Re: [Marxism] Stewart Alexander proposed as united third party spokesman
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Yes, the URL was from the California campaign, but a presidential campaign is on the agenda, though not yet spelled out in terms of program...other than the Socialist, Peace and Freedom, and Green connections http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/08/18/18656303.php http://www.ballot-access.org/2010/08/18/stewart-alexander-will-seek-green-party-presidential-nomination-in-2012/ I have no preoccupation with labels, but we have a remarkably broad and united third party campaign in 2000. The organizers of that campaign dropped the ball at the time by not building something out of it, and the farther we've gotten from that, the more faint have grown our chances of remobilizing that constituency. Labels shouldn't be the focus and getting out socialist ideas can be done in any number of ways. The grounds for electoral strategy should be unity around those issues on which the mass of people already disagree with the two-party consensus (war, environmental issues, health care, etc.) These are what the present political consciousness of the voters make the issue and on which we we should campaign. This is the most effective way to challenge the two-party habit...and it provides the best possible milieu in which socialists could work. Given this Nader-Camejo approach, what a Stewart Alexander campaign proposes is the best I've heard thus far. I'm pleased to be able to pass on the information about the campaign, but I'd also be very interested in hearing more about the candidate and his past, as he's obviously not as well-known as Nader or McKinney. ML Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Doug Henwood on the current economic situation
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[Marxism] The Persecution of Lori Berenson
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Counterpunch August 26, 2010 A Roman Circus in Peru The Persecution of Lori Berenson By DANTE CASTRO ARRASCO Lima. Once again the guardians of law and order fatten themselves on human suffering, assisted by their solicitous epigones of the press. They wanted to produce a spectacle for the bleachers; they wanted to demonstrate the sacrosanct principle of authority; they wanted to satisfy the thirst for vengeance of many. But what they did was make the biggest fools of themselves in the international media, leaving on the floor the prestige of the “state of law” in Peru. Lori Berenson returns to jail on a legal technicality, totally ridiculous, like the authorization of her residence, which everyone knew and which attracted attention when the “good neighbors” of Miraflores protested her presence. It was not a matter of ripping off the clothes of a North American connected to terrorism. Nor of a pitiful plea by someone supposed to be guilty and whom the tenderness of the tribunals left at liberty. It is a case of disrespect for the judicial decisions, the result of due process. We have seen with disbelief how an order of parole was revoked by consent of the most reactionary and retrograde sectors of the Executive Power. It is a case of limited or non-existent independence of Judicial Power. But in addition to violating the guaranties of the party to be judged, they are merciless with the person sentenced and her infant. The newspaper media have inherited from the Fujimori/Montesinos period a way of acting as if lynching by periodicals were one tool more in the service of the repressive authority of the State. This overload typical of the black shirt squadrons which surround the one interviewed to cut off his escape, make him stumble, cause him to despair and harass him without any consideration, pretends to be the expression of the rejection by the “good citizens” of everything they consider dangerous for the democratic system. We saw it recently when indigenous leader Alberto Pizango returned to Peru and was arrested. We saw it when presidential candidate Ollanta Humala tried to set up a debate with Alan García in 2006. We saw it and suffered when at the end of the megatrial against the MRTA, far from the Naval Base prison of Callao, reporters threw themselves on the families, blinding them with their reflectors, sticking the cameras and tape recorders in their faces, assaulting them with questions and preventing them free movement. Whatever resistance there is to this massive aggression is interpreted as “an attack on the press.” This same thing happened to Lori Berenson. And the whole world has seen it. They say there is no reason to make “any concession to terrorism which caused 69 thousand victims in the country.” And this resembles chewed gum or a slogan; it is the refrain repeated by automata which makes no difference between victims caused by the subversive groups and those caused by the terrorism of the State. Lieutenant Telmo Hurtado, assassin of 74 children and old people in Accomarca in 1985, when he was extradited from the United States in 2008, was not lynched by the press nor repudiated by the deceitful interpreters of public opinion. Nor is anything said about those who govern us, president Alan García and vice president Admiral Luis Giampietri, guilty of the biggest massacre of political prisoners in Latin America: over 200 Sendero Luminoso captives in 1986. For white collar thieves, a luxury compartment in San Jorge! For state terrorists, impunity. For the corrupt and genocidal, re-election. The ex-paramilitary of the Comando Rodrigo Franco death squad (1985 to 1990), work today in government posts, some on the roll of Congress, and retire under law 20530, the superficial decentralization project of García. For Lori Berenson, accused of collaboration with terrorism, knowing that she killed nobody nor planted bombs, the exact contrary is applied. It is not strange that bourgeois nationalism, that which welcomed militants like Congressmen Meckler and Torres Caro, and which paints itself as an alternative to raw capitalism, joins in the hysterical uproar of the middle class. Even the nationalist newspaper – which only the stupid consider leftist – said that there were shady deals under the table between García and Obama to free Berenson. (¡Thanks Don César!) But let’s remember that Ollanta Humala, in the elections of 2006, agreed with Alan García not to raise the issue of human rights. He even demonstrated in favor of the termination of trials for the military who fought subversion. And he, like his bishop Abugattás, spoke out against the parole of Lori Berenson in May 2010. Now
[Marxism] Financial and environmental crisis: 2 sides of the same coin
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[Marxism] Indian indigenous tribe scores Avatar-style victory over British company
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == * * Indian hill tribe scores 'Avatar' victory http://www.smh.com.au/environment/conservation/indian-hill-tribe-scores-avatar-victory-20100827-13vym.html * * *A British company's plans to mine remote parts of eastern India have been rejected, writes Matt Wade in New Delhi. * They worship the hills, live off the forest and have been largely forgotten in India's rush for riches. But the Dongria Kondh tribe has prevailed over a global mining giant in a struggle that has been compared with James Cameron's blockbuster film *Avatar*. To the delight of indigenous rights activists, the government has rejected the plans of British mining company, Vedanta, to extract bauxite in the remote Niyamgiri Hills in eastern India where the Dongria Kondh live. The campaign to stop the project drew on parallels between the forest people and the three-metre-tall humanoid ''Na'vi'' community portrayed in the Hollywood hit, *Avatar*. In the movie, the blue-coloured Na'vis are pitted against a ruthless mining company extracting a rare mineral from their planet. Protesters dressed as characters from *Avatar* outside Vedanta's annual general meeting in London last month.** The victory for the desperately poor Dongria Kondh people over Vedanta has been hailed as a real-life equivalent. There are tracts of remote forest in eastern India where tribal people live largely cut off from modern society and India's booming economy. The 10,000 Dongria Kondhi believe their deity, Niyam Raja, resides in the Niyamgiri Hills. They also hunt, gather forest products and carry on subsistence farming in the area. Opponents of the mine say it would have had a devastating effect on the tribal community and the ecology of the forests on which they depend. Amnesty International called the government's decision a ''landmark victory''. But the battle over the Niyamgiri Hills, in Orissa state, underscores how difficult is has become for the government to balance the human rights protected by its democratic system with the growing demands of its huge population. Resource-hungry industries, like power generation, say they are being forced to look offshore to countries such as Australia for supplies of basic commodities because it has become so difficult to get mines approved in India. The battle over the Niyamgiri Hills began in 2005 when Vedanta proposed a bauxite mine to feed its aluminium plant nearby. It is estimated the hills contain more than 70 million tonnes of bauxite, the ore from which aluminium is extracted. Environmental groups mounted a campaign against Vedanta's plans and convinced investors, including the Anglican Church in Britain and the Norwegian government, to dump their shares in the firm. The Man Booker prize winner Arundhati Roy and the human rights campaigner Bianca Jagger were among the high-profile figures that joined the protest against Vedanta. The company argued that the $US2.7 billion investment would bring jobs and development to one of India's poorest districts. Lobbying by Vedanta, which is owned by the London industrialist Anil Agarwal and the Orissa government, was to no avail. India's flamboyant environment minister, Jairam Ramesh, announced this week that Vedanta had violated environmental laws and that the project had been rejected. He said he blocked the mine on legal grounds and insisted there was ''no emotion, no politics, no prejudice'' in his decision. As the tribes were ''completely dependent'' on the forest, any violation of the protection extended to their ''habitat and habitations are simply unacceptable'', he said. A special panel appointed to investigate Vedanta's project found it seriously violated environmental laws and recommended its rejection. It also raised concerns that a go-ahead for the mine could stoke the bloody Maoist rebellion that is plaguing some of India's poorest states, including Orissa. Mr Ramesh also suspended the clearance process for a six-fold expansion of Vedanta's aluminium plant near the Niyamgiri Hills. A senior tribal leader, Sitaram Kulesika, told activists: ''This is a great day for Kondhs. Mining would be the end of their existence and their god. We thank the Indian government.'' Another Dongria Kondh, Laksa Maji, said the government should ''kill us first'' if it wanted to sell the Niyamgiri Hills. ''Otherwise we will slowly die even as we live,'' he told India's *Business Standard* newspaper. ''We are born of this earth and this earth is ours.'' In a mark of the political significance of the project's rejection, the scion of India's most powerful dynasty, Rahul Gandhi, flew by helicopter to a rally near the proposed mine on Thursday. Mr Gandhi, whose father, grandmother and great grandfather were all Indian prime ministers, told residents
Re: [Marxism] Last man standing
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Louis: Maybe [the Greens make] more sense than the Socialist Alliance? There's two related problems here. Firstly, whether or not Alan Bradley is correct in predicting that any influx of organised socialists into the Greens would severely damage that party (due to a reaction from its right wing), the Greens constitution specifically disallows members to be members of another party. I don't think anyone is game to test whether this means members of a socialist organisation that doesn't define itself as a party would be unwelcome as members, or expelled if they discreetly joined in any numbers, as the DSP was en bloc when this provision was adopted in 1992 (presumably after the DSP offered to give up its electoral registration, operate more loosely etc). After the IST-aligned group here left Socialist Alliance in 2007, these comrades orientated towards the Greens and apparently handed out for them in the 2007 federal elections. But in their articles at the time it was unclear whether any of them had joined the Greens and if so whether they were pushing the general arguments they were making about the Greens in their press. Their activity wasn't a bad thing and an advance on their previous position of voting for the Labor Party ahead of the Greens, but while the comrades presumably think they are in a united front with the Greens in bourgeois elections, I'm not sure if many people would have noticed. Secondly, any argument that the small socialist groups with their meagre followings should dissolve themselves into the Greens, for the greater good of the struggle, comes against the reality that there is very little to the Greens pretensions of being an activist party, and what there is occurs very unevenly. The Greens are not a vehicle for organsing public meetings and conferences or producing media that build campaigns and help the whole left (as opposed to some impressive media that promotes the Greens), or for sustaining and promoting class struggle ideas in the unions and other social movements. Any effort to make them more so would probably need the kind of struggle with the more right-wing Greens that Alan warns about. The Greens policy and general perspectives is probably about as good as a broad left party with 10 000 members and 10%+ of the vote is going to be at present, and if we could have either a more clearly activist and left Greens and/or a 'Green Left' type current (something like that in the UK) that did some of the work mentioned in the preceding paragraph that the whole party couldn't do, and could forward its own perspectives without permanent war in the party, I'd be quite happy. In the meantime I'm not willing to abandon Socialist Alliance and Green Left (the readership of which until recently was higher than the Greens website and still rivals it). Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Any Experts on the German Economy Out There?
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The Wall Street Journal has two articles about German. One describes how German wages are stagnating, despite the expansion. Here is the first articles: Thomas, Andrea. 2010. German Workers' Wages Belie Country's Rebound. Wall Street Journal (15 August).http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704296704575431240767523752.html?mod=WSJ_World_MIDDLENews Germany has surprised the world with a sharp acceleration in its economic recovery, but perhaps the least impressed by this feat are Germans themselves. The German economy expanded a sharp 2.2% in the second quarter from the first -- the fastest pace since reunification in 1990. But, despite the export-driven rebound, most German workers aren't getting any richer. Chancellor Angela Merkel's government has hailed Germany's job miracle after whittling the jobless rate down to 7.6% of the work force, compared with unemployment levels of about 10% in the U.S. and France. But the bulk of that reduction has come from the emergence of part-time jobs, often at low pay. That helps explain why German domestic demand has remained sluggish even as German exporters boast booming foreign orders. The disparity has drawn accusations from Germany's neighbors, notably France, that it is exploiting the world recovery without contributing to global demand. More at: http://michaelperelman.wordpress.com/2010/08/28/any-experts-on-the-german-economy-out-there/ -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.com Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Nature of the Greens (was Re: Last man standing)
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Gary MacLennan: The Libertarians use the Green veto to preclude any discussion of class politics in The most important thing is the ozone layer, climate change, etc. This is a specifically Queensland phenomena though. I'm just finishing off an academic paper for the Australian Journal of Political Science on the considerable extent to which the Greens represent a form of left social democracy. I look at the views - of Greens leaders and branch members that I conducted focus groups with and in Greens material - expressing left nationalist ideas of Australia as economically exploited and politically subservient, and compared Greens voters and other voters in the 2007 Australian Election Study (the first such survey to include enough Greens voters to make any sensible claims about), in terms of class composition, left-right self-identification and attitudes towards class (the latter consisting of an index created from responses to questions about union power, big business power and the former government's WorkChoices legislation). As in a lot of academic social science the findings are pretty much what you'd expect, with footnotes, and this is from my unsurprising conclusion: I have found that in relation to two sets of issues — trade, globalisation and the AUSFTA, and the Iraq and Afghan wars and national security — discourse emanating from Greens branch members and leaders seems mainly framed by traditional left nationalism (and to a lesser extent traditional internationalism). I also find that in social composition and attitudes towards class Greens voters are considerably closer to Labor voters than to Coalition supporters (though generally are more middle class and educated than Labor voters), and are more leftist in self-identification than either. Hence, while the “newness” of Green politics is a real phenomenon, Green parties have roots in and similarities to left social democracy that must also be recognised. I would suggest, from general observation and anecdotal evidence, including comments from my focus group participants that the connection between Green politics and left social democracy arises from two interrelated factors. Firstly, that despite the undoubted radical newness of Green politics, these parties were bound from the first to be influenced by extant radical and anti-establishment traditions. Secondly, from the apparent defection of Labor activists and voters into the Green camp due to perceived rightward turns of parties such as the ALP. For those interested in class composition, I found the Greens voters (in the workforce) broke down into 51% non-managerial employees, 29% salaried managers and 20% business owners, with corresponding figures for the ALP being 59%-29%-13% and for the Liberal Party 40%-35%-25%. Compared to Labor voters, Greens voters have more degrees, less trade qualifications and on the whole higher incomes. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Articles on South Africa's growing strike wave
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Public sector industrial struggle growing, miners to strike in solidarity. Labour Start has collection of articles on the strikes. http://www.labourstart.org/cgi-bin/show_news.pl?country=South%20Africa -- “Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is humanity’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.” — Oscar Wilde, Soul of Man Under Socialism “The free market is perfectly natural... do you think I am some kind of dummy?” — Jarvis Cocker Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism-Thaxis] Workers Demands Are Legitimate!!
Workers Demands Are Legitimate!! SACP Media Statement South African Communist Party August 22, 2010 http://groups.google.com/group/SACP-Media/browse_thread/thread/954b7e757f879c8a From the outset of the current public sector strike, the SACP has consistently indicated its support for what we regard as a legitimate struggle for a living wage in the wider context of the struggle for decent work. The SACP also fully agrees with our comrades in COSATU that the wage gap between upper echelons, on the one hand, and the majority of workers, on the other, in the public sector (as in the private sector) is unjustified and unjustifiable. The SACP also fully agrees with COSATU statements that, in the course of exercising their legitimate right to strike and to picket, workers must avoid any acts of violence and physical intimidation. Life-threatening actions like the invasion of operating theatres, the blocking of access to public emergency services, or the abandonment of new-borns in ICUs are completely alien to the traditions and values of our struggle. Even during the height of the anti-apartheid struggle, MK operatives, for instance, were instructed at all times to go out of their way to avoid collateral injuries and deaths and even to abort missions when there was a risk of death to innocent civilians. It is the unions themselves that must now take the lead in condemning acts of grave indiscipline which are, in effect, counter-revolutionary, and a serious set-back to the working class struggle. Workers who are involved in counter-revolutionary and anti-people activities, workers who conduct themselves as witting or unwitting agents provocateurs, should be disciplined and if necessary expelled from their unions. At the same, we also call on our comrades in the police and other law enforcement agencies to conduct themselves with maximum restraint. We call on government and the unions to move speedily to find an effective settlement to the present dispute. Above all, we call on all of our formations not to play into a right-wing neo-liberal agenda that seeks to break the organic and strategic unity between Alliance partners, between organised workers and wider popular forces, and between unions and our democratic state. This means that, from all sides, we need to remain focused on what unites us - our key strategic priorities. When the relationship of our democratic government and public sector workers is reduced to an employer-employee relationship then our revolution is in trouble. Over the past decade-and-a-half the SACP has consistently criticised government (and to some extent the ANC) for often failing to consolidate, mobilise and, indeed, treat, key sectors like teachers and health-care workers as the core protagonists of any genuine democratic transformational programme. The current strike, and other major strikes this year, have all high-lighted one of many critical challenges we face. It is no accident that in all of these strikes, it is the housing allowance issue that often looms largest in worker demands. The great majority of organised workers, not least those in the public sector - among them police, nurses, teachers - find themselves with a serious housing problem. Most of these workers are trapped in a housing limbo - they do not qualify for state-provided subsidised housing on the one hand, and they are rejected by the banks when they apply for mortgage bonds on the other. Part of an answer may well be to increase housing allowances - but it is doubtful if this, on its own, will ever help to close the grave gap in the housing market. In this regard, we call on workers to join the SACP in our ongoing financial sector campaign. Let us inject fresh energy into this campaign, and particularly let us engage government and banks, including relevant publicly-owned Development Finance Institutions, to ensure that house-loan policies are transformed, and that there is a massive construction of appropriate mixed-income and well-located housing, including rental housing. The SACP has called for the formation of a dedicated publicly-owned Housing Bank. Instead of flinging irritable insults at each other, while the private sector and anti-worker elements sit back and laugh, let us, once more, forge a militant strategic unity within our Alliance, and between government and the working class. ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
[Marxism-Thaxis] Just Foreign Policy News
Just Foreign Policy News August 26, 2010 Just Foreign Policy News on the Web: http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/node/691 [To receive just the Summary and a link to the web version, you can use this webform: http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/switchdailynews] Why Should the Senate Fund Enduring U.S. Military Bases in Afghanistan? Walter Pincus reports in the Washington Post that the Pentagon is planning military construction for years of U.S. combat in Afghanistan. But the Senate could still refuse to fund it; in 2008, Congress rejected a similar Pentagon request for long term military construction in Iraq. Urge your senators to oppose construction of long-term U.S. bases in Afghanistan http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/act/afghanistanbases FCNL: Pentagon Cuts Should Be on the Table Ask your Rep. to sign the Barney Frank/Ron Paul letter to the deficit commission. http://capwiz.com/fconl/issues/alert/?alertid=15852531 Bacevich: Washington Rules Andrew Bacevich's new book, Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War, is a call for Americans to reject the Washington consensus for permanent war, and to demand instead that America come home. Get the book http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/buywashingtonrules (The book may also be available in your local bookstore or public library.) September 24th: JFP Virtual Brown Bag with Andrew Bacevich http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/bacevichtalk Help Support Our Work Your donation helps us educate Americans and create opportunities to advocate for a just foreign policy. http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/donate Summary: U.S./Top News 1) Afghan and U.S. officials say the aide to President Karzai at the center of a politically sensitive corruption investigation is being paid by the CIA, the New York Times reports. Mohammed Zia Salehi, chief of administration for the National Security Council, appears to have been on the CIA payroll for many years. The ties underscore doubts about how seriously the Obama administration intends to fight corruption in Afghanistan. The anticorruption drive is vigorously debated inside the administration. Some argue it should be a centerpiece of U.S. strategy; others say that attacking corrupt officials who are crucial to the war effort could destabilize the Karzai government. Some administration officials argue any comprehensive campaign to fight corruption inside Afghanistan is overly ambitious, with less than a year to go before the US military is set to begin withdrawing troops. Fighting corruption is the very definition of mission creep, one Obama administration official said. 2) Five U.S. soldiers accused of killing Afghan civilians are facing charges of conspiracy to commit premeditated murder - a plot that allegedly began when one soldier discussed how easy it would be to toss a grenade at Afghan civilians, AP reports, citing the Seattle Times. The five were charged with murder in June for the deaths of three civilians in Kandahar this year; seven others have been charged in connection with the conspiracy or with attempting to cover it up. 3) The US has long been an exporter of terrorism, according to a secret CIA analysis released by WikiLeaks, the Washington Post reports. If that phenomenon were to become a widely held perception, the analysis said, it could damage relations with foreign allies and dampen their willingness to cooperate in extrajudicial activities, such as the rendition and interrogation of terrorism suspects. The CIA paper noted the 1994 massacre of 29 Muslims at the Ibrihimi Mosque in Hebron by New Yorker and Kach member Baruch Goldstein as an example of US-exported terrorism. 4) Writing in the San Jose Mercury News, Rep. Jane Harman and Michael O'Hanlon argue that the President must give the American people a clearer sense of how long it will take to draw down U.S. troops in Afghanistan. [O'Hanlon is a prominent supporter of the war - JFP.] O'Hanlon estimates U.S. forces could be drawn down to 80,000 by the end of 2011, 50,000 by the end of 2012, and 25,000 by the end of 2013, a pace Harman says could be accelerated. No-one in the executive branch has offered such a timetable, despite the fact that 162 Members of the House voted for the McGovern Amendment requiring the President to establish a timetable for military withdrawal, which Harman supported. Iraq 5) Insurgents unleashed a wave of coordinated attacks across Iraq in a demonstration of their ability to strike at will, offering their counterpoint to U.S. aspirations of bringing the war in Iraq to a responsible end, Anthony Shadid reports in the New York Times. Many Iraqis believe the U.S. military will never really leave, despite a deadline of 2011 for its departure, Shadid writes. Pakistan 6) Rajiv Shah, head of USAID, says the US is diverting some of its five-year, multibillion-dollar aid package for Pakistan to flood recovery and will reevaluate plans for the remainder, the Washington Post reports. For now, he said, $50 million of the package will
