[Palsem09] ENCORE une version des lectures ! / Yet ANOTHER version of the reading list

[sajaber at aol.com]

 And thanks a thousand from me especially: I did not know that the 1974 manifesto (that I authored and that none other than Kanan Makiya translated into English) had been scanned and put on the Internet (I hope the scanning is correct).

Tried to see whose website it is: looks like a SSP/ISM website. How come they posted this? Any clue?



 


 

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Drucker <rosaburg at antenna.nl>
To: palsem09 at iire.org
Sent: Sat, 7 Feb 2009 20:54
Subject: Re: [Palsem09] ENCORE une version des lectures ! / Yet ANOTHER version of the reading list












Thanks Roland for these links! Of course I wouldn't have given
the Workers Liberty link if I'd known about the Marxists Internet
Archive one. I've been using the Mandel texts a lot for the
translation of the Mandel biography (out soon from Verso), but I
didn't think of looking there for these theses. Bizarre that all my
different google attempts didn't find that other link for the 1974
site.






The IVP site actually does have an archive of FI documents; it
just is growing very slowly because of our limited ability to scan and
upload. Perhaps these two texts can be added to the IVP archive
sometime soon.






Best,


Peter










It's unfortunate that we do not have our own online
archive, in order to preserve documents from our
tradition.


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It is even more unfortunate that Peter has only been
able to find an English version of the 1947 Draft theses on the
website of the "Alliance for Workers Liberty", an
organisation hostile to the FI, which it denounces -- even in the
introduction to this document -- as "kitsch left". The
organisation is an apologist for Zionism, has attacked me and other
anti-Zionist Jews as "antisemites" and campaigned to have me
banned from meetings, and even turned up at a recent demonstration
carrying Israeli flags! Fortunately, it is possible to find the same
text in a much more acceptable site, the Marxist Internet Archive
at http://www.marxists.org/archive/mandel/1947/01/jewish.htm. They attribute the theses
to Ernest Mandel.


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The statement by Arab revoilutionary Marxists?
from 1974 can be found online in English at http://www.geocities.com/nysaproject/ar.htm


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The document by Virginia Tilley and Steven Friedman
led to an interesting discussion on the Israeli Academic Left (Alef)
list last year. I attach a file which commrades may find
helpful?(in English only, I'm afraid) of the main discussion
between Tilley and Ran Greenstein, an Israelki academic in South
Africa and author of "Genealogies of conflict: Class, identity
and state in Palestine/Israel and South
Africa".


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See you all next week


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Roland







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