[Marxism] Has the Trump-Kim Summit Opened the Road to Peace in East Asia?

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Re: [Marxism] Leon Trotsky, Dupe of the NKVD — Central Intelligence Agency

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One might also refer to the valuable book "The GPU in the Trotskyist Movement" 
by the 
long-time Trotskyist leader Georges Vereeken (1896-1978).


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[Marxism] NY Labor History Ass'n: Debra E. Bernhardt Labor Journalism Prize

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The Debra E. Bernhardt Labor Journalism Prize is an award of $500 given to
an article that furthers the understanding of the history of working people.

The prize is given to insightful work that contributes to the understanding
of labor history, shows creativity, demonstrates excellence in writing, and
adheres to the highest journalistic standards of accuracy.  The work should
be published – in print or online – in a union or workers’ center
publication or by an independent journalist.

By sponsoring this award we hope to inspire more great writing for a
general audience about the history of work, workers, and their
organizations.

We are guided by the vision of the late Debra E. Bernhardt, who worked in
so many different realms to share the hidden histories of working people.
As head of the Wagner Labor Archives she reached out to an astonishing
number of people and organizations, to document undocumented stories and
unrecognized contributions, and to make links between past and present.

The award is co-sponsored by LaborArts; Metro New York Labor Communications
Council; the NYC Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO; and the Robert F. Wagner
Labor Archives at NYU’s  Tamiment Library.

http://newyorklaborhistory.org/web/?page_id=210

Application info at http://www.laborarts.org/Bernhardt
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[Marxism] The refugee camps in Greece: One person’s experience

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" We interview Jo Morales, who has been working in refugee camps and
solidarity spaces in Greece for the last three years. Unlike the NGO
workers, who often use the work in these camps to build their careers, Jo
is doing it, yes to help, but also is drawing political conclusions from
it. She is also helping others do the same. She talks with Oaklandsocialist
about her experiences there.

"Syrians, she explains, are not the only refugees from the Syrian war. For
example, thousands of Afghanis have fled their country and gone into Iran.
There, if caught, they are drafted to fight on the front lines in Syria.
They are given lower pay than are the Iranian soldiers. They are also often
promised that they will get legal papers and that their families will be
taken care of if anything happens to them. Neither of these promises is
always honored

"Among Syrian refugees there tends to be a mood of exhaustion and defeat,
but they also see events in Syria as part of a long process that could
continue. The mood also varies from day to day. “It’s hard to keep hope
when your families are being murdered….” Jo said. “The answer [for a
renewed struggle] might be in the diaspora….. People are so exhausted…. But
people have organized against the Assad regime in the streets in Athens…
for opening the borders and for opening the camps…. Stand against the Assad
regime as well as nihilistic Islamic groups like Daesh.”

Anti-capitalism
"We asked Jo how much there is a view that the heart of the problem is
capitalism itself. She commented: “It’s not the dominant view… (but) they
will talk about the neoliberal policies of the Assad regime. They will talk
about inequality, and how the was one of the catalysts for the revolution.
And they see solidarity (with) the European working class.”

"She went further, explaining that there is needed a political struggle to
clarify that neoliberalism is simply a symptom of the crisis of capitalism
itself. This view “is not the majority…. the majority will tell you that
the revolution was for freedom…. it was against people being tortured to
death.”

read full article here:
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: The Fake Left at the Left Forum: The Attack against Ajamu Baraka

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On 6/13/18 2:41 PM, Mark Lause wrote:
Have radicals actually absorbed the tolxicity of the surrounding civic 
culture so completely that we use terms like "fake left"???


A position is either "left" or its not.

And saying that it's a "fake left" conjures images of conspiratories . . 
.people choosing deliberately to fly under phony colors as a "left' that 
isn't.



Just one other thing on this. I didn't sign the open letter on Baraka, 
as I have already pointed out. Plus, I value Black Agenda Report even if 
they are wrong on Syria. In fact, one of my closest friends used to 
drive me nuts sending me that kind of stuff for a few years. Finally, I 
have enormous esteem for Bruce Dixon who in a Left Forum workshop on how 
to build the left talked about the need to avoid litmus tests. If I had 
applied to CounterPunch in 2013, it would have prevented me from 
reaching people who were not in my comfort zone--in other words, the 
small number of people who walked out on Baraka.


Politics is about debate. Lenin was not a Marxist at one point. He 
argued for years with Marxists until he came around. This Syria stuff is 
easy to stumble over since we have been accustomed to putting a minus 
where the State Department puts a plus--or vice versa. The only way to 
overcome this non-dialectical way of thinking is to patiently explain. 
If you don't have the patience for that, maybe you should rethink your

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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: The Fake Left at the Left Forum: The Attack against Ajamu Baraka

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Have radicals actually absorbed the tolxicity of the surrounding civic
culture so completely that we use terms like "fake left"???

A position is either "left" or its not.

And saying that it's a "fake left" conjures images of conspiratories . .
.people choosing deliberately to fly under phony colors as a "left' that
isn't.
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: The Fake Left at the Left Forum: The Attack against Ajamu Baraka

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On 6/13/18 1:45 PM, Andrew Stewart via Marxism wrote:
  
The Fake Left at the Left Forum
  
By Danny Haiphong


What a funny nom de guerre. When I was in the SWP, I kicked around the 
idea of using Morris Bolshstein.

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[Marxism] How the University Became Neoliberal

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Jordan Peterson, the "self-help quack" (as Richard Seymour calls him), 
never mentions neo-liberalism as a force dictating the direction of our 
universities. He thinks they have been "invaded" by Post-Modern Marxism 
with its political correctness shtik - or whatever word salad he is 
using this week. He seems to think that university administrators spend 
their time paving the road for PC Pomo Marxism, instead of their real 
tasks of turning higher education into a low-wage factory with the 
students as its products. Nor does he mention the strong influence of 
"the donor class" to the direction they are heading. The case of the 
firing of Steven Salaita at UIUC is a good example.

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[Marxism] Fwd: The Fake Left at the Left Forum: The Attack against Ajamu Baraka

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Best regards,
Andrew Stewart 

Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Ajamu Baraka" 
> Date: June 13, 2018 at 1:33:22 PM EDT
> To: "'Ajamu Baraka'" 
> Subject: The Fake Left at the Left Forum: The Attack against Ajamu Baraka
> 
>  
> As some of you may have heard I have been the object of mobilizations from 
> some sector of the white left over the last few weeks that culminated in an 
> organized action against me during the closing plenary of the left forum.  We 
> recognize that this is not an attack on me as a person but on those of us 
> from black liberation movement and the authentic left that have taken a 
> consistent anti-imperialist stance during the current period of right-wing 
> ideological retrenchment that intensified under the Obama administration. We 
> thank comrade Haiphong for his defense and analysis. We will continue to 
> build and to uphold the tradition of Black/African internationalism. 
>  
>  
> The Fake Left at the Left Forum
>  
> By Danny Haiphong
>  
> https://blackagendareport.com/fake-left-left-forum
>  
> The Fake Left at the Left Forum
> “Black Agenda Report and the Black Alliance for Peace have been called 
> ‘Assadists’ for defending the Syrian people’s rightful decision to determine 
> who governs them and under what type of state.”
> 
> I was at the Left Forum held on the first weekend of June in New York City. I 
> did what I’ve done every year that I’ve attended. I spoke at Black Agenda 
> Report’s panel, chatted with a few comrades I rarely see due to distance, and 
> attended a few of their panels. More than a few colleagues mentioned to me 
> that a contingent of so-called “Trotskyists” publicly protested Black 
> Alliance for Peace founder Ajamu Baraka for his support of the Syrian 
> government. These so-called “Trotskyist” forces passed out leaflets 
> condemning Baraka and protested his remarks at the closing plenary in 
> opposition to “the brutal Assad regime.” A UNAC statement on the matter can 
> be found here.
> 
> While some were engaged in unprincipled, pro-empire, and chauvinist actions 
> such as these, others such as myself were using the Left Forum to figure out 
> who the left is and what it should stand for and do. This is an important 
> task because the real left in the United States is small. As Glen Ford stated 
> in Black Agenda Report’s panel,the small size of the real left means that it 
> shoulders a heavy burden. Not only must the real left in the United States 
> find a way to develop an organized anti-imperialist, and class-based 
> opposition to the ruling class, but it must also combat the fake left in its 
> many forms. Those who participated in slandering Baraka are what the fake 
> left looks like and sounds like in the flesh.
> 
> “The real left must combat the fake left in its many forms.”
> 
> The fake left at the Left Forum should be distinguished from the fake left of 
> the non-profit industrial complex. The non-profit industrial complex indeed 
> hires fake activistsbeholden to government and corporate funders responsible 
> for the very problems that non-profit activists oppose in the first place. 
> Fake left activists reside in non-profit organizations such as MoveOn.org and 
> Indivisible. The fake left I refer to in this piece are perhaps even more 
> insidious than those paid by foundations and non-profits. This band of 
> leftists verbally states opposition to imperialism and an embrace of 
> socialism in theory yet behaves more like amateur soft agents of the US 
> intelligence services in practice.
> 
> These fake leftists reside in an alphabet soup of so-called Trotskyist 
> organizations like the International Socialist Organization (ISO). So-called 
> “Trotskyist” organizations have a long history of supporting US imperialism. 
> I don’t pretend to know which organization the fake leftists who protested 
> Baraka belonged to. An attendee told me that the organizers of the protest of 
> Baraka stemmed from the League for the Revolutionary Party. Thetrend is more 
> important than the organization. Just days prior to the Left Forum, activists 
> in the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) wrote an opinion piece claiming 
> that “The 2,000 US troops in Syria are not there to conduct ‘regime change.’ 
> They are there to defend the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) in North 
> East Syria and to oppose ISIS. Trump has made that clear.” One of the authors 
> of the piece has been active on social media denouncing Baraka and the Black 
> Alliance for Peace for being so-called apologists for Assad. This falls in 
> line with the ISO, which has long been known to support US-led operations in 
> Libya 

[Marxism] Seymour M. Hersh — the Journalist as Lone Wolf

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NY Times, June 13, 2018
Seymour M. Hersh — the Journalist as Lone Wolf
By Alan Rusbridger

REPORTER
A Memoir
By Seymour M. Hersh
Illustrated. 355 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $27.95.

The lone wolf — in journalism, as in nature — is a rare creature. Many 
reporters prefer the reassuring comfort of the pack. But every age 
throws up a few hunters who prefer to go it alone, scorning the safety 
and consensus of the crowd. They are often noble beasts, even if they 
can present formidable challenges to their handlers.


Seymour  M. Hersh (better known as Sy) is perhaps the most notable lone 
wolf of his generation. Now 81, he has nearly always operated on his 
own: There has been no Bernstein to his Woodward; no investigative team 
into which he could easily blend. He broke some of the biggest stories 
of his time. He fell out with editors. He threw typewriters through 
windows. He could be petulant, unreasonably stubborn and prudish. But, 
boy, could he report.


His memoir is — with some niggling reservations — a master class in the 
craft of reporting. People sometimes shorthand the act of dogged 
discovery as “shoe leather” journalism — pounding pavements rather than 
sitting at the desk Googling. In Hersh’s case reporting involved long 
hours in libraries as well as jumping on last-minute flights to far-off 
small towns to hunt down reluctant witnesses. It meant knocking on doors 
in the middle of the night; learning how to read documents upside down 
while pretending to make notes; painstakingly cultivating retired 
generals; showing empathy, winning trust.


His chosen areas of investigation were often the hardest to penetrate: 
He burrows away at the secrecy of the state, the military, intelligence, 
foreign policy and giant corporations. Over nearly six decades he 
exposed brutality, deception, torture, illegal surveillance, 
government-sponsored fake news and much else. More often than not — much 
more often — he was right. From the My Lai massacre of 1968 to the 
degrading treatment of detainees in Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison in 2003, 
Hersh delivered the goods.


He introduces himself as a survivor from the golden age of journalism, 
“when reporters for daily newspapers did not have to compete with the 
24-hour cable news cycle, when newspapers were flush with cash from 
display advertisements and want ads, and when I was free to travel 
anywhere, anytime, for any reason, with company credit cards.” Back then 
reporters were given the time and money to tell “important and unwanted 
truths” and made America “a more knowledgeable place.” He makes the 
classic case for public interest journalism.


The book has its journalistic heroes — Harrison Salisbury, I. F. Stone, 
Neil Sheehan, Bob Woodward among them — and political villains, 
including Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger (“the man lied the way most 
people breathed”), Dick Cheney and neocons. It also has its editorial 
enemies. He scorns the practitioners of “he said, she said” journalism 
as stenographers. He ridicules reporters who claim not to have an 
opinion on what they’re writing about. He chides other news 
organizations for not following up his exclusives. He holds in especial 
contempt the Vietnam-era press room of the Pentagon for what he regarded 
as its collective lazy gullibility.


The skepticism that made him such a considerable reporter extended to 
the organizations that employed him and the editors who commissioned 
him. There is a fine line, in Hersh’s ever-suspicious mind, between 
editing and censorship. His nose was always twitching for a sniff of 
cowardice or collusion. On one occasion he investigates his own editor, 
suspecting that a loan from the company’s directors to help him buy an 
apartment could have compromised him when he should have been solely 
“beholden to the newsroom and the men and women in it.”


That editor was A. M. Rosenthal, executive editor of this newspaper from 
1977 to 1986, one of several editors with whom Hersh had a complicated 
relationship torn between mutual respect and something close to despair. 
Hersh — brought up in a lower-middle-class family on the South Side of 
Chicago — grew up revering The New York Times and is beyond honored when 
he finally makes it to the paper in 1972. But the story of Hersh and The 
Times involves a troubled courtship; a sometimes happy marriage; a trial 
separation and eventual divorce.


His work on Vietnam — an “obsession” he thought he shared with Rosenthal 
— initially appeared to please his editor, though Rosenthal was ever 
anxious about his “little commie” reporter’s overt politics. But the 
paper — being comprehensively outgunned by The 

[Marxism] Fwd: Meetings re Palestine

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  NYC and Hudson Valley meetings with Mazin Qumsiyeh, speaking on “From
  the West Bank to Gaza: Activism, Solidarity, and Prospects for the
  Future.”


  Thursday, 21 June 7-9 PM:NYC, 256 West 38th Street, 12th floor
  (between 7th and 8th Ave)(UAW headquarters).


  Friday, 22 June 7-9 PM: Saugerties, Hudson Valley, Inquiring Minds
  bookstore.

Qumsiyeh is the author of /Popular Resistance in Palestine: A History of 
Hope and Empowerment, //and /Professor and Director of the Palestine 
Museum of Natural History and the Palestine Institute for Biodiversity 
and Sustainability, Bethlehem University (www.palestinenature.org 
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Re: [Marxism] Buffalo Bill

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Overlapping theme in the below?

Hey, Bungalow Bill
What did you kill
Bungalow Bill?
He went out tiger hunting with his elephant and gun
In case of accidents he always took his mom
He's the all American bullet-headed saxon mother's son.
All the children sing
Hey Bungalow Bill
What did you kill
Bungalow Bill?
Deep in the jungle where the mighty tiger lies
Bill and his elephants were taken by surprise
So Captain Marvel zapped in right between the eyes
All the children sing
Hey, Bungalow Bill
What did you kill
Bungalow Bill?
The children asked him if to kill was not a sin
Not when he looked so fierce, his mother butted in
If looks could kill it would have been us instead of him
All the children sing
Hey, Bungalow Bill
What did you kill
Bungalow Bill?
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Re: [Marxism] Buffalo Bill

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Sandburg grew up up among the ramshackle homes of the railroad workers at
Galesburg, Illinois.  As a child, he saw the strike of 1888 and the
successful electoral campaign that elected strike leaders to the city
government there.  He later joined the army and went to Puerto Rico, and
briefly went to West Point.  He later joined the Social Democrats at
Milwaukee and became an official organizer and agitator for the Socialist
party in Wisconsin.  He later moved to suburbs of Chicago.

Aside from his poetry, he is most remembered for his laudatory multi-volume
biography of Abraham Lincoln.

(For a couple of years, my wife and I lived a few blocs from his boyhood
home and I used the time to write an article on the rail labor history of
the town.)

Cheers,
Mark L.
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Re: [Marxism] Buffalo Bill

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Thank you for these Lou.  I have always loved the e.e.cummings poem. Did
not know the Sandburg poem at all.  While I was in Nigeria 68-71 Sandburg
was being pushed as leading cultural figure by tthe US Aid folk.  So I read
a fair b it about him.  I thought that Robert Frost's comment on Sandburg's
politics was very bitchy but fair. Frost said "Carl has been a pacifist
between the wars"

comradely

Gary

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> Buffalo Bill's
> by E. E. Cummings
>
> Buffalo Bill's
> defunct
> who used to
> ride a watersmooth-silver
> stallion
> and break onetwothreefourfive pigeonsjustlikethat
> Jesus
>
> he was a handsome man
> and what i want to know is
> how do you like your blueeyed boy
> Mister Death
>
> ---
>
> Buffalo Bill
> by Carl Sandburg
>
> BOY heart of Johnny Jones-aching to-day?
> Aching, and Buffalo Bill in town?
> Buffalo Bill and ponies, cowboys, Indians?
>
> Some of us know
> All about it, Johnny Jones.
>
> Buffalo Bill is a slanting look of the eyes,
> A slanting look under a hat on a horse.
> He sits on a horse and a passing look is fixed
> On Johnny Jones, you and me, barelegged,
> A slanting, passing, careless look under a hat on a horse.
>
> Go clickety-clack, O pony hoofs along the street.
> Come on and slant your eyes again, O Buffalo Bill.
> Give us again the ache of our boy hearts.
> Fill us again with the red love of prairies, dark nights, lonely wagons,
> and the crack-crack of rifles sputtering flashes into an ambush.
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[Marxism] My response to Robert Scheer's 'A Victory for Sanity in World Politics'

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https://www.truthdig.com/articles/a-victory-for-sanity-in-world-politics/

I won't cite the many articles currently appearing, you have as much 
access to them as I do and I don't regard them as nitpicking, which 
ascribe or associate this seeming rapprochement with a deal to bring 
North Korea into the ambit of transnational corporate power - just as 
with China in 1975 as you say, when I saw on TV first Kissinger and then 
Ted Kennedy traveling to China, emissaries for a similar deal with that 
country.


So the further implication is that North Korea, instead of struggling 
with top-down socialism in one isolated country, is to become more 
openly capitalist (capitalism defined as usual as accumulation and 
expansion by labor exploitation, application of the labor theory of 
value) in form if not in name. The US gets to share onerous terms of 
trade in North Korea with South Korea, China and Japan, and the Kim 
family dynasty only has to contend with its own exploited people, and no 
longer so much with the sanctions and threats of transnational capital. 
If that's our idea of "risking peace instead of war," rather than 
kicking the can down the road and using threats of cataclysmic 
destruction to power a deal with another heretofore non-compliant 
country, getting them to knuckle under to US corporate dominance and all 
that entails for further exploitation of cheap foreign labor, access to 
resources, exacerbation of the toxic contradictions of capital leading 
inexorably to planet destruction and nuclear holocaust, then so be it, I 
suppose.


In 1957, I co-wrote a pamphlet called "Question and Answers on Nuclear 
Testing" which with some small success conveyed the conclusion that, 
until we are collectively on track toward substantive equality, rather 
than specious, inoperable formal equality of opportunity under 
capitalism, no deal on nuclear proliferation and its likely 
planet-destroying consequences is possible. That message still holds.



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[Marxism] [UCE] strikes in Iran

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Article from Alliance of Middle East Socialists on the strikes in Iran:
What Are Iran’s Labor Protests/Strikes Demanding? What Are the Barriers to
a Revolutionary Socialist Direction? What Kind of International Solidarity
Is Needed?

Jun 13, 2018 | 0 comments


Below is the text of Frieda Afary’s presentation to a group of
international  labor activists on June 10, 2018.

The mass protests that began in Iran on December 28, 2017 and have
continued in the form of smaller nationwide protests and strikes, have been
unprecedented in scale since the 1979 Iranian revolution, a revolution that
was soon transformed into its opposite, the Islamic Republic.

The December protests that were started by mostly unemployed youth in
smaller cities demanded the overthrow of the Islamic Republic and the
withdrawal of Iran’s military and paramilitary forces from Syria, Lebanon,
Iraq and Yemen.

They were preceded by over a year of persistent protests among workers,
teachers, nurses, retirees, as well as hunger strikes by political
prisoners and years of various forms of women’s struggles against gender
discrimination. They were caused by economic, political and social reasons
and were the product of the dissatisfaction of a young,  literate
population that is connected to the world through the Internet and is fed
up with poverty, repression, gender and ethnic discrimination as well as
discrimination against religious minorities.

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Re: [Marxism] "Leon Trotsky, Dupe of the NKVD"

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On 6/13/18 8:54 AM, Alan Ginsberg via Marxism wrote:


Louis -- why you believe that the author was a "Czarist agent".


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[Marxism] "Leon Trotsky, Dupe of the NKVD"

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first, thanks for posting the article.

Louis -- why you believe that the author was a "Czarist agent".

>From a little poking around, I believe Rita T. Kronenbitter (possibly a
pseudonym) was a CIA historian who specialized in files of the Okhrana.

She seems to have written lots of interesting stuff; I'm looking forward to
reading more of her pieces.

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[Marxism] Can Strikes in France Still Make a Difference?

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(A sneering article worth reading.)

NY Times, June 12, 2018
Can Strikes in France Still Make a Difference?
By Alissa J. Rubin

PARIS — Spring in France is strike season — not that strikes don’t 
happen at other times of the year, but who wants to strike in wet, cold 
weather or in the midst of a hot Parisian summer when everyone (strikers 
included) wants to be on holiday?


René Bodiou, a 75-year-old with a full head of white hair, smiled as he 
marched with fellow retired union members in the late May sun at a 
recent protest. I fell in step with him and asked what he thought about 
this year’s strike season.


“Nowadays, we have people who are too rich,” he said. “In the United 
States, you do not care so much about equality, but we care about it.”


“It does not mean we all have to have the same amount of money, but we 
all should get the same respect,” said Mr. Bodiou, a retired civil engineer.


But, he added, summing up a feeling that seemed to be shared by many on 
the street around him: “Macron does not speak to those who are poor, who 
sleep on the ground; he speaks to the people in the digital world, to 
the entrepreneurs, to the educated.”


Several hundred thousand union workers have taken to the streets of 
France this year. But President Emmanuel Macron has said he would not be 
deterred from his cornerstone policies to tip the balance of power in 
the working world toward employers and away from unions as part of his 
effort to create more jobs.


Railway workers are the latest in his sights because they enjoy 
privileges that are generous even by French standards, including the 
right to retire as early as age 52 and a job for life that is virtually 
guaranteed. Mr. Macron has proposed legislation to end the generous 
terms for new employees. Most French workers cannot retire before age 62.


The National Assembly, the lower house of Parliament, had approved 
stripping the railworkers of their benefits in April and the Senate 
approved a similar measure in June. The two chambers will vote on a 
final version later this week.


In response to the efforts to change the law, the four railroad unions 
staged the biggest strikes this spring among organized labor, slowing 
train service across the country and holding protests in cities from 
Paris to Marseilles and Nantes to Lyon.


I spent several days this spring going to the protests to try to gauge 
the strength of the union cause, and by extension that of the unions’ 
leftist allies.


The protest Mr. Bodiou attended in Paris on the last weekend in May 
started, as do many union marches, at the Gare de l’Est, or Railway 
Station of the East.


It is one of Paris’s most magnificent 19th-century train stations, a 
soaring public monument of iron and glass; trains leave from here for 
Strasbourg in eastern France and then head on to Germany. It was also 
the station where, during World War I, soldiers piled onto the trains 
that took them to the Western Front, where many were slaughtered.


Like so much in Paris, the railway station is a place where the past 
echoes in the present, if you listen hard enough.


For the strikers, too, the past casts a long shadow, not least because 
many had hoped that in the face of Mr. Macron’s defiance of nearly eight 
decades of pro-union labor policies, people would clamor for a return to 
the days when unions were seen as protectors of the ordinary worker.



Or at least to the heady days of May 1968 when laborers and students 
joined hands and for a month brought the country to a standstill and won 
unprecedented gains.


This year, though, instead of joining them, nonunion members seem to be 
barely willing to tolerate the inconvenience of the train workers strike.


Yet for those who have worked on the rails, repairing them, running the 
signal system, taking tickets or driving the trains, Mr. Macron’s plan 
is not just a loss of money or retirement benefits, but a demotion in 
the hierarchy of workers. Railroad workers had lived in a special state 
of grace and even had a special statute to legislate their terms of 
work, and now that was being erased.


Several strikers said people did not understand the political 
implications of the reforms being pushed by Mr. Macron, not just for the 
railways but for everyone.


“If he can take this away from us, he can take benefits from everyone,” 
said Christian Boumard, a union member who came from Nantes for an 
earlier railway protest.


Despite the sense of shouting into the wind, at least this spring, the 
protests still had a festive feel, a lingering hopefulness.


In May, friends greeted one another and people stopped along the route 

[Marxism] Petulance as Statecraft

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[Marxism] Leon Trotsky, Dupe of the NKVD — Central Intelligence Agency

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Written by a Czarist agent.

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