United States handles funds and natural resources that it holds in trust. But in this case, the federal government — often a tribe’s adversary — has come to the Ramapoughs’ aid. The federal Justice Department filed a letter last month expressing its support for the tribe, suggesting that the tribe had cause to believe that the town’s behavior has “significantly chilled Ramapough’s use of the land for religious purposes” in violation of federal protections. The Justice Department letter comes on the heels of a ruling in Trenton that clarified the Ramapoughs’ status as a state-recognized tribe. “Freedom of religion is so endemic to the country that I almost can’t believe that people would have the gall to try to suppress it with Jim Crow zoning,” said Dwaine Perry, chief of the Ramapough tribe. “One part is racism, and the other part is that they see an opportunity by manipulating zoning,” he said. “They want to fine us out of existence.” The disputed land, at 95 Halifax Road, sits within the Ramapo Hunt & Polo Club Association, a private community where houses routinely sell for in excess of $1 million. The site, 25 miles northwest of Manhattan, is near areas considered sacred to the tribe: the Ramapo Pass and the junction of the Mahwah and Ramapo Rivers. In community meetings and on social media, club residents complain that the Ramapoughs have damaged their quality of life by using the nature preserve for noisy and unlawful gatherings that have filled the quiet enclave with cars and outsiders, and the air with ceremonial smoke and drums. “The tribe are trying to get away with murder,” said Stephen Murray, a retired schoolteacher whose house overlooks the tribal property. “They are trying to make this an issue of religious discrimination,” he said. “But when they have a community gathering, a smoking celebration or a ‘half moon’ or whatever they’re doing, we have to hear their drums and the ot
[Marxism] Stephen King’s IT: a 2019 Retrospective
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[Marxism] How a nuclear war kills you - Vox
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[Marxism] New York City nurses threatened to strike against the Hospital Alliance—and won. But the fight's not over. — Strikewave
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[Marxism] Loach returns to the Cannes Film Festival | Rita Di Santo | Culture Matters
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[Marxism] Live Commentary on the Žižek-Peterson Debate | Current Affairs
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[Marxism] How plastic waste could destroy the Earth within a few centuries | Salon.com
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[Marxism] Melting permafrost in Arctic will have $70tn climate impact – study | Environment | The Guardian
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[Marxism] Fw: Who is behind the Sri Lanka bombinsg? (Morning Star)
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