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46 [lbo-talk] The British independent film scene, cruelly parodied -- rank: 1000

The British independent film scene, cruelly parodied http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bnulqi3ZncU&feature=youtu.be

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Fri Jan 13 14:27:12 PST 2012

47 [lbo-talk] help with Greek translation -- rank: 1000

Many thanks to all those who helped with the translation and identification. >From the evidence it must be the funeral, or a protest, after the Syntagma Square massacre in December 1944, when occupying British troops opened fire on Greek partisans, after the Germans had gone. I am guessing that the women are carrying a banner that was on the original march, now stained with blood. I think the women are at the front and on their knees to persuade the British troops not to shoot them.

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Fri Jan 13 13:19:04 PST 2012

48 [lbo-talk] Any (Modern) Greek speakers can help me out? -- rank: 1000

Are there any (Modern) Greek speakers who can help me out with something? I want to identify this protest, here: http://www.heartfield.org/protest.jpg So if anyone knows what event it is, or can tell me what the banner says, I would be very grateful. James

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Fri Jan 13 09:13:11 PST 2012

49 [lbo-talk] source of Trotsky quote -- rank: 1000

Isn t the weight of what Trotsky says about beating up fascists that it is ok to beat them up, but it is not really a political solution. Since they are dealing in street violence, he seems to be saying, best just to hit them back. Still, he says, that is only a technical response, i.e. it is just a practical question, not the resolution to the larger problem.

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Wed Jan 11 16:14:58 PST 2012

50 [lbo-talk] UAW wage conessions/correct url -- rank: 1000

No one disputes that for much of the 20th century the greater militancy and political consciousness of the European working class and the greater weakness of the European bourgeoisie compared to the powerful American capitalist class allowed the European trade unions to squeeze more concessions from their states and employers. Writes Marv Gandall to Wojtek Well, the grass is always greener on the other side of the hill. When growing up within that greater militancy and political consciousness ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sat Jan 7 01:38:14 PST 2012

51 [lbo-talk] Missing Passage in English Versions of Capital -- rank: 1000

Maybe they thought that English people would be offended by the implication of backwardness though it does stand up historically. Witch trials died off in the early eighteenth century, and the legislation was repealed in 1736. Isaac Newton (having taken over at the Royal Mint) worked out that as many as 20 per cent of all coins in circulation were forged, and in 1699 had forger William Chaloner tried and hung. The Cragg Coiners were hung in 1770 and 1775.

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Feb 26 15:48:03 PST 2012

52 [lbo-talk] great writers on film -- rank: 1000

... add Román Gubern and Paul Hammond to that list, for their new book on Luis Bunuel: The Red Years, which I review here http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/reviewofbooks_article/12150/

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Fri Feb 24 03:29:57 PST 2012

53 [lbo-talk] Europe's soft coup -- rank: 1000

Wojtek I have to admit that I have a bias against political parties. I believe that they tend to be a parasitic element that thrives on mediating citizen's access to government services, and thus tend to make this access as cumbersome as possible to extract higher premium for this access. So if political parties get a booty I do not lose much sleep over it as long as the system remains democratic i.e. guaranteeing a certain minimum of civil rights. In other words, I do not equate party politics ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Thu Feb 23 06:36:31 PST 2012

54 [lbo-talk] Europe's soft coup -- rank: 1000

James: " Italian and Greek people needed to deal with the problems they faced, they were robbed of the chance." [WS:] C'mon James, as if bourgeois democracy gave them that chance. Hmm. That sounds like one of those Third Period Stalinist arguments about not defending democracy because it is all a sham, Wojtek

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Date:	Thu Feb 23 02:28:27 PST 2012

55 [lbo-talk] Europe s Soft Coup -- rank: 1000

Europe s Soft Coup, by James Heartfield In a single week the elected governments of two of Europe s democracies had been swept aside. At the very moment that Italian and Greek people needed to deal with the problems they faced, they were robbed of the chance. ... Fear of economic crisis is driving the integration of European policy, and it is not being consolidated as a democracy, but as a technocracy, where officials follow procedures, rather than make policies. http://thecurrentmoment.wordpres ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Tue Feb 21 06:18:31 PST 2012

56 [lbo-talk] School Debate: Central Focus -- rank: 1000

> But I don't see how it follows that not going to school is the > solution. My mother always sent me to school, though she also told us that teachers were mostly idiots and it would be good luck not design if we learnt anything. Being a teacher herself, I guess she might have had some prejudices on the matter. I send my girls to school, but I haven t yet dared to pass on this sage advice.

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Thu Feb 16 10:30:55 PST 2012

57 [lbo-talk] School Debate: Central Focus -- rank: 1000

Dennis Claxton writes: Just as a machine is seen as an alien thing by the worker, and the normal and necessary activity of labor is converted into a horror, so too is much of schooling. Everything that might be good is turned into an evil. But surely machines and labor and reading and writing are not inherently evil. Surely a good argument can be made that all are fundamental. Which is a good analogy, and well put, I think. If there is a criticism of education to be made is that it could be bet ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Wed Feb 15 14:02:05 PST 2012

58 [lbo-talk] School Debate: Central Focus -- rank: 1000

Eric Beck quoted David Levine: Schools were carceral institutions -- they were frequently justified as the best source of crime prevention, In England, state schools were brought in with the express purpose of putting a stop to the independent Chartist and other socialist schools that were being set up across the country. The great promoters of publicly-funded schooling, Kay-Shuttleworth and William Forster were trying to close down institutions like the Blackburn Women s Union, whose school st ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Wed Feb 15 11:48:10 PST 2012

59 [lbo-talk] Not about discipline, but clarity -- rank: 1000

Shag: we can assume then, that what they don't want is to participate in the elections or debate over what to do about austerity measures. if that is not their intention, then blaming them for failing to achieve electoral impact or to turn around the austerity tide isn't internal criticism. Internal here meaning, acceptable, criticism that is unacceptable, Shag calls external . Are you saying that the only criticism allowed is within the established framework, but that it is not possible ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Mon Feb 13 08:02:12 PST 2012

60 [lbo-talk] Not about discipline, but clarity: was More on BB antics and their defenders -- rank: 1000

Discipline is a subordinate question. The pointed challenge is what does the movement want? OWS has made a virtue of its open-endedness. That seems to be a formula that puts off the disputatious splits that characterise left-wing campaigns. Still, the basic problem is unavoidable, what are you for? As long as there is no clarification meaning debate about what the movement wants, then it will remain marginal to the greater mass of people. Radicals used to long periods in the wilderness are ...

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Date:	Sun Feb 12 10:48:44 PST 2012