[Marxism] The New Global Wave of Class Struggles and the Slogan of the Constituent Assembly
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. * The New Global Wave of Class Struggles and the Slogan of the Constituent Assembly How to apply a crucial revolutionary democratic tactic (and how not) – a critique of the opportunist deviations of the Argentine-based PTS/FT and PO/CRFI By Michael Pröbsting, 26 November 2019 [See Contents below] https://www.thecommunists.net/theory/new-global-wave-of-class-struggles-and-slogan-of-constituent-assembly/ in Spanish: https://www.thecommunists.net/home/espa%C3%B1ol/la-nueva-ola-global-de-luchas-de-clases-y-la-consigna-de-la-asamblea-constituyente/ Contents Introduction I. The central role ofdemocracy and constitution in the current mass protests II. Reasons of the central role ofdemocratic demands III. Marxism and the slogan of the Revolutionary Constituent Assembly IV. Is the Constituent Assembly a road to socialism? V. A kind of “constitutional cretinism” VI. A socialist transformation without armed struggle? VII. A “de-revolutionization” or “social democratization” of Marxism -- Revolutionär-Kommunistische Organisation BEFREIUNG (Österreichische Sektion der RCIT, www.thecommunists.net) www.rkob.net ak...@rkob.net Tel./SMS/WhatsApp/Telegram: +43-650-4068314 _ 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] A week of protests in Colombia
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[Marxism] Why working class Britons loved reading and debating the classics.
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Re: [Marxism] The Real Barack Obama Has Finally Revealed Himself
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[Marxism] The Real Barack Obama Has Finally Revealed Himself
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[Marxism] Video of my visit to Chile
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[Marxism] Unraveling the claims for (and against) green growth | Science
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[Marxism] Who Are Turkey’s Proxy Fighters in Syria? | by Elizabeth Tsurkov | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books
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[Marxism] Denying Syria's Chemical Attacks, Attacking the Inspectors - The Douma Case - EA WorldView
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[Marxism] [SUSPICIOUS MESSAGE] Barack Obama to make $1.2m from three Wall Street speeches | The Independent
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Re: [Marxism] China’s Renewed Coal Boom - CounterPunch.org
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[Marxism] Marxist Left Review | Gilbert Achcar on the undying revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa
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[Marxism] A crisis in the water is decimating this once-booming fishing town in Angola
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. * Washington Post, NOV. 27, 2019 A crisis in the water is decimating this once-booming fishing town By Max Bearak and Chris Mooney TOMBWA, Angola — His ancestors were Portuguese colonialists who settled on this otherworldly stretch of coast, wedged between a vast desert and the southern Atlantic. They came looking for the one thing this barren region had in abundance: fish. By the time Mario Carceija Santos was getting into the fishing business half a century later, in the 1990s, Angola had won independence and the town of Tombwa was thriving. There were 20 fish factories strung along the bay, a constellation of churches and schools, a cinema hall built in art deco, and, in the central plaza, massive drying racks for the tons upon tons of fish hauled out of the sea. Since then, Tombwa’s fortunes have plummeted; Santos’s factory is one of just two remaining. The cinema hall is shuttered. Kids run around town barefoot instead of going to school. The central plaza is overgrown by weeds, its statue of a proud fisherman covered in bird droppings. Almost all of Tombwa’s residents rely on fishing for their livelihoods, but the decline of some fish species has put the town’s future in question. “Six or seven species have disappeared almost entirely from here, sardines and anchovies included — the ones these factories were made for processing,” Santos said in his office, after inspecting the day’s catch. “We’ll just have to close shop at some point.” The gradual disappearance of fish is a death knell for Tombwa, a town of 50,000 that has little else to offer residents. The approaching bust is the result of three powerful forces: Fish are suffocating in oxygen-depleted waters, huge foreign trawlers are grabbing what’s left, and the water is heating up far more rapidly here than almost anywhere else on the planet. Sea temperatures off the Angolan coast have warmed 1.5 degrees Celsius — and possibly more — in the past century, according to a Washington Post analysis of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration data. In recent years, multiple studies have identified the waters along Tombwa’s coast in particular as a fast-warming hot spot: In one independent analysis of satellite-based NOAA data, temperatures have risen nearly 2 degrees Celsius since 1982. That is more than three times the global average rate of ocean warming. Ocean warming in key hot spots around the globe — from Canada to Japan to Uruguay, where temperatures have risen 2 degrees Celsius or more — is disrupting an array of fisheries, including lobsters, salmon and clams, The Post’s reporting has found. The impact is especially acute in Angola, among the most vulnerable countries in the world to climate change, even though the entire country’s carbon dioxide emissions amount to about 0.1 percent of the world’s output each year. The warming ocean temperatures compound the effects of two other ecological catastrophes playing out in this southern African country of 30 million: Illegal fishing depletes the ocean of tens of thousands of tons of fish each year, and increasingly oxygen-poor seawater makes coastal areas inhospitable to a diversity of marine life. Fisheries data from the southern coast of Angola, a country wracked by civil war until the mid-2000s, is sparse. But a number of species integral to the area are being hard hit by the disruptive consequences from this triple threat: ● A species of fish critical to subsistence fishermen in Tombwa, the blacktail seabream, is losing its ability to reproduce here as waters warm: Its reproductive output is estimated to have declined by 20 percent per decade over the past 30 years. Instead, the fish are moving south, to cooler waters, according to a study by Warren Potts, a marine biologist at Rhodes University in South Africa. ● The dusky kob, a massive fish that can grow over six feet long and is popular with anglers in southern Angola, is also shifting southward, sparking a bizarre evolutionary event: Two kob species that had been separated for some 2 million years have reconnected and are interbreeding, Potts has found. That development implies that warming levels here may have breached a new threshold. ● Beyond the southern coastline, a species key to the Angolan diet has been disappearing from the country’s waters: Cunene horse mackerel levels in the region dropped from an estimated 430,000 tons in 1996 to 137,000 tons in 2013, a “historic low and critical level,” according to a technical report written to help Angola manage the species. Ultimately, unchecked warming could also cause Angola to lose
[Marxism] China’s Renewed Coal Boom - CounterPunch.org
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[Marxism] Capitalism versus Life on Earth
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[Marxism] Did U.S. Billionaire Play Role in Iran Environmentalists’ Imprisonment?
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[Marxism] Why working-class Britons loved reading and debating the Classics | Aeon Essays
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