[L-I] Hawaii Educators' Strike - Your Help Is Needed

>Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 15:55:44 -1000 (HST) >From: Stephen E Philion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [PEN-L:10253] Hawaii Educators' Strike - Your Help Is Needed >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Folks on PEN, feel free to circulate this important message to other >lists. It's now day 8 of the strike and n

[L-I] America Gets Candid About What Colombia Needs

New York Times 25 February 2001 FACING FACTS America Gets Candid About What Colombia Needs By CHRISTOPHER MARQUIS WASHINGTON -- For nearly a year now, American officials have been trying to tell voters why they should care about Colombia. But this month, one architect of that campaign, the re

[L-I] Socialism and Democracy: Call for Papers

>SOCIALISM AND DEMOCRACY is an interdisciplinary journal of Marxist social >and political analysis. we are looking for articles which deal with the >political, economic and cultural dimensions of contemporary capitalism. >articles may focus on either the global, regional or national levels of >an

[L-I] New Campaign against New US Base in Okinawa

- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 5:03 AM Subject: New Campaign against New US Base in Okinawa Dear friends, The following is an information and appeal on Japanese campaign against a new US base construction in Okin

[L-I] Re: The legacy...part 1

>Forgot to mention that Leys think it is hard to speak of dependency or >imperialism in subsaharan Africa when there is very little foreign >economic penetration or activity. As for Brenner, reading him I've >wondered if the world only consisted of four countries: USA, Germany and >Japan. > >Sam

[L-I] AIDS, Drugs, Patents, & the Empire

The New York Times January 28, 2001, Sunday, Late Edition - Final SECTION: Section 6; Page 26; Column 1; Magazine Desk HEADLINE: Look at Brazil BYLINE: By Tina Rosenberg... ...Until a year ago, the triple therapy that has made AIDS a manageable disease in wealthy nations was considered realist

[L-I] Re: Sacher-Masoch in the Age of Shock Therapy

>Masochism seems like an appropriate psychological accompaniment for >the transition from communism to capitalism in Russia and the >Ukraine. The citizens are being screwed so best that they like it >and continue under the whip of the oligarchs, and receive >shock-treatment by following the po

[L-I] Sacher-Masoch in the Age of Shock Therapy

* New York Times 27 January 2001 Masochism Finally Gets Even By SARAH BOXER Masochism means never having to say "Stop! Stop! Enough!" At the Modern Language Association's annual meeting last month, three hours were devoted to masochism. And that isn't counting the lectures and semina

[L-I] "the steeper the grade of social inequality, the more risk forHIV"

A Conversation with Paul Farmer TAPS Seminar Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, March 21, 2000 Hosted by Dan Ciccarone, MD, MPH, Post-doctoral fellow at CAPS ...PF:...So it's not enough to say, "It's poverty, man." It is, but it's also poverty cheek and jowl by wealth -- or lack of poverty.

[L-I] Infections and Inequalities: HIV

Paul Farmer, _Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues_, Berkeley: U of California P, 1999 Paul Farmer, MD, Ph.D Associate Professor of Social Medicine, Harvard University [Paul Farmer is a physician and anthropologist. In addition to his book, _Infections and Inequalities: The Modern

[L-I] Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues

Paul Farmer, _Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues_, Berkeley: U of California P, 1999 Paul Farmer, MD, Ph.D Associate Professor of Social Medicine, Harvard University [Paul Farmer is a physician and anthropologist. In addition to his book, _Infections and Inequalities: The Modern

[L-I] Liberal Elites, Socialist Masses, and Problems of RussianDemocracy

There is hope yet. Yoshie * World Politics 51.3 (1999) 323-358 Liberal Elites, Socialist Masses, and Problems of Russian Democracy Judith S. Kullberg and William Zimmerman * Strong showings and outright victories by antireform and conservative parties in several elections in Russia--m

[L-I] Re: Socialism, Regionalism, & Pan-Africanism (was Learning)

> > Mark Jones wrote: >> > > > Unfortunately the world just is not and will not be like this >pleasant day dream. > > >> o.k. So? >> >> Carrol > >Carrol, that's what we are here discussing. For a long time some of >us have been >discussing fundamental problems buried within the technostruct

[L-I] Yugoslav Economy Today

As usual, imperial demands for "reforms" boil down to more unemployment, erosion of the public sector, fiscal austerity, & tight monetary policy: "stabilization" programs that destabilize economy further. Yoshie * The Guardian (London) December 29, 2000 SECTION: Guardian City Pages, Pg. 2

[L-I] Socialism, Regionalism, & Pan-Africanism (was Learning)

>My analysis is identical to Davidson's and I have made it repeatedly on the >Marxism list. Africa's problems today stem from the fact that the colonial >powers created states that disrespected traditional tribal jurisdictions. >In the fight for independence, African elites accepted these borderli

[L-I] Re: "Democratising" Africa

Mark says: >Therefore Heartfield's articles cannot be more than raw material to >be worked over >and used with care, as we do with anything else from the mainstream, >be it the NY >Times, the Guardian, a book by Doug Henwood or anything else. We do not take >anything for granted. But we rely on

[L-I] Re: Learning (was Re: Congo)

Lou writes: > >Should we discredit Thomas Deichmann & his article "The Picture that >>Fooled the World," for instance, because he published it in LM, >>though he also published it in _NATO in the Balkans_? Should we also >>dismiss everything that Jared Israel has said, because he cited the >>ar

[L-I] Re: "Democratising" Africa

>If Yoshie wants to understand Africa, I'd advise her to read Basil >Davidson--the author of 27 books on the continent and a radical--rather >than James Heartfield, who writes nothing but puff pieces on LBO-Talk. > >Louis Proyect _The Black Man's Burden_ was published in 1992. Has Basil Davidson

[L-I] Re: Learning (was Re: Congo)

>Exactly who on the left has associated >themselves with this cult other than Doug Henwood? > >Louis Proyect Should we discredit Thomas Deichmann & his article "The Picture that Fooled the World," for instance, because he published it in LM, though he also published it in _NATO in the Balkans_?

[L-I] Learning (was Re: Congo)

Lou writes: > >Well, I know that not everybody on L-I has a liking for Heartfield, and >yours >>truly has personally clashed with him on first acquaintance. But this >posting >>is at least as enlightening as Patrick's. >> >>Never runs smooth the path of true love, or something like that... >> >>

[L-I] "Democratising" Africa

Mine says: >Still, a discussion on Congo is a slight improvement for liberterian >charecters like J.H however double fucked up his politics is ... Here's another piece by James Heartfield on Africa: * The Week Ending 22 October 2000 Democratising Africa: 10 years on In October 1990 the

[L-I] Richard Gott, Hugo Chavez, & Venezuela (was Congo)

Mac says: >Gott: Did he not just write on H.Chavez? Any reviews on the book? >I've thought about >getting a hold of it- I am intrigued to find out more about this new >Bolivarist. I haven't read _In the Shadow of the Liberator: Hugo Chavez and the Transformation of Venezuela_, so I'll welcom

[L-I] Re: Congo

Mark says: > > >Most surreal...Richard >> >Gott, who republished Guevara's Congo diaries as a blast against Kabila >> >at the same time charges him with having 'alienated foreign investors by >> >refusing to make payments on the gigantic foreign debt of $14bn incurred >> >by his profligate p

[L-I] Notes From the Hyena's Belly

New York Times 21 January 2001 Fear and Famine This first-person account of the horrors of Ethiopia interweaves politics, family history and traditional tales. By ROB NIXON Nega Mezlekia's powerful memoir stands as a reminder of how media images of Africa can never substitute for African stori

[L-I] Congo

>Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 16:27:16 + >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: James Heartfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >The assassination of Congo president Laurent Kabila was greeted with >ill-disguised glee amongst Western commentators. It was not always thus. >US Secretary of State Mad

[L-I] Re: Zyuganov Interview 11 September 2000: Russian CP LeaderSupports Kremlin, Drops Old Allies

Nestor wrote: >In the end, when Hugo Moyano, the union leader in Argentina, claims that his >CGT is not against De la Rúa, but against the IMF, and that they are ready to >support the former against the latter, is doing more or less what Zyuganov >proposes here. One one hand: * Financial

[L-I] Re: Whither the List?

Mark: > > we don't want to lose someone like Johannes >> from the list, do we? He's on the side of anti-imperialism. >> >> >ONE part is revolutionary and >> >wishes to overthrow capitalism; the other is accommodationist and >>has no such >> >intention. >> >> The problem is that the CPRF

[L-I] Re: Russia: CPRF Leader Interviewed - Russia TV

Mark: >Yoshie wrote: >> Putin, by co-opting anti-Semitic & anti-liberal rhetoric widespread >> in Russia, can coopt the themes of "socialism = the modern form of >> Russian patriotism" as well. The CPRF has only itself to blame, >> since it's happy with the role of the loyal opposition. > >O

[L-I] Re: Zyuganov Interview 11 September 2000: Russian CP LeaderSupports Kremlin, Drops Old Allies

Mark: > > Zyuganov Interview 11 September 2000 >> >> BBC MONITORING >> ZYUGANOV INTERVIEW: RUSSIAN COMMUNIST LEADER EXPANDS ON MOVE TO >> SUPPORT KREMLIN, DROP OLD ALLIES > >but if you read what the man says, is it so unreasonable? It's a reasonable remark from a reasonable parliamentarian,

[L-I] Re: Russia: CPRF Leader Interviewed - Russia TV

Mark: >>you don't think that the CPRF = Marxism-Leninism, do you? >No, no and again no, as Vladimir Ilyich might say. I know where you stand. The rhetorical question was for the benefit of L-I listers whose acquaintance with you doesn't go back very far. >But so what? Is it the use of the >na

[L-I] Re: Whither the List?

Mark: > > The clarity of revolutionary Leninist politics can't be achieved if >> one part of the Left remains trapped in the overblown fear of >> Red-Brown alliances on the periphery and the other part falls for the >> overestimation of political capacity of whatever party or movement >> tha

[L-I] Re: Program, Organization, Conjuncture

> > Last year I had my e-mail program crash, so I lost the Crashlist URL, >> among other things. Can you mail the URL to me or post it here? >> >> Yoshie > >I'll sub you if you like. > >Mark Thank you. Go ahead and sub me. Yoshie ___ Leninist-Int

[L-I] Re: Russia: CPRF Leader Interviewed - Russia TV

>Yoshie, what is it about this analysis by Kagarlitsky that you find to >be of merit? I find the idea that countries of the capitalist >''periphery" cannot have Social Democratic movements ludicrous. They >do all the time. Colombia and Mexico have both recently had Social >Democratic for

[L-I] Re: Program, Organization, Conjuncture

Mark: > > A revolutionary organization with a clear program has yet to come >> into being in my corner of the planet. What of yours? In the >> absence of a revolutionary party active within a mass movement, into >> what should one assimilate? We have to build it, first of all. >> >> Now,

[L-I] Re: Russia: CPRF Leader Interviewed - Russia TV

>Attempts to equate Marxism-Leninism with the ultra-right are not >only not new, they >are as old as socialism. > >Mark Sure, but you don't think that the CPRF = Marxism-Leninism, do you? Since your comeback, you have argued for the importance of revolutionary theory & the need to debate it on

[L-I] Re: Russia: CPRF Leader Interviewed - Russia TV

> >Makahov is very famous for these quotes all the time as not just a CC member >>of the KPRF, but higher than this - > >Higher than a Member of the Central Committee? >What do you mean? > >There are millions of Communists in Russia. So what? It is essential to separate rank-and-file members fro

[L-I] Zyuganov Interview 11 September 2000: Russian CP Leader SupportsKremlin, Drops Old Allies

Zyuganov Interview 11 September 2000 BBC MONITORING ZYUGANOV INTERVIEW: RUSSIAN COMMUNIST LEADER EXPANDS ON MOVE TO SUPPORT KREMLIN, DROP OLD ALLIES Source: Russia TV, Moscow, in Russian, 11 September 2000 Leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Gennadiy Zyuganov has said that

[L-I] Re: Russia: CPRF Leader Interviewed - Russia TV

Lou wrote: >The real issue >is not anti-Semitism or fascism, but the stubborn refusal of some radicals >to get on board the hate Yugoslavia campaign. Now that this is a dead >issue, the demagogues have turned their attention to Russia. Anybody who >does not take an oath of allegiance against the

[L-I] Re: Russia: CPRF Leader Interviewed - Russia TV

>Personally, I am not pleased with >calling the Zyuganov bunch "linked with the working class". They are >not like the SPS >or the PDS. They did not exist from 91- 93. Their reappearance was >to deliberately >hi-jack what was left of the workers movement, to my view. But I >haven't done the >ho

[L-I] Re: Whither the List?

ovement that claims to be patriotic, socialist, etc. (e.g. the CPRF). Indeed, we need to raise the level of the debate here! I ask sober heads who are still here to post their thoughts. Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will! Yoshie Furuhashi, co-moderator P.S. Johannes, come back. We oug

[L-I] Re: Russia: CPRF Leader Interviewed - Russia TV

> >I do not know whether General Makashov was a CPRF CC member, but he was >>elected on the CPRF slate to the Duma. Unfortunately it will be rather easy >>to find more antisemitic quotes from leading CPRF members. >> >>Johannes > >Just as you will find antisemitic quotes from leaders of the Germa

[L-I] Re: Russia: CPRF Leader Interviewed - Russia TV

Steve wrote: >In particular Owen, your description of the KPRF as >more of a reactionary danger to the Russian working class than even Putin's >Kremlin, is very factual, considered and well thought out. The above is a mistaken estimation of the balance of power, contradicted by the statement be

Re: [L-I] Re: Russia: CPRF Leader Interviewed - Russia TV

> >I do not know whether General Makashov was a CPRF CC member, but he was >>elected on the CPRF slate to the Duma. Unfortunately it will be rather easy >>to find more antisemitic quotes from leading CPRF members. >> >>Johannes > >Just as you will find antisemitic quotes from leaders of the Germa

[L-I] Program, Organization, Conjuncture

>Effacing distinctions in a manner which preserves the >*revolutionary* nature of the >organisation entails submerging pre-existing differences of outlook, >social origin, >location within the division of labour etc, within an *agreed >programme* under the >sign of an *agreed theorisation of th

[L-I] Re: my participation on L-I

>Finally, if L-I is to continue at all (I see little point in this >List at present) >it ought to do what it was set up to do, ie, debate revolutionary theory. Fire away. Yoshie ___ Leninist-International mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change your

Re: [L-I] On Centrism Today.

pproach to life. Explain yourself comrade. > > >from a self-declared and unashamed centrist, but one who desperately wants > >to break out of this morass - > >- Steve Myers. > >I will tell you the same thing that I told Yoshie Furuhashi on the Marxism >list. I

Re: [L-I] On e-mail language (sorry, moderators!)

mpassioned debate. Moreover, while L-I moderators have no way of monitoring offlist notes you might send to one another, please avoid the kind of language you cannot use on the list in offlist notes to L-I subscribers as well. Offlist harassment, provocation, etc. -- if brought to the list'

Re: [L-I] For the Moderators' Attention

news, announcements, & forwarded messages are not unwelcome if there is an urgent need to spread the word, L-I was & is meant to be a space for _non-sectarian_ political discussion among Leninists. Please take your time & post messages _with a view toward initiating or expanding d

[L-I] Towards a Seductive Red & Green Synthesis (was Re: GlobalWarming?)

Eli Moskowitz posts: >John Thornton: "I still don't see how you can consider the work of >Michaels, Balling, Lindzen, and Idso relatively unbiased." > >Ross Gelbspan, "The Heat is On": >The skeptics are virtually unanimous in accusing their mainstream >scientific colleagues of exaggerating the ma

[L-I] Who Really Brought Down Milosevic?

* New York Times Magazine 26 November 2000 [The full story is available at .] Who Really Brought Down Milosevic? By the time of the October revolution [!] the most important battle -- for the hearts and minds of av

[L-I] War Against Civilians (Madison, Wisconsin / Thursday, Dec. 7)

>From: "Gregory Elich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Subject: Madison, Wisconsin event: War Against Civilians >Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 07:10:53 -0500 > >WAR AGAINST WOMEN AND OTHER CIVILIANS IN >YUGOSLAVIA AND IRAQ > >A Photographic and Eyewitness Report > >Thursday, December 7 >7:00 PM >Pres House >731 S

[L-I] Fwd: Book ANN: The New Rank and File - Lynd & Lynd - Cornell

>Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 17:11:03 -0500 >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sender: H-Net Labor History Discussion List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >From: Seth Wigderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Book ANN: The New Rank and File - Lynd & Lynd - Cornell >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Cornell University

[L-I] Fwd: Nezavisnost and the European Trade Union Confederation

>Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 12:18:41 -0500 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: Louis Proyect <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Nezavisnost and the European Trade Union Confederation > >The American SWP, the British SWP and presumably the Australian DSP are all >feeling rapturous about the emergence of an "indep

[L-I] In Belgrade, Oil Jumped from 15 to 51 Dinars

>Sender: Forum on Labor in the Global Economy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >IN BELGRADE, OIL JUMPED FROM 15 TO 51 DINARS > >"Democracy" will not fill all pockets > >In Belgrade, the price of one liter of oil had jumped from 15 to 51 dinars, >price of bread from 6 to 14 and of sugar from 6 to 45. "Democra

[L-I] Moments of Shocked Silence About Biotech

>Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:49:58 -0700 >From: MichaelP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (by way of Connie Fogal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) >Subject: Moments of Shocked Silence About Biotech > >http://iisd.ca/pcdf/meadows/trinity.html > >Donella Meadows' The Global Citizen*, March 16, 2000 >* A bi-weekly column by Do

[L-I] Stop Biopiracy in Mexico

>From: "Mexico Solidarity Network" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Stop Biopiracy in Mexico >Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:34:34 -0500 > >This message forwarded as a service of the Mexico Solidarity Network >Tel: 773-583-7728 >email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >"Stop Biopiracy in Mexic

[L-I] Nestor M. Gorojovsky on the alert declared at Punta Arenas, Chile

17 Oct 2000 14:15:45 -0300 LA NACION LINE - Science / Health: No extreme risk due to thinner ozone layer. On the alert declared at Punta Arenas, Chile Local experts in Ushuaia, denied that the situation is more serious than on previous years. "There is no alert in Ushuaia. The population has b

[L-I] Change in the L-I Moderation Team

On behalf of my fellow moderators, I, Yoshie Furuhashi, hereby announce the change in the composition of the Leninist-International moderation team. Nestor Miguel Gorojovsky has been the guiding spirit of this list, always helping participants to clarify our respective political positions

[L-I] Virtual Book Seminar on MARX'S ECOLOGY

>Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 13:59:48 -0600 (MDT) >From: Martha Gimenez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], >socy dept faculty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >Sociology Graduate Students <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Virtua

[L-I] Gramsci, Terror, & Thermidor (was Re: Gramsci Redux)

Leo Casey enlists Gramsci for Laclau & Mouffe: >Secondly, when Gramsci invokes the Jacobin tradition in his discussions of >the political party, this is not a simple adoption of the more extreme >moments of the French Revolution, an incorporation of the politics of the >"Reign of Terror." To the

[L-I] Yugoslavs & Palestinians (was Re: Chomsky and Zinn on theOverthrow of Workers States)

>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > When Mr. Marx said "I at least am not a Marxist" he had in mind >those who see > > the qwuotation of the proper texts as a sign of virtue, instead >of relying on > > FACTS and ANALYSES of the current real world, Thus thw writer avoids the > > most obvious of fact

[L-I] After the Autumn of the Patriarch: Part 3 (was Re: Milosevic out?)

Néstor Miguel Gorojovsky wrote: >En relación a [PEN-L:2763] Re: Re: Milosevic out?, >el 7 Oct 00, a las 11:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] dijo: > > > At 6:05 AM +0800 7/10/00, Nestor Miguel Gorojovsky wrote: > > > > >In Belgrade we have had a rehearsal of the "out wih Ferdinand Marcos" > > >play, where a

[L-I] After the Autumn of the Patriarch: Part 2 (was Re: Milosevic out?)

Néstor Miguel Gorojovsky wrote: >En relación a [PEN-L:2763] Re: Re: Milosevic out?, >el 7 Oct 00, a las 11:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] dijo: > > > At 6:05 AM +0800 7/10/00, Nestor Miguel Gorojovsky wrote: > > > > >In Belgrade we have had a rehearsal of the "out wih Ferdinand Marcos" > > >play, where a

[L-I] After the Autumn of the Patriarch: Part 2 (was Re: everything'sreally ok)

>Those of you who don't subscribe to Brad de Long's list missed this: > >>A couple of years ago everyone seemed to agree that the >>international financial institutions needed major reform--even >>though half of critics (the Jeffrey Sachs-Joseph Stiglitz wing) >>believed the institutions were t

[L-I] Re: Kostunica gives away the store

>CNN reports that Serbian television is telling the people that they will have >to "admit" to the (lies) about atrocities at Srebrenica and Kosovo to be >REALLY AND TRULY accepted into the International Community. It would appear >that Kostunica has called for a referndum on independence for Mont

[L-I] Re: American Arab Anti Discrimination Committee

>Building Protests in Support of The Palestinians- > >This forward is to the Action Alert page for the AAADC,, which is >beginning to list the demonstrations being built around the United >States. In addition, one should feel free to contact the mosques >in your community, to find out if other

[L-I] Help! (Need a Welcome Letter in Russian!)

>Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 13:47:40 -0300 >Sender: Gorojovsky Nestor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >From: ngoro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >We need to have a version of our welcome letter and homepage information in >Russian. Could the comrades at left.ru get in touch with any of the moderators >in order to generat

[L-I] Underdevelopment of Kosovo (was The Yugoslav Election)

Owen writes: > > Nobody here has said any such thing. Behind the discontent of > > Albanians in Kosovo, there had been their poverty and > > under-development. > >The reason Kosovo is impoverished and underdeveloped is because it was an >oppressed nation. You fail to see the forest for the trees

Re: [L-I] Part Three: DHKC Document on Fascism

Dear Steve: >Well Mine, cao ni made translated directly of course is, as Hnery wrote >'fuck your mothetr'. But actually the correct tranlsatoin into English >is "Fuck you', since Enlish speakers don't use the phrase 'fuck your >mother'...So I would say you have received an icorrect tra

[L-I] Re: The Yugoslav Election

Dear Owen: >It is a complete abandonment of Marxism to suggest that two million >Albanians staged an armed revolt for the hell of it. Nobody here has said any such thing. Behind the discontent of Albanians in Kosovo, there had been their poverty and under-development. Albanian nationalist id

[L-I] Re: The Yugoslav Election

Dear Owen: I'm glad that you say that the KLA doesn't receive your support. (Nobody on the Left now supports them, though, so that's neither here nor there.) >No doubt she will pledge her support for the right of Irish national >self-determination, as I myself staunchly do, regardless of the f

Re: [L-I] The Yugoslav Election

Tony wrote: >It is clear that the Yugoslav government of Milosevic has been backed >into the same corner that the Sandinistas found themselves in, in 1990. >They called elections in the midst of a war with the United States. > >In addition, it appears that both leaderships misread their own >pop

Re: [L-I] The Yugoslav Election

>Though as far as I know at 9am central European time on 9.25th the results of >the ,Y,yugoslav elections are not yet definite yo are certainly >right as far as >your conclusions on what to do are concerned except however for one point: the >defense of the right to national sdelfedetermination of

[L-I] new Yugo war?

>Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 14:42:20 -0400 >To: lbo-talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >From: Doug Henwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: new Yugo war? > >Business Week - September 25, 2000 > >Why NATO Is Bracing for Another War in Yugoslavia > >Slobodan Milosevic is backed into the tightest corner he has seen i

[L-I] Overtime Rises, Making Fatigue a Labor Issue

New York Times 17 September 2000 Overtime Rises, Making Fatigue a Labor Issue By MARY WILLIAMS WALSH In his last two and a half days of life, Brent Churchill slept a total of five hours. The rest of the time he was working. Mr. Churchill, a lineman on call one stormy weekend for Central Maine

[L-I] The Mahogany King's Brief Reign (behind the Fiji Coup)

New York Times 14 September 2000 The Mahogany King's Brief Reign By JOSEPH KAHN SUVA, Fiji - This South Pacific archipelago is best known for its fine-grained white beaches and cloudless vistas of cobalt sea. But a cockscomb range of steep-sided mountains divides the main island of Viti Levu

[L-I] Re: Women & Industrialization (was Re: capitalist patriarchy)

>Given that we all have limited time, I assume, it >might be much nicer to be informed in advance about what the issue is at >stake. > >Mine What motivated my original post is my dissatisfaction with a widely accepted narrative of labor history, which posits white male workers in rich nations

[L-I] Re: Women & Industrialization (was Re: capitalist patriarchy)

Jim Heartfield wrote: >In message <v04210100b5e4154c9b46@[140.254.114.95]>, Yoshie Furuhashi ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > >Typical faces of industrial workers changed from female & colored to > >male & white to female & colored. The preval

[L-I] Re: Women & Industrialization (was Re: capitalist patriarchy)

Michael Perelman wrote: >Yoshie, I knew that a good many of the early workers in textiles were >women, but mining, comes as a surprise. * ...For example, in Japan women's work in the coal mines was affected by recession after World War I, when more women became redundant than men. Protect

[L-I] Women & Industrialization (was Re: capitalist patriarchy)

>Doug wrote: > >>Like I said yesterday, the relation between sex/gender oppression >>and capitalism is extremely complicated, with capitalism >>destabilizing received gender hierarchies as much as it thrives on >>them. The entry of women into waged labor profoundly transforms >>societies in th

[L-I] Rule Britannia

Jim Heartfield wrote on LBO-talk: >'There is a dismal record of failure in Africa' > >Or so the British Prime Minister told the United Nations millennial >summit on 6 September. 'Twenty-one of the 44 countries in sub-Saharan >Africa are affected by conflict which undermines efforts at >developmen

[L-I] Anti-Jacobin (was anti-Pomo babble)

Hi Jim: >According to Hal Draper (in one of the volumes of his KARL MARX'S >THEORY OF REVOLUTION), Marx himself was anti-Jacobin, since the >Jacobins were petty-bourgeois, professionals, or even haute >bourgeois. He sided instead with the plebeian _sans culottes_, and >if memory serves me we

[L-I] Re: CHOMSKY REPLIES TO CRITICISMS

Jared: >On Wednesday I wrote an open letter to Noam Chomsky concerning his statements >that the Serbian government has committed war crimes, and the effect of >these attacks, which, I think, merely parrot media lies, on the potential >antiwar movement. This criticism has generated debate on va

[L-I] Economy Fuels Unrest in Bosnia

http://www.iwpr.net/index.pl5?archive/bcr/bcr_2901_1_eng.txt Thursday, September 7, 2000 Economy Fuels Unrest in Bosnia Rampant unemployment, corruption and the worst drought in 50 years are fueling social unrest in Bosnia By Nermina Durmic-Kahrovic in Tuzla (BCR No. 168, 1-Sep-00) Bosni

[L-I] Colony Kosovo (by Christian Parenti)

_San Francisco Bay Guardian_ August 23, 2000 Colony Kosovo Where cops, do-gooders, and privateers run the show. By Christian Parenti CLOGGED WITH ALMOST 800,000 souls, Pristina, Kosovo, a city of tower blocks rising from a parched valley floor, now holds twice the population for which it was

[L-I] Art in the Enemy Camp: Letter from Bohemian Belgrade (byChristian Parenti)

Art in the enemy camp Letter from bohemian Belgrade. By Christian Parenti THE DARK, one-bedroom apartment of Yugoslavian artist Vladimir Peric feels like a tricked-out bomb shelter from some mad future. He keeps the shades down because it's 100 degrees outside and the sun's radiation is, as h

[L-I] German Greens Call for Professional Army (was Re: Analysis of theU.S. Greens)

>Just what is liberal about saving the planet from capitalist greed, and >trying to create a just, tolerant society where people are valued as >people, and not classified according to their reproductive status? Marx >was a ferocious critic of liberal ideology, but he constantly harped on >the soci

[L-I] German Green Fiscal Discipline (was Re: Analysis of the U.S.Greens)

Johannes Schneider wrote: >Lieber Dennis, > >exactly, details matter. But lets first look at the big picture. Through the >auctions of the UMTS cellular phone licenses the finance minister got an >additional 100 billion Deutschmarks this month. Instead of demanding the >whole sum is spend for edu

[L-I] Hegel, Women, Irony (was Re: Pomocanadianism)

Hi Rob: >This Hutcheon woman makes out that the typically Canadian response to its >marginalisation manifests as parody and irony (could be - it does so in Oz, >too, to my mind - so, fine so far) but then says Canadian women are this >way because their assigned gender keeps 'em on the sidelines

[L-I] How to Analyze Nature & Reproduction without Becoming aPost-Marxist (was Re: poll)

>Charles Brown wrote: > >>I think they are of equal importance. >> >>People probably write about them less here, because the name of >>this list has "Economists" in it. > >There's plenty to talk about with respect to the economics of >sex/gender, but for some reason that happens in feminist foru

Re: [L-I] "Fascism"

>As you will know from my message I agree with you in substance. This is why I >would like you to explain the 'controversial' point about the >special historical >period a bit more. Do you think that 'fascism' will never retutmn in its >historical clothes or do you think that the bourgeoisie will

Re: [L-I] Taking over the Trepca mines: Plans and Propaganda

Mac posted: >I'm afraid we are somewhat on different sides of this debate here. I'll >back any decision you might make, but I value the material posted by Jared >and on his website. Diana Johnstone doesn't amount to spamming to me; I >suggest you both cool off (no more Herr Johannes cracks from J

[L-I] Convention Demonstrators Are Held on Very High Bail

New York Times August 5, 2000 Convention Demonstrators Are Held on Very High Bail Lawyers Call Action Preventive Detention By FRANCIS X. CLINES PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 4 -- With bail being set as high as $1 million for protesters accused of blocking streets during the Republican National Convent

[L-I] Civilians Suffer Under Decade-Long Sanctions in Iraq

military power. Speakers include Mary Hershberger (of SOA Watch); Greg Elich (local activist & journalist); Chad Alger (OSU professor); Harvey Wasserman (of Greenpeace); & Yoshie Furuhashi. (For more info, call Connie Hammond at 268-2637 or Les Stansbery at 231-6954 or Mark Stansbe

[L-I] War in Columbia begins to escalate

The Associated Press, July 31, 2000 Colombian Rebels Besiege Town Filed at 11:35 a.m. EDT BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- Colombian troops flew in U.S.-made combat helicopters to a remote mountain town to battle rebels who attacked a police station and claimed to have killed nearly two dozen officer

[L-I] Re: On Static notions of class, gender, imperialism, etc.

Mark: > > >Let's not forget that both Turkey and Japan were imperialist nations in > > >their heyday -- I'm getting a little tired of "white feminist" bashing > > >on the list. > > > > > >katha > > > >What she means is "white American patriotic feminist" bashing. Doesn't this >just illustrate the

[L-I] Re: On Static notions of class, gender, imperialism, etc.

>Let's not forget that both Turkey and Japan were imperialist nations in >their heyday -- I'm getting a little tired of "white feminist" bashing >on the list. > >katha Well, Katha, the history of women's active participation in imperialism isn't about "white feminist" bashing (whatever you mean

[L-I] In Iran, More Women Leaving Nest for University

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[L-I] Iran's Summer of Unrest

From: "Ulhas Joglekar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Iran's Summer of Unrest Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 19:50:53 +0530 Iran's Summer of Unrest 0019 GMT, 000714 Summary In the midst of a drought and a crippling summer heat wave, Iran is wracked by protest and violence. But mo

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