Re: [marxmail] The record-breaking human costs of climate change

On 12/11/2024 7:55 AM, Ian Angus via groups.io wrote: Lancet study: Climate extremes are increasingly claiming lives and livelihoods worldwide https://climateandcapitalism.com/2024/12/10/the-record-breaking-human-costs-of-climate-change/ Thanks Ian, because this basis thesis is obvious enough

[marxmail] Handel and the slave trade

Audiences love to stand and sing along when George Frederick Handel’s oratorio Messiah gets to the Hallelujah chorus. In the past few years, a new note has sounded from the New York Times down through tiers of liberals and progressives: you must always keep in mind that Handel invested in the s

[marxmail] The record-breaking human costs of climate change

Lancet study: Climate extremes are increasingly claiming lives and livelihoods worldwide https://climateandcapitalism.com/2024/12/10/the-record-breaking-human-costs-of-climate-change/ Ian Angus Editor, Climate & Capitalism https://climateandcapitalism.com -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Link

[marxmail] Israel Exploits Assad’s Fall to Expand Into Syria

Israel Exploits Assad’s Fall to Expand Into Syria While Syrians celebrated the toppling of the Assad regime following a swift operation by rebel forces on Sunday, Israel moved in. The Israeli military launched half a dozen airstrikes on Syrian targets and parked tanks inside Syria’s borders, in

[marxmail] Russia: Report on the Main Events (Autumn 2024)

*Russia: Report on the Main Events (**Autumn 2024)* /By Alexey Sedov, Communist Tendency (RCIT Section in Russia), 28.11.2024/ This autumn has only exacerbated the negative trends that have existed in recent times and tightened the knot of contradictions, which will be extremely difficult to c

[marxmail] Scott Ritter glitters up Tulse Gabbard

No wonder most multipolaristas now keep distance from Scott Ritter. His rhetorical contortions are even more stupid than theirs. - - - Tulsi Gabbard & the Trump Revolution (excerpts) Scott Ritter, Consortium News, Nov. 14, 2024 President-elect Donald Trump has sent shockwaves through the natio

[marxmail] Venezuela: 1000 days without a wage increase

A thousand days without a wage increase is a clear sign of Nicolas Maduro’s savage neoliberal adjustment Dec. 9, 2024 The Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV) recalled that this Tuesday, December 10, marks one thousand days since the last wage increase in Venezuela, “in a context of acute econom

[marxmail] Chris Hedges: Letter to Refaat Alareer

Letter to Refaat Alareer - The Chris Hedges Report A year ago on Dec. 6, 2023 Israel murdered Palestinian poet Refaat Alareer in Gaza. His poems, however, remain, condemning his killers and beseeching us to honor our shared humanity. Dear Refaat, We are not silent. We are being silenced. The

[marxmail] Israel Expands Invasion of Syria, Launching Massive Airstrikes After Assad's Fall

On Tue, Dec 10, 2024 at 1:05 PM Jeremy Scahill and Sharif Abdel Kouddous < dropsiten...@substack.com> wrote: > Israel’s message is clear: regardless of who governs Syria, Israel will > ensure it does not possess the basic military capacity to defend itself. > ͏   ­͏   ­͏   ­͏   ­͏   ­͏

Re: [marxmail] Israel Declares War on the Syrian Revolution!

Michael Probsting says: "It is a particular shame that the YPG – the self-proclaimed leadership of the Kurdish minority in Syria – has turned to Israel to build an alliance against the rebels. According to the Jerusalem Post – an English-language mainstream Israeli newspaper – “representatives

[marxmail] In Georgia Protests, Echoes of Ukraine’s Past Revolutions

This former Soviet Republic has been rocked by anti-government demonstrations over the same issues that hurtled Ukraine into war — its relationship with Europe and Russia. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/10/world/asia/georgia-protests-russia-ukraine.html -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links:

[marxmail] Direct Action

Most here are familiar with the Anarchist history of direct actions -- like that of Berkman -- and see them as a mistake that usually makes things worse, from roundups and deportations to world war. Yet, the murder of an insurance CEO has sparked sympathy and discussion awakening a powerful publ

Re: [marxmail] Israel uses Assad's demise for further colonialist land-grab in Syria

Quite amazing the way tankies can manage to see this massive attack on free Syria, to destroy all this military equipment that israel had no problem being in Assad's hands, before it gets to the rebels, and still manage to make tankie arguments. On the Israeli encroachment into the Syrian side of t

[marxmail] Hamas, as expected, welcomes Syrian revolution

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1866104005664948316.html?fbclid=IwY2xjawHFF6FleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHY51YCZa8h7KmRBjzjJwRFyZD1fqLcX8m1oK5orwjCnUqCqyhirARw2o9Q_aem_496XdaL5J_QefLRxjBKJTg Hamas’ first statement on Syria after the fall of Assad: “The Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas congratulates the

Re: [marxmail] Syria: The People Brought Down the Assad Tyranny!

Thanks, comrade, for your observations! The point about the Constitutional Assembly is very valid. I was thinking about it when I drafted the statement. But I was under time pressure as our mass demonstration/festival was approaching, so I wanted to wait and think more about it. Am 10.12.2024

[marxmail] Israel Declares War on the Syrian Revolution!

*Israel Declares War on the Syrian Revolution!* */We say: yesterday Idlib, today Damascus, tomorrow Jerusalem!/* /by Michael Pröbsting, RCIT, 10 December 2024/ Since the glorious Syrian Revolution succeeded in overthrowing the Assad tyranny, Israel has escalated its aggression. Israeli air for

[marxmail] The Syrian Democratic Forces’ stance towards HTS is not hard to predict (plus statements from Rojavan and Kurdish organisations)

Fréderike Geerdink looks at how the Syrian Democratic Forces might navigate the situation after Assad. Plus statements from Syrian Democratic Council, Democratic Union Party, Kurdish National Congress and Kurdistan Democratic Communities Union. Read at https://links.org.au/syrian-democratic-fo

[marxmail] The fall of Assad and the future of Syria: An interview with Joseph Daher

Israel Dutra interviews Swiss-Syrian activist and academic Joseph Daher about the situation in Syria after the fall of Bashar al-Assad and the desperate need to return to the original aspirations of the Syrian Revolution. Daher’s book, Syria after the Uprisings: The Political Economy of State Re