[Marxism] Million-strong rally brings Catalan self-determination showdown with Spanish state closer

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Dick Nichols, Barcelona

By some estimates, more than 1 million people came out across Catalonia on
September 11 for Catalonia’s national day (the *Diada*) to show their
support for Catalan sovereignty and — for most present — for Catalan
independence from the Spanish state.

For a region of about 7.5 million people, it was an impressive turn out for
the fifth annual mass mobilisation for Catalan statehood since 2012. The
demonstrations were once again organised by the Catalan National Assembly
(ANC) and the Catalan cultural association Omnium Cultural — confirming
that this social movement remains easily the largest in Europe.

Posing a threat to the Spanish state, it will become an increasingly
critical issue for a European Union reeling under the blows of Brexit, its
brutal handling of refugees and its economic stagnation.

For how long can the rulers of the EU maintain the fiction that the Catalan
national question is simply a domestic issue for the Spanish state while
Spain’s rulers deny Catalonia a Scottish-style referendum?

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Re: [Marxism] Hillary Clinton Takes Aim at Voters Drifting Toward Third Party

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Nov. 8th. Details matter.

Clay Claiborne, Director
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> On 9/16/16 1:47 PM, Glenn Kissack via Marxism wrote:
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>> This is really getting repetitive. I got it the first time, the tenth
>> time, the twentieth time: Vote for Hillary.
>>
>> Weren’t we supposed to refrain from debating this?
>>
>> Glenn
>>
>
> I should have said something about this. I decided that I couldn't impose
> a ban on "lesser evil" voting for Clinton because it is impossible to block
> discussion of the 2016 elections since they are just too dominant in the
> news and analysis on the left to ignore. I certainly resent Clay making the
> same points over and over again but at least we can assume that after
> November 2nd, he'll move on to other matters.
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[Marxism] Fwd: Vietnam and the Things We Must Never Forget

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By Paul Buhle.

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[Marxism] Fwd: Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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While “Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four”, a 
documentary that opened today at the Cinema Village in NY on the 
outrageous conviction of four lesbians in San Antonio–three of whom were 
Mexican-American–for sexually assaulting one of the women’s two young 
nieces, seems to have little in common with “Snowden”, they overlap one 
very important issue, namely the power of film to raise awareness over 
the rights of the accused whether they are obscure working-class figures 
accused of sex crimes or a whistle-blower known across the planet either 
as a hero or a traitor.


“Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four” mostly consists 
of interviews with the four women and their relatives as well as the 
lawyers who got involved with their defense. Among them is an old friend 
and comrade named Jeff Blackburn who was best known for his yeoman work 
in defending the 39 African-Americans in Tulia, Texas that were victims 
of a drug sting. At one point Blackburn states that trials such as these 
are not decided in the courtroom but in the world at large when a 
mobilization to change the public’s mind is mounted. That has been the 
case with the San Antonio Four, the Black men who were victimized in 
Tulia and before that all of the major political trials of the past 100 
years when dedicated lawyers like Jeff, William Kunstler and Michael 
Ratner proved their mettle.


full: 
https://louisproyect.org/2016/09/16/southwest-of-salem-the-story-of-the-san-antonio-four/

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Re: [Marxism] Hillary Clinton Takes Aim at Voters Drifting Toward Third Party

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On 9/16/16 1:47 PM, Glenn Kissack via Marxism wrote:

This is really getting repetitive. I got it the first time, the tenth time, the 
twentieth time: Vote for Hillary.

Weren’t we supposed to refrain from debating this?

Glenn


I should have said something about this. I decided that I couldn't 
impose a ban on "lesser evil" voting for Clinton because it is 
impossible to block discussion of the 2016 elections since they are just 
too dominant in the news and analysis on the left to ignore. I certainly 
resent Clay making the same points over and over again but at least we 
can assume that after November 2nd, he'll move on to other matters.

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[Marxism] The Illiberal International

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The Illiberal International | Public Seminar

http://www.publicseminar.org/2016/09/the-illiberal-international/
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Re: [Marxism] [UCE] Fwd: Who's wasting their vote? | SocialistWorker.org

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Makes no difference.

For those who favor the Clinton model of mass murder, oppression, imperialism, 
exploitation and endless capitalism, as distinct from the Trump model of mass 
murder, oppression, imperialism, exploitation and endless capitalism, those 
opposed to Clinton are one undifferentiated lump.  

T


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>Not the SWP. Try ISO.
>
>> 
>>
>> Just to take one tiny example from the SWP to show how when you start to
>> deviate from Marxism you end up throwing the method out with it:
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[Marxism] US Peace Council returns from Syria

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An excerpt.  Caps as I received them.
ken h


http://theduran.com/must-see-video-us-peace-council-returns-syria-county-fighting-invasion-by-most-powerful-country-world/
 
MUST SEE VIDEO: US Peace Council returns from Syria, a country fighting 
“invasion by the most powerful country in the world”

ALEX CHRISTOFOROU
September 3, 2016, 9:58 pm
The campaign to confuse the American people has been intense, but one thing is 
sure, Syria is fighting an invasion, not a civil war.
 
The truth about Syria and what is happening in Syria is all here, in the video 
below, outlined and documented during this press briefing by the US Peace 
Council (USPC).
 
We cannot be sure how long this video will be allowed to stay on Youtube, but 
we urge everyone to take 45:00 minutes of your time to see this video, share 
this video, and finally spread the word about the “vicious” war being waged on 
Syria.


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[Marxism] US Peace Council returns from Syria

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This is as I received it.  I have omitted pictures.
ken h

http://theduran.com/must-see-video-us-peace-council-returns-syria-county-fighting-invasion-by-most-powerful-country-world/
 
MUST SEE VIDEO: US Peace Council returns from Syria, a country fighting 
“invasion by the most powerful country in the world”

ALEX CHRISTOFOROU
September 3, 2016, 9:58 pm
The campaign to confuse the American people has been intense, but one thing is 
sure, Syria is fighting an invasion, not a civil war.
 
The truth about Syria and what is happening in Syria is all here, in the video 
below, outlined and documented during this press briefing by the US Peace 
Council (USPC).
 
We cannot be sure how long this video will be allowed to stay on Youtube, but 
we urge everyone to take 45:00 minutes of your time to see this video, share 
this video, and finally spread the word about the “vicious” war being waged on 
Syria.

Please share this post, and share this video, and share these excerpts, which 
may provide some life saving truth to an unjust, criminal war…and a western 
media narrative that continues to push lies and confusion to what is a clear 
and blatant international crime.

The Duran reported earlier today, as one of the few media organizations to 
expose this story…

A delegation from the US Peace Council (USPC) has recently returned to the US 
from a fact finding mission to Syria.
The members spent 6 days meeting with Syrian Government Officials including, 
President Assad, Union Leaders, Government Opposition Members as well as Civil 
& Business Leaders, NGO’s, Charities and Universities.
The delegation stated that each member paid their own way and that the Syrian 
Government allowed them to meet whomever they wanted.
They issued their report and held a press conference Press conference at the UN 
on 9th August 2016.
Madelyn Hoffman, Executive Director of New Jersey Peace Action, Member of the 
Syria Delegation at the 17:15:

“This is not a civil war in Syria. That’s probably the first thing we heard, 
and we heard it over and over again.
It is not President Assad against his own people. It is President Assad and the 
Syrian people, all together, in unity, against outside forces, outside 
mercenary forces, terror organisations, the names change everyday or every 
other day, to try to protect their identity, and maybe keep the connection 
between the country that funded it and that group, kind of a little bit more 
nebulous, but there are groups, mercenary forces, supported by Qatar, Saudi 
Arabia, Turkey, United States, and underneath it, Israel, the state of Israel.
And these outside mercenary forces are the ones that are terrorising the Syrian 
people, and are attempting to divide the Syrian people.”
 
video link omitted
 
US Peace Council (USPC):

H.E. Bashar Ja’afari, Permanent Representative of the Syrian Arab Republic
Alfred Marder, President of the US Peace Council
Mary Compton, Member of the Executive Board of the US Peace Council
Henry Lowendorf, Member of the Executive Board of the US Peace Council, Head of 
the Syria Delegation
Joe Jamison, Member of the Executive Board of the US Peace Council, Member of 
the Syria Delegation
Madelyn Hoffman, Executive Director of New Jersey Peace Action, Member of the 
Syria Delegation
Donna Nassor, Professor and Lawyer also part of US Peace Council
Henry Lowendorf, Member of the Executive Board of the US Peace Council, at the 
12:30 mark:

“We saw villages, that are basically Christian villages, that have been 
besieged by the terrorists, but have now been liberated. And the damage done to 
a shrine in the village called Maaloula, which is a village where they still 
speak Aramaic, the language of Jesus. And the attacks on the Christian 
population.”
“Their two things I want to mention, finally, that we feel are really important…
One is…That while the United States would like to divide the Syrians up, by 
religion or within a religion — by the different beliefs within that religion. 
There wasn’t a Syrian we talked to who would accept that.
We spoke to the Grand Mufti, and he said, ‘People ask me how many Muslims there 
are in Syria?’ and his response is always 23 million. That’s is the population 
of Syria.
And when we talk to the bishop of one of the Orthodox Churches, he answered the 
same thing, the number of Christians is 23 million.
We will not allow ourselves to be divided up the way the United States has 
divided up the people of Iraq, or Libya, or Afghanistan, or so many other 
countries. We won’t allow that.
And that unity, I believe, has lead to the ability of the Syrians to withstand 
an invasion by the most powerful 

Re: [Marxism] Hillary Clinton Takes Aim at Voters Drifting Toward Third Party

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> On Sep 16, 2016, at 10:49 AM, Clay Claiborne via Marxism 
>> 
>> a vote for a third-party candidate is a vote for Donald Trump
> 
> That is the bottom line in this election

This is really getting repetitive. I got it the first time, the tenth time, the 
twentieth time: Vote for Hillary.

Weren’t we supposed to refrain from debating this?

Glenn


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[Marxism] Hillary Clinton Takes Aim at Voters Drifting Toward Third Party

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Clay Claiborne said:
> a vote for a third-party candidate is a vote for Donald Trump

That is the bottom line in this election.

Ken Hiebert replies:
Only in this election?  Can you assure us that you won't be making the same 
argument in 2020? 

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Re: [Marxism] A Change in tone from the sham anti-imperialist corner

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On 9/16/16 12:09 PM, David McDonald via Marxism wrote:

This article by Franklin Lamb about the horrid needless death of two
conjoined infants in Damascus for no good reason is the first I remember in
which he does not solidly lay the blame for whatever he's talking about on
Assad's opponents. This is not the first crack I have seen. "Burning
Country" is getting more and more mentions in FB comments and articles.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/09/16/why-conjoined-syrian-twins-nawras-and-mouaz-were-condemned-to-death/


Yes, I've noticed that about Lamb as well. I think the Baathist horror 
show is penetrating these circles at last, especially when the USA and 
Russia are becoming such good friends around the need to keep the 
gangster in control of a burning country.

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[Marxism] Fwd: Hollywood, Separate and Unequal - The New York Times

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[Marxism] Fwd: Behind the Lockout | Jacobin

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On the Long Island University labor struggle.

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/09/behind-the-lockout/
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[Marxism] Fwd: US troops 'forced to flee Syrian town' after FSA rebel threats | Middle East Eye

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Re: [Marxism] Hillary Clinton Takes Aim at Voters Drifting Toward Third Party

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> a vote for a third-party candidate is a vote for Donald Trump

That is the bottom line in this election

Clay Claiborne, Director
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Linux Beach Productions
Venice, CA 90291
(310) 581-1536

Read my blogs at the Linux Beach 

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[Marxism] Fwd: The Free Syrian Army rejects (savages) the terms of the US-Russian deal | The Eternal Spring

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[Marxism] Daily Courage of Resistance: Viewing Peace Has No Borders

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http://stillhomeron.blogspot.com/2016/09/the-daily-courage-of-resistance-viewing.html
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[Marxism] Frank Barbaro and labor political independence

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The Times has an obit on him today.
I remember when he ran for Mayor on the Unity Party ticket there was a
vibrant debate about its potential to lead to a labor party.
Here's a paper on Barbaro's campaign with much detail on the various
actors. IMO very relevant to debates today.
https://www.academia.edu/10975335/The_Struggle_to_Build_a_Progressive_Urban_Politics_Frank_Barbaro_s_1981_New_York_City_Mayoral_Campaign
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[Marxism] Hillary Clinton Takes Aim at Voters Drifting Toward Third Party

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(Maybe it would help if she wasn't modeling her campaign on Mitt Romney's.)

NY Times, Sept. 16 2016
Hillary Clinton Takes Aim at Voters Drifting Toward Third Party
By JONATHAN MARTIN and AMY CHOZICK

WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton and her Democratic allies, unnerved by the 
tightening presidential race, are making a major push to dissuade 
disaffected voters from backing third-party candidates, and pouring more 
energy into Rust Belt states, where Donald J. Trump is gaining ground.


With Mrs. Clinton enduring one of the rockiest stretches of her second 
bid for the presidency, her campaign and affiliated Democratic groups 
are shifting their focus to those voters, many of them millennials, who 
recoil at Mr. Trump, her Republican opponent, but now favor the 
Libertarian nominee, Gary Johnson, or the Green Party candidate, Jill Stein.


While still optimistic that the race will turn decisively back in Mrs. 
Clinton’s favor after the debates, leading Democrats have been alarmed 
by the drift of young voters toward the third-party candidates.


The principal “super PAC” supporting Mrs. Clinton’s candidacy, 
Priorities USA Action, has concluded from its polling and other research 
that the reluctance to embrace the Democratic nominee among those who 
intensely dislike Mr. Trump is not going away and must be confronted.


“We’ll be launching a multimillion-dollar digital campaign that talks 
about what’s at stake and how a vote for a third-party candidate is a 
vote for Donald Trump, who is against everything these voters stand 
for,” said Justin Barasky, a strategist for Priorities USA.


Mrs. Clinton may also get an assist from one Democrat who has been 
largely quiet about the race, but can testify to the importance of 
resisting the third-party temptation: former Vice President Al Gore. Her 
staff has had conversations with aides to Mr. Gore about bringing him 
onto the campaign trail to emphasize the importance of supporting Mrs. 
Clinton if they want to make progress on combating climate change.


“I can assure you from personal experience that every vote counts,” Mr. 
Gore wrote in an email to The New York Times on Thursday, after a new 
CBS/New York Times poll showed Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Trump virtually 
tied. “The stakes are high for so many Americans. So I will vote for 
Hillary Clinton and I strongly encourage others to vote for her as well.”


More immediately, the Clinton campaign on Saturday will dispatch two 
political figures who enjoy a passionate following among young liberals, 
Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, to Ohio, where public 
polls show Mrs. Clinton has slipped into a statistical dead heat with 
Mr. Trump. And Mrs. Clinton will deliver a speech aimed at millennial 
voters on Monday in Philadelphia before campaigning in Ohio and giving 
an economic address in Florida later in the week.


Democrats say that if the race is close in its final stretch, some of 
the voters who do not want to see Mr. Trump elected may shift on their 
own accord to Mrs. Clinton to prevent a Trump presidency. But after 
spending much of the summer hammering Mr. Trump, through both ads and 
stump speeches, it appears Mrs. Clinton has convinced many voters that 
Mr. Trump is not qualified to be president but has failed to win them 
over to her own candidacy.


On Thursday, she seemed to take aim at their lingering doubts.

“From now until Nov. 8, everywhere I go I’m going to talk about my ideas 
for our country,” Mrs. Clinton told reporters on Thursday in Greensboro, 
N.C., as she returned to the campaign trail for the first time since 
revealing she had pneumonia after nearly collapsing Sunday at a Sept. 11 
memorial event.


At the same time, the Clinton campaign will try to more directly address 
the pocketbook concerns of blue-collar voters, particularly in Rust Belt 
states, where Mr. Trump has appeal.


In Ohio, for example, the Clinton campaign has opened 54 offices aimed 
at turning out the vote. But three public polls this week showed Mr. 
Trump holding a narrow lead there, and prominent Clinton supporters in 
Ohio said the former secretary of state needs to make clear what she 
will do for working-class people.


“The more people hear about what she’s proposing, the more inclined 
they’ll say, ‘Maybe she’s not my first pick, but she’s got a plan that 
is going to help us,’” said Representative Tim Ryan, a Democrat from the 
Youngstown area.


Mrs. Clinton suffered one of her biggest setbacks during the primaries 
in the Midwest, when Mr. Sanders unexpectedly won Michigan. Mr. Trump’s 
strong showing in the polls in the region, and his ability to connect 
with working-class 

[Marxism] Fwd: House Intel Panel Blasts Snowden In New Report, One Day Before Movie Release

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https://theintercept.com/2016/09/15/house-intel-panel-blasts-snowden-in-new-report-one-day-before-movie-release/
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[Marxism] Fwd: Carrie Rickey: A Subtler Oliver Stone Is Back in Top Form With ‘Snowden’ - Film Review - Truthdig

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In “Citizenfour,” Laura Poitras’ riveting documentary about Edward 
Snowden, the whistleblower quietly observes that it would be a mistake 
to make him the focus of his 2013 revelations of the breadth and depth 
of the National Security Agency’s surveillance of civilians. In other 
words, don’t blame the messenger—blame the NSA for reading your email 
messages.


Yet Oliver Stone’s “Snowden,” starring a ghostly Joseph Gordon-Levitt, 
proves that focusing on the intelligence contractor himself is not a 
mistake. As subtly drawn as it is politically urgent, “Snowden” is a 
very good film with a phenomenal performance by Gordon-Levitt at its 
center. Movie and performance are forceful precisely because they make 
palpable the subject’s growing moral revulsion at the extent of U.S. 
surveillance. Likewise his shock at how some of his superiors view intel 
as a gambit in what resembles a video game that one of them calls, “You 
track ‘em, we whack ’em.”


“A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it up and 
makes it again,” said filmmaker Jean Renoir, who could have been 
describing the man who made “Snowden.” Like the best Stone 
films—“Platoon,” “Born on the Fourth of July,” “Wall Street”—“Snowden” 
is the story of a young idealist who suffers a moral crisis compounded 
by Oedipal fury against the father figure in whom he has lost faith.


full: 
http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/snowden_film_review_a_subtler_oliver_stone_is_back_20160915

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[Marxism] Fwd: bellingcat - Coercion and Corruption: Following Russia's 2016 Election Season - bellingcat

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https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2016/09/13/coercion-corruption-following-russias-2016-election-season/
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[Marxism] Some countries that ranked higher than Syria in the United Nations Human Indicators Index on the eve of the Arab Spring

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Turkmenistan
El Salvador
Paraguay
Philippines
Mongolia
Egypt
Uzbekistan
Namibia
Honduras
Indonesia

source: 
http://hdr.undp.org/sites/default/files/reports/270/hdr_2010_en_complete_reprint.pdf

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[Marxism] More foolishness on Syria

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Marxmail subscriber Andrew Stewart continues in a fact-free mode:

Presidents Putin and Xi, despite their shortcomings, have positioned 
themselves as opponents of the 1% through their fiscal policies while 
Obama has consolidated their stranglehold of the international economy. 
It bears mentioning also that, given the history of Soviet outreach to 
the postcolonial world, the notion of Russian “imperialism” in its 
sphere of influence being somehow akin to American gunboat diplomacy is 
a laughable claim. No, the Syrian government invited the Russians to 
maintain a naval base in that country just as the Cubans did during the 
Cold War.


full: http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/09/16/86748/

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By the late 1990s, the business community that the Asads had created in 
their own image had transformed Syria from a semi-socialist state into a 
crony capitalist state par excellence. The economic liberalization that 
started in 1991 had redounded heavily to the benefit of tycoons who had 
ties to the state or those who partnered with state officials. The 
private sector outgrew the public sector, but the most affluent members 
of the private sector were state officials, politicians and their 
relatives. The economic growth registered in the mid-1990s was mostly a 
short-lived bump in consumption, as evidenced by the slump at the end of 
the century. Growth rates that had been 5-7 percent fell to 1-2 percent 
from 1997 to 2000 and beyond.


After Bashar al-Asad succeeded his father in 2000, the architects of 
Syria’s economic policy sought to reverse the downturn by liberalizing 
the economy further, for instance by reducing state subsidies. Private 
banks were permitted for the first time in nearly 40 years and a stock 
market was on the drawing board. After 2005, the state-business bonds 
were strengthened by the announcement of the Social Market Economy, a 
mixture of state and market approaches that ultimately privileged the 
market, but a market without robust institutions or accountability. 
Again, the regime had consolidated its alliance with big business at the 
expense of smaller businesses as well as the Syrian majority who 
depended on the state for services, subsidies and welfare. It had 
perpetuated cronyism, but dressed it in new garb. Families associated 
with the regime in one way or another came to dominate the private 
sector, in addition to exercising considerable control over public 
economic assets. These clans include the Asads and Makhloufs, but also 
the Shalish, al-Hassan, Najib, Hamsho, Hambouba, Shawkat and al-As‘ad 
families, to name a few. The reconstituted business community, which now 
included regime officials, close supporters and a thick sliver of the 
traditional bourgeoisie, effected a deeper (and, for the regime, more 
dangerous) polarization of Syrian society along lines of income and region.


Successive years of scant rainfall and drought after 2003 produced 
massive rural in-migration to the cities -- more than 1 million people 
had moved by 2009 -- widening the social and regional gaps still 
further. Major cities, such as Damascus and Aleppo, absorbed that 
migration more easily than smaller ones, which were increasingly starved 
of infrastructural investment. Provincial cities like Dir‘a, Idlib, Homs 
and Hama, along with their hinterlands, are now the main battlegrounds 
of the rebellion. Those living in rural areas have seen their 
livelihoods gutted by reduction of subsidies, disinvestment and the 
effects of urbanization, as well as decades of corrupt authoritarian 
rule. The Tunisian and Egyptian uprisings motivated them to express 
their discontent openly and together.


full: http://www.merip.org/mer/mer262/syrian-regimes-business-backbone
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