[Marxism] Animated Communist Manifesto

2009-11-14 Thread Louis Proyect
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KUl4yfABE4 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at:

[Marxism] UN investigator accuses US of shameful neglect of homeless

2009-11-14 Thread Steve Palmer
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/12/un-investigator-us-neglect-homeless http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/12/united-nations-us-property-fallout YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list

[Marxism] Fidel Castro: Obama's science fiction trip

2009-11-14 Thread Louis Proyect
http://www.zcommunications.org/znet/viewArticle/23126 A Science Fiction Story November 14, 2009 By Fidel Castro I very much regret to have to criticize Obama knowing that there are in that country other could-be presidents worse than him. I am aware that that position in the United States is

[Marxism] Correction on address of book presentation

2009-11-14 Thread S AN
In the message on the Nove. 24 presentation of the book on Bolivian Trotskyism, the address for the CUNY Graduate Center was stated incorrectly. The correct address is 365 Fifth Avenue (at 34th Street), NYC. S. Sándor John Hunter College, NYC

Re: [Marxism] WSWS review of Robert Service Trotsky bio

2009-11-14 Thread Tom Cod
Here's a link to a youtube video where Service and self-proclaimed post-Trotskyist Christopher Hitchens discuss Trotsky and Service's book thereon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4v3y-zFW9A

[Marxism] At the Pinnacle of Capitalism, Now Bad Deed Goes Unrewarded

2009-11-14 Thread michael perelman
This is rich. John Paulson who made billions betting against the subprime mortgages is now rewarding Alan Greenspan, who did so much to make it happen. Anon. 2009. Overheard. Wall Street Journal (13 November): p. C 14.

[Marxism] Obama's healthcare and Stupak - will women take one for the team?

2009-11-14 Thread Dennis Brasky
Whose Team is it Anyway? By Katha Pollitt The Nation November 11, 2009 You know what I don't want to hear right now about the Stupak-Pitts amendment banning abortion coverage from federally subsidised health insurance policies? That it's the price of reform, and pro-choice women

[Marxism] Fwd: Obama's healthcare and Stupak - will women take one for the team?

2009-11-14 Thread Kenneth Morgan
The Irony of Pollitt's article is that she is one of the most staunch defenders of supporting the Democrats. In her suggestions to cut the budget deficit, nowhere does she mention, a complete withdrawal of US Military forces from Iraq and Afghanistan. By Katha Pollitt The Nation November 11,