[Marxism] Fw: Cuba in the Last Stretch of the Pandemic

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~~~ T h e B u l l e t ~~~
A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 2144 ... July 12, 2020
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Cuba in the Last Stretch of the Pandemic

The following article by Fernando Ravsberg appeared in the Salvadorian digital 
daily news site ContraPunto on June 24. The translation from the Spanish, which 
includes a few explanatory additions, is by The Bullet.

It is worth mentioning some of the significant developments that have occurred 
in the two weeks since Ravsberg’s article appeared.

Cuba’s efforts against the virus continue to show remarkable results. July 7 
marked the 11th consecutive day without a single death attributable to 
Covid-19. As of that date, the country had seen only 2,399 confirmed cases of 
infection by the virus, and of these, 2,242 of those infected have recovered. 
The death toll is only 86.

Significantly, given the experience of wealthy countries in North America and 
Western Europe, not a single Cuban health worker, whether a doctor or a floor 
cleaner, has succumbed to the virus.

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[Marxism] Venezuela and covid-19: statement and video (Green Left)

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Despite sanctions and threats, Venezuela shows the way:

https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/despite-sanctions-and-threats-venezuela-shows-way-dark-times


Video:  How Venezuela did so well on covid-19:

https://www.greenleft.org.au/video/video-how-venezuela-did-so-well-covid-19




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Re: [Marxism] Solidarity needed amid ongoing Turkish aggression against Kurds (Green Left)

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The PYD and SDF have for some time been calling on all Kurds in Syria, as well 
as people of other ethnicities, to unite against the Turkish invasion.

In Iraq, the PKK has made similar calls for Kurdish unity against the Turkish 
invasion.

The US has supported discussions aimed at improving relations between the PYD 
and the KNC in the case of Syria.  But in the case of Iraq the US does not 
support any discussions involving the PKK.

The US remains hostile to the PKK, and has never (as far as I am aware) made 
any criticism of Turkish bombing and ground invasions of northern Iraq.

I don't claim to fully understand US policy.  But I think it results from 
trying to pursue several different objectives at once.  US motives include 
opposition to the PKK, worry about the revival of ISIS, rivalry with Russia, 
and hostility to Iran.

When ISIS captured large parts of Iraq and Syria in 2014, the US was worried.  
It needed local allies.  In northern Iraq it had the Kurdistan Regional 
Government, a long-term ally with fairly strong military forces.  But in Syria 
there was no equivalent, so it decided to cooperate with the YPG, and later the 
SDF.

After ISIS had lost most of its territory in Syria, Trump started to withdraw 
US troops.  This enabled Turkey to invade north-eastern Syria in October 2019.  
The Autonomous Administration asked for Russian help in deterring further 
Turkish advances.  The US, perhaps worried at the prospect of expanding Russian 
influence in north-eastern Syria, decided not to withdraw completely.

Now the US is supporting talks between the PYD and the KNC.  But I would not 
over-emphasise the US role in these talks.  The Kurdish people want unity 
against the Turkish invasion.

Chris Slee




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Hi Chris, I wonder what you and others think is going on with the US push
to get the PYD/SDF together with Kurdish National Council?

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[Marxism] Solidarity needed amid ongoing Turkish aggression against Kurds (Green Left)

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[Marxism] Seattle socialist councillor - 'Our fight is for systemic change' (Green Left)

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[Marxism] US: High stakes in Trump's attacks on Black Lives Matter protests (Green Left)

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https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/united-states-high-stakes-trump%25E2%2580%2599s-attacks-black-lives-matter-protests


"Republicans are ramping up attempts to curtail African Americans' right to 
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[Marxism] Updated China pamphlet

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Here is an updated version of my pamphlet "Capitalism and Workers Struggle in 
China".

Chris Slee


 http://links.org.au/capitalism-workers-struggle-china


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Re: [Marxism] Libya: Is Russia-Turkey conflict heightening over oil-rich Sirte? (Juan Cole)

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I was not meaning to suggest that Turkish intervention in Libya is worse than 
Russian intervention.  I was highlighting the fact that Erdogan has ambitions 
that extend further afield, beyond the countries on Turkey's borders.  The fact 
that Russia has such ambitions is no surprise, but people may not be aware of 
Turkey's overseas intervention.

Chris Slee


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On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 8:47 AM Chris Slee via Marxism <
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> https://www.juancole.com/2020/06/russia-conflict-heightening.html
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> Not content with invading and occupying parts of Syria and Iraq, Erdogan
> is intervening in the Libyan civil war.
>
> Chris might also have noted that Russia, not content with invading,
bombing and occupying parts of Syria and Ukraine and annexing Crimea, is
also intervening in the Libyan civil war. A world view, however, that has
decided that the Turkish regime is the main enemy of the region's peoples,
won't see the Russian role in the same light.

Actually I agree with Chris regarding Turkey's intervention in Libya, and
even more so about the fact that Erdogan has turned former anti-Assad
rebels into mercenaries for Turkish geopolitical goals by sending them to
Libya to fight for the Libyan government, which is hardly their concern.
Neither side in Libya - the Turkish-backed government, nor the rebel LNA
based in the east, led by former Libyan general, then CIA-asset Haftar,
offer much that is substantially different to Libyans.

However, when weighing up, it is important to remember a couple of things:

Firstly, whatever one's view of the current Libyan government, it is a
product of local Libyan developments, long before the Turkish intervention,
and it is the internationally recognised government of Libya, holding its
UN seat, without any egregious war crimes to its name that would stain its
legitimacy in any major way; by contrast, the LNA is simply a regional
project led by Haftar that wants to violently overthrow the government
without offering anything better; and in its attacks on Tripoli, it has
committed war crimes such as the shelling of hospitals.

Second, while the Libyan government is backed by Turkey and Qatar, Haftar's
LNA is backed by a literal mug's gallery of the regional counterrevolution:
Russia, al-Sisi's Egyptian tyranny, the United Arab Emirates, the Saudis,
Israel and the Assad regime, while also receiving some support from France
and occasional encouraging words from Trump.

Part of the reason for such a varied reactionary united front is the
hostility of all these regimes to the regional Muslim Brotherhod, which
plays a role in the Libyan government (which however cannot be thought of
as in any way 'hard Islamist') and is backed regionally by Turkey and
Qatar. Egypt and the UAE view Turkey/Qatar/MB as their main regional
opponent, while Saudi Arabia sees them as its equal regional opponent
alongside Iran. This has led to a sharp pro-Assad alliance by Egypt/UAE and
a similar less sharp turn by the Saudis; all are strongly connected to
Russia as well as the US. For Israel, the MB means Hamas, and also see
Turkey/Qatar as its main supporters.

Another aspect of this great game is the struggle over control of east
Mediterranean gas supplies and its transport to Europe. This struggle pits
an Israel-Egypt-Cyprus-Greece alliance against Turkey's rival claims, which
it has tried to advance via the alliance with Libya. Interestingly though,
despite Russia being a leading part of the anti-Turkish alliance in Libya,
its Southstream gas project pumps Russian gas out into the Mediterranean
through Turkey! gets very complicated! Even more so when Russia has also
been involved in discussion with Israel about becoming part of its rival
gas project.
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[Marxism] Trump attacks black voting rights; defund, dismantle, reimagine policing (Green Left)

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https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/united-states-amid-mass-upsurge-trump-attacks-black-voting-rights

(By Barry Sheppard)

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https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/black-lives-matter-movement-demands-defund-dismantle-reimagine-policing

(By Malik Miah)

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[Marxism] Libya: Is Russia-Turkey conflict heightening over oil-rich Sirte? (Juan Cole)

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https://www.juancole.com/2020/06/russia-conflict-heightening.html

Not content with invading and occupying parts of Syria and Iraq, Erdogan is 
intervening in the Libyan civil war.
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Re: [Marxism] How to abolish the police: lessons from Rojava (Green Left)

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According to the book Revolution in Rojava, published in 2016:

"The base level is the commune.  In the cities, a commune usually encompasses 
30-200 households in a residential street, and in the countryside a whole 
village.  In the large cities of Heseke and Qamislo, a commune may consist of 
up to 500 households".  (P. 87)

The authors (Michael Knapp, Anja Flach and Ercan Ayboga) note that the system 
has evolved over time and will continue to do so.

Chris Slee




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How large and diverse are those neighborhoods? I do not imagine that a 
grandmother wielding an AK-47 and standing on any corner around here would 
inspire feelings of relief, calm, and thankfulness.
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[Marxism] Is the US a dictatorship?

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The flaws in US democracy are so great that it could easily be portrayed as a 
dictatorship, without making any false statements.  For example:

US dictator Donald Trump claims to have been elected democratically.  But these 
"elections" are fraudulent.

Trump's cronies at the state government level prevented millions of people, 
mainly poor and/or members of ethnic minorities, from voting - a practice known 
as voter suppression.

Despite this, Trump got less votes than his main rival.  Yet the electoral 
college, an institution established during the era of slavery, declared Trump 
the winner.

Trump's police carry out a reign of terror in ethnic minority areas, often 
shooting unarmed black people.

Protests against police murders have been met with rubber bullets, tear gas and 
mass arrests.

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While a bit one-sided, such a portrayal is much closer to the truth than the US 
government and media's portrayal of Venezuela as a dictatorship.

Chris Slee
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[Marxism] 50, 000 turn out for Black Lives Matter rally in Sydney (Green Left)

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https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/5-turn-out-black-lives-matter-rally-sydney

There have been large rallies in cities around Australia, in solidarity with 
the movement in the US, but also denouncing the deaths of Aboriginal people in 
police and prison custody in Australia.
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[Marxism] Turkey: more elected Kurdish mayors removed from office

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[Marxism] How to abolish the police: lessons from Rojava (Green Left)

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[Marxism] From United States to Australia: Black lives matter everywhere! (Green Left)

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[Marxism] The pandemic's India journey (Kavita Krishnan - Green Left)

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[Marxism] Venezuela in the 2020 pandemic

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https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/05/29/venezuela-in-the-2020-pandemic


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Re: [Marxism] Counterpunch keeps the nonsense on coming

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While Russia no doubt had some influence on the 2016 presidential election, 
other factors were more important.  The electoral college system enabled Trump 
to win even though he got less votes.  Voter suppression deprived millions of 
poor and minority voters of the right to vote.

The Democrats focus on Russia because they prefer to blame foreigners rather 
than look critically at the US political system.

Here in Australia we are always being warned about Chinese influence on our 
political system.  US influence is rarely discussed.  It is taken for granted 
as the natural state of affairs.

To take just one example, a large part of Australia's media is owned by a US 
company, News Corp (controlled by Rupert Murdoch).

The Australian ruling class generally does not see this as a problem.  
Australia is an ally of the US, and participates in US wars (e.g. Korea, 
Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq).

However the rise of China has led some ruling class figures to question this 
close relationship, favouring instead a more neutral attitude in the conflict 
beteeen the US and China.

Chris Slee



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Here we have Rob Urie continuing the nonsense about "Russiagate". Rob Urie
is one of those who is so obsessed with opposition to neoliberalism that he
is willing to indirectly support something even worse. (It's no accident
that he's also published in that extreme cospiracy theorist and Assad/Putin
supporting Mint Press News.) "Russiagate?" What "Russiagate"? You think
Putin & Co. didn't involve themselves in the last elections? Really? You
think Trump & Co. didn't encourage it? What was that meeting at Trump Tower
all about? Why did so many of Trump's staffers have contacts with Putin
representatives? Every imperialist power - including Russia - has its
preferred methods of influencing world affairs. It's now been shown that
Putin & Co. helped get Brexit passed. Here in the US, among other things,
they help racism along. Look up "blackstar". And, yes, Putin does have
"kompromat" over Trump. So, you think he wouldn't use it? That's like
thinking that a drug cartel doesn't use violence.
Here's an article of his in Counterpunch. Sure, maybe they have some good
stuff, but if they also publish such nonsense, How can they be taken
seriously?
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/05/22/why-russiagate-still-matters/?fbclid=IwAR2dnImcxBfnrZDnf-Eo5_bOFAnm_iWqkCDee7o49VbOuSuA52io86an5CU


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[Marxism] Water for Rojava (Green Left)

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https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/water-rojava

"While the world battles the COVID-19 pandemic, Turkish president Recep Tayyip 
Erdogan's right-wing government continues to attack the Kurdish-led Rojava 
Revolution, which has liberated north and east Syria. One of its weapons of war 
is water".

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Re: [Marxism] China’s Virus Vaccine Will Be Global Public Good, Xi Says - Bloomberg

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Despite widespread privatisation under Deng Xiaoping, China still has a fairly 
strong state sector of the economy. Probably this enables the government to be 
less concerned about the profits of drug companies and more concerned about 
China's image.

Despite Xi Jinping's benevolence in this case, China remains a capitalist, and 
increasingly imperialist, power:

http://links.org.au/revolution-capitalist-restoration-class-struggle-china

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Louis Proyect wrote

Still a tinge of Maoist red in China.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-18/china-s-virus-vaccine-will-be-global-public-good-xi-says?utm_content=asia

Maybe we're seeing the response of a society and economy that has until
now been on its way up and isn't floundering around trying to figure out
where all the brownie points went.

Last time we were in trouble globally, the Chinese government basically
rescued global capitalism with its gigantic post-2007-2009 stimulus
package, and as John Smith says "helped to fuel the rise in raw
materials costs that itself gave rise to speculative capital, and that
money was to be made by further boosting the price of raw materials" and
temporarily saving the economies of the raw materials-exporting poorer
countries.

Smith doesn't see how China will be able to exercise that option this
time around, and the countries of the global south will share in the
general debacle big-time, especially with the late and even more tragic
arrival in their countries of the full brunt of the corona virus, and as
northern investors continue to flee their markets.
Again quoting Smith, G20 "creditors are resisting calls altogether for a
voluntary standstill to loan repayments on commercial sovereign debt [in
the global south]. In other words, they are resisting even a
postponement of their debt payments...[according to Smith that includes
China among the G20 countries resisting relief to the poorer nations, by
the way. So that "tinge of Maoism," if Maoism really had that effect by
design on poorer nations and not extraction and exploitation of others
in Africa especially from the get-go, appears to be pretty thin. I was
in east Africa during the time of Mao when the Chinese were building
rail lines from the copper mines of Zambia to the seaports, constructing
roads and a bridge across the Nile through southern Sudan and its
petroleum deposits to the Red Sea, ass over teakettle, with cheap
African labor overseen by Chinese foremen and engineers]. All of the
full force of the economic crisis of the world and in their own
countries is going to be placed on the shoulders of the workers and the
farmers of these countries without any relief whatsoever. None whatsoever."
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[Marxism] Brisbane refugee rights protest - police arrest doctor, fine people

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Re: [Marxism] Outside Egypt, Critics Speak Freely. Inside, Families Pay the Price.

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There were reasons to protest, but the left certainly underestimated the danger 
that the army would use such protests as the pretext for a coup.

Chris Slee

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(The longer al-Sisi stays in office, the more foolish leftist protests
against the Muslim Brotherhood government appears.)

NY Times, May 15, 2020
Outside Egypt, Critics Speak Freely. Inside, Families Pay the Price.
By Declan Walsh

CAIRO — When a popular Egyptian blogger shared gruesome video of a
military officer severing the finger of an unidentified body and setting
the body on fire, it was some of the most shocking footage to emerge
from Sinai, where Egypt’s military has been battling Islamist militants
in a hidden war.

As an exiled dissident, Abdullah el-Sherif could afford to be bold
enough to broadcast the video in March. But days later, security agents
burst into the homes of his relatives in the seaside city of Alexandria
and arrested his two brothers on terrorism charges.

Now Mr. el-Sherif is in Qatar, safely beyond the reach of Egypt’s
security forces, while his brothers languish at a maximum-security
prison outside Cairo.

The Egyptian government, which has stifled nearly all criticism at home,
is now trying to silence critics abroad by jailing their family members
in Egypt, human rights groups say. Since early last year, it has
arrested the relatives of at least 15 dissidents in exile.

Security agents have broken down front doors, confiscated money and
passports, forced parents to denounce their children on television, and
detained fathers and brothers, several of whom have been charged with
terrorism and imprisoned.

“It’s nothing less than collective punishment,” said Amr Magdi of Human
Rights Watch, which since 2016 has documented raids on the families of
14 exiled dissidents. At least 20 relatives have been detained or
prosecuted.

Mr. el-Sherif, whose YouTube videos often amass two or three million
views, said Egyptian officials told him that if he stopped his critical
broadcasts, his brothers would be released.

“I feel really bad,” he said. “I’ve lost my appetite. My mother and
father call all the time, crying on the phone, asking me to quit. I
don’t know what to do.”

The head of Egypt’s State Information Service did not respond to a
request for comment.

Egypt’s rulers have long employed such tactics against the families of
suspected drug traffickers and jihadists. But as President Abdel Fattah
el-Sisi has cranked up the repression in recent years, he has broadened
his focus to target the families of exiled dissidents, journalists and
cultural figures.

One recent case involved an exiled actor, Mohammed Shuman, who delivered
an emotional appeal on Facebook from Turkey for the release of his
brother and his son who, he said, had been jailed in retaliation for his
role in a movie that highlighted police brutality.

Inside Egypt, Mr. el-Sisi jailed opponents and largely subjugated the
news media. His intelligence services have acquired stakes in the
largest private TV networks, blocked over 500 websites and even censored
the scripts of the highly popular TV serials that Egyptians are
currently lapping up during the holy month of Ramadan.

But his iron grip on Egyptian media may have inadvertently helped raise
the profile of news outlets and bloggers based abroad.

Egypt’s nominally independent private TV stations all offer similar,
pro-state news and commentary. Talk show hosts seem to sing from the
same hymnal. News bulletins can have a whiff of Soviet-era control,
while government critics are branded as agents of the outlawed Muslim
Brotherhood, or stooges of rival Qatar.

When the Muslim Brotherhood leader, Mohamed Morsi, died in June, every
Egyptian TV station led with the same 42-word bulletin, evidently
dictated by the security agencies.

Egyptian viewers, bored with the homogeneous programming or in search of
unfiltered news, are increasingly turning to foreign media as an
alternative.

In addition to YouTube channels like Mr. el-Sherif’s, there is anecdotal
evidence that many Egyptians quietly tune into opposition TV stations
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[Marxism] Mercenaries, pandemic and riots in Venezuela: a grassroots perspective

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Re: [Marxism] Webinar this Saturday - : SHINING THE LIGHT ON CUBA'S MEDICAL SOLIDARITY

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My understanding is that the poorest countries don't have to pay anything, 
while richer countries pay on a sliding scale.

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David Duport asks
Cuba still charges host countries for these medical missions, right?

I can’t say that I know all the facts.  It would make sense if some countries 
did pay.  The item below suggests otherwise.
ken h

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_medical_internationalism 


Cuban medical internationalism
Missions abroad are intended to provide services at low cost to the host 
country. "Patients are not charged for services, and the recipient countries 
are expected to cover only the cost of collective housing, air fare, and 
limited food and supplies not exceeding $200 a month. While Cuban doctors are 
abroad, they continue to receive their salaries as well as a stipend in foreign 
currency."[2] 

 In 2008, the pay for Cuban doctors abroad was $183 per month, whereas the pay 
for doctors working domestically was $23 per month.[20] 

 A new term - "disaster tourism" - has arisen in response to a growing number 
of large-scale natural disasters. This phrase refers to individuals, 
governments and organizations who travel to a disaster area with the primary 
goal of having an "experience" rather than providing meaningful aid. Such aid 
is often short-lived, and may even get in the way of more serious rescue 
efforts. Cuban medical internationalism represents a polar opposite to this 
disaster tourism mentality, with a focus on large-scale, sustained aid 
targeting the most marginalized and under-served populations across the globe
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[Marxism] Planet of the humans: a muddy cocktail of valid criticisms, disinformation and defeatism (Green Left)

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[Marxism] Bolivia vs Venezuela: COVID-19 response reveals true nature of governments (Green Left)

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[Marxism] Cuba's Unique Model of Medical Internationalism

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 2075 ... April 28, 2020
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Cuba's Unique Model of Medical 
Internationalism
In recent weeks, more than a dozen countries -- including two in Europe -- have 
requested and received Cuban doctors to cope with the Coronavirus pandemic.

John Kirk, a professor at the Latin America program of Dalhousie University in 
Nova Scotia, is author of Healthcare Without Borders and one of the foremost 
experts on Cuba’s medical internationalism. Ten years ago, he spent two months 
embedded with Cuba’s Henry Reeve medical emergency brigade in El Salvador after 
a hurricane, to observe them. In all he has interviewed 270 Cuban doctors and 
nurses during the course of his research. John Kirk was interviewed by Cuba 
Standard.
Cuba Standard (CS): What is the Henry Reeve Brigade?

John Kirk (JK): The Henry Reeve Brigade was formed in 2005. Responding to the 
massive problems in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Cuba offered 1,400 medical 
personnel and 32 tons of medicine to help in New Orleans, which was refused by 
the George W. Bush administration. Shortly afterwards, there was a major health 
problem in the Kashmir area of Pakistan after an earthquake. Cuba formed the 
brigade in response, and named it after an American who fought in the first war 
of independence, 1868-1878, against Spanish colonialism.

Since 2005, the Henry Reeve Brigade has been involved in all kinds of natural 
medical emergencies. This is a brigade of several thousand specially-trained 
doctors, nurses and technicians who go to natural emergencies, whether it be 
earthquakes, hurricanes or epidemics. They have been involved in emergencies in 
16 countries, and counting. As a result of the Coronavirus pandemic they have 
sent medical brigades to 16 countries. No. 15 was Trinidad and Tobago; the 
British Virgin Islands were the latest.
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[Marxism] How Chinese authorities and the WHO handled the coronavirus (Counterpunch)

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Trump is trying to distract attention from his own failure to prepare for the 
impact of the coronavirus on the US by blaming China and the World Health 
Organisation.

I am not a supporter of the Chinese government. I regard China as a capitalist 
state which is increasingly becoming an imperialist power:

http://links.org.au/node/2349

But in this case, the criticism of China is largely unjustified, as shown in a 
series of articles by Vijay Prashad and others (see below).

Chris Slee


https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/04/08/how-china-learned-about-sars-cov-2-in-the-weeks-before-the-global-pandemic


https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/04/15/how-china-broke-the-chain-of-infection


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[Marxism] Despite the siege, Venezuela controls the coronavirus (Maria Paez Victor, Counterpunch)

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[Marxism] Venezuela faces covid-19 (interview with Maduro)

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[Marxism] Fw: Articles from the Philippine Left: Ang Masa para sa Sosyalismo -- Building the Philippine Socialist Movement Today

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Emerging Cracks Within the Duterte Faction, by Sonny Melencio
https://angmasa.org/2020/04/04/emerging-cracks-within-the-duterte-factions/--

For Socialist Solutions to the Capitalist Crisis, by Reihana Mohideen
https://angmasa.org/2020/04/06/for-socialist-solutions-to-the-capitalist-crises/

Press Statement from the Freedom from Debt Coalition
https://angmasa.org/2020/04/18/freedom-from-debt-coalition/

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[Marxism] Fw: Colombia, the Oligarchs and Washington

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 2064 ... April 20, 2020
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Colombia, the Oligarchs and Washington
Vijay Prashad, Paola Estrada, Ana Maldonado and Zoe PC
Last year, on November 21, the Colombian people took to the streets in massive 
numbers to reject the policies of the government led by President Iván Duque. 
In particular, the people called on the government to withdraw two policies.

First, the people wanted the right-wing government of Duque to advance the 2016 
peace accords between the government and the left-wing FARC (Revolutionary 
Armed Forces of Colombia). These accords, negotiated in good faith, would have 
ended a war that has lasted for six decades; 70 per cent of Colombian society 
has been born during this war.

Second, the people wanted to end the harsh austerity policies driven by Duque’s 
government, which includes cuts to public universities, cuts to the pension 
system, and cuts against broad social spending. The main trade union federation 
-- Central Trade Union of Workers in Colombia (CUT) -- called for that protest, 
which then broadened into a mass uprising against Duque and the system of 
Colombian politics.

The general secretary of CUT and spokesperson of the People’s Congress, Edgar 
Mojica, was on the barricades daily, helping shape the mass upsurge that 
suggested that Colombian society no longer wanted to be held hostage to the 
whims of its sclerotic oligarchy and to the United States government. This was 
the mood. It was clear in the slogans and graffiti that emerged in Bogotá, the 
capital of Colombia, and then outwards to its smaller cities and towns.3
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[Marxism] Historical Lessons of the Syrian Revolution: A CRITICAL BALANCE SHEET (Joseph Daher)

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From: Alliance of Middle Eastern Socialists 
Sent: Sunday, 19 April 2020 9:20:21 PM

Hello ,
We have published a new article on our website. Historical Lessons of the 
Syrian Revolution: A CRITICAL BALANCE SHEET
Article first published on the website Spectre Journal
More than 9 years after the beginning of the Syrian uprising, the situation is 
more than catastrophic for the popular classes in the country. It is facing a 
deep humanitarian crisis with 11.7 million persons in need of humanitarian 
assistance, while more than …
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Re: [Marxism] LINKS publishes pro-Assad tankie

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The bulk of the article is an informative account of the media war against Cuba.

There are also some comments on Syria, China etc that are wrong, but these are 
peripheral to the main theme of the article.

Links does not aspire to complete unanimity amongst its contributors.

Chris Slee

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LINKS international journal of socialist renewal http://links.org.au/
has published a book review of Keith Bolender’s "Manufacturing the
Enemy: The Media War Against Cuba: A case study of corporate media
disinformation"  published last year by Pluto Press.
http://links.org.au/keith-bolender-manufacturing-the-enemy-the-media-war-against-cuba

The reviewer is Stansfield Smith, an active pro-Assad tankie in the
U.S.  In order to spread his views from this platform, Smith disagrees
with the author under review:
"We should never underestimate the shrewdness of US disinformation,
with has affected Bolender to a degree. For example, Bolender
describes USAID’s Zunzuneo project as analogous to Russian social
media operations in 2016 (p.188). In reality, this entire Russiagate
story itself was a disinformation campaign. Bolender again falls for
corporate media disinformation by calling the US-NATO war on Syria a
“civil war” (p.6). We can be quite knowledgeable about some
disinformation campaigns, but even the most astute among us can be
taken in by others."

Smith recommends Bolender's exposure of numerous U.S. government and
media lies but apparently is disappointed that Bolender does not help
him spread Assadist propaganda.

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[Marxism] Victorian police crack down on refugee rights campaigners (Green Left)

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[Marxism] Coronvirus carrier: USS Theodore Roosevelt in Guam (Nic Maclellan)

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[Marxism] Venezuela: community organisation key to fighting COVID-19 (Green Left)

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[Marxism] Syria faces COVID-19 threat (Green Left)

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[Marxism] Socialist Alliance COVID-19 action plan (Green Left)

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[Marxism] US politicians and media support lifting sanctions on Iran due to COVID-19, but not Venezuela (Steve Ellner)

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Re: [Marxism] Howie Hawkins statement on COVID-19

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Howie, have you issued any statements on the US economic blockades against 
countries such as Cuba, Venezuela and Iran? These blockades affect the ability 
of these countries to obtain medicines and medical equipment, amongst many 
other things, and hence their ability to combat COVID-19.

Chris Slee

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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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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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> > 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.
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> 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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[Marxism] Demand mass testing, shutdowns, guarantee wages and livelihoods - Socialist Alliance [Australia]

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[Marxism] Venezuela: combating Covid 19 through solidarity (Green Left)

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[Marxism] Beyond chutzpah: US charges Venezuela with narco-terrorism (Counterpunch)

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[Marxism] Venezuela's coronavirus response might surprise you (Common Dreams)

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[Marxism] People of Rojava left to fight Covid-19 alone (Green Left)

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[Marxism] [UCE] Socialist Party of Malaysia: dangerous myth of "mitigation" of covid-19 (Links)

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[Marxism] Fw: Coronavirus: the hammer and the dance (Tomas Pueyo)

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A very detailed article explaining how China, South Korea etc have brought the 
outbreak under control.

Their strategies include mass testing and contact tracing, among others.

https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-the-hammer-and-the-dance-be9337092b56.
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Re: [Marxism] Italian & German mortality rates

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An article by Sarah Newey in the Telegraph cites several factors, including 
high rates of air pollution in northern Italy, high rates of smoking, and the 
high proportion of old people (Italy has the second oldest population in the 
world, and 87 percent of deaths are patients over 70 years old).

Staffing levels in hospitals are inadequate.

But there is also an issue in recording the cause of death.  In Italy all who 
die in hospital with the virus are assumed to be dying as a result of the 
virus, though most of them also have at least one other disease.

Chris Slee

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I was just checking the latest mortality statistics. According to the site
below, the mortality rate of those counted is a massive 8.3% in Italy,
while it's a minuscule 0.28% in Germany. Presumably a large part of that
difference is due to Italy having missed thousands of cases, thus having
reduced the total number. But that massive of a difference? Does anybody
have any idea how to explain it?

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2kuIKZC6pBYubhUdS_M-Rsp3OOwZ9b0mHCzgLD-dTr64gAhBMR-vI34ss#countries

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[Marxism] IMF refuses aid to Venezuela in the midst of coronavirus crisis (counterpunch)

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[Marxism] Syria: Shaky ceasefire in Idlib (Green Left)

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Re: [Marxism] "personal distancing plus social solidarity" Re: Fwd: [pen-l] If we want everyone to stay home during a coronavirus crisis, we need deep change to make that possible

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I agree that policies adopted by governments in response to the coronavirus 
will have an adverse effect on popular struggles.  In Australia, planned 
nationwide demonstrations for refugee rights on April 5 have been called off 
(at least in Melbourne and Brisbane, and probably elsewhere).

An atomised population, staying at home and not taking any collective action, 
is ideal for authoritarian governments.

It is uncertain how long this situation will continue.  Some reports have said 
it will take a year or two to develop a vaccine.  Will there be no 
demonstrations or mass meetings for two years?

Is such a ban actually necessary to prevent the spread of the the virus.  Would 
it be sufficient to urge people not to come if they are sick or in close 
contact with a sick person, and not to have physical contact with other people 
they meet at the event, e.g. shaking hands?

Are there any alternative forms of struggle?

Chris Slee


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Dear Louis,

you might have misunderstood want I meant (or I expressed myself badly).

1) Obviously no one should feel obligated to go on the streets. Everyone
should be free to stay home. It is necessary to employ a service for
people who stay at home. Naturally, we are also in favour of quarantin
meassures for people who are infected (in addition to mass and free
testing etc.).

2) In general it is important to take precautions on health issues. But
this has been also the case in all the last years when there were
influenza epidemic. As you certainly know this has also caused many
vicitims. (152,000 in Europe in the saison 2017/18 alone) Did anyone
call for a mass lockdown at that time? Of course, not!

3) How shall we fight for a better health care system? By staying home?
Hardly! No, by mass actions. For this people (those without health
risks) need to gon on the streets.

4) Finally, do you really think the rulers in China, Europe, etc. impose
mass lockdowns and ban demonstrations because they are concerned about
health? If so, why did they not do it in all the years before when
influenza struck?! Don't you think that there is a connection between
the policy of mass lockdown, the current economic slump (which is of
1929-33 proportions) and the fact that the world has seen the largest
rise of mass protests in 2019 - at least since 1945?! (See for this our
article on a new study:
https://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/global/confirmation-of-revolutionary-character-of-historic-period/)

Please be assured that I wish you a long life!

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> On 3/17/20 7:34 AM, RKOB via Marxism wrote:
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>>
>> In short, South Korea has certainly dealt best with the crisis and
>> without a mass lock down. Mass and free testing and health care is
>> crucial.
>
> Well, this is not South Korea here in NYC. I am fucking 75 years old
> and had bronchitis lasting a month last October. If it was up to me,
> there would be a strict curfew after 8pm. The rules being enforced
> right now are not an impediment to workers militias or a general
> strike. Instead, it is the backwardness of the working-class. Maybe
> the economic collapse and the realization that pandemics are a product
> of capitalist contradictions will change that but in the meantime, I
> want to live and write until I croak about 10 years from
> now--hopefully in my sleep.
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Re: [Marxism] Characteristic Supporters of the Kurdish YPG

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The SDF was reportedly receiving aid worth $300 million per year from the US 
(now cut to $200 million).  This was in the context of the war against ISIS.

By comparison, the Turkish military budget is $19 billion.

Even if US allies like Saudi Arabia make up for the cut to direct US aid, the 
resources of the SDF will still be tiny compared to those of Turkey, which has 
the military aircraft, tanks, drones, etc.

When Turkey invaded Afrin, the US did nothing to stop the invasion.  The US was 
only interested in suppressing ISIS, not helping the SDF against Turkey.

Last year Turkey invaded a strip of land in northeastern Syria.  Currently the 
Turkish army is focusing on Idlib, but if the ceasefire there holds I expect a 
stepped up invasion of the northeast.

Chris Slee

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So does this mean you deny the support of the dictatorships of Saudi
Arabia, Egypt and UAE for the YPG?

We have already demonstarted this support in other articles. This is
simply undenyable!

https://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/africa-and-middle-east/shameful-alliance-of-saudi-monarchy-and-ypg-in-syria/

And if 200 or 300 millions US-Dollar from the Pentagon for the YPG/SDF
every year (!) is insignificant, I wonder what is significant! And these
are only the official figures from the U.S. army!

https://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/africa-and-middle-east/syria-how-much-does-the-pentagon-pay-for-the-ypg/



Am 14.03.2020 um 22:34 schrieb Chris Slee:
> Michael Probsting quotes an article in Middle East Eye, which in turn
> quotes an article in al-Araby al-Jadeed (the New Arab), which in turn
> quotes "unnamed Egyptian sources" talking about "major military
> assistance" to the SDF from Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
>
> According to Wikipedia, al-Araby al-Jadeed is owned by Fadaat Media
> Ltd, a Qatar-based company.  Given Qatar's close links with Turkey, I
> would expect a Qatar-based company to be supportive of Turkey, and
> hence hostile to the SDF.
>
> Hence I don't regard this report as reliable.
>
> Whatever small amount of assistance the SDF has got from the US and
> its allies is insignificant compared to the strength of the invading
> Turkish army, which has both NATO-supplied and locally manufactured
> weapons.
>
> Chris Slee
> 
> *From:* Marxism  on behalf of
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> Characteristic Supporters of the Kurdish YPG
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> Arab dictatorships increase their support for the foot soldiers of U.S.
> imperialism in Syria
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> By Michael Pröbsting, 14 March 2020
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Michael Probsting quotes an article in Middle East Eye, which in turn quotes an 
article in al-Araby al-Jadeed (the New Arab), which in turn quotes "unnamed 
Egyptian sources" talking about "major military assistance" to the SDF from 
Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the UAE.

According to Wikipedia, al-Araby al-Jadeed is owned by Fadaat Media Ltd, a 
Qatar-based company.  Given Qatar's close links with Turkey, I would expect a 
Qatar-based company to be supportive of Turkey, and hence hostile to the SDF.

Hence I don't regard this report as reliable.

Whatever small amount of assistance the SDF has got from the US and its allies 
is insignificant compared to the strength of the invading Turkish army, which 
has both NATO-supplied and locally manufactured weapons.

Chris Slee

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Characteristic Supporters of the Kurdish YPG

Arab dictatorships increase their support for the foot soldiers of U.S.
imperialism in Syria

By Michael Pröbsting, 14 March 2020

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Re: [Marxism] Erdogan’s imperial play comes undone

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I don't agree that "...Erdogan is defending the remnants of the Syrian 
democratic revolution".

Within Idlib province, the democratic revolution had largely been destroyed by 
reactionary groups, some of which are backed by Turkey, even before Assad's 
recent offensive.

For example, one of the centres of the revolution was the town of Saraqib. But 
democratic forces there came under attack from a series of reactionary groups, 
and eventually had to leave the town. A February 10 article on the Guardian 
website quotes a democratic activist, Odai al-Hussein, who said:

"We wanted a free Syria for all Syrians but they [the reactionary groups] 
wanted an Islamic state. We continued against all the odds: we challenged the 
[Assad] regime, Ahrar al-Sham, Islamic State and al-Nusra. In the end the 
jihadists took over, but we left our city with dignity knowing how much we 
endured to keep Saraqib free".

I am sure there are still people struggling for democracy in Idlib, but I don't 
think Turkey will help them.  It will repress them in the areas it controls.

The democratic revolution survives in north-eastern Syria, under very difficult 
circumstances. 
But Turkey, through its invasion of Afrin and now its invasion of northeastern 
Syria, is trying to suppress it.

The term "sub-imperialist" seems applicable to Turkey, which "plays an 
imperialist-like role regionally".  It intervenes militarily in Syria and Iraq, 
has bases in Qatar and Somalia, and has sent a contingent of Syrian mercenaries 
to Libya.

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Sub-imperialism is a valid and important concept. Callinicos is right that it 
was introduced by Marini with regard to Brazil, and it has been extended by 
Patrick Bond and others to South Africa. In the Middle East it might well apply 
to Iran and Turkey. As I read him, Marini regards a state as sub-imperialist if 
it is not imperialist on the world scale (it remains exploited by the 
imperialist powers) but plays an imperialist-like role regionally.
Callinicos has abused the term by applying it over-widely and ignoring the 
“sub” aspect. His tendency, for example, labeled Argentina sub-imperialist in 
order to avoid taking sides against Britain in the Malvinas/Falklands war in 
1982. In effect the IST treated the war as an inter-imperialist conflict. They 
seem to be doing the same to avoid taking the side of Turkey against Russia, to 
the extent that for his own reasons and for the moment Erdogan is defending the 
remnants of the Syrian democratic revolution.
The RKOB is right about Callinicos. But his misuse of the term doesn’t mean 
that sub-imperialism has to be confusing.

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[Marxism] Escalating war in Idlib creates new refugee crisis (Green Left)

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Re: [Marxism] Syria: Slaughter in Idlib (re: How Much Does the Pentagon Pay for the YPG?)

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Michael, can you send a link to this article on Saraqeb.

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On Saraqeb this is a quote from the article Gilbert sent:

“We wanted a free Syria for all Syrians but they wanted an Islamic state.
We continued against all the odds: we challenged the regime, Ahrar al-Sham,
Islamic State and al-Nusra. In the end the jihadists took over but we left
our city with dignity knowing how much we endured to keep Saraqeb free.”
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Re: [Marxism] Syria: Slaughter in Idlib (re: How Much Does the Pentagon Pay for the YPG?)

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Michael Karadjis says: "the  US has lent its airforce to the YPG/SDF for years".

But the US has "lent" its airforce only to fight ISIS, not to resist the 
Turkish invasion of northern Syria.  The limited military supplies which the US 
has given to the SDF are no match for NATO-armed Turkey.

Michael says:  "...several weeks ago Chris sent a GLW article to
the list, written, sadly, by himself (I expected better of Chris), which
said, in the context of this horrific slaughter going on, that the only
resistance to evil in Syria is of course "Rojava", while the "conflict" in
Idlib is between two bad sides".

The relevant paragraph from my article reads:

"The strongest armed group in Idlib today is Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, a very 
reactionary group with a history of persecuting religious minorities. Thus the 
war in Idlib is now a conflict between what academic Gilbert Achcar calls 'two 
counter-revolutionary poles' ".

https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/northern-syrias-two-wars

Michael is right to point out that there are still people in Idlib struggling 
for democracy, who have "resisted HTS even as they fought off Assad". It is a 
deficiency of my article that I did not make this point.

Michael says:  "...humanity requires we
give TOTAL support to any military action by Turkey, in support of the
independent rebel groups there, to resist Assad's genocidal attacks and his
regime's complete reconquest of the region".

Probably most people in Idlib would prefer to be under Turkish protection than 
under Assad's rule.  Such protection, if it continues, would develop into 
military occupation, and would be very oppressive.  But still, most people in 
Idlib would probably regard it as a lesser evil.

People in some other parts of Syria have a different view of who is the lesser 
evil.  Kurds and religious minorities tend to view Turkey as a greater evil.  
Hence the acceptance of some Assad regime troops and Russian troops in 
northeastern Syria as a deterrent to the further expansion of the 
Turkish-occupied area.

Chris Slee

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I don't agree that the YPG/SDF are mercenaries, Chris is right that they
fight their own fight which just happens, for years and years, to be in
full agreement with US aims in Syria, though at times it also corresponds
to Russian aims. It's no use arguing about how many hundreds of millions of
dollars: the US has lent its airforce to the YPG/SDF for years, as entire
cities were obliterated. It's simply hilarious that some western YPG
cheerleaders still play "anti-imperialism" and call the Syrian rebels
"US-backed" etc, while of course the US never flew a single plane for any
rebel group, and actively blocked them from getting manpads to shoot down
Assad planes. While Assad has bombed everywhere in Syria probably 100s of
1000s of times over 8 years, the one and only time the US ever shot down an
Assadist warplanes in all these years was when Assad tried to attack the
US's SDF allies.



Of course, all this alliance of interests with US and/or Russia could
conceivably be a long coincidence, but I don't think it can be analysed
outside of the arch-opportunist politics of the PYD leadership. As Louis
said, its fundamental problem was that it refused, from day 1, to join the
revolution against Assad, to even attempt to seek out alliances.



This is now a bigger problem: can Chris find us any statement in which the
PYD/YPG/SDF declares some kind of human solidarity with the people of Idlib
and northwest Syria as they are facing this genocidal slaughter by Assad
and Russia? Of course the answer is no. And even worse are their western
cheerleaders. For example, several weeks ago Chris sent a GLW article to
the list, written, sadly, by himself (I expected better of Chris), which
said, in the context of this horrific slaughter going on, that the only
resistance to evil in Syria is of course "Rojava", while the "conflict" in
Idlib is between two bad sides. That was an appalling article. Mind you, it
was written before Assad's recent reconquest of all the great revolutionary
cities and towns: Maraat al-Nuuman, Saraqeb, 

Re: [Marxism] Syria: How Much Does the Pentagon Pay for the YPG?

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1. Whether or not you call Turkey an imperialist country, it is occupying 
Syrian territory.  The SDF is resisting the occupation.

Turkey is also intervenening militarily in northern Iraq.

Erdogan has wider ambitions.  There are Turkish bases in Qatar and Somalia.  
Turkey has sent a contingent of Syrian mercenaries to Libya.

2. I don't know how much aid Turkey gives to Syrian rebel groups.  I suspect 
the total is probably higher than US aid to the SDF, but this is just a guess.

3. The SDF is multi-ethnic, and resists the Turkish invasion and occupation of 
Afrin and northeastern Syria on behalf of people from all ethnic groups.

4. The SDF does not fight "under the command" of US imperialism.

5. Turkish troops began moving into the greater Idlib area in late 2017, 
shortly before Turkey's invasion of Afrin.  One of the goals was to ensure that 
Turkey controlled the southern border of Afrin, in preparation for the invasion.

Of course, this was just part of a broader deal between Russia and Turkey.  But 
from Erdogan's point of view, the green light for the invasion of Afrin was the 
main result of the deal.

Today the situation is different.  Turkish troops are fighting alongside rebel 
groups to prevent Assad gaining control of the whole of Idlib.

Chris Slee

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There are several problems with the reply of Chris Slee.

1) He seems not to be able to differentiate between the U.S. and Turkey.
Marxists differentiate between imperialist and non-imperialist states.
The U.S. is – until now – the biggest Great Power in the world. Turkey
is not even imperialist. And even if one subscribes to the idea of
“sub-imperialism” there is still a qualitative difference between the
U.S. and Turkey. Unfortunately Chris Slee / SA /GLW have replaced
Marxism with the petty-bourgeois YPG outlook according to which Turkey
is the worst enemy in the region.

2) Chris Slee says that the YPG/SDF “receives some aid from the US”.
This is an extraordinary diplomatic description of the fact that this
organization receives annually several hundreds of millions of US-Dollar
since several years! None of the Syrian rebel factions – even not the
most corrupted ones – has received such regular paid sums until now!

3) Add to this that the YPG/SDF occupies large areas with Arab majority
population, i.e. it is a reactionary occupation force in the service of
the U.S.

4) We have repeatedly said (and denounced) that some rebel factions act
as mercenaries for Turkey (like those in Afrin or Northeast Syria). This
is because they are paid and fight under the command of Turkey – like
the YPG does for U.S. imperialism.

5) The situation in Idlib has been different. Turkey (and its allies)
have orientated towards deals with Russian imperialism (Astana and
Sochi). The majority of the rebels controlling Idlib have refused this.
This is why the war continues. Yes, this can change in the future. But
it is not the situation until now. Turkey has not intervened into the
war in Idlib until one or two weeks ago. To say that they are
controlling the situation in Idlib would be a cynical caricature of the
reality. They have just now intervened for the first time in the
fighting in Nayrab.

In conclusion, one can not exclude the possibility that in the future
the situation might change. The alliance of Turkey and Russia could
break down, an open and full warfare between Turkey and Russia/Assad
could start (i.e. not only sporadic clashes as it is now) and in such a
situation the majority of the rebels could subordinate themselves under
the Turkish command. As we have said in the past, if such a fundamental
turn in the situation takes place, revolutionary tactics have also to
change.

However, I consider such a possibility as unlikely. I think this could
only take place if the U.S. would be willing to fully support
(economically, financially, military, etc.) Turkey against Russia and
hence there would be a realignment between Ankara and Washington. There
are no serious indications for this as it would mean a complete turn in
the U.S. strategy for the Middle East. But, as I said, it can not be
excluded.

In any case, 

Re: [Marxism] Sanders's "turnout" strategy not working

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Countering redbaiting should be combined with exposing the crimes of US 
imperialism.  For example, the problems of Cuba and Venezuela are largely due 
to the US economic blockades against those countries.  Sanders may not be 
willing to say this, but  it needs to be said.

Chris Slee

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This whole focus on turnout in the primaries ignores one major fact ---
MANY democrats DON'T CARE who is nominated --- they want to beat Trump and
will come out to vote against him.   How else to explain the record
turnouts in 2018?

The most important thing we can do is to counter the rising tide of
anti-Sanders red-baiting.  I was unfortunate enough to be stuck in an
automobile dealer's waiting room while my car was serviced.  As in too many
public places, the TV was turned to Trump-TV (alias Fox) --- and the were
going on and on about Bernie supporting Castro and Venezuela and how
horrible those countries are ---

That's Trump's playbook and it is worth fighting against ---



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Re: [Marxism] Syria: How Much Does the Pentagon Pay for the YPG?

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Because the Syrian Democratic Forces receive some aid from the US, Michael 
Probsting claims they are "mercenaries for US imperialism".  He says that "US 
imperialism controls the eastern part of Syria".

If he were to apply the same logic to Idlib province, he would say that Turkey 
controls most of Idlib, and that the rebels there are mercenaries for Turkey.

Turkey has aided rebel groups in Idlib since 2011.  It began stationing troops 
there in 2017.  But this has increased dramatically recently.

According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, 2,850 Turkish trucks and 
military vehicles crossed into Syrian territory between February 2 and February 
24.  7,600 Turkish troops deployed to Idlib and Aleppo provinces.  The number 
of Turkish military posts rose to 43:

http://www.syriahr.com/en/?p=155721

This greatly exceeds the US presence in northeastern Syria.  Yet Probsting 
still talks of "the popular uprising in Syria", presumably referring to the 
rebels in Idlib.  The fact that these rebels are allied with Turkey against 
Assad does not lead him to call them mercenaries.

The fact that a group receives outside aid does not automatically make it a 
"mercenary".  I would not condemn a rebel group solely for receiving aid from 
Turkey to fight against the Assad regime.  

But Turkish aid has been used as a means of coopting rebel groups.  Those who 
joined Turkey in its invasions of Afrin and northeastern Syria have become 
mercenaries.

The SDF is fighting against ISIS because ISIS is a reactionary organisation, 
which oppresses women and religious minorities.  The US is fighting ISIS for 
its own reasons.  The fact that there is cooperation against a common enemy 
does not make the SDF mercenaries.

This does not mean that such cooperation is without problems and dangers.  The 
cooption of some Syrian rebel groups by Turkey shows the dangers.

Chris Slee

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[Marxism] Syria: Refugee crisis as Assad's forces advance

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[Marxism] Bolivia: An Election in the Midst of an Ongoing Coup (Vijay Prashad)

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~~~ T h e B u l l e t ~~~
A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1999 ... February 14, 2020
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Bolivia: An Election in the Midst of an Ongoing 
Coup
Vijay Prashad
On May 3, 2020, the Bolivian people will go to the polls once more. They return 
there because President Evo Morales had been overthrown in a coup in November 
2019. Morales had just won a presidential election in October for a term that 
would have begun in January 2020. Based on a preliminary investigation by the 
Organization of American States (OAS) that claimed that there was fraud in the 
election, Morales was prematurely removed from office; the term for his 2014 
presidential election victory did not end until January. Yet, he was told by 
the military to leave office. An interim president -- Jeanine Áñez -- appointed 
herself. She said she was taking this office only on an interim basis and would 
not run for election when Bolivia held another election. She is a candidate for 
the May 3 election.

Meanwhile, Morales has been in exile in Argentina. His party -- the Movement 
for Socialism (MAS) -- has candidates for the presidency and the vice 
presidency, but their party cadres and followers are facing a difficult time 
making their case to the people. Their radio stations have been blocked, their 
leaders arrested or exiled (or sitting in foreign embassies waiting for 
asylum), their cadre beaten up and intimidated.

The United Nations secretary-general’s personal envoy Jean Arnault released a 
statement on February 3 that expressed caution about the elections. The 
situation in Bolivia, Arnault said, is "characterized by an exacerbated 
polarization and mixed feelings of hope, but also of uncertainty, restlessness 
and resentment after the serious political and social crisis of last year." 
This careful language of the UN needs to be looked at closely. When Arnault 
says there is "exacerbated polarization," he means that the situation is 
extremely tense. When he asks that the interim government "outlaw hate speech 
and direct or indirect incitement to violence or discrimination," he means that 
the government and its far-right followers need to be very careful about what 
they say and how much violence they use in this election.
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[Marxism] Solidarity activists report on visit to Venezuela (Green Left)

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[Marxism] Fw: Northern Syria's two wars (Green Left)

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Re: [Marxism] Bernie's last dance with the Dems

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Referring to the US economic blockade of Venezuela, John Reimann says: "of 
course I oppose it".  But he does not seem to give the task of opposing the 
blockade a high priority.  Denouncing Maduro seems more important.

It is essential to educate the US working class about the crimes of US 
imperialism around the world.  Waging economic war against Venezuela one of 
those crimes.

I disagree with John's assertion that "the economic collapse started well 
before the US blockade".

It is true that there have been serious economic problems in Venezuela for a 
number of years, partly due to the government's mistakes.  But these problems 
became much more severe as the US economic warfare against Venezuela 
intensified.

The inability to obtain spare parts for equipment used in a wide range of 
industries including oil, road transport and fishing would have created severe 
problems for any government, no matter how competent.

Cuba had the Soviet Union to help it survive the US economic blockade during 
its first 3 decades.  Putin's Russia is not an adequate substitute.

Opposing the economic warfare of the US against the Cuban and Venezuelan 
revolutions is a crucial task for the US left.

Has Bernie Sanders said anything about the blockade of Venezuela?  Or the 
blockade of Cuba?

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As far as the NYT article and Maduro:

In the first place, the economic collapse started well before the US
blockade. In the second place, the article shows the luxurious lifestyle of
the Bolibourgeoisie that is encouraged by the economic policies of Maduro.
Of course, it only shows part of those policies, not the wage cuts that
Maduro is responsible for. True, the article doesn't show Maduro for the
authoritarian that he is, but when you have such luxury amidst massive
poverty, and when you have massive government corruption as well as
economic policies that help drive both the poverty as well as the wealth of
the bolibourgeoisie, you would have to have authoritarianism.

As far as opposing the US blockade - of course I oppose it, but my comment
was in response to what Kavanagh wrote, and his view is the common one on
the left - blind support for Maduro. We should contrast that approach to
that of Trotsky, who always opposed capitalist intervention into the Soviet
Union but didn't allow that opposition to stop him for one moment in
condemning the Stalinist bureaucracy. Unfortunately, all too much of the
left has abandoned that approach, and capitalism has not even been
overthrown in Venezuela! Instead, what we see is a repetition of the
approach of the supporters of Stalin - blind denial of what is really
happening in Venezuela.

John Reimann

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Re: [Marxism] Bernie's last dance with the Dems

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The New York Times article does not show that Maduro is a dictator.  What it 
shows is that the ruthless US economic blockade has been effective.  It has 
forced Maduro to make concessions to the capitalist class.

Whether it has totally destroyed the revolution is less clear.  For a different 
view, see:

https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/01/29/venezuela-january-2020-hardship-and-resistance/


For socialists in the US and its allies such as Australia, our main emphasis 
should be on opposing the blockade rather than denouncing Maduro.

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Just because somebody says something doesn't make it so.

Sanders is denounced for calling Maduro a dictator? Well, yes, he actually
is a dictator and who is benefiting from it is made clear in this NYT
article that I've been trying to post. (I'm guessing it's too long.)

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/01/world/americas/Venezuela-economy-dollars.html?fbclid=IwAR2ci-gIEQ9gmhqaaHmMW2gVni8UL-TFOgs4gNKCh9xgweF9bT-8WJ9ejBk
It's the bolibourgeoisie, which is living it up now that dollars are
allowed to be repatriated and the Venezuelan economy has been officially
dolarized.

The "phony Russiagate narrative"? Yes, Russia/Putin did actually intervene
in the 2016 elections. Did their intervention cause the Democrats to lose?
Of course not in and of itself, but according to the book "House of Trump
House of Putin" it influenced something like 3% of the vote - possibly
enough to swing the vote in several key states.

The author writes: "Similar principled differences can be seen in programs
like free tuition, and cancellation of medical and student debt."
Differences over a reform program doesn't make those principled just
because Kavanagh says they are.

Sanders a "social democrat"? Social democracy developed as a wing of the
working class movement. For all its faults and outright betrayals, at least
it is based on the working class having its own party. In contrast, there
is a wing of capitalist politics that advocates granting some reforms to
the working class in order to help contain the class conflict. That wing
was known as "liberalism", a term that came under disfavor in the late '70s
and rebranded itself as "progressive". Since the collapse of the Soviet
Union and Stalinism, it's now being rebranded as "democratic socialist".
Just because Sanders calls himself a democratic socialist doesn't make him
a socialist of any sort. Nor does Kavanagh's repeating the claim make it so.

I looked up some of Kavanagh's other scribblings, such as one which calls
Soleimani a "respected general". Kavanagh should try asking the Syrians
about that one. He also seems to have few criticisms of this century's
worst tyrant - Assad.

Oh, yes, and one last thing: Calling somebody by their first name normally
implies having some sort of personal connection with them. Sanders lives in
part off of his kindly old uncle image, of which being known as "Bernie" is
an important part. But just because Kavanagh falls into that lingo doesn't
make it so. My guess is that he's never met Sanders, never will meet him,
and Sanders won't be over at Kavanagh's table for this year's Thanksgiving
family dinner.

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[Marxism] Venezuela, January 2020: Hardship and Resistance (Counterpunch)

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https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/01/29/venezuela-january-2020-hardship-and-resistance/

"The economic war is certainly effective in making life more difficult for 
ordinary Venezuelans. But instead of dejection and despair, we observed a surge 
of grass roots organizing: communes, farmers’ markets, collective farms, 
city-country direct exchanges, community building in many forms. The activists 
we met this January share a cautious optimism, a sense that the Bolivarian 
process that Chávez initiated might survive this economic war. Meanwhile, a new 
kind of society, one based on communal values of cooperation, social 
solidarity, and mutual support, is emerging."
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[Marxism] Fw: New post published Global Protests Say “No War With Iran.” Can They Inspire a New Antiwar Movement?

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[Marxism] No pride in genocide: growing protests oppose Australia day celebrations (Green Left)

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[Marxism] Thousands in Colombia say: Let's Defend Peace!

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Re: [Marxism] The Story of China’s Economic Rise Unfolds in Switzerland

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Putting a label on China is not the most important thing.  China is not static, 
but changing.
We have to try to analyse the direction of motion.

In the 1990s it looked as if China was becoming a semi-colony of Western 
imperialism.  US and other transnational corporations were ruthlessly 
exploiting low paid Chinese workers, mainly migrant workers from the 
countryside with guest worker status in the cities.

Today China has its own TNCs such as Huawei, which are competing with US and 
other corporations on the world market.  Chinese companies are investing 
overseas, including in mines and oil wells in Africa, Latin America, etc, but 
also ports in Europe and Australia.

China is bullying its neighbours in the South China sea.  It intervenes in 
conflicts in other countries (e.g. helping the Sri Lankan government to 
suppress the Tamil independence movement).

Thus China is beginning to act like an imperialist power.  But still millions 
of Chinese workers are exploited by Western TNCs.

Chris Slee

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Some of my articles on China:

http://links.org.au/node/2349

http://links.org.au/node/3795

http://links.org.au/revolution-capitalist-restoration-class-struggle-china

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On 1/22/2020 2:19 AM, MM via Marxism wrote:
> On Jan 21, 2020, at 4:13 PM, Michael Meeropol via Marxism
>  wrote:
>> But is China an IMPERIALIST capitalist country or a NATIONALIST capitalist
>> country ---

I'm sure some comrades will disagree, but the case for reading China and
other countries aspiring to greater shares of increasingly polycentric
global power not as imperialist or anti-imperialist or
national-capitalist, but as sub-imperialist, is based on the framing
that Ruy Mauro Marini and David Harvey have established - and that many
Chinese researchers have advanced:

* the accumulation process which entails geographical displacement of
China's massive crisis of overaccumulated capital (hence Belt & Road, etc);

* super-exploitative processes in which China's lack of environmental
regulation and its rural-urban migrancy system contributed to the
cheapening of labour power (as ever, in a predictable gendered manner);

* the role China plays in financing and legitimising multilateral
imperialist power politics, especially in the IMF, WTO and UNFCCC, and
as Xi put it at the World Economic Forum and in BRICS meetings, above
all maintaining the merits of corporate globalisation, in search of
centripetal economies of scale (when in reality centrifugal capitalist
crisis tendencies are tearing the world apart);

* the regional sub-hegemonic 'deputy sherriff' functions for global
capital undertaken by Beijing, particularly to spread traditional
Western crass materialism; and

* an historically (and per-capita) minor role in global-scale ecological
catastrophe, but one nevertheless that entails the worst tendencies of
imperial-corporate emissions-trading, energy and transport expansion,
through municipal/national carbon markets and export of coal-fired power
plants and port building, often characterised by just-as-corrupt
relations with local elites as practiced in the West.

Let me know, offlist, if you want longer essays by myself and others on
these themes of uneven and combined development now driven more by China
than any other power - yet China's capacity to retain surplus value
streams for this accumulation process remains weak, in the 20-30% net
range (of corporate profit/dividends received to dividends paid)
compared to the US' 150-220% and even to South Africa where our
sub-imperial accumulation nets a 40-60% return.

But the overarching dilemma for Beijing's economic managers is whether
China's vast overproduction problem can continue to be mopped up with
existing globalisation and financial techniques (along with a small
degree of internal devalorisation) - or whether the sub-imperial powers'
death spiral will be decisive at global scale in coming months and years.


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[Marxism] Review: Syria after the uprisings, by Joseph Daher (Links)

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[Marxism] Iran Popular Protests Against Regime Intensify in Response to Iran Downing of Passenger Plane

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We have published a new article on our website. Iran Popular Protests Against 
Regime Intensify in Response to Iran Downing of Passenger Plane
The eloquent statements and  slogans voiced by the latest wave of mass protests 
in Iran seem to indicate that the uprising has entered a new stage.  The 
efforts of the regime to derail the protests after the U.S. assassination of 
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[Marxism] No war on Iran (Green Left Weekly)

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[Marxism] US encirclement endangers Cuba's economy, provokes response

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[Marxism] NSW RFS firefighters denounce Scott Morrison (Australian prime minister)

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[Marxism] Fw: New post published Oppose U.S. and Iran War by Showing Solidarity with Uprisings in the MENA Region

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We have published a new article on our website. Oppose U.S. and Iran War by 
Showing Solidarity with Uprisings in the MENA Region
The most worrisome aspect of these developments is that they might lead to 
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the wave of uprisings that have broken out in the Middle East and North Africa 
region in 2019,  from Sudan and Algeria to Iraq, Lebanon and Iran.

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Re: [Marxism] Syria's Unfinished Revolution

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I don't know about March 2011.  But certainly the PYD was suspicious of some of 
the rebels from fairly soon after the start of the revolution.

But it was not only the PYD that became suspicious.  Joseph Daher says: "A 
number of Kurdish activists and committees initially welcomed the establishment 
of the FSA.  However, they grew increasingly at odds with it following the 
foreign aid and sponsorship that some FSA groups received from foreign powers, 
Turkey in particular, and their inreasingly religious extremist practices and 
hostile attitudes towards Kurdish political demands and symbols" (Syria After 
the Uprisings, p. 153).

Chris Slee

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Sent: Thursday, 2 January 2020 11:39:33 PM
To: Chris Slee ; Activists and scholars in Marxist 
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Subject: Re: [Marxism] Syria's Unfinished Revolution

On 1/2/20 2:08 AM, Chris Slee wrote:
>
> Secondly, the PYD aims to make a democratic revolution, but considers that 
> much of the rebel movement is anti-democratic.


Going all the way back to March 2011.
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[Marxism] Fw: Angry Cobargo residents explode at Scott Morrison as PM tours fire-ravaged towns

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Subject: Angry Cobargo residents explode at Scott Morrison as PM tours 
fire-ravaged towns

https://www.9news.com.au/national/scott-morrison-cobargo-tour-hastily-moves-on-as-residents-express-anger/98f2b3ff-e648-4e65-a84d-f5273d5e930e?ocid=Social-9News=IwAR0__UfdeHxREn5AOo8EW5vTcaHXOqNiC_lhERcKCXYgUK0ftWpx5YZUjvM

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[Marxism] The climate war is here (Green Left Weekly)

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Re: [Marxism] Syria's Unfinished Revolution

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Ashley Smith says that "...the PYD never extended solidarity to the revolution, 
preferring to consolidate their own one-party state".

Firstly, Smith is incorrect when he describes Rojava as a "one-party state".  
Referring to the local council elections held in northern Syria in 2017, Joseph 
Daher reports that: "The elections included 21 parties that represented Kurds, 
Arabs, Christians and Assyrians from Rojava, with more than 12,000 candidates". 
 (Syria After the Uprisings, p. 180)

It is true that the PYD has at times carried out repressive measures against 
opposition parties, but this to be expected in a society at war and under siege 
(cf. Russia 1918, Cuba today).

Secondly, the PYD aims to make a democratic revolution, but considers that much 
of the rebel movement is anti-democratic.  There are some quite reactionary 
rebel groups (religiously sectarian and/or ethnically chauvinist) which are 
hated and feared by religious and ethnic minorities.  The PYD does not see such 
groups as revolutionary.

Chris Slee


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Ashley Smith reviews:

Syria After the Uprisings:
The Political Economy of State Resilience
By Joseph Daher
Haymarket Books, 2019, 386 pages, $29 paperback.

https://solidarity-us.org/atc/204/syria-unfinished-rev/
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[Marxism] YPJ commander Washukani: A free woman means a free society (ANF)

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Re: [Marxism] Defend Idlib! Defeat Assad and the Russian-Iranian Occupiers!

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Resistance to the Turkish invasion continues in Afrin and other occupied 
territories of northern Syria:

https://anfenglishmobile.com/rojava-syria/two-soldiers-killed-as-hre-hit-turkish-military-base-in-afrin-40390


The Syrian Democratic Forces defend the rights of all peoples, including ethnic 
and religious minorities:

https://anfenglishmobile.com/rojava-syria/syriac-women-turkey-targets-not-only-kurds-but-all-peoples-40385


And the rights of women:

https://anfenglishmobile.com/rojava-syria/young-women-sdf-is-the-only-force-that-protects-us-40391


Those resisting the Turkish invasion need our solidarity.

Chris Slee




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Subject: [Marxism] Defend Idlib! Defeat Assad and the Russian-Iranian Occupiers!

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Defend Idlib! Defeat Assad and the Russian-Iranian Occupiers!

An emergency call for international solidarity with the Syrian people
suffering from the barbarous onslaught by Assad and Putin!

https://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/africa-and-middle-east/defend-idlib-defeat-assad-and-the-russian-iranian-occupiers/

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[Marxism] The October uprising in Iraq

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https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/october-uprising-iraq


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[Marxism] Bush falsely promised a new Iraq, but it is now being forged in Baghdad's Tahrir square

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www.juancole.com/2019/12/falsely-promised-baghdad.html

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Re: [Marxism] Australia weather forecast: Temperatures expected to exceed 50C | The Courier-Mail

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Don't worry, the Australian government has a solution to the climate crisis:

https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/answer-climate-crisis-obvious-ban-climate-protests

On a more serious note:

https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/firefighters-union-leader-there-are-no-climate-sceptics-end-fire-hose




From: Marxism  on behalf of Gary MacLennan 
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Sent: Thursday, 19 December 2019 10:21 AM
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Subject: Re: [Marxism] Australia weather forecast: Temperatures expected to 
exceed 50C | The Courier-Mail

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I went for my lunch time stroll in the nearby Botanical Gardens but had to
call my walk off. The temperature was probably the hottest I had
experienced and actually I felt it was dangerous to be out in it.

I wish I could say that there was a huge groundswell demanding climate
action.  Instead there is triumphal talk in the Murdoch press of new
Australian coal mines being opened.King Coal now dominates both sides of
the Parliament.

It is obvious now that with humanity things will have to get much worse
before they get better. But the problem with climate change is that a path
back may (will?) not be open to future generations.

I have scrupulously avoided reading any of the fine articles Lou has posted
on the GE in the UK. My grief/depression is just too florid. But I am
working away and may be I will come out of this funk.

Thanks to the lister who sent me the links to Lili Harden's story. For what
it is worth I despise the Clintons and the Democratic Party, probably more
than Trump. The latter at least has never been able to pretend to be
anything other than a piece of shit.

comradely

Gary

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Re: [Marxism] Sri Lanka: Sinhalese chauvinist wins presidential election, Tamils fear reprisals (Green Left Weekly)

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There was an error in my article entitled:  "Sri Lanka: Sinhalese chauvinist 
wins presidential election, Tamils fear reprisals".

https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/sri-lanka-sinhalese-chauvinist-wins-presidential-election-tamils-fear-reprisals

The article originally said:

"Gotabaya Rajapaksa, regarded by many Tamils as a war criminal, won the Sri 
Lankan presidential election on November 16 with 52.3% of the vote. His main 
rival, Sajith Premadasa, received 47%. There were 35 candidates."

Actually the vote for Premadasa was 42% (not 47%).

This has now been corrected in the online version.  Of course it is too late to 
correct the print version.

In my original article the vote totals for the candidates exceeded 100 percent. 
 The fact that nobody questioned this is a bit disturbing.  Does it show a 
problem with innumeracy on the left?

 Chris Slee


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Subject: Sri Lanka: Sinhalese chauvinist wins presidential election, Tamils 
fear reprisals (Green Left Weekly)


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[Marxism] Turkish state prepares for annexation of occupied territories (ANF)

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https://anfenglishmobile.com/features/turkish-state-prepares-for-annexation-of-occupied-territories-39919

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[Marxism] Khabour Guards Commander: Turkey wants to wipe us out (ANF)

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https://anfenglishmobile.com/rojava-syria/khabour-guards-commander-turkey-wants-to-wipe-us-out-39798

'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] China’s contribution to climate change (Green Left Weekly)

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[Marxism] Sri Lanka: Sinhalese chauvinist wins presidential election, Tamils fear reprisals (Green Left Weekly)

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[Marxism] Turkish invasion threatens iconic women's village in Rojava (Green Left)

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[Marxism] Syria: People of Idlib resist Assad, Islamists (Green Left Weekly)

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