Re: [marxmail] Britains Rape Gangs Coming Under Scrutiny

2025-01-06 Thread duen filan via groups.io
Mark - "moderators must read everything" You missed this: "They are referred to as grooming gangs, but they don't deserve a euphemism. They are rape gangs." In fact, "grooming gangs" is a euphemism for (the P-word) and is used to demonize Muslim men and their communities. "Rape gangs" is reserve

Re: [marxmail] New Insights into China's Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution

2024-12-27 Thread duen filan via groups.io
"Our objective is to struggle against and crush those persons in authority who are taking the capitalist road" an early directive stated." - The Cultural Revolution: all you need to know about China's politiçal convulsion theguardian.com May 10, 2016 Qi Benyu was a party propagandist and Mao fav

Re: [marxmail] Trotskyism as the flip side of Stalinism

2024-12-28 Thread duen filan via groups.io
>From his good manners, I thought Kari was racialized. That is, not white. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#34307): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/34307 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/110224367/21656 -=-=- POS

Re: [marxmail] Communes (Venezuela): The Maduro government and the right-wing opposition are two sides of the same coin

2024-12-28 Thread duen filan via groups.io
The coin of Fred's new political current has the Communist Party of Venezuela with one seat in the national Assembly of 277 on one side. On the other - "Communes" a CP front. (The rooster can't change its spots.) The working class is guaranteed to lose flipping this counterfeit coin. -=-=-=-=

Re: [marxmail] new rules for radical resistance in the accelerated age of Trump

2025-02-07 Thread duen filan via groups.io
kristan uses Trump-speak promoting his fascist agenda - "deporting criminals... drugging and mutilation of children". l would say more but I'm already on moderation. // 'First they came': Migrants, trans people first targets of Trump's fascist rule, struggle-la-lucha.org Socialist Unity

Re: [marxmail] Pakistan's rush to rooftop solar brings dreams and nightmares

2025-02-10 Thread duen filan via groups.io
David persists in fighting a losing battle, flogging his radioactive dead horse, "Pirani revolves his POV around the need to build out solar and wind. Mine is to build out nuclear" gienergy.com.au Solar Power VS Nuclear Power - Which is better? "While nuclear power produces a lot of energy and i

Re: [marxmail] Latin America under attack by Yankee Imperialism

2025-02-10 Thread duen filan via groups.io
> Prensa Latina Feb 4th > The Communist Labor Party (PCT) of the Dominican Republic today condemned > the illegal confiscation, by the United States, of an aircraft that was in > this country and owed by the Venezuelan Government. > > "We are facing a violation of the Dominican Constitution which

Re: [marxmail] Martial law?

2025-02-05 Thread duen filan via groups.io
"without a militant labor force to prevent [marshall law] through a general strike, there is no stopping it" Don't forget our reserve army of "identity politics" allies. Bourgeois feminist Claudia Sheinbaum just moved 10,OOO of her national guard to the country's northern border, and for the even

Re: [marxmail] Latin America Under Attack by Yankee Imperialism

2025-02-06 Thread duen filan via groups.io
RCIT - "Governments, like Claudia Sheinbaum's in Mexico, are enemies of their own people." Claudia responds to the trash-talking, so-called 4th International RCIT and their CCR Mexican megaphone, in a speech to her supporters on Constitution Day, Feb 5th - "In these times in which threats to ou

Re: [marxmail] Democratic Party Collusion, Race Baiting and Death by Austerity

2025-02-11 Thread duen filan via groups.io
"USAID provides needed aid to people in crisis but it is also a tool of soft power for the state. The USAID has done just that in eastern Europe color revolutions and for the ultimately successful effort for regime change in Syria" As expected, after reading this campist  piece by Margaret Kimbe

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] 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" -=-=-=

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

2024-12-19 Thread duen filan via groups.io
David - "There really is no difference between Marxism-Leninism of the Trotskyist type and the "Stalinist" type" The common denominator - They are all led by MEN with a reactionary attitude towords the feminist revolution, that they distainfully call "identity politics". Fuck'm. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

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

2024-12-20 Thread duen filan via groups.io
Juan - "Trotskyist Fraction Fourth International... No weapons shipments to Ukraine. For an independent socialist Ukraine." These are contradictory slogans. Without the weapons Ukraine is getting from NATO, the Ukrainian people will lose the war and their independence. Slava Ukraini! -=-=-=-=-=

Re: [marxmail] Theses on the War on Drugs in Mexico and the Tasks of Revolutionaries

2024-12-22 Thread duen filan via groups.io
"Coming into Los Angeles, Bringing in a couple of k's. Don't touch my bag if you please Mister customs man" Arlo Guthrey's anti-drug-war anthem has been sung since the 60's. In Canada, where we won the culture war, I can now buy weed at the mall, at the unionized, govt cannabis store! It is a saf

Re: [marxmail] Theses on The War on Drugs in Mexico and the Tasks of Revolutionaries

2024-12-22 Thread duen filan via groups.io
Mexican self-defence groups are called "vigilantes". Balance sheet on self-defense action - "Tapachilla queda desolado por miedo y revanche" Tapachilla is now a ghost town because the villagers fear the extortionists coming back for revenge. nytimes.com Dec 9, 2023 "A clash between gunmen and m

Re: [marxmail] FWD from Doug Greene - The Inquisition with Footnotes

2025-01-11 Thread duen filan via groups.io
Mark - "the Bolshevik leadership also supported the violent suppression of the Kronstadt rebellion" marxist.org Leon Trotsky, Hue and Cry Over Kronstadt (1938) "How can the Kronstadt rebellion cause such heartburn to anarchists, Mensheviks, and "liberal" counter-revolutionists all at the same t

Re: [marxmail] FWD from Doug Greene - The Inquisition with Footnotes

2025-01-11 Thread duen filan via groups.io
Mark - "The revolution ultimately failed. And the important question for this list is why." goodreads.com The Revolution Betrayed by Leon Trotsky "One of Marxism's most important texts, The Revolution Betrayed explores the fate of the Russian Revolution after Lenin's death." Trotsky - "Communis

Re: [marxmail] FWD from Doug Greene - The Inquisition with footnotes

2025-01-11 Thread duen filan via groups.io
The mutiny had à long list of demands it wanted to negotiate. How long might that have taken? On March 16, 10,000 red guards died. Their blood turned the ice covered bay red. Kronstadt, a fortified island in the middle of the bay, protected Petrograd from invasion by sea. If the defenders of Pe

Re: [marxmail] FWD from Doug Greene - The Inquisition with Footnotes

2025-01-11 Thread duen filan via groups.io
"acting on direct instructions from L Trotsky, received by the united centre through special agents" The special agents, Boris Badenov and Natasha Fatale, also conspired (unsuccessfully) to blow up Moose and Squirrel. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to th

[marxmail] Maria Zaytsava, presente

2025-01-19 Thread duen filan via groups.io
kyivindependent.com January 18, 2025 "Maria Zaytsava, a 24-year-old Belarusian volunteer soldier fighting for Ukraine, was killed in action near the town of Bakhmut in Donetsk Oblast on January 17, Nasha Neva reported. Zaytsava joined the Ukrainian army after the start of Russia's full scale war

Re: [marxmail] Martin Luther King Day - 2025

2025-01-22 Thread duen filan via groups.io
Anthony - "The kinds of protests that are needed now in the U S are protests to defend immigrants and immigrant rights." Kent Paterson - "If Trump proceeds with his threats... expect Mexicans to rally around their first woman president." The internation left should do the same, and lead the way w

Re: [marxmail] Newark mayor: ICE raided business without a warrant, detained U S citizens

2025-01-24 Thread duen filan via groups.io
"Nationally, ICE reported 372 detainers on Thursday" Today, Mexican media at the border asked just deported Mexicans what their plans were. Some we're heading home. Others had plans to reenter "irregular", to wade back again. Both Clinton and Obama deported about 800 thousand people per year

Re: [marxmail] McCarthyism is alive and well with the "Nonprofit Killer" Bill

2025-01-18 Thread duen filan via groups.io
deseret.com January 2, 2025 "President-elect Donald Trump promised to designate Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations "immediately" upon entering office on January 20 ... granting the Secretary of Treasury authority to freeze the cartels' assets." Applying the "terrorist" label

Re: [marxmail] McCarthyism is alive and well with the "Nonprofit Killer" Bill

2025-01-18 Thread duen filan via groups.io
deseret.com January 2, 2025 "President-elect Donald Trump promised to designate Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations "immediately" upon entering office on January 20"... granting the Secretary of Treasury authority to freeze the cartels' assets." Bean counters south of the bord

Re: [marxmail] Newark mayor: ICE raided business without a warrant, detained U. S. citizens

2025-01-28 Thread duen filan via groups.io
aljazeera.com 27 Jan, 2025 "Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum has announced that her country has received an estimated 4,094 people deported from the United States in the week since Donald Trump took office there." Six hundred people per day. Not much of a "crackdown". During his first term Tru

Re: [marxmail] Newark mayor: Ice raided business without a warrant, detained U.S. citizens

2025-01-29 Thread duen filan via groups.io
January 25, 2025 (Reuters) "Mexico has refused a request from President Donald Trump's administration to allow a U.S. military aircraft deporting migrants to land in the country... Mexico's Foreign Ministry did not give a reason for denial of permission to land... Trump's administration earlier t

Re: [marxmail] Video essay: A Marxian analysis of the Ukrainian war

2025-01-13 Thread duen filan via groups.io
Mark to Marv- "You're mansplaining" Strictly speaking, because the conversation is between two men, Marv isn't mansplaining. To mansplain one needs a know-it-all man to monopolize the conversation and bore the shit out of all the women in the room (Who, me?) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io L

[marxmail] Claudia Sheinbaum's first hundred days

2025-01-14 Thread duen filan via groups.io
At a rally on Sunday of 350 thousand exuberant supporters, Claudia spoke about the Mexican workers in the US Trump has threatened to deport, who will rebuild California when the fires are out. "Our migrant brothers and sisters in the US do not forget their families and homeland, and therefore we

Re: [marxmail] The Fall of Assad is a Victory for the Syrian People and the Oppressed of the World

2025-01-02 Thread duen filan via groups.io
RCIT - "In order to withstand al-Jolani's attempts to hyjack the revolution, the masses have to build their own independent organizations" // The Role of Religion in the Arab Spring, Mohammad Zaman, e-ir.info, Dec 16, 2011 "There needs to be a greater understanding in international relati

Re: [marxmail] Britain's Rape Gangs Coming Under Scrutiny

2025-01-04 Thread duen filan via groups.io
"Please try to stay on topic - kirstin" Is this your topic? - "Bourgois identity politics is at an end" 2/09/22 "Understanding the class nature of identity politics is important. No one is saying that working class homosexuals or trans should wait for anything... The problem is the divisions tha

Re: [marxmail] Britains rape gangs coming under scrutiny

2025-01-03 Thread duen filan via groups.io
Does Kristin approve the article's message? - "An outspoken feminist, it appears that [town councilor] Philip's advocacy for women doesn't extend as far as the white working class girls who were raped, tortured and trafficked by Oldham's Pakistani grooming gangs...It is one of more than fifty

Re: [marxmail] British Rape Gangs Coming Under Scrutiny

2025-01-05 Thread duen filan via groups.io
Mark - "what is sectarian about it" thevillagesun.com 1/25/23 Comic-book artist Seth Tobocman and political journalist Bill Weinberg recently teamed up to produce an informative comic strip simply titled, "Why did Russia Invade Ukraine? Debunking Russia's War Propaganda." kristin 1/26/23 - "Anar

Re: [marxmail] Big thanx to Les Schaffer and Comrade Moderators

2024-12-24 Thread duen filan via groups.io
hari - ,"Any practical suggestions to offer to rectify what is happening?" / The problem isn't bad behavior on this list. The only solution - revolution. /// Combating Cyber Violence Against Women and Girls, European Institute for Gender Equality "The digital arena has become a bree

Re: [marxmail] Can Trump institute fascism?

2024-12-24 Thread duen filan via groups.io
charlie - "This political style is common among a swath of Trotskyists." What can we glean from that? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#34258): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/34258 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt

Re: [marxmail] Claudia Sheinbaum's first hundred days

2025-01-15 Thread duen filan via groups.io
throng- 100 to 249 "The PRI kept a monopolistic grip on power for an uninterrupted seven decades" Seven decades of being hollowed out - Charlie must think that Mexicans are incredibly naive. The throngers were probably waiting to get paid for the votes they bought -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- G

Re: [marxmail] Claudia Sheinbaum's first hundred days

2025-01-15 Thread duen filan via groups.io
Charlie - "The exuberant hosannas at the beginning of each election cycle soon turn hollow" theguardian.com 8 July 2012 "Tens of thousands of protesters marched in Mexico City on Saturday to protest against Enrique Peña Nieto's apparent win in the country's presidential election accusing his party

Re: [marxmail] Zeteo

2025-01-08 Thread duen filan via groups.io
Mehdi Hasan @zeteo.com "The Muslims killed and attacked over the far-right grooming gang narrative, from middleeasteye.net" 1. On 15, March 2019, white supremacist Brenton Tarrants killed 51 Muslim worshippers at two mosques in the city of Christchurch in New Zealand. He had the words "For Rot

Re: [marxmail] Britains Rape Gangs Coming Under Scrutiny

2025-01-08 Thread duen filan via groups.io
bbc.com 4 September 2024 "Pakistani women are not reporting incidences of domestic abuse for fear of family disownment and community isolation. A special domestic violence unit at Green Lane Mosque in Birmingham said there was a "hidden pandemic" of violence that official figures did not reflect.

Re: [marxmail] FWD from Doug Greene - The Inquisition With Footnotes

2025-01-10 Thread duen filan via groups.io
currentaffairs.org 22 March 2023, Stalin Will Never Be Redeemable, Alex Scopic "Because Trotsky had been the original architect of the Red Army, Stalin always viewed it's officer corps with deep suspicion and carried out extensive purges in the years 1937-38 just as he had withinin the Bolshevic

Re: [marxmail] Venezuela: We demand freedom for and an end to the harassment of Popular Democratic Front members

2025-01-09 Thread duen filan via groups.io
After Gonzàlez, Our Turn Fred - "Are you not concerned with what a far right government could mean for left wing militants?" // kget.com January 8, 2025 "Days. before Venezuela's presidential inauguration, self-exiled Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo Gonzàlez was in Panama Wednesda

Re: [marxmail] Pakistan's rush to rooftop solar brings dreams and nightmares

2025-02-13 Thread duen filan via groups.io
Fukushima, Chernobyl, Three Mile Island? Never happened. "Nuclear is unlikely to make a relevant contribution to necessary climate change mitigation needed by the 2030's due to nuclear's impracticably lengthy development and construction timelines, and the overwhelming construction costs of the v

Re: [marxmail] Pakistan"s rush for rooftop solar brings dreams and nightmares"

2025-02-08 Thread duen filan via groups.io
"by mid 2024, sales prices were, at less than 13 euro cents per watt, half the level of 2022" This doesn't make sense. Where I live the residential rate is 10 Canadian cents per kilowatt hour. One Canadian cent, if you can still find one - the cash registers started rounding off to the nearest ni

Re: [marxmail] New rules for radical resistance in the accelerated age of Trump

2025-02-09 Thread duen filan via groups.io
Bobby - "we finally get a woman posting..." Andie posted yesterday and alleges she is a woman - a trans woman (AMAB). -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#35120): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/35120 Mute This Topic: htt

Re: [marxmail] Pakistan's rush to rooftop solar brings dreams and nightmares

2025-02-15 Thread duen filan via groups.io
"most solar in the northern hemisphere is only .18 or 1/5th the rated power." David believes that solar isn't feasible at northern latitudes when in fact it is already happening. Here are a couple more internet "bites" to enlighten him: communitygreenmap.ca May 22, 2024 "The T'Sou-ke Nation on

Re: [marxmail] Pakistan's rush for rooftop solar brings dreams and nightmares

2025-02-15 Thread duen filan via groups.io
We don't need nuclear power so can err on the side of caution. Leave the uranium in the ground. cdnuk.org The link between nuclear power and nuclear weapons "Plutonium is a byproduct of the nuclear fuel cycle. The first nuclear power stations were built primarily to provide this fissile material

Re: [marxmail] Notes on the present conjuncture in Europe (thinking out loud)

2025-03-02 Thread duen filan via groups.io
Sart - "Whatever happened to the Zimmerwald left?" We're right here, don't you know? Sart again - "The conflict between Ukraine and Russia is no more a struggle for the right of self-determination than the opposition to German occupation of Belgium or Netherlands or France was one for self-determ

Re: [marxmail] Notes on the present conjunture in Europe (thinking out loud)

2025-02-27 Thread duen filan via groups.io
"not a penny for imperialist war" pazifistischer unsinn -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#35532): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/35532 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/111427717/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #

Re: [marxmail] Notes on the present conjuncture in Europe (thinking out loud)

2025-03-01 Thread duen filan via groups.io
mark - "[My "single thoughtless line"] illustrates the trolling tradition of marxmail" It doesn't take me 5000 words to say what I think about George's pendejadas, "While Ukraine has every right to confront militarily the invasion it is incumbent on socialists in the imperialist countries to insi

[marxmail] coke or pepsi?

2025-02-14 Thread duen filan via groups.io
timesnownews.com Feb 12, 2025 "Coca-cola came under fire from social media users after an allegation went viral that the company is cooperating with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and calling the ICE agents on workers at their plants, with a grassroots movement already calling for boycotts a

Re: [marxmail] This pope has history with authoritarian dictatorships - and opposes them

2025-02-20 Thread duen filan via groups.io
" practically every organization in the US that cares for children has been shown to have a child molestation problem" Boy Scouts of America doesn't have a seminary for it's future leaders that puts an equal sign between consensual gay sex and the abuse of alter boys. For Pope Francisco they ar

Re: [marxmail] 'Maduro has done tremendous damage to the left': An interview with Atenea Jimenez ( Alliance for Sovereignty and Democracy, Venezuela)

2025-02-23 Thread duen filan via groups.io
charlie - "She does not mention the Communist Party of Venezuela at all" Apparently, Atenea's organization and Charlie's Popular Democratic Front aren't working together to defeat Maduro. Which group do you support, Fred? Atenea's or the CP front that has also discredited the left for the masses?

Re: [marxmail] Latin America under attack by Yankee imperialism

2025-02-24 Thread duen filan via groups.io
Trump deported 37,660 people during his first month in office, far less than the monthly average of 57,000 removals in the last year of Biden's administration. elpasotimes.com Feb 24, 2025 "Welcome to Guatemala. The deportation flights arrive at the reception center, which was built with money fro

Re: [marxmail] Pakistan's rush to rooftop solar brings dreams and nightmares

2025-02-20 Thread duen filan via groups.io
"In the years before it's first nuclear test in May 1974, India's top nuclear officials posed a significant challenge to U.S. nonproliferation policy when they insisted that they could freely use plutonium produced in their nuclear reactors for a peaceful nuclear explosion (pne). For Washington, t

Re: [marxmail] the reality of Ukraine

2025-02-25 Thread duen filan via groups.io
hi Mike In your pamphlet "Putin's Poodles (my apologies to all dogs)" dated two weeks before Putin's (second) invasion of Ukraine, did your apologies include running dogs? Back then you wrote, "Socialists have to oppose both sides in this conflict.. their proxies in Ukraine" Do you still believe

Re: [marxmail] The continuing US corporate domination of the global economy

2025-02-26 Thread duen filan via groups.io
The chart in Ben Seattle's post asks the question "Is Taiwan like Ukraine?" I'll bite - No, Ukraine is a sovereign nation, while Taiwan is one of China's islands that has enjoyed the protection of America's war ships over the past eighty years. When Taiwan finally goes down, all of Asia will ch

Re: [marxmail] The continuing US corporate domination of the global economy

2025-02-26 Thread duen filan via groups.io
marxism.com The Spark (RCI Taiwan) 05 August 2022 [by Ted Grant's apostles] The Taiwan National Question and the Tasks of the Taiwanese Marxists "... As Marxist we refuse to take sides in what, from the point of view of workers and the poor, is a false dichotomy; a choice between two reactiona