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My apologies for the duplication.
My memory must be going.
But I wonder since the YMS posting has anybody endeavoured to contact and interact with this group.
Slavoj Žižek saying a lot to justify support for Ukraine
Pacific military manoeuvres
38 ships from 26 countries, four submarines, 170 aircraft and 25,000 military personnel practicing naval war games
military forces from Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Denmark, Ecuador, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Peru, the Republic of Korea, the Republic of the Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Tonga, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Rare story of the Ukrainian oligarchs
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/6/22/will-the-war-with-russia-rein-in-ukraines-oligarchs
Starmer’s Labour Party ditches the unions
What awaits Julian
“Mental Health Units” in Prison Are Solitary Confinement by Another Name
“Mental Health Units” in Prison Are Solitary by Another Name, Activists Say
Le Pen also made significant gains
To be honest, I was unaware of the Kaliningrad enclave until a few months ago.
It has now become subject to sanctions – siege- and very possibly lead to Russia attacking the Baltic countries to relief it.
Despite politicians and the generals war tends to have unintended consequences and acquire a life of its own. A serious escalation could occur.
The proposal to change the law to permit employers to bring in agency staff is perhaps the biggest strike-breaking action in recent times.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jun/20/boris-johnson-plan-break-rail-strikes-agency-workers
It has transformed a sectional industrial dispute into a political attack on the right to strike and deserves a cross-union response.
It may make agency workers vulnerable to threats of benefit cuts if they decline to break picket-lines.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-61864049
EU accuse Russia of war crime in blockading wheat exports.
Yet several days ago, the complaint was that Russia was exporting Ukraine wheat via Turkey.
Is the real concern for the food insecurity of the millions?
The fact is that Ukraine can earn foreign exchange to continue the war by selling its wheat and Russia can overcome the financial consequence of sanctions by selling Ukraine crops.
The needs of the hungry poor was always secondary
New Australian government – No change in policy
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/6/20/australian-pm-rejects-calls-intervene-julian-assange-case
Albanese rejects call to intervene
Unfortunately, like Dissident Voice which also has carried articles from WSM members, Countercurrents publishes views and opinions of writers that we as an organisation cannot be seen to endorse.
Informal word of mouth is more appropriate. Spintcom and Spopen are available to publicise various media outlets that can be approached.
I am sure there are others that simply have passed under our radar
Weekly Worker is another which has a very open editorial policy to letters that we could avail ourselves of more.
Lesser know article by Eugene Debs on socialists and war
https://jacobin.com/2022/05/eugene-v-debs-socialist-internationalism-capitalist-nationalism
“…THE SOCIALIST MOVEMENT IF IT STANDS AT ALL MUST STAND UNFLINCHINGLY AND UNCOMPROMISINGLY FOR SOCIALIST INTERNATIONALISM VERSUS CAPITALIST NATIONALISM!…”
