[Marxism] THOUGHTS ON A 72nd BIRTHDAY
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == A phone call this morning from my granddaughter shocked me with the realization that it was my 72nd birthday. What can one say about being so bloody old? Well, for a start there are good friends of mine who did not make it and they are in my thoughts now. I would like, of course, to be able to say I have grown in wisdom and all that, but alas I remain as ever fundamentally embedded in a kind of wistful foolishness, that makes me even now still perpetually optimistic about what Trotsky called 'the Communist future'. Once in the City Square in Brisbane about 1977 I read at a demonstration the following lines from Trotsky's testament. I was roundly booed for my pains such was the strength of anti-communism among people who saw themselves as civil libertarians. But the words are still beautiful and they come back to me now on my birthday Natasha has just come up to the window from the courtyard and opened it wider so that the air may enter more freely into my room. I can see the bright green strip of grass beneath the wall, and the clear blue sky above the wall, and sunlight everywhere. Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression and violence and enjoy it to the full. comradely Gary Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] What's new at Links: Kurds ISIS, 22% for Seattle socialist, Scotland, WWI, Tariq Ali, Evo for BDS, Paul Le Blanc on Ian Birchall on Leninism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == What's new at Links: Kurds ISIS, 22% for Seattle socialist, Scotland, WWI, Tariq Ali, Evo for BDS, Paul Le Blanc on Ian Birchall on Leninism * * * Subscribe free to Links - International Journal of Socialist Renewal - at http://www.feedblitz.com/f/?Sub=343373 You can also follow Links on Twitter at http://twitter.com/LinksSocialism or on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=10865397643 Visit and bookmark http://links.org.au and add it to your RSS feed (http://links.org.au/rss.xml). If you would like us to consider an article, please send it to linkssocial...@gmail.com *Please pass on to anybody you think will be interested in Links. *Comments welcome on all articles *Return daily for new articles * * * Kurds mobilise to fight 'Islamic State' over vast front http://links.org.au/node/4002 By *Dave Holmes* August 12, 2014 -- The Kurdish people are facing an unprecedented challenge. Across a vast swathe of northern Syria and Iraq, the region's Kurds are locked in a desperate and heroic struggle with the genocidal forces of the so-called Islamic State (IS). Fighting is raging from Aleppo and Kobane in Syria to Mosul and Kirkuk in Iraq --- and all points in between. * Read more http://links.org.au/node/4002 United States: Seattle socialist wins 22% in primary poll http://links.org.au/node/4000 US Socialist Alternative candidate *Jess Spear* has won more than 20% of the vote in the August 5 primary election, against Frank Chopp, a 20-year Democrat incumbent in the Washington State parliament and speaker of the house. The actual general election for the seat will take place in November 2014. The campaign builds on the victory of *Kshama Sawant*, who won a position on the Seattle city council. This letter and report was sent to supporters of Spear. * Read more http://links.org.au/node/4000 Review: 'In Place of Fear II: A Socialist Programme for an Independent Scotland' http://links.org.au/node/4001 */I/* http://www.inplaceoffear.com/*/n Place of Fear II: A Socialist Programme for an Independent Scotland/* By Jim Sillars Vagabond Voices Publishing, 2014 Review by *Alex Miller* August 13, 2014 -- Jim Sillars is a well-known and well-respected figure on the Scottish political scene. He was elected (UK) Labour Party MP for South Ayrshire in 1970 but subsequently shifted away from mainstream Labour Party politics as a result of his commitment to devolution from Westminster and the setting up of a Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh. (It's worth remembering that the infamous 40% rule that blocked the narrow majority vote in favour of devolution in the 1979 referendum was the work of UK Labour Party MP Tam Dalyell). * Read more http://links.org.au/node/4001 Tariq Ali: The US global empire (video) http://links.org.au/node/3999 July 29, 2014 -- *Tariq Ali* examines the United States' drive to create and maintain its global empire. Capitalism's world war and the battle against it http://links.org.au/node/3998 July 28, 2014 -- *John Riddell* is the author and editor of numerous books, including, most recently, /Toward the United Front: Proceedings of the Fourth Congress of the Communist International, 1922/. Here, he explains how the First World War broke out 100 years ago, how the socialist movement reacted, and how a revolutionary anti-war opposition emerged. * Read more http://links.org.au/node/3998 Bolivia's president calls for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel http://links.org.au/node/3997 August 7, 2014 -- Bolivia's leader *Evo Morales* is among a list of recognised names including former Honduras president Mel Zelaya and Nobel peace prize winner Adolfo Pérez Esquivel calling for support to the boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign against Israel. * Read more http://links.org.au/node/3997 Leninism, No? Paul Le Blanc replies to Ian Birchall http://links.org.au/node/3996 August 6, 2014 -- *Paul Le Blanc* is a veteran socialist and author, most recently, of /Unfinished Leninism: The Rise and Return of a Revolutionary Doctrine/. In response to an article by British socialist *Ian Birchall* published at the /Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century/ website [published by the socialist group of the same name, abbreviated as RS21], Le Blanc wrote this commentary to contribute to the discussion of Leninism. * Read more http://links.org.au/node/3996 Responding to capitalist global disaster: World War I and today http://links.org.au/node/3995 The following talk was delivered to the US International Socialist Organization's Socialism 2014 conference in Chicago, June 28, 2014. *John Riddell* By August 5, 2014 --- On August 5, 100
[Marxism] Australian Treasurer gets it cars about
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Let's be fair. Hockey is partly right. With his government increasing unemployment - it jumped from 6% to 6.4% last month - and denying those under 30 the dole for 6 months, young unemployed people won't be able to buy food let alone drive anywhere. http://enpassant.com.au/2014/08/13/joe-hockey Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Fwd: Academic Freedom in the Salaita Case | Michael C. Dorf | Verdict | Legal Analysis and Commentary from Justia
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == (From a Cornell law professor) Some supporters of the trustees’ decision point to the often-important distinction between firing and not hiring. Academic freedom, they point out, is mostly a matter of contract law, and because Salaita had not yet been formally hired by the University of Illinois, he was not entitled to the same protection as someone who was already a member of the faculty. But that view appears to be false as a matter of contract law. Like many other states, Illinois law offers protection to people who, in reasonable reliance on an offer that falls short of a fully enforceable contract, take actions to their detriment. The Illinois Supreme Court affirmed this principle of “promissory estoppel” as recently as 2009, in the case of Newton Tractor Sales v. Kubota Tractor Corp. Salaita has an almost-classic case of promissory estoppel. He was told by Illinois that trustee approval was essentially a rubber stamp, and in reliance on that representation he resigned from his prior position on the faculty of Virginia Tech. To be sure, a party who sues for promissory estoppel rather than suing under a formal contract typically only recovers to the extent of his reliance, rather than in strict accordance with what he expected to gain under the contract. But here, there is no real difference between what contract law calls the reliance interest and the expectancy interest: By giving up his position at Virginia Tech, Salaita gave up a job in which he had academic freedom; thus, recognition of his promissory estoppel claim should mean that Illinois must afford him academic freedom. full: http://verdict.justia.com/2014/08/13/academic-freedom-salaita-case Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Fwd: In Iraq leadership crisis, US and Iran find themselves playing on same side - CSMonitor.com
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == And the reason the two erstwhile adversaries have forsaken Mr. Maliki in favor of Mr. Abadi is one and the same for both Washington and Tehran. Both view the advancing Sunni militant organization calling itself the Islamic State, also known as ISIS, as the major threat facing Iraq and their interests in the region, experts say. As a result, both consider a political accommodation in Baghdad that leaves out the factious Mr. Maliki and overcomes Iraq’s debilitating sectarian divisions the key to unifying Iraq against ISIS and taking back the territory in northwestern Iraq the group has seized. full: http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Foreign-Policy/2014/0812/In-Iraq-leadership-crisis-US-and-Iran-find-themselves-playing-on-same-side Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Fwd: Why the Kurdish Peshmerga Have Many Troubles in Stopping the Islamic State | VICE News
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[Marxism] Fwd: 14 Arrested and Two Injured in Confrontations between Sidor Workers and Venezuelan National Guard | venezuelanalysis.com
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[Marxism] Fwd: Iraq is not Syria: US Congress on board this time - Yahoo News
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Maybe John Rees and the Becker brothers should pull out all the stops and organize mass demonstrations around the slogan No War on ISIS. After all, they saved Assad's neck last year. ;-) http://news.yahoo.com/iraq-isnt-syria-congress-board-time-160544152--election.html Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] The New Racism
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Iraq is not Syria: US Congress on board this time -Yahoo News
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == -Original Message- From: Louis Proyect via Marxism Maybe John Rees and the Becker brothers should pull out all the stops and organize mass demonstrations around the slogan No War on ISIS. After all, they saved Assad's neck last year. ;-) http://news.yahoo.com/iraq-isnt-syria-congress-board-time-160544152--election.html Maybe they should do more than this. Here are some suggestions: 1. They should explain that ISIS is not really besieging and killing the Yazdi and other minorities, nor committing all those other terrible crimes that the imperialists are so wrongly accusing them of; they should show that in reality, it is the US-backed Kurds or US-backed Maliki regime that in fact are killing the Yazdi as part of a black-ops to make ISIS look bad to get the US to intervene. Maybe Seymour Hersh could do some investigating for them, via his alleged contacts in high places 2. They should explain that even if ISIS is doing some of these things, they have no choice, they are forced to do this because while they simply attempt to run their legitimate state, the US has been arming the Maliki regime and the Kurds to launch a brutal insurgency against the ISIS regime (and unlike the accusation against the FSA, which never got nothing from the US, in this case it would be factually true) 3. They should explain that the reason for this is that, while ISIS may not be perfect from a working class point of view, it has thumbed its nose at imperialism, so socialists must defend it against these other forces acting as imperialism's cats-paws. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] THOUGHTS ON A 72nd BIRTHDAY
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Perhaps the most beautiful passage from Diary in Exile. And a wonderful human gesture from Natalya, as well. A remarkable work by Trotsky, which evidenced the growth of wisdom as the walls of malignity and life closed in. On the other hand, don't think you haven't attained the wisdom of years also. Concluding a speech with that quotation is exactly what the movement needed then, and now. As they used to say to the faithful many years ago when I was an altar boy in the Swedenborgian Church, Many Happy Returns. Wayne Collins -Original Message- From: Gary MacLennan via Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu To: Wayne M. Collins sha...@aol.com Sent: Tue, Aug 12, 2014 11:46 pm Subject: [Marxism] THOUGHTS ON A 72nd BIRTHDAY == Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Natasha has just come up to the window comradely Gary Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/shacht%40aol.com Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Iraq is not Syria: US Congress on board this time - Yahoo News
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Am I wrong to conclude this recent email by this List moderator (below) implies: 1) It would be correct (and good) to support U. S. military attacks on the Bashir al-Assad led Syria government? 2) It would be correct (and good) to support U. S. military attacks on the ISIS/ISIL/IS in Iraq and Syria? 3) It was correct for the social democrats to support their nation's governments and military attacks on other nation governments and militaries in World War One? And this also leads me to ask: 4) Since some on this same List last year (and more recently) were stating that those as myself who were concerned that the calls to support ALL the opponent forces to the Bashir al-Assad led Syrian government would: A) be supporting reactionary Islamists forces - such as ISIS B) should only support anti-capitalist/anti-imperialist forces - that we were wrong - and support of FSA, ISIS, etc. was correct and their giving words that indirectly or directly, encouraged political support for expanding imperialist military intervention And I have email responses on this List saying that: It was not true or a concern by me and others, about the actual political forces and relative strength of support among those identified with the organized opposition to the Bashir al-Assad led Syria government - as being primarily reactionary Islamists. That the Free Syrian Army and other rebel groups such as ISIS were filled with great progressive rebels. So while the U. S. government and its allies can now support the Bashir al-Assad government indirectly by attacking ISIS forces - why should Marxists be involved in supporting any of these reactionary pro-capitalist forces - whether the current governments and their militarys in Iraq, Syria, U. S., Israel. Saudi Arabia, Qatar, etc.? Should Marxists have not learned from the World War One conflict held precisely one hundred years ago - and not support any such capitalist government military or other reactionary forces - and only support anti-capitalist forces that favor worker governments? Personally and politically I do not support the Bashir al-Assad led Syria government or the current Iraq government(s), or view the U. S. imperialist as positive forces - and none in my opinion should either - or should they still then claim to be Marxists or Anarchists in any progressive form. We witnessed the former radical Christopher Hitchens in 2003 arguing for support of U. S. government military forces to overthrow the then Saddam Hussein led Iraq Government. If Hitchens was wrong then (and he was) why would it be politically okay now, to support the same U. S. capitalist military forces to attack in Iraq, Syria, etc.? The neo-cons some who had been also former SWP members in the Schactman split in the 1940's, were wrong to support the GW Bush and his father GH Bush and Bill Clinton's led U. S. government military forces against Iraq. The politics in the world in 1914, were very bad. Capitalist governments and monarchy empires were firmly in control. But something happened - events that led to change. Vladimir Lenin and other Marxists and Anarchists throughout the world refused to take sides in the conflict among capitalist governments then - and called for workers to resist this war and instead to support political formations that supported the interests of working people for peace, land and bread etc. Christopher Hitchens was wrong in his political assessments following the collapse of the Soviet Union government, to support in 2002-2003 U. S. imperialism and capitalist wars. Clay Claiborne and some others on this List seem going down the same road as the Neo-cons, Christopher Hitchens and others that have abandoned radical politics of Marxism and others Anarchism, to instead view taking sides of which reactionary force should be in power to exploit and oppress. Workers of the World Unite - You have nothing to lose but your chains! Give up the mental chains of ideological control and imperialist propaganda and oppose their control - and support a better world! Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 08:27:23 -0400 Subject: [Marxism] Fwd: Iraq is not Syria: US Congress on board this time - Yahoo News From: marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu To: causecollec...@msn.com Maybe John Rees and the Becker brothers should pull out all the stops and organize mass demonstrations around the slogan No War on ISIS. After all, they saved Assad's neck last year. ;-) http://news.yahoo.com/iraq-isnt-syria-congress-board-time-160544152--election.html Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your
Re: [Marxism] Iraq is not Syria: US Congress on board this time - Yahoo News
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 8/13/14 12:56 PM, Shane Mage via Marxism wrote: Their physical extermination is the duty of every government, every political force, in the world (any of the Nazis who fails to achieve his desired martyrdom deserves to be confined in a supermax prison under constant suicide watch for the rest of his natural--plus medically prolonged--life). This is the second instance of Shane Mage backing Samantha Power humanitarian intervention. The last time was in Mali, where he backed the French against the Tuareg rebels, who he falsely amalgamated with al Qaeda. I really wonder if there was implicit backing for the French in the Algerian war of independence given his animosity toward the FLN. These are the hazards of leftish Islamophobia obviously. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Iraq is not Syria: US Congress on board this time - Yahoo News
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 8/13/14 12:26 PM, John Obrien via Marxism wrote: 4) Since some on this same List last year (and more recently) were stating that those as myself who were concerned that the calls to support ALL the opponent forces to the Bashir al-Assad led Syrian government would: A) be supporting reactionary Islamists forces - such as ISIS B) should only support anti-capitalist/anti-imperialist forces - that we were wrong - and support of FSA, ISIS, etc. was correct and their giving words that indirectly or directly, encouraged political support for expanding imperialist military intervention This is really a filthy lie. The only fighters I (or anybody else) supported were in the FSA. Not only were we opposed to ISIS, we were also opposed to al-Nusra before that, a group that never carried out the kind of Khmer Rouge savagery now carried out by ISIS. John, you really need to get into the habit of documenting your slanderous charges. There are 2 ways of doing this: 1. Go here: http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.politics.marxism.marxmail and search archives 2. Do an advanced search on Google for http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism/ Using option 1, I found a NYT's article I posted on January 26, 2013--my 68th birthday by coincidence. I posted it in order to alert Marxmail subscribers that a clash between the FSA and al-Nusra had become more pronounced. This was even before ISIS began beheading its leaders. So, John, if you took 5 minutes to check the archives, you could have figured out that you were a lying, irresponsible troll. NY Times January 26, 2013 Jihadists and Secular Activists Clash in Syria By HANIA MOURTADA and ANNE BARNARD BEIRUT, Lebanon — The tensions had been simmering for months in the northern Syrian town of Saraqib. Civilian antigovernment activists had complained of rebel fighters who needlessly destroyed a milk factory and treated residents disrespectfully. A growing contingent of jihadist fighters from the ideologically extreme and militarily formidable Nusra Front was suspicious of the activists’ secular, nonviolent agenda. On Thursday, mistrust erupted into confrontation. Masked men believed to be with Al Nusra raided the headquarters of two secular civilian grass-roots organizations — setting in motion one of the most dramatic tests yet of the makeshift system of local governance that civilians and fighters have established in Saraqib, a rebel-held town. The dispute also tests the clout of jihadist fighters and the ability of civilian opposition groups to stand up to them. The increasingly prominent role of jihadist battalions on the battlefield worried the United States enough to blacklist Al Nusra last year as a terrorist organization, an effort to isolate it that may have backfired. The Syrian opposition is ambivalent about the group: while many antigovernment activists oppose its vision of an Islamic state and complain of attempts to enforce pious practices, its relatively steady arms supply and string of battleground victories have brought it respect. full: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.politics.marxism.marxmail/165634/match=nusra Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Iraq is not Syria: US Congress on board this time - Yahoo News
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On Aug 13, 2014, at 1:14 PM, Louis Proyect wrote: On 8/13/14 12:56 PM, Shane Mage via Marxism wrote: Their physical extermination is the duty of every government, every political force, in the world (any of the Nazis who fails to achieve his desired martyrdom deserves to be confined in a supermax prison under constant suicide watch for the rest of his natural--plus medically prolonged--life). This is the second instance of Shane Mage backing Samantha Power humanitarian intervention. The last time was in Mali, where he backed the French against the Tuareg rebels... Those swine were the detritus from the imperialist intervention in Libya. It was the Tuareg rebels were fighting them but they were out- armed and unable to defend Tombuctou and most of the Tuareg's Saharan domain from them. Why should they be denounced for *in extremis* accepting help against the takfiri scum from any quarter? It seems that Lou's Francophobia, stemming from his Pabloite past glorification of the fascist FLN (responsible for ethnic cleansing and murders exceeding even those perpetrated by the Zionists in the nakba) has made him entirely insensitive to the genocides and lesser atrocities carried out by the Nazistic takfiris). Shane Mage Thunderbolt steers all things. Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64 Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Iraq is not Syria: US Congress on board this time
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On Aug 13, 2014, at 1:14 PM, Louis Proyect wrote: On 8/13/14 12:56 PM, Shane Mage via Marxism wrote: Their physical extermination is the duty of every government, every political force, in the world (any of the Nazis who fails to achieve his desired martyrdom deserves to be confined in a supermax prison under constant suicide watch for the rest of his natural--plus medically prolonged--life). This is the second instance of Shane Mage backing Samantha Power humanitarian intervention. The last time was in Mali, where he backed the French against the Tuareg rebels... Those swine were the detritus from the imperialist intervention in Libya. It was the Tuareg rebels who were fighting them but they were out-armed and unable to defend Tombuctou and most of the Tuareg's Saharan domain from them. Why should they be denounced for *in extremis* accepting help against the takfiri scum from any quarter? It seems that Lou's Francophobia, stemming from his Pabloite past glorification of the fascist FLN (responsible for ethnic cleansing and murders exceeding even those perpetrated by the Zionists in the nakba) has made him entirely insensitive to the genocides and lesser atrocities carried out by the Nazistic takfiris). Shane Mage Thunderbolt steers all things. Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64 Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Argentina. RR Donnelley: demonstration and road-block against the illegal closure
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Argentina. RR Donnelley: demonstration and road-block against the illegal closure of the multinational company’s factory in Buenos Aires Province http://www.ft-ci.org/Argentina-RR-Donnelley-demonstration-and-road-block-against-the-illegal-closure?lang=en Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Argentina. RR Donnelley: workers occupied the factory to put it into production
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Argentina. RR Donnelley: workers occupied the factory to put it into production against the illegal closure of the multinational company’s factory http://www.ft-ci.org/Argentina-RR-Donnelley-workers-occupied-the-factory-to-put-it-into-production?lang=en Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Argentina: Workers Occupy RR Donnelley Factory After Illegal Closure
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Argentina: Workers Occupy RR Donnelley Factory After Illegal Closure http://revolution-news.com/argentina-workers-occupy-rr-donnelley-factory-illegal-closure/ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Fwd: More Than 275 Scholars Declare They Will Not Engage With University of Illinois | Corey Robin
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[Marxism] Fwd: Reading Salaita in Illinois—by Way of Cary Nelson (part 1) | Mondoweiss
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Ever since the news broke on Aug. 6 that Steven Salaita’s faculty appointment at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) had been terminated due to tweets critical of Israel, the most prominent expert voice—indeed, the only expert mainstream voice—to emerge in support of the university’s decision has been UIUC English professor Cary Nelson. Nelson’s reputation as an advocate of academic freedom, having lectured and written at length on the subject and having served as the president of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), has made him the go-to voice on the Salaita affair in reports featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed, CNN, HuffPost Live, and elsewhere. But last January, I wrote a lengthy study of Cary Nelson’s stance toward academic boycotts and Palestine/Israel, calling into question his ability to professionally assess issues of academic freedom when the region is involved. As a follow-up to that piece, I shall demonstrate that Nelson’s authority to speak about Salaita’s termination is compromised on several counts: Nelson’s history of direct political opposition to Salaita, specifically on the issue of Israel and BDS (boycott, divestment, and sanctions). --Nelson’s undisclosed communications with the instigator of the attacks against Salaita—William Jacobson of the Legal Insurrection blog—specifically on the issue of Salaita. --Nelson’s membership, and even leadership, in organizations that seek to “strengthen[] the pro-Israel movement on campus,” “advocate on behalf of the State of Israel,” and counter “the far left’s attacks on Israel.” --Nelson’s now-contradictory stances on academic freedom that have even compelled the AAUP to distance itself from his comments. Nelson’s unfamiliarity with Twitter, which has led him to make embarrassingly ill-informed accusations. --Nelson’s refusal to acknowledge the existence of any interpretation of Salaita’s tweets other than his own, leading to a refusal to argue for his interpretation. --Nelson’s failure to disclose—and even his refusal to disclose at times—the conflicts of interest detailed above before offering a supposedly professional opinion on the matter. full: http://mondoweiss.net/2014/08/reading-salaita-illinois-1.html Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] A page from history: Syrian-Phalangist massacre of Palestinians in Tal al Zaatar
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == What was that? Some blabber about the resistance or something? About anti-imperialism or something? Over thousands and thousands of Palestinian dead bodies? MK clips: . The prospect of a victory for the Palestinians and their Lebanese allies spurred Israel and the United States to more direct action. In March of 1976, Israeli ships began a blockade of the leftist-controlled ports of Sidon and Tyre, stopping ships bound for Lebanon with arms and supplies. Israel shipped massive amounts of its own U.S.-supplied ammunition and supplies, including heavy weapons like rockets and tanks, to the rightists.7 The United States sent the helicopter carrier Guadalcanal, six other ships and seventeen hundred Marines to cruise off the Lebanese coast in April. They served as a grim reminder of the American Marine landing in Lebanon in 1958 on the side of the rightist government. But none of these moves stopped the Palestinians and Lebanese. Both Israel and the United States were alarmed, and Israel threatened to intervene directly. However, neither Israel nor the United States could invade Lebanon without risking a wider war and a massive international outcry. Only another Arab country could get away with sending its troops into Lebanon. Hafez Assad, the President of Syria, was ready to do just that. .. When the Palestinian-Lebanese offensive was on the brink of victory in the spring of 1976, Assad decided to send his army into Lebanon - once he had American permission. In March King Hussein of Jordan visited Washington, D.C., and told Ford and Kissinger that Assad was ready to intervene on the side of the rightists in Lebanon. This solved the American dilemma, and the United States agreed to restrain Israel from any counterattack. On May 31, tens of thousands of Syrian troops and hundreds of tanks crossed the border into Lebanon. The Syrian government, which had once been the consistent supporter of the Palestinian people, was now the powerful ally of the Lebanese rightists. Assad expected an easy advance. But at Sidon, Aley and Sofar, united Lebanese and Palestinian troops stopped the Syrian tanks and drove back the infantry. The battles were fierce and bloody. One captured Syrian soldier who had fought against Israel in the October War said: Even on the Golan, I never experienced such fighting. Here, in Sidon, it was street fighting, very difficult. The war on the Golan was very much easier.8 Assad had not counted on such determined resistance. Palestinians encouraged the Syrian soldiers to mutiny. In the next months, most members of Saiqa - the Syrian-supported Palestinian guerrilla group - defected to other organizations in the PLO. With his troops stalled and Saiqa weakened, Assad sanctioned increasingly brutal attacks on Palestinian camps by the rightists. The Syrians themselves began shelling camps in June. Finally Syria approved an all-out rightist assault on the refugee camp of Tal al Zaatar. Located in the rightist section of Beirut, Tal al Zaatar had withstood months of attacks and a blockade of food and supplies. The Syrians and rightists thought the destruction of the camp would weaken and demoralize the Palestinian and Lebanese movements. The rightists laid siege to the camp on June 21, 1976. During the next fifty-three days, they poured thousands of artillery shells and rockets into Tal al Zaatar. They mounted over seventy attacks on the camp. They blocked all food and medical supplies from going in and refused to allow the Red Cross to carry away the wounded. Yet the people of Tal al Zaatar stood firm. On August 13, after fifty-three days of unrelenting siege, the defenders of the camp let down their guard as the first Red Cross vehicles approached Tal al Zaatar with the permission of the rightists. The people of the camp believed that a final agreement between the Arab League and the International Red Cross to evacuate the camp had been reached. As the inhabitants of the camp began to leave their shelters, they saw they had been betrayed: behind the Red Cross vehicles were the rightist troops! As soldiers overran the camp, they unleashed a bloody massacre, gunning down defenseless civilians, including medical personnel. The rightists deliberately killed every Palestinian male between the ages of fourteen and forty. Before the camp was totally overwhelmed by the attackers, thousands of people were forced to flee; over two thousand people were killed. The rightists razed Tal al Zaatar to the ground. Rightists, Syrians and the American press all proclaimed that the fall of the camp signaled the beginning of the end for the Palestinians. But to every Palestinian and
[Marxism] Shameless Cooke knifes Syrian people’s resistance to Assad/ISIS fascism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Well, here's a nasty piece, but, sorry to say, thoroughly deserved: Shameless Cooke knifes Syrian people’s resistance to Assad/ISIS fascism: http://mkaradjis.wordpress.com/2014/08/13/shameless-cooke-knifes-syrian-peoples-resistance-to-assadisis-fascism/ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
