Re: [Marxism] Fwd: The Sanders campaign is officially over. Now his supporters wonder: What’s next? - The Washington Post

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On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 9:50 AM, Manuel Barrera via Marxism <
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>
> Trump is bad and so is Clinton, it's not really a contest.


To take that position you have to belittle the fact that the Trump campaign
has made white supremacy central to it to an extent far beyond that of any
major prez candidate in living memory.

Trump is not just another GOP candidate. Open white supremacists have
hi-jacked the Republican party. That's why the last 2 GOP POTUS & last 2
party leaders, the the GOP governor of the state where the RNC was weren't
there. That's why 50 GOP spooks just came out very strongly against him.
That why Susan Collins just said she won't vote for him.

Black people regularly get beaten up and thrown out of Trump rallies. This
doesn't happen at Clinton rallies.

Trump is building his own white supremacist militia.

Donald Trump represents something very new & dangerous in US politics and
we treat this like its just another election at our peril.

Clay, that large numbers of the oppressed are going to continue the
> illusion that change happens--or in this case, is defended or
> maintained--by electing one or the other capitalist in the capitalist
> elections.


I don't think they have that illusion. I think they know that won't make
revolutionary change, but they do know that is one small bit of leverage
that have so they are not likely to waste it in a "symbolic vote" that's a
left-liberal thing. Most people who even bother to vote will vote for
somebody they think can win, and they only have to think they may be a
little better off if the White House isn't occupied by someone who won it
with a campaign based on white supremacy. That doesn't require any
illusions so the only illusions I see are the ones you have about the
reasons people vote the way they do.

electing the one candidate with the SUREST ability to maintain, continue,
> and extend such a massacre is exactly the grand problem.
>

Are you thinking a Trump presidency is actually preferable from the POV of
revolution?


> Rather, your position is exactly as pathetic as the belief that Johnson
> would have ended a war that Nixon continued--Johnson left the field
> precisely because he could not be the one to continue it as he had
> succeeded in becoming the point of opposition. You seem so willing to
> ascribe the power and might of mass movement to a secondary player in the
> politics of the Vietnam era, leaving aside the mass sentiments generated by
> a great antiwar movement fueled by a worldwide youth radicalization, the
> revolutionary will of the Vietnamese people, and the resulting degeneration
> of the will of the imperialist troops. All of that, in many respects,
> undergirded by the courage and radicalization of the "black masses" of the
> 50's and 60's.


Manuel, how well do you know the details of Kissinger's sabotage of the
1968 peace negotiations, carried out to put Nixon is the WH? It took
Vietnam 30 years to win its liberation. We all know that now, but looking
back its hard to know with your certainty that it couldn't have ended in
26. A deal was very close, essentially the same deal that was made in 1972.
With the hindsight of history and the arrogance of youth, it easy to assert
that anyone that thought peace was possible in 1968 was pathetic. Was this
also true of the Vietnamese negotiators?

So, I'd really like to know if you know the details of the peace
negotiations in '68 and why they went south and have a theory about how
they would have anyway without Kissinger's intervention on behave of Nixon,
or are you just make a general speculation to make a political point. The
rhetoric that follows about the period I lived would lead me to believe so,


> the misleadership of what Black Agenda Report calls the "Black political
> class" is the primary reason why Blacks (and very much so why
> Chicanos/Latinos) will vote "in their best interest".


I assume you put "in their best interest" in quotes because you don't think
that is what they do. I disagree. I think that in every presidential
election in my lifetime at least 80% black people voted for the candidate
that could best serve their interest. They understood that to serve their
interest at all they had to win and the available choices were restricted
by white voters but given those real-world choices the majority of blacks
did vote in their best interest. The same can not be said about white
voters.

BAR is wrong to think the so-called "Black Political class" has a lot of
influence on how black people vote, just as it is wrong to think BAR
represents a political leadership that black people should follow. You
think the 

[Marxism] New on Redline

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Update on the Bilal Kayed and other Palestinians' hunger strike and
international solidarity: How about this for an intro:
https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/08/09/mobilising-around-the-world-in-support-of-bilal-kayed-and-the-palestinian-hunger-strikers/

The group of workers that we probably cover most on Redline is
firefighters.  Here's ourlaest Firefighters' News:
https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/08/07/15680/

Voting for the right lizard: Trump, Clinton and the evil of lesser-evilism:
https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/08/06/voting-for-the-right-lizard-trump-clinton-and-the-evil-of-lesser-evilism/

The stock market, profits and irrationality:
https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/08/05/the-stock-market-profits-and-irrationality/

Questions and answers on Palestinian hunger strikes:
https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/08/04/questions-and-answers-on-palestinian-hunger-strikes/

Cheers,
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Re: [Marxism] UK court knocks down attempt to rule out 130000 members from Labo0ur Part leadership vote

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Again, this is largely speculation from a distance.  Corbyn's dilemma is
that a large section of his potential base voted to leave.  If he ignores
that his party runs the risk of being wiped out as the Scottish Labour
Party was in response to their opposition to Scottish independence.

Paradoxically the near elimination of the Scottish Labour Party has helped
him because it has removed an element dominated by Catholic anti-Communist,
"wish the Cold War wasn't over" sentiment.

It was the move of the nationalists to the left that destroyed Labour in
Scotland. In effect, the Right is unelectable there.  Not that you will
read that in the Murdoch Press or hear it on the BBC.

As far as BREXIT goes the government's party seems to be trying to ignore
the result of the referendum, while pretending to negotiate the exit.
Corbyn has said something about achieving status similar to that of
Norway's.  That appears a reasonable solution to me, but the Right of the
Labour Party and the Lib Democrats want another referendum. I don't think
that will happen.

As for the internal tensions within the Labour Party, the Right and the
Soft Left and the Blairites must either split now or sue for peace. The
Secretary Iain McNicol and the Deputy Leader Tom Watson, however, seem to
want to fight on. Their own jobs are on the line, of course.

The crucial date is September and the Party conference when the new  NEC
takes over.  It will be dominated by Corbynistas and the Trade Unions. So
the Right, the Blairites and the Soft Left have no place to hide.  They
seem to have played all their cards except the split one.  And, while there
is some indication that some might try that, it will end in disaster for
them if they do.

Watson and McNicol have foolishly appealed the decision on the new
memberships' vote despite the judge telling them it was a hopeless option.
That would indicate they are like Hitler in the Bunker. I am surprised that
I have not yet seen a riff on 
featuring Tom Watson.

My best guess from here is that the alliance against Corbyn will break down
very quickly. There will be some demand made centered probably on an effort
to stave off re-selections for the coup plotters.  It is no longer in the
interest of Watson and co to continue the struggle for leadership. The best
they could come up with for a candidate is Owen Smith and he has been
forced to pretend he is more left than Corbyn.  No one has answered then
how that makes him more electable than Corbyn.  In the mean time the
election contest itself has morphed into a triumphal procession for Corbyn.

It is true that my predictions are based on the assumption that there is a
rational choice agent somewhere in the coalition against Corbyn. But
Kahneman and Ariely have frequently reminded us that the rational choice
agent is a fiction. So we may very well get *bellum omnium contra omnes *or
*Krieg ohne Politik*.

Corbyn's strength is that he is supported by an alliance between the Union
bureaucracy and a layer of young people who want to have ago against
neoliberalism. No one predicted the union bureaucracy would move decisively
to the left or that hundreds of thousands would flock into the Labour Party
to transform it into a force against neoliberalism. But then, as Bhaskar
used to say, no one has ever predicted a revolution.

comradely

Gary

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> There was considerable interest in English, Scots, and Northern Irish
> politics here and everywhere at the time of the referendum about leaving
> the EU or not.
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> events about that, if any?
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[Marxism] The neoliberal ("lesser evil") racist killing machine

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[Marxism] Venezuela: Slave labour or just growing more food?

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The United States media's latest offensive against Venezuela's socialist
President Nicolas Maduro targets a new sustainability program that
transplants urban workers to farmland. Some quarters of the mainstream
media have equated it with slave labour.

https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/62389
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Re: [Marxism] UK court knocks down attempt to rule out 130000 members from Labo0ur Part leadership vote

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There was considerable interest in English, Scots, and Northern Irish politics 
here and everywhere at the time of the referendum about leaving the EU or not.

What view does Corbyn put forward now concerning the future course of events 
about that, if any? 

T



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[Marxism] Black America doesn't have to wait for a Trump to feel threatened!

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Obama Administration Prepares to Reinforce the Militarized Police
Occupation of Black America - By Glen Ford


Obama's short-lived retreat from the federal government's frenzied
militarization of local police, announced

 with great fanfare in May of 2015, was his sole substantial concession to
the movement that swept the nation after the rebellion in Ferguson,
Missouri. The sight of armored vehicles and battle-ready cops on the
streets of American cities was an international embarrassment for the
United States -- bad "optics" for the First Black President's legacy.
However, the sad truth is that Obama is responsible for the biggest
escalation in the history of the one-sided war against Black America.



This was not simply a "surge" in militarization of the police; Obama
escalated the war against Black and brown communities by several orders of
magnitude. Based on these numbers, Obama is the biggest domestic war hawk
in the history of the United States -- bigger than Bush, Clinton and all
his predecessors since the genesis of the Black mass incarceration regime
in the late Sixties.


No wonder all it took was a conversation with two police organizations,
this month, to put Obama back on the urban warpath. His return to full
combat domestic mode is not an exaggerated response to the death of eight
cops in Baton Rouge and Dallas -- that was only an excuse to reinstate his
original Order of Battle. Obama came into office with the intention of
vastly reinforcing the two-generations-long siege of Black America, but was
temporarily chastened by the emergence of a resistance movement during his
second term. Now he's preparing to double-down on the strategy by setting a
new bar for the politicians that will follow him into the Oval Office:
Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump. Such is the legacy of the First Black
President.


In light of such stark realities, there can be no pause in mobilizing Black
America and its allies for the clashes to come. Clinton or Trump will
surely build on Obama's lethal legacy*.* Black people must draw on our own
legacy of resistance, with the clear understanding that self-determination
is the ultimate goal of the struggle. Self-determination -- which is the
purpose and fruit of democracy -- requires the ultimate expulsion of
occupying forces from Black communities. It is Black peoples’ -- and
*all *peoples’
-- right to achieve self-determination by any means necessary. The choice
of the means is the stuff of politics. It is critical that the full range
of self-determinationist politics be thoroughly explored by the emerging
Black movement with all deliberate speed, especially in light of Obama's
planned escalation of the war of occupation in Black America.



http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/37144-president-obama-prepares-to-reinforce-the-militarized-police-occupation-of-black-america
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[Marxism] Adolph Reed on Trotskyist opposition to the DP

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Adolph Reed: "For example, Trotskyists and others who fetishize 
association with Democrats as the greatest sin in politics want to argue 
that Sanders would have been more successful if he’d run as an 
independent." 
(https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/08/bernie-sanders-black-voters-adolph-reed-trump-hillary/)



No, the operative term was not "successful". It was "principled". In 
fact it is not "Trotskyists" that Reed has problems with. It is Marxism. 
Until the Popular Front of 1934, revolutionaries never backed bourgeois 
party candidates. In fact the CP merely dusted off traditional Social 
Democratic strategy and applied it using Stalinist pseudo-leftist 
rhetoric. This is a terrible historical burden that a self-avowed 
class-orthodox Marxist like Reed has to grapple with but he comes out a 
winner every time even if principles end up with the shitty end of the 
stick.

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Re: [Marxism] [UCE] Fwd: The Black Political Establishment Should Never Have Given Hillary Clinton a Blank Check - In These Times

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This interview speaks to Dennis’ point:

http://www.democracynow.org/2016/8/3/nypd_chief_bill_brattons_next_stop?utm_source=Democracy+Now%21_campaign=6d6f5aaa39-Daily_Digest_medium=email_term=0_fa2346a853-6d6f5aaa39-191836081
 


Christina Heatherton has a book on the subject:

https://www.amazon.com/Policing-Planet-Crisis-Black-Matter/dp/1784783161/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8=1470693639=8-1=christina+heatherton
 


Heatherton argues that hostile and brutal policing and mass incarceration is 
systemic and is carried on under both Republican and Democratic 
administrations. We’ve certainly seen that in NYC (with “broken windows” 
Bratton and De Blasio) and in Chicago with Emanuel.

Glenn
> I most certainly was not making light of the issue of pogroms/lynch mobs.
> In terms of what may happen if Trump is elected - which I highly doubt -
> all I see today are pogroms carried out weekly in cities all over the
> country by Klansmen in blue with badges, and NOT ONE has been prosecuted by
> the Obama "Justice" Department. Will a Hillary adminstration be any more
> vigilant in defense of Black America - the same people she demonized as
> "predators" in the 1990s? Those urging a vote for her as protection are
> leaving people defenseless.
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Re: [Marxism] [UCE] Fwd: The Black Political Establishment Should Never Have Given Hillary Clinton a Blank Check - In These Times

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I most certainly was not making light of the issue of pogroms/lynch mobs.
In terms of what may happen if Trump is elected - which I highly doubt -
all I see today are pogroms carried out weekly in cities all over the
country by Klansmen in blue with badges, and NOT ONE has been prosecuted by
the Obama "Justice" Department. Will a Hillary adminstration be any more
vigilant in defense of Black America - the same people she demonized as
"predators" in the 1990s? Those urging a vote for her as protection are
leaving people defenseless.

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> As to Dennis's comment about racist pogroms. I wouldn't make light of this
> subject. There have been racist pogroms in black America's past and might
> be our future if Trump and his supporters are victorious.
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[Marxism] Fwd: From an interview with Abbas Kiarostami | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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BC: It seems difficult for many artists today to treat individual 
psychological truth, sociopolitical reality, and artistic form with 
equal seriousness, with equal commitment. Is that a reasonable statement?


AK: I completely agree. As I have implied, moviemakers are always being 
pushed to focus on the excitation and manipulation of the audience. The 
question to which I don’t know the answer is whether or not the viewer 
wants to be manipulated. I don’t know anyone who says, “Instead of 
letting me see reality, manipulate me. I would prefer it.” This is an 
illness that comes from somewhere in society—maybe from escapist movies 
themselves.


BC: You yourself are choosing to make films about ordinary people, poor 
people. That itself is quite rare today.


AK: I get my material from all around me. When I leave my house in the 
morning, those ordinary people are the ones I come into contact with. In 
my entire life I have never met a star—somebody I have seen on the 
screen. And I believe that any artist finds his material in what’s 
around him. Human beings and their problems are the most important raw 
material for any film.


full: 
https://louisproyect.org/2016/08/08/from-an-interview-with-abbas-kiarostami/

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Re: [Marxism] [UCE] Fwd: The Black Political Establishment Should Never Have Given Hillary Clinton a Blank Check - In These Times

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First a comment on the article. I think this writer has an idea of a
monolithic "black leadership" that doesn't exist. I know what the "white
political establishment" is. That would be the 3 branches or govt, and 2
major parties and all the major news outlets to begin with. What is this
"black political establishment" the CBC PAC & NAACP? They have no kind of
hegemony over the black community. The critique of Lewis & CBC is correct,
calling them the black political establishment is to give the term
"political establishment" a fantastical new meaning. They don't determine
how black's vote.

As to Dennis's comment about racist pogroms. I wouldn't make light of this
subject. There have been racist pogroms in black America's past and might
be our future if Trump and his supporters are victorious.

In defense of that view, I'd like to offer a little of what I've found in
this morning's Googling as to why the question of racist pogroms shouldn't
be talked about in a dismissive way only by those not likely to suffer from
them.

Anyone serious about fighting white supremacy in the US has to understand
and combat this fast rising movement, those who tell us there is nothing
new to see here are its friends.


http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/06/trump-delegates-patriot-movement-militias
Trump Delegate Says Current US Leaders May Need to Be "Killed"
A Patriot Movement supporter, approved by the Trump campaign, talks of
violently overthrowing the federal government.

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/03/trump-militia-forms-to-forcefully-protect-rally-goers-against-far-left-agitators/
Trump militia forms to ‘forcefully protect’ rally goers against ‘far-left
agitators’

http://trumplionsguard.com/

This is NOT the web site of the organization that calls itself
The Lion Guard. This web site has been created to warn Americans who oppose
the presidential election of Donald Trump about the Lion Guard. The Lion
Guard web site is at LionsOfTrump [.net]

Fascist and Nazi Lion GuardOn Monday, March 15, a group calling itself the
Lion Guard has launched a web site, seeking to organize supporters of
Donald Trump into a militia to counter protests at Trump rallies. The group
claims to be “dedicated to the safety and security of Trump supporters,”
but has also declared itself willing to use violence, “willing to
forcefully protect” Donald Trump from people it perceives to be threats.

Over the weekend, the Lion Guard organized a Twitter account, which quickly
gained over 500 followers, but then shut down in under 24 hours. This led
many to believe that the Lion Guard was defunct. Attention to the militia
faded, but it soon popped up again at a different Twitter account, and now
is organizing through its own web site.
...
The reason Trump supporters use the lion in their materials is revealed in
the main image from the Lion Guard web site, the image you see at the top
of the article. The image of a lion is accompanied by the motto,“Better to
be a lion for a day than a lamb for eternity.”

That motto is almost a word-for-word translation of a favorite saying of
Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, who said, “It is better to live
a day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep.” Is it a coincidence that the
Lion Guard used this phrase in its call to form a militia for the “defense”
of Donald Trump from protesters?

Sadly, no. Donald Trump himself has used that same Mussolini quote to
promote his campaign. Trump refused to distance himself from Mussolini’s
words, and told reporters, when the public realized that Trump was citing a
bit of Fascist ideology, “It’s a very good quote.”

If there is any question that perhaps the lion isn’t really a symbol for
fascism, consider this image from the British Fascist party in the 1920s.
It features, front and center, a lion, and not a serene, peaceful,
defending lion, but a snarling lion, ready to attack.
...
The imagery of the Trump Lion Guard is also associated with Nazi Germany,
and with modern Nazi skinhead groups. One of the members of the Lion Guard,
using the Twitter username Rhalitra and the white supremacist “anti-cuck”
code word, appears to be at the core of the new organization, using a
clean, side profile version of the group’s lion icon that has been seen
nowhere else before.

Rhalitra also uses another form of the Lion Guard graphic, a black and
white version of the graphic in the middle of a good deal of ornamentation,
and the motto “God With Trump” on top. God with Trump sounds innocuous,
until one realizes that a nearly identical design was worn by Nazis during
World War II, with only one different word in the motto: Uns. The Nazi
motto was Gott Mit Uns — 

Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Syrian opposition groups close to breaking siege on Aleppo - Business Insider

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Important article. See all the quotes from Hadi Alabdallah; the most
specific I've yet seen challenging the hysterical claims about the Battle
of Aleppo being down to Nusrah 2.0

On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 2:01 PM, Louis Proyect via Marxism <
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[Marxism] Fwd: Syrian opposition groups close to breaking siege on Aleppo - Business Insider

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Re: [Marxism] can we trust Assange

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It doesn't remove all blame from Wikileaks but how the information ended
up published is a bit more complicated than those who claim
Assange/Wikileaks didn't care and wanted to publish the private
information:
https://glomardisclosure.com/2016/07/26/the-who-and-how-of-the-akp-hack-dump-and-wikileaks-release/
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Re: [Marxism] [UCE] Fwd: The Black Political Establishment Should Never Have Given Hillary Clinton a Blank Check - In These Times

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Why not? If Clay and others on the Left are correct that in 2016, Hillary
is all that stands between Black America and racist pogroms, then she needs
that blank check!

On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 7:59 AM, Louis Proyect via Marxism <
marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote:


> http://inthesetimes.com/article/19361/the-black-establishmen
> ts-blank-check-for-hillary
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Re: [Marxism] can we trust Assange

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 The Times has been the Clinton campaign newsletter since 2006 and makes no 
bones about it. Pravda had more objectivity! Alex Gibney is such a phony.

Best regards,
Andrew Stewart 

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Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2016 10:19:16 -0400
From: Louis Proyect 
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Subject: [Marxism] Can We Trust Julian Assange and WikiLeaks?
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NY Times Op-Ed, August 8 2016
Can We Trust Julian Assange and WikiLeaks?
By ALEX GIBNEY

The release of a cache of emails from the Democratic National Committee 
by WikiLeaks last month has raised a great many questions ? about the 
role of the D.N.C. in trying to influence the primary and about the 
alleged interference of Russian intelligence in an American election.

It also raised long-debated questions about WikiLeaks itself, about how 
an organization dedicated to radical transparency continues to bring 
secretive worlds to light. And the episode reveals some of the 
weaknesses of WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange, like their 
recklessness with personal data and their use of information to settle 
scores and drive personal agendas.

I?ve had my own run-ins with Mr. Assange. During the making of my 2013 
film, ?We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks,? I spent an agonizing 
six hours with him, when he was living in an English country house while 
out on bail. I was struck by how insistently he steered the conversation 
away from matters of principle to personal slights against him, and his 
plans for payback. He demanded personal ?intel? on others I had 
interviewed, and dismissed questions about the organization by saying, 
?I am WikiLeaks? repeatedly. (Later, Mr. Assange and his followers 
attacked both me and my film.)

Even given that history, I believe that WikiLeaks was fully justified in 
publishing the D.N.C. emails, which provided proof that members of the 
D.N.C., in a hotly contested primary, discussed how to undermine the 
campaign of Bernie Sanders. They are clearly in the public interest.

As for Mr. Assange?s animus against Hillary Clinton ? he has written 
that she ?lacks judgment and will push the United States into endless, 
stupid wars which spread terrorism? ? that is evidence of bias, but no 
more than that. After all, many news outlets are clearly, and sometimes 
proudly, biased.

We still don?t know who leaked the D.N.C. archive, but given Mr. 
Assange?s past association with Russia, it wouldn?t surprise me to learn 
that it was a Russian agent or an intermediary. Mr. Assange insists this 
is a mere distraction from the issue of D.N.C. interference, but the 
answer is also in the public interest. We should all be concerned 
(although hardly surprised) if it is that easy for the Russians to break 
into the D.N.C. and possibly United States government networks.

As for the way the leak was published, Mr. Assange and WikiLeaks have 
more to answer for. Contained in the D.N.C. archive were Social Security 
numbers and credit card data of private individuals, information that 
served no public interest. Mr. Assange defended this invasion of privacy 
by claiming that deleting the information would have harmed the 
integrity of the archive.

But there is a responsible tradition of redacting potentially harmful 
private information. In 2010, just before publishing the first Afghan 
war logs provided to WikiLeaks by Chelsea Manning, Mr. Assange and a 
group of journalists from The Guardian, The New York Times and Der 
Spiegel were engaged in a tussle over redacting the names of Afghan 
informants. The three publications all decided to do so, but Mr. Assange 
disagreed. As he told Nick Davies of The Guardian, ?If an Afghan 
civilian helps coalition forces, he deserves to die.?

Others present at this time insist that he was concerned about their 
safety but had little technical ability to do the redactions on a tight 
deadline. The net result: Mr. Assange held back 15,000 documents and 
published the rest, including the names of about 100 Afghan civilians.

There is no evidence that any of those people were killed. But people 
could have been hurt. And his refusal to redact allowed the United 
States government to deflect attention from the evidence of possible war 
crimes by claiming that Mr. Assange had blood on his hands.

In an underappreciated part of the WikiLeaks saga, computer-savvy 
volunteers at the organization corrected Mr. Assange?s mistake and used 
an inventive computer program to scrub names and identities from the 
second leak 

Re: [Marxism] Fwd: H-Net Review [H-War]: Demchak on Gorodetsky, 'The Maisky Diaries: Red Ambassador to the Court of St James's, 1932-1943'

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Notice the part about his friendship with Shaw and Wells - about whom
Trotsky in contrast had only biting remarks to make.
Once again, see Paul Flewers' book for more on these folks and their times
- and for food for thought about today's fellow travelers of despots (e.g.
Dennis's friend mentioned earlier today.
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[Marxism] Fwd: What If the Green Party Stopped Being Kooky and Started Getting Real? - POLITICO Magazine

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Hawkins, who has been active in alternative politics for many years, 
says the Democratic Party has abandoned the working class and the Green 
Party, as imperfect as it is, is the only possible vehicle for labor. 
“The Democratic Party ideology is the ideology of the professional 
class,” he says. “Meritocratic competition. Do well in school, get 
well-rewarded.”


They don’t stand all that strongly for people who work a job to earn a 
wage. “The biggest threat to the Democrats isn’t losing votes to the 
Greens,” Hawkins says. “Working class whites say, well, the Democrats 
don’t have all that much for us. And Trump sounds like he’s mad at the 
system. So they throw a protest vote to him.” And the Dems should also 
be worried about “the African-American, Latino, Asian working class. 
Barack Obama got them out twice, but he didn’t do a lot for them, and 
he’s not on the ticket this time.”


full: 
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/08/what-if-the-green-party-stopped-being-kooky-and-started-getting-real-214149

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Re: [Marxism] going over to the Baathist side

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Sorry to hear that Dennis, including because on a personal level every time
that happens it's gut-wrenching.

The bold, strong, witty expressions of those in Syria, proud to have turned
the tide in Aleppo, revives the heart - but makes the subsequent atrocities
perpetrated on them even more hard to bear.
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[Marxism] Fwd: Syrian war enters a new phase as factions realign | The National

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By Hassan Hassan

http://www.thenational.ae/opinion/comment/syrian-war-enters-a-new-phase-as-factions-realign
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[Marxism] UK court knocks down attempt to rule out 130000 members from Labo0ur Part leadership vote

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I'll give Gary MacLennan  a little support in his herculean attempts to
interest the list in what's going on in  British politics -it would be a
fool's errand to attempt to interest the largely  UScentric  list
membership  in anything so weird as Australian political developments.

Anyway this latest setback to the attempts by the British Labour Party
bigwigs to rig the leadership against Corbyn is an important development as
it makes it more likely that he will be able to rely on support from the
LP's rank and file to win against the rightist putsch.

The LP has now become an actual mass party. From a Marxist viewpoint
neither Corbyn nor the party are avatars of perfection but possibilities
are strongly opened beyond what is offered by the Greens in the US or
Australia. Really I think that taking on board some of these
developments could  actually be of interest and benefit list members
understanding of world events which do actually go on outside the US.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/aug/08/labour-must-allow-all-members-leadership-vote-court-rules
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[Marxism] Fwd: RELEASING TOMORROW 8/9: rural Indian Drama PARCHED - available on DVD & VOD

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This is a great film about women fighting against patriarchy in rural 
India that will be available VOD tomorrow.


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Subject: 	RELEASING TOMORROW 8/9: rural Indian Drama PARCHED - available 
on DVD & VOD

Date:   Mon, 8 Aug 2016 08:48:10 -0400 (EDT)
From:   Rico Helmecke / Matt Johnstone Publicity 
Reply-To:   rico.mjpublic...@gmail.com
To: l...@panix.com


This award-winning film is an evocative, vibrant drama of a three rural 
Indian women who begin to question the ancient traditions that hold them 
in servitude. One fateful night, the women come together and take a bold 
step that will change the trajectory of their lives forever. Starring: 
Lehar Khan, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Surveen Chawla, Radhika Apte. 
Cinematographer: Russell Carpenter (Titanic). Written, produced, and 
directed by Leena Yadav.


In a remote desert community of North West India -widowed Rani 
(Tannishtha Chatterjee, acclaimed for her starring role in Siddharth), 
her vivacious best friend Lajjo (Radhika Apte), and the erotic dancer 
Bijli (Surveen Chawla) - unapologetically talk about men, sex and life 
as they struggle under the oppressive rules of their traditional village 
ways. But when Rani is tasked to find a teenage bride for her entitled 
fifteen-year-old son, they begin to question this status quo that favors 
men, sends child brides to abusive husbands, and ostracizes women for 
being educated and opinionated.


With a bold visual confidence, filmmaker Yadav combines the stark 
realism of hostile desert landscapes with a Bollywood palette, vibrant 
tones that celebrate the unleashing of the women's repressed sensuality 
and dreams. Beautifully shot by Academy Award-winning cinematographer 
Russell Carpenter (Titanic), *PARCHED *elevates these women's heartfelt 
stories, transforming their struggles into a stirring portrayal of 
liberation.



#
*

*RELEASE PLATFORMS: *
*PARCHED* will be released via Wolfe Video on August 9th on DVD / VOD, 
across all digital platforms including iTunes, Vimeo On Demand, and 
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, 
and will also be available same date on DVD via Wolfe Video and many 
major retailers.


*ABOUT THE DIRECTOR*:
Born in Mhow, India, Leena Yadav is one of a vanguard of successful 
contemporary female directors working in India. She began her career as 
a successful editor on commercials and an assistant director for 
television, and then went on to direct for than 300 hours of television, 
including hit fiction shows and India's first reality TV show. She made 
her directorial debut with /Shabd/ (2005), wich she wrote, edited and 
directed - and which bravely explores the psychology of love, marriage, 
creativity and freedom.  Then then write and directed /Teen Patti/ 
(2010), starringtwo legends of cinema - Amitabh Bachchan and Academy 
Award Winner, Sir Ben Kingsley. /Parched (2015)/, her third feature 
film, world premiered at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival, 
and has garnered awards and critical acclaim in numerous festivals 
worldwide. It was deeply inspired by real life villagers she met and 
their resilient spirits.


*ABOUT WOLFE VIDEO:*
Founded in 1985 and now celebrating 30 years as the largest exclusive 
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including the Swiss Oscar and Golden Globes submission The Circle; the 
gorgeous lesbian drama by renowned Venezuelan director Fina Torres, Liz 
in September; and the epic international production by Finland's Mika 
Kaurasmäki, The Girl King. In 2016, Wolfe's releases will include the 
Thai Oscar submission How To Win at Checkers (Every Time); Henry 
Gamble's Birthday Party; Portrait of a Serial Monogamist, and Naz & 
Maalik. Wolfe's library of beloved modern classics includes such 
acclaimed hits as Cloudburst, Undertow, Desert Hearts and Big Eden. 
Wolfe's complete motion picture library can be found at WolfeVideo.com

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[Marxism] Syrian rebels cut government’s supply routes in Aleppo

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FT, August 8 2016
Syrian rebels cut government’s supply routes in Aleppo
Erika Solomon in Beirut

Syrian civil defence volunteers, known as the White Helmets, gather in a 
street in the northern city of Aleppo on August 6, 2016, in celebrations 
after rebels said they have broken a three-week government siege on 
Syria's second city Rebel groups successfully broke the siege by opening 
a new route into the city from the southwest, opposition officials said. 
Opposition fighters, Islamists and jihadists have waged fierce assaults 
since July 31 to end the siege by government forces of some 250,000 
people in Aleppo's eastern districts. Rebel and regime forces have 
fought for control of the provincial capital since mid-2012, 
transforming the former economic powerhouse into a divided, bombed-out city.


After breaking a weeks-long siege on the rebel-held half of Aleppo, 
opposition forces advancing through Syria’s largest city have turned the 
tables on regime forces — cutting the main supply routes to 
government-controlled districts that are home to more than 1m people.
Rockets rained down on both sides of the city — seen a key strategic 
prize in Syria’s five-year war — with President Bashar al-Assad’s forces 
backed by Russian air strikes and rebels launching artillery rounds into 
the regime-held south-western districts of Hamdaniya.


As the fighting rages there are concerns that Aleppo’s humanitarian 
disaster risks spreading to both sides of the northern city, which is 
split between the opposition forces and regime troops. An estimated 
300,000 residents in rebel-held areas have been trapped for weeks by a 
government’s siege, and widely anticipated relief has been intermittent 
despite the opposition’s gains.


Rebels aligned with jihadi forces launched a surprisingly quick 
offensive last week that was initially described as their last stand in 
the city — the opposition’s only major urban stronghold. Their success 
in breaking the government’s siege has revived opposition hopes that the 
battle could instead turn into one of the biggest military challenges to 
Mr Assad in years.


For months, control of Aleppo has been seen as an opportunity to gain 
leverage ahead of future peace talks. A US-Russian brokered peace 
framework was expected to be agreed this month, along with a fresh round 
of negotiations in Geneva. But both plans have been thrown into doubt by 
the Aleppo battle.


The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based monitoring group, 
said on Monday that the government had managed to bring in dozens of 
truckloads of food and fresh troops to bolster its forces.


But in western Aleppo, prices shot up at the weekend after government 
forces lost ground in the south-west of the city. Residents took to 
social media to complain about the sudden rise in prices, accusing some 
vendors of hiding food stuffs to sell later.


“Our friends in Aleppo say that in their visits to the markets, food 
stuffs are ‘disappearing’ in the blink of an eye,” wrote the Facebook 
group, ‘Corruption in the Time of Reform’, which is pro-government but 
criticises local corruption. “Vegetables are slowly disappearing with 
every position the army loses . . . They (the shopkeepers) are a 
principle partner in the war on the people of Aleppo.”

In depth

In the rebel-held east, pick-up trucks laden with fresh fruit and 
vegetables came into the area for the first time in weeks, but aid 
workers say that the shelling is so fierce, they still have no reliable 
route into the area.


“Only a very small amount (of goods) have entered to raise spirits, not 
to fill empty stomachs,” said Osama Abu al-Ezz, a doctor in Aleppo. “The 
Russian air planes are monitoring every movement in the liberated areas 
and are targeting them.”


Many observers worry that instead of a major victory for either side, 
Aleppo could sink into a brutal battle of attrition.
Russia, which intervened on Mr Assad’s behalf in September, could 
escalate air strikes, but Syrian regime forces have been unable to hold 
territory.


Two activists and a rebel fighter said that in the past few weeks, 
foreign backers have sent a huge influx of cash and weapons over the 
Turkish border, including new artillery rockets.
But despite those weapons, it is unclear whether the rebels can 
effectively use the territory they have captured as they are under 
constant air bombardment.


The fighting may also spread further across the largely rebel-held north.

On Saturday night, incendiary bombs hit neighbouring Idlib province, 
lighting up the night sky with explosions that activists blamed on

Russian jets.

Rebels insist they will treat 

[Marxism] [UCE] Fwd: The Black Political Establishment Should Never Have Given Hillary Clinton a Blank Check - In These Times

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[Marxism] Fwd: Syria’s rebels unite to break Assad’s siege of Aleppo | World news | The Guardian

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