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V. J. McGill on Russell's Critique of Marxism by Thomas Riggins
V. J. McGill on Russell's Critique of Marxism
A footnote to "the dirty hand of the National Endowment for Democracy in Venezuela" by Norman Markowitz
First let me say that Political Affairs did the right thing in publishing the fine article on the activities of the "National Endowment for Democracy" in Venezuela today, 2014, after the death of Hugo Chavez, in the administration of Barack Obama.
Lenin on State and Revolution: Replacing the Bourgeois State by Thomas Riggins
Lenin on the Paris Commune (1871): Chapter 3 Parts 2-5
Dejavu All Over Again? Neo Nazis as "Freedom Fighters in Ukraine by Norman Markowitz
Below I have cut and pasted an article By Robert Parry, an independent journalist with a long and distinguished history in U.S. invesitgative journalism on the events in Ukraine today,
Some links to May Day History by Norman Markowitz
The history of May Day is linked irrevocably to the struggle for working class liberation and for socialism. In 1889, a meeting in Paris of working class and socialist organizations from many nations on the 100th Anniversary of the French Revolution called for demonstrations through the world on May 1, 1890, for...
"Race," Sex, and Capitalist Decadence in the NBA by Norman Markowitz
Donald Stirling is an 81 year old man who has owned an NBA basketball team, the Clippers, a bad team until recent years, since 1981. He is also a big real estate mogul with a long history of racist practices, which of course is a part of business. In 2009, he was compelled to pay a fine of nearly 3 million dollars for refusing to rent apartments to Blacks, Latinos, and families with children, which I am sure was about maintaining "property values" and profits He was born into a Jewish family as Donald Tolkowitz, something that is being commented on, the press reports in Israel. He changed his name a long time ago. That too I am sure is about business. If one looks carefully I suspect that one would find examples of Stirling discriminating against Jewish people. He reminds me of the kind of department store owner of Jewish background who had a policy in the early 1930s of not hiring Jewish store clerks. My mother tried to get a job in that store. An Italian Christian friend of hers told her to wear a cross to get the job, which she indignantly refused to do. I am sure Stirling would wear anything to close on a deal.
