Re: [Marxism] From a journal kept by Hans Christian Heg

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[Marxism] NYT-Mississippi Strikes its Confederate State Flag

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Mississippi Lawmakers Vote to Retire State Flag Rooted in the Confederacy

By Rick Rojas 

   - June 28, 2020, 7:00 p.m. ET

JACKSON, Miss. — Mississippi lawmakers voted on Sunday to bring down, once
and for all, the state flag dominated by the Confederate battle emblem that
has flown for 126 years, adding a punctuation point to years of efforts to
take down Confederate symbols across the South.

The flag, the only state banner left in the country with overt Confederate
imagery, served for many as an inescapable symbol of Mississippi’s racial
scars and of the consequences of that racial history in defining
perceptions of the state.

Still embraced by many white Mississippians as a proud display of Old South
heritage, the flag increasingly has come to evoke segregation, racial
violence and a war that had a central aim of preserving slavery.

In Mississippi, the state with the nation’s highest percentage of
African-Americans, that has long been the position of black residents. It’s
now the view of many white Mississippians as well. For others, the drag on
the state’s perception by outsiders and the continuing friction within were
battles too costly to keep waging.
Continue reading the main story


The vote in the Mississippi House was 91 in favor and 23 opposed. The vote
in the Senate was 37-14. The measure now goes to Gov. Tate Reeves, a
Republican, who has said he will sign it.

Mississippi began grappling with the flag once again
 this
spring as a result of the death of George Floyd in the custody of the
Minneapolis police, which rapidly evolved into a sprawling expression of
fury and exasperation over the countless manifestations of the nation’s
tangled racial history.

“I can’t even explain how I feel,” Kabir Karriem, a Democratic state
representative, who is black, said after casting a vote that he believed
would stand as one of the most important in his legislative career. “I’m
sure our ancestors are proud.”

Amid a movement that has brought down monuments of Confederates, colonizers
and conquistadors and stripped the names of segregationists from buildings
and programs, pressure soon zeroed in on the flag.

Lawmakers were confronted by a cascade of calls from inside and outside
Mississippi

as opposition coalesced across racial, religious, partisan and cultural
divides. Football and basketball coaches paraded through the Capitol urging
a change. A varied assortment

that included country music stars, the state’s black and white Baptist
conventions, civil rights organizations and associations of bankers,
manufacturers and librarians also indicated their opposition.

“This entire state is screaming for a change,” Philip Gunn, the Republican
speaker of the House and a leading proponent for lawmakers to remove the
flag, said this week. “The image of our state is at stake. The nation is
watching.”

The legislation sent to Mr. Reeves proposes abolishing the old flag and
creating a commission that would design a new one. The new banner would be
forbidden from having the Confederate battle emblem and must include the
phrase “In God we trust.” The commission would be charged with arriving at
a design by September for it to be put up for a vote on the November ballot.

The legislation would mandate the “prompt, dignified and respectful”
removal within 15 days of the bill going into effect.

Mr. Reeves, a Republican, said on Saturday morning that he would sign a
bill to change the flag. It represented the latest evolution in the
governor’s thinking, as he relented on his initial stance that any decision
to change the flag ought to made directly by voters.

“The legislature has been deadlocked for days as it considers a new state
flag,” Mr. Reeves said in a statement. “The argument over the 1894 flag has
become as divisive as the flag itself and it’s time to end it.”

The legislation cleared a significant procedural hurdle

on Saturday as a supermajority in both the House of Representatives and
Senate voted to move ahead.

Many lawmakers 

[Marxism] The Main Street Manifesto by Nouriel Roubini - Project Syndicate

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[Marxism] Teaching of Marxism in China | Chen Hong | Science & Society

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Teaching of Marxism in China

By Chen Hong

In recent decades the progress of Chinese society has aroused increasing 
interest among scholars of the most diverse persuasions. A certain slackening 
in the pace of economic advance in the last few years has done little to change 
the generally robust course of development. At the same time, the stand-off 
between China and the United States in the geopolitical and economic areas has 
attracted even greater attention to the question of how the social system of 
China, the country with the world’s second-ranking economy, functions and 
develops.

It is important to stress that China’s leaders directly associate the country’s 
successes with the use of Marxist theory to solve practical problems. During 
Marx’s bicentenary year, 2018, particular attention was paid in China to the 
perspectives of Marxism as the theoretical paradigm and methodological basis 
for decisions in the field of state policy. Speaking in the Chamber of People’s 
Deputies on the eve of the 200th anniversary of Marx’s birth, the leader of the 
country, Xi Jinping, emphasized that Marxism has been a key component of 
China’s economic, social, political and cultural successes. Xi’s 
one-and-a-half-hour speech devoted to Marxism has become an important element 
in the development of sociological research in this country. The Second World 
Marxist Congress, which began the following day, brought together more than a 
thousand participants and became yet another visible confirmation of the fact 
that in China the development of Marxism is receiving priority attention.

There are further facts as well that underline the important role played by 
Marxism in China, in the field of social research and also in the educational 
process. Particular evidence of this has been provided by the creation of 
faculties of Marxism — the so-called Institutes of Marxism — in China’s largest 
universities. Up to the present time more than a thousand of them have been 
established. In these institutions professional training for bachelor’s, 
master’s and doctoral degrees has been placed on a high level, and is the 
object of special attention from the country’s leadership.

A characteristic feature of the teaching of Marxism in China is the fact that 
scholars from many of the world’s countries have been drawn deliberately into 
the processes of instruction and of scholarly research. Among these scholars 
are people from the United States, Western Europe, Japan, and also post-Soviet 
Russia. One of the main texts on which the study of Marxism in China rests, 
apart from the works of Marx himself and those of Engels, Lenin, Mao Zedong and 
Xi Jinping, is the textbook An Introduction to the Basic Principles of Marxism, 
which is on the curriculum of all higher educational institutions. This 
textbook is based on the traditional logic of Marxism, which signifies a 
consistent examination of the historical setting and of the philosophical, 
political-economic and political science components of Marxism. In many 
respects the textbook is reminiscent of those published in the Soviet Union in 
the 1970s and early 1980s, during the epoch of so-called “developed socialism.” 
At the same time, it is clearly different from the Soviet textbooks and from 
previous textbooks on Marxism published in China, and it is on these 
differences, as well as on the peculiarities of this particular textbook, that 
we shall dwell hereafter. Anticipating the detailed description of the 
textbook, we would like to emphasiz that the basic textbook focuses on the 
general problems of Marxism, socialism and the communist perspective, without 
going into the details of research on various types of enterprises, 
organizations and institutions, since in modern China these are very diverse. 
These questions, as well as other more particular ones, are considered in 
numerous textbooks and support materials published by Chinese scientists.

Before proceeding to a detailed analysis of the textbook, I will characterize 
its structure and main chapters. The textbook has a fairly detailed structure, 
including an Introduction and seven chapters, each of which consists of three 
sections. Chapters 1 and 2 address issues of the materiality of the world, 
dialectics and cognition. Chapter 3 presents the laws of social development, 
while chapters 4 and 5 address the essence and trends of development of 
capitalism, and chapters 6 and 7 cover the development of socialism and 
communist ideals.

[For the full text, go to 
https://guilfordjournals.com/doi/pdf/10.1521/siso.2020.84.3.420?download=true;.]


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[Marxism] The Main Street Manifesto, Nouriel Roubini

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'Dr. Doom' 
sends shocks of recognition/shivers up Wall Street spine


The Main Street Manifesto
Jun 24, 2020
Nouriel Roubini 



The historic protests sweeping America were long overdue, not just as a 
response to racism and police violence, but also as a revolt against 
entrenched plutocracy. With a growing number of Americans falling into 
unemployment and economic insecurity, while major corporations take 
bailouts and slash labor costs, something had to give.





Nouriel Roubini, Professor of Economics at New York University's Stern 
School of Business and Chairman of Roubini Macro Associates 
, was Senior Economist for International 
Affairs in the White House’s Council of Economic Advisers during the 
Clinton Administration. He has worked for the International Monetary 
Fund, the US Federal Reserve, and the World Bank. His website is 
NourielRoubini.com .


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Re: [Marxism] Bela Fleck/Abigail Wishburn Streamed on You Tube Today

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I think Bela is a fairly popular boy's name in Hungarian. Was Fleck named after 
Bartok? I must say I like bluegrass, and some country-and-western, but music is 
almost always only a background for me. I have forgotten my mask twice, and it 
does feel odd to suddenly find yourself without one when you discover you have 
left it home. Unlike many, I don't mind wearing the masks, but remembering them 
is always difficult. I keep them located in a chair right near the door to my 
apartment, to remind me.
Take care, John my friend, and be safe. It is getting harder. WH


> On June 28, 2020 at 1:12 PM John A Imani  wrote:
> 
> My Man!
> 
> Though I like his playing, and am fond of bluegrass, what was of moment 
> to me was the BLM sign behind him and his wife.  Bluegrass and BLM, a tasty 
> heady concoction for these times.
> 
> I don't listen much either and music videos don't do it for me.  I 
> stopped listening to popular music when disco came in and it was then I knew 
> that our revolution had failed.  But my girlfriend is deeply into it and it 
> was she who introduced me to Bela Fleck.  But I turned it around and turned 
> her on to Django Reinhardt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Django_Reinhardt and 
> Stephane Grapelli. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St%C3%A9phane_Grappelli  
> 
> In the 60s I belittled the importance of culture.  This probably because 
> of the fratricidal rift between the Panthers and the US organization 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Organization#Rivalry_with_the_Black_Panthers_(1969)
>  which was heavy into African culture.  And killing Panthers.  How wrong I 
> was about the music of our time, I can see in retrospect.  Music helped move 
> the movement forward.
> 
> I had hoped to find that his name was given in honor of Bela Kun, of the 
> short-lived Hungarian SSR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9la_Kun , who 
> was martyred by Stalin.  But he has 3 given names all of them after musicians.
> 
> Take care and b safe,  Dumb assed me, went out to CVS this morning 
> without mask.  First time I forgot.  Gon put a cheap one in my pocket as a 
> guard against old age.
> 
> JAI
> 
> On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 8:50 AM < wytheh...@cox.net 
> mailto:wytheh...@cox.net > wrote:
> 
> > > Music is wonderful, for most people, John, but I have to 
> confess that I am tone deaf and have never been much of a fan of music. I 
> know it is strange, but then I am strange in many ways. I am the only person 
> I know who is not into music much at all -- I love the local classical music 
> station, we are lucky to have such a station here in Tidewater VA, but even 
> it is just background for my driving and I do not listen while at home. 
> Thanks for trying to clue me in, I imagine this is all just great, but I 
> cannot get into it. In solidarity nevertheless, Wythe
> > 
> > 
> > > > > On June 27, 2020 at 9:44 PM John A Imani < 
> > johnaima...@gmail.com mailto:johnaima...@gmail.com > wrote:
> > > 
> > > Comrade,
> > > 
> > > Watching just an awesome recital by the couple 
> > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8p3HNGmEkA .  Banjos with a "Black Lives 
> > > Matter" sign as background.  They promised to stream it for a few weeks.  
> > > The first part is a Jazz trio that did not interest me as I came to hear 
> > > Bela.  Me and V have seen him at least twice, maybe 3,4 times. 
> > > 
> > > If only interested in this part its easy to navigate to it 
> > > just move cursor to almost the end that isn't.  Their performance is 
> > > maybe 25 - 30 mins long.
> > > 
> > > They do a song on the indigenous.  She sings one in Chinese 
> > > that she learned during an extended stay in Sichuan.  They duet on a 
> > > Hank, Sr tune.  Sing an Abbey Lincoln 
> > > https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d=Abbey+Lincoln+ tune 
> > > introduced by pointing at her activism.  Last thing "Take me to Harlem" 
> > > with great lyrics but, I think, musically missing something.  Maybe a 
> > > gospel choir.
> > > 
> > > Comrade, I am far from a musicologist but know what I like 
> > > when I hear it.
> > > 
> > > In the 60's the soundtrack to our lives was cause and effect 
> > > of our struggles, protests, movements.  There must be a music of this 
> > > movement.  Maybe musics.  But Fleck's incursion of his politics into this 
> > > Allegheny world sounds a tocsin for others to follow.  Not just bluegrass 
> > > but C, folk, rap, R, classical, jazz and blues.
> > > 
> > > We must find, encourage and support our troubadors-to-be.  I 
> > > know one 

[Marxism] Don’t Let Blackwashing Save the Investor Class

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Cedric Johnson and Adolph Reed Jr. denounce BLM because they see it as a 
tool of corporate America. It is the same analysis you get from an 
obscure figure named Cory Morningstar who wrote 25,000 words "exposing" 
corporate America's influence over the climate change movement. It's 
also the same thing you get from Max Blumenthal when it comes to Syria 
or the Uyghurs. It is what Deep Throat told Robert Redford in "All the 
President's Men": "Follow the Money". Any relationship between this 
business and Marxism is purely coincidental.


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[Marxism] A communist pioneer of gay rights | Angus Reid and Tomasz Kitlinski | The Morning Star

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Re: [Marxism] Bela Fleck/Abigail Wishburn Streamed on You Tube Today

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My Man!

Though I like his playing, and am fond of bluegrass, what was of moment to
me was the BLM sign behind him and his wife.  Bluegrass and BLM, a tasty
heady concoction for these times.

I don't listen much either and music videos don't do it for me.  I stopped
listening to popular music when disco came in and it was then I knew that
our revolution had failed.  But my girlfriend is deeply into it and it was
she who introduced me to Bela Fleck.  But I turned it around and turned her
on to Django Reinhardt
 and Stephane
Grapelli. 

In the 60s I belittled the importance of culture.  This probably because of
the fratricidal rift between the Panthers and the US organization

which was heavy into African culture.  And killing Panthers.  How wrong I
was about the music of our time, I can see in retrospect.  Music helped
move the movement forward.

I had hoped to find that his name was given in honor of Bela Kun, of the
short-lived Hungarian SSR ,
who was martyred by Stalin.  But he has 3 given names all of them after
musicians.

Take care and b safe,  Dumb assed me, went out to CVS this morning without
mask.  First time I forgot.  Gon put a cheap one in my pocket as a guard
against old age.

JAI

On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 8:50 AM  wrote:

> Music is wonderful, for most people, John, but I have to confess that I am
> tone deaf and have never been much of a fan of music. I know it is strange,
> but then I am strange in many ways. I am the only person I know who is not
> into music much at all -- I love the local classical music station, we are
> lucky to have such a station here in Tidewater VA, but even it is just
> background for my driving and I do not listen while at home. Thanks for
> trying to clue me in, I imagine this is all just great, but I cannot get
> into it. In solidarity nevertheless, Wythe
>
> On June 27, 2020 at 9:44 PM John A Imani  wrote:
>
> Comrade,
>
> Watching just an awesome recital by the couple
> .  Banjos with a "Black
> Lives Matter" sign as background.  They promised to stream it for a few
> weeks.  The first part is a Jazz trio that did not interest me as I came to
> hear Bela.  Me and V have seen him at least twice, maybe 3,4 times.
>
> If only interested in this part its easy to navigate to it just move
> cursor to almost the end that isn't.  Their performance is maybe 25 - 30
> mins long.
>
> They do a song on the indigenous.  She sings one in Chinese that she
> learned during an extended stay in Sichuan.  They duet on a Hank, Sr tune.
> Sing an Abbey Lincoln
> 
> tune introduced by pointing at her activism.  Last thing "Take me to
> Harlem" with great lyrics but, I think, musically missing something.  Maybe
> a gospel choir.
>
> Comrade, I am far from a musicologist but know what I like when I hear it.
>
> In the 60's the soundtrack to our lives was cause and effect of our
> struggles, protests, movements.  There must be a music of this movement.
> Maybe musics.  But Fleck's incursion of his politics into this Allegheny
> world sounds a tocsin for others to follow.  Not just bluegrass but C,
> folk, rap, R, classical, jazz and blues.
>
> We must find, encourage and support our troubadors-to-be.  I know one
> personally.  Devin Hoff is a world-class bassist
> who shifts through the varied
> music scenes listed above with grace, fluidity, mastery of himself and his
> instrument, bass.  Even better is his politics.  Even better is the man.
> He currently lives and will soon be active again in NYC, hopefully the
> C19thing will be beaten even though it is 'managed' by a rudy-poot
> nincompoop.
>
> But as for Bela Fleck and Abigail Wishburn's presentation all that was
> missing, besides the gospel choir, was Doc and Merle Watson but, alas, both
> are gone.
> Freihofer's Jazz Fest: Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn with Skidmore Jazz
> Institute Alumni Trio
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8p3HNGmEkA
>
> JAI
>
>
>
>
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Re: [Marxism] Bela Fleck/Abigail Wishburn Streamed on You Tube Today

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Music is wonderful, for most people, John, but I have to confess that I am tone 
deaf and have never been much of a fan of music. I know it is strange, but then 
I am strange in many ways. I am the only person I know who is not into music 
much at all -- I love the local classical music station, we are lucky to have 
such a station here in Tidewater VA, but even it is just background for my 
driving and I do not listen while at home. Thanks for trying to clue me in, I 
imagine this is all just great, but I cannot get into it. In solidarity 
nevertheless, Wythe


> On June 27, 2020 at 9:44 PM John A Imani  wrote:
> 
> Comrade,
> 
> Watching just an awesome recital by the couple 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8p3HNGmEkA .  Banjos with a "Black Lives 
> Matter" sign as background.  They promised to stream it for a few weeks.  The 
> first part is a Jazz trio that did not interest me as I came to hear Bela.  
> Me and V have seen him at least twice, maybe 3,4 times. 
> 
> If only interested in this part its easy to navigate to it just move 
> cursor to almost the end that isn't.  Their performance is maybe 25 - 30 mins 
> long.
> 
> They do a song on the indigenous.  She sings one in Chinese that she 
> learned during an extended stay in Sichuan.  They duet on a Hank, Sr tune.  
> Sing an Abbey Lincoln 
> https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d=Abbey+Lincoln+ tune 
> introduced by pointing at her activism.  Last thing "Take me to Harlem" with 
> great lyrics but, I think, musically missing something.  Maybe a gospel choir.
> 
> Comrade, I am far from a musicologist but know what I like when I hear it.
> 
> In the 60's the soundtrack to our lives was cause and effect of our 
> struggles, protests, movements.  There must be a music of this movement.  
> Maybe musics.  But Fleck's incursion of his politics into this Allegheny 
> world sounds a tocsin for others to follow.  Not just bluegrass but C, 
> folk, rap, R, classical, jazz and blues.
> 
> We must find, encourage and support our troubadors-to-be.  I know one 
> personally.  Devin Hoff is a world-class bassist 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devin_Hoff who shifts through the varied music 
> scenes listed above with grace, fluidity, mastery of himself and his 
> instrument, bass.  Even better is his politics.  Even better is the man.  He 
> currently lives and will soon be active again in NYC, hopefully the C19thing 
> will be beaten even though it is 'managed' by a rudy-poot nincompoop.
> 
> But as for Bela Fleck and Abigail Wishburn's presentation all that was 
> missing, besides the gospel choir, was Doc and Merle Watson but, alas, both 
> are gone.
> 
> 
> Freihofer's Jazz Fest: Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn with Skidmore Jazz 
> Institute Alumni Trio 
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8p3HNGmEkA
> 
> JAI
> 
 
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[Marxism] Mimi Soltysik Socialist Party USA 2016 presidential candidate on Socialism - YouTube

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Mimi died yesterday from an aggressive cancer. He was 45.

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[Marxism] Fwd: Africans at home and in the diaspora in two new films.

2020-06-28 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism

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Dear Louis Proyect,

I have read the article that you have written for Counterpunch on the 
26th June 2020. I am Malagasy, and lived in Madagascar for the first 23 
years of my life. I am currently a mathematician that resides in South 
Africa.


Counterpunch is at the very top of the list of online newspapers that I 
regularly read and I was quite happy to see that someone was interested 
in this small country.


I tend to agree with most of what you have written about Madagascar: the 
political context since 2000 and especially how you portray M. 
Ravalomanana and A. Rajoelina. They're both proponents of neoliberalism. 
However, Madagascar has a peculiar historical context that makes the 
small difference between the two quite important in terms of educational 
and health policies. (For example, M. Ravalomanana, under IMF pressure, 
planned to privatise the public university in the capital; this plan was 
shelved after 2009. I, like many young people in Madagascar, could never 
have attended universities unless they were free.) There was a failed 
revolution (1972-1991) that still influences societal structures in 
Madagascar, although the IMF has imposed a total liberalisation already 
since 1991.


I do not mean to criticise the article. I think it's nice. I just wanted 
to say that there is a rich nuance in the Malagasy political landscape 
and certain things (especially through the eyes of the media alone) can 
be misleading.


With best regards,
Ando




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Re: [Marxism] Bela Fleck/Abigail Wishburn Streamed on You Tube Today

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On 6/28/20 7:12 AM, Greg McDonald via Marxism wrote:



I’ve only seen Bela Fleck one time as well. Victor Wooten, original bassist
with his group, is also no slouch. Not coincidentally, Fleck has a
wonderful documentary on the African origins of the banjo.

Greg McDonald


Tony Thomas was a black leader of the SWP (expelled long ago but not for 
political reasons). But arguably his biggest contribution is as a banjo 
player and a scholar of its African origins.


http://www.oldtimeherald.org/archive/back_issues/volume-9/9-7/black-banjo.html

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[Marxism] Rolling Stones threaten to sue Donald Trump over use of songs | US news | The Guardian

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Re: [Marxism] Bela Fleck/Abigail Wishburn Streamed on You Tube Today

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I had the good fortune to see Doc Watson live once. It was a small outdoor
affair in Vermont, summer of 1983 maybe?

I’ve only seen Bela Fleck one time as well. Victor Wooten, original bassist
with his group, is also no slouch. Not coincidentally, Fleck has a
wonderful documentary on the African origins of the banjo.

Greg McDonald
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[Marxism] Ukraine: labor struggle against anti-union reform

2020-06-28 Thread Zakhyst Pratsi via Marxism
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http://lis-isl.org/en/2020/06/27/ucrania-detengamos-la-ofensiva-del-gobierno-contra-los-derechos-laborales-de-los-ciudadanos/
Ukraine: We Must Stop the Government´s Offensive Against People´s Labor Rights

By Oleg Vernik, Vitali Dudin. Labor Defense Union

This article is being written while a great scandal has just broken out in 
Ukraine. The chairperson of the Parliamentary Commission for Social Policy, 
Galina Tretyakova, author of the anti-union bill No. 2681, has publicly stated 
that “poor quality” children are born to poor Ukrainian families in need of 
state social assistance. In addition, she has said that she is impressed by 
Singapore’s experience with its forced sterilization of mothers who cannot 
raise their children without state support.

In this context of sad analogies with eugenics, Hitler’s pseudoscience, the 
attack by the presidential party “Servant of the People” against the labor 
rights of Ukrainian citizens seems absolutely expected. Over the past 15 years, 
successive bourgeois authorities in Ukraine have been trying to “modernize” 
Ukraine’s labor legislation and, first of all, decree the invalidity of the 
rules of the Labor Code that has been in force since 1971. Of course, the 1971 
Labor Code has already been updated many times and, step by step, it has been 
losing its functions of protecting workers’ labor rights. However, at this 
time, the Code remains our outpost in the fight against liberalization of 
industrial relations in Ukraine exclusively in favor of employers.

What anti-union innovations does the Servant of the People party offer in its 
draft of Law No. 2681?

1. The powers of union committees (elected union bodies) to require company 
owners to terminate the employment contract with the head of the company if the 
latter violates labor laws are revoked;

2. An absolutely senseless restriction is introduced on the formation of more 
than two unions in one company. Currently, many major Ukrainian companies may 
even have over 10 different union organizations. In other words, the bosses 
will create 2 “yellow” unions, while other militant unions will no longer be 
able to organize in the company;

3. Union committees will lose their right to coordinate the application of 
disciplinary sanctions (reprimands) to members of union committees;

4. The dismissal of the members of the union committees will be carried out 
without the agreement of the superior organism of the union;

5. To create a primary union organization, it will take at least ten members, 
and not three like today. This will result in the impossibility of founding 
unions in small companies and in autonomous subdivisions of companies.

6. Unions will no longer control the activities of canteens, residences, 
kindergartens and other social facilities belonging to the company;

7. Unions will not be allowed to require employers to submit documents on 
workers’ working conditions;

8. Unions will no longer control payroll and state social security accounts;

9. Obligatory deductions of companies to the primary union organizations for 
the organization of cultural, sports and recreational activities will cease;

10. The ban on bosses from firing former union committee members for 1 year 
will be removed.

11. The employer will no longer pay union committee members for 6 days a year 
that are assigned for union training.

Not all the anti-labor innovations in the draft of the criminal law number 2681 
promoted by the parliamentary group of the presidential party are listedhere. 
Today, union rights are under constant attack. Due to irrelevant cases of 
breach of guarantees and even persecution of trade unions, Ukraine, along with 
Belarus, occupy the lowest positions in Europe in the ranking of the Global 
Rights Index of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC Global Rights 
Index – 2019). A wave of neoliberal reforms by the Zelensky government 
suffocates Ukraine. However, every day the resistance to this offensive against 
the popular masses is being strengthened. Both the post-Soviet Ukrainian 
Federation of Trade Unions and the new independent unions have come together to 
counter the government’s plans. The International Trade Union Confederation 
(ITUC) and its leader Sharan Burrow have clearly declared to the whole world: 
“Any successive promotion of the project of Law No. 2681 without a real and 
significant participation of the unions, as well as its inconsistency with 
labor standards and the Constitution of Ukraine, will undermine Ukraine’s 
reputation as a trusted international and trade partner.”

Workers and unions face decisive battles for the preservation of