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4486 [lbo-talk] with international law in the news, could we make the U.S. comply? -- rank: 72

... nation*al system--needs the US to be the renegade police force, the > law-breaking law enforcer. It's not a ... if the US were nicer. > ___________________________________ > > The U.S. is a police force? Against whom that matters and in what way that ...

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Author:	Eric Beck
Date:	Sun Mar 23 08:09:52 PDT 2014

4487 [lbo-talk] with international law in the news, could we make the U.S. comply? -- rank: 72

... nation*al system--needs the US to be the renegade police force, the law-breaking law enforcer. It's not a ... if the US were nicer. ___________________________________ The U.S. is a police force? Against whom that matters and in what way that ...

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Author:	JOANNA A.
Date:	Sat Mar 22 15:21:38 PDT 2014

4488 [lbo-talk] [Pen-l] UAW's failure to sway VW workers clouds future -- rank: 72

On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 4:23 PM, Marv Gandall <marvgand2 at gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> UAW's failure to sway VW workers clouds future > > It will take a much different leadership to restore some semblance of militancy to the UAW. ^^^^^^^ CB: It will take a much different rank-and-file ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Sun Feb 16 13:47:45 PST 2014

4489 [lbo-talk] [Pen-l] UAW's failure to sway VW workers clouds future -- rank: 72

On 2014-02-16, at 1:38 PM, Charles Brown wrote: > And on top of having Work-for-Less law imposed on it in its home state > of Michigan. Industrial proletarian low counter-point to winning the > union in the late 30's early 40's. Will the rightwing within the ...

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Author:	Marv Gandall
Date:	Sun Feb 16 13:23:52 PST 2014

4490 [lbo-talk] Check your privilege: Rise of the Post-New Left political vocabulary -- rank: 72

On 06/02/2014, at 5:46 PM, Michael Smith <mjs at smithbowen.net> wrote: > > Far be it from me to argue with Ho Chi Minh. And of course strategy vs. tactics > is not at all a clear-cut distinction. But I'm not quite sure what 'nonviolence as > strategy' might ...

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Author:	Bill Bartlett
Date:	Thu Feb 6 02:41:03 PST 2014

4491 [lbo-talk] Israeli Ship Blocked in Oakland (Steve Martinot) -- rank: 72

From: Steve Martinot <martinot4 at gmail.com> We stopped an Israeli ship, the Zim Piraeus, from unloading in Oakland. As of this moment, it is three days that the ship has been at the port, and no one has touched it. It is expected to sail out today (Tuesday, August 19 ...

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Author:	Mitchel Cohen
Date:	Tue Aug 19 13:54:55 PDT 2014

4492 [lbo-talk] All out for Mumia Abu-Jamal s 60th birthday -- rank: 72

... he was unjustly convicted of the murder of a Philadelphia police officer. Threats to Abu-Jamal s life continue. That the Fraternal Order of Police in Philadelphia is still determined to silence him is evident ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Fri Apr 25 09:02:21 PDT 2014

4493 [lbo-talk] The Communist Party of America, Section of the Communist International (a.k.a. "unified CPA") 2. -- "2nd National Convention" -- Bridgman, MI -- Aug. 17 - 22, 1922 -- rank: 72

http://www.marxisthistory.org/subject/usa/eam/communistparty.html IV again) -- The Communist Party of America, Section of the Communist International (a.k.a. "unified CPA") 2. -- "2nd National Convention" -- Bridgman, MI -- Aug. 17 - 22, 1922 The Bridgman Convention of 1922 was an absolute debacle, held in secret in a state ...

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Author:	c b
Date:	Sun Sep 29 17:30:42 PDT 2013

4494 [lbo-talk] Thoughts on George Caffentzis' article -- rank: 72

Those Not Busy Born are Busy Dying BY MITCHEL COHEN George Caffentzis draws an interesting dichtomy between workers and debtors and lays out some of the antinomous implications of each, when it comes to "what to do" (George Caffentzis, "Debt and/or Wages: Organizing Challenges", Tidal, Feb 2013). A parallel way ...

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Author:	Mitchel Cohen
Date:	Sun Mar 24 10:40:18 PDT 2013

4495 [lbo-talk] If you live in the USA, you probably have already committed a felony today -- rank: 72

... am well aware of the ability of the US secret police to frame innocents. My position is the best we can ... now, lefts are not the target of the US secret police as much as during the Cold War. On the laws ...

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Author:	c b
Date:	Sun Jun 23 09:37:17 PDT 2013

4496 [lbo-talk] Fwd: c -- rank: 72

... anyone have to say more? > CB:Actually, the US secret police forces, FBI, CIA, NSA, state and > local police have a history of making things up worse than Stalin ...

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Author:	Michael Smith
Date:	Wed Jun 12 18:28:40 PDT 2013

4497 [lbo-talk] Fwd: c -- rank: 72

... that the NSA is doing. > ^^^^^^ CB:Actually, the US secret police forces, FBI, CIA, NSA, state and local police have a history of making things up worse than Stalin ...

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Author:	c b
Date:	Wed Jun 12 15:14:58 PDT 2013

4498 [lbo-talk] Fwd: c -- rank: 72

Jim:The secret police in the old GDR or People's Poland would have ... PM, Jim Farmelant <farmelantj at juno.com> wrote: > > > The secret police in the old GDR or People's Poland would have ...

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Author:	Wojtek S
Date:	Wed Jun 12 11:11:50 PDT 2013

4499 [lbo-talk] The NSA Can Read This E-Mail, Unfortunately -- rank: 72

... not gonna have your internet statements read by US secret police forces. Yes , the US has Secret Police and always has. What exactly is the NSA looking for ...

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Author:	c b
Date:	Wed Jun 12 06:01:44 PDT 2013

4500 [lbo-talk] Edward Snowden, Enemy of the State -- rank: 72

"[In the US from the 1970s] the agenda of a new regime of accumulation took shape. The neo-liberal order ahead would include deregulation of markets, de-unionization of labour, decreases in taxation and deflation of the money supply in effect, a reversion towards norms of the original liberal regime ...

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Author:	Carl G. Estabrook
Date:	Tue Jun 11 09:24:13 PDT 2013