[marxmail] The Moral Shame of US Foreign Policy

2024-12-17 Thread Charles Keener via groups.io
Opinion | The Moral Shame of US Foreign Policy | Common Dreams The Moral Shame of US Foreign Policy Neither major party candidate represented a challenge to U.S. complicity in Israel’s horrific war on the people and land of Gaza. “A new study has found that almost half of children in Gaza w

[marxmail] The collapse of the Assad regime: An interview on Syria with Gilbert Achcar

2024-12-17 Thread Chris Slee via groups.io
https://links.org.au/collapse-assad-regime-interview-syria-gilbert-achcar "Let me be clear. I fully share the joy of the tens of thousands of people who got freed from jail, from the chains of the Assad regime. It is a huge relief that this carceral regime has ended, that so many people are able

Re: [marxmail] ILTT statement on Syrian revolution

2024-12-17 Thread duen filan via groups.io
"Unfortunathrtely a large part of the left that supports the Syrian revolution is part of the "democratic" pro-imperialist left of the US/EU and supports them in the interimperialist war in Ukraine" The "Leninist Totskyist tendency" fails like Lenin's health in the 1920's. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Re: [marxmail] What contradictory forces are buidling the Feminist anti-Trump protests in the British state on the 18th January 2024 and why British Trotstyists should join and build then!

2024-12-17 Thread Tom Walker via groups.io
The new year will be 2025. Cheers, Tom Walker (Sandwichman) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#34108): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/34108 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/110162979/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NO

Re: [marxmail] Declaration: An Internationalist Position on the Fall of Assad and the Crisis in Syria

2024-12-17 Thread Mark Baugher
Hi Juan, > On Dec 16, 2024, at 7:40 AM, Juan Andres Gallardo via groups.io > wrote: > > https://www.leftvoice.org/declaration-an-internationalist-position-on-the-fall-of-assad-and-the-crisis-in-syria/ > > Faced with the intensification of the clash between powers and the escalation > of crise

[marxmail] The Democratic Party Faces Its Day of Reckoning

2024-12-17 Thread Charles Keener via groups.io
The Democratic Party Faces Its Day of Reckoning - CounterPunch.org Following its crushing defeat in the 2024 election, the Democratic Party might finally face its day of reckoning. The party markets itself as the champion of the working class and a bulwark against the party of the plutocrats. B

[marxmail] Critique of Michael Roberts: on China's Socialist Transition

2024-12-17 Thread Charles Rachlis via groups.io
Critique of Michael Roberts: on China’s Socialist Transition | China is now at the center of the world. The biggest economy in terms of industrial output, the largest manufacturer, and its population as measured by purchasing power parity, or PPP, (how much of the real wage does a McDonald’s

[marxmail] ILTT statement on Syrian Revoluion

2024-12-17 Thread Charles Rachlis via groups.io
The Victory of the Syrian Revolution over Assad and the Resurgence of the Arab Spring The Victory of the Syrian Revolution over Assad and the Resurgence of the Arab Spring - Communist Workers Group (CWG-USA) After 13 years, the Arab Spring is reawakening with the Syrian Revolution overthrowin

Re: [marxmail] Statement on the Developments in Syria (excerpts)

2024-12-17 Thread duen filan via groups.io
from Communist Party of Greece Dec 8 - "Beginning in 2011 the KKE has taken a consistent and firm position on the developments in Syria, exposing the dangerous changes that followed the so-called Arab spring to the detriment of the peoples. Today the same reactionary forces blah blah blah" -=-=-=

[marxmail] Mother Who Lost Son in “Kids for Cash” Slams Biden’s Clemency for Corrupt Judge

2024-12-17 Thread Charles Keener via groups.io
President Joe Biden’s decision to grant clemency to a corrupt former judge has sparked widespread outrage, including from members of his own party. Biden announced nearly 1,500 commutations and pardons last week in what the White House described as the largest single-day act of clemency from a p

[marxmail] The Public Anger at Corporate Health has Never Been Higher

2024-12-17 Thread Dennis Brasky via groups.io
“This is someone who has participated in social murder on a mass scale,” a medical student wrote in one typical post. “My patients died,” a n

[marxmail] 2024: Hottest year to date, and first year over 1.5ºC

2024-12-17 Thread Ian Angus via groups.io
The European Commission’s Copernicus Climate Change Service says 2024 is the hottest year to date, and the first year to exceed 1.5ºC 16 of the past 17 months exceeded the Paris Agreement target https://climateandcapitalism.com/2024/12/17/2024-hottest-year-to-date-and-first-year-over-1-5oc/ Ian

[marxmail] Many wealthy members of Congress are descendants of rich slaveholders

2024-12-17 Thread Dennis Brasky via groups.io
In a new study, we found that legislators who are descendants of slaveholders are significantly wealthier than members of Congress without slaveholder ancestry. https://theconversation.com/many-wealthy-members-of-congress-are-descendants-of-rich-slaveholders-new-study-demonstrates-the-enduring-leg

[marxmail] "Big Food" tries to look good

2024-12-17 Thread Dennis Brasky via groups.io
Most people do their food shopping solely at supermarkets or grocery stores where they find only those options that big food corporations allow them. Today the top five food retail companies account for about half of the market. https://bittmanproject.com/big-food-tries-to-look-good/ -=-=-=-=-=-

[marxmail] What contradictory forces are buidling the Feminist anti-Trump protests in the British state on the 18th January 2024 and why British Trotstyists should join and build then!

2024-12-17 Thread Anthony Brain via groups.io
https://anthonybrain733.wordpress.com/2024/12/17/why-trotskyists-despite-the-manourving-of-layers-of-pro-eu-ruling-class-layers-should-build-and-take-forward-the-anti-trump-feminist-protests-in-the-british-state-on-january-18th-2024-by-anthony-brai/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You re

Re: [marxmail] Are layers of the Anarchists moving towards Trotsky's transitional method despite having this author having the worse aspects of Anaracism!

2024-12-17 Thread John Reimann via groups.io
The idea that Trotsky wrote something called "The Transitional Program" is a myth made up by dogmatists. There is no such thing and can never be any such thing. What Trotsky did write was called "The Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth International". In it, he explained: "It is n