[Marxism] Fidel Castro's Armageddon Letter to Nikita Khrushchev

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The quotations which Dennis Brasky attributes to Fidel Castro were not
written by Castro and do not appear in his letter to Khruschev. They are
comments of authors James G. Blight and Janet M. Lang

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[Marxism] Fwd: Trump blasted for insulting immigrants from 's--thole countries' - NY Daily News

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From NYC's working class tabloid.

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[Marxism] reviving old lies to unite a new Russia

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Many Russians, especially among radical nationalist groups, accept the
charge of ritual murder as part of a vicious conspiracy theory: that rather
than a Bolshevik crime, the Romanovs’ murder was the product of a
Judeo-Masonic plot to sacrifice the czar’s family in a religious ritual
intended to symbolize a murder of the Russian people.

The accusation of ritual murder, of course, has a much longer history. In
the violent anti-Semitism that pervaded the czarist empire, the murder of a
Christian child in murky circumstances would typically be attributed to
Jews, who were falsely accused of needing the blood of a child for
religious rituals — the infamous “blood libel.”

Why resurrect the idea of ritual murder now? Has Bishop Tikhon become
President Putin’s Rasputin? In today’s Russia, where transparency is rare,
speculation abounds. One possibility is that reigniting traditional
anti-Semitism is a Kremlin ploy intended to tap into ultraright Russian
nationalism ahead of the presidential elections in March. After all,
stoking Russian nationalism worked well for Mr. Putin during the 2012
presidential campaign. Why not try again?


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[Marxism] [UCE] Raqqan women step into freedom from slavery (ANF)

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Raqqan women step into freedom from slavery



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[Marxism] Fwd: Economist James K. Galbraith isn’t celebrating Dow 25,000 - MarketWatch

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[Marxism] Fidel Castro's Armageddon Letter to Nikita Khrushchev

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 What is chiefly omitted from this mythological version of October 1962 is
what we sometimes call the *Cuban*, Cuban missile crisis: the physical and
psychological reality faced during the crisis by everyone *in Cuba*,
including the more than 43,000 Russians who were, with Cuban collaboration,
preparing for war with the U.S. In Cuba, the crisis was not a chess match
or any other kind of game, nor was it a test of wills between the
superpowers. In Cuba, the crisis was experienced as preparation for the
last battle, for Armageddon, an event that Cuban leaders and their
constituents had been anticipating for a year and a half, ever since they
had foiled the CIA-backed invasion of Cuban exiles at the Bay of Pigs, on
Cuba’s southern coast, in April 1961. This meant preparing to fight to the
death. It meant carrying the fight to the Americans in every way possible,
even though Cuba had no chance of surviving an all-out war with the U.S.
Above all, it meant adhering to a code of conduct with deep roots in Cuban
history (a history grasped neither by Washington nor Moscow): no surrender;
no compromise; no negotiations. It meant dying honorably. It meant taking
as many of the enemy down with you as possible.


Fidel - *We anticipate our total destruction. We have been waiting for this
moment ever since the failed, CIA-backed invasion of Cuba by 1,300 Cuban
exiles in April 1961. There is nothing we can do to stop the Americans from
destroying Cuba, other than surrender, which is unthinkable. We are
prepared to disappear beneath the Caribbean Sea. But Comrade Nikita, do not
worry about us. We 7.5 million Cubans are doomed only in the physical
sense. We are ready to die honorably for Cuba, martyrs in the fight against
imperialism. *

*At the first sign that the invasion of our island has begun, I urge you to
launch an all-out nuclear attack on the United States. Never again will the
world have to tolerate aggression by the world’s biggest bully. Cuba will
be honored to have provided the occasion for the total destruction of the
U.S. *

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[Marxism] “Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart”: Portrait in black and red | Michael Berkowitz | People's World

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Re: [Marxism] Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century:, Global Inequality, Piketty, and the Transnational, Capitalist Class,

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Here is the publisher's notice.

One can read the online version for only $135.00. (Insert sad-face 
emoticon here.)




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On 01/10/18 08:44 PM, Glenn Kissack via Marxism wrote:

Very interesting. What book is this from?

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Re: [Marxism] Some thoughts on US perspectives

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Anthony Boynton seems confused by what I wrote in the piece on US
perspectives.

The election of Trump helped add to the confusion and division within the
working class. I think that much is obvious, if for no other reason than
the rise of the white supremacists, the normalization of outright lying,
and the increase in celebrity worship. And had Hillary Clinton won? Would
that have advanced the consciousness of the working class? First and
foremost, would that have helped the working class get to its feet and
assert itself as an independent force? I think the answer is absolutely
not. So, we were damned if we do and damned if we don't.

I also think that it's undeniable that the working class does not exist as
a coherent - meaning independent - force in US society. Look at the voting
statistics, for example. There is no general pattern as far as how workers
- meaning wage earners - vote. The only working class organizations that
exist are the unions, and they are in a state of disastrous decline. Worse
than the fact that they barely represent 10% of the US work force is the
fact that they are nearly completely controlled by a clique who directly
represent the employers inside the unions. The decades-long campaign to
erase all the militant traditions of the 1930s has left the rank and file
largely alienated from their own unions. Here where I live - Oakland CA -
most union members I run into don't even know the name of their union,
never mind attend any union meetings!

Then Anthony draws a "logical" conclusion - logical in the sense of formal
logic: He writes:

*"It also says that the absence of a mass working class party is the
keyfactor in all of this, from which a reader might concludeall of
US**history
has been a long interrupted string of defeats for workers."* The point is
that a certain presence - or absence - in one situation can have a very
different affect from in a different situation. In the 1960s and early 70s,
for example, when US capitalism was (1) raking in the profits hand over
fist; and (2) competing with the Soviet Union for influence all around the
world - in that situation in many instances they had to concede to the
demands of the working class. Or take in the 1930s, when there was an
aroused working class, to some degree influenced by two anti-capitalist
parties - the Socialist and the Communist Parties. Again, the same thing.
But today? We've had 30 years of propaganda that the workers and the
capitalists have common interests. It comes not only from the capitalist
class and their various organs, but also from the union leadership. And the
tradition of struggle from the 1930s is largely lost, with what few
militants that remain in the unions largely isolated. On top of that, we
have had defeat after defeat.

All of this has led to massive confusion and demoralization. I don't see
how anybody who has any contact with working class people can deny that
that confusion is rampant. It's ironic that also, at the same time, there
never has been a better opportunity to start to build a working class
political party. That's a contradiction, you say? Well, yes, but life is
full of contradictions.

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[Marxism] Gerald Horne on WBAI's Morning Show, talks about his new book, The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism | Monthly Review Press

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[Marxism] Fwd: The Death Cult of Trumpism | The Nation

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By Greg Grandin:

But to get back to Trump’s psychic deregulation and Obama’s 
overregulation: Both are responses to what came before. Why now? Because 
the frontier is closed, the safety valve shut. Whatever metaphor one 
wants to use, the ongoing effects of the ruinous 2003 war in Iraq and 
the 2007–08 financial meltdown are just two indicators that the promise 
of endless growth can no longer help organize people’s aspirations, 
satisfy their demands, dilute the passions, contain the factions, or 
repress the extremes at the margins. We are entering the second “lost 
decade” of what Larry Summers calls “secular stagnation,” and soon we’ll 
be in the third decade of a war that Senator Lindsey Graham, among 
others, says will never end. Beyond these compounded catastrophes, there 
is a realization that the world is fragile and that we are trapped in an 
economic system that is well past sustainable or justifiable. As vast 
stretches of the West burn, as millions of trees die from 
global-warming-induced blight, as Houston and Puerto Rico flood, the 
oceans acidify, and bats and flying insects disappear in uncountable 
numbers, any given sentence from Cormac McCarthy’s The Road could be 
plucked and used as a newspaper headline. (“A Vast Landscape Charred, 
and a Sky Full of Soot” ran the headline for a New York Times report on 
California’s wildfires.)


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Re: [Marxism] [pen-l] Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century:, Global Inequality, Piketty, and the Transnational, Capitalist Class,

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Eugene Coyle  wrote

I agree with Robinson’s dismissal of Piketty but the rest of the chapter 
is a very poor jumble of the economic history of the 20th Century. 
Almost just a story made up out of thin air. And not only bad history, 
poor analysis as well.


Reference*
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*[pen-l] Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century:,Global Inequality, 
Piketty, and the Transnational,Capitalist Class, 
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"a poor jumble of the economic history of the 20th Century", "a story 
made up out of thin air", "Bad history". "poor analysis." If you're 
going to take a responsible opposing line to someone's point of view, 
especially that of  a respected Marxist scholar like William Robinson, 
don't you think it's counterproductive to do so with airy dismissal, 
without specifying in some detail what it is you don't like about it, so 
as to give a respondent something to tie to? This used to be called 
"badmouthing." I don't like to think that these lists are to be used for 
ventilation.



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[Marxism] Platform Capitalism

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Review of "Platform Capitalism":
http://salvage.zone/online-exclusive/platform-capitalism-and-value-form/
It's a Marxist analysis of the industry, written to inspire and inform a
movement to socialize the Amazons and Ubers of the world.
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Re: [Marxism] Wielding Data, Women Force a Reckoning Over Bias in the Economics Field

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Back in 1975, almost everybody in the economics profession expected the British 
economist, Joan Robinson, to win the Nobel Prize in economics. That never 
happened, despite the fact that she had a diverse body of work in such fields 
as the analysis of imperfect competition, the development of Keynesian economic 
theory, capital theory, the elucidation of Marxian economic theory, and the 
development of post-Keynesian economics. Her work in any one of those fields 
ought to have been sufficient to merit winning that Prize. Ever since then, 
commentators have debated the extent to which her not winning the Prize was due 
to misogyny versus opposition to her far left politics. No woman would win that 
Prize until 2009, when the American economist, Elinor Ostrom, shared the Prize 
with Oliver E. Williamson, for their work on economic governance.

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[Marxism] The Iran Protests: The Revolution is Dead. Long Live the Revolution!

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http://newsocialist.org/the-iran-protests-the-revolution-is-dead-long-live-the-revolution/

Excellent analysis of the forces in the regime and opposition, spoiled only
by its call for replicating Ocalan's silly "Democratic Confederalism."
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[Marxism] RH issue on Iran

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Revolutionary History has two issues devoted to Iran. The articles are not
online yet but hard copies are available.

http://www.revolutionaryhistory.co.uk/index.php/books-books/433-
books/book-index-and-contents/2155-rh1003
Vol. 10 No. 3
*The Left in IRAN 1941–1957*

   - The foundation of the Tudeh Party of Iran in 1941
   - Moscow’s attempt to set up a pro-Soviet autonomous republic in Iranian
   Azerbaijan in 1945
   - The fake assassination attempt on the Shah and the ensuing banning of
   the Tudeh Party in 1949
   - The mass campaign to Nationalise the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company
   - The Tudeh Party’s hostility to Mohammed Mosaddeq and the
   national-democratic movement
   - The Tudeh Party’s failure to prevent the Anglo-American coup against
   Mosaddeq in 1953
   - The SAKA, an attempt to build a communist organisation based on
   workers’ councils
   - The ideas of Mostafa Sho’a’iyan, a maverick Iranian marxist
   - The continued influence of Stalinism upon the historiograhy of the
   Iranian Left
   - The course of the Iranian Left as reported in documents from the
   British, Soviet and US official archives

http://www.revolutionaryhistory.co.uk/index.php/books-books/433-
books/book-index-and-contents/1333-rh1002
RH1002: The Left in IRAN, 1905-1940

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*Editor*: Cosroe Chaqueri

   - *Editorial*

*The Left in Iran, 1905–1940*

   - Cosroe Chaqueri, The Left in Iran, 1905–1940
   - Cosroe Chaqueri, Chronology of the Left in Iran, 1905–1940
   - Archavir Tchilinkirian, Constitutional Persia and Its Needs
   - Cosroe Chaqueri, Communism in Persia, 1920–1941
   - Cosroe Chaqueri, Taqi Arani and the Comintern: The Revolutionary
   Republican Party of Persia: The ICP’s ‘Surrogate’ or its Alternative
   - Reginald Bridgman, The Rise of Persia

*Documents*

   - Social-Democrats’ Declaration on the Occasion of the Grant of the
   Constitution by the Shah, August 1906)
   - Social-Democratic Manifesto, 1908
   - Archavir Tchilinkirian to Karl Kautsky, July 1908
   - Karl Kautsky to Archavir Tchilinkirian, August 1908
   - Protocol No. 1 of the Social-Democratic Conference, October 1908
   - Vasso A. Khachaturian to Georgi V. Plekhanov, November 1908
   - Tigran Derviche to Georgi V. Plekhanov, December 1908
   - The Awakening of Asia: An Appeal of the Persian People Regarding the
   Loan Project, 1909
   - T. Tria, The Caucasus and the Persian Revolution, February 1911
   - Appeal of Iranian Social Democrats to the International Proletariat,
   August 1911
   - Jean Longuet, A Great Meeting for Persia, December 1911
   - Avetis Sultanzade, Perspective of Socialist Revolution in the East:
   Thesis, March 1920
   - The First Congress of the Iranian Communist Party, June 1920
   - Jangali Declarations, June 1920
   - The Revolutionary Committee of Persia: Proclamation Addressed to Our
   Deceived Jangali and Cossack Brothers, August 1920
   - Pro-Communist Jangalis Last Attempt to Obtain Assistance from Soviet
   Russia, December 1920
   - Negotiations by Ekhsan-allah Khan’s Government with Kuchek Khan,
   February–March 1921
   - Theodor Rothstein to Nariman Narimanov, March 1921
   - Theodor Rothstein to Georgi Chicherin, July 1921
   - Programme of the Ranjbaran (Workmen’s) Party, 1921
   - Proclamation of the Revival of the Republic with the Second Central
   Committee of the Iranian Communist Party, August 1921
   - Report by the Central Committee of the ICP to the ECCI (Extracts),
   December 1921
   - A British Report on the Persian Party Kaunik (Communist), October 1922
   - The Ishtamayun (Ijtima‛iyoun/Socialist) Party in Tehran, January 1923
   - A Buried Interview: Persia: An English Semi-Colony, February 1927
   - Brief Report on the Proceedings of the Second Congress of the ICP,
   October 1927
   - Sultanadze’s Request for Transfer to the Comintern, November 1927
   - Address of the Iranian Communist Party to the Toilers of Iran, 1928
   - Action Programme of the Iranian Communist Party, 1929
   - The Anti-Socialist Law, June 1931
   - Reginald Bridgman, Persia and British Labour, July 1931
   - Sultanadze’s Letter of Resignation

*Documents with Specific Reference to Britain*

   - Taghi-Zada and Moazid-Es-Saltana, Persia’s Appeal to England
   - The Persia Committee, Anglo-Russian Convention of 1907
   - Maxim Gorki, The Persia Committee
   - Persia, Finland and the Russian Alliance
   - K. Malik, Grabbing Persia
   - F.L. Kerran, From Brixton Jail to Enzeli
   - The British and the Reds at Enzeli
   - George Horwill, Oil and Finance
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[Marxism] Wielding Data, Women Force a Reckoning Over Bias in the Economics Field

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NY Times, Jan. 11 2018
Wielding Data, Women Force a Reckoning Over Bias in the Economics Field
By JIM TANKERSLEY and NOAM SCHEIBER

PHILADELPHIA — It is not difficult to find an all-male panel at the 
annual January mega-gathering of American economists. They are as common 
as PowerPoint presentations and pie charts. One such panel this year met 
to sleepily critique President Trump’s economic policies, but it was 
overshadowed by another panel, two ballrooms away, that jolted a 
profession that prides itself on cool rationality.


That panel on Friday was stocked with women, each of whom presented new 
research that revealed a systemic bias in economics and presaged a move 
by the field’s leaders to promise to address some of those issues.


Paper after paper presented at the American Economic Association panel 
showed a pattern of gender discrimination, beginning with barriers women 
face in choosing to study economics and extending through the life cycle 
of their careers, including securing job opportunities, writing research 
papers, gaining access to top publications and earning proper credit for 
published work.


Economics departments have gradually increased their share of female 
faculty members over the past 20 years. But only one in five 
tenure-track economics professors is a woman, according to the American 
Economic Association’s Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics 
Profession.


In many parts of the profession, gender progress stagnated over the last 
decade. About one in three new economics doctoral students was a woman 
in 2016, and fewer than one in three assistant professors were women. In 
both of those cases, the share of women was essentially unchanged from 2006.


A Shrinking Pipeline of Women in Economics Departments
A 2016 survey of 126 economics departments with doctoral programs found 
that while the female share of doctoral students and faculty has 
increased significantly since the 1970s, the representation of women 
drops at each step on the track to full, tenured professor.


The focus on gender bias in economics began simmering in August, when 
Alice Wu, an economist from the University of California, Berkeley, 
detailed in a research paper how the website Economics Job Market 
Rumors, a much-read, anonymous job-rumor forum and message board for 
economists, had become a hotbed of harassment, with female economists 
frequently described in often sexual and crude terms.


The bias creeps into the most popular introductory economics textbooks, 
which refer to men four times as often as they do women. Ninety percent 
of the economists cited in those textbooks are men, Betsey Stevenson, a 
University of Michigan economist, told the panel on gender issues in 
economics, based on a paper she is about to complete. When women are 
mentioned in textbook examples, they are more likely to be shopping or 
cleaning than running a company or making public policy.


Missing From Economics Textbooks: Women
An analysis presented at a January gathering of economists found that 
men make up the vast majority of people mentioned in economics 
textbooks, even dominating references to business leaders and policy makers.


The reckoning in economics comes amid a larger national examination of 
bias and abuse toward women in the work force, across industries 
including entertainment, manufacturing and journalism. But the existence 
of bias in the field of economics is rattling a profession that, at its 
core, functions through objective interpretation and extrapolation of 
data, statistics and evidence.


Leaders of the American Economic Association announced on Friday night 
that they would begin to address bias concerns more seriously, by 
setting up an alternative to the online jobs site and drafting a code of 
conduct for economists. But many economists said that those steps were 
late, and that they left much work to be done to ensure fairness for 
women in the field, where the rate of entry for women lags that of math, 
engineering and other hard sciences.


“The time had come for the organization to make a more proactive 
statement,” said Peter L. Rousseau, the chairman of the economics 
department at Vanderbilt University and the association’s 
secretary-treasurer. He cast the decision as responding to evidence in a 
way that was natural for the profession. “Economists, I think, are just 
very objective in their view of the world,” he said.


In interviews during and after the conference, prominent women in 
economics described how their profession throws barriers in their 
professional paths, and they criticized the male-dominated leadership in 
the field 

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"We may very well be in the first … two-sided nuclear war any day: 
Tomorrow, or next week," Mr. Ellsberg tells The Globe and Mail over the 
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Referencing The Post's British release date, he adds: "I hope we're not 
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Ukrainian Solidarity Campaign

Book Launch and Discussion

UKRAINE AND THE EMPIRE OF CAPITAL: From Marketisation to Armed Conflict
with Yuliya Yurchenko

Introductory speakers:

Lloyd Russell-Moyle, Member of Parliament for Brighton Kemptown

Michael Calderbank, Red Pepper co-editor

Tuesday, 16 January 2018, 6:30  pm, Room 16, Palace of Westminster,

House of Commons, London SW1A 0AA

Hosted by Lloyd Russell-Moyle Member of Parliament

Since 1991, nominally independent Ukraine has been in turmoil, with the 
Orange Revolution and the Maidan protests marking its most critical moments.


Now, its borders are threatened and the civil unrest and armed conflict 
continue to destabilise the country.


In order to understand these dramatic events, Yuliya Yurchenko looks to 
the country's post-Soviet past in this ambitious analysis of 
contemporary Ukrainian political economy.


Providing distinctive and unexplored reflections on the origins of the 
conflict, Yurchenko unpacks the four central myths that underlie 
Ukraine's post-Soviet reality: the myth of transition, the myth of 
democracy, the myth of two Ukraines, and the myth of 'the other'.


In doing so, she sheds light on the current intensification of class 
rivalries in Ukraine, the kleptocracy, resource wars and analyses 
existing and potential dangers of the right-wing shift in Ukraine's 
polity, stressing a historic opportunity for change.Critiquing the 
concept of Ukraine as `transition space', she provides a sweeping 
analysis which includes the wider neo-liberal restructuring of global 
political economy since the 1970s, with particular focus on Ukraine's 
relations with the US, the EU and Russia.


This is a book for those wanting to understand the current conflict as a 
dangerous product of neo-liberalism, of the empire of capital.


Yuliya Yurchenko is an International Business and Economics Department 
of the University of Greenwich and researcher at the Public Services 
International Research Unit. She is the author of Ukraine and the Empire 
of Capital (Pluto, 2017) and a contributor to the Journal Spilna 
(Commons), a supporter of the ‘Sotsialʹnyy Rukh’ (Social Movement) in 
Ukraine.


Visit our website for information about Ukraine: 
ukrainesolidaritycampaign.org


Copies available from: www.plutobooks.com

Christopher  Ford

Ukraine Solidarity Campaign
LRC, c/o PO Box 2378,
London, E5 9QU





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