Thanks for this, John. Much appreciated. Solidarity is key though hard to achieve.

Andrew, Yes the organizing wave is inspiring. But as you say, it is a tough call in terms of moving beyond individual union victories (elections only, however. The achievement of good contracts is

Are they sects or is all this just mudslinging? Most of the accusations of sectarianism I have observed could be applied to Marx, Lenin and Trotsky (indeed they were). Self styled Marxists often have

China Telecom declares dividend, confirming that "public" property is capitalist Three screen captures of China Telecom documents tell the story. From the left,

Fascism is like the malignant cells in our bodies. Sleeping now but always on the alert for an opening. If we read Victor Grossman's memoir on his life in the GDR, we see clearly that the fascists

https://mondoweiss.net/2022/08/israel-lobby-briefing-on-gaza-praises-pinpoint-attacks-and-leaves-out-17-dead-palestinian-children/

David Walters writes: "I think it's amazingly naive to write what you did. You act shocked that various Right-Sector and other Fascist-like groups are active in this. They are the groups that have

When I was 20 or 30, I thought I had all the answers. Perhaps that's typical for one who has just joined a small left-wing organization, or any small organization which believes it has the solution to

"Unions can play an important institutional role in that struggle by maintaining whatever countervailing power that they possess and can strengthen. Starbucks and Amazon are two major economic hubs of

Interview with Russian Trotskyist on the Ukraine War Interview with Comrade Tatishchenko (Russia), 18 August 2022

I think that this wikipedia article on the 2014 Odessa clashes provides a more reliable overall picture than David's memory: 2014 Odesa clashes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Odesa_clashes

From you first link: "It is, of course, possible that Ukrainian special forces may have been involved in some of these actions." That article does not mention Spetznaz. The Wikipedia article on

I asked a couple of people on this list about what's with all the ad-hominem attacks on Louis? Yes, he was a human being and practically all of what was written about him seems credible to me. But

It all depends upon how you comprehend our current political/economic landscape. Some more heterodox thinkers, like Michael Hudson, make the argument that finance capitalism is now in a mode of

As I new person to Marxmail, I have to say I always found Louis very principled --- he was also very nice to me (I am somewhat ignorant of a lot of the issues discussed having stayed away from

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