[marxmail] "Black Wave" tracks conflicts across the Islamic world (Green Left)

Book review: Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran and the rivalry that unravelled the Middle East, by Kim Ghattas: https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/black-wave-tracks-conflicts-across-islamic-world -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply

Re: [marxmail] The contagious idea that Black Lives Matter | Richard Seymour on Patreon

On 8/30/20 8:11 PM, Roger Kulp wrote: grants from the Ford Foundation.and the WK Kellogg Foundation,in 2016? So what? If it weren't for BLM, you wouldn't have had millions of Americans out on the streets in June and July. I don't see it as an organization but as a sprawling, locally based

Re: [marxmail] The contagious idea that Black Lives Matter | Richard Seymour on Patreon

Your link can't be read without joining Patreon,but this seems to miss the big problem about BLM.It's not so much BLM might fade away like other movements,but that BLM might be co-opted by either the Democratic Party,or assimilated into the corporate-run nonprofit industrial complex.

Re: [marxmail] These Photos Will Change the Way You Think About Race in Coal Country - Yes! Magazine

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Re: [marxmail] These Photos Will Change the Way You Think About Race in Coal Country - Yes! Magazine

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[marxmail] FYI--Blue Leaks--Federal and Local Law Enforcement Practices in Suppressing Dissent

The following link to The Intercept provides a broader factual context relevant to the current role of saboteurs, provocateurs, and Lawn Forcement felons of all stripes in the repression of the BLM protests.  It is not entirely clear that this is something that remains unchanged from all time

Re: [marxmail] NPR stumps for adventurism

On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 01:36 PM, Mark Lause wrote: > > IThis after-the-fact explanation that it was cops or right-wingers might > well be correct. But it asks people to follow you into the woods with lots > of tangled underbrush. > > It distracts from the main discussion we want to have. The

[marxmail] Socialism and Democracy

I have already found a reviewer for Martha Gimenez's book. George -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#1008): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/1008 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/76522309/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES

[marxmail] Fact check: Jacob Blake didn't 'brandish' knife in Kenosha shooting

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[marxmail] Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporting on what led to Kyle Rittenhouse's murderous assault

(Posted to FB by John Beadle.) Jeremiah just wanted to find his car and go home, but he was trapped. A massive line of police in riot gear had just forced him and hundreds of other protesters out of Kenosha's Civic Center Park and into the street. After that, there was nowhere to go. Soldiers

Re: [marxmail] 50 Years Ago: The Chicano Moratorium-Los Angeles

Salazar's killing electrified LA.  As I understand and recall it a cop fired a tear gas round into the bar and it hit him in the head. JAI -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#1005): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/1005

Re: [marxmail] NPR stumps for adventurism

On 8/30/20 2:26 PM, jenorem via groups.io wrote: The Spectre Editorial Board who is responsible for this post includes David McNally and Charles Post. Certainly they're not the 20 somethings that your post is aimed at, right? I would wager that McNally and Post have 'gone through an

Re: [marxmail] NPR stumps for adventurism

The Spectre Editorial Board who is responsible for this post includes David McNally and Charles Post. Certainly they're not the 20 somethings that your post is aimed at, right? I would wager that McNally and Post have 'gone through an experience' or two, don't you think? Are they infantile

Re: [marxmail] The Radicalism of Woody Guthrie

Michael, it's probably time to re-read the essay by Noam Chomsky in AMERICAN POWER > AND THE NEW MANDARINS entitled "The Revolutionary Pacifism of A.J. Muste" > ---which focuses on "the Pacific War" > I remember reading that essay somewhere around 45 years ago. When you read something in your

Re: [marxmail] NPR stumps for adventurism

This is exactly what we hear from Fox News. What should this misguided 20 somethings do? The electoral strategy is dumb. Mass demonstrations are dumb. Is writing blog posts all that is left to us? —Ryan > On Aug 30, 2020, at 10:36 AM, Mark Lause wrote: > >  > It should be assumed that there

Re: [marxmail] NPR stumps for adventurism

It should be assumed that there are always provocateurs. The organizers have a political responsibility to make sure that anything such provocateurs might do can be used to recast the purpose of the demonstration--to make the people who responded to your call think twice before coming out next

[marxmail] Opinion / Rosenberg: A close look at slavery in Rhode Island - News - providencejournal.com - Providence, RI

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[marxmail] Conversations with Trotsky

Conversations with Trotsky Earle Birney and the Radical 1930s https://press.uottawa.ca/conversations-with-trotsky.html This book is reviewed today in the Victoria Times Colonist https://www.timescolonist.com/

Re: [marxmail] NPR stumps for adventurism

I've had almost exactly the same experience over the early failures locally to even announce and publicize demonstration when they started. This was "too catch the police by surprise." My suggestions went denounced as the efforts of an old middle class white liberal boomer trying to throw cold

[marxmail] Medicine and Activism in George Eliot’s “Quarry for Middlemarch” - Los Angeles Review of Books

Since the onset of COVID-19, women’s careers, especially in the humanities, have beenincreasingly undervalued . We’re beingdisproportionately dismissed

[marxmail] A Trans Boy Dreams of a Gender-Fluid World: A Conversation with Lexie Bean - Los Angeles Review of Books

/DEBUT MIDDLE-GRADE NOVELIST Lexie Bean’s dazzling, poetic, and powerful /The Ship We Built/, published by Dial Press in May, is the story of 10-year-old Rowan, who was born a girl but identifies as a boy. It’s 1997, and the idea of children being transgender is foreign to the Michigan mining

[marxmail] The New Yorker: The Day Malcolm X Was Killed

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Re: [marxmail] NPR stumps for adventurism

On 8/30/20 8:22 AM, jenorem via groups.io wrote: Here's Spectre Journal's take on the uprisings, including on 'looting': https://spectrejournal.com/theses-on-the-uprising/ Not surprising. I had a bit of a tiff from the unnamed chap who posted a link to this article on Spectre's Twitter

[marxmail] Coronavirus sceptics, conspiracy theorists and anti-vaxxers protest in London | Coronavirus outbreak | The Guardian

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Re: [marxmail] NPR stumps for adventurism

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[marxmail] Rampant destruction of forests ‘will unleash more pandemics’ | Environment | The Guardian

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Re: [marxmail] NPR stumps for adventurism

On Sat, Aug 29, 2020 at 2:56 PM Louis Proyect wrote: > I'll be responding to the idea of looting and arson being revolutionary > tomorrow. This bullshit has been around since the Weathermen Days of Rage > and it is just a reflection of the low level of class struggle in the USA, > as well as the