Trotsky wrote that politeness is the lubricant of daily life. This list is woven into some peoples' daily lives. Mark

I had some ideas about that some years back. Part of it was the notion that you can't trust many nuclear "experts"--even IMO brilliant ones like Kirk Sorenson--because they are all "entrepreneurs" and

I didn't catch the reference in the article to the Berdyansk group. I only noticed stuff about the Azovs, who are clearly not an actual partisan group. tThanks Michael for including this link!!

I think it's important to know more about the "partisans" because the Azovs, for example, appear to be (a small) part of the formal command structure of the Ukrainian forces, as special forces. I

Louis knew how I felt, he wasn't a good film reviewer. He aspired to be in his own words, like Siskel and Ebert. He thought of himself as a Marxist film reviewer but never did a Marxist analysis of

Alexander Motyl, noted by me, on a previous thread, with another piece which notes the Berdyansk Partisan Army . https://www.19fortyfive.com/2022/08/ukraine-is-waging-guerilla-warfare-hell-on-putin/

I have long been opposed to nuclear power because of the danger of catastrophic accidents, but when I was a teenager, I thought nuclear power was going to be the wave of the future for doing away with

The NYT, had a major article, on June 6th, entitled ,”Guerilla Attacks Signal Rising Resistance to Russian Occupation,” which had quotes from Ukrainian-American scholar, Alexander Motyl, and a

On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 12:56 PM, Jeffrey Masko wrote: And this post is from a "moderator," we can do better on marxmail. This is the second time Micheal has been attacked, the last time by Farans

Many of my posts have had to do with western marxism, which does not play well with this crowd. So be it. Other posts dealt with labor studies and those too fall flat. So be it. I've posted links by

<< Michael Yates 6:35am #18799 Been writing and agitating about working people, labor unions, labor political struggles, and work for a very long time. None of this seems ever to resonate here.

David Walters brought up battalions, brigades , units strong enough to have the political pull, and I would add, notoriety to have Western based reporters be embedded with them. An example,

Frederick, Thanks for a fine post. Yes, organize for what is a good question. I once worked for the United Farm Workers Union. Cesar Chavez and his mentors believed and I think it is true that people

I have always thought that the calculation of the rate of exploitation was REALLY EASY -- Take the wage bill (or "compensation of employees") and measured profits and voila! but then it became clear

Yes, despite every whitewashing the are (plenty of) Nazis in Ukraine and we (=the NATO countries) are providing them with weapons. Relieved to see that someone on this list is aware of this simple

I generally agree with what Michael says--although I have found this listserve useful on a couple of occasions when I asked about the determination of the rate of exploitation. I contacted Michael

Meanwhile when I attempt discussing a cease fire or even opening a dialog w Putin I’m the “apologist monster enabler” to the war loving (to the last Ukrainian that is) side.” And I once

The Ukrainian Fascist Azov use the slogan "Ukraine Above All" as well as the early Cossack version "Glory to Ukraine" This slogan evokes in me a familial memory from the late 19th c. pogroms in

"After a donation is collected, a Ukrainian soldier scrawls the requested message on the munition and takes a picture of it. The picture is then sent to the

When I read the article earlier, John, I just thought that the Ukrainian military has deployed special forces behind enemy lines to attack ammo depots, fuel depots, planes, weapons and other