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Re: Ukraine Socialist Solidarity Campaign meetings on Ukraine & Russia
Mark Baugher
On Wed, Sep 14, 2022 at 03:28 PM, John Reimann wrote:
Register here for both meetings:The registration link doesn't seem to work. https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/19427 is the target of the link. I don't know how that happened since you didn't know your email would become marxmail message 19427 when you sent it. Mark
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Ukraine Socialist Solidarity Campaign meetings on Ukraine & Russia
John Reimann
Ukraine Socialist Solidarity Campaign Meetings
Sunday, September 25: What is happening inside Ukraine? The stunning success of Ukraine’s military counter-offensive in Ukraine’s north east has taken many by surprise and has received widespread comment. Much of the news focuses on Ukraine’s president, Zelensky. Yet like every other country in the world, the class struggle continues in Ukraine. What was the situation of the class struggle before Russia’s imperialist invasion and how has that invasion affected the struggle? What was the situation in the newly liberated areas of Ukraine and how has it changed? What effect has the recent counteroffensive had on the mood within Ukraine? What are the political perspectives for Ukraine? What are the perspectives for the left in Ukraine?
9:00 a.m. Pacific Coast time; 12:00 p.m. East Coast time (check time difference in other areas) See below for registration for meeting
Sunday, October 2 What is happening inside Russia? The recent counteroffensive of Ukrainian troops and the fleeing of their Russian counterparts in the north east of the country has brought increased criticism of Putin within Russia. That leads to the question of the stability of the Putin regime.
Hear Ilya Budraitskis speak on these and related questions. Ilya Budraitskis is a left oppositionist to Putin who is currently living in exile outside of Russia. He is a political writer.
Register here for both meetings:
“Science and socialism go hand-in-hand.” Felicity Dowling Check out:https:http://oaklandsocialist.com also on Facebook
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Re: Russian officials publicly call for Putin to resign
Ken Hiebert
I accept David Walters point that whoever replaces Putin could decide to mobilize broader Russian forces to pursue the war more vigorously.
But I also think that in that moment of change there may be an opportunity for the anti-war movement to come back on to the streets. Anthony Boynton said we cannot influence events in Russia. In large part he is correct, but I think we are not entirely shut out. Our (admittedly) small forces are in touch with left forces in Russia (also very small.) We can at least broadcast what they are doing and saying and we can publicize their names when they face imprisonment and violence. ken h
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Russia: Zyuganov Calls for “General Mobilisation” to defeat the Ukraine
RKOB
Russia: Zyuganov Calls for “General Mobilisation” to defeat the Ukraine The “communist” KPRF leader joins the long-standing demand of the hard-core sector of the Great Russian chauvinist camp a la Igor Strelkov By Michael Pröbsting, RCIT, 13 September 2022
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Re: In Moscow’s Local Elections, Socialists Are Fighting to Make Their Opposition Heard
David Walters
I believe this tendency is *for* a Russian victory in Ukraine, which might account for the public activities, I don't know for sure. Obviously this tendency doesn't call Putin's regime a "brutal Fascist dictatorship"...at least not insofar is currents that defend Putin's actions.
David
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Re: The Russian Left Is Standing Against Putin’s War on Ukraine
John Edmundson
Mind you, Kagarlitsky having been "a critical supporter of Putinism" does call into question his judgement. I used to read Kagarlitsky occasionally but how a self proclaimed leftist in Russia could have been so soft or Putin boggles my mind. Comradely John
On Mon, 12 Sep 2022, 11:41 , <anthonyboynton@...> wrote: There is a lot of evidence for the sabotage going on in Russia, a lot of evidence for the antiwar movement, and the repression of it, and a lot of evidence for the Russian feminist resistance that the Jacobin author did not need to cite. Thomas Campbell may have once been related to the anti-Putin left, but he seems to have been absent from it for a long time. Michael Yates cheers him on for no obvious reason other than his hopes that Kononov is wrong. I suggest they both start their study of the current situation by listening to Kagarlitsky, a man who was a critical supporter of Putinism. https://www.patreon.com/posts/boris-on-and-in-71751790?utm_medium=post_notification_email&utm_source=post_link&utm_campaign=patron_engagement&token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWRpc19rZXkiOiJpYTo1NjIzYjM2NS1mZDMyLTQwMmItYjE2MC00NTA5ODZlOTEwNzEiLCJwb3N0X2lkIjo3MTc1MTc5MCwicGF0cm9uX2lkIjo2OTk1NjQ4N30.1JWt9q0WNR5qfpjvZ_IHp3ADbEC4HdMT61YfmsQDDgM
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Re: NYT: Status report on China's capitalist class
Mark Baugher
Thanks, but there's a paywall preventing access to the article.
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On Sep 13, 2022, at 10:27 AM, Charlie <charles1848@...> wrote:
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Re: Extraordinary discussion on Russian television
Michael Pugliese
Vladimir Solovyov, host of the show noted below, is alluding to https://twitter.com/rwapodcast/status/1569384313078022144?s=46&t=SixC65IopxSn_xin_KctlQ , with his allusion to ,”Southern drawls.” As noted by many on Twitter, these forces are likely in the International Legion Defense of Ukraine, seen here in action, https://twitter.com/militarynws/status/1568667361762476032?s=46&t=SixC65IopxSn_xin_KctlQ , and not, as conjectured by others, including alternative journalists, “…Bogdan Bezpalko, member of the Council for Interethnic Relations under the President of the Russian Federation, was even more outspoken. “For two months, Ukrainian Armed Forces and military equipment have been massing in that area, all Telegram channels have been writing about it. Where was our damn reconnaissance? All of their heads should be laying on Putin’s desk, hacked off at the base... Of course, this is a tactical defeat. I hope it will be very sobering.” On Monday’s broadcast of The Evening With Vladimir Solovyov, filmmaker Karen Shakhnazarov likewise dispensed a large dose of brutal honesty. “I urge everyone not to panic in the face of a defeat we’ve suffered in the Kharkiv region, and we have to acknowledge it,” he said. “A defeat has some meaning when you acknowledge it and draw new conclusions. And if you don’t acknowledge it, all you get is another defeat, perhaps even more devastating. This is a very difficult situation and we have to recognize that we’re battling a very powerful adversary.” Shakhnazarov, whose public calls to cease the hostilities made waves shortly after Russia initially invaded Ukraine, regressed to a diametrically opposite position. With the conviction of a fatalist, he asserted: “No one can stop this war, because it was historically necessary... Neither Vladimir Vladimirovich [Putin], nor Zelensky and not the West can end this war. This war can end only with the defeat of one of the sides. For us, this defeat may prove fatal. We should understand that it might lead to the disintegration of the country.” Political scientist Sergey Mikheyev described recent developments in Kharkhiv as “a serious failure,” on the part of Russia. “Call it 'regrouping' or whatever else... This is our most serious defeat during the last six months, and the most significant success of our adversary... Perhaps this failure is beneficial, because being so obvious, now it’s impossible to pull the wool over our eyes, pretending that everything is wonderful,” he said. Mikheyev argued that failures would likely prompt “serious people” to make some “radical decisions,” like striking Ukraine’s civilian infrastructure—a move that is often praised on Russian state TV, with propagandists promotingthe idea of causing a total blackout that would deprive all of Ukraine of roads, bridges, electricity and running water. State TV pundits concur that such measures are necessary because Russia’s Armed Forces can’t keep up with the goals set by Russian President Vladimir Putin. Shakhnazarov noted: “All of us are aware of the problems experienced by our Armed Forces. In my opinion, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation were obviously unprepared for the magnitude of this war. Ukraine’s Armed Forces were prepared, they’ve been training and getting ready for eight years.” Solovyov was unwilling to concede Russia’s defeat to the Ukrainian troops and claimed that American and British soldiers were covertly fighting in their ranks. “In the process of preparing the battle-ready Ukrainian troops, it turns out they’ve been rapidly turning darker in color and becoming fluent English speakers. They’re becoming indistinguishable from the mercenaries... Some of them have a Southern drawl, others speak with a British accent. Stop pretending already,” he said. The idea of being defeated by NATO, as opposed to this smaller neighboring country, seems to sweeten the pot for many of the Kremlin’s cheerleaders…” --
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Re: NYT: Status report on China's capitalist class
On March 31, 1937, the Associated Press reported from Berlin that the German Government is preparing to give the German people "a new conception of property rights differing radically from the ideas of orthodox capitalism. In the new civil laws, now in process of codification, there will be no need and no room for abstract rights of property."
-- www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/germany/1937-07-01/destruction-capitalism-germany
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The Moscow Signals Declassified Microwave Mysteries: Projects PANDORA and BIZARRE
Dennis Brasky
Washington D.C., September 13, 2022 - On the 5th anniversary of the CIA’s decision to pull its agents out of Cuba after several operatives were stricken with what has become known as the “Havana Syndrome,” the National Security Archive today posts the first in a series of Electronic Briefing Books on the “Moscow Signals”—a decades-long chapter of the Cold War during which Soviet intelligence bathed the U.S. Embassy in Moscow with microwave transmissions on a daily basis. The records published by the Archive are among those being reviewed by a special, high-level panel tasked by the Biden administration to search for clues into the enduring mystery surrounding cognitive brain traumas experienced by U.S. personnel in Havana, and elsewhere, over the last five years. The CIA announced in late August that it is compensating at least a dozen of its officers and operatives for syndrome-related injuries. The documents posted today record Project BIZARRE, the codename for a program of radiation experiments conducted on monkeys to determine if the Moscow Signal was intended to degrade the abilities of U.S. personnel. Project BIZARRE was a highly classified component of Project PANDORA, a broader research effort undertaken by the Defense Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) that included evaluating blood samples of U.S. personnel posted in Moscow and surveying medical records of crew members of the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga to determine if exposure to radiation-emitting technology on board produced physiological effects. ARPA official Richard Cesaro said that BIZARRE “may require direct testing [of microwave radiation] on humans under controlled conditions.” Part II of the Moscow Signals Declassified series, "Microwave Diplomacy," covering a decade of back-channel diplomatic efforts to press the Kremlin to turn off the microwave beams, will be posted on September 15; Part III of the series, "Irradiating Richard Nixon," will post next week along with a supplemental special collection of declassified records on this intriguing history.
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Re: Leading New Wave film director Jean-Luc Godard dies aged 91
Ken Hiebert
It is my recollection that when Alain Krivine ran for president on behalf of the Ligue Communiste in 1969, Godard lent the campaign his airplane.
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Leading New Wave film director Jean-Luc Godard dies aged 91
greene.douglas@...
https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/new-wave-film-director-jean-luc-godard-has-died-paper-2022-09-13/?fbclid=IwAR3dslhYOIgkvdJwKuEuoh_hzU3euyFXNy_OH3eL1eZMAvlMz7Wok6Z7ANQ
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Re: Russian officials publicly call for Putin to resign
John Reimann
Regarding the perspectives for a new government if Putin resigns/is forced out: First of all, I think his departure would not only be from office but also from life on this planet. I agree that a new government could be "worse" in the sense of more aggressive - general mobilization, etc. But there is a reason that Putin refused to carry that out and we all know what that reason is: He is afraid of turning the general population strongly against the war. The very fact of his leaving office would mean an upwelling of uncertainty. It would automatically make any new government insecure on the throne A general mobilization, I think, would spell its doom. As I've said, I think that there will be a general tendency for Russia to fragment once Putin leaves, with the different regions retaining nuclear weapons. Not a very pretty picture when one thinks it through. John Reimann “Science and socialism go hand-in-hand.” Felicity Dowling Check out:https:http://oaklandsocialist.com also on Facebook
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Re: Russian officials publicly call for Putin to resign
Dayne Goodwin
Municipal deputies in Moscow and St. Petersburg demand Putin’s resignation Meduza, September 12, 2022 https://meduza.io/en/news/2022/09/12/municipal-deputies-in-moscow-and-st-petersburg-demand-putin-s-resignation Nearly two dozen municipal deputies in Moscow and St. Petersburg have signed a petition demanding Vladimir Putin’s resignation as president. Shared by St. Petersburg councilwoman Ksenia Thorstrom, the document says, “We, the municipal deputies of Russia, believe that President Vladimir Putin’s actions harm the future of Russia and its citizens.” Last week, municipal deputies in Moscow’s Lomonosovsky District also demanded Putin’s resignation. In St. Petersburg’s Smolninskoye District, meanwhile, deputies called on federal lawmakers to open a treason case against President Putin in order to remove him from office for launching the invasion of Ukraine. Though the calls for treason charges carry no legal weight, police later charged five of the Petersburg deputies with “discrediting” Russia’s armed forces.
On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 1:02 PM <anthonyboynton@...> wrote: This was just reported on CNN
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The Ukraine War after the Liberation of the Kharkiv Region
RKOB
The Ukraine War after the Liberation of the Kharkiv Region Socialists need to unite on the basis of the slogan “Defend the Ukraine against Putin’s invasion! Against Russian and against NATO imperialism!” Statement of the RCIT, jointly issued by the International Bureau and Socialist Tendency (Russia), 12 September 2022
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NYT: Status report on China's capitalist class
Walter Lippmann <walterlx1944@...>
THE NEW YORK TIMES  The Chinese entrepreneurs Pan Shiyi, left, and Zhang Xin quit this week as chairman and chief executive, respectively, of their real estate empire, Soho China.Credit...Visual China Group via Getty Images By Keith Bradsher EXCERPTS: The Chinese entrepreneurs Pan Shiyi, left, and Zhang Xin quit this week as chairman and chief executive, respectively, of their real estate empire, Soho China.Credit...Visual China Group via Getty Images By Keith Bradsher BEIJING — Wealthy and powerful entrepreneurs in China were once idolized by the public, doted on by the government and courted by foreign investors. They helped build the Chinese economy into a powerhouse, and with it became the global face of Chinese business in a freer era, amassing billion-dollar fortunes, buying mansions overseas and holding court at elite international gatherings. Now, billionaire tycoons are the outsiders in an increasingly state-driven economy that puts a priority on politics and national security over growth. As the government cracks down on business and the economy weakens, they are keeping low profiles, stepping down from their companies or leaving the country entirely. In the latest exodus, two of China’s best-known entrepreneurs, Pan Shiyi and Zhang Xin, resigned this week as chairman and chief executive, respectively, of their real estate empire, Soho China. Both had already moved to the United States early in the pandemic and tried to manage their business with late-night calls back to China. Very wealthy entrepreneurs used to be “able to operate as they wished, as long as they did not step over certain political boundaries, but those boundaries were pretty loose even through the first term of Xi Jinping,” which ended in 2017, said Victor Shih, a specialist in Chinese business and politics at the University of California San Diego. “All that changed. They are no longer such stars.” Ren Zhiqiang, another wealthy real estate developer and a friend of Mr. Pan’s, was sentenced to 18 years in prison after he criticized Mr. Xi. Some entrepreneurs have been silenced on social media. While Mr. Pan’s and Ms. Zhang’s Weibo accounts are still active, they have been posting infrequently and sticking to mundane, bland topics. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/08/business/soho-china-entrepreneurs.html
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Re: Extraordinary discussion on Russian television
Dayne Goodwin
On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 5:21 PM John A Imani <johnaimani3@...> wrote:
(JAI: The article, like most of the Times' offerings, is behind a 'pay-wall'. I have found that when one goes to the Times and clicks on "Select All" as soon as the article loads and then quickly click on "Copy" that many times one can capture the text and paste it into an email or a Word document.)and thank you! John Imani On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 6:28 PM Dayne Goodwin via groups.io <daynegoodwin@...> wrote:
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Re: Extraordinary discussion on Russian television
Dayne Goodwin
On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 11:02 AM <anthonyboynton@...> wrote:
Thank you all for this extraordinary footage. However, it will probably become more ordinary on the streets even if it is shut down on Russian TV after this.Yes, thank you! D. Derwin, Michael P.(in u.s.), and Anthony dayne
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Re: In Moscow’s Local Elections, Socialists Are Fighting to Make Their Opposition Heard
Michael Pugliese
At least one of the Marxist Tendency candidates was elected, from what I see on their Telegram channel ,
Russian Marxists Suffer amid Crackdowns and Brutalization , The leadership of the Communist Party received political humiliation as a reward for loyalty to the authorities , could be more critical than asserted by others. See,
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Re: Extraordinary discussion on Russian television
John A Imani
(JAI: The article, like most of the Times' offerings, is behind a 'pay-wall'. I have found that when one goes to the Times and clicks on "Select All" as soon as the article loads and then quickly click on "Copy" that many times one can capture the text and paste it into an email or a Word document.) Thus: Losses in Ukraine Prompt Something New on Russian TV: Debate
As Russia suffered its most humiliating defeat since the initial stage of the war in Ukraine, cracks emerged in the official narrative as lawmakers and pundits on state television cast doubt on Moscow’s prospects. While some urged the Kremlin to start peace negotiations, others demanded that its forces double down. The divergence of views, even on tightly controlled state television networks, highlighted how Moscow’s narrative has quickly shifted from a conviction that it was only a matter of time before Russia subjugated Ukraine to a sense of alarm over the rapid progress of Kyiv’s forces. And it was a contrast from the muted response after Russia’s drive to take Kyiv failed in the spring. On Friday, as the Russian front line in northeastern Ukraine
collapsed, Boris Nadezhdin, a Russian municipal lawmaker, told
viewers of a political talk show on NTV, a state-owned television
channel, what had once been unspeakable: Moscow cannot, under current
conditions, win this war. President Vladimir V. Putin appeared on television at a bar in Moscow in February, before the invasion of Ukraine. Credit...Sergey Ponomarev for The New York Times “We are now at the point when we have to understand that it’s absolutely impossible to defeat Ukraine using those resources and colonial war methods with which Russia is trying to fight,” said Mr. Nadezhdin, who serves as a municipal deputy in a town near Moscow. “The Russian army is fighting against a strong army that is fully supported by the most powerful countries in the economic and technological sense.” Mr. Nadezhdin suggested that negotiations for peace should begin — a suggestion vehemently refuted by others in the studio, who argued that Russia cannot give up its existential fight against NATO. “We have been dealt a very serious psychological blow,” said Aleksandr Kazakov, a member of the Duma, Russia’s lower house of parliament. “We must destroy the infrastructure that is being used for military purposes.” Others questioned the main ideological pretext that President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia used to launch the invasion — that Russians and Ukrainians constitute one nation. “We can’t expect their affection if we tell the Ukrainians that they don’t exist as an ethnicity, that there isn’t a Ukrainian language,” said Viktor Olevich, a political scientist. Speaking on a talk show on Rossiya-1, Russia’s main state television channel, Aleksei Fenenko, a lecturer at Moscow State University, said that Moscow must concede that it faces a formidable adversary in Ukraine. “We have to admit that Ukraine has rallied against us,” Mr. Fenenko said. “We must treat it as a serious and dangerous adversary.” Vitaly Tretyakov, a political scientist, warned viewers on Monday that unfulfilled expectations about the war might create social upheaval if Russians realize that their country is losing. “There is an enormous confidence in our victory, but this confidence should be supported by real advancements,” he said on Thursday on Rossiya-1. “Social tensions can emerge not because the population would speak against the operation,” he said, “but because they might ask why it is not active, why there is not victory, no advancements?” JAI
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