[Marxism] Subject: Re: Agriculture: The Worst Mistake Humans Ever Made

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Says the bloke banging away on a laptop . . .
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'In the name of God and of the dead generations from which she receives her old 
tradition of nationhood, Ireland, through us, summons her children to her flag 
and strikes for her freedom.' Proclamation of Independence, 1916.

'The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain 
of the living.' Karl Marx, 1852.

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> On 20 Jul 2019, at 05:40, marxism-requ...@lists.csbs.utah.edu wrote:
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> Agriculture: The Worst Mistake Humans Ever Made

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Re: [Marxism] Agriculture: The Worst Mistake Humans Ever Made

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On 7/19/19 9:55 PM, DW via Marxism wrote:

How does one even to such nonsense? Hunter gatherers "in which all people's
material wants were easily satisfied"what sort of fantasy is this?
Gawwwddd

David Walters


Marshal Sahlins's "Stone Age Economics" is online here:

https://libcom.org/files/Sahlins%20-%20Stone%20Age%20Economics.pdf

I particularly recommend chapter one: "The Original Affluent Society".
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[Marxism] Samoa

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John O'Brien's snide view of Samoa as some sort of socio-political
backwater is simply ignorant, bordering on racist.

John writes: "And the status of 'two spirit' people in Samoa, before the
Christian invaders, probably does not help with Phil's views either."

Faafafine are an integral part of Samoan society today.  When they
participate in sport they participate in male divisions; they don't try to
steal medals off women (adult human females).

But John's support for the super-entitled rich white biological male from
the ruling class family in the imperialist country as opposed to the poor,
brown women from the oppressed country is duly noted.

Phil
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[Marxism] Samoa stands up for women in sports

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Another point overlooked by this contributor, who seems obsessed with the 
subject of gender reassignment.

this is the same Samoa HRPP government that is dominated by religious right 
wingers, also opposes rights and respect to Gays and Lesbians.

And the status of  "two spirit" people in Samoa, before the Christian invaders, 
probably does not help with Phil's views either.

Perhaps Phil should spend some effort to allow women to compete in "male 
sports" (who are better financially paid and provided better work conditions)
I know Lesbian athletes who would like to place "the lads" in their place!

==


A couple of additional points to the article.

NZ is historically the country that invaded, ruled and oppressed Samoa.

Hubbard's dad is a member of the NZ ruling class and one of the country's
richest people.

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Re: [Marxism] Agriculture: The Worst Mistake Humans Ever Made

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*The Original Affluent Society*

* by Marshall Sahlins*

* Hunter-gatherers consume less energy per capita per year than any other
group of human beings. Yet when you come to examine it the original
affluent society was none other than the hunter's - in which all the
people's material wants were easily satisfied. To accept that hunters are
affluent is therefore to recognise that the present human condition of man
slaving to bridge the gap between his unlimited wants and his insufficient
means is a tragedy of modern times. *

* full: http://www.primitivism.com/original-affluent.htm
*


How does one even to such nonsense? Hunter gatherers "in which all people's
material wants were easily satisfied"what sort of fantasy is this?
Gawwwddd

David Walters
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[Marxism] Samoa stands up for women in sports

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A couple of additional points to the article.

NZ is historically the country that invaded, ruled and oppressed Samoa.

Hubbard's dad is a member of the NZ ruling class and one of the country's
richest people.

https://rdln.wordpress.com/2019/07/20/tiny-samoa-starts-a-big-ripple-for-women-in-sports/
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[Marxism] Stephen King Reviews Laura Lippman’s New Novel, ‘Lady in the Lake’

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NY Times, July 18, 2019
Stephen King Reviews Laura Lippman’s New Novel, ‘Lady in the Lake’
By Stephen King

Lady in the Lake
By Laura Lippman
337 pp. William Morrow/HarperCollins. $26.99.

In a 1945 essay in which he dismissed most detective and mystery fiction 
as little better than crossword puzzles, the critic Edmund Wilson asked 
a question that still rankles readers who enjoy the genre: “Who cares 
who killed Roger Ackroyd?” The answer, over the 75 or so years since, 
seems to be “millions of people do.” That would include me. I also care 
who killed Eunetta “Cleo” Sherwood and Tessie Fine. Theirs are the 
murders investigated by Madeline “Maddie” Schwartz in Laura Lippman’s 
haunting new novel.


What makes this book special, even extraordinary, is that the crossword 
puzzle aspect is secondary. Lippman, who is the closest writer America 
has to Ruth Rendell, is after bigger game. The arc of Maddie’s character 
— her mid-1960s “journey,” if you like — reflects the gulf which then 
existed between what women were expected to be and what they aspired to be.


When Maddie leaves her conventional and basically uninteresting husband 
to strike out on her own, she remains a Mrs. pending her divorce, but 
after going to work at an afternoon newspaper and taking a lover, she 
thinks of herself as something else, a thing for which she has no name. 
Ms. — the form of address that would create a narrow bridge between Mrs. 
and Miss — was then not in common usage.


Set in Baltimore, Lippman’s home stomping grounds, “Lady in the Lake” 
covers just over a year, from October 1965 to November 1966. Spiro Agnew 
will soon be elected governor, Maddie’s middle-class Jewish enclave is 
centered in the suburb of Pikesville and the town supports three 
thriving newspapers. Maddie goes to work for The Star after she and a 
friend discover the body of Tessie Fine, a young girl whose neck was 
broken. After pointing out a flaw in the supposed killer’s story and 
coaxing him into correspondence (Maddie is good with men), she finally 
gets a byline — but only after she’s rewritten by Bob Bauer, the paper’s 
popular columnist. Her paltry reward for this scoop is a job as the 
mail-screening assistant to Don Heath, a timeserver who writes a feature 
called Helpline. “The real joke is,” Don confides, “I have the stupidest 
column in the paper, but it’s also the most popular.”


One of the letters Maddie screens is a complaint about the lights being 
out in the fountain at the center of Druid Hill Park. It’s not juicy 
enough for the Helpline column, so she passes it on to the Department of 
Public Works guys, who find the problem’s grim cause: A decomposing 
body, dumped in the fountain months before, has shorted out the wiring. 
Thus does Cleo Sherwood become the Lady in the Lake, and Maddie 
Schwartz’s new obsession.


Maddie believes she’s at least partially solved the murder of Tessie 
Fine (she’s not entirely right about that and will suffer the 
consequences), and wants to feel that high again. More, she wants to 
beat and trick and charm her way past the men who are trying to keep her 
from fulfilling what she sees as her destiny: becoming a columnist in 
her own right.


Her pursuit of that destiny is far from lovely — she will badly hurt one 
person who loves her before she’s done — but the times weren’t lovely. 
After a fruitless attempt to rattle a wealthy businessman who may have 
been Cleo’s lover, Maddie muses, “The men made the rules, broke the 
rules and tossed the girls away.” Maddie refuses to be tossed. More than 
one person around her pays for that. Lippman’s point — which takes this 
book far beyond the works of Agatha Christie and Rex Stout, although 
Lippman does not fail to honor her genre roots — is that Maddie also 
pays, and in blood.


Interspersed with Maddie’s story are a chorus of voices straight out of 
“Our Town,” most of them unhappy. Don Heath fears he’s suffering from 
dementia. The newscaster Wally Wright (actually Weiss) still carries a 
torch — and a resentment — for Maddie, whom he once dated in high 
school. The political fixer and the nightclub owner are unhappily 
closeted gay men, so-called “Baltimore bachelors.” The only optimistic 
voice we hear is that of the legendary Baltimore Orioles outfielder Paul 
Blair, and he seems unnecessary here from a narrative perspective (so, 
for that matter, does the masher who fondles Maddie’s knee during a 
movie). Even Cleo Sherwood speaks from beyond the grave, sort of like 
Joe Gillis in “Sunset Boulevard,” another murdered floater. That 
parallel may or may not have been intended.


It’s the Lady in the Lake who opens the 

[Marxism] A Musician for the Class Struggle | Jackson Albert Mann | Jacobin

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[Marxism] les gilets noirs

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Here is a pretty good video in English re les gilets noirs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KiDo8oNPUk
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[Marxism] The N.Y.C. Roots of Trump and ‘Go Back Where You Came From’

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(A great article by the NY Times's best reporter.)

NY Times, July 19, 2019
The N.Y.C. Roots of Trump and ‘Go Back Where You Came From’
By Ginia Bellafante

In October of 1973, the federal government charged the Trump Management 
Corporation with discrimination against African Americans seeking 
apartments in the 39 buildings the firm operated, most of them in 
Brooklyn and Queens.


A short time out of Wharton, the company’s then president, Donald J. 
Trump, quickly denied the charges as “absolutely ridiculous.”


Between 1970 and 1980, New York City experienced its most significant 
population decline since the 1780s, but while population fell overall, 
the number of minorities living in the city grew. This was especially 
true in Brooklyn; in 1970 blacks made up a quarter of the population and 
by 1980 they made up nearly a third.


For some white families who didn’t flee the city, a sense that the 
territory they occupied was theirs and theirs alone bred a siege 
mentality. In this view, there were those who belonged and those who 
trespassed. (This was happening most notably, perhaps, in South 
Brooklyn, where Mr. Trump had his office in the early 1970s.)


When the outsiders arrived they were shown, too often by the most 
violent means, just how resistant to porousness their communities could be.


They were told — just as President Trump told four freshman 
congresswomen, via Twitter this week, none of them white and all of them 
thoroughly American — to go back to where they came from, a meme he 
recycled at a rally in North Carolina on Wednesday night to chants of 
“Send her back!”


Where “they came from” was often merely on the other side of a parkway, 
a housing complex, a strip mall — beyond the lines and fortresses 
created for the preservation of a white ethnic dominance that was eroding.


It is this place that the president comes from essentially — a time, a 
part of the world and a mind-set in which access to certain kinds of 
power, comfort and rights of assertion was not to be universally shared.


New York in the 1980s was characterized, on the one hand, by the moneyed 
ostentation Mr. Trump personified, and on the other, by racial violence 
that housing segregation helped facilitate.


In two of the decade’s most notorious hate crimes, young black men — 
Michael Griffith in Queens in 1986 and Yusuf Hawkins in Brooklyn three 
years later — appeared in neighborhoods where they had no obvious 
connection only to get chased and killed by throngs of mindlessly 
enraged white boys.


Griffith, who was born in Trinidad and lived in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, 
was driving with friends on an empty stretch of road late one night just 
before Christmas, when their car broke down. He and two of the others 
walked three miles to Howard Beach to get help. Leaving the pizzeria 
where they had stopped to eat, they were confronted by a mob who beat 
them. Griffith died running away from them and into a moving car.


Cars, the great American signifiers of social ascension and escape, 
figured poignantly in these narratives. Hawkins had the misfortune of 
finding an ad for a used Pontiac he wanted to check out, for sale by an 
owner in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn.


Also accompanied by three friends, Hawkins, who was 16 at the time and 
lived in the largely black neighborhood of East New York, ventured into 
a white, mostly Italian enclave and was shot. Three days later, hundreds 
of black protesters who marched through Bensonhurst were met by jeering 
whites who shouted racial slurs at them.


Another murder which predated these but received considerably less 
attention has mostly faded from memory and could have been prevented. It 
follows the same bleak arc.


Three black men, transit workers coming off a shift in Coney Island, 
late one night in June of 1982, stopped for something to eat. In this 
instance it was a bagel shop on Avenue X in Gravesend, outside of which 
a black police officer and another black man, on his way home to Queens 
one night, had also been attacked not long before.


Driving away from the shop, the men were set upon by white teenagers who 
taunted and screamed at them: “What are you doing in this area?” The car 
stalled. The teenagers smashed the windows and began assaulting the men 
inside. One of the three victims, William Turks, who had moved to New 
York from Birmingham, Ala., was fatally injured, his body landing on a 
sewer grate.


The first of the young men to go on trial in the case was someone named 
Gino Bova, who was 18 and lived at 675 Avenue Z in Gravesend. The 
building was part of the Beach Haven Apartments, one of the large 
housing 

[Marxism] Build opposition caucuses in the unions

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From the recent struggle of the New York City carpenters to the teachers
strike in Oakland to the teachers strike in West Virginia... and way
beyond... is that rank and file members need to build caucuses to transform
our unions. Here's some thoughts on the direction and how to start.
https://oaklandsocialist.com/2019/07/19/lesson-from-recent-labor-struggles-build-opposition-caucuses/

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[Marxism] Opinion | The Joy of Hatred - The New York Times

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Comparison of Trump rallies with crowd that cheered on a lynching in 
1893. Best seen on NYT website for picture of racist mob in 1893.


https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/19/opinion/trump-rally.html
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[Marxism] Richard Branson cuts off SeaWorld as debate rages over captive whales and dolphins

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(Excellent news. I dealt with SeaWorld and orcas in a recent 
CounterPunch article: 
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/07/12/save-the-whales/)


Washington Post, July 19, 2019
Richard Branson cuts off SeaWorld as debate rages over captive whales 
and dolphins

By Hannah Sampson

Six years after a critical documentary sparked a global conversation 
over the ethics of keeping killer whales in captivity, chips are still 
falling.


Virgin Holidays is now out of the business of bringing tourists to see 
whales and dolphins that are confined in attractions, ending 
partnerships with SeaWorld theme parks in Orlando and San Diego; 
Discovery Cove (in Orlando), a SeaWorld-owned park that offers swimming 
with dolphins; and Atlantis the Palm (Dubai) and Atlantis Paradise 
Island (the Bahamas), resorts that sell close-up experiences with 
dolphins. The company had previously stopped booking 19 other 
attractions in Jamaica, Mexico, the Dominican Republic and Florida, most 
of which offered interactions with dolphins.


“For all of us at Virgin, the announcement marks the most significant 
milestone yet on a five-year journey to drive positive change in the 
tourism industry,” Virgin Group founder Richard Branson wrote in a blog 
post.


In a statement, SeaWorld chief zoological officer Chris Dold decried the 
decision: “It is disappointing to see Virgin Holidays succumb to 
pressure from animal activists who mislead and manipulate marine mammal 
science to advance their agendas.”


With its announcement, Virgin Holidays became the latest tour operator 
to distance itself from attractions that make creatures like whales and 
dolphins their bread and butter, as the larger travel industry reckons 
with when it’s acceptable for animals to be part of a tourist’s experience.


A year ago, Thomas Cook Group CEO Peter Fankhauser said the U.K.-based 
tour company would “no longer sell any animal attractions that keep 
orcas in captivity.” That policy goes into effect this summer.


“We have actively engaged with a range of animal welfare specialists in 
the last 18 months, and taken account of the scientific evidence they 
have provided,” Fankhauser said in a blog post last year. “We have also 
taken feedback from our customers, more than 90% of whom told us that it 
was important that their holiday company takes animal welfare seriously.”


Online travel company Expedia said in 2017 that it would no longer allow 
“activities involving certain wildlife animal interactions” to be booked 
on its sites, including Expedia, Orbitz and Travelocity. And in 2016, 
TripAdvisor announced that “specific tourism experiences where travelers 
come into physical contact with captive wild animals or endangered 
species, including but not limited to elephant rides, petting tigers, 
and swim with dolphin attractions,” would no longer be bookable on its 
site, its tours or its activities-booking subsidiary, Viator.


In this 2011 photo, killer whale Tilikum watches as SeaWorld trainers 
take a break during a training session at the theme park's Shamu Stadium 
in Orlando. (Phelan M. Ebenhack/AP File)
Canada passed legislation last month — dubbed the “Free Willy” bill by 
some — that bans the practice of keeping whales, dolphins and porpoises 
in captivity. Only two attractions in the country are affected; they are 
allowed to keep the mammals they have but not breed more.


Virgin’s road to banning activities with captive cetaceans started in 
2014, when the company said it would only work with suppliers that 
didn’t take the creatures from the wild. A few years later, Virgin 
Holidays said it would not add attractions to its portfolio if they 
featured whales and dolphins in captivity.


“We felt strongly this was the right thing to do and we knew most of our 
customers support it, too,” Branson wrote. “Many no longer consider 
whale and dolphin shows and ‘swim withs’ to be appropriate, and most 
would rather enjoy these magnificent creatures in their natural 
environment.”


People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, which has battled SeaWorld 
for years, cheered the company’s move.


“Hats off to Virgin Holidays, which has made a big splash by scrapping 
tours to any facility that imprisons sensitive whales and dolphins, 
denying them any semblance of a natural life,” PETA president Ingrid 
Newkirk said in a statement. “The tide is turning against marine 
abusement parks, and PETA is now calling on AAA to join Virgin by 
rejecting SeaWorld promotions.”


The announcement from Virgin comes as SeaWorld is finally seeing its 
business improve years after the release of “Blackfish,” a damaging 2013 
documentary that examined 

[Marxism] Donald Trump's racist tweets: There's a sobering truth that we don't like to admit - CNN

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[Marxism] Donald Trump is the archetypal far-right charismatic leader. But his magic won’t last | Paul Jackson | Opinion | The Guardian

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[Marxism] Defenders of a Racist President Use Jews as Human Shields

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NY Times Op-Ed, July 19, 2019
Defenders of a Racist President Use Jews as Human Shields
By Michelle Goldberg

Sebastian Gorka, a onetime adviser to Donald Trump, wore a medal from 
the Vitezi Rend, a Hungarian group historically aligned with Nazism, to 
one of Trump’s inaugural balls. Gorka was reportedly a member of the 
group, whose founder, the Hungarian autocrat Miklos Horthy, once said, 
“For all my life, I have been an anti-Semite.”


Max Berger is a Jewish social justice activist who has long been deeply 
involved in Jewish communal life. He’s the co-founder of IfNotNow, a 
group of American Jews devoted to ending Israel’s occupation of 
Palestinian territory, and recently joined Elizabeth Warren’s 
presidential campaign.


In a tweet this month, one of these men tarred the other as an 
anti-Semite. If you’ve been following the increasingly bizarre turn that 
American discussion of anti-Semitism has taken, you can probably guess 
which one.


That’s right, it was Gorka who called Berger an anti-Semite, for having 
once joined in an internet in-joke about a nonexistent group called 
“Friends of Hamas.” (Gorka’s tweet appears to have since been deleted.) 
It wasn’t the only time this month that Gorka accused a Jew of 
Jew-hating; he’s also charged the anti-Trump conservative writer Anne 
Applebaum with “standing with the anti-Semites,” demanding that she 
explain “how you justify this to the community.”


Such Christian appropriation of the fight against anti-Semitism reached 
its grim nadir this week. As Trump’s racist invective against Ilhan Omar 
and three other freshman Democratic congresswomen has dominated the 
news, the president’s defenders have used Jews as human shields, 
pretending that hatred of the quartet is rooted in abhorrence of 
anti-Semitism. On Tuesday, an evangelical outfit called Proclaiming 
Justice to the Nations accused the Anti-Defamation League — the 
Anti-Defamation League! — of siding with anti-Semites after the ADL 
called out Trump’s racism. The group even had the audacity to hurl a 
Hebrew denunciation — “lashon hara,” or “evil tongue” — at the Jewish 
civil rights organization.


Republicans are only a short step away from such shamelessness when they 
try to deflect from the president’s racism by accusing his foes of 
anti-Semitism. “Montanans are sick and tired of listening to 
anti-American, anti-Semite, radical Democrats trash our country and our 
ideals,” Senator Steve Daines of Montana tweeted on Monday, proclaiming 
his solidarity with Trump.


It’s true that Omar has said things that were freighted with 
anti-Semitism, for which she has expressed regret. But it is grotesque 
to argue that that excuses racism against her, or that Trump’s taunts 
have anything to do with protecting Jews. This is a president who 
regularly deploys anti-Semitic tropes and whose ex-wife said that he 
slept with a volume of Hitler’s speeches by his bed. When speaking to 
American Jews, he’s called Israel “your country” and Benjamin Netanyahu 
“your prime minister,” suggesting that in his mind, we don’t fully 
belong here any more than Omar does.


When the right presents Trump as an enemy of anti-Semitism, it goes 
beyond hypocrisy. Jews have thrived here as they have in few other 
places in the world because America at least aspires to be a multiethnic 
democracy, not an ethnostate. If Trump succeeds in making citizenship 
racialized and contingent, that’s an existential threat to American Jews.


Trump and his accomplices are simultaneously assaulting the political 
foundation of Jewish life in America and claiming they’re doing it on 
the Jews’ behalf. As the Montana Association of Rabbis wrote in an open 
letter to Daines on Wednesday, “We refuse to allow the real threat of 
anti-Semitism to be weaponized and exploited by those who themselves 
share a large part of the responsibility for the rise of white 
nationalist and anti-Semitic violence in this country.”


It’s worth thinking about how we got to a point where anti-Semitism can 
be exploited as it has been this week. What we’re seeing is the absurd 
but logical endpoint of efforts to conflate anti-Semitism with 
anti-Zionism, and anti-Zionism with opposition to Israel’s right-wing 
government. Only if these concepts are interchangeable can Jewish 
critics of Israel be the perpetrators of anti-Semitism and gentiles who 
play footsie with fascism be allies of the Jewish people. Only if these 
concepts are the same can an evangelical group claim that Jews are being 
anti-Jewish when they protest Trump, because Trump loves Israel.


Jeremy Ben-Ami, the president of the liberal Zionist group J Street, 
puts part 

[Marxism] Jeffrey Epstein’s Disturbing Impact on American Academia and the Tides of Intellectual Discourse | Washington Babylon

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[Marxism] “I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians” | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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Unless you are an aficionado of foreign films, it is likely that you are 
not aware that Romania has become one of the leading centers of 
avant-garde cinema. Like France in the late 50s and early 60s, a 
nouvelle vague movement in Romania appears to come out of nowhere. Among 
the best known Romanian directors is Cristi Puiu, whose 2005 “The Death 
of Mr. Lazarescu” set the standard for the country’s great leap forward. 
Like every other Romanian film I have seen since 2005, Radu Jude’s “I Do 
Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians” is both politically and 
artistically stunning. Using techniques that were pioneered by Jean-Luc 
Godard in the 1960s, Jude has confronted Romania’s blind spot, namely 
the widespread refusal of its citizens to acknowledge its military’s 
responsibility for murdering over 100,000 Jews in 1941 when it was 
allied with Nazi Germany. Known as the Odessa Massacre (Odessa was 
within Romania’s borders at the time), it was seen by some historians as 
the beginning of the holocaust.


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[Marxism] "Black Vests" in France

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A new development in France - the "black vests" modeling itself after the
yellow vest movement, possibly relevant to what's happening in the US. But
in any case, certainly important in its own right.

https://www.france24.com/en/20190713-undocumented-migrants-occupy-paris-pantheon-black-vests-protest

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Re: [Marxism] ESPN’s Dan Le Batard rips President Trump, derides network’s no-politics policy - The Washington Post

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Because it was clear from the article that the new PREZ of ESPN is trying
to get their on air personalities to STEER CLEAR of politics, I called ESPN
and registered a dissenting view --- telling the sdtafer to let the PREZ of
ESPN know that this listener/viewer applauds what Mr. Le Batard did --
"he should get a medal, not be disciplined"

Just one voice but why not?

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Re: [Marxism] Labor fight roils Bernie Sanders campaign, as workers demand the $15 hourly pay the candidate has proposed for employees nationwide - The Washington Post

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Labor fight roils Bernie Sanders campaign, as workers demand the $15 
hourly pay the candidate has proposed for employees nationwide

By Sean Sullivan July 18 at 8:33 PM

Unionized campaign organizers working for Sen. Bernie Sanders’s 
presidential effort are battling with its management, arguing that the 
compensation and treatment they are receiving does not meet the 
standards Sanders espouses in his rhetoric, according to internal 
communications.


Campaign field hires have demanded an annual salary they say would be 
equivalent to a $15-an-hour wage, which Sanders for years has said 
should be the federal minimum. The organizers and other employees 
supporting them have invoked the senator’s words and principles in 
making their case to campaign manager Faiz Shakir, the documents 
reviewed by The Washington Post show.


Sanders has made standing up for workers a central theme of his 
presidential campaigns — this year marching with McDonald’s employees 
seeking higher wages, pressing Walmart shareholders to pay workers more 
and showing solidarity with university personnel on strike. The 
independent from Vermont has proudly touted his campaign as the first 
presidential effort to unionize its employees, and his defense of the 
working class has been a signature element of his brand of democratic 
socialism and a rallying cry for the populist movement he claims to lead.



Details about the negotiations between Shakir and the union representing 
Sanders’s campaign workers have not been publicly reported until now. A 
review of emails, instant messages and other documents obtained by The 
Post show that the conflict dates back to at least May and remains 
unresolved. The documents were provided to The Post on the condition of 
anonymity because of the sensitivity of the private talks.


The Sanders campaign late Thursday issued a statement lauding its union 
contract. “We know our campaign offers wages and benefits competitive 
with other campaigns, as is shown by the latest fundraising reports,” 
Shakir said. “Every member of the campaign, from the candidate on down, 
joined this movement in order to defeat Donald Trump and transform 
America. Bernie Sanders is the most pro-worker and pro-labor candidate 
running for president. We have tremendous staff who are working hard. 
Bernie and I both strongly believe in the sanctity of the collective 
bargaining process and we will not deviate from our commitment to it.”


It was unclear when or whether Sanders had been made aware of the situation.

Sanders criticizes Walmart's ‘starvation wages’ at shareholder meeting
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) called on Walmart to increase wages at the 
company’s annual shareholder meeting on June 5. (Reuters)
In a statement issued earlier Thursday night, the union representing the 
campaign workers, United Food & Commercial Workers Local 400, said it 
could not comment “on specific, ongoing internal processes between our 
members and their employer.”



“As union members, the Bernie 2020 campaign staff have access to myriad 
protections and benefits secured by their one-of-a-kind union contract, 
including many internal avenues to democratically address any number of 
ongoing workplace issues, including changes to pay, benefits, and other 
working conditions,” the statement said.


“We look forward to continuing to work closely with our members and the 
management of the Bernie 2020 campaign to ensure all workers have 
dignity and respect in the workplace.”


A draft letter union members earlier had prepared to send Shakir as soon 
as this week said that the field organizers “cannot be expected to build 
the largest grassroots organizing program in American history while 
making poverty wages. Given our campaign’s commitment to fighting for a 
living wage of at least $15.00 an hour, we believe it is only fair that 
the campaign would carry through this commitment to its own field team.”



The draft letter estimated that field organizers were working 60 hours 
per week at minimum, dropping their average 

Re: [Marxism] ESPN’s Dan Le Batard rips President Trump, derides network’s no-politics policy - The Washington Post

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2019/07/19/espns-dan-le-batard-rips-president-trump-derides-networks-no-politics-policy/


Sorry about that. I even took out a Washington Post sub just as a 
workaround.




President Donald Trump greets supporters during a rally in Greenville, 
N.C., on Wednesday. (Gerry Broome/AP)

By Des Bieler July 19 at 12:23 PM

“There’s a racial division in this country that’s being instigated by 
the president, and we here at ESPN haven’t had the stomach for that fight.”


With those words, Dan Le Batard launched into an impassioned monologue 
Thursday. The host of popular ESPN TV and radio shows ripped into both 
President Trump in the wake of “Send her back!” chants at a rally the 
night before, and his own network, which has been advising its on-air 
personalities to refrain from political commentary.


Le Batard, 50, was speaking on his radio show when he noted that he was 
the son of Cuban immigrants and said, “What happened last night, this 
felt un-American.”


At the rally Wednesday in Greenville, N.C., Trump was criticizing Rep. 
Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), a Somali refugee who became a naturalized American 
citizen, when the “Send her back!” chants rang out. Trump, who tweeted 
on Sunday that “ ‘Progressive’ Democrat Congresswomen” such as Omar 
should “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested 
places from which they came,” said Thursday that he “felt a little bit 
badly” about the chanting and tried to quickly end it, but he let it go 
on for 13 seconds at the rally before resuming his remarks.


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On his show, Le Batard read a tweet posted Wednesday evening by Fox 
Sports 1′s Nick Wright, who wrote, “I don’t talk politics on here but 
this isn’t political, this is obvious: This is abhorrent, obviously 
racist, dangerous rhetoric and not calling it out makes you complicit. 
The ‘send her back’ chant + the ‘go back to where you came from’ are so 
antithetical to what we should be.”


“It is so right, what he is saying there,” Le Batard said of Wright. “It 
is so wrong, what the president of our country is doing, trying to get 
reelected by dividing the masses, at a time when the old white man, the 
old rich white man, feels oppressed, being attacked, by minorities.”


“This isn’t about politics; it’s about race,” said Le Batard, who noted 
that ESPN personalities “only talk about it” when outspoken sports 
figures such NBA coaches Steve Kerr and Gregg Popovich offer opinions on 
the subject.



“We don’t talk about what is happening,” he told listeners, “unless 
there is some sort of weak, cowardly sports angle that we can run it 
through.”


An ESPN source told The Post on Friday that the company is “making it 
clear to everyone internally” that the policy on avoiding political 
commentary “hasn’t changed.” It was not clear if Le Batard, who appeared 
on his regularly scheduled radio show Friday morning, will be disciplined.



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In discussing ESPN’s no-politics policy, emphasized when Jimmy Pitaro 
took over last year as the company’s president, Le Batard mentioned 
Jemele Hill. The former “SportsCenter” anchor became embroiled in 
September 2017 in a much-noted conflict with Trump that began after she 
tweeted that he was “a white supremacist.” She eventually moved to a 
writer position at the Undefeated, an ESPN vertical, before leaving the 
network in September 2018.



When Pitaro became ESPN’s president in May of that year, he said, 
“Without question our data tells us our fans do not want us to cover 
politics. My job is to provide clarity. I really believe that some of 
our talent was confused on what was expected of them. If you 
fast-forward to today, I don’t believe they are confused.”


“You saw what happened” after Hill made national headlines for her 
back-and-forth with Trump, Le Batard said Thursday. “All of a sudden, 
nobody talks politics, on anything, unless we can use one these sports 
figures as a meat shield, in the most cowardly possible way to discuss 
these subjects.”

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[Marxism] Colin Palmer, Historian of the African Diaspora, Is Dead at 75

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NY Times, July 19, 2019
Colin Palmer, Historian of the African Diaspora, Is Dead at 75
By Neil Genzlinger

Colin A. Palmer, a historian who broadened the understanding of the 
African diaspora, showing that the American slave trade was only one 
part of a phenomenon that spanned centuries and influenced cultures 
worldwide, died on June 20 in Kingston, Jamaica. He was 75.


His family announced the death but did not specify the cause. Professor 
Palmer, who lived in Yonkers, had traveled to Kingston to begin work on 
an interpretive history of Jamaica, his native country.


Professor Palmer published his first of many books in 1976, at a time 
when the black power movement and issues of black identity were 
prominent in the United States. But it wasn’t about the Civil War-era 
slave trade; it was called “Slaves of the White God: Blacks in Mexico, 
1570-1650,” chronicling a period when the colonies that would become the 
United States were still in their formative stages. The book set him on 
a career-long path.


“Palmer definitely brought about a deeper, more nuanced understanding of 
the African diaspora, one that extended well beyond African-American 
history or the history of the slave trade,” said James H. Sweet, who as 
a graduate student worked with Professor Palmer and is now Vilas-Jartz 
distinguished professor of history at the University of Wisconsin.


Professor Palmer did more than just show that the African diaspora was 
not a single event; he examined the various strands of it for 
differences and similarities.


“He argued that the millions of African-descended peoples were united by 
a past based significantly on the struggles against racial oppression,” 
Professor Sweet said by email, “and despite their cultural and political 
variations, diaspora peoples faced broadly similar historical challenges 
in realizing themselves.”


Professor Palmer urged students and fellow scholars to consider whether 
the term “African diaspora” was even appropriate, given the cultural and 
linguistic diversity within the African continent, and to make sure that 
any examination of diaspora began with a study of Africa itself.


“Africa, in all of its cultural richness and diversity, remained very 
much alive in the receiving societies as the various ethnic groups 
created new cultures and recreated their old ways as circumstances 
allowed,” he wrote in an article for Perspectives on History magazine in 
1998. “Consequently, the study of the modern African diaspora, 
particularly the aspect of it that is associated with the Atlantic slave 
trade, cannot be justifiably separated from the study of the home 
continent.”


Professor Palmer also wrote well-regarded articles and books on the 
Caribbean countries, including “Eric Williams and the Making of the 
Modern Caribbean” (2006), about the historian and politician who led 
Trinidad and Tobago to independence. In an academic career of more than 
40 years, he taught at Oakland University in Michigan, the University of 
North Carolina, the City University of New York Graduate Center and 
Princeton University. In the classroom and in his writings, he sought to 
counter an earlier generation of scholarship that filtered black history 
through a white lens.


“Any history of the peoples of African descent must be written from 
their standpoint,” he said in a talk at the Harlem Book Fair in 2010, 
“and must be centered on them, in laserlike fashion.”


“It is their optic that is important,” he added, “their experiences that 
are paramount. Their voices are the central ones, and their complicated 
lives must get center stage.”


Colin Alphonsous Palmer was born on March 23, 1944, in Lambs River, 
Jamaica. His father, Cecil, was assistant superintendent of public works 
for Westmoreland, Jamaica; his mother, Gladys (Malcolm) Palmer, was 
Lambs River postmistress.


He earned a bachelor’s degree in 1964 at University College of the West 
Indies at Mona in Jamaica and was considering teaching secondary school 
when he was offered a graduate fellowship at the University of 
Wisconsin, which had begun a “comparative tropical history program.” He 
earned a master’s degree there in 1966 and a Ph.D. in 1970.


His dissertation explored the subject that became his first book — 
although when he went to Mexico to begin his research, he encountered 
considerable misinformation.


“A young student politely told me that I was embarking on a wild-goose 
chase,” he recalled in an article on the website 
smithsonianeducation.org. “Mexico had never imported slaves from Africa, 
he said, fully certain that the nation’s peoples of African descent were 
relatively 

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[Marxism] Puerto Ricans in Protests Say They’ve Had Enough

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NY Times, July 19, 2019
Puerto Ricans in Protests Say They’ve Had Enough
By Patricia Mazzei and Frances Robles

SAN JUAN, P.R. — In the crushing days after Hurricane Maria, Gov. 
Ricardo A. Rosselló declared in no uncertain terms, “Puerto Rico se 
levanta.” Puerto Rico rises.


The call was meant as a rallying cry for recovery from the brutal 
hurricane that struck the island in 2017, a slogan of hope amid calamity.


A year and a half later, Puerto Rico is rising in a different way — a 
popular uprising that has filled the cobblestone streets of colonial San 
Juan for nearly a week with tens of thousands of people and a unifying 
message: The governor must go.


Ostensibly, the demonstrators were protesting the arrogant and crass 
exchanges by the governor and his inner circle in a leaked group chat 
and the corruption of top politicians unveiled by a series of 
high-profile arrests. But the forceful display amounted to a rejection 
of decades of scandals and mismanagement involving affluent and 
disconnected leaders who have time and again benefited at the expense of 
suffering Puerto Ricans.


The outcry triggered by the chat, which included a string of 
contemptuous, sexist and homophobic conversations among Mr. Rosselló and 
his close associates, has brought the United States commonwealth to a 
crossroads, with far-reaching implications. For now, Mr. Rosselló is 
still governor. But the persistent question about how Puerto Rico might 
be governed amid so many difficulties remains.


Some of Mr. Rosselló’s ambitious goals, including the push for 
statehood, will almost certainly be shelved now. And his rapidly 
diminishing power has handed political fuel to President Trump, who on 
Thursday again derided the island’s leaders as not competent enough to 
manage federal disaster relief funds.


“A lot of bad things are happening in Puerto Rico,” Mr. Trump said in a 
pair of Twitter posts. “I know the people of Puerto Rico well, and they 
are great. But much of their leadership is corrupt, & robbing the U.S. 
Government blind!”


Mr. Trump claims to be vindicated even though some of Puerto Rico’s woes 
are not entirely of the island’s own making. Big Wall Street investors 
benefited for years from the Puerto Rican government’s willingness to 
keep taking on more debt. The island’s bankruptcy restructuring has cost 
jobs and, at one point, threatened public employees’ pensions and 
traditional Christmas bonuses.


Silvia Álvarez Curbelo, a historian who retired last year from the 
University of Puerto Rico, said the protests against the governor are 
unprecedented. Nobody took to the streets during the aftermath of 
Hurricane Maria, when both the local and federal governments were widely 
blamed for a botched response, because they were too busy surviving, she 
said. But the accumulation of grievances has led to a spontaneous 
explosion of discontent.


“This has been a process of trauma,” Ms. Álvarez Curbelo said. “And so 
now, all of that trauma has come out, all of that pain.”


Since Puerto Rico’s Center for Investigative Journalism published 889 
pages of the leaked Telegram chat on Saturday, Mr. Rosselló has found 
himself increasingly isolated in office. The snowballing scandal has, 
suddenly and unexpectedly, united factions from across Puerto Rican 
society, revealing deep dissatisfaction with how the island is governed.


The chat also mocked an overweight man, referred to a female politician 
as a “whore” and joked about the cadavers that had accumulated after 
Hurricane Maria in the understaffed morgue. Referring to Mayor Carmen 
Yulín Cruz of San Juan, who had signaled plans to run against Mr. 
Rosselló in 2020, the governor wrote, “She’s off her meds.”


Protestors clashing with the police on Wednesday, the fifth consecutive 
day of demonstrations.CreditErika P. Rodriguez for The New York Times
Luis Fortuño, a former governor who, like Mr. Rosselló, is a member of 
the New Progressive Party, said he did not see how Mr. Rosselló could 
continue in office. “The governor’s moral authority and credibility to 
lead are completely gone,” he said. “I only hope and pray that the 
governor will think of the Puerto Rican people first, and put them above 
his own political interests.” On Thursday, he called on Mr. Rosselló to 
resign.


A protest Wednesday night saw tens of thousands of demonstrators again 
crowding the streets from the Capitol to the cobblestone streets of San 
Juan. On a platform with loudspeakers, the rapper Residente offered a 
microphone to the artist Ricky Martin. The trap musician Bad Bunny waved 
a flag. The singer iLe looked over the impressive crowd and 

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[Marxism] Vice; The Loudest Voice | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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Two of the more infamous Republican Party operatives have become the 
subjects of biopics within the past year. In “Vice”, a 2018 film now 
available on Amazon streaming, Adam McKay portrayed Dick Cheney as a 
cynical opportunist who was both responsible for the “war on terror” and 
the extension of executive power that enabled the Bush White House to 
suspend habeas corpus. Currently running on Showtime, “The Loudest 
Voice” examines the life of Roger Ailes as a modern-day equivalent of 
Citizen Kane if Orson Welles had portrayed his fictionalized version of 
William Randolph Hearst as a monster straight out of his mother’s womb.


The two subjects have quite a bit in common. To start with, they were 
both products of an America that Norman Rockwell once painted but no 
longer exists. Growing up in Casper, Wyoming, Cheney enjoyed life in 
“The Oil City” that was ranked eighth overall in Forbes magazine’s list 
of “the best small cities to raise a family.” Ailes hailed from Warren, 
Ohio, a mid-sized city like Casper, that like the rest of the pre-Rust 
Belt region relied on manufacturing to provide the solid middle-class 
existence portrayed in Rockwell paintings. His father was a foreman in 
Packard Electronics, a subsidiary of General Motors. Just like Michael 
Moore, whose father worked for GM in Flint, Ailes idealized the Warren 
of his youth, seeing it as a place where motherhood, apple pie and the 
flag reigned supreme. Like Steve Bannon, Ailes’s right-populism revolved 
around the notion of making a new world of Warrens possible by keeping 
out immigrants and toughening up trade policies long before Donald Trump 
became President.


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[Marxism] ESPN’s Dan Le Batard rips President Trump, derides network’s no-politics policy - The Washington Post

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[Marxism] Labor fight roils Bernie Sanders campaign, as workers demand the $15 hourly pay the candidate has proposed for employees nationwide - The Washington Post

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[Marxism] In Tripoli

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On 7/19/19 9:32 AM, Louis Proyect via Marxism wrote:


Haftar, an army officer under Gaddafi and later a CIA asset who lived in 
northern Virginia for twenty years, has been accruing international 
backing and expanding his territory at the head of the self-styled 
Libyan National Army (LNA). Arguing that the country is not ready for 
democracy, Haftar promises order through authoritarian rule. He is also 
a dedicated anti-Islamist. There are three options for Islamists in 
Libya, he told me when I met him in 2014: dead, in prison or out of the 
country. On 4 April this year he launched an assault on the 
internationally recognised Government of National Accord (GNA) in 
Tripoli, announcing that he was cleaning the city of corrupt militias 
and Islamists. Such pledges are a thin cover for a power grab; the 
United Nations envoy for Libya has called it a ‘coup’. In any case, 
Haftar’s LNA includes a number of tribal and Salafist militias, who are 
mired in corruption themselves.


Go to https://www.lrb.co.uk/ and find the article "In Tripoli" on the 
home page.

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[Marxism] [SUSPICIOUS MESSAGE] In Tripoli

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Haftar, an army officer under Gaddafi and later a CIA asset who lived in 
northern Virginia for twenty years, has been accruing international 
backing and expanding his territory at the head of the self-styled 
Libyan National Army (LNA). Arguing that the country is not ready for 
democracy, Haftar promises order through authoritarian rule. He is also 
a dedicated anti-Islamist. There are three options for Islamists in 
Libya, he told me when I met him in 2014: dead, in prison or out of the 
country. On 4 April this year he launched an assault on the 
internationally recognised Government of National Accord (GNA) in 
Tripoli, announcing that he was cleaning the city of corrupt militias 
and Islamists. Such pledges are a thin cover for a power grab; the 
United Nations envoy for Libya has called it a ‘coup’. In any case, 
Haftar’s LNA includes a number of tribal and Salafist militias, who are 
mired in corruption themselves.


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[Marxism] It Was Never Just About the Chat: Ruminations on a Puerto Rican Revolution.

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[Marxism] The New Fugitive Slave Laws | by Manisha Sinha | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books

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Warren, an academic by profession, was—like many volunteers with No More 
Deaths, Ajo Samaritans, and other humanitarian aid groups working in the 
desert—motivated simply to save lives. He told The Intercept that he had 
come across human remains during his hikes in wilderness areas—a 
shocking spectacle that moved him much as the abolitionist editor Elijah 
Lovejoy was moved by the “savage barbarity” he witnessed in St. Louis in 
1836 when a black man was burned to death by a white mob. Lovejoy wrote 
an editorial condemning the appropriately named Judge Lawless for 
setting the dead man’s lynchers free, an exercise of free speech for 
which Lovejoy was driven out of town (and he was later murdered by 
proslavery rioters).


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[Marxism] Review of Gary Roth, 'The Educated Underclass: Students and the Promise of Social Mobility'

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By Scott McLemee

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[Marxism] In Bolsonaro’s Brazil, a Showdown Over Amazon Rainforest

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[Marxism] System Capture 2020: The Role of the Upper-Class in Shaping Democratic Primary Politics

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Finding surveys with a large enough sample of upper-class Americans to 
generalize from has historically been a great challenge for pollsters. 
To my knowledge, there has not yet been a single national study 
examining the role of upper-class affluence in impacting the political 
preferences of the wealthy. So my findings here represent a first effort 
to address the role of upper-class elitism on attitude formation. Sadly, 
they suggest that little is likely to change in the future in terms of 
prospects for a “Green New Deal” or the introduction of a progressive 
governing regime, so long as wealthy individuals continue to dominate 
American politics.


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[Marxism] Trump administration won't ban pesticide tied to childhood brain damage | US news | The Guardian

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[Marxism] Venezuela speech

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The Venezuela Solidarity Campaign held a protest outside the Melbourne office 
of the Australian government's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade on July 
18.  Here is a speech I made.

Chris Slee



We are here to protest against the Australian government's complicity in the US 
attempt to overthrow the democratically elected government of Venezuela.

Last year Nicolas Maduro was elected president of Venezuela for a second time.  
International observers said the election was free and fair.

But in January this year right-wing politician Juan Guaido declared himself 
president.  The United States immediately recognised this claim - and Australia 
followed suit.

The US has imposed an economic blockade on Venezuela.  US allies such as 
Britain and Australlia are cooperating in this blockade.

The blockade has created shortages of many products.

For example, there are shortages of some medicines.  There are shortages of 
spare parts for water pumps, causing millions of people to lose access to 
running water.  There are shortages of spare parts for the oil industry, 
reducing oil production and damaging the economy.

The United States and its allies have confiscated Venezuelan assets, such as 
the US subsidiary of Venezuela's state-owned oil company.

We call on the Australian government to stop cooperating with the US blockade 
of Venezuela.

We call on the government to cease regarding the unelected Juan Guaido as 
president of Venezuela.  Instead Australia should once again recognise the 
government of democratically elected president Nicolas Maduro.



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[Marxism] Imperialist Trade War between Japan and South Korea

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Joint Statement with Korean Marxists

English: 
https://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/asia/trade-war-between-japan-and-south-korea/


한국어/Korean: 
https://www.thecommunists.net/home/%ED%95%9C%EA%B5%AD%EC%96%B4/trade-war-between-japan-and-south-korea/ 



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