[marxmail] US Vetoes Palestine’s Bid to Become a Full Member of the UN

*The resolution’s failure “will not defeat our determination,” said Palestine’s permanent observer at the United Nations.* by Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams, April 19, 2024 https://truthout.org/articles/us-vetoes-palestines-bid-to-become-a-full-member-of-the-un/ *Biden Claims to Support a Two-Sta

[marxmail] Where Should Socialists Stand in the Looming War between Israel and Iran?

*Where Should Socialists Stand in the Looming War between Israel and Iran?* /Questions & Answers by Michael Pröbsting, Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT), 18 April 2024/ https://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/africa-and-middle-east/q-a-where-should-socialists-stand-in-loomi

[marxmail] UAW wins in Tennessee

*** UAW Wins Historic Volkswagen Union Election in a Landslide ( https://paydayreport.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=bfb9ba290

Re: [marxmail] Volkswagen workers vote yes!

https://vwvote.uaw.org/ On Fri, Apr 19, 2024 at 9:33 PM Steven L. Robinson via groups.io wrote: > By three quarters! > > > > > https://www.npr.org/2024/04/19/1244291402/volkswagen-union-election-ballot-tally-united-auto-workers > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messa

[marxmail] Volkswagen workers vote yes!

By three quarters! https://www.npr.org/2024/04/19/1244291402/volkswagen-union-election-ballot-t ally-united-auto-workers -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#30008): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/30008 Mute This Topi

Re: [marxmail] Here are the U.S. congressional districts benefiting from Ukraine aid: Washington Post

On Fri, Apr 19, 2024 at 08:56 PM, Marv Gandall wrote: > > it's doubtful the PLA will militarily challenge the US even in its own > backyard - the Philippines, Vietnam, Marv got his future tense, and with it the facts, wrong. PRC naval forces already challenge the Philippines and Vietnam. The la

Re: [marxmail] Here are the U.S. congressional districts benefiting from Ukraine aid: Washington Post

It was less intended to be cute, Charlie, than to make a point regarding the great discrepancy in military power reflected in the US military presence six miles off the Chinese coast. No one can predict what the next decade will bring, although we can say with some confidence that China won’t be

Re: [marxmail] Foreign Affairs: The Talks That Could Have Ended the War in Ukraine

On Fri, Apr 19, 2024 at 03:22 PM, Dayne Goodwin wrote: > > Despite the importance attached to Bucha by Bennett, Arakhamia and > Arestovich, none of the “campists” mention it – except for that one > dismissive reference by Marcetic (see above). They live in a fantasy world > where Russian imperial

Re: [marxmail] Here are the U.S. congressional districts benefiting from Ukraine aid: Washington Post

Cute; might be worth a chuckle in Canada. Probably not received so well in the Philippines, Vietnam, and Indonesia. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#30004): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/30004 Mute This Topic: https:

Re: [marxmail] Here are the U.S. congressional districts benefiting from Ukraine aid: Washington Post

On Fri, Apr 19, 2024 at 01:36 PM, Vladimiro Giacche' wrote: > > it’s simply a way to highlight which superpower afford by far the most in > terms of military spending and has deployed the by far overwhelming > military forces around the world. PRC president and chair of the Central Military Comm

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Re: [marxmail] Two charts: China's economic ties with Israel and Iran are approximately equal

What is the significance of these charts? What I see is that they are not equal and are trending apart to the favorably of Israel. There is almost a $10 billion difference with Chinese trade for Israel which is up since 2020 when they were in fact the same (where the lines cross). Israel and Chi

Re: [marxmail] Foreign Affairs: The Talks That Could Have Ended the War in Ukraine

On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 6:43 AM D Derwin via groups.io wrote: > > I wonder is everyone so content to see Marxmail diverge so much from the intentions of Louis Proyect by allowing a platform for campists and necessitating a pointless debate with those who have so many platforms elsewhere? > > Anywa

[marxmail] False photos of markets in Gaza shown to German Foreign Minister Baerbock

A tense contrary position between Netanyahu and Baerbock in Jerusalem. https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/israel-annalena-baerbock-und-benjamin-netanjahu-geraten-heftig-aneinander-a-90e5c7cf-7eb3-4f49-8ef5-0cf0d2854d1b Baerbock was arguing for more aid into Gaza, and Netanyahu was arguing

Re: [marxmail] Here are the U.S. congressional districts benefiting from Ukraine aid: Washington Post

Nope, it’s simply a way to highlight which superpower afford by far the most in terms of military spending and has deployed the by far overwhelming military forces around the world. Everything else is literature, or - if you prefer - a way of ignoring the main contradiction. V Inviato da i

Re: [marxmail] Two charts: China's economic ties with Israel and Iran are approximately equal

Thx Charlie. H -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#29997): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/29997 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/105624148/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when r

Re: [marxmail] Here are the U.S. congressional districts benefiting from Ukraine aid: Washington Post

Marv's statistic is a variant of the oft-spoken tally of 800+ U.S. bases around the world. It is a way of ignoring one pole of the contradiction. Which power is in decay and has trouble maintaining its dominance? Which power has rapidly expanded its military along with its economy, to the point

[marxmail] Capitalism’s New Age of Plagues, Part 4

Agribusiness assaults on tropical forests are driving the emergence of new diseases and epidemics. Continuing my series on the causes and implications of global capitalism’s descent into an era when infectious diseases are ever more common. https://climateandcapitalism.com/2024/04/19/capitalisms-

Re: [marxmail] Here are the U.S. congressional districts benefiting from Ukraine aid: Washington Post

[Edited Message Follows] [Reason: Sorry. GDP, not GNP.] Military spending as a percentage of GDP is hardly a reliable indicator of military power. According to the most recent figures compiled by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, Ukraine’s $44b in military expenditures (not

Re: [marxmail] Here are the U.S. congressional districts benefiting from Ukraine aid: Washington Post

Military spending as a percentage of GNP is hardly a reliable indicator of military power. According to the most recent figures compiled by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, Ukraine’s $44b in military expenditures (not including the aid provided to it by the US and its allies

Re: [marxmail] Here are the U.S. congressional districts benefiting from Ukraine aid: Washington Post

I believe that in general that was the argument of the I.S. (UK)_Michael Kidron - something like 'the Permanant Arms Economy". H -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#29992): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/29992 Mute This

Re: [marxmail] Here are the U.S. congressional districts benefiting from Ukraine aid: Washington Post

> On Apr 19, 2024, at 8:45 AM, Charlie via groups.io > wrote: > > The leftists who grab at Keynesian doctrine and argue that military spending > props up the U.S. economy are losing the basis of their contention. It is no doubt an ongoing stimulus to the economy and a source of cash for US

Re: [marxmail] Here are the U.S. congressional districts benefiting from Ukraine aid: Washington Post

On Fri, Apr 19, 2024 at 09:59 AM, Mark Baugher wrote: > > that chart shows growth in US GDP and not a reduction in US military > expenditures. Yes, as labeled. 1) The leftists who grab at Keynesian doctrine and argue that military spending props up the U.S. economy are losing the basis of their

Re: [marxmail] Loren Goldner ¡Presente!

The following was posted at libcom: For those of you who do podcasts, there is a nice tribute to Loren by the Antifada podcast just out with some great insights and anecdotes. https://www.patreon.com/theantifada https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e245-rip-loren-goldner/id1372879721?i=1000652

Re: [marxmail] The War on Protest - terrifying example of the US police state

If it was an agent provocateur they were probably trained by the military police from Israel who are invited to the USA to instruct local police in how to put down popular protests. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#29988):

[marxmail] wouldn't it be fabulous

Operation Dixie, Mark II is up and running https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/19/opinion/uaw-southern-republicans-unions.html?campaign_id=39&emc=edit_ty_20240419&instance_id=120966&nl=opinion-today®i_id=59542766&segment_id=164214&te=1&user_id=e34224fbe0b7ae7eac485434278fa4fe Wonder what folks like u

[marxmail] platypus

This syllabus is worth a lot. https://platypus-ucsd.github.io/syllabus Platypus is concerned with exploring the improbable but not impossible tasks and project of the reemergence of a critical Left with emancipatory social intent. We look forward to making a critical but vital contribution tow

Re: [marxmail] The War on Protest - terrifying example of the US police state

> On Apr 18, 2024, at 12:12 PM, Charles Keener via groups.io > wrote: > > About a half-mile away, a group of protesters had staged an impromptu march > through the development site, setting fire to some of the construction > equipment. As the sun began to set, plumes of smoke rose above the

[marxmail] Here are the U.S. congressional districts benefiting from Ukraine aid: Washington Post

What that chart shows is growth in US GDP and not a reduction in US military expenditures. Maybe I don't understand the point of the chart below, but US military spending is not experiencing decay, https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/USA/united-states/military-spending-defense-

[marxmail] Ken Loach

Seems a retrospective under way in NYC at least. A short review. Misses out a couple of his more overtly political ones. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/19/movies/ken-loach-movies.html?ugrp=u&unlocked_article_code=1.lk0.Lwnh.ywLeFn63GVkm&smid=url-share -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: Yo

[marxmail] Further on the Iranian Drones - bit later than I had hoped.

https://mlrg.online/articles/ -> https://mlrg.online/world/israels-provocation/ By the way Michael Karadjidis: Thanks very much for the references on the Haifa port. Updating it - it maybe that China has in fact interrupted their support for China. Their investment was as you had said quite major

Re: [marxmail] Here are the U.S. congressional districts benefiting from Ukraine aid: Washington Post

Your figure could have been even more impressing if WWII spending, and not only Cold War spending, had been included. Inviato da iPhone > Il giorno 19 apr 2024, alle ore 06:33, Charlie via groups.io > ha scritto: > > "military-industrial bedrock" here has lots of emotional energy, but > ob

[marxmail] Declaration of Fraternal Relations between AWCS (USA) and the RCIT

*For the Oppressed – Against All Imperialist Powers!* /Declaration of Fraternal Relations between the Anti-War Committees in Solidarity with the Struggles for Self-Determination (USA) and the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT), 18 April 2024/ https://www.thecommunists.net/r