Re: [Marxism] L.I.U.-Brooklyn Locks Out Professors Amid Contract Dispute

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> (Every trade unionist in NY should rally to the defense of these professors, 
> especially those who are also college professors represented by the PSC or 
> any other union. As the IWW put it, an injury to one is an injury to all. The 
> Deborah Mutnick mentioned in the article was a member of the CISPES chapter 
> in NY back in the early 80s with me. She is still fighting the good fight.)

Thanks, Louis.

I joined 30 or so PSC people today at the rally to support more than 400 
Brooklyn LIU faculty members who have been locked out of their classrooms, with 
both their salaries and health benefits terminated. Hundreds of faculty and 
students rallied and picketed outside the campus, along with a sizable group of 
blue-collar workers (electricians, carpenters, custodians) who also are working 
without a contract. The huge inflatable rat was present, the speeches were 
militant, and there was a multi-racial group of about 30 students with signs 
supporting the faculty.

Management hired a couple hundred advanced degree scabs. One of the prominent 
issues is management’s demand that salaries for adjuncts be lowered. A number 
of speakers made the point that LIU has a long history of racism, and that the 
Brooklyn LIU campus is far more integrated than the LI campus and faculty at 
the Brooklyn campus have lower salaries.

The enthusiasm of people at the rally and picket line was inspiring. 

The AFT has established a Solidarity Fund for the LIUFF — but hasn’t called for 
thousands of UFT and AFT members in NYC to come to LIU, which it has the power 
to do:

https://www.aft.org/liu-solidarity?link_id=1_id=55fac76425b6766c697228d22efe8dff=email-the-lockout-continues-at-liu_referrer=the-lockout-continues-at-liu___103855_subject=the-lockout-continues-at-liu
 



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Re: [Marxism] seeking Henry Kissinger's endorsement

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I do recall BAR posting some arguments that Trump is "anti-imperialist," so
while they may not be pro-Trump, I think Clay is correct that they've at
least posted some Trump apologetics.

Here is the piece in particular:
http://www.blackagendareport.com/trump_anti-empire

And here is the antidote:
https://newrepublic.com/article/135775/liberals-keep-calling-donald-trump-dove

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Re: [Marxism] seeking Henry Kissinger's endorsement

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On 9/7/16 9:06 PM, Clay Claiborne via Marxism wrote:

**

Black Agenda Report is pro-Trump, which is extremely rare among black
organizations. In fact, its the only one I know of.


Yeah, well, BAR is as "pro-Trump" as me, Jill Stein, and anybody else 
who doesn't want to join the Hillary Clinton express. If you want to use 
Marxist language to make this bogus argument even slightly credible, you 
need to say that we are "objectively pro-Trump". When you throw in 
"objectively", it gives you the necessary wiggle room.

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Re: [Marxism] FW: Bolivia's 'process of change' needs a change in course - Pablo Solón

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thanks, enormously useful, looking forward to the next two articles
described.


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> Pablo Solón published the article below in February of this
> year, just days after the narrow defeat of a referendum
> sponsored by the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) government
> that would have allowed a constitutional amendment to enable
> President Evo Morales and Vice-President Álvaro García
> Linera to be candidates again in the 2019 elections. He
> analyzes what he considers to be the “underlying problems”
> encountered to date by the “process of change,” and offers
> some useful suggestions on how to renew that process and
> carry it forward, based on measures that would turn it in a
> direction more consistent with the ecosocialist discourse of
> Morales in international forums. The translation and notes
> are by me.
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> Full: http://tinyurl.com/hqhdmmm
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Re: [Marxism] seeking Henry Kissinger's endorsement

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I should also add that maybe Glenn Ford might want to pull a Jill Stein

on this blog post given the powerful new military Trump called for today.

Clay

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> Black Agenda Report is pro-Trump, which is extremely rare among black
> organizations. In fact, its the only one I know of.
>
>  http://www.blackagendareport.com/trump_anti-empire
>
> Of course, they are also pro-Putin, pro-Gaddafi and pro-Assad, so go
> figure.
>
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Re: [Marxism] seeking Henry Kissinger's endorsement

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Black Agenda Report is pro-Trump, which is extremely rare among black
organizations. In fact, its the only one I know of.

 http://www.blackagendareport.com/trump_anti-empire

Of course, they are also pro-Putin, pro-Gaddafi and pro-Assad, so go figure.

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> For a different opinion, see:
>
> http://blackagendareport.com/black_millennials_reject_duopoly
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> >Sent: Sep 6, 2016 1:59 AM
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> >Subject: Re: [Marxism] seeking Henry Kissinger's endorsement
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> >This is what I'm seriously trying to understand. Just as an example A.R.F.
> >you give this summation:
> >
> > the Republicans are in a similar place as us, but for
> >> different reasons: they, too, do not see "their" candidate on the
> ballot. I
> >> think it was obvious that most of the traditional Republican Party types
> >> were backing Rubio and Cruz. Now they're being expected to endorse the
> guy
> >> who insulted them and their families, who accused the last GOP
> President of
> >> failing to stop 9/11 (while hanging out with people who think he was in
> on
> >> it), who mocked one of the last GOP nominees for being captured and
> >> tortured by communist guerrillas in Vietnam, and who spent much of his
> time
> >> in the orbit of the Clintons. On the other hand, they have Clinton, who
> >> they and their party machine have spent decades painting as a Communist
> (if
> >> only!).
> >>
> >> So I would not put too much stock into who the Republicans end up
> >> endorsing, whether Clinton, Trump, Johnson or nobody. They are in panic
> >> mode as their party collapses.
> >
> >
> >And the national question doesn't enter the discussion at all. Its like
> the
> >above is just about how white people see the election. Differences around
> >McCain get mentioned, differences around the national question ignored. I
> >mean why is the GOP collapsing? Doesn't the national question loom large
> on
> >that question? How about the Brexit vote? the AfD victory? I see a growing
> >white nationalist influence in all of this, but generally speaking, people
> >on this list don't.   People of color don't spend 2 paragraphs on this
> >election without touch on the questions of white nationalist, Trump's
> >hateful message and dangerous threats. I'm trying to understand why it is
> >so different here. I know you are all tired of hearing from me about it
> but
> >I'm just trying to understand the disconnect.
> >
> >Regards,
> >
> >Clay
> >
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[Marxism] Green Party Jill Stein's campaign in context

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http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/2016/09/green-party-jill-steins-campaign-in.html


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Re: [Marxism] [marxism-thaxis] Pavlov, Soviet psychology, and Harry K. Wells

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 The kind of pro-Pavlov line in the CPUSA by Harry K. Wells in the 1950's and 
1960's by Wells was continued in later decades by writers like  Joseph Nahem, 
who was a longtime activist in the CPUSA, who endured harassment and 
persecution in the McCarthy period. He would eventually acquire a PhD when he 
was over sixty years old. A few years after, in 1981, he put out a book, 
through International Publishers, titled, Psychology and Psychiatry Today: A 
Marxist View.  Like Wells, he was very pro-Pavlov. He condemned just about 
every other school in psychology and psychotherapy as being unscientific and 
reactionary. Thus, he condemned psychoanalysis and humanistic psychology. He 
even condemned B. F. Skinner's radical behaviorism too, despite its avowed 
roots in Pavlov's work. He was also very dismissive of many of the 
psychotherapies that were popular back in the 1970's and 1980's, viewing many 
of them as just being passing fads (which of course they were). He also had a 
solid discussion o
 f such issues as the IQ and race controversy that were receiving lots of 
attention back then, Not surprisingly, he was not very impressed by the 
arguments of people like Arthur Jensen and Hans Eysenck.  Given the 
anti-Freudian stances of both Wells and Nahem, it is curious that neither 
author seems to have ever mentioned the work of Andrew Salter. As far as I 
know, Salter was not a Marxist but back in the 1950's, he wrote a book, The 
Case Against Psychoanalysis, which attacked psychoanalysis as lacking in 
scientific grounding, and he was also one of the very first behavior 
therapists, who created a variety of behavior therapy, which he called 
conditioned reflex therapy, that was based directly on Pavlov's research.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Salter  
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This came up as part of a thread in an FB group, in which I turned out to be a 
member. The discussion turned to the role of the great Russian physiologist, 
Ivan Pavlov, in the Soviet Union. As I pointed out: Pavlov attacked the 
Bolsheviks. He intended to leave Russia after the October Revolution but Lenin 
convinced him to stay by giving him his own research institute with virtually 
unlimited resources. The Soviet regime showered all kinds of honors on him but 
he remained outspokenly critical of it. In his final years, concerned over the 
rise of fascism, he softened his opposition towards the Soviet regime.

 Pavlov was the son of a Russian Orthodox priest. He originally intended to 
follow in his father's footsteps, and so, attended an Orthodox seminary to 
prepare for the priesthood. However, while there, he read the writings of 
progressive Russian thinkers like Dmitry Pisarev, who was one of the so-called 
Nihilists. As a consequence, Pavlov lost his religious faith, and so decided 
against entering the priesthood. Eventually, he decided to pursue a scientific 
career, and so went to medical school instead of the seminary.

 It should be noted that years later, when the Bolsheviks decided to crack down 
on priests and banished the children of priests from attending academic 
institutions, Pavlov issued a public protest denouncing this move and resigning 
from his own position. He even took, for a while, to wearing religious medals, 
even though he was not a religious believer, but wanted to piss off the 
Bolsheviks.

Throughout Soviet history, Pavlov was always upheld as the model researcher in 
physiology, and often, psychology. He did not regard himself to be a 
psychologist. He saw his own work on conditioned reflexes as a part of his 
physiology research. On occasion, he was openly contemptuous of psychology, 
although at other times, he did speak respectfully of the work of 
psychologists. His own standing within Soviet psychology fluctuated over time. 
In Lenin's day, his status within Soviet psychology was very high, enjoying the 
backing of Lenin, Trotsky, Bukharin, etc. During the 1930's and 1940's, his 
standing declined a bit. Then around 1950, there was a very strong pro-Pavlov 
campaign in both physiology and psychology.

In discussing the fluctuating fortunes of Pavlovian reflexology under the 
Stalin regime it is interesting to note B.F. Skinner's comments on this 
(Skinner having been a great admirer of Pavlov). Thus, in *Beyond Freedom & 

[Marxism] FW: Bolivia's 'process of change' needs a change in course - Pablo Solón

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http://tinyurl.com/hqhdmmm

Pablo Solón published the article below in February of this
year, just days after the narrow defeat of a referendum
sponsored by the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) government
that would have allowed a constitutional amendment to enable
President Evo Morales and Vice-President Álvaro García
Linera to be candidates again in the 2019 elections. He
analyzes what he considers to be the “underlying problems”
encountered to date by the “process of change,” and offers
some useful suggestions on how to renew that process and
carry it forward, based on measures that would turn it in a
direction more consistent with the ecosocialist discourse of
Morales in international forums. The translation and notes
are by me.

Full: http://tinyurl.com/hqhdmmm



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[Marxism] Yassamine Mather video on Chilcot, Iraq, Syria

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https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/09/06/yassamine-mather-on-the-chilcot-report-iraq-and-syria/
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[Marxism] Japan's postwar take off

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I wrote this in 1994 and so it only goes up to 1993-94, but I think it's a
worthwhile piece of work.

I found it fascinating doing the research and looking at how the interests
of Japanese capital were ultimately assisted by WW2 and very much by the
Cold War.

https://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/01/13/japan-and-the-new-world-order-1-from-postwar-take-off-to-stagnation-1945-1994/
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[Marxism] When revolution was in the air

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No, not Max Elbaum's book - great read though it is.

This is Barbara Gregorich and Phil Passen on growing up in 1950s America,
the winds of change of the early 1960s civil rights movement, the US SWP
and its internal life and political debates of the time.

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[Marxism] Fwd: Behind the Sun | The Nation

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Those in search of perspective on Syria’s devastation should turn to 
Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War, by the reporter Robin 
Yassin-Kassab and the activist Leila al-Shami. Their book offers a 
knowledgeable, empathetic, morally lucid account of the revolt against 
the Assad regime and an explanation of why—to the horror of many of its 
supporters—it became a civil war. Burning Country avoids the easy 
indulgence of indignation; instead, it elicits the voices of many 
different Syrians involved in the uprising, acknowledging their 
suffering as well as their courage, intelligence, and humanity, while 
explaining the terrible choices that have been forced on them. “Pressed 
on all sides, these are people who’ve truly made history,” Yassin-Kassab 
and al-Shami write, “enough to compete with and for a moment drown the 
savage history made by states.”


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[Marxism] Fwd: H-Net Review [H-Pennsylvania]: Neumann on Taft, 'From Steel to Slots: Casino Capitalism in the Postindustrial City'

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Date: Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 5:20 PM
Subject: H-Net Review [H-Pennsylvania]: Neumann on Taft, 'From Steel to
Slots: Casino Capitalism in the Postindustrial City'
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Chloe Taft.  From Steel to Slots: Casino Capitalism in the
Postindustrial City.  Cambridge  Harvard University Press, 2016.  336
pp.  $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-66049-6.

Reviewed by Tracy Neumann (Wayne State University)
Published on H-Pennsylvania (September, 2016)
Commissioned by Allen J. Dieterich-Ward

Most places are riven by social, cultural, and economic divides, but
they rarely map as neatly onto local geography as they do in
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, a city of approximately 75,000 split in two
by the Lehigh River. In the eighteenth century, Moravians established
a communitarian religious settlement on what is now the quaint,
middle-class North Side. When iron and steel production came to town,
the Moravians relegated it, and its blue-collar workforce, to the
other side of the river. Now home to Lehigh University and the Las
Vegas Sands Casino, which was built on part of the former Bethlehem
Steel site, the South Side remains a working-class neighborhood and a
first stop for many new immigrant families. In _From Steel to Slots:
Casino Capitalism in the Postindustrial City_, Chloe Taft deftly
explores the cultural and historical rifts embedded in Bethlehem's
landscape, as well as the economic development agendas that have
ordered and disordered the city since the Moravians' arrival. She
uses the demise of "the Steel" and the opening of "the Sands" to
explore "how locals have variously embraced and grappled with the
remaking of their steel town as a postindustrial city" (p. 3). Along
the way, Taft upends conventional narratives of deindustrialization
and postindustrial rebirth. When "lived from day to day," she argues,
"postindustrialism reflects an ongoing process marked by complicated,
and at times paradoxical, continuities" that challenge a neat
distinction between "before and after" (p. 247).

_From Steel to Slots_ marks a welcome turn in the deindustrialization
literature. In the early 1980s Barry Bluestone and Bennett Harrison
supplied a foundational definition of deindustrialization as the
"widespread, systematic disinvestment in the nation's basic
productive capacity," which explained high unemployment rates, a
"sluggish" domestic economy, and the United States' failure to
successfully compete in international markets.[1] Following Bluestone
and Harrison's postulation that deindustrialization pitted "capital"
against "community," early research typically took the form of
community studies focused on how particular industries or workforces
deindustrialized. ⁠After the turn of the twenty-first century,
scholars expanded their use of the term to encompass social, spatial,
and political processes as well as economic change. In an
introduction to an edited collection that has become a standard work
in the field, Jefferson Cowie and Joseph Heathcott called
deindustrialization "a historical transformation that marks not just
a quantitative and qualitative change in employment, but a
fundamental change in the social fabric on a par with
industrialization itself," a definition that explicitly rejected the
idea of deindustrialization as a primarily economic process. They
argued that "what we call deindustrialization may best be understood
with hindsight as one episode in a long series of transformations
within capitalism" and that "broader meanings emerge from the
de-linking of investment and place, the deinstitutionalization of
labor relations machinery, de-urbanization (and new forms of
urbanization), and perhaps even the loosening of the connection
between identity and work."[2] A more recent wave of scholarship
posits deindustrialization and postindustrial redevelopment as part
of "metropolitan capitalism," as a regional or transnational rather
than purely local phenomenon, and as constitutive of
neoliberalism.[3]

Taft's clear-eyed analysis combines the best aspects of these various
historiographical strains, all while avoiding the nostalgia trap that
so many scholars have fallen into when writing about the industrial
past. In Bethlehem, she finds, the "rupture between community and
capital is not so complete" (p. 41). Taft's challenge to Bluestone
and Harrison emerges from a persuasive blending of archival and
ethnographic approaches. It is also surely influenced by the
emotional distance between the mass plant closures of the late 1970s
and early 1980s and the later, more gradual, and better-managed

Re: [Marxism] seeking Henry Kissinger's endorsement

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For a different opinion, see:

http://blackagendareport.com/black_millennials_reject_duopoly

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>This is what I'm seriously trying to understand. Just as an example A.R.F.
>you give this summation:
>
> the Republicans are in a similar place as us, but for
>> different reasons: they, too, do not see "their" candidate on the ballot. I
>> think it was obvious that most of the traditional Republican Party types
>> were backing Rubio and Cruz. Now they're being expected to endorse the guy
>> who insulted them and their families, who accused the last GOP President of
>> failing to stop 9/11 (while hanging out with people who think he was in on
>> it), who mocked one of the last GOP nominees for being captured and
>> tortured by communist guerrillas in Vietnam, and who spent much of his time
>> in the orbit of the Clintons. On the other hand, they have Clinton, who
>> they and their party machine have spent decades painting as a Communist (if
>> only!).
>>
>> So I would not put too much stock into who the Republicans end up
>> endorsing, whether Clinton, Trump, Johnson or nobody. They are in panic
>> mode as their party collapses.
>
>
>And the national question doesn't enter the discussion at all. Its like the
>above is just about how white people see the election. Differences around
>McCain get mentioned, differences around the national question ignored. I
>mean why is the GOP collapsing? Doesn't the national question loom large on
>that question? How about the Brexit vote? the AfD victory? I see a growing
>white nationalist influence in all of this, but generally speaking, people
>on this list don't.   People of color don't spend 2 paragraphs on this
>election without touch on the questions of white nationalist, Trump's
>hateful message and dangerous threats. I'm trying to understand why it is
>so different here. I know you are all tired of hearing from me about it but
>I'm just trying to understand the disconnect.
>
>Regards,
>
>Clay
>

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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: U.S. Communists fret as some progressives shun Hillary

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Well, I'm wondering again why I appear to be wasting my time reading these articles. How is it 
developing my understanding of the situation from a Marxist perspective?


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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: U.S. Communists fret as some progressives shun Hillary

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[Marxism] India's Historic Strike

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180 million Indian workers went on strike last week. The reporting on this has 
been weak, as expected from the corporate media.

My column this week at Alternet is on the strike and its implications: 
http://www.alternet.org/world/india-worlds-largest-strike.
If you'd like the eleven minute version on The Real News Network, then here it 
is: 
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content=view=31=74=17170.

Warm regards,

Vijay.

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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: U.S. Communists fret as some progressives shun Hillary

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I am curious as to how linking to an article about CPUSA support for Clinton on what appears to be a 
very strange, right-wing web site (a look at the Commentary section under Opinion will make this 
clear) advances our understanding of anything involving the election and support for the candidates. 
(Much less our understanding as Marxists.)


What was the point of encouraging me to take the time to go to the link to find 
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[Marxism] [SUSPICIOUS MESSAGE] L.I.U.-Brooklyn Locks Out Professors Amid Contract Dispute

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(Every trade unionist in NY should rally to the defense of these 
professors, especially those who are also college professors represented 
by the PSC or any other union. As the IWW put it, an injury to one is an 
injury to all. The Deborah Mutnick mentioned in the article was a member 
of the CISPES chapter in NY back in the early 80s with me. She is still 
fighting the good fight.)


NY Times, Sept. 7 2016
L.I.U.-Brooklyn Locks Out Professors Amid Contract Dispute
By LIZ ROBBINS

Classes will start on Wednesday at Long Island University-Brooklyn 
without key participants: The professors.


After failing to reach an agreement on a new faculty union contract, 
which expired on Aug. 31, the university’s administration then locked 
faculty members out of their offices and their email accounts and 
canceled their health insurance over the Labor Day weekend.


Those who teach at the Downtown Brooklyn campus, which serves many 
black, Hispanic and immigrant students, said the lockout was an 
unprecedented move intended to weaken the union, the Long Island 
University Faculty Federation, which is part of the American Federation 
of Teachers.


“That’s never happened before in the history of L.I.U. to my knowledge, 
or in the history of higher education,” said Jessica Rosenberg, a 
professor of social work and the president of the faculty federation, 
which represents about 230 full-time faculty members and several hundred 
adjunct professors.


On Tuesday, administrators for L.I.U. Brooklyn said that the lockout was 
a pre-emptive move, given the faculty’s history in negotiations. “The 
last five out of six contracts, the faculty has gone on strike, and they 
have created chaos and virtually shut down the institution at the start 
of classes,” said Gale Stevens Haynes, a vice president and university 
counsel. The faculty went on strike in 2011 for five days.


She said that in May, the union had seemed to signal its intentions by 
authorizing a strike at the end of bargaining.


But the union’s lawyer, Louie Nikolaidis, said that was a pro forma 
action, “something to have in our back pocket.”


“We were intending on showing up for work,” said Emily Drabinski, an 
associate professor and one of 12 librarians at the university. “You 
don’t prevent a strike by locking out your employees.”


On Tuesday afternoon, the union membership rejected the administration’s 
latest offer by a vote of 226 to 10. “The faculty has spoken,” Professor 
Rosenberg said.


In that offer, according to the union, the administration asked for a 
reduction in salaries for new adjuncts. It also eliminated a clause in 
place since 2000 that promised parity in pay for Brooklyn faculty 
members and those at the largest campus within the university’s system, 
C. W. Post in Brookville, N.Y.


The union added that nearly half of the full-time faculty on the 
Brooklyn campus make less money, some as much as 20 percent less, than 
those at C. W. Post. That results in salaries’ being about $10,000 
lower, Mr. Nikolaidis said.


“We’re the minority campus,” Syed Ali, a sociology professor, said. 
“People get the feeling that they don’t care about the Brooklyn campus.”


Christopher Fevola, the university’s chief financial officer, said the 
most recent offer addressed this issue, including increases in salary as 
high as 22 percent over five years. The administration said the 
disparity in wages between the campuses was because of previous union 
decisions.


After the union vote, the L.I.U.-Brooklyn faculty senate voted 135 to 10 
for no confidence in the L.I.U. president, Kimberly R. Cline, and its 
vice president for academic affairs, Jeffrey Kane.


Deborah Mutnick, a professor of English for 30 years at L.I.U.-Brooklyn, 
sits on the executive committee for both the union and senate. “They 
precipitated a crisis,” she said of the administration’s lockout. 
“There’s no going back.”


The university has been preparing to staff its classes with replacement 
teachers, advertising on job websites and through its alumni network.


Ms. Haynes said that about 140 replacement teachers had been hired, and 
that they all had the proper accreditation and licensing.


At one point, Ms. Haynes was scheduled to teach a yoga class. The dean 
of students for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, David Cohen, a 
botanist, was going to teach ballet.


Ms. Haynes acknowledged that those were errors, and have since been 
corrected. She added that both positions have gone to “qualified” 
instructors. In response to concerns about the faculty’s medical care, 
Ms. Haynes said that Cobra benefits would be provided to cover health 
insurance for 

[Marxism] Fwd: Beyond Bernie: The Hidden Potential of Progressive Third Parties

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[Marxism] Fwd: U.S. Communists fret as some progressives shun Hillary

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[Marxism] Fwd: Inside Bill Clinton’s nearly $18 million job as ‘honorary chancellor’ of a for-profit college - The Washington Post

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[Marxism] (Fwd) "Class Dynamics of Development" special issue of Third World Quarterly - Open Access

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Really superb radical intellectual work at least briefly decommodified:


On 2016/09/06 10:31 AM, Benjamin Selwyn wrote:


Dear all,

Just to let you know that we have secured open access during September 
for our special issue on Class Dynamics of Development.


Wishing you all the best,

Ben

*Enjoy FREE ACCESS throughout September at: 
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ctwq20/37/10*



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Director of the Centre for Global Political Economy

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http://www.sussex.ac.uk/profiles/230531

My latest book, The Global Development Crisis, 
http://www.politybooks.com/book.asp?ref=0745660142


21^st Century International Political Economy - 
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1354066114556659





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[Marxism] What should the Green Party do?

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What should the Green Party do?

http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/2016/09/what-should-green-party-do.html



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