Re: [marxmail] The next two years? If you think you know, then you REALLY don't know!

This is the problem with something like Antifa that strives to be smudgy about its identity, its membership, its leadership, and its activities. Put masks on that. Then slather it all with layers of social media and a corporate news industry that really doesn't care. Solidarity! Mark L.

Re: [marxmail] The next two years? If you think you know, then you REALLY don't know!

fkalosar...@yandex.com wrote “It's a good slogan.  Of course it's simplistic. But there's nothing IMO more simplistic in the long run than a superficially critical stance that eschews slogans only to remain irreducibly sub-middlebrow and that therefore is useless both politically and

[marxmail] California prosecutors revolt against Los Angeles DA’s reforms

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/25/george-gascon-california-social-justice-461667 California prosecutors revolt against Los Angeles DA’s social justice changes The widening battle over George Gascón's policies offers a high-profile microcosm for larger tensions roiling law enforcement

Re: [marxmail] The next two years? If you think you know, then you REALLY don't know!

It's a good slogan.  Of course it's simplistic. But there's nothing IMO more simplistic in the long run than a superficially critical stance that eschews slogans only to remain irreducibly sub-middlebrow and that therefore is useless both politically and intellectually. All the same wish I

Re: [marxmail] Review: In the crosshairs of the F.B.I. | America Magazine

A timely reminder for "progressives" who may be tempted to regard the FBI, post 1-6, as their friend. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#5838): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/5838 Mute This Topic:

Re: [marxmail] Biden’s secretary of state nominee endorses lies about Chinese “genocide” of Uyghurs

On 1/25/21 6:13 PM, Polly Bayrd via groups.io wrote: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/01/23/uygh-j23.html Don't post provocative crap like this unless you are willing to explain why you think we should be persuaded by it. This

[marxmail] Biden’s secretary of state nominee endorses lies about Chinese “genocide” of Uyghurs

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[marxmail] Chicago 1969: When Black Panthers aligned with Confederate-flag-wielding, working-class whites

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Re: [marxmail] Margo St. James, Advocate for Sex Workers, Dies at 83

Whoring is paying off a lot of student debt these days, especially since the advent of Only Fans.  On Friday, January 22, 2021, 09:58:44 AM EST, Louis Proyect wrote: NYT, Jan. 22, 2021 Margo St. James, Advocate for Sex Workers, Dies at 83 By Katharine Q. Seelye Margo St. James 

[marxmail] Bellingcat’s founder on how they unmasked the Salisbury poisoners

THE SUNDAY TIMES MAGAZINE (UK) January 24, 2021 Sunday 1:01 AM GMT Interview by Matthew Campbell

[marxmail] Did "Progressives" Stop a Possible Real Coup on Jan. 6?

The claim was made in a New York Times article by Alexander Burns on Jan. 25. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/24/us/politics/democrats-trump-election-plan.html?action=click=Spotlight=Homepage The Burns article was subsequently summarized on Salon and re-aggregated from there by Rawstory.

Re: [marxmail] The next two years? If you think you know, then you REALLY don't know!

fkalosar...@yandex.com wrote Mon, Jan 25 at 3:20 PM"I'm all for "We Are the 99%," but the frankly destructive and--let's face it--dumbassed reflexive Occupationism on display in Portland--needs to be got rid of before the FBI do it their way." OK But isn't "We are the 99%" just a bit too

Re: [marxmail] The next two years? If you think you know, then you REALLY don't know!

I agree with what Reimann/Oakland Socialist said in this eloquent and thoughtful piece. It does look as if for now Trump has decided to remain a Republican and fight for control of the Republican Party.  I think Reimann is right about impeachment being DOA in the Senate. These two facts

[marxmail] Why History Matters: the Legacy of Slavery - CounterPunch.org

Many Americans watched as Joe Biden marked his Inauguration Day celebration with a brief presentation before the statue of Abraham Lincoln, invoking the Civil War as an historical moment when the nation triumphed over deep division. When recalling Lincoln, many New Yorkers may remember the

Re: [marxmail] Historians rail against Trump administration's 1776 Commission | Donald Trump | The Guardian

Historians railed against the 1619 project too. I always thought of historians as staid people, not prone to railing. On Friday, January 22, 2021, 07:39:09 AM EST, Louis Proyect wrote:

Re: [marxmail] Media Elevate Eugenicists, Sideline Disabled Voices in Discussions of Covid Rationing — FAIR

Eugenics and race science are both making a comeback. I guess this is Biden's America. On Friday, January 22, 2021, 07:43:00 AM EST, Louis Proyect wrote: https://fair.org/home/media-elevate-eugenicists-sideline-disabled-voices-in-discussions-of-covid-rationing/

[marxmail] Blocking arms shipment to Saudi Arabia

I am forwarding without the photos. You can get high resolution photos by scrolling to bottom. Or write to me, knhieb...@shaw.ca ken h Hamilton, Ontario - Members and allies of anti-war organizations World BEYOND War and Labour Against the Arms Trade are blocking trucks at

[marxmail] Ethiopia: A Humanitarian Disaster

The Conflict in Ethiopia: A Humanitarian Disaster https://socialistproject.ca/2021/01/conflict-in-ethiopia-humanitarian-disaster/#more While over 950,000 people are on the move in the northern province of Tigray, a huge humanitarian disaster is already hitting Tigrayans hard. One of the

[marxmail] Jacobin.de interview with Andreas Malm

For those who can speak/read German on the list, they might find this interesting. 15.09.2020 Für einen Öko-Leninismus Andreas Malm ist Humanökologe und forscht zu den Zusammenhängen von Klimawandel und Kapitalismus. Er erklärt, warum uns in der Klimakrise keine Zeit für eine Politik der

[marxmail] Israeli Health Minister likens his obligation to vaccinate Palestinians to Palestinians’ responsibility to care for ‘dolphins in the Mediterranean’

Hitler would be proud! https://mondoweiss.net/2021/01/israeli-health-minister-likens-his-obligation-to-vaccinate-palestinians-to-taking-care-of-dolphins-in-the-mediterranean/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#5823):

Re: [marxmail] Hunts Point Produce Workers...Strike... By Dayne Goodwin

So, let's look at it: The union demanded $1.00 per year. The employers offered 30-something cents per year. The settlement was 61+cents per year. Ocasio Cortez coming out to the picket line to make a nice speech? What's new about that? I've seen labor struggles here in Oakland where the right

[marxmail] Climate and Capitalism

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[marxmail] A Scientist’s Mind, a Poet’s Soul — The New Atlantis

On the unified cosmic vision of Alexander von Humboldt, the nineteenth century’s great naturalist-adventurer https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/a-scientists-mind-a-poets-soul John Bellamy Foster: The Swiss geologist De Saussure concluded in 1779, as a result of his studies of Alpine

[marxmail] The Chinese Rural Commune with Zhun Xu - COSMONAUT

Matt and Christian join Zhun Xu, author of/From Commune to Capitalism: How China’s Peasants Lost Collective Farming and Gained Urban Poverty/ for a discussion on

[marxmail] Essential Strike Manifesto for the 8th of March | Lefteast

/Note from LeftEast Editors: We share the Essential Strike Manifesto by E.A.S.T. (Essential Autonomous Struggles Transnational), a network composed mostly of women, migrants, workers and activists born out of the struggles on social reproduction triggered by the pandemic crisis of Covid-19.

[marxmail] Covid and fictitious capital – Michael Roberts Blog

During the year of the COVID, output, investment and employment in nearly all the economies of the world plummeted, as lockdowns, social isolation and collapsing international trade contracted output and spending.  And yet the opposite was the case for the stock and bond markets of the major

[marxmail] Graham Murdock: Public Service Media in Challenging Times: Connectivity, Climate and Corona. Online-talk, Feb 15

Public Service Media in Challenging Times: Connectivity, Climate and Corona. A talk by Graham Murdock hosted and organised by InnoPSM: AHRC Research Network on Innovation in Public Service Media Policies (https://innopsm.net/) and its event- and work-stream on Envisioning Public Service Media

[marxmail] il Manifesto on the Red Cap putsch

Talking about a Second Republic is, we admit, a provocative statement—and certainly in a country where a real civil war has already taken place. But secession was the formative watershed of a nation on the rise. The Trumpist insurgency, on the other hand, is a trauma more likely associated with