On 26 March C.N. Gomersall wrote:
>Any of our OZtralian colleagues want to comment on the new leader of the
>Labour Party? Please ensure that your observations are intelligible to the
>average pom.
>
A quick rather than profound response is as follows:
Kim Beazley is the new leader of the parli
Nick asks (rather curiously), and never one to turn down a chance to talk about
something non-USA,
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>Any of our OZtralian colleagues want to comment on the new leader of the
>Labour Party? Please ensure that your observations are intelligible to the
>average pom.
>
The leader is Kim Beasley who i
Some comments on the new SSA comments.
In the SSA framework a crisis is generally defined as the breakdown
of the institutions which underpinned the previous period of
accumulation. Generally this should manifest in the accumulation
process becoming more problematic. The main props of the po
This discussion on SSA is interesting but somewhat dated. An excellent
treatment of SSA's (although he does not, to my knowledge, use the term) is
Arrighi's recent LONG 20th CENTURY.
Moreover, I don't see how regulation theorists have the historcial
peridization wrong - any viable peridization o
HUMAN RIGHTS: WHY DOESN'T THE U.S.
LOOK INTO ITS OWN HOUSE?
THE INTERNATIONAL Covenant on Human Rights approved by the United
Nations in 1966, is divided into two parts. The first concerns
economic, social and cultural rights. The second deals with the
individual's political rights, the right t
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Economics: Washington College, a liberal arts college of approximat
Reuters
Nottingham
UK
...
Local businessmen believe Robin Hood and his Merry Men are the wrong
image for a city projecting itself as more engaged in technological
revolution that the art of archery. Four advertising agencies have
been invited by Nottingham First, a consortium of businessmen,
Since Nathan's post responded to most of the inaccuracies in the IIR Party Line,
I'm going to give y'all a sense of what UC Berkeley's IIR is like these days
by asking Michael Reich to explain two things that have puzzled a lot of
Bay Area labor folks.
This Fall, the IIR celebrated its 50th anniv
In Chico, where the Robin Hood movie was made [In California image is more
important than reality] we are ahead of Nottingham, having elected 2 fascist
supervisors yesterday.
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> Local businessmen believe Robin Hood and his Merry Men are the wrong
> image for
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Date: Sun, 18 Feb 1996 21:13:35 +1000
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(From Frontline, an activist newspaper in Australia.)
FRANCE AFTER THE STRIKES
Last gasp of the French labour movement, or first blow
against the new Europe of money, markets and cutbacks?
Our correspondent in Paris
In further response to the claim of our Irish correspondent, I also
would like to point out that "Braveheart", a movie of exceeding gore and
unrelenting action -- but also a flic propounding the themes of Celtic
unification and struggle against imperialist oppression -- won the Oscar
for best pict
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THE ISRAELI PRINCIPLE OF COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT
The blockade of the Palestinian people unleashed by Israeli state
terrorism under the medieval principle of collective punishment is
outrageous. After the disgusting spectacle of Peres
and Clinton grandstanding at Sharm el-Sheik against the so-c
> The News
> Mexico City, March 27 1996.
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> MARKET GOD RULES IN DOWNSIZING HEAVEN
>
> By RUSSELL BAKER
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> N.Y. Times News Service
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> Why is it that people who praise ''downsizing'' for its salubrious effect on
There is no way I could respond to all of the points that
everybody made about SSAs, but I want to make the following
points:
1. Contrary to Wojtek Sokolowski, I see a "rational core" in SSA
theory or Regulation theory and see it as being very unlike the
theological ideas of Plotinus (as I un
Just a thought about this SSA thread. I have long
thought that there is much to the long wave theory and I
see no necessary conflict between it and the SSA theory.
In Schumpeterian/Kondratieff terms there is a technological
component (forces of production) along with the social
structures
Jim D writes,
> In both SSA and R theory, certain institutions are seen
> as having the potential of stabilizing capitalism for a
> significant length of time.
I've questioned before whether SSA's always provide such
stabilization (of economy? of political relationships? or
class relationship
When people pick on the market, society's stomach, they miss a
better target, the privileges that distort exchange, allowing
some to exploit. When people defend the market, it's usually
those same privileges that wish to shelter, from which to dis-
tract attention. Sunlight disenfects. Let's fo
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> This article appeared yesterday in the business section of the
> BOSTON GLOBE. Elaine
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