[Marxism] Dead sperm whale had 220 pounds of garbage in its stomach, including rope, plastic and gloves
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, Dec. 2, 2019 Dead sperm whale had 220 pounds of garbage in its stomach, including rope, plastic and gloves By Lateshia Beachum Researchers on a Scottish island found disturbing items during a necropsy of a juvenile sperm whale: 220 pounds of land and sea debris. The young male found himself stranded on the sands of Luskentyre Beach on the Isle of Harris, which is located at the northwest corner of the Western Isles in Scotland. His insides revealed an entangled ball of litter that dismayed responders with the Scottish Marine Animal Strandings Scheme, an organization that collects and analyzes data on stranded marine life native to Scotland, according to the organization’s Facebook page. The young whale had ingested a large amount of refuse, including bundles of rope, plastic cups, bags and gloves. Examiners also found packing straps and tubing inside his stomach. The adolescent whale could have swallowed the debris at any point between Norway and the Azores, an archipelago in the Mid-Atlantic, marine experts said. Dan Parry, an administrator for the Facebook page that promotes plastic pickups on Luskentyre Beach, wrote that the 13-foot-long whale was starved to death as its intestines could no longer process food. But the Scottish Marine Animal Strandings Scheme found that while the trash likely played a role in the whale’s death, it wasn’t the sole reason. A beachside necropsy didn’t show evidence that trash had impacted or obstructed his intestines. The whale was in decent health despite its trash-filled gut, which partially exploded when cut. Animals as large as the sperm whale are very well insulated, according to the Scottish Marine Animal Strandings Scheme. Even when temperatures are freezing or just above, the dead animal’s insides still run hot, causing rapid decay and even intestinal explosions. Researchers are still looking into why the young whale ended up with so much trash in his system. Members of the coast guard and the Western Isles Council Disposal team also contributed to the postmortem examination of the whale and his burial. In January, Scottish Marine Animal Strandings Scheme reported that 2018 was a record year for reported marine animal strandings in Scotland, rising from 204 reports in 2009 to 930 last year. For Parry, the gruesome discovery of refuse in the whale is a reminder that keeping the oceans clean is everyone’s responsibility. “The fishing industry need to do better, but equally, we all need to do more,” he wrote. “Watching this today, makes me despair for the environment, totally falling apart around us.” _ 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] Khabour Guards Commander: Turkey wants to wipe us out (ANF)
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'For more than seven weeks Turkey has been attacking the self-governing
territories of North and East Syria in violation of international law. With the
occupation of the cities of Girê Spî (Tal Abyad) and Serêkaniyê (Ras al-Ain)
and surrounding villages by the NATO partner and its jihadist auxiliary troops,
approved by the US and Russia, some 300,000 people have had to leave their
homes so far. Nevertheless, Ankara is still not satisfied. In particular, the
villages around Til Temir and the small town of Ain Issa on the strategically
important M4 road are the focus of the invasion troops. The region lies outside
the targeted "security zone", a thirty-kilometer-deep strip on the Turkish
border, and is being attacked unabated. Ankara also wants to extend its
occupation to the other cities on the border line in order to implement the
actual goal behind the demanded withdrawal of the Syrian Democratic Forces of
(SDF); the settlement of Syrian refugees from Turkey and their proxy army SNA
("Syrian National Army") in the border strip. There can therefore be no
question of a ceasefire such as the one agreed in Sochi at the end of October
between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Russian counterpart
Vladimir Putin.'
'Madeleine Khamis is a commander of the Khabour Guards. In an interview the
experienced commander spoke about the current situation in the region.
According to her statements, 70 villages in Til Temir have already been
occupied by the Turkish-jihadist invasion troops. Hundreds of Christian
families had to leave their homes.
' "Since the beginning of the invasion, we have resisted the occupying forces
on the basis of legitimate self-defence. If a no-fly zone had previously been
established in northern Syria, Turkey would hardly have been able to occupy our
regions. We have repeatedly called on the international community to ensure the
immediate closure of airspace. But we have always fallen on deaf ears. The
international forces continue to refer to the alleged ceasefire. Turkey and its
Islamist proxy army, however, are not complying with the ceasefire", emphasises
Khamis.'
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[Marxism] 1916 Comdt-General Sean McLoughlin on Civil War: “How the Republicans May Win”
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 article below first appeared in the July 29, 1922 issue of The Workers Republic, the paper of the newly-established Communist Party of Ireland. The civil war had begun just a month earlier. The CPI aligned with the anti-Treaty IRA and agitated for it to adopt a social programme pointing to a workers’ republic, not just a republic. Sean McLoughlin was actually the senior surviving commandant of the Easter Rising of 1916. On the Friday evening, as the Rising was drawing to a close, the 21-year-old had so impressed James Connolly and other leaders that he was appointed overall military commander. This was done due to the incapacitation of the badly-wounded Connolly, the original commandant-general of all the insurrectionary forces. McLoughlin then led the break-out from the GPO and into Moore Street. McLoughlin later worked closely with Roddy Connolly in founding the original, short-lived CPI and was active in workers’ struggles during the civil war, including workplace occupations and the formation of soviets. . . Full at: https://theirishrevolution.wordpress.com/2019/12/03/1916-comdt-general-sean-mcloughlin-on-civil-war-how-the-republicans-may-win/ _ 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] Marx Memorial Library in London needs your help
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. * Forwarded message. … Raju J Das York University, Toronto From: on behalf of Paul C Mishler Reply-To: "sci...@googlegroups.com" Date: Monday, December 2, 2019 at 10:29 AM To: "scisoc@googlegroups com" Subject: [S&S ed board] Marx Memorial Library in London Comrades, Last fall the Marx Memorial Library suffered major rain damage. The library is one of the major repository for archives and books relating to Marxism and the Working Class movement in English. The building itself, 37 Clerkenwell Green has been in the radical movement since the early 19th century. It was where Lenin's office was when he edited Iskra from London (his office and desk are still there). In response to the damage the Library is launching a special Lenin 150 fund appeal to repair the structural damage and to better protect the archives. I am attaching the appeal and hope some of us can contribute. I would also like to propose that we publish it in the next issue, and I would like to raise this at our meeting on Saturday. I am looking forward to seeing many of you on Saturday. Paul C. Mishler Associate Professor of Labor Studies-IUSB "We will bring to birth a new world, from the ashes of the old" (Solidarity Forever) _ 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] No Way Out but Through | Commune
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[Marxism] Why Hollywood Sucks: The Irishman Is An Epic Major Studios Passed On | Washington Babylon
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[Marxism] All aboard the crazy train — The Montreal’s conspirationist microcosm.
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[Marxism] WORKERS’ SOLIDARITY VS GEOPOLITICS | John Clarke's Blog
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[Marxism] Howard Zinn Book Fair, San Francisco, Sunday December 8
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. * Sunday, Dec. 8, 10AM - 6PM City College of San Francisco, Mission Campus 1125 Valencia Street Suggested donation: $5 (no one turned away for lack of funds) The campus is a short walk from 24th Street BART Station and Muni lines 14, 33, 48, 49 and J The theme of this year’s book fair is “Strike! Discovering Our Power.” We selected this theme to celebrate the ways in which everyday people discover their ability to work together. Inspired by the wave of strikes across the United States in the past year, the massive General Strikes in India, and the recent uprisings in Algeria and Sudan, we expand the idea of the strike to include all of the ways people can take collective action to preserve their homes, protect life on earth, respect indigeneity, shut down the machinery that produces racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and inequality, and build movements that are strong enough to last. The Strike! is not only about withdrawing our labor, but about redirecting it to create a better world. Featuring over sixty publishers, booksellers, and grassroots organizations, dozens of author readings, panels, and workshops with Silvia Federici, Jane McAlevey, Emory Douglas, Alice Bag, Bhaskar Sunkara, Nicholas Baham III, Eric Drooker, Shawna Potter, Charlie Jane Anders, and voices from The Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong, The Yellow Vest Movement in France, the Oakland Teachers Strike and more https://howardzinnbookfair.com/ [and a plug for a book I've been involved with] One of the exhibitors is 1741 Press, publisher of the collective memoir "You Say You Want a Revolution: SDS, PL, and Adventures in Building a Worker-Student Alliance". "a must-read book": Louis Proyect, in CounterPunch https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/03/22/rebuilding-a-revolutionary-left-in-the-usa/ The book has a facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/pg/yousayyouwantarevolution/posts/ _ 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] [SUSPICIOUS MESSAGE] The Uneven and Combined Emergence of “Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics”
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[Marxism] How America's Elites Lost Their Grip in 2019 | Time
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[Marxism] The Lebanese Street Asks: ‘Which Is Stronger, Sect or Hunger?’ | by Ursula Lindsey | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books
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[Marxism] The Factory Is a Chilling Account of the Contemporary Workplace | The New Republic
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[Marxism] Coastal fog — yes, fog — is giving pumas mercury poisoning | Salon.com
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[Marxism] Joanna Ramos' 'The Farm'
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. * At Golden Oaks, a luxurious country retreat in the Hudson Valley, pregnant women have the best care money can buy. From the organic food, personalised exercise programmes, private yoga instruction and daily massages Golden Oaks looks like a country lodge for the upper class. Set some time in the near future this is a surrogacy farm where the wealthy can outsource pregnancy. The pregnant ‘hosts’ are mostly migrant and poor, but there are also a few young middle-class women. The hosts are well paid and get the best medical care and attention. Too much attention in fact, as they have signed over their liberty and they cannot leave. Their job is to produce the perfect baby for their uber-rich clients. . . full at: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2019/12/02/book-review-the-farm-by-joanne-ramos/ _ 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
