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Although I have a low profile, you can add me to the list of those who are 
against the Russian backed "separatists". 

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[Marxism] 'Greece needs solidarity': European Left calls for mass protests against austerity

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In response the attempted blackmail by the European Central Bank (ECB) of
Greece's new anti-austerity SYRIZA government in response to its bid to
renegotiate its crippling debt and austerity programs, the Party of the
European Left  has called for mass
demonstrations from February 11-17 in support of Greece. You can read about
the latest developments in Greece's battle with the European elites here
.

The European Left unites a range of left-wing parties across Europe,
including SYRIZA. The statement below calling for mass mobilisations
was released
on February 6

by
European Left President Pierre Laurent.

https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/58223

-- 
“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
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[Marxism] New at The Irish Revolution

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The bould Shinners have certainly stolen a march, a big one, on both Fianna
Fail and the government by announcing their 100th anniversary celebrations
of the Rising.  And that these celebrations are open to all.  In other
words, they are effectively acting as if they are the government and the
state and the inheritors of the mantle of 1916, all rolled into one. . .
Full at:
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The ‘Censored’ public lecture series has returned to the National Print
Museum/Músaem Náisiúnta Cló.  It actually began on January 15, so I have
been somewhat remiss in advertising it.

This part of the series will focus on censorship in Ireland, 1700-2000. The
speakers are looking at a range of topics relevant to the history of
censorship in Ireland, including the impact of major developments in
printing technology. Individual writers like Jonathan Swift and Kate
O’Brien, whose works prompted controversies that resulted in works by them
being banned, will also receive attention. The lectures are free to attend
with each paper lasting an hour, including question time.  Admission is
free but, because there is a limited number of seats, it’s best to book in
advance. . .

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[Marxism] Add me to the list, too

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Re: [Marxism] Ukraine

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Poor analogy and as meaningless as the argument that the US client regime is 
all fascist.  



On Feb 7, 2015, at 5:45 PM, Louis Proyect  wrote:

> On 2/7/15 2:23 PM, Ron J wrote:
>> But this is about a lot more than the concerns of the average Ukrainian. 
>> Those concerns merely make it easier for the US supported government to 
>> manipulate Ukrainians to war.
> 
> Funny thing here.
> 
> Kim Scipes wrote about this stuff a few days ago 
> (http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/02/06/us-ukraine-and-russia-what-went-wrong),
>  giving his nod to John Mearsheimer, the U. of Chicago "realist":
> 
> ->Mearsheimer labeled Russia’s response "highly understandable." Russia made 
> clear this situation was "categorically unacceptable." He said that if we 
> wanted a good analogy, we should look at the US response to the Soviet 
> Union’s placement of missiles in Cuba in 1962 or even the Monroe Doctrine 
> itself, which he described as telling other world powers to stay out of "our 
> neighborhood," the entire Western Hemisphere.<-
> 
> That this appalling analogy has so much traction with the left makes me all 
> the more committed to my stand on Ukraine. Think about it. Mearsheimer says 
> that Russia has just as much right to control what happens on its borders or 
> nearby as the USA had in Cuba. What kind of left can read this horseshit and 
> pat itself on the back that an establishment figure has come over to "our 
> side". In reality, it is the left that has gone over to his side and don't 
> you ever forget it.
> 

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Re: [Marxism] Ukraine

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I would argue firstly that it was Britain was the greatest imperial power. 
Germany quickly became the biggest threat to world peace in the 1930s. While we 
can certainly refer to the 1930s for indicators, Russia is not today's third 
reich neither in terms if its domestic politics or its territorial ambitions. 



On Feb 7, 2015, at 4:48 PM, Clay Claiborne  wrote:

> I US was also the biggest imperialist power in the 1930's. Was it also the 
> primary threat to world peace? Or was that Britain then?
> 
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>> But this is about a lot more than the concerns of the average Ukrainian. 
>> Those concerns merely make it easier for the US supported government to 
>> manipulate Ukrainians to war.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Feb 7, 2015, at 12:13 PM, Louis Proyect  wrote:
>> 
>> > On 2/7/15 11:57 AM, Ron J via Marxism wrote:
>> >> Both sides are proxies for outside interests. US imperialism remains the 
>> >> primary threat to world peace, not a wannabe empire in Moscow.
>> >
>> > That's definitely true but for the average Ukrainian, Russia has been a 
>> > threat to Ukrainian peace for 300 years.
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Re: [Marxism] Ukraine

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On 2/7/15 2:23 PM, Ron J wrote:

But this is about a lot more than the concerns of the average Ukrainian. Those 
concerns merely make it easier for the US supported government to manipulate 
Ukrainians to war.


Funny thing here.

Kim Scipes wrote about this stuff a few days ago 
(http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/02/06/us-ukraine-and-russia-what-went-wrong), 
giving his nod to John Mearsheimer, the U. of Chicago "realist":


->Mearsheimer labeled Russia’s response "highly understandable." Russia 
made clear this situation was "categorically unacceptable." He said that 
if we wanted a good analogy, we should look at the US response to the 
Soviet Union’s placement of missiles in Cuba in 1962 or even the Monroe 
Doctrine itself, which he described as telling other world powers to 
stay out of "our neighborhood," the entire Western Hemisphere.<-


That this appalling analogy has so much traction with the left makes me 
all the more committed to my stand on Ukraine. Think about it. 
Mearsheimer says that Russia has just as much right to control what 
happens on its borders or nearby as the USA had in Cuba. What kind of 
left can read this horseshit and pat itself on the back that an 
establishment figure has come over to "our side". In reality, it is the 
left that has gone over to his side and don't you ever forget it.


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Re: [Marxism] Ukraine

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I US was also the biggest imperialist power in the 1930's. Was it also the
primary threat to world peace? Or was that Britain then?

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> Those concerns merely make it easier for the US supported government to
> manipulate Ukrainians to war.
>
>
>
> On Feb 7, 2015, at 12:13 PM, Louis Proyect  wrote:
>
> > On 2/7/15 11:57 AM, Ron J via Marxism wrote:
> >> Both sides are proxies for outside interests. US imperialism remains
> the primary threat to world peace, not a wannabe empire in Moscow.
> >
> > That's definitely true but for the average Ukrainian, Russia has been a
> threat to Ukrainian peace for 300 years.
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[Marxism] Fwd: A panel discussion on the new Syriza government | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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Last night I attended a forum on Greece after the elections organized by 
the Campaign for Peace and Democracy that was introduced and then 
chaired by two of its leaders, Thomas Harrison and Joanne Landy. I will 
not offer much detail on the talks since the whole thing can be seen on 
Youtube.


I will say this, however. The two most useful speakers were those who 
were not connected to vanguard formations. Natassa Romanaou, a Syriza-NY 
member and Columbia University professor, basically presented her 
party’s perspectives. Nantina Vgontzas, a sociology PhD student at NYU, 
was the most analytical of all the presenters who sized up the class 
forces in play in both Greece and Europe. If you don’t have the patience 
to watch the Youtube video above, I recommend a look at her FB analysis 
of the elections.


What I want to turn to now are the three spokesmen for the Leninist left 
on the panel whose presentations helped clarify my thinking on the 
theoretical challenges of the current stage of the struggle in Greece. I 
will conclude with some observations about the economic problems 
underlying the political divisions that were addressed to varying 
degrees, but not completely to my satisfaction, by the three. I will 
review them in order of sanity.


Iannis Delatolas is described by the organizers as an art photographer, 
a founding member of AKNY, and a supporter of Antarsya-MARS and of the 
International Socialist Tendency (IST). MARS is an acronym for the 
United Radical Left Front, which Antarsya is aligned with, not a 
reference to the group’s planet of origin. MARS is itself an alliance 
that includes the Plan B group founded by a former Syriza leader who is 
for a Grexit. Apparently two groups in Antarsya are opposed to working 
with the MARSIANS because they are not radical enough. Since one is 
linked to Callinicos’s International Socialist Tendency, I am not 
exactly sure how Delatolas did not get called on the red carpet. The 
other group is linked to the NPA in France. For the two groups, the 
litmus test is support for what they call a revolutionary rupture. No 
hernia belt is required.


full: 
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[Marxism] SYRIZA Variufakis Confessions of an Erratic Marxist (2013)

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Correction to the subject heading: The date of the blog article by Yanis 
Varoufakis is December 2013 NOT 2014. 

In Solidarity,
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[Marxism] SYRIZA Varoufakis Confessions of an Erratic Marxist (2014) | Portside

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Re: [Marxism] Ukraine

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But this is about a lot more than the concerns of the average Ukrainian. Those 
concerns merely make it easier for the US supported government to manipulate 
Ukrainians to war. 



On Feb 7, 2015, at 12:13 PM, Louis Proyect  wrote:

> On 2/7/15 11:57 AM, Ron J via Marxism wrote:
>> Both sides are proxies for outside interests. US imperialism remains the 
>> primary threat to world peace, not a wannabe empire in Moscow.
> 
> That's definitely true but for the average Ukrainian, Russia has been a 
> threat to Ukrainian peace for 300 years.

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Re: [Marxism] Ukraine

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On 2/7/15 11:57 AM, Ron J via Marxism wrote:

Both sides are proxies for outside interests. US imperialism remains the 
primary threat to world peace, not a wannabe empire in Moscow.


That's definitely true but for the average Ukrainian, Russia has been a 
threat to Ukrainian peace for 300 years.

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[Marxism] Disappearing the culture of Palestinians

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The issue with Israel is much more serious than that. For more than a
century, the Zionist movement has colonized Palestine, and since 1948,
Israel has engaged in the systematic physical destruction of Palestine,
ethnic cleansing of Palestinian communities and the erasure of Palestinian
folkways.

This has included the systematic renaming of places

 with Hebrew and pseudo-biblical names, again, as part of a process of
erasure and replacement.

At the same time, Israel recodes indigenous peoples’ cultures as its own
and Palestinians correctly see this as an attempt to complete the erasure:
the Palestinians were never there, but the ancient traditions of the land
were there and were always Jewish or Israeli.

Therefore, resisting Israeli cultural appropriation and ensuring that
things are correctly named is part of the process of resisting the ongoing
Zionist ethnic cleansing of Palestine.

http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/why-sahlab-and-hummus-still-arent-israeli?utm_source=EI+readers&utm_campaign=8bfc55349d-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e802a7602d-8bfc55349d-290662377
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[Marxism] LBJ doesn't deserve credit for Selma!

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Re: [Marxism] Ukraine

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The "separatists" in eastern Ukraine are "annexationist s" no more or less than 
the Kiev government is independent from NATO. Both sides are proxies for 
outside interests. US imperialism remains the primary threat to world peace, 
not a wannabe empire in Moscow. 



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[Marxism] Fwd: CP of Greece, On the dangerous and misleading campaign of so-called “solidarity with the Greek people” [En, Ru, Es, Ar]

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This was on a leaflet being passed out by a member of the Party of 
Communists USA in front of the meeting on Syriza at NYU last night:


http://solidnet.org/greece-communist-party-of-greece/cp-of-greece-on-the-dangerous-and-misleading-campaign-of-so-called-solidarity-with-the-greek-people-en-ru-es-ar


Comment of the International Relations Section of the CC of the KKE

At the same time as the discussions and meetings of the new Greek 
SYRIZA-ANEL government are under way at an international level, before 
the beginning of the official negotiations with the “European partners” 
and “lenders”, a “campaign of solidarity with the Greek people and left 
government” is being promoted by certain forces abroad.


However, if someone looks at the real conditions and facts in an 
objective way they would notice that the following are at the centre of 
the negotiations: how the people will continue to pay the high price for 
the debt that they did not create, how the competitiveness of the 
business groups will be reinforced, how the “reforms” will proceed 
(which ,as the Prime Minister A. Tsipras stressed during his meeting 
with the French President F. Hollande on 4/2 are aims of the government, 
no one is imposing them), how ready money will be secured for capital’s 
recovery.


We remind ourselves that the SYRIZA-ANEL coalition government has made 
it clear that there will be a new program, in agreement with the 
lenders. That all the commitments to the “predators of the markets” will 
be observed, which means that the people will pay for the loans.  That 
it will work for the salvation of “our common European home”, i.e. the 
EU, which is an imperialist union. It will honour its “obligations” to 
NATO. And a characteristic example of all this is that the new 
government voted for the EU sanctions against Russia, the same sanctions 
that the previous government had voted for. It has also assured Israel 
that Greece’s cooperation with Israel will continue.


When SYRIZA and its allies abroad talk about ‘the end of austerity”, in 
reality they are talking about supporting capital and the continuation 
of a “frugal life” for the people, something which the new Finance 
Minister Y. Varoufakis spoke of as being necessary. The workers will 
continue to live in impoverishment, with downgraded rights and needs, 
even if the very few measures to manage extreme poverty, which have been 
promised by the SYRIZA-ANEL coalition government, are implemented.


The workers of other countries must in no instance become cheerleaders 
for  negotiations that are alien to the interests of the Greek workers. 
This is a campaign that is being orchestrated by the “Party of the 
European Left” and other “flotsam and jetsam” of the class struggle, 
like the CPUSA. The workers in other countries must stand in solidarity 
with the class-oriented labour and people’s movement, which is calling 
on the workers and popular strata to struggle to recover all the losses 
they suffered during the crisis period, to safeguard their contemporary 
rights and the satisfaction of their needs and to create the 
pre-conditions for a change of the class that is in power.

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Re: [Marxism] Greece: Why SYRIZA made the deal with the Independent Greeks (ANEL) | Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal

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On 07/02/2015 09:48 πμ, glparramatta via Marxism wrote:


By *Haris Triandafilidou*



Full article at http://links.org.au/node/4283
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The political division between right and left has a very extraordinary, 
phoenix-like, quality:It may be ad infinitum repeatedly overtaken 
outdated or banned as we have witnessed the last 20-30 years.
Since, according to Triandafilidou, this time they are the 
"Pro-memoranda and anti-memoranda attitudes" that  "have overtaken the 
political division between right and left" in Greece, there is no reason 
to worry about Kammenos.
Whether he is in the far right (as it is actually the case) or he is an 
almost leftist as Haris Triandafilidou introduces him, does not matter 
at all.


But in that case we should be worried about many other appointments, 
which are not covered by the not-enough-parliamentary-seats alibi. About 
the head of the state intelligence (EYP) being from  pro-memoranda 
Pasok, about the head of the foundation of social assurances (IKA) being 
a well known Pasok ex minister, about deputy minister of defense being 
the architect of Pasok defense policy in 2009 and a consultant of 
Papandreou govt which initiated the memoranda, about the deputy minister 
in charge of the police being a prominent member of the pro-memoranda 
Dimar. Shouldn't we?


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[Marxism] Fwd: Islamic State Cleric Facing Trial for Objecting to Jordanian Pilot’s Death by Fire | VICE News

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[Marxism] In Islamic State Stronghold of Raqqa, Foreign Fighters Dominate

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Wall Street Journal, Feb. 4 2015

In Islamic State Stronghold of Raqqa, Foreign Fighters Dominate
Influx is Altering the Course of Syrian War

By YAROSLAV TROFIMOV

SANLIURFA, Turkey—In Islamic State’s de facto capital of Raqqa, a Syrian 
city on the banks of the Euphrates, few Syrians hold positions of power 
these days. Running the show, residents say, are the thousands of 
foreigners who have converged there to establish an Islamic utopia they 
believe will soon conquer the planet.


ANALYSIS

“What we have is a foreign occupation,” said Sarmad al-Jilane, a former 
electronics student from Raqqa who now runs a website from neighboring 
Turkey documenting Islamic State abuses in his hometown called Raqqa Is 
Being Slaughtered Silently. “Those who are paid by them, like them, of 
course. But most others hate them because of all these killings and 
beheadings.”


Around 20,000 foreign fighters have joined Islamic State in Syria and 
Iraq over the past two years, Western intelligence officials estimate. 
While many nationalities are represented, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, 
Morocco, Russia and France have produced some of the largest contingents.


As this unprecedented influx continues, mostly through Syria’s long and 
porous border with Turkey, the rise of the foreign fighters is changing 
the very nature of the Syrian war.


In the early days of the conflict, many of these combatants came to 
Syria because of their desire to defend fellow Sunni Muslims against 
President Bashar al-Assad ’s regime.


Now, their main motivation often appears to be participating in the 
experiment of creating a new Islamic society—an experiment in which the 
fate of Syria and Syrians is secondary at best.


“People go now because they envisage a future there, not just because 
they want to fight on behalf of the Syrian people,” said Thomas 
Hegghammer, an expert on Islamic State and director of terrorism 
research at the Norwegian Defense Research Establishment. “Many think it 
is a historical project that they can be part of, and that they will be 
remembered for being among the first—almost like the companions of the 
prophet.”


Islamic State ideologues often compare this migration of foreign 
fighters to Raqqa with the “hijra” or journey of Prophet Muhammad to the 
city of Medina, a milestone that established the original Islamic state 
14 centuries ago—and which marks the beginning of the Islamic calendar.


Islamic State’s leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, an Iraqi like many of the 
group’s other senior officials, has declared a caliphate that he vowed 
would eventually take over the world. He called on all Muslims to make a 
similar hijra to the territory his group has captured in Syria and Iraq.


The group’s chief military commander in Syria is Tarkhan Batirashvili, 
an ethnic Chechen from Georgia. The executioner in some of its videos, 
known as “Jihadi John,” is a Briton.


Friction between such foreign fighters and local tribes brought the 
demise of jihadist rule in Iraq’s western province of Anbar during the 
so-called Sunni Awakening in 2007-08. The scale of foreign presence, 
however, is exponentially larger in Islamic State-held territory 
now—especially in places such as Raqqa, abandoned by a large portion of 
its native population.


The privileges afforded to the foreigners are clear everywhere and they 
begin with pay. While foreign fighters are usually not drawn by 
financial considerations, in Raqqa they earn about $800 a month, 
including special allowances, compared with $400 a month for Syrian 
fighters, according to local residents and Syrian rebels whom Islamic 
State had tried to recruit. Rebels in the moderate, U.S.-backed Free 
Syrian Army say they earn $100 or less.


Foreigners are also considered more valuable than Syrians during 
prisoner exchanges.


“For one foreign fighter, we can exchange many Syrians,” said Nidal 
Salem, who commands a unit of the Free Syrian Army in the northern 
Aleppo province, the westernmost point of Islamic State’s advance.


On the front lines, the Free Syrian Army troops have learned to fear and 
respect these foreign fighters. Many have arrived in Syria with military 
experience from other jihadist battlefields. Others, driven by ideology, 
are simply far more willing to die than their enemies.


“You shoot at them, and they continue to advance, walking all over their 
dead friends,” says Bakri Kaakeh, an officer with the Free Syrian Army 
in Aleppo province. “They just don’t care.”


While Islamic State’s Syrian soldiers can often be bribed to turn a 
blind eye to offenses against the group’s strict rules, the idealistic 
foreigners have the reputatio

[Marxism] Podemos economic program

[Red arnie via Marxism]

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I am looking for an English translation of the 68 page economic program written 
by two economic professors and published by Podemos in November 2014 entitled 
Un Proyecto Economico para la Gente (An Economic Project for the People).

Without a complete translation, how can we intelligently analyze Podemos?

In Solidarity,
Red Arnie
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[Marxism] Labor Protests Sweep Iran

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http://www.payvand.com/news/15/feb/1024.html
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[Marxism] My Razor Sharp interview on 2 February with Sharon Firebrace

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My Razor Sharp interview on 2 February with Sharon Firebrace

This is the link to my 30 minute Razor Sharp interview on 2 February 
with Sharon Firebrace. We discuss among other things the Queensland 
election that saw the one term Liberal National Party and its massive 
majority dumped, austerity, the Abbott government and the need to resist 
it and its program of shifting wealth from workers to capitalists among 
a range of topics.



http://enpassant.com.au/2015/02/07/my-razor-sharp-interview-on-2-february-2015-with-sharon-firebrace/

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