Re: [marxmail] "in cold blood": Russian troops surrendering Ukrainian soldiers

This is a perfect example of how Putin propaganda works, in this case with the ever-slimy Amy Goodman of "Democracy (Hypocrisy) Now": This is an interview with somebody from Human Rights Watch (HRW). They have just documented advancing Russian troops summarily executing Ukrainian soldiers trying to

[marxmail] Genocide Trial in Guatemala Brings Memories of Israel’s Role in the Killings

Along with the United States, Israel provided weapons and training to Guatemala’s military and their campaign against Indigenous Maya civilians from 1974-1996. https://progressive.org/latest/genocide-trial-in-guatemala-brings-memories-of-israels-role-in-the-killings-mcconahay-20240507/ -=-=-=-=-

Re: [marxmail] The US ban on Chinese EV's

Unlike Noah Smith, we don't support unregulated trade, right? US autoworkers don't want to see the collapse of the domestic car industry and neither do we. It's a presidential election year and the President has saved these actions for the election year, just like the prosecution of Donald T

Re: [marxmail] The US ban on Chinese EV's

> On May 16, 2024, at 11:08 PM, Vladimiro Giacche' via groups.io > wrote: > > Next step: imposing tariffs on Apple products manufactured/assembled in China > (or in India). Do you think the US government would place a tariff on Apple products during a presidential election year? Or ever?

Re: [marxmail] The US ban on Chinese EV's

“Nothing could more clearly reveal the utter irrationality of the capitalist system”, writes Nick Beams, "than the fact that the production of cheaper goods in greater quantities, thereby increasing material wealth and advancing measures to deal with climate change, is a danger.” Well, but Chin

Re: [marxmail] The US ban on Chinese EV's

On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 07:07 AM, Mark Baugher wrote: > > Do you think the US government would place a tariff on Apple products > during a presidential election year? Or ever? No.  But there are no Chinese EV's in the US.   If there were, and they were in demand as they would be because of thei

Re: [marxmail] The US ban on Chinese EV's

Not at all. It was an ironic remark. in order to stress that this would be the logical consequence in terms of any protectionist policy not only aimed at protecting US CAPITALISTS (not workers). And not, I’m not in favor of “unregulated trade”. I simply think that 25% tariffs aren’t “unregula

Re: [marxmail] The US ban on Chinese EV's

On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 07:29 AM, Walter Daum wrote: > > Well, but China’s cheaper goods are a product not just of better > organization or technology but of considerably cheaper labor. The most > advanced production is a threat not only to rival capitalists but to the > working class. Western ca

Re: [marxmail] "in cold blood": Russian troops surrendering Ukrainian soldiers

“the Putin shill she is undercover”Is your post the evidence for this statement?On May 17, 2024, at 6:42 AM, John Reimann via groups.io <1999wildcat=gmail@groups.io> wrote:This is a perfect example of how Putin propaganda works, in this case with the ever-slimy Amy Goodman of "Democracy (Hypoc

Re: [marxmail] The US ban on Chinese EV's

Marv says, "there are no Chinese EV's in the US." Reuters, April 24: "A made-in-China electric vehicle will hit U.S. dealers this summer offering power and efficiency similar to the Tesla Model Y, the world's best-selling EV, but for about $8,000 less." https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-tra

Re: [marxmail] [The Washington Post] Time is up for neoliberals

On Thu, May 16, 2024 at 11:06 PM, hari kumar cited: > > "This research was focused mainly on the development of capitalism. It > proposes more specifically an interpretation of the long waves in economic > activity, awarding an essential role to the institutional changes that > have punctuated th

[marxmail] Forum on Movement in Solidarity with Palestine

Hi everyone: The Moderators Group is organizing an online forum on the movement in solidarity with Palestine. If you can help, please let us know. Our target date is July 1. The idea is to have a panel of three or four speakers. We are looking into speakers from Students for Justice in Palestin

[marxmail] Can Jews be Nazis?

No more and apparently no less than any other community, Jews today are prey to fascist and Nazi ideation, despite their own catastrophic experience with it. That makes the heroism of Jewish protestors – students and faculty alike – at UC

Re: [marxmail] Can Jews be Nazis?

Fascinating essay, although it isn’t difficult to see the contemporary parallels in Israel and the US, and not surprising that fascist ideology also attracted German nationalists of Jewish origin in the 30’s. More young bourgeois German Jews would have joined the Nazis but for the race laws. The

Re: [marxmail] Can Jews be Nazis?

[I didn't read the essay]. There were thousands of Jewish folks who joined various Fascist group. None really joined the Nazis as that was anti-Jewish, but much of indigenous Fascism was simply not anti-Semitic. Most notably the Italian Fascist Party. Eventually, under pressure from Hitler, they

[marxmail] Symbolic: Germany Quietly Deports Ukrainian Troops Over Use of Nazi Insignia

DDM �– When does the RadLib populism come an end in defence of a bourgeois notion of sovereignty as private property, in spite of Civil Society. � � � Symbolic: Germany Quietly Deports Ukrainian Troops Over Use of Nazi Insignia A Ukrainian armed forces soldier is pictured during a visit o

[marxmail] Alabama Mercedes Workers Lose First Union Election

by Luis Feliz Leon, Jane Slaughter, Labor Notes, May 17 https://labornotes.org/2024/05/alabama-mercedes-workers-lose-first-union-election A no-holds-barred campaign by Mercedes management convinced a majority of workers at its Alabama factory complex to vote against forming a union. In addition t

[marxmail] Amira Hass with Amy Goodman

AMY GOODMAN: Israel is intensifying its bombardment of the Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza, destroying dozens of residential buildings in heavy airstrikes overnight and pushing residents to flee to other parts of the city. This comes as Israel is vowing to escalate its ground attack in t

Re: [marxmail] [The Washington Post] Time is up for neoliberals

> On May 16, 2024, at 12:33 PM, Michael Meeropol via groups.io > wrote: > > I have always been skeptical about long wave theory --- the one piece I > remember reading by Kondratieff himself used PRICE WAVES as indicators of > long waves --- and both he and Schumpeter seemed to think "long w

Re: [marxmail] Alabama Mercedes Workers Lose First Union Election

'We'll Be Back,' Says UAW Chief Shawn Fain After 'Tough Loss' in Alabama Organizers are expected to continue their effort, drawing inspiration from a recent success in Tennessee that followed two defeats. by Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams, May 17 https://www.commondreams.org/news/uaw-alabama On F

[marxmail] May 17th 1954 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas/ Biopic TCM 8PM EDT

Sidney Poitier in "Sepatrate But Equal" bio pic of Thurgood Marshall who argued the case before the Supreme Court. Marshall was later nam

Re: [marxmail] Amira Hass with Amy Goodman

“Resist the Normalization of Evil”: Israeli Reporter Amira Hass on Palestine & the Role of Journalism DemocracyNow!, May 17, 2024 https://www.democracynow.org/2024/5/17/amira_hass_israel_palestine_gaza Our guest is the Haaretz correspondent Amira Hass, the only Israeli Jewish journalist to have sp

[marxmail] Norman Filnklestein moves to a certain extent despite other problems with his politics to the mass action perspective of the pre-Jack Barnes American SWP politics!

https://anthonybrain733.wordpress.com/2024/05/18/what-the-debate-in-the-guardian-between-norman-finkelstein-on-mass-action-versus-outraged-liberalism-ultra-leftism-on-the-gaza-protests-within-the-guardian-represents-by-anthony-brain/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messag

[marxmail] University of California academic workers to start rolling strike Monday, angered over treatment of pro-Palestinian protesters

(Full text below as this article may end up behind a pay wall. URL at the end. SR) UC Santa Cruz academic workers to strike Monday, angered over treatment of pro-Palestinian protesters By Jaweed Kaleem, Staff Writer/Los Angeles Times/May 17, 2024 The union representing 48,000 academi

[marxmail] Arab League Calls for “UN Peacekeepers” in West Bank and Gaza: A Dangerous Trap!

*Arab League Calls for “UN Peacekeepers” in West Bank and Gaza: A Dangerous Trap!* /Statement of the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT), jointly issued by the Internationalist Socialist League (RCIT Section in Israel/Occupied Palestine) and the International Bureau of the RC