[Marxism] Open Borders discussion
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == *There has been an interesting debate about open borders in the letters column of the British left-wing paper *Weekly Worker* in recent weeks. All the letters on the subject have been put together in the current issue. Below we are reprinting some extracts from some of the letters supporting workers’ right to free movement:* It has been asked what Marx would have done. We can easily answer by describing what the First International, of which he was a member, did. They organised! The International announced that “the emancipation of labour is neither a local nor a national, but a social problem, embracing all countries” and that “Each member of the International Association, on removing his domicile from one country to another, will receive the fraternal support of the Associated Working Men”. Furthermore, “To counteract the intrigues of capitalists – always ready, in cases of strikes and lockouts, to misuse the foreign workman as a tool against the native workman – is one of the particular functions which our society has hitherto performed with success. It is one of the great purposes of the Association to make the workmen of different countries not only feel but act as brethren and comrades in the army of emancipation.” See: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/05/24/workers-rights-and-open-borders/ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Kenan Malik's 'Strange Fruit'
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Review of kenan mailk's book on the 'race' debate: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/05/31/in-review-kenan-maliks-strange-fruit-why-both-sides-are-wrong-in-the-race-debate/ Phil Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Shahin Najafi: the Bob Dylan of Iran
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/06/03/workers-occupy-paris-bakery-moore-st-dublin/ Phil Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] World War 2 and imperialism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Last November we stuck a piece up on Redline on WW2. I think quite a few Marxmail readers looked at it, a few commented as well. But, as we face in D-Day commemorations, anyone who missed it or would like to re-read it can see it at: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2013/11/18/world-war-ii-the-real-story/ In terms of D-Day I agree with James Robb and disagree with Jim Denham. Phil Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Unions and the fight against redundancies
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Redundancies are not a regular occurrence in NZ, as in so much of the rest of the capitalist world, but here they are almost never resisted. No matter what low-point the class struggle has reached wherever you are, I can assure you it is several steps up (at least) from New Zealand. We have articles on Redline from time to time about this and we try to point to other struggles overseas, especially occupations like the Vio.me one in Greece, as an alternative to simply accepting the redundancies and taking up the bosses' offer to pay for counselling (I kid you not!). Anyway, we've just stuck up a piece by a Redline reader who is also a full-time union organiser. It is a sign of the times in the NZ union movement that he remains anonymous and we aren't able to mention his union - which is actually probably one of the better ones. I know each country is specific, but it would be great if people form some other countries could take a look at it and post some comments on it, drawing on experiences from their own countries. While, unlike a lot of the left here, we're very realistic about the low level of class struggle, it would be good if people could give some positive examples of struggles from their own countries - that doesn't necessarily mean victories, even stand-offs where the workers came out better organised and with a higher level of consciousness would be good. Anyway, the article on unions and the fight against redundancies is here: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/06/13/unions-and-the-fight-against-redundancies/ Phil Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Remaking the case for the right to choose
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Remaking the case for a woman's right to choose: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/06/16/ann-furedi-on-pro-choice/ Getting abortion out of the Crimes Act (NZ): http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/06/16/getting-abortion-out-of-the-crimes-act/ Phil Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Iraq
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == News from Iraq is getting worse by the hour. Many cities in the north of the country have now fallen to the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Isis), working in alliance with a variety of Sunni groups and tribes. The mortar attack on Iraq’s biggest oil refinery is another example of the escalation of the conflict. On June 17 news came of an attempt to capture of the city of Baquba, the capital of Diyala province, which is just 64 kilometres north of Baghdad. Isis already controls Mosul, Tikrit, Tal Afar and a number of smaller cities and towns. However, its gains in the north of Iraq are not just military advances: the group is now able to access government military equipment, including helicopters and Humvee military vehicles, as well as substantial funds held at banks and insurance companies in the places it has taken. It is reported that the banks of Mosul alone have increased the jihadist group’s funds by $400 million. Of course, Isis has additional regular income from the oilfields it controls in eastern Syria, the sale of antiquities looted from historical sites, as well as donations from wealthy contributors in Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf states. full at: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/06/20/iraq-a-disaster-waiting-to-happen/ See also the interview with Yassamine Mather at: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/06/15/whats-tearing-iraq-apart/ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Israel steps up collective punishment
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/06/23/israel-steps-up-collective-punishment/ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Irish 'peace process' - further reading
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == *Further reading:* Anyone for tennis? Provos go respectable: http://theirishrevolution.wordpress.com/?s=anyone+for+tennis History of the Provos, part one: http://theirishrevolution.wordpress.com/2011/08/01/a-history-of-the-provisional-republican-movement-part-one-of-three/ History of the Provos, part two: http://theirishrevolution.wordpress.com/2011/08/17/a-history-of-the-provos-part-two/ History of the Provos, part three: http://theirishrevolution.wordpress.com/2011/09/02/a-history-of-the-provos-part-three/ In review: Kevin Bean’s The New Politics of Sinn Fein: http://theirishrevolution.wordpress.com/2011/08/01/review-kevin-beans-the-new-politics-of-sinn-fein/ Socialist-republicanism versus pan-nationalism – a brief survey of the 20th century: http://theirishrevolution.wordpress.com/2011/08/08/socialist-republicanism-versus-pan-nationalism-a-brief-survey-of-the-20th-century/ The New IRA and socialist-republicanism in the 21st century: http://theirishrevolution.wordpress.com/2012/08/02/the-new-ira-and-socialist-republicanism-in-the-twenty-first-century/ http://theirishrevolution.wordpress.com/2012/08/02/the-new-ira-and-socialist-republicanism-in-the-twenty-first-century/ http://theirishrevolution.wordpress.com/2012/08/02/the-new-ira-and-socialist-republicanism-in-the-twenty-first-century/ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] How the Provos lost the initiative after Bloody Sunday 1972
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://theirishrevolution.wordpress.com/2012/02/07/the-burning-of-the-british-embassy-40-years-on/ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] The Gates Foundation in India
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/07/03/the-gates-foundation-in-india-charity-versus-liberation/ This is quite a complicated one. On the one hand, I think the Gates really do want to end malaria and poverty and so on and, in the absence of an alternative to capitalism, their capitalist charitable work is inevitable. On the other hand, what they're doing in India can't be disentangled from imperialism and will have the result of strengthening its hold over the country and helping deepen capitalist penetration into more areas of the country. And, of course, there is actually a substantial revolutionary movement in India, in the form of a reborn/reconsolidated huge current which identifies as Maoist, although in my view its politics are quite different from those people in the past have often associated with Maoism. Plus there is something obscene about the Gates Foundation headquarters. It is like a liberal, green, politically-correct version of the Versailles palace of Louis XVI. Phil Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Dialectics, biology, chaos, guitar playing
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Dialectics, systems theory and biology: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/04/11/dialectics-system-theory-and-biology-a-review/ Dialectical systems and chaos: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/06/14/dialectical-systems-and-chaos-part-2/ Learn guitar faster using dialectical materialism: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2013/09/23/learn-guitar-faster-using-dialectical-materialism/ Phil Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] The Gates Foundation, Big Philanthropy and imperialism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/07/05/the-gates-foundation-big-philanthropy-and-imperialism/ Anyone who reads this article, it would be great if you could express some opinion on it in the comments section. Phil Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] 'Our wretched Jewish state'
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I've always been opposed to th equation of Zionism with fascism. It always struck me as an example of the way a section of people on the left bandy terms about for effect rather than precision. But I think the particularly brutal murder of Mohammed Abu Khdeir was the work of people who actually are fascists. There is a section of the settler population on the West Bank, and their supporters within the Israeli state, who really are fascists. It's interesting that this murder has led to a wider questioning of the Zionist state itself among Jewish Israelis. Louis posted a link to an article in Haaretz, but it's paywalled, I wonder if anyone has access to the text itself: http://www.haaretz.com/cmlink/2.576/opinion/.premium-1.603232 I agree with Gary about oppositionists in Israel still dreaming of an acceptable Zionism, but at least there is a wider questioning. It is up to the forces of liberation within Palestine (ie Israel and the occupied territories), supported by our solidarity, to get across the message that *this is Zionism*. That this murder is not some bizarre anomaly, but is *the perfectly logical consequence of Zionism*. Phil Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Palestine
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == A few interesting pieces on Redline: PFLP on Shuja’iya massacre: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/07/23/barakat-shujaiya-massacre-proves-the-nature-of-the-occupier-and-the-failure-of-its-aggression/ Tony Greenstein on Israel, Palestine, the one-state solution and the issue of Israeli-Jewish nationhood: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2011/07/08/israel-palestine-the-one-state-solution-and-the-issue-of-israeli-jewish-nationhood/ Israel, Palestinian liberation and the Oslo Accords: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2013/07/13/israel-palestinian-liberation-and-the-oslo-accords/ NZ activist interviews Palestinian veteran revolutionary icon Leila Khaled: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2013/10/27/nz-solidarity-activist-interviews-leila-khaled-2010/ Is there a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict? http://rdln.wordpress.com/2011/09/09/is-there-a-two-state-solution-to-israel-palestinian-conflict-2/ For a campaign of solidarity with the Palestinian struggle: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2011/12/18/for-a-campaign-of-solidarity-with-the-palestinian-struggle/ Palestinian liberation and the PFLP today – interview with PFLP deputy-general-secretary: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/03/12/palestinian-liberation-and-the-pflp-today-an-interview-with-abu-ahmad-fouad-deputy-secretary-general-of-the-pflp/ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] NZ elections yawnfest
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On Redline: Don Franks: What I'll be doing instead of voting: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/07/31/what-ill-do-instead-of-voting-this-election/ Also, check out a range of our material on the NZ Labour Party: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/07/07/labour-party-material/ and also, Parliament does not exist: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/06/07/parliament-does-not-exist/ Phil Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Iran, the working class, religion, Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == How religious is Iran: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/07/02/how-religious-is-iran/ Repression and resistance in Iran – an interview with Yassamine Mather: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2013/03/08/repression-and-resistance-in-iran-interview-with-yassamine-mather/ Yassamine Mather on Marxism and the Iranian revolution: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2012/09/15/marxism-and-the-iranian-revolution/ Torab Saleth on the workers' movement in Iran in 2014, plus a 2008 interview with Torab: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/06/14/the-working-class-movement-in-iran-2014-and-a-2008-interview-with-torab-saleth/ Phil Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] NZ and World War 1
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Yesterday marked the 100th anniversary of NZ's declaration of war on Germany and entry into World War One. See: Gallipoli invasion: a dirty and bloody business http://rdln.wordpress.com/2012/04/24/gallipoli-invasion-a-dirty-and-bloody-business/ Stevan Eldred-Grigg's 'The Great Wrong War: NZ society and WWI' http://rdln.wordpress.com/2013/08/02/stevan-eldred-griggs-the-great-wrong-war-nz-society-and-ww1/ Empty Garden: Wellington's National War Memorial Park http://rdln.wordpress.com/2012/08/07/empty-garden-wellingtons-national-war-memorial-park/ New Zeaalnd's ruling elite had long cast covetous eyes over chunks of the South Pacific, but they usually lost out to bigger imperialist fish. WW1, however, allowed them to invade German-ruled Samoa and take it over for nearly 50 years. See: Samoa: what New Zealand did: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2011/08/28/samoa-what-new-zealand-did/ Phil Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Dialectics, human development and the productive forces
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Part four in the series on dialectics at Redline: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/08/05/dialectics-part-4-the-productive-forces-and-human-development/ Phil Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] NZ's third Labour government 1972-1975
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == This government swept into power with a substantial majority, winning 55 seats to National's 32 in the Nov 1972 general election. The Labour victory came in the wake of the mass anti-Vietnam War movement and growing movements for women's liberation, Maori land and language rights, anti-apartheid and the start of the gay liberation. Three years later Labour was turfed out of power, with the election results swinging the exact other way: National won 55 seats to Labour's 32. This Labour government coincided with the end of the postwar economic boom and so one of its key tasks, which it took to with some relish, was attacking workers' rights, pay and living standards. The third Labour government very much prefigured the even more blatantly vicious anti-worker fourth Labour government (1984-1990). I've just finished a fairly long article on the record of the third Labour government, and it's now up on Redline, here: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/08/12/anti-working-class-to-its-core-the-third-labour-government/ Phil Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Michael Roberts video on crisis theory, long recession, current state of world economy
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == We've just stuck up on youtube the footage of Michael's presentation at Marxism 2014: his talk, questions and discussion from the floor, and his responses: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/08/18/marxism-2014-michael-roberts-on-world-economy-plus-discussion-session/ Phil Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] After deep recession, not much of a recovery
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Normally a deep recession or slump, and especially a major depression, is not only a sign of the sickness of the capitalist system but also part of the cure, paving the way for a new round of dynamic accumulation. Both Michael Roberts and Lutte Ouvriere (and no doubt others) have noted this hasn't really happened with the partial meltdown that began with the subprime crisis in the USA. We've put up two articles together on Redline, looking at this: Michael Roberts' The myth of the return to normal and LO's most recent statement on the world economy. They can be found at: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/08/18/michael-roberts-on-the-myth-of-the-return-to-normal-and-lutte-ouvriere-on-the-current-state-of-the-world-eocnomy/ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Knock, knock - you're dead: the militarisation of the police in the Land of the Free
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/09/03/knock-knock-youre-dead-the-militarisation-of-the-police-force-in-the-land-of-the-free/ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Fwd: Workers' rights and 2014 elections: latest pieces at Redline blog
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == A mixture of a bit of political satire and some deadly serious stuff, questioning whether there is really anything to vote for in the New Zealand 2014 general election. Don Franks: NZ Election 2014, the day after: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/09/06/new-zealand-election-2014-the-day-after/ Daphna Whitmore: Just because I don't vote doesn't make me less of a citizen: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/09/03/just-because-i-dont-vote-doesnt-make-me-less-of-a-citizen/ Not Voting is (or can be) a Political Act - we link to a new Facebook page regarding the 2014 NZ elections: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/09/09/not-voting-is-a-political-act/ And don't forget our earlier trio of pieces by veteran working class activist Don Franks: What I'll do instead of voting this election: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/07/31/what-ill-do-instead-of-voting-this-election/ Parliament does not exist: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/06/07/parliament-does-not-exist/ How do we challenge capitalist bullshit: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/06/11/how-do-we-challenge-capitalist-bullshit/ Further articles: We've also stuck up Andy Warren, 'Knock, knock - you're dead', about the militarisation of the American police: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/09/03/knock-knock-youre-dead-the-militarisation-of-the-police-force-in-the-land-of-the-free/ Part 5 of Steve Masterson's series on dialectics is on Dialectics and Praxis: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/09/04/dialectics-pt-5-dialectics-and-praxis/ This week we have only one reprint; it's a piece from Al-Jazeera on the Kurds who are fighting the Islamic State: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/09/08/the-other-kurds-fighting-the-islamic-state/ Please circulate this email to anyone you think might be interested. Phil (for Redline collective) Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] BRICS and the end of US hegemony?
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/09/15/brics-and-the-end-of-us-hegemony/ Phil Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] New Zealand election, Sept 20 - ps
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I should have added that I won't be voting. Didn't in 2011 and won't be in 2014. If I had've voted in 2011 it would have been for Mana. I was in Ireland at the time and just couldn't get enthusiastic enough about Mana to arrange a special vote. The thing that decided me not to vote this year was the unseemly spectacle of veteran left activist John Minto, one of the leaders of Mana and someone I respect quite a bit, on TV saying that immigrants were partly to blame for the Auckland housing crisis. That did it for me. And, if I had any doubts, those doubts were taken care of when Mana hitched itself to Kim Dotcom's vanity project for a mega-load of money and the possibility of another seat in parliament. Yuk! Phil Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] GLW and NZ politics
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == In response to Stuart's GLW article on Mana and housing and elections and so on. Stuart, this reminds me of your current's gushy stuff about the Alliance a decade or two ago. And look at how that turned out. Do you folks learn nothing? Phil Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Dialectics and praxis
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Pt 5 of Steve Masterson's series on dialectics: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/09/04/dialectics-pt-5-dialectics-and-praxis/ Phil Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Zionism's ongoing quest for legitimacy
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Very good feature article by veteran Israeli Marxist Moshe Machover, co-founder of the Israeli Socialist Organisation back in the early 1960s and still fighting the good fight. The article first appeared in the Weekly Worker, and we have re-blogged it here: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/09/29/zionisms-ongoing-quest-for-legitimacy/ See also Adam Hanieh's excellent article on Israel, Palestinian liberation and the Oslo Accords: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2013/07/13/israel-palestinian-liberation-and-the-oslo-accords/ Joseph Massad's Peace is War: after the Oslo Accords: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/08/09/peace-is-war-after-the-oslo-accords/ And our own (2010) interview with Leila Khaled: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2013/10/27/nz-solidarity-activist-interviews-leila-khaled-2010/ Video of Leila Khaled May Day speech, Stockholm, 2011: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2012/07/28/leila-khaled-mayday-speech-sweden-2011/ Phil Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] NZ elections and other new stuff at Redline blog
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == It's been another busy week at Redline. We've been getting up some articles assessing the election outcome as well as more world economy material, plus a major feature by veteran Israeli socialist Moshe Machover on Zionism's continuing search for legitimacy (at the expense of the Palestinians). I query whether the election outcome is at all a defeat for the left: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/10/02/the-election-a-defeat-for-the-left/ Daphna Whitmore looks at how alike Labour and National are in terms of foreign policy: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/09/30/national-and-labour-close-on-foreign-policy/ Don Franks looks at why Labour wasn't worth any ticks from workers on election day: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/09/24/why-labour-wasnt-worth-the-workers-ticks/ Andy Warren continues his digest of interesting items on the net over the past week: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/09/30/9278/ Michael Roberts critiques claims that Keynesian economic theory can predict and solve capitalist crises: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/09/29/solving-capitalist-crises-its-easy/ ISO is one of the far-left groups involved in Mana and its leadership endorsed the Mana lash-up with Kim Dotcom's Internet Party. This sparked lively debate within the organisation. We reprint (and welcome) the latest contribution, this time by Shomi Yoon looking at class politics and the problem of the InternetMana hook-up: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/09/29/iso-continue-to-debate-class-politics-and-the-internetmana-alliance/ Veteran Israeli socialist Moshe Machover examines Zionist strategy: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/09/29/zionisms-ongoing-quest-for-legitimacy/ In Australia, Corey Oakley looks at ISIS and imperialist hypocrisy: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/09/26/isis-and-imperialist-hypocrisy-a-view-from-australia/ And, as the NZ government and parliament discuss intervention, don't forget Iranian Marxist Yassamine Mather's investigation of the origins and politics of ISIS: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/09/12/the-origins-economics-and-politics-of-the-islamic-state/ Phil for Redline Collective Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Anniversary of Seamus Costello murder
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == October 5 marked the 37th anniversary of the murder of outstanding Irish revolutionary leader Seamus Costello. We've put up Bernadette (Devlin) McAliskey's appreciation of him from 1977 and an introduction by me. They're at: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/10/05/remembering-seamus-costello-outstanding-irish-revolutionary/ Some other interesting new pieces: There are currently ructions at Lyttelton, the port that serves Christchurch city, over a big hike in the salary of the Port Company CEO, while three workers have died on the wharves in the past 12 months and the company, which is owned by the city council, tries to keep workers' pay down: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/10/04/ructions-at-lyttelton-port/ In recent years 'child poverty' has become a big issue in NZ, however, as a number of us have pointed out, the term is highly problematic. The problem is not child poverty - it's not the children who are poor, it's the adults, and they're poor because of low wages and crappy welfare benefits. Here, we reprint an excellent piece from the NZ-based Two Arab Girls site on Why I Refuse to Talk About Child Poverty: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/10/04/why-i-refuse-to-talk-about-child-poverty/ Another excellent piece we've reprinted is on capitalism and the tyranny of time: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/10/03/capitalism-and-the-tyranny-of-time/ Phil Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Israel steps up repression against the PFLP
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The PFLP, the leading secular-left current in the Palestinian liberation movement, is currently facing stepped-up repression from the Israeli state. Let's have some serious solidarity with them. http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/10/07/israels-intensifying-attacks-on-the-pflp/ Phil Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Australian imperialism, police brutality in NZ and US, NZ involvement in war with ISIS
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Tom O'Lincoln's latest book, *The Neighbour from Hell*, looks at two centuries of Australian imperialism. I review it here: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/10/08/in-review-tom-olincoln-on-two-centuries-of-australian-imperialism/ Don Franks on NZ imperialism and ISIS (and the passivity of the mass of people here): http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/10/08/we-have-been-too-passive-and-trusting/ On October 18, Don will be performing his new song, 'Any Colour Road', about police violence, at a rally in Wellington that's part of a global month of action on the subject. The lyrics are here: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/10/07/any-colour-road/ Symposium on the NZ left after the elections: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/10/07/election-2014-the-mana-movement-and-the-left/ Phil Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Islamophobia in Australia, Che in Africa, Australian imperialism in Asia-Pacific
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Islamophobia in Australia: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/10/09/australia-media-lies-promote-islamophobia/ Che in Africa: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/10/09/in-review-che-in-africa/ Australian imperialism in Asia-Pacific: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/10/08/in-review-tom-olincoln-on-two-centuries-of-australian-imperialism/ Alan Maass on Washington's never-ending, ever-expanding war in the Middle East: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/10/09/the-never-ending-ever-expanding-war/ Phil Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] PFLP calls for united revolutionary support for Kurds at Kobane
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[Marxism] The cops and the capitalist state
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == We've stuck up on Redline a very good article by the Irish Marxist group Socialist Democracy. We've slightly edited some of the punctuation and added explanations for a few terms to make it more accessible to the non-Irish reader. It's here: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/10/16/the-cops-and-the-capitalist-state/ Phil Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Free labour, capitalism and anti-Chinese exclusion in California
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == My PhD, completed in early 2003, was on anti-Chinese exclusion in New Zealand. I'm starting to get chapters of it up on Redline. This chapter is the literature review and includes some stuff on Australia and California: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2013/12/14/arrested-development-the-historiography-of-white-new-zealand/ This chapter is on the theoretical framework and includes some material on unfree labour: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2013/12/17/analysing-the-white-new-zealand-policy-developing-a-theoretical-framework/ This chapter is about New Zealand social relations and the beginning of anti-Chinese discourse: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2013/12/19/colonial-social-relations-the-chinese-and-the-beginnings-of-new-zealand-nationalist-discourse/ Phil Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] UN: friend or foe
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. * *Isn’t the United Nations a neutral body representing the international community? Can’t it work in an unbiased way?* The United Nations was established by the winning powers in World War 2. They redivided the world between them, with little concern for anyone else. The UN was created to give legitimacy to this new world order. One of the first major activities of the UN was to create the state of Israel, thereby dispossessing the Palestinians. Shortly after this, the UN intervened mainly in Korea to back up the dictatorship in the South and preserve imperialist interests. In the Congo in the early 1960s, the United Nations used its ‘neutral’ cover to play an important part in the overthrow of the radical regime of Patrice Lumumba. This resulted in. . . full at: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/10/20/united-nations-friend-or-foe/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Prison abolition
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. * Main speech from the Wellington, New Zealand rally on October 18: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/10/21/prison-abolition-part-of-creating-a-just-equal-peaceful-society/ Phil _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] The United Nations - friend or foe, plus. . .
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. * History will one day have its say, but it will not be the history that Brussels, Paris, Washington or the United nations will teach, but that which they will teach in the countries emancipated from colonialism and its puppets. . . - Patrice Lumumba Full article: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/10/21/prison-abolition-part-of-creating-a-just-equal-peaceful-society/ And on the division of labour between the United Nations and the individual imperialist powers in their own right: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/10/20/sanctions-and-bombs-how-the-un-and-western-powers-committed-mass-murder-in-iraq-before-the-2003-invasion/ New Zealand's accession to the Security Council to help manage World Imperialism Inc: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/10/20/nz-elite-win-seat-at-un-security-council-dont-celebrate-organise/ Also very interesting article by German worker at the Amazon operation in that country: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/10/18/amazon-the-global-digital-east-india-company-of-the-21st-century/ Phil _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Interview with legendary Irish republican George Harrison
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[Marxism] Ebola and the criminal passivity of the Great Powers
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. * At Redline, we've reprinted an article in the current issue of the US paper The Spark (US co-thinkers of Lutte Ouvriere) about the way the great powers have left dealing with ebola to west African governments and volunteer groups like Medecins Sans Frontieres. It's here: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/10/21/ebola-and-the-criminal-passivity-of-the-great-powers/ Phil _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Ebola and the Western powers
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. * While it's horrible that anyone is dying form Ebola, it's a bit strange that western media are so focused on it, when the vast majority of people in Africa die from easily preventible other diseases. Indeed, it seems part of the exoticisation of Africa and western paranoia about 'the other'. See: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/10/22/what-have-people-in-africa-been-doing-since-the-ebola-outbreak-started/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] De-industrialisation and the prospects for socialism
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. * Another excellent piece by Michael Roberts. I've stuck it up on Redline, here: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/10/24/de-industrialisation-and-the-prospects-for-socialism/#more-9698 But do go and look at Mike's excellent site, thenextrecession. It's absolutely required reading for anyone wanting to be well-informed about trends in the global capitalist economy. There's also quite a lot there about the British economy and the US economy. Phil _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Arundhati Roy's Capitalism: a ghost story
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. * http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/10/27/capitalism-a-ghost-story-by-arundhati-roy/ Other recent pieces on Redline: A former member of the British Alliance for Workers Liberty critiques the outfit's pro-imperialism (these folks trailblazed the road to accommodation to Zionism that the Barnesites are now travelling; AWL head honcho Sean Matgamna even declaring himself a few years ago to be a Zionist): http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/10/25/progressives-who-side-with-imperialism/ The state of the working class in New Zealand today: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/10/24/the-state-of-the-working-class-in-new-zealand-today/ De-industrialisation and the prospects for socialism: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/10/24/de-industrialisation-and-the-prospects-for-socialism/ Phil _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Out of Zionism Ilan Pappe
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 little while ago we put up an excellent interview with Israeli historian and anti-Zionist Ilan Pappe. It's here: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/10/21/out-of-zionism-interview-with-israeli-anti-zionist-historian-ilan-pappe/ But do also go and look at the source we got it from. If you go to our links section you can click onto Le Mur Des Oreilles, which has interviews on Israel/palestine with a great range of people from Leila Khaled to Ken Loach to Roger Waters. Phil _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] The Establishment and more
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. * We've just out up another excellent Michael Roberts' article, looking at Owen Jones' new book on the British establishment, Martin Wolf's book on Shifts and Shocks (the GFC), James Galbraith's The New Normal, and Callinicos' Decipering Capital. You can see it here: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/10/29/books-in-review-from-establishment-to-anti-establishment/ But do also go to Michael's blog. I'm not an especially effusive person, but his blog is absolutely essential reading for people interested in Marxist analysis of the world economy. Phil _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Pro-worker, anti-capitalist articles at Redline
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. * Hi folks, Another busy time at Redline, the pro-worker / anti-capitalist blog. The most recent article we've stuck up is veteran trade union activist Don Franks' on why and how we need to wreck National's plan to take away workers' guaranteed tea breaks: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/10/29/ways-to-wreck-the-teabreak-busting-bill/ Please do email the url for Don's article to as many people as you can. Workers and unions can't keep rolling over; we have to start drawing some lines in the sand. Tony Norfield looks at some aspects of modern capitalism's dependence on never-ending credit and the problems this leads to: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/10/29/moribund-capitalism-the-credit-fix/ From the vaults, we have a 2007 article from a journal many of us were involved in; the article looks at the recent history of left-wing workers' protests at Labour Party conferences: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/10/28/from-the-vaults-the-escalating-history-of-labour-party-conference-protest/ Michael Roberts reviews four new books from inside and outside the British and US establishment, looking at how The Establishment (the ruling class) rules, changes since the GFC, and Marx: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/10/29/books-in-review-from-establishment-to-anti-establishment/ We review Arundhati Roy's book 'Capitalism: a ghost story': http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/10/27/capitalism-a-ghost-story-by-arundhati-roy/ Links to a chunk of our articles about the state of the working class in NZ are here: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/10/24/the-state-of-the-working-class-in-new-zealand-today/ And don't forget our symposium on the left and the way forward after the 2014 elections. Contribution 1, The Mana Movement and the left: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/10/07/election-2014-the-mana-movement-and-the-left/ Contribution 2, What is to be done about the radical left in New Zealand: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/10/10/symposium-on-the-way-forward-2-what-is-to-be-done-about-the-radical-left-in-new-zealand/ Contribution 3: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/10/28/symposium-on-the-way-forward-3-the-miseries-of-political-life/ Lastly, on the ebola 'crisis': http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/10/22/what-have-people-in-africa-been-doing-since-the-ebola-outbreak-started/ When you read stuff on Redline, please do consider leaving comments. And if you know anyone who might like to get a weekly update on material on the blog, email me their email address. Cheers, Phil for the Redline Collective _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Working class resists water tax in south of Ireland
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 weeks ago, 80-100,000 people protested in Dublin against the Fine Gael-Labour government's latest attempt to impose austerity - the water tax. Last weekend about 200,000 people took part in community-based protests across the south of Ireland We've stuck up an interview with a local anti-water tax organiser in Cobh, in county Cork, reprinted from the Weekly Worker, here: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/11/08/working-class-resists-water-tax-in-south-of-ireland/ Phil _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Murder of miners at Pike River - company bosses get off; bodies not to be recovered
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. * In November 2010, 29 miners lost their lives in an explosion at the Pike River mine in New Zealand. It subsequently became clear that the company had cut corners and safety was woefully inadequate. A Royal Commission of Inquiry later produced a damning report on the Pike River Company. Yet the government has decided no-one should be held to account and has supported the decision not to attempt to retrieve the bodies, although prime minister John Key had earlrier assured families the government was determined the remains would be recovered. Pike River - the final cover-up?: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/11/07/pike-river-the-final-cover-up/ Also we've collected the urls for our earlier articles on Pike River, under the heading The murders at Pike River: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/11/07/the-murders-at-pike-river/ Phil _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Tony Cliff: from Zionism to Marxism
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. * I'm not a Cliff fan but I've long liked this short piece by him, very human and very sound. It's about his youthful experiences in Palestine as the offspring of a very Zionist family: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/11/10/from-zionism-to-marxism-2/ Phil _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] How West created Osama bin Laden
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. * I've just stuck up on Redline an old article from 2001 that we did in a previous publication a number of us were involved in, Mid-East Solidarity (this was a NZ journal). The article looks at how the US created Osama bin Laden and, at the end, there's an interesting extract of an interview with Zbigniew Brzezinski about how the US 'bear-trapped' the Soviet Union into Afghanistan. Brzezinski ends up saying that a few stirred up Moslems was a small price to pay for winning the Cold War. It's at: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/11/13/how-the-west-created-osama-bin-laden/ Phil _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] PFLP declaration on 97th anniversary of Balfour Declaration: Israel remains an illegitimate state
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[Marxism] Michael Roberts's critique of How Capitalism Survives conference, of Heinrich and of Panitch-Gindin
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. * This is an excellent piece, as usual from Michael Roberts. We've reblogged it on Redline. Also, check out his talk on the current economic situation and Marxist theory: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/08/18/marxism-2014-michael-roberts-on-world-economy-plus-discussion-session/ it's helpful, too, because it includes audience discussion. I also like it that Mike is non-sectarian. For nstance, within a few weeks he spoke at the CPGB's Communist University and the Brit SWP's annual educational gathering. Phil _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] How does capitalism survive?
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. * Given just how clapped out the system is, it's survival is pretty remarkable. Every day there are examples of the craziness of an economy ruled by 'the market' instead of conscious human planning. Yet, still the system lingers. How? Why? Join the discussion at: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/11/15/how-capitalism-survives-opening-a-discussion/ Phil _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] NZ imperialism under the cover of 'honest broker'
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. * One of the ways NZ imperialism, as a rather small variety of the beast, pursues its interests globally is by pretending to be an 'honest broker'. This is the form of its 'boutique imperialism', to borrow a term from Tom O'Lincoln's work on the Australian variety of the beast. This 'honest broker' rubbish is made easier by the fact that the NZ left is not only overwhelmingly liberal but also overwhelmingly nationalist. They *want* NZ to play an honest broker role. I've stuck up on article on Redline that was written 17 years ago about how the NZ elite's 'honest broker' pretence helps it in the Asia-Pacific region in the post-Cold War world. Although 17 years old, it is highly relevant to what NZ does today. See: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/11/18/new-zealand-honest-broker-of-the-pacific/ Comments on the article would be great too! Phil _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Iraq/Syria: the making of a catastrophe
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 this issue of our journal goes to press,* four months have elapsed since the first of Obama’s “special advisers” officially set their “boots” – sorry, their “civilian shoes”, since they were not meant to be there in a combat capacity – on Iraqi soil. They arrived on August 1st. In fact, whether they wore “boots” or “civilian shoes”, was hardly relevant. With 35,000 heavily-armed private contractors operating in Iraq, 17,000 employees at the US embassy in Baghdad (the world’s largest!) and countless military minders and trainers “embedded” within the Iraqi forces, the US government already had “boots” all over the land of Iraq, anyway! Western “precision bombings” against ISIS began a month later. They were first carried out by the US air force at the beginning of September, then by the French from September 19th and, after the Commons vote on September 26th, by the British RAF – with a host of smaller players joining the US-led coalition over the following weeks. Two months on, however. . . . full at: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/11/19/iraq-syria-the-making-of-a-catastrophe/ The article is by Workers Fight, the British co-thinkers of Lutte Ouvriere. Phil _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Otago University professor challenges mainstream media on 'terrorism' threat and minimal standards of journalism
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. * I should point out that 'professor' in NZ is exclusively the highest academic title someone can hold. Academics here start as lecturer, then can go to senior lecturer, to associate professor to professor. So Richard Jackson is a senior academic. It is *extremely rare* for any academic, least of all a senior one, to write something like this in NZ: Dear Journalists of the Mainstream Media, It is fair to say that, pretty much exactly as in the lead-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, you have failed once again to fulfil your professional mandate and live up to even the minimal standards of journalism. For the most part, you have simply repeated the ridiculous speculations and hysterical statements of politicians, without any rigorous questioning or adequate investigation into their veracity. I know you work in a 24-7 news environment in which you feel like you don’t always have the time to find whether the things that officials say are not nonsense, and that most of you belong to a few large media conglomerates which impose a strict editorial line. But, come on! I know you can do better than ” Islamic state is an apocalyptic death cult and we’re all going to die! Launch the bombers now!” In the process of being so pathetically uncritical in the past few weeks, you have fuelled the moral panic that currently surrounds Islamic State, created an atmosphere of fear and Islamophobia, and offered almost no critical analysis of the patently pointless and counterproductive decision to bomb Iraq for the umpteenth time. As a consequence, you have utterly failed to provide a check on the politicians who are determined to roll back civil liberties, restrict protest and dissent, surveille the whole world, torture people and ironically, muzzle the freedom of the press. Yes, you didn’t even notice until it was too late that their plan to fight the purported existential threat of Islamic State included further restricting the activities of the press. As a consequence of this pathetic failure, it is my duty to suggest a series of fairly simple and obvious questions which you, as professional journalists, can ask politicians and security officials during press conferences, or radio or television interviews on the subject of Islamic State, terrorism and/or bombing Muslim countries. Trust me, these will really help you to do your job properly, and may in the long run, bring back a little. . . Full at: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/11/19/otago-professor-challenges-mainstream-media-on-terrorism-threat-minimal-standards-of-journalism/ Phil _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Defending science, opposing capitalism
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[Marxism] State of class struggle: Ireland, New Zealand
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. * Living in New Zealand can be extremely depressing. Although protests here still take place, and once in a while there's even a big one, the protests are generally disconnected from each other and from any wider questioning of society. Very different from youthful years as a high school kid, when went up to the city centre one Friday night to a mass anti-Vietnam War march, a few Fridays later there would be a march on something else, organised by some of the same people, often belonging to the old Socialist Action League, then there'd be an all-Saturday anti-Vietnam War educational and planning conference, then a week or two later, a women's liberation picket, then a socialist educational gathering and on and on and on, interspersed with industrial pickets, workers' struggles. . . Now workers here hardly ever resist anything, even the loss of their own jobs. It's hard to predict exactly what the ruling class would have to do to provoke any sort of significant response. In Ireland meanwhile, where I spent a significant part of my political activity, recent years have seen massive mobilisations against austerity and against new taxes in the south such as the household tax and, now, the water tax. Hundreds of thousands have been out on the street, more refused to pay these taxes, although the Dublin government got round this with the household tax by declaring they'd take it out of people's pay packets. (They can't do this with the water tax, because they need to know how much water any household has used and part of the resistance is sabotage of the meters.) It's interesting how different capitalist countries have quite distinctive working class reactions to things. In the case of Ireland and NZ, it isn't just now that things are different. Both countries had very significant labour disputes in 1913 - in Ireland the 1913 lockout in Dublin is the most famous industrial dispute in the island's history; the waterfront dispute of 1913 in NZ led to the numerically largest number of workers in dispute with the government. In both cases, workers' protests were attacked by cops and people got badly beaten - in Dublin two workers were killed. The response was entirely different, however. In NZ, workers and militant unionists complained about police violence; in Dublin, the workers formed their own militia to put manners on the police, got arms and became what Lenin called Europe's first 'red army'. Uniformed and tooled up, they marched around Dublin over the next few years and just three years later were a key component in a revolutionary uprising. Ireland, of course, has a revolutionary tradition - republicanism - whereas NZ has none. There was some armed resistance by Maori to what was effectively the annexation of the country by Britain, but those who took part in armed resistance were a very small minority and never established any ongoing movement, least of all with roots in the working class, the way republicanism grew and developed as a 'lower orders movement' in Ireland. Armed poor people in Ireland were not commonplace, but they certainly weren't especially unusual either. And suggesting workers get armed was not way, way beyond popular consciousness. Similar differences exist in Europe - for instance, southern Europe (and to some extent France) have revolutionary traditions which make factory occupations, set-tos with the state, fighting in the street and so on, part of how the working class and radical middle class youth do business. It might to time to migrate to one of these places!!! http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/11/08/working-class-resists-water-tax-in-south-of-ireland/ http://rdln.wordpress.com/2013/09/03/1913-ireland-and-new-zealand-when-workers-fought-back/ Phil _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Class struggle, Ireland
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. * Btw, I maintain a modest little blog about Irish politics, from a socialist-republican (Marx and co; Connolly, Costello) viewpoint at: http://theirishrevolution.wordpress.com/ On it, you'll find the chapters of my old (120,000 word) MA thesis, which was on political movements in Ireland and the national struggle in the first three decades of the 1900s, a lot of material written by Constance Markievicz (which has subsequently gone up on the MIA, thanks!), some very interesting interviews done by my friend Mick Healy with republican veterans, stuff from groups such as the IRSP, RNU and eirigi. (I'm sympathetic to all three and also to the 32CSM; however, it was eirigi that I eventually chose to specifically hook up with and work with.) 2016 will be the 100th anniversary of the Easter Rising, and a great time for Marxmail readers to visit Ireland; there will be heaps on and there is already a political struggle both within the establishment and between the establishment and the folks who really do share the aspirations of the women and men of Easter Week. Phil _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] An anti-imperialist manifesto
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. * *1. AGAINST THE NEW ZEALAND STATE AND ITS FOREIGN POLICY* An anti-imperialist perspective in New Zealand can only begin with total opposition to the policies and initiatives of our own ruling class. New Zealand is an advanced capitalist society, part of the First World, presided over by an exploiting ruling class which is part of the problem not part of the solution. New Zealand nationalism has been historically the ideology through which the capitalist class here coheres society around its own interests and power. In particular this ideology binds NZ workers to their lown exploiters, obscures class divisions within this country and keeps workers from developing an anti-capitalist outlook. At crucial times it serves to line workers up behind our ruling class in wars against workers of other countries. Much of the left has been part of this reactionary nationalist consensus. . . . Full at: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/11/13/towards-an-anti-imperialist-movement-a-manifesto/ Hopefully of relevance throughout the imperialist world. Phil _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Wahhabism and Salafism
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[Marxism] State of New Zealand working class
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. * I doubt there's a country in the world where the working class has been as passive in the past 20 or more yard than New Zealand. At present I'm grouping together articles on the current state of the working class; whoever happened to workers resistance; and some alternatives on how workers can fight back (drawn from some inspiring examples in Greece, Argentina and Ireland). Anyway, here’s our first list – this is only partial, but each article will also provide some links to related articles. Coming apart down under: the decay of New Zealand capitalist society from the 1970s to 1993 https://rdln.wordpress.com/2011/06/23/coming-apart-down-under-the-decay-of-new-zealand-capitalist-society-from-the-1970s-to-1993/ The state of the working class in New Zealand, 1997 https://rdln.wordpress.com/2012/10/08/the-state-of-the-working-class-in-new-zealand-1997/ A united front against low-paid workers https://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/02/25/a-united-front-against-low-paid-workers/ A strange paradox: can New Zealand workers really be happy with this crap? https://rdln.wordpress.com/2013/12/20/a-strange-paradox-how-can-nz-workers-be-happy-with-this-crap/ Information Technology and the rise of New Zealand’s modern servant class https://rdln.wordpress.com/2013/05/16/information-technology-and-the-rise-of-new-zealands-modern-servant-class/ Bending over backwards: New Zealand’s temp economy and capital’s growing need for ‘flexible’ labour https://rdln.wordpress.com/2013/07/04/bending-over-backwards-new-zealands-temp-economy-and-the-growing-need-for-flexible-labour/ The real working life of a chef: a view from the inside https://rdln.wordpress.com/2013/05/22/the-real-working-life-of-a-chef-a-view-from-the-inside/ Low horizons and the legacy of defeats https://rdln.wordpress.com/2012/10/14/low-horizons-and-the-legacy-of-defeats/ Last machinist at Achilles Industries https://rdln.wordpress.com/2011/06/12/last-machinist-at-achilles-industries/ Pike River: ‘cashflow’ versus workers’ safety https://rdln.wordpress.com/2012/11/01/pike-river-cashflow-versus-workers-safety/ Phil _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Inspiration from Ireland
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. * When I reflect on the passivity of the NZ working class, one of the things that keeps me going is the militance of the working class, especially working class communities, in Ireland. See, for instance, https://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/11/08/working-class-resists-water-tax-in-south-of-ireland/ I think workers in NZ would just shrug and say What can we do? if a government tried to introduce a water tax here. Phil _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Marxist theory of social change
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[Marxism] What kind of politics to counter imperialism?
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 what appears to be a never-ending and ever-expanding set of wars by the Western powers in the Middle East rages, what is the political basis for developing anti-imperialist politics? A contribution from New Zealand: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/11/13/towards-an-anti-imperialist-movement-a-manifesto/ Phil _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Stirred up Moslems
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[Marxism] Rosette Space Probe: scientific advance and a society going backward
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[Marxism] Redline top 30
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. * I’ve just stuck up on Redline the list of our top 30 articles in terms of hits. They are an interesting range – the top two are on the 1981 anti-Springbok tour protests and have nearly 20,000 hits (not bad for a wee Marxist blog inn a wee country at the arse-end of the world). Others range from How capitalist ideology works through to an interview with an eyewitness at the 1970 Kent State killing of students by the Ohio National Guard (Mike Alewitz; reblogged from Sherry Wolf) to the women workers’ fight for equal pay at Ford Dagenham in 1968 to critiques of Gandhi to material on NZ workers’ conditions today to the 2014 elections to the 1986 homosexual law reform movement to the 1951 waterfront dispute. The list, with links to each individual article, is at: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/12/13/our-top-30-of-all-time/ Phil _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Gandhi
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. * I was watching a studio interview with Norman Finkelstein on al-Jazeera yesterday and one of the points made was how limited Gandhian tactics were, especially when confronted with a state that was perfectly prepared to resort to brute force like Israel with the Palestinians. It reminded me of a couple of pieces: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2012/10/11/how-successful-wasis-gandhian-peaceful-disobedience/ http://rdln.wordpress.com/2012/10/02/creepy-old-gandhi-demystifying-the-mahatma/ Phil _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] COSATU expels metal workers union
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[Marxism] Immigration controls and workers rights
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. * Some pieces on capitalism and immigration controls. Unfortunately, a lot of leftists in NZ still don’t support the right of workers to free movement. NZ nationalism is very strong on the left here and it is a major obstacle to a genuinely internationalist consciousness. NZ’s immigration controls – not in workers’ interests: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2011/06/12/new-zealand%E2%80%99s-immigration-controls-%E2%80%93-not-in-workers%E2%80%99-interests-%C2%A0/ Immigration controls necessarily imply the policing of them and inevitably stuff like dawn raids, deportations of people who belong to the ‘wrong’ class and have the ‘wrong’ skin colour. Here’s a piece on NZ immigration controls and the persecution of Samoans: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2011/08/29/depriving-samoans-of-immigration-and-citizenship-rights/ And on a more general/global theme, there’s Capitalism, Third World poverty and migration: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/12/16/capitalism-third-world-poverty-and-migration/ Phil _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] On the Sydney siege
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[Marxism] Sydney siege - the day after
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[Marxism] US drones: target 1, kill 28
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[Marxism] PFLP statement on its 47th anniversary
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[Marxism] Dialectics, pt 6: Dynamics of human origins
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[Marxism] Problems with recognizing 'Palestine'
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. * We've just reblogged a very good article by Joseph Massad that appeared on electronic intifada. It's about western governments recognizing 'Palestine', ie the PA-administered territory (under the thumb of Israel and the tutelage of western capitalist regimes) and the problems this presents for the struggle for a single, democratic state solution. See: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/12/22/the-problem-with-recognising-palestine/ Phil _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Some light holiday reading - dialectics
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. * Dialectics, pt 1, Dialectics, system theory and biology http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/04/11/dialectics-system-theory-and-biology-a-review/ Dialectics, pt 2, Dialectical systems and chaos https://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/06/14/dialectical-systems-and-chaos-part-2/ Dialectics, pt 3, Dialectical systems and order https://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/07/11/dialectical-system-and-order-pt-3-of-series-on-dialectics/ Dialectics, pt 4, The productive forces and human development https://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/08/05/dialectics-part-4-the-productive-forces-and-human-development/ Dialectics, pt 5, Dialectics and praxis https://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/09/04/dialectics-pt-5-dialectics-and-praxis/ Dialectics pt 6: Dynamics of human origins: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/12/20/dialectics-pt-6-dynamics-of-human-origins/ Phil _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Some light holiday reading - political economy/Marx
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. * *What is exploitation? https://rdln.wordpress.com/2011/12/29/what-is-exploitation/* *How capitalism works – and why it doesn’t https://rdln.wordpress.com/2011/07/21/how-capitalism-works-–-and-doesn’t-work/* *4,000 words on Capital http://rdln.wordpress.com/2012/11/09/4000-words-on-capital/* *Karl Korsch on “tremendous and enduring” impact of Marx’s Capital (1932) http://rdln.wordpress.com/2013/09/20/karl-korsch-on-tremendous-and-enduring-impact-of-marxs-capital-1932/* *Marx’s critique of classical political economy http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/03/04/marxs-critique-of-classical-political-economy/* *Capital, the working class and Marx’s critique of political economy https://rdln.wordpress.com/2013/03/21/capital-the-working-class-and-marxs-critique-of-political-economy/* *Capital and the state http://rdln.wordpress.com/2012/07/20/capital-and-the-state/* *State companies, capital and the left https://rdln.wordpress.com/2012/07/16/state-companies-capitalism-and-the-left-a-marxist-view/* *State intervention: a handout to capital https://rdln.wordpress.com/2012/07/28/state-intervention-a-hand-out-to-capital/* *How capitalist ideology works https://rdln.wordpress.com/2011/10/18/how-capitalism-works/* *Pilling’s Marx’s Capital: philosophy, dialectics and political economy https://rdln.wordpress.com/2013/10/11/pillings-marxs-capital-philosophy-dialectics-political-economy/* *How capitalism under-develops the world http://rdln.wordpress.com/2013/11/01/how-capitalism-under-develops-the-world-2/ https://rdln.wordpress.com/2013/10/11/pillings-marxs-capital-philosophy-dialectics-political-economy/* *Phil* _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] PFLP rejects proposed recognition of fake 'Palestinian state'
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[Marxism] The Palestinian bourgeoisie
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. * We don't hear much about these folks. However, here's a PFLP piece on how the Palestinian 1% who abrogate to themselves 100% of Palestinian decision-making: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/12/30/pflp-palestinian-capitalists-are-the-1-who-confiscate-100-of-palestinian-decision-making/ And here's a piece on the Palestinian bourgeoisie as exploiters and collaborators: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/12/30/the-palestinian-bourgeoisie-exploiters-and-collaborators/ Needless to say this layer has grown through the course of the 'peace process' - indeed their strengthening has been one of the objects of the 'peace process', very similar to the situation in the north of Ireland. Phil _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Seth Lakeman's workers' lives
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. * The gigging musician I most like and admire at present is probably Seth Lakeman, the prodigiously-talented youngest of the three wonderfully-talented Lakeman brothers. I've finally gotten round to writing a piece about his two most recent solo albums, *Tales from the Barrelhouse* and *Word of Mouth*. I guess Seth descibes himself as a folk musician or as a 'wooden instrument musician', part of what in Britain has been dubbed 'nu folk'. This is a rather muscular, sinewy type of folk, with a partially rock sensibility. I can imagine hard rock bands doing some of Seth's songs quite comfortably. Anyway, while you're enjoying time out during the Xmas-New Year break you might take a look at the review and follow up some of the music links on it. Seth's *Live at the Minack Theatre *DVD, recorded at the stunning Minack down in Cornwall near Land's End, is magnificent - probably my all-time favourite music DVD, just beating out Cream's 1968 Royal Albert Hall concert and the Band's *The Last Waltz*. Anyway, my review is here: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/12/30/seth-lakemans-workers-lives-review-of-tales-from-the-barrelhouse-and-word-of-mouth/ Phil _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Ferment in Ireland and eirigi New Year statement
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. * The south of Ireland is currently being convulsed politically as mass resistance to austerity has emerged. The current mass resistance is to the imposition of domestic water charges. Working class communities have been physically resisting the installation of water meters, sabotaging them where they have been installed, protesting on the streets in the tens and tens of thousands, and resisting the state violence turned on them by the Fine Gael/Labour government. In the thick of the resistance in local working class communities has been the revolutionary movement eirigi. We've put the eirigi New Year statement up on Redline. See: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/01/03/revolutionary-ireland-eirigi-new-year-statement/ Phil _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Israel, Zionism and Jewish-Israeli nationhood (or not)
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. * Israeli intransigence seems to be increasingly undermining those supporting a two-state 'solution' to the Palestinian liberation struggle. However, there are also differences among those who oppose the existence of Israel. One of the most interesting debates has been between two Marxists in Britain with long records of organising in support of the Palestinian cause and against the Israeli state: Moshe Machover, a veteran Israeli Marxist and a founder of the Israeli Socialist Organisation (ISO) in the early 1960s, and Tony Greenstein, a longtime solidarity activist and veteran working class fighter. We've run some of the material from this (fairly comradely) ongoing debate on Redline. Here's Tony's main piece (I admire Moshe but I happen to agree more with Tony): Israel, Palestine: the one-state solution and the issue of Israeli-Jewish nationhood https://rdln.wordpress.com/2011/07/08/israel-palestine-the-one-state-solution-and-the-issue-of-israeli-jewish-nationhood/ Here's a couple of interesting pieces by Moshe about the problems Zionism is having: Zionism’s ongoing quest for legitimacy https://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/09/29/zionisms-ongoing-quest-for-legitimacy/ Does Israel have a future? https://rdln.wordpress.com/2013/01/25/does-israel-have-a-future/ We also have a much larger selection of articles on Palestine at https://rdln.wordpress.com/category/palestine/ and a substantial number of articles on the PFLP: https://rdln.wordpress.com/category/pflp/ (Obviously many articles turn up in our Israel, Palestine and PFLP categories) Phil _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] The contradiction between the crap that is and people's consciousness of it
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. * I tend to think that NZ is the least political country in the world, in any meaningful sense of the term 'political'. Perhaps the most striking thing here is the way that workers' on-the-job conditions have gotten worse, union rights have been whittled away, workers are working longer, faster, harder for relatively less pay and there is even less social mobility, yet workers' horizons and expectations have been lowered so successfully that they just accept it as their lot. Their expectations are so low that as long as attacks on them are relatively small they are happy enough and any little crumbs make them even more so. This is the reality for workers in NZ: This is the reality of 21st century NZ capitalism (low pay, longer hours and less social mobility): https://rdln.wordpress.com/2012/02/08/low-pay-longer-hours-and-less-social-mobility/ But this is what people accept (widening pay and income gaps but no serious opposition):https://rdln.wordpress.com/2012/08/24/3215/ and more job losses but no fightback: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2012/09/26/more-job-losses-but-wheres-the-fightback/ and the strange paradox of NZ workers accepting or being happy with this crap: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2013/12/20/a-strange-paradox-how-can-nz-workers-be-happy-with-this-crap/ Further to people’s lowered horizons and resulting preparedness to accept crap and pretend it tastes nice: Low horizons and the legacy of defeats: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2012/10/14/low-horizons-and-the-legacy-of-defeats/ The politics of stasis: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2011/06/29/a-few-thoughts-on-the-politics-of-stasis/ How true is this of the working class in other imperialist centres? It seems to me that elsewhere there is at least some form of struggle, even if it's not much. Phil _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Fwd: Dress rehearsals for revolution
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. * One of the rather odd things about Greece is that almost all hopes for social change seem to have been invested in parliamentary politics, most particularly in Syriza. But where are the factory occupations, the mass workers' assemblies, the radical union movement, etc etc? There seems to be relatively little going on compared to the situation in Chile during the Popular Unity government, or Portugal in 1974 or France in 1968. France, May-June 1968: the glimmer of revolution https://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/06/13/france-may-june-1968-the-glimmer-of-revolution/ Forms of popular power in Chile, 1970-1973 https://rdln.wordpress.com/2013/10/09/forms-of-popular-power-in-chile-1970-1973-interview-with-franck-gaudichaud/ The grandeur of workers’ revolution: Portugal, 1974 https://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/06/13/the-grandeur-and-the-limitations-40th-anniversary-of-the-portuguese-revolution-of-1974/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Background pieces on Syria
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. * Here's an article that outlines what I think is a solid position on Syria. It's from Socialist Alternative, the largest Marxist current in Australia, a group I have no connections with but whose politics I like most of the time: The heroic uprising against Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad has been met with one of the bloodiest counter-revolutionary wars in living memory. Now, the Syrian revolution is facing possible air strikes by the US, with or without support from its allies. It is vital that the left in the West reject dictator apologists, support democratic uprisings *and *oppose all imperialist meddling. full at: http://redflag.org.au/article/syria-support-revolution-oppose-us-bombing Phil On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 12:26 PM, Louis Proyect l...@panix.com wrote: On 2/5/15 6:12 PM, Philip Ferguson wrote: I think it's pretty clear in the text that the authors are against Assad. Phil The problem is that there is zero interest in the pawns, the Syrian people. It is all about the USA and Russia. One might assume that Lutte Ouvriere has some people who can read Arabic. The one thing that has been missing from the Trotskyist movement for the past 4 years is an engagement with the Syrians themselves, who have made countless videos and issued countless statements about their goals. Let me repeat what a Syrian leftist said: http://newpol.org/content/syria-and-left The problem is that their narrow anti-imperialist worldview only sees Obama, Putin, Hollande, Erdoğan, Khamenei, Qatari Emir Hamad, Saudi King Abdullah, Hassan Nasrallah, and Bashar al-Assad. Possibly they see also Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al Baghdadi. We, rank-and-file Syrians, refugees, women, students, intellectuals, human rights activists, political prisoners … do not exist. I think this high-politics, Western-centered worldview is better suited for the right and the ultra-right fascists. But honestly I’ve failed to discern who is right and who is left in the West from a leftist Syrian point of view. And I tend to think that these are the poisonous effects of the Soviet experience, fascist in its own way. Many Western leftists are the orphans of the late father, the USSR. Besides, what prevents them from seeing the victims of Bashar, when they see perfectly well ordinary people in Kobanê? Why wasn’t there the slightest interest in the slaughter of 700 people at the hands of ISIS thugs themselves in Deir Ezzor last August? One is forced to ask: Do victims have different values based on who their murderers are? Why, as the regime is bombing many regions in the country every day, killing dozens of people every day, are the leftists in the West as silent as the rightists? Could the reason be that the public killer Bashar and his elegant wife are symbols of the First World inside Syria, a couple with whom those in the First World identify easily? Before helping Syrians or showing solidarity with Syrians, the mainstream Western left needs to help themselves. Their views are totally misguided, and the Syrian cause was only a litmus test of their reactionary and decadent perspectives. As a Syrian, I only need them if they are well-informed. Syria is a microcosm, and I do not think that the nature of their understanding and their policies in relation to the macrocosm is in any way better when their position on the Syrian cause is mistaken to this degree. Of course, these remarks are not meant to deny the existence of a small number of courageous dissident Western leftists who saved the moral and political dignity of the left in the United States and the West at large. _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] New book on the birth of the pill
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[Marxism] The White New Zealand policy
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. * The Chinese were the people most discriminated against in New Zealand society in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The formal, legal discrimination was centred on immigration controls which restricted entry in general for Chinese and which also imposed a substantial poll tax on Chinese migrants. The White New Zealand policy culminated in 1920 with legislation that passed control of Chinese immigration into the hands of a government minister. At this point Chinese migration was pretty much halted altogether. Support for these racist immigration controls united Tory-style traditional conservatives, liberals, feminists, a layer of Maori leaders, the ‘militant’ leaders of the Labour Party and ‘moderate’ elements atop the overall labour movement. Below are the initial articles we’ve stuck up on the White New Zealand policy and the theoretical tools for analysing it. We’ll be looking at the development of the policy in the 1890s and first two decades of the twentieth century in future feature articles. Written in 1996: Arrested Development: the historiography of White New Zealand https://rdln.wordpress.com/2013/12/14/arrested-development-the-historiography-of-white-new-zealand/ Written in 1996: Analysing the White New Zealand policy: developing a theoretical framework https://rdln.wordpress.com/2013/12/17/analysing-the-white-new-zealand-policy-developing-a-theoretical-framework/ Written in 1996-97: Colonial social relations, the Chinese and the beginnings of New Zealand nationalist discourse https://rdln.wordpress.com/2013/12/19/colonial-social-relations-the-chinese-and-the-beginnings-of-new-zealand-nationalist-discourse/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] oops, re White NZ policy - there should have been four pieces
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. * the initial four articles we've stuck up on the White New Zealand policy and the theoretical tools for analysing it. We'll be looking at the development of the policy in the 1890s and first two decades of the twentieth century in future feature articles. Written in 1996: Arrested Development: the historiography of White New Zealand https://rdln.wordpress.com/2013/12/14/arrested-development-the-historiography-of-white-new-zealand/ Written in 1996: Analysing the White New Zealand policy: developing a theoretical framework https://rdln.wordpress.com/2013/12/17/analysing-the-white-new-zealand-policy-developing-a-theoretical-framework/ Written in 1996-97: Colonial social relations, the Chinese and the beginnings of New Zealand nationalist discourse https://rdln.wordpress.com/2013/12/19/colonial-social-relations-the-chinese-and-the-beginnings-of-new-zealand-nationalist-discourse/ Written in 1997: Racialisation, subordination and the first exclusionary legislation https://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/03/14/the-white-new-zealand-policy-subordination-racialisation-and-the-first-exclusionary-legislation/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Israel's role in creating Hamas
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. * Hamas is a monster that Israel helped create. And having spent three decades helping create Hamas, it has spent the next two trying to destroy it, through the imposition of collective punishment on Palestinians, from economic blockades to air strikes. . . full article at: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/02/04/israels-role-in-the-creation-of-hamas/ Phil _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Never so free, never so powerless
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. * I thought this was quite an interesting comment by sociologist Zygmunt Bauman http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zygmunt_Bauman, summing up an important paradox of our time: “Never have we been so free. Never have we felt so powerless.” In many capitalist countries old forms of legal discrimination and also social mores, stuff which back a few decades till seemed set in stone, have largely been done away with. Formally, we're freer. Yet wealth and power is much more concentrated in fewer hands and the great mass of people certainly have less of those things than ever. Phil _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Background pieces on Syria
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. * https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/02/06/on-syria/ Phil _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Background pieces on Syria
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. * I think it's pretty clear in the text that the authors are against Assad. Phil On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 10:35 AM, Louis Proyect l...@panix.com wrote: On 2/5/15 4:22 PM, Philip Ferguson via Marxism wrote: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/02/06/on-syria/ Syria: civil war and games of the world’s powers... Really? Did Obama utilize the Ruy-Lopez opening? Did Assad counter with the Steinitz defense? _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] New at The Irish Revolution
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. * The bould Shinners have certainly stolen a march, a big one, on both Fianna Fail and the government by announcing their 100th anniversary celebrations of the Rising. And that these celebrations are open to all. In other words, they are effectively acting as if they are the government and the state and the inheritors of the mantle of 1916, all rolled into one. . . Full at: https://theirishrevolution.wordpress.com/2015/02/08/shinners-seize-the-moment-socialist-republicans-need-a-serious-alternative/ The ‘Censored’ public lecture series has returned to the National Print Museum/Músaem Náisiúnta Cló. It actually began on January 15, so I have been somewhat remiss in advertising it. This part of the series will focus on censorship in Ireland, 1700-2000. The speakers are looking at a range of topics relevant to the history of censorship in Ireland, including the impact of major developments in printing technology. Individual writers like Jonathan Swift and Kate O’Brien, whose works prompted controversies that resulted in works by them being banned, will also receive attention. The lectures are free to attend with each paper lasting an hour, including question time. Admission is free but, because there is a limited number of seats, it’s best to book in advance. . . Full at: https://theirishrevolution.wordpress.com/2015/02/03/censored-the-lecture-series/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Recent material from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
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. * PFLP leader Khalida Jarrar: boycott Knesset elections, oppose UN resolution: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/01/14/pflp-leader-khalida-jarrar-boycott-knesset-elections-oppose-un-resolution/ PFLP says Palestinian capitalists are the 1% who confiscate 100% of Palestinian decision-making: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/12/30/pflp-palestinian-capitalists-are-the-1-who-confiscate-100-of-palestinian-decision-making/ PFLP rejects proposed recognition of fake ‘Palestinian state': https://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/12/30/pflp-rejects-proposed-recognition-of-fake-palestinian-state/ PFLP statement on 47th anniversary of its founding: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/12/19/pflp-statement-on-47th-anniversary-of-its-founding/ For a world free of racism, colonialism, imperialism, oppression and capitalist exploitation – PFLP message to eirigi conference: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/12/01/for-a-world-that-is-free-of-racism-colonialism-imperialism-oppression-and-capitalist-exploitation-pflp-message-to-eirigi-conference/ PFLP on 97th anniversary of Balfour Declaration – Zionist state remains illegitimate: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/11/13/pflp-on-97th-anniversary-of-balfour-declaration-zionist-state-remains-illegitimate/ And two pieces on how the PFLP sees the overall current political situation: Palestinian liberation and the PFLP today (interview): https://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/03/12/palestinian-liberation-and-the-pflp-today-an-interview-with-abu-ahmad-fouad-deputy-secretary-general-of-the-pflp/ 2012 central committee statement on regional and international political developments: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2012/06/10/statement-of-the-pflp-central-committee-on-political-developments/ Phil _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Zionists fail to prevent Leila Khaled speaking tour in South Africa
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. * https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/02/04/zionists-fail-to-prevent-leila-khaled-speaking-tour-in-south-africa/ The article also gives some stats on how public attitudes to Israel are increasingly unfavourable in the imperialist West; only in the US does public opinion still be favourable and even then it's only 51%/ Phil _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] State capitalism in New Zealand
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. * *State capitalism* is usually described as an economic system in which commercial (i.e. for-profit) economic activity is undertaken by the *state*, with management and organization of the means of production in a *capitalist* manner, including the system of capital accumulation, wage labor, and centralized management. - Wikipedia While the Wikipedia writer understands that state capitalism is a form of capitalism, this is not well understood on the New Zealand left. Much of this left, for instance, supports capitalism if the capitalist company is owned fully by the capitalist state. This left campaigned in favour of such ownership in the referendum on whether the government should be able to sell 49% of shares in a number of State-Owned Enterprises. But from the standpoint of the material interests of workers, how is being exploited by a company, functioning as a fully capitalist company, owned by the state preferable to being exploited by one 49% privately-owned, or even 100% privately-owned? Workers are no better off materially. In fact, when the state itself functions as a capitalist company it is more thorough - and more powerful - as the boss. The widespread left support for state capitalism in New Zealand also acts to disorient workers and retard the development of any meaningful class consciousness. It reinforces illusions in the nature of the state and of capitalism where the state itself acts as the personification of capital. SOEs: corporatised business as usual https://rdln.wordpress.com/2013/03/01/soes-corporatised-business-as-usual/ Our asset lays off 125, threatens more https://rdln.wordpress.com/2012/08/30/our-asset-lays-off-125-threatens-more/ What Solid Energy and Mainzeal reveal about private and state capitalism https://rdln.wordpress.com/2013/03/25/neither-private-capitalism-nor-state-capitalism-but-workers-power-what-solid-energy-and-mainzeal-reveal-2/ State companies, capitalism and the left: a Marxist view https://rdln.wordpress.com/2012/07/16/state-companies-capitalism-and-the-left-a-marxist-view/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
