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Recent events in the Ukraine are even more center stage since the voters there elected to become independent.
Although there are some questions about the complete veracity of the recent referendum, the common understanding seems to be that enough residents of Crimea no longer wish to be part of Ukraine. Whether or not they want to be independent or part of Russia (and whether or not they have much choice in the matter) remains the unanswered part of the equation.
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Markin comment:
I find this The Rag Blog website very useful to monitor for the latest in what is happening with past tense radical activists and activities. Anybody, with some kind of name, and who is still around from the 1960s has found a home here. So the remembrances and recollections are helpful for today’s activists. Strangely the politics are almost non-existent, as least any that would help today, except to kind of retroactively “bless” those old-time left politics that did nothing (well, almost nothing) but get us on the losing end of the class (and cultural) wars of the last forty plus years. Still this is a must read blog for today’s left militants.
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I place some material in this space which may be of interest to the radical public that I do not necessarily agree with or support. Off hand, as I have mentioned before, I think it would be easier, infinitely easier, to fight for the socialist revolution straight up than some of the “remedies” provided by the commentators in these entries. But part of that struggle for the socialist revolution is to sort out the “real” stuff from the fluff as we struggle for that more just world that animates our efforts.
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The multi-pronged provocation of Crimea
After years of watching Washington and its NATO alliance entice and cajole traditionally Russian allies to join the western capitalist sphere, Moscow has recently begun fighting back.
Solider in unmarked uniform guards the airport in Crimea. Image from SundayWorld.com.
Although there are some questions about the complete veracity of the recent referendum, the common understanding seems to be that enough residents of Crimea no longer wish to be part of Ukraine. Whether or not they want to be independent or part of Russia (and whether or not they have much choice in the matter) remains the unanswered part of the equation.
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