[Marxism] New on Redline blog

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Woman: Deleted - the Council of Disobedient Women on the wording of NZ's
new abortion legislation:
https://rdln.wordpress.com/2019/10/11/woman-deleted/

Jordanian teachers' big victory:
https://rdln.wordpress.com/2019/10/10/jordanian-teachers-successful-strike-has-lessons-for-here/

Labour vs working class immigrants - yet again:
https://rdln.wordpress.com/2019/10/09/labour-vs-working-class-immigrants-again/

Government spin on poverty accepted by union leadership:
https://rdln.wordpress.com/2019/10/10/government-spin-accepted-by-union-leadership/

Talking Freer Lives - a Marxist gender-critical perspective from Australia:
https://rdln.wordpress.com/2019/10/11/talking-freer-lives-a-marxist-gender-critical-perspective-from-australia/
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[Marxism] Turkey invades Rojava, solidarity urgently needed (Green Left Weekly)

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https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/turkey-invades-rojava-solidarity-urgently-needed


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[Marxism] IWW Istanbul Statement on the Turkish Invasion

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We call on all workers — workers who are exploited under this system,
workers who have become increasingly impoverished and who are being sent to
die — not to join this war, but to unite against it.

At a time when war is taking place in Syria, war which has no purpose other
than death, destruction, and poverty, the AKP government launched a mission
of occupation that will only further increase chaos. Like the previous
occupation of Afrin, this operation shows that neither Russia, the US, nor
other imperialist powers care about the Kurdish people.


https://industrialworker.iww.org/?p=808
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[Marxism] Trump in Minneapolis “He’s Goin’ Down” October 10, 2019 on Vimeo

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[Marxism] Martin Monath: A Jewish Reistance Fighter Among German Soldiers | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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Recently, Pluto Press came out with Nathaniel Flakin’s “Martin Monath: A 
Jewish Reistance Fighter Among German Soldiers.” It pays tribute to 
another Jewish Trotskyist who displayed incredible heroism and 
dedication to proletarian internationalism. Like Leon, Monath was a left 
Zionist starting out, but became convinced that Zionism was a hopeless 
illusion. And like Leon, he was caught by the Gestapo in his youth and 
died at their hands.


Flakin has performed a yeoman’s service by digging through archival 
materials, the few letters that Monath wrote, and memoirs by his 
contemporaries to help bring this obscure figure to life. While there is 
virtually nothing in this biography that refers to the current period, 
we cannot help but consider the parallels to Trump, Orban, and Modi’s 
persecution of the “other”. If being a revolutionary in 1941 France or 
Belgium required enormous courage, there are other difficulties we face 
today. We have few worries about being hauled off to a torture chamber 
in countries like the USA or England. Instead, we have to swim upstream 
to defend a revolutionary socialism that has become unfashionable. Our 
problem is indifference rather than repression. We are grateful to 
Nathaniel and his comrades at Left Voice for having the iron will so 
necessary to defend the ideas of Karl Marx in a period when the spirit 
of compromise and pragmatism infect so much of the left.


The first paragraph of Flakin’s Introduction sets the tone for the rest 
of the book:


	It is late 1943 in Brittany in north-western France. For three years 
the population has been suffering under the Nazis’ increasingly brutal 
occupation regime. In the city of Brest, however, there are astounding 
scenes of fraternization: Young French workers and equally young German 
soldiers greet each other with raised fists. An illegal newspaper 
reports from Kerhuon, ten kilometers from Brest: “On August 6, German 
soldiers marched through the city and sang the Internationale,” the 
anthem of the revolutionary workers’ movement. Between 25 and so German 
soldiers from the Brest garrison had organized themselves into illegal 
internationalist cells. They obtained identification cards and weapons 
for the French resistance. They felt so confident that they began to 
ignore the basic rules of conspiracy. They met in groups of ten. “It was 
madness,” recalled their comrade Andre Calves, decades later.


full: 
https://louisproyect.org/2019/10/11/martin-monath-a-jewish-reistance-fighter-among-german-soldiers/

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[Marxism] Turkey’s War on Rojava (Tribune)

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https://tribunemag.co.uk/2019/10/turkeys-war-on-rojava

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Re: [Marxism] PG electricity shutdown in N. California

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OK, fine. B-. :)

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> a grade since I hated both school and the grading system. But in this case,
> I must do so. Not a C-, but I will accept a B- (maybe even C+).
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Re: [Marxism] PG electricity shutdown in N. California

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I agree that the piece I wrote was not really thoroughly thought out or
researched. In part it was an emotional response to what I had been hearing
about on the news and reading in the capitalist press (i.e., the SF
Chronicle). Having just written two rather extensive articles on the Trump
impeachment crisis, and trying to carefully follow subsequent developments,
I lacked the time and energy to do more. But I was really pissed off at
what I'd been seeing and hearing about the PG shutdown and wanted to
respond to it.

And I was legitimately upset at the fact that there was not a thought to
the fact that 1.1 billion people are living without electricity every day
of their lives.

On my Facebook page, where I posted this article, some people talked about
the problems they're facing. One woman without a lot of money talked about
losing a week's worth of food that she cannot afford to replace. Yes, that
sort of thing should be recognized.

I did comment on some of the points that David Walters raises, regarding
PG's criminal behavior. However, I also do think that we we are seeing
regarding this shutdown simply forewarns what is to come due to global
climate disruption. Blackouts, mass flooding - including of entire cities
(or entire countries in the case of some Pacific Island nations or
Bangladesh), and worse. I think we are also likely to see mass poisoning on
a scale larger and more intense than what we've seen up until now as toxic
waste dumps become inundated. This and more.

The fact is that in the last analysis, it is "Mother Nature" who caused
this crisis. Or rather, it is Mother Nature's reaction to the depredations
of capitalism. Sure, the profit addicted PG behaved totally
irresponsibly. What do we expect? Is it really any different from how arms
manufacturers send "our boys (and now girls too)" off to war with weapons
that don't function properly because that's more profitable? Sure, the
weapons manufacturers should be condemned, but more than that, capitalism
should be condemned for leading the working class into war in the first
place. So, when Governor Newsom says he's "outraged" - at whom or what is
he outraged? At Mother Nature?

Again, I agree that my piece wasn't a thoroughly thought-out and researched
piece, but if it got Dave Walters' blood pumping a little bit in
annoyance... well, you know, Dave, at our age a little bit of stress (not
too much, but a little bit) is a good thing. It helps us live longer!

Finally, when I was in school, I always considered it beneath me to contest
a grade since I hated both school and the grading system. But in this case,
I must do so. Not a C-, but I will accept a B- (maybe even C+).

John Reimann
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Re: [Marxism] PG electricity shutdown in N. California

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Andy, unfortunately, while the union is key in keeping job numbers up, thus
their defense of tree trimmers and the unionized tree trimming companies,
it generally is very right wing. There is agreement that neither the union
nor the company will attack each other in public or oppose the demands of
either party when discussions over rate increases, public power proposals
and so on come up in the State. Thus, the union deploys its staff to lobby
to support rate increases even as the company and union bargain for a new
contract every 3 or 4 years. One will never find the union attacking the
Company in public unless a Company action directly negatively effects the
membership.

With the spate of proposals for *Municipalization* in San Francisco and
other communities, the union mobilizes resources to oppose it, like they
did in 2000 when two similar proposals for a buy out of the grid occurred
in SF.  I see no change in this class collaboration.

Understand, Local members are paid far in excess of similar employees at
Public Power entities like SMUD or the DWP in LA. There is likely no
question that had the proposals gone through in 2000, which I worked for as
it happens, ex-PG and now public power workers would of taken  a big hit
eventually. Of course that would depend as well on the dynamic of fighting
to maintain high wages and could of been taken up by other SF employees to
raise standards to what the PG contract had in it. It is hard to tell
what would of happened.

Additionally there was an "institutional" prerogative against this as
public employees are not part of the NLRA and thus representation if 100%
based on City laws, in this case the San Francisco, or State, Charter. With
2000 employees in SF it would of meant the possible loss of these 2000
employees to other unions already established in City.

Lastly, to give you an idea of my unions collaborationist perspectives, in
the 90s I went to a pre-negotiation union conference for all shop stewards.
The Assistant Union manager got up and first thing he does is "do you want
to negotiate or do you want to strike?". Amazingly every one bought into
this nonsense except for a few socialists and ex-socialists who were there.
The unions *brags* about never having gone on strike. That is what we were
up against and what rank and file militants are still up against.

David Walters

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> This is important not only for energy workers and consumers but for climate
> change activism as well -- i.e. if we are to get past the (hugely
> impressive) street rallies the question of worker/community control will
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Re: [Marxism] PG electricity shutdown in N. California

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Would like to hear more about the union's position and activities, as well
as of communities.
This is important not only for energy workers and consumers but for climate
change activism as well -- i.e. if we are to get past the (hugely
impressive) street rallies the question of worker/community control will
have to be posed at specific strategic sites.
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Re: [Marxism] PG electricity shutdown in N. California

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 [First, John's usually well written essays on topical subjects I think
gets a C- this time. I don't understand his snarky attitude toward these
black outs and previous fires. Maybe his means something else but it
doesn't appear so.]

This was a totally the fault of PG, my former employer. PG admits it
has only accomplished 31% of the required PUC mandated tree trimming. This
story is an old one going back to the mid-1980s when the Company started
scaling back tree trimming operations and diverting funding for other
Corporate expenses. Tree trimming is mandated by state regulations. The
company can send tree trimmers in with chain saws to cut down or trim back
trees that have branches that could hit power lines in neighborhoods. They
can removed dead trees around the easements for their transmission lines.
PG has failed to do this. We have had higher wind situations 20 and 30
years ago which did not cause any fires whatsoever.

Yes, the number of actually fully dead trees has, because of climate change
caused droughts increased. But this was seen before it happened and the
Company should of started to take care of this problem at least 5 years ago
when we were in a drought situation. My union, IBEW Local 1245 reported
regularly throughout the 80s, 90s and 2000s on the *failure* of PG to
abide by it's mandate. The new PUC regs now allow PG to turn off the
power to millions of people instead of mandating what they should do and
*were paid to do* which is to upgrade their transmission and distribution
network, replace poles that are too old and are in danger of falling, and
trimming back the vegetation through out it's 20,000 miles of wires.

David Walters
IBEW 1245, Ret.

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[Marxism] [SUSPICIOUS MESSAGE] Dr. Kerry Bowman: “Environment degradation and climate change may well turn out to be the most violent and destructive aspect of capitalism” « Algérie Résistance

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[Marxism] Revealed: Google made large contributions to climate change deniers | Environment | The Guardian

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[Marxism] Turkey launches genocidal invasion of Rojava (Green Left Weekly)

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[Marxism] No to the Turkish Invasion in North-East Syria!

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[Marxism] Turkish operation producing more sectarian hatred in Syria

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*Scattered and disconsolate thoughts*
*WRITTEN by Fouad Roueiha, translated by Mary Rizzo*

The US green light for the Turkish operation in northern Syria is a
disaster and yet another demonstration of how damaging the divisions
between Kurds and Arabs have been, actually serving the interests of
others, rather than to those of people living or who have lived in Syria.
The Kurdish forces, the YPG and YPJ of the PYD party, have been the
backbone of the “Syrian Democratic Forces” (SDF) sought by Washington and
used for the purposes of not having to deploy American boots on the ground
in the fight against ISIS. A battle that took place without regard for the
local populations (see Raqqa, razed to the ground by US bombing) and which
handed over large Arab-majority territories to a force perceived as Kurdish
nationalist (not wrongly) and therefore as foreign, as if it were an
invasion. Emblematic was the entry of the SDF into Raqqa after its
“liberation”: no Syrian flags, many flags of the most powerful Kurdish
party and enormous portraits of its ideologue Abdullah Ocalan. On the other
hand, the military collapse by the Arab anti-Assad militias, increasingly
becoming hostages to the “sponsors” and therefore quarrelsome and competing
with each other, crushed by the enormous weight of the Russian air force
and Iranian ground troops and other allies of Assad, has pushed whoever
remained standing either to embracing Al Qaeda (in some of its recent
incarnations) or becoming factually under the auspices of Turkey.

Full:
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[Marxism] Gilbert Achcar on the Grayzone School of Falsification

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On Gutter Journalism and Purported “Anti-Imperialism”

By: Gilbert Achcar 
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