E. Timor will become like Haiti. The capitalist countries will ensure that a neo-liberal regime rules and that Australia (or maybe the U.S.) will get control of the oil. Michael Keaney wrote: > 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 Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]