>>BTW, unless things have changed drastically, the guy some have dismissed as >>"Eurocentric" (Bob Brenner) is a leader of Solidarity. > >Not that one thing has much to do with another, but Solidarity has just >endorsed UN troops in East Timor, a clear violation of Marxist principles. > >Louis Proyect >(http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html) Louis, As one willing to have his mind changed by superior argument, regardless of its geographical source, what would be the principled Marxist response to the problems of East Timor? I am sufficiently familiar with the awful history, and recognise the culpability, complicity, duplicity, involvement, etc., of the Western powers. What I want to know is, what is to be done given the present conjuncture? Michael