[Marxism] Syria: Major schism over control emerges within Assad family | Middle East| News and analysis of events in the Arab world | DW | 05.05.2020
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Re: [Marxism] ‘Extremely Disappointing’: Ilhan Omar Signs AIPAC Letter to Prolong Iran Sanctions
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Re: [Marxism] US anti-lockdown protests: ‘If you are paranoid about getting sick, just don’t go out’ | Free to read | Financial Times
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[Marxism] US anti-lockdown protests: ‘If you are paranoid about getting sick, just don’t go out’ | Free to read | Financial Times
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[Marxism] ‘Extremely Disappointing’: Ilhan Omar Signs AIPAC Letter to Prolong Iran Sanctions
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[Marxism] 3 Hospital Workers Gave Out Masks. Weeks Later, They All Were Dead.
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * NY Times, May 5, 2020 3 Hospital Workers Gave Out Masks. Weeks Later, They All Were Dead. By Nicole Hong They did not treat patients, but Wayne Edwards, Derik Braswell and Priscilla Carrow held some of the most vital jobs at Elmhurst Hospital Center in Queens. As the coronavirus tore through the surrounding neighborhood, their department managed the masks, gloves and other protective gear inside Elmhurst, a public hospital at the center of the city’s outbreak. They ordered the inventory, replenished the stockroom and handed out supplies, keeping a close count as the number of available masks began to dwindle. By April 12, they were all dead. The pandemic has taken an undisputed toll on doctors, nurses and other front-line health care workers. But it has also ravaged the often-invisible army of nonmedical workers in hospitals, many of whom have fallen ill or died with little public recognition of their roles. The victims included the security guards watching over emergency rooms. They were the chefs who cooked food for patients and other hospital workers. They assigned hospital beds and checked patients’ medical records. They greeted visitors and answered phones. They mopped the hallways and took out the garbage. “You know how people clap for health workers at 7 o’clock? It’s mainly for the nurses and doctors. I get it. But people are not seeing the other parts of the hospital,” said Eneida Becote, whose husband died last month after working for two decades as a patient transporter. “I feel like those other employees are not focused upon as much.” Her husband, Edward Becote, made about $45,000 a year moving patients around the Brooklyn Hospital Center on stretchers and wheelchairs. He was among at least 32 nonmedical hospital workers in New York City who have died during the pandemic, according to an analysis by The New York Times. These workers make some of the lowest wages in hospitals, and they are more likely than medical staff members to be black or Latino. In New York City’s public hospitals, 79 percent of the workers who assist doctors and nurses are black or Hispanic, compared with 44 percent of the medical staff, according to the most recent city data. In the early weeks of the pandemic, when even emergency room nurses had to reuse N95 masks for days at a time, nonmedical workers were often given less protective gear than their colleagues who treated patients — or none at all — according to union leaders and hospital employees. “If you work in a hospital, you are exposed to the same kind of virus as the doctors and nurses,” said Carmen Charles, president of the union that represents 8,500 nonmedical staff members at New York City hospitals. “I understand management wanting to ration the supplies, but at what cost?” Ms. Charles, who leads Local 420, part of the umbrella union for city workers, said some of her members had been denied the N95 masks that were reserved for doctors and nurses. At least 11 members have died, she said. A spokesman for Health and Hospitals, the city’s public hospital system, acknowledged that it saved N95 masks for clinical employees who treated Covid-19 patients and other employees in “hot zones,” such as the emergency department. Early in the pandemic, the spokesman said, most government guidance on masks focused on clinical employees. He said the agency offered surgical masks to its nonclinical workers. Elmhurst did not require every employee to wear at least a surgical mask until April 15, the same day Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced an order mandating New Yorkers to wear face coverings in public, according to emails viewed by The Times. In March, Ms. Carrow, Mr. Edwards and Mr. Braswell handed out supplies in the materials management department, in the hospital’s subbasement. Their deaths have shaken other nonclinical employees at Elmhurst who hoped that their distance from patients offered some protection against contracting the virus. Ms. Carrow, 65, died on March 30 after working at Elmhurst for 25 years. Mr. Edwards, 61, died two days later, after a friend found him on the floor of his apartment, gasping for air. Both of them had expected to retire within the next year. “As you start mending your heart for one, then the next one came,” said Gary Johnson, who previously worked in their department and discovered Mr. Edwards in his apartment. “You wonder when the pain stops.” Hospitals generally have not released the names of employees who have died, leading workers to collect the names through word of mouth and organize their own memorials. The Times compiled its
[Marxism] 2 Die From the Virus at a Bronx Bus Depot, and Drivers Are Rattled
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * NY Times, May 5, 2020 2 Die From the Virus at a Bronx Bus Depot, and Drivers Are Rattled By Christina Goldbaum Angel Volquez was already on edge. For weeks, the New York City bus driver had watched as the city’s grim new reality played out in front of him through the large glass windshield like a dystopian movie. Streets had turned eerily empty of traffic and were now filled mostly with screeching ambulances racing to the hospital. At bus stops, exhausted nurses replaced his usual riders. Then he learned that a cleaner at the bus depot, Kenneth Wright, had died from the coronavirus. Next he received a text that a recently retired bus operator, Sanni Adamu, had died. A week later, when he heard that the virus had killed an older driver beloved for his boundless kindness, Erlin Galarza, the new perils of his job finally sank in. “He was a very humble man, he was very well loved,” Mr. Volquez said. “We hear what’s going on, but when I heard he died, it finally hit home, that any of this can happen to anyone.” Mr. Volquez is one of the 800 transit workers at Gun Hill in the Bronx, one of the largest depots operated by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which runs the city’s subway and buses. Since the coronavirus pandemic swallowed New York City, the virus has plagued the transit work force, with nearly 100 workers dead and thousands more falling sick. At Gun Hill, two current workers have died and 63 have been confirmed positive with the coronavirus, making it one of the harder-hit workplaces in the city during the pandemic, outside of health care facilities. Transit leaders have commended the sacrifice of fallen colleagues, lauding their work force as heroes in the face of the pandemic. The narrative reflects a unique facet of this crisis: the redefining of “emergency worker” to include bus drivers, train conductors, grocery store clerks and trash collectors. Unlike police officers or firefighters, most transit workers, though essential to the city’s functioning, never expected to confront life-threatening danger on the job. Now, like reluctant soldiers whose draft numbers were called, many feel as if they have been thrust onto the front lines of a deadly war they were not prepared for and do not want to fight. “It’s a nerve-racking thing to go to work every day and not know what’s going to happen,” said Keith Medina, a bus operator who opted to burn through 20 of his personal days in March and April rather than risk exposure to the virus. “We didn’t sign up for that.” Like many of his colleagues, Mr. Medina, 32, had grown up in a working-class neighborhood and applied for work at New York City Transit because it offered a stable income, decent benefits and a pension — everything he needed to take care of his parents as they got older and eventually, he thought, to raise a family of his own. At the time, he had also taken entry exams for the city’s sanitation and police departments, but he settled on transit at the urging of his father, who thought it was the safest bet: Law enforcement work could be dangerous, and sanitation work might strain his son’s asthma. When he joined the transit agency seven years ago, he did not think much of the job, he said, but over time he came to love the work. “I’m outside, I don’t see the same things every day, I’m constantly in motion,” said Mr. Medina, who worked for five years at Kingsbridge bus depot in the Inwood neighborhood in Manhattan before transferring to Gun Hill in 2018. “I’m here for the benefits, that’s why I went this route, but I really do love what I do.” Situated in the Baychester neighborhood of the East Bronx, Gun Hill is one of 28 M.T.A. bus depots that span the city’s five boroughs. Flanked to the east by the Hutchinson River, two highways and a large shopping complex, the depot is home to a fleet of 238 buses parked in neat rows outside a drab administrative building. Each day buses from the depot set off for the largely working-class neighborhoods of Norwood and Eastchester, Pelham Bay and City Island, carrying mostly immigrants from Latin America past two-family homes and brown-brick apartment buildings. Before the pandemic, the depot itself was usually bustling: Colleagues played dominoes and shot pool in the crew room before their shifts or during lunch breaks, the sounds of rushing traffic from the nearby highways buzzing outside. When they were not clocked in, bus operators attended each others’ weddings and shared cake at their children’s birthdays. But when the coronavirus pandemic took hold of New York in March, the liveliness
[Marxism] Dance Camera West Launches a Virtual Festival May 14 on OVID.tv
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[Marxism] bellingcat - The Invasion of Venezuela, Brought To You By Silvercorp USA - bellingcat
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[Marxism] The Grayzone and the facts of the Ltamenah gas attacks | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * As a rule of thumb, the Syrian dictatorship’s chemical attacks only become a cause célèbre when there is a significant loss of life. For the better part of 8 years, Assad has dropped barrel bombs on hospitals, fired missiles into working-class tenements, starved rebel supporters into submission and generally pursued what are commonly understood as war crimes. It is only when chemical weapons are used, and more importantly, result in a significant loss of life that American presidents get on their high horse. The first incident occurred on August 21, 2013 in Eastern Ghouta when up to 1,729 poor people opposed to the dictatorship died from a sarin gas attack. This incident set the pattern for Assad’s apologists that continues to this day. People such as Seymour Hersh, Theodore Postol, David Bromwich, Robert Parry, and Tariq Ali all came to Assad’s rescue, arguing that he had not motive to use sarin gas. There was a cruder battalion following these distinguished gentlemen who emphasized the “false flag” narrative, which made the case that the rebels gassed their own supporters in order to give Obama an excuse to implement “regime change”. Names like Vanessa Beeley, Eva Bartlett, and David Icke come to mind. Despite Obama bending over backwards to allow the “normal” war crimes to continue, this crowd was always on the lookout for the next incident that would allow them to posture as peace activists over the dead bodies of Syrian civilians. full: https://louisproyect.org/2020/05/05/the-grayzone-and-the-facts-of-the-ltamenah-gas-attacks/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] bellingcat - Who Is Dmitry Badin, The GRU Hacker Indicted By Germany Over The Bundestag Hacks? - bellingcat
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[Marxism] What Does COVID-19 Mean for the Future of Capitalism? - CounterPunch.org
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[Marxism] Ukraine, Peace, Oligarchs and Big Power Manoeuvres - IMHO Journal
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[Marxism] Neil Davidson (1957-2020) - Counterfire
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[Marxism] Towards a Political Economy of Ukraine | Columbia University Press
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[Marxism] Michael Yates comment on Leigh Phillips review of "Planet of the Humans"
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * There is a recent review of the reviews of Planet of the Humans that is worth reading (http://www.fraw.org.uk/blog/2020/20200501-planet_of_the_humans.html) in conjunction with Phillips's review. Especially given that Phillips is a friend of the neofascists at Spiked and the utterly reactionary folks at the Breakthrough Institute. Jacobin claims to be a left-wing magazine, but publishing Phillips would seem to belie this. As for the film itself, like any documentary, this one has flaws, such as the somewhat decontextualized discussion of population growth. And as the review referenced above points out, there are recent analyses that should have been referenced. However, there are at least three main points in Planet of the Humans that are on target. First, alternative energy sources such as wind, solar, and biomass are problematic to say the least. They must use inputs that are environmentally destructive, sometimes to an extreme degree. These resources are not themselves renewable. In addition, to date, wind and solar must always be supplemented with oil, gas, or coal to generate consistent and sufficient power. Little to no concern is given to the Global South in any of this, the Global South, the exploitation of whose workers and peasants allows alternative energy to exist in the Global North. The simple-minded partisans of the GND give lip service to subsidies to the poor countries, but we all know this is not in the cards. Second, mainstream environmental groups take money from billionaires and their foundations at their peril. They will always, one way or another, set the agenda. Watch Bill Gates on CNN yattering about the pandemic, with very little clue about so many things, as a good example of the dangers. Third, and most important, there is just no way, none whatsoever, that ecological disaster, including more and worse pandemics, can be avoided if "normal" economic growth continues, especially in the Global North. And this is what Phillips and fanboys like Doug Henwood cannot imagine happening and have no desire to do so. They will devise any number of cover stories---jobs are needed by the working class, mass death will be the result of degrowth, the poor will suffer even more, we must have industrial agriculture to feed so many people, de-growthers are really genocidal, technology is neutral and all we need is to have social control over what we already have, and on and on---to mask their naked desire for things, always and in endless supply, for them and their children. The owner of Jacobin is a self-proclaimed hustler. Unfortunately, hustling isn't the same as clear, radical thinking. If Phillips is Jacobin's idea of a radical, well that's a hustle in itself. _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Birx, Fauci and the union leadership: Accommodating capitalism
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[Marxism] Defying Trump and Their Governors, Many Workers Are Refusing to “Reopen”
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[Marxism] Steve Mnuchin Urges Americans To Live Dangerously And Travel The Country | HuffPost
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[Marxism] What Socialists Can Take From Corporate Strategic Management
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[Marxism] AR-15s in the State Capitol: What the Anti-Quarantine Protests Tell Us About the Police | Left Voice
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[Marxism] Choctaw-Ireland solidarity — Crooked Timber
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * A couple of years ago I wrote in a series for Medium about how the solidarity between the Choctaw Nation and the Irish people two hundred years ago is how we can resist the power vertical today. In 1847, Choctaw survivors of the Trail of Tears sent a couple of hundred dollars, a fortune to them, to Irish Famine relief. Those with the least gave proportionately the most. To this day, there is a friendship that goes deeper than the official sculptures and exchange visits that mark it. I’ve long planned to include this story in a longer project about how we can use stories to imagine better futures (partly) by finding unlikely common cause and building movements. I never imagined there would be another chapter to the story. In the last day or so, the call went out amongst Irish for donations to support the Navajo and Hopi nations in Utah who have lost many elders to covid-19 and were already living in a food desert. Their GoFundMe page has message after message of gratitude and solidarity from Irish people (amongst many other generous donors), honouring our debt. It really is something beautiful. https://crookedtimber.org/2020/05/04/choctaw-ireland-solidarity/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Brutal Choices: Anders Tegnell and Sweden’s Herd Immunity Goal - CounterPunch.org
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[Marxism] Vietnam: 45 Years After the War Finally Ended
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