Re: [marxmail] War of redivision

Les & Anthony - To add: Today in Adam Tooze a reference from the FT (which I do not have access to): https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/decomposing-economic-surprise-when?utm_campaign=email-half-post&r=17xgfq&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email"; -> "Threats only work, if you actually have leverage

Re: [marxmail] War of redivision

regarding "Lebensraum" --- my question as to whether Nazi Germany and Italy's Mussolini HAD to opt for a war of conquest was essential Does the sentence "Imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism" mean that once the era of competitive capitalism is replaced by monopoly capitalism (which

[marxmail] Has Al-Aqsa Flood Reduced Zionism to Its Final Phase Awaiting Total Collapse?

Has Al-Aqsa Flood Reduced Zionism to Its Final Phase Awaiting Total Collapse? - Palestine Chronicle “Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir accused the Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu of ‘a complete surrender to Hamas’ , calling the Gaza ceasefire agreement a ‘surrender

[marxmail] At least 80 people killed in northeast Colombia as peace talks fail, official says

https://wapo.st/4awsRor The attack comes after Colombia suspended peace talks with the National Liberation Army, or ELN, on Friday, the second time it has done so in less than a year. Mark -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online

Re: [marxmail] Martin Luther King Day - 2025

On Sun, Jan 19, 2025 at 10:42 AM, Anthony Boynton wrote: > > Marxists must also defend any actions by the city administration to aid > immigrants. Defend any actions?  What if the city sues to require ICE to secure court warrants before raiding workplaces?  We defend that action, and then when

Re: [marxmail] Martin Luther King Day - 2025

The  https://www.communistvoice.org/SWV-250115.pdf leaflet is classic ML.  Like most of the left on this thread it makes no advocacy for independent working class action against the unfolding attacks from the bipartisan capitalist state.  No where in the leaflet or the thread is advocacy to mobi

Re: [marxmail] Martin Luther King Day - 2025

PSL doesn't organize any real sort of coalition or united front. The narrow swath of "allies" meets and calls the demonstration then...only then do they seek endorsements. The PSL is beyond useless IMO. It is a terrible organizing model. In the Bay Area several demonstrations are focused on *imm

Re: [marxmail] Martin Luther King Day - 2025

> On Jan 21, 2025, at 8:59 AM, David Walters via groups.io > wrote: > > PSL doesn't organize any real sort of coalition or united front... That is > NOT a diffuse or Democratic Party thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_March?utm_source=chatgpt.com PSL/Answer are a small part of

[marxmail] Biden’s Legacy: The World Is More Unsafe for Journalists

Biden's Legacy: The World Is More Unsafe For Journalists - PopularResistance.Org Biden's Legacy - The Dissenter President Joe Biden’s administration proclaimed numerous times that “journalism is not a crime” and that the United States government supports “free and independent media around the

Re: [marxmail] Martin Luther King Day - 2025

> On Jan 21, 2025, at 10:28 AM, Charles Rachlis via groups.io > wrote: > > The https://www.communistvoice.org/SWV-250115.pdf leaflet is classic ML. > Like most of the left on this thread it makes no advocacy for independent > working class action against the unfolding attacks from the bip

[marxmail] Biden’s legacy: genocide abroad, economic despair at home

Biden’s Legacy: Genocide Abroad, Economic Despair At Home - PopularResistance.Org Biden’s legacy: genocide abroad, economic despair at home >From rolling back the pandemic-era social safety net, to overseeing the >largest inflationary crisis in decades, Biden’s legacy was one of economic >despa

[marxmail] Trump takes office

"At the celebratory luncheon – more like a MAGA rally – after the inauguration, Elon Musk pranced and danced around on the stage and then gave the sieg heil Nazi salute not once but twice as he turned around and gave the same salute to the crowd behind him. Videos

Re: [marxmail] War of redivision

Yes, "lebensraum" - ahem, German for "Manifest Destiny ", was about uniting Europe,  including the Soviet territory under German rule so as to have the resources necessary to confront the continent scale US economy on a global level.  In my view the Nazi system absolutely required lebensraum,  b

Re: [marxmail] Martin Luther King Day - 2025

On 21 Jan 2025 at 18:28, Charles Rachlis via groups.io wrote: > > The https://www.communistvoice.org/SWV-250115.pdfleaflet is classic > ML. Like most of the left on this thread it makes no advocacy for > independent > working class action against the unfolding attacks from the > bipartisan capit

[marxmail] Leadership fight in SEIU 1199

(Not sure what this story portends. It appears to be a leadership conflict at the upper bureaucratic reaches of SEIU 1199. It is not clear- at least from this article – whether there is more to it than that. SR) Nation’s largest health care union embroiled in internal fight as Trump takes

[marxmail] Why Did the Palestinians Win the War?

*Why Did the Palestinians Win the War?* by Yossi Schwartz, ISL (RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine), 21.01.2025 https://the-isleague.com/why-did-the-palestinians-win-the-war/ /“Major General (res.) Eliezer (Cheney) Marom, former commander of the Navy, spoke today (Friday) with Ron Kof

Re: [marxmail] Martin Luther King Day - 2025

On Tue, Jan 21, 2025 at 02:44 PM, Mark Baugher wrote: > > Again, how do you organize against something that has not yet happened? > How do you know what issues to choose and what tactics to adopt? Easily- because, in fact, it's happened before--like separation of immigrant families, like imperi

Re: [marxmail] Martin Luther King Day - 2025

> On Jan 21, 2025, at 2:48 PM, sartesian via groups.io > wrote: > > Easily- because, in fact, it's happened before--like separation of immigrant > families, like imperial adventures in Panama, like attacks on public schools, > like attacks on public health, like scape-goating etc etc. Ther