[Marxism] COVID-19: Domestic Violence and the Lockdown

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COVID-19: Domestic Violence and the Lockdown

How women suffer in isolation and poverty

Article by Almedina Gunić, 4 April 2020

https://www.thecommunists.net/oppressed/covid-19-domestic-violence-and-the-lockdown/ 



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Re: [Marxism] Corbynism Lost, Sandersism is Losing: Why Working Within Capitalist Parties Fails | Left Voice

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 Chris wrote, "If you can build a big socialist party while having nothing
to do with the Democrats, that will be great."

Experience poses us a different  question.  People have been trying to
build a socialist movement by springboarding off the Democratic party . . .
well, the Owenites started almost as soon as there was a Democratic party.
The real question is when did any of those efforts actually work?  When did
we ever build a big socialist party while working through the Democrats?
Or even a teensy socialist party?

We have already seen the kind of "movement" we can build through the
Democrats, and we don't have to go back to the Locofocos . . . or any
further back than very recent years.  We watched the Democratic party and
its adherents dead end the very promising Occupy movement.  They
sidetracked Black Lives Matter from small but spirited demonstrations into
a kind of philanthropic NGO useful for making moral appeals in cable news
interviews.  And it sent home those massive wonderfully angry women's
marches that greeted the Trump presidency.

The mechanism of demobilizing people is the most well-practiced

In or out of electoral politics, the movement we need has to understand the
only reliable source of its own power and to function accordingly.

I would add that experience also tells us that the discussion around the
predictably doomed Sanders campaign has no practical point other than pave
the way for the equally predictable arguments why everybody has to vote for
Joe Biden.

Cheers,
Mark L.
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Re: [Marxism] Corbynism Lost, Sandersism is Losing: Why Working Within Capitalist Parties Fails | Left Voice

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I can think of lots of things more worthy of our time and efforts than
waging a losing fight over the future of the superfluous politics of the
Democratic party.

How about vital fights over environmental issues?  What about the latest
moves to revive the old U.S. practice of Indian Removal?  How about making
something like Black Lives Matter actually matter?   Or perhaps solidarity
work with organizing drives among the new layers of the working class,
which impertinently haven't waited for the official bodies of the labor
movement or the next convention discussion of the socialist grouplets?

But, if I had to think of something less worthy of our time and efforts, it
would probably be the struggle to establish the respectability of the term
"socialist" by redefining it as the struggle to save capitalism 80 years
ago.
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Re: [Marxism] Corbynism Lost, Sandersism is Losing: Why Working Within Capitalist Parties Fails | Left Voice

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I am well aware of the problems with Obamacare.

I am not taking a position on what socialists in the US should do.  If you can 
build a big socialist party while having nothing to do with the Democrats, that 
will be great.

Chris Slee

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On 4/5/20 5:47 PM, Chris Slee via Marxism wrote:
> He also popularised critiques of some aspects of US capitalism (e.g. its 
> health care system), and popularised some progressive demands.
>
> Chris Slee

Its health care system? You mean the one that Mitt Romney implemented in
Massachusetts that was first proposed by the ultra-right Heritage
Foundation?

Chris, I told you a month or so ago that I don't stick my nose in
Australian politics except to point out that Scott Morrison is a total
pig but how could you not be aware of what Obamacare was about?



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Re: [Marxism] Corbynism Lost, Sandersism is Losing: Why Working Within Capitalist Parties Fails | Left Voice

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On 4/5/20 5:47 PM, Chris Slee via Marxism wrote:

He also popularised critiques of some aspects of US capitalism (e.g. its health 
care system), and popularised some progressive demands.

Chris Slee


Its health care system? You mean the one that Mitt Romney implemented in 
Massachusetts that was first proposed by the ultra-right Heritage 
Foundation?


Chris, I told you a month or so ago that I don't stick my nose in 
Australian politics except to point out that Scott Morrison is a total 
pig but how could you not be aware of what Obamacare was about?




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Re: [Marxism] Corbynism Lost, Sandersism is Losing: Why Working Within Capitalist Parties Fails | Left Voice

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He also popularised critiques of some aspects of US capitalism (e.g. its health 
care system), and popularised some progressive demands.

Chris Slee

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I do think a Sanders legacy will be the readmittance of the word socialism
as a positive into US political language, even though he isn't an actual
socialist.

Cheers,
John

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> socialism is, have been brought to millions
> > by both the 2016 and 2020 Bernie Sanders for U. S. President Campaigns -
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> Odd. Sanders made a speech equating socialism with FDR's New Deal. So
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> better yet, take any books you own by Karl Marx and burn them.
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Re: [Marxism] Corbynism Lost, Sandersism is Losing: Why Working Within Capitalist Parties Fails | Left Voice

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Another interesting question --- Is Cuomo style National Economic Planning
going to explode the ridiculous ideological triumph of the "magic of the
market"??? --- will there be a groundswell of demands for forcible command
and control allocation of "important resources" as Cuomo is doing with
medical equipment AMONG SUPPOSEDLY "INDEPENDENT" HOSPITALS?>   I mean by
standards of "freedom" what he's ding should be completely forbidden yet
there he is --- and American President's have similar rights --- it's just
Trump doesn't want to do it (and if he tried he's be so concerned to direct
resources to his cronies it would do more harm than good!)

Cuomo runs a big enough state that it might work out --- Don't know if
Newsom in California has taken as much control as Cuomo has.

As Cuomo's model becomes more popular, there should be a groundswell of
demands that the Federal Government do for the COUNTRY what Cuomo is trying
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Re: [Marxism] Corbynism Lost, Sandersism is Losing: Why Working Within Capitalist Parties Fails | Left Voice

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I do think a Sanders legacy will be the readmittance of the word socialism
as a positive into US political language, even though he isn't an actual
socialist.

Cheers,
John

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> Odd. Sanders made a speech equating socialism with FDR's New Deal. So
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Re: [Marxism] Corbynism Lost, Sandersism is Losing: Why Working Within Capitalist Parties Fails | Left Voice

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The actual truth is that the word: socialist and the concepts of what socialism 
is, have been brought to millions
by both the 2016 and 2020 Bernie Sanders for U. S. President Campaigns - Not by 
these sectarians.


Odd. Sanders made a speech equating socialism with FDR's New Deal. So 
maybe the idea is to resurrect the word communism. Or maybe ask the 
Sandernistas to call themselves Democratic Capitalist Socialists. Or 
better yet, take any books you own by Karl Marx and burn them.


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Re: [Marxism] ‘The Uprising,’ a Masterpiece of iPhone Cinema

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“I came to understand that I was making a film about these images, not
about the revolution,”

It is no coincidence that using a radical formal approach is so suited the
subject material, I can't help think of the work of Chris Marker ( *A Grin
Without a Cat*, 1977 - *Sans Soleil* , 1983 come to mind) and the mature
work of Godard (*Histoire*(s) du *cinéma*, 1998 - *Film Socialisme*,
2010 - *Goodbye
to Language*, 2014, in particular).  This is not to say that there is any
type of revolutionary formalism as relation of form and content remain
arbitrary. I look forward to seeing how this film negotiates that tension.
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[Marxism] ‘We Didn’t Sign Up for This’: Amazon Workers on the Front Lines

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(Ginia Bellafante is one of the best reporters at the NY Times.)

NY Times, April 5, 2020
‘We Didn’t Sign Up for This’: Amazon Workers on the Front Lines
By Ginia Bellafante

As if in the darkest children’s fable ever told, the undisputed winner 
of the current plague turns out to be the man who already had 
everything, the king whose empire appears intent on consuming the entire 
map. This week Jeff Bezos, the richest man on earth, saw the year’s 
first financial quarter close with Amazon stock up more than 5 percent, 
trading at $1,950 a share, during a period in which the Dow had its 
worst overall quarter since 1987.


If Amazon previously had us addicted to its services as convenience, it 
now has us reliant on them as necessity. It may be that before the 
emergence of the coronavirus, you were trying to break the habit — 
making a greater effort to shop at the stores in your neighborhood. But 
now those stores are closed, some of them forever, while the presence of 
other human beings delivers its own terror, and so Amazon has come to 
seem more like a utility, as essential as a municipal water supply.


Over the past two weeks I have easily bought more from Amazon than I had 
during the previous 20: laundry detergent, Neosporin, books, tea, hand 
weights, instant oatmeal, a recorder that my son needed for his music 
class at school.


In order to meet the demands of a country in which homes must suddenly 
be retrofitted to accommodate classrooms, co-working spaces, gyms, hair 
salons and so on, Amazon announced last month that it would hire 100,000 
additional workers in its fulfillment centers and delivery networks, 
jobs for which many people will be desperate, given the decimated state 
of the retail and service industries.


What awaits these workers? It would be easier to make peace with the 
company’s crisis-fueled colonization of the marketplace if we could be 
assured that hourly workers were reaping big rewards given the risk of 
the jobs. But instead workers feel unsupported in the most fundamental ways.


Though the company has increased pay by $2 an hour, employees around the 
country at Amazon warehouses and its subsidiary, Whole Foods, have been 
staging walkouts to demand better health protections during the pandemic.


For years, Amazon has resisted the efforts of organized labor. On Monday 
the company fired a dissenting worker, Christian Smalls, at a 
fulfillment center in Staten Island. He was let go almost immediately 
after he led a group of colleagues from the building during lunch hour 
in protest of what they saw as the company’s inadequate response to the 
crisis. They were calling simply for the building to be temporarily 
closed and more stringently sanitized and for workers to be paid during 
the hiatus as several had become sick.


Not content merely to fire Mr. Smalls, executives planned to exploit him 
as part of a public-relations strategy meant to deflect attention away 
from safety issues. Internal notes from a meeting of executive leaders 
at Amazon obtained by Vice News reveal the company’s general counsel 
David Zaplosky calling Mr. Smalls “not smart or articulate” and thus a 
useful tool in its ongoing plan to besmirch unionization efforts.


“We should spend the first part of our response strongly laying out the 
case for why the organizer’s conduct was immoral, unacceptable, and 
arguably illegal,” Mr. Zaplosky wrote. referring to Mr. Smalls, “and 
only then follow with our usual talking points about worker safety.”


The Staten Island warehouse employs 5,000 people who come from all over 
New York and New Jersey. The potential multiplier effect is especially 
worrisome in this instance because the facility, 12 miles from the ferry 
that links Staten Island to Manhattan, is not easily accessible and many 
employees are forced to take several modes of public transportation to 
get there, in commutes that often last 90 minutes or more.


Amazon disputed that Mr. Smalls was terminated for his agitation. A 
spokeswoman for the company, Kristen Kish, said rather that he was let 
go because he had returned to work to conduct the demonstration even 
though he was in the midst of a paid 14-day quarantine after coming into 
contact with someone at the facility who was sick. “We terminated his 
employment for putting the health and safety of others at risk and 
violations of his terms of his employment,” Ms Kish said.


Soon after the demonstration, Letitia James, the New York State attorney 
general, and Mayor Bill de Blasio called for an investigation into Mr. 
Smalls’ dismissal. By Wednesday, the country’s most prominent union 
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[Marxism] Corbynism Lost, Sandersism is Losing: Why Working Within Capitalist Parties Fails | Left Voice

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According to this voice of the proletarians, those in the left who support the 
Bernie Sanders for President Campaign,
hold responsibility for how parts of the British working class did not vote for 
the Labour Party in that general election and
supported the Tories and were responsible for Starmer being the current 
favorite of those smaller numbers, selecting
that party's leader.

The actual truth is that the word: socialist and the concepts of what socialism 
is, have been brought to millions
by both the 2016 and 2020 Bernie Sanders for U. S. President Campaigns - Not by 
these sectarians.

Everyone who supports Bernie Sanders, understands that the U. S. undemocratic 
party is controlled and reliant
on corporate interests and the politicians are servants to the capitalists. 
What this writer shares, is revealing the
deep sectarian unreality he and it appears this groups political line reveals.

Both the 2016 and 2020 Bernie Sanders for U. S. President Campaigns, has raised 
more Class Awareness than all
the sectarian left elections held in the past hundred years, since the actual 
great labor leader Eugene Debs. This
writer as with all these sectarian cult like thinkers, refuse to recognize 
reality.  Their basic argumentis that the
U. S. Working Class must support their leadership, as the only way to make real 
change, is just not recognizing
the real conditions that exist.   And what would make this cult thinking group 
excited would be to double their
membership, to promote their leadership and especially their leaders.  They 
seek power for their group and
not for the actual working class, they claim to represent.

Many as myself have political differences with Bernie Sanders, but to suggest 
that the Bernie Sanders Campaign
has not been effective in raising Class Awareness and been a positive important 
expression of the advanced
layers of the U. S. working class - is being in denial, based on sectarian cult 
like thinking.  Bernie Sanders
decision to run for U.S. president, has benefited the U. S. working class and 
the advanced layers in it.  Unlike
this writer, Bernie Sanders has spent his life, as an advocate for working 
people needs and rights.  I have
disagreed with Bernie Sanders on many issues and likely will in the future, but 
his campaign has created a
desperately needed advance for what was a sectarian ineffective aging left.  
The advanced layers of the
working class can hopefully learn and take advantage of both Bernie Sanders for 
U. S. President Campaigns
and not go in the defeatist direction of these sectarians.

Their voices are being ignored, as reflecting sectarian unreality, when what is 
needed is to address reality
and the challenges for the working class coming to power and not some small 
sectarian group that only
seeks power for themselves. Religious cult like thinking should be rejected, in 
favor of socialist thinking
on how to empower the working class.


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Jeremy Corbyn’s tenure as leader of the Labour Party came to an end with
the election of Sir Keir Starmer. Starmer is an establishment figure who
easily defeated his Corbynist opponent. This development shows the
failure of Corbyn’s strategy and holds a warning for the U.S. left in
regards to Bernie Sanders.



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[Marxism] Bozeman author David Quammen predicted 'scariest virus on Earth' 8 years ago | State

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[Marxism] ‘The Uprising,’ a Masterpiece of iPhone Cinema

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NY Times, April 5, 2020
‘The Uprising,’ a Masterpiece of iPhone Cinema
By J. Hoberman

(“The Uprising” has its own site (theuprising.be) and may also be found 
on Vimeo (vimeo.com/66820206). Both offer English subtitles. No 
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Steven Soderbergh, after shooting his 2018 feature “Unsane” with an 
iPhone, declared smartphone cinema to be the future.” Yet the technology 
is also a window on the recent past, as shown in the largely unknown 
masterpiece, “The Uprising,” a 2014 film by the British journalist and 
documentarian Peter Snowdon.


Snowdon shot no footage to make “The Uprising.” The movie is entirely 
composed of material found on YouTube. It is an anthology of vernacular 
videos (to use Snowdon’s phrase) made nine years ago in Tunisia, 
Bahrain, Syria, Libya, Yemen and Egypt during the Arab Spring.


“The Uprising” isn’t the first such anthology. Huang Weikai’s 2009 
documentary “Disorder” is a lurid compilation of amateur video 
recordings of traffic accidents and other instances of urban chaos shot 
in Guangzhou, a focal point of the Chinese economic miracle. “The 
Uprising,” which Snowdon has said chronicles “popular self-documentation 
on an unprecedented scale” is more violent and political. It is also 
more ethical. Snowdon credits all the footage and has maintained that 
each clip was edited to respect its integrity “without the feeling of 
betraying or falsifying or misrepresenting.”


Working with the French documentary filmmaker Bruno Tracq, as well as a 
small army of translators, Snowdon has taken about 100 videos and 
distilled the Arab Spring into a weeklong imagined revolution. “The 
Uprising” jumps from country to country, tracking a revolt from the 
initial rallies through violent confrontations with the police, the 
euphoria inspired by the fall of an autocratic regime, to the army’s 
attempt to restore order and the seizure of power.


As if to suggest political upheaval as a force of nature, Snowdon frames 
the action with smartphone videos of tornadoes approaching an Alabama 
suburb. That idea is reinforced by the film’s closing quotation from the 
19th-century Russian anarchist Peter Kropotkin that uses the metaphor of 
a cyclone to warn that “centuries of injustice, ages of oppression and 
misery, ages of disdain of the subject and poor, have prepared the storm.”


The film’s narrative structure is made evident by a series of chapter 
titles that count down seven days. Still, the story is overwhelmed, at 
least on a first viewing, by the immediacy of each video. Crowds march, 
chant, hold rallies and hold forth for the camera — airing grievances, 
offering analyses and expressing the elation of a leaderless revolt. 
Other comments can be heard above the general clamor: “The world must 
see this.”


Stones are thrown, tanks drive into crowds. In the most brutal videos, 
people are shot down in the street; in the most ecstatic, the crowds 
break down the prison walls or breach state security. Paraphrasing one 
of the most popular American street chants, the movie might be 
subtitled, “This is what revolution looks like.”


There are moments of respite. In one scene, rambunctious teenagers use a 
captured bazooka to fire potatoes and onions into the sky; in another, a 
young man sits amid the rubble of an apartment apparently shelled by 
government forces and performs a comic routine. “Is Al Qaeda living in 
my hair?” he asks insistently. “What wrong did the poor carpet do? What 
was the crime of the cushions?”


Turning the Arab Spring into an invented revolution even as it presents 
specific incidents from an actual one, “The Uprising” demands an active 
viewer. Throughout, there are multiple things to consider. One of the 
citizen-made videos Snowdon found and incorporated, documents and 
annotates the way in which events in the street are being televised into 
his living room.


Attention is continually divided between the imposed narrative and the 
truth of individual moments. Awareness shifts between the events being 
witnessed and the spatial position of the witnesses. The viewer has the 
option for analysis. While these images are immensely powerful seen 
projected onscreen, the advantage of watching “The Uprising” online is 
the ability to freeze and re-examine scenes.


Snowdon has argued that the smartphone is less an extension of the eye 
than of the arm, a tool used not only to record but to act. Visceral 
almost by definition, vernacular video has its own wildly spontaneous 
visual vocabulary — light smears, hyper kinetic movement, jolting 
angles, inadvertent “artifacting,” in which the image is distorted when 
a visible 

[Marxism] Two obits

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NY Times, April 5, 2020
Rafael Gómez Nieto, Last Member of Unit That Helped Liberate Paris, Dies 
at 99

By Raphael Minder

This obituary is part of a series about people who have died in the 
coronavirus pandemic.


D-Day was approaching and France’s 2nd Armored Division was ready to 
take part. Rafael Gómez Nieto,  a veteran of the Spanish Civil War, and 
the division’s mostly Spanish “Nueve” unit shipped off from North Africa 
to England.


The division, led by Gen. Philippe Leclerc, then crossed the English 
Channel  and La Nueve made its way through the French countryside. Mr. 
Gomez’s unit narrowly survived a German encirclement in a French village.


He and his comrades forged on, reaching the southern edge of Paris on 
Aug. 24, 1944. In an armored vehicle named Guernica, he wound his way 
through side streets to avoid German soldiers and then raced at full 
speed toward City Hall.


His unit turned out to be the first Allied force to take part in the 
liberation of Paris.


“I entered Paris with the Guernica, we were Spanish and voilà!” Mr. 
Gómez recalled in a documentary aired by Canal Sur, a regional Spanish 
channel. “People were surprised to see French troops speaking to them in 
Spanish.”


Mr. Gómez, the last surviving member of La Nueve, died on Tuesday in 
Strasbourg, France. He was 99. He had contracted the coronavirus, his 
son, Jean-Paul Gómez, said by phone.


The office of the French president, Emmanuel Macron, said in a 
statement, that with his death, “Part of our French and European history 
has gone. That of the Spanish Civil War and the Second World War, that 
of the odyssey of Spanish Republicans engaged in the fight to suppress 
the Nazi yoke.”


Mr. Gómez was born on Jan. 21, 1921, in Adrá, a town in the southern 
province of Almería. His father, a career soldier, was stationed in 
northeastern Catalonia when Spain’s civil war started.


Mr. Gómez was recruited as a teenager into the “Quinta del Biberón,” a 
celebrated contingent formed in 1938 by the Republican government in a 
last-ditch effort to stop the advance of the troops of Gen. Francisco 
Franco, who had plunged Spain into a civil war after staging a coup in 
July 1936.


When Franco won the war in April 1939, Mr. Gómez and his father escaped 
to France and found themselves interned in different camps. After his 
release, Mr. Gómez headed for the Algerian city of Oran, where an uncle 
lived.


There, he volunteered to join La Nueve, in which 146 of the 160 men were 
Spanish. When he told his mother that he was going to fight another war, 
“She smashed a glass on the floor out of anger,” Mr. Gómez recalled in 
the documentary. “I just wanted to fight for the good of humanity,” he 
added.


Supplied by the American military, La Nueve helped drive the Nazis out 
of North Africa, under the orders of a French captain, Raymond Dronne.


“We were famous because we had already done a war and knew what a war 
was about,” Mr. Gómez said. “They put us on the front line and told us: 
‘La Nueve, go for it.’”


It took six decades for La Nueve to be officially honored by France, 
when the authorities in Paris unveiled a plaque in 2004 to commemorate 
its special role in the city’s liberation.


Robert S. Coale, a professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of 
Rouen, France, said in the documentary about Mr. Gómez that La Nueve was 
purposefully forgotten after the war both in France and Spain.


“People didn’t talk much in France about the Spanish soldiers in 
Leclerc’s division, because according to the French they were French 
soldiers, and people didn’t talk in Spain about the anti-Fascist 
Spaniards in World War II because we still had Franco.”


After Paris, La Nueve helped liberate Strasbourg and eventually made its 
way into Germany. Mr. Gómez reached Berchtesgaden, where Hitler had his 
mountain residence, just in time for Germany’s surrender.


Only about a dozen members of the unit survived the war because the 
French army also put it in the vanguard, or “always on the front line,” 
Mr. Macron’s office said.


Mr. Gómez, who was awarded the Legion of Honor, is survived by his son 
and three daughters. He also had 14 grandchildren and several 
great-grandchildren. His wife, Florence López, died in 2015.


Like other Republican soldiers, Mr. Gómez hoped that the Allies, after 
defeating Germany, would attack Franco’s Spain, given the military 
support provided to his war effort by Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, 
said Evelyn Mesquida, the author of “La Nueve” (2008).


“He had to live with the feeling of being the victim of a treason,” she 
said in a phone interview, “since clearly all the Spanish 

[Marxism] 3341. The Pandemic Is a Portal

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By Arundhati Roy, Financial Times, April 3, 2020

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[Marxism] Why Private Equity Is Cutting Doctor Pay and Organizing Our Pandemic Response - BIG by Matt Stoller

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[Marxism] Corbynism Lost, Sandersism is Losing: Why Working Within Capitalist Parties Fails | Left Voice

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Jeremy Corbyn’s tenure as leader of the Labour Party came to an end with 
the election of Sir Keir Starmer. Starmer is an establishment figure who 
easily defeated his Corbynist opponent. This development shows the 
failure of Corbyn’s strategy and holds a warning for the U.S. left in 
regards to Bernie Sanders.


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Re: [Marxism] Brazil's super-rich and the exclusive club at the heart of a coronavirus hotspot

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> At least 60 of the exclusive Rio de Janeiro Country Club’s 850 members
>> have reportedly been struck down with Covid-19.
>>
> 60 down, 790 to go!
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> https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/04/brazils-super-rich-and-the-exclusive-club-at-the-heart-of-a-coronavirus-hotspot
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[Marxism] The Year in Struggles | Joshua Clover

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[Marxism] Brazil's super-rich and the exclusive club at the heart of a coronavirus hotspot | World news | The Guardian

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[Marxism] Capitalism after Coronavirus: more like Humpty Dumpty than Sleeping Beauty? – The Jobbing Leftie Historian and Researcher

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[Marxism] COVID-19: Is There Risk of a Food Shortage? | Left Voice

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[Marxism] Thaddeus Stevens, Revolutionary

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[Marxism] Call of the indigenous peoples, afro-descendants and peoples’ organizations of Latin America.

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http://cadtm.org/Call-of-the-indigenous-peoples-afro-descendants-and-peoples-organizations-of
 


The crisis that COVID-19 has provoked globally presents a crossroads to the 
peoples of Abya Yala - Latin America. The popular organizations are the first 
line of resistance against the worst expressions of the decomposing system.

We are going through a complete crisis that threatens life in all its forms. 
The COVID-19 has become a pandemic at a time when the capitalist crisis is 
intensifying and economic forces repeatedly try to make the working class bear 
the onus of restoring the corporate profit  rate. This 
coincides with the weakening of health systems, the deterioration of living 
conditions and the destruction of the public sector as a result of the 
neoliberal shift. Asphyxiated by foreign debt, international organisations and 
the permanent oppression of imperialism against our sovereignty, we are heading 
for a scenario with very serious consequences.
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[Marxism] At Last, Someone is Suing Fox "News" for Journalistic Malpractice in Misguiding People over Seriousness of Coronavirus

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https://www.juancole.com/2020/04/journalistic-malpractice-seriousness.html

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