On Wed, 1 Apr 1998, Michael Eisenscher wrote:
> There is only one way this can be achieved: by involving millions of union
> members directly in reaching out to unorganized workers (starting with
> members of their own families) and involving them fully in a massive
> campaign to revitalize the l
Louis wrote:
>We should not sweep these [human rights] issues under the rug, but neither
should we
>neglect the Maoist analysis of the Peruvian class struggle. Since these
>ideas have won the allegiance of massive numbers of the most exploited and
>oppressed peoples on the continent, they are cer
Friends,
There is a book reviewed in the 12/97 "Monthly Review" by Bruce Cumings. The book
is writtne by Maurice Meisner and is titled "The Deng Xiaoping Era: An Inquiry
into the Fate of Chinese Socialism." Cumings gives it a rave review. Has anyone
on the list read it? It sounds like it has
One of the most popular postcards on sale to tourists in Guatemala City
depicts three fair-skinned Guatemalan women picking coffee, dressed in
brilliant and spotless indigenous costumes. The colour of their lipstick
neatly matches the bright red of the coffee berries. The back of the card
reads i
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Mark Jones wrote:
>I presume the official concerned did not attempt to consult the 3 million men
>aged between 23-45 who according to official Russians stats (cited on JRL)
>died *in excess of * the demographic trendline since 1991. This calamity, the
>worst ever in Russian peace time history,com
Friends,
The Russian people are in a healp of trouble. Most are certainly worse off
than they were in 1980. What rich country has seen such a large decline in
life expectancies. And AIDs is skyrocketing. Not to mention the massive theft
of the people's property and starving pensioners and war
Friends,
Yes I have been a teacher for a long time, much too long actually. And yes I have
criticized the labor unions. But I tried to organize ourfaculty when I was an
untenured 24 year old instructor. I helped the janitors and maintenance workers
form their union and I have supported them an
http://www.thenation.com/issue/961125/1125fitc.htm
The Nation - Labor Pain - 11/25/96
Labor Pain
By Robert Fitch
[Review]
America Needs a Raise
By John J. Sweeney.
Houghton Mifflin. 167 pp. $18.95.
This year, quite suddenly, after nearly half a century of dormancy, the
classic anti-Establishmen
At 09:33 AM 4/1/98 EST, MScoleman wrote:
>My next door neighbor is a union organizer for 32B/32J national -- which for
>the uninitiated is the union that "made" John Sweeny and carried him to win
>the election of the AFL/CIO. Oh, did I mention that my neighbor is African
>American, male, and way
I have not had time yet to read the Cooper article, but when the AFL-CIO
claims 400,000 newly organized workers, my guess is that includes
affiliations and mergers of previously organized independent unions and
associations (something common especially in the public sector). That's
called "organi
C. Doug,
Okay, but Britain is now the #2 equities market, and not only because
the nikkei has fallen.
peace
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 23:23:40 -0700
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Subject: kaiser article
NURSES WIN TWO-YEAR BATTLE WITH KAISER
By David Bacon
OAKLAND, CA (3/30/98) -- Ending over a year of strikes and
conflict, California nurses signed a new co
Jim Craven writes:
>Perhaps it just depends. Some ends justify some very extreme means
>because of what is at stake. For example, for the Jew of the Warsaw
>Ghetto, it is simp[ly kill or be killed and anyone who advocates "non-
>violent" resistance is aiding and abetting the murdering of the na
Rosser Jr, John Barkley wrote:
> One piece of evidence is that consumption stats on
>such things as electricity have not fallen nearly as much
>as official income stats. One point, a lot more of the
>economy is now underground unreported income for a variety
>of reasons. Things are a lot wo
One piece of evidence is that consumption stats on
such things as electricity have not fallen nearly as much
as official income stats. One point, a lot more of the
economy is now underground unreported income for a variety
of reasons. Things are a lot worse than they were in the
countr
At 03:57 PM 4/1/98 -0500, you wrote:
>I was just told by a U.S. government official that claims of a 50% decline
>in Russian incomes during this decade are based on flawed stats, and that
>few Russians would claim that they're worse off now than in 1990.
>
>This strikes me as preposterous, but doe
Brian Green:
>I don't know where you get this assumption from...I have never supported
>Garcia, APRA, nor any other of the Peruvian liberal political projects, nor
>do I intend to heap praise on them or their followers now. But neither will
>I overlook power-hunger and brutality on the left...Sor
A friend of mine is looking for the information about actual (NOT
perceived) dangers of sexual predators on the Internet. Her requests is
attached below. Any suggestions?
Wojtek Sokolowski
>
>I have to write an article on protecting children from
>Internet predators. My personal opinion is tha
As Barkley mentioned, I am no longer a flame-thrower. But I have been
sorely tempted. You may recall how miffed I was a few months ago when I
submitted an article on African music to Z Magazine and never got a
response. When I told a friend of mine who has a rather high profile in the
academic lef
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> I have no problems in factoring in ethics into historical accounts -
Many years ago, I had a friend we can call "Pocho" who was an
engineering student in Chile when the Allende Government was
overthrown. His wife, was the Director of a Cultural Center in
Santiago and Pocho was only marginally involved in politics but when
when he and others were attacked at a c
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> Ricardo D writes:
> >... a key contending issue here - including the war issue - is: who
I was just told by a U.S. government official that claims of a 50% decline
in Russian incomes during this decade are based on flawed stats, and that
few Russians would claim that they're worse off now than in 1990.
This strikes me as preposterous, but does anyone have some data to back up
my skep
At 04:12 PM 4/1/98 -0400, Ricardo Duchesne wrote:
>You are using some sort of ethical standard to judge the West which
>you refuse to use against Stalin.
Au contraire, I insist on using the same and comparable standards. If we
were to judge leaders' crimes, say, per years in office and per p
Paul,
Pretty impressive. I must say that I remain curious
as to who PRECISELY was behind this appalling move. I know
that there were people in the State Department who did not
support this. "Big business" sounds impressive, but WHICH
big business or organization of big business. Which
Quoth Doug:
> I was just told by a U.S. government official that claims of a 50% decline
> in Russian incomes during this decade are based on flawed stats, and that
> few Russians would claim that they're worse off now than in 1990.
>
> This strikes me as preposterous, but does anyone have some
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At 10:07 PM 3/31/98 -0500, Michael Yates wrote:
>Friends,
>
>It is one thing to discuss the Sendero Luminoso movement in Peru and to
try to get
>through all of the propaganda put out about it. It is also one thing to
understand
>that people ravaged by brutal repression will often react vioently w
On Wed, 1 Apr 1998, MScoleman wrote:
> Finally, as a leftist I get sick and tired of lefties knocking the goals of
> unions and unions leaders who are at least trying to change -- or not
> differentiating between unions trying to change and those maintaining the
> status quo. No boys, the afl/ci
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Cornell Professor Fights a Slander Suit
New York Times April 1, 1998
By STEVEN GREENHOUSE
An an unusual case pitting a claim of defamation against defense of academic
freedom, a labor relations professor at Cornell University is being sued for
slander by the nation's largest nursing home company
Louis Proyect writes: >Furthermore, I can understand why you don't think
the ends justifies the means. This is a philosophical and moral position
that many decent people share, including the political science teachers I
had as an undergraduate.<
The fact that this comes from poli sci profs should
On Wed, 1 Apr 1998, Mark Jones wrote:
> I hate to quibble, but the forges of Chelyabinsk (not
> Magnitogorsk) did not start churning out T-72s until at least the
> 1970s.
Oops. My mistake. I should've said that the area around Magnitogorsk was
an important source of the iron ore which got turned
Brian,
Apparently you haven't been on this list terribly
long. In fact Louis Proyect's behavior has drastically
improved over the last year or so. He used to one of the
biggest and worst flamers on the internet, but has morphed
(almost completely) into a model of reasoned discourse and
Brian Green:
>Next time, read a post and consider what it
>actually says before assuming that everyone besides you is a
>counter-revolutionary in hiding
I didn't find your post very useful at all. It simply recycled the same old
charges against the Shining Path. I myself have made them against Se
Barkley,
While looking for something completely different, I
came across the source on the 1990 US law. Not
unexpectedly, my memory was false and it was not the
source I expected. Here I will quote it in full.
It is Sara Founders, "Bosnia Tragedy", International
Action Centre (founded by Ramse
Paul,
Will be curious to see what you find out. If what it
was was some formerly classified effort, then that would
not be showing up in an official foreign aid bill in late
1990, or probably not, anyway. Obviously this Sendic
individual is all wet on the demographic data, as I
suspect
Mark,
The discrepancy between State Department and CIA
numbers is perfectly reasonable and a good example of what
the discussion about ppp measures was all about. The
reason Japanese ppp pc income is so low is mostly because
of very high food and housing prices in Japan.
Anybody go
April 1, 1998
Cornell Professor Fights a Slander Suit
By STEVEN GREENHOUSE
In an unusual case pitting a claim of defamation against defense of
academic freedom, a labor relations professor at Cornell University is
being sued for slander by the nation's largest nursing home company.
The compan
Ah, and let's not foreget about another Westminster accomplishment: the
potato famine that wiped out a good chunk of the Irish population.
Curiously, Western pundits usually fail to give the British government a
credit for that event, yet Stalin gets the full credit for the famine his
agrarian pol
The
>political context of that period is one of a civil war launched by the
>Maoists to overthrow the nationalist-reformist government of Alan Garcia,
>while the leftists you and NACLA identified with supported this government.
I don't know where you get this assumption from...I have never suppo
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Wojtek cited the passage below from Dennis. I did not receive this
missive
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> At 05:09 PM 3/31/98 -0400, Richardo Duchesne wrote:
> >Collateral damage?!
At 01:04 PM 4/1/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Don't give me the "great man" jibe; that's a non-issue here. What
>high moral grounds? I don't think the choice is between zero
>understanding of ethics and "getting off high moral grounds". And,
>believe me, you are defending Stalin.
>
>ricardo
I have
On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Thomas Kruse wrote:
> A moment ago, it seems, in the back and forth between Devine and Duchesne,
> someone made mention of how in times of crisis -- in the last instance --
> the distinction between police and military breaks down; the example cited
> was the LA uprising/rio
Louis:
If you will re-read my message, I think you'll find nothing in here to start
a personal war; on the contrary, I liked your post, and wanted to encourage
discussion of the real issues you tried to raise. My comment on forming a
'Sendero fan club' was actually not directed at you at all, but
At 07:33 PM 3/31/98 +, you wrote:
>As someone who is just an uninformed yet interested bystander
>in this debate/dialogue, I am curious where Tupac Amaru fits
>into the tapestry of the Peruvian left.
>
>John Gulick
The Tupac Amaru (MRTA) had Guevarist politics closer to my own, but they
ne
Dennis wrote:
> Once
> the forges of Magnitogorsk began to churn out T-72s in a big way, the tide
> of the war changed for good.
>
I hate to quibble, but the forges of Chelyabinsk (not
Magnitogorsk) did not start churning out T-72s until at least the
1970s.
Mark
At 12:09 AM 4/1/98 -0800, Dennis R Redmond wrote:
>
>In any case, the battles of the Eastern front were not won or lost by
>top leaders, but by popular mobilizations: Germany had a short-term
>advantage over the Soviet Union in terms of military readiness and in
>certain areas such as aircraft pr
James, and anyone else disposed to misread me in the same way, for the sake of
clarity let me confirm that I merely enjoin Brian or anyone else seeking to
criticise the PCP on 'human rights' grounds, to permit the existence of a
level playing field (check the mote in our own eye etc), ie, there mu
My next door neighbor is a union organizer for 32B/32J national -- which for
the uninitiated is the union that "made" John Sweeny and carried him to win
the election of the AFL/CIO. Oh, did I mention that my neighbor is African
American, male, and way left of center? He was hired by Sweeny years
Brian Greene:
>Louis' initial post makes an important point...Sendero's use of indigenous
>imagery and its attempt to marry Marxism and traditional Inca culture is
>radically different from the practice of revolutionay movements elsewhere,
>i.e Nicaragua ( yes, the Sandinistas deserve all the cri
Friends,
In the last issue of The Nation, Marc Cooper notes that the most recent BLS data
on union density do not fully reflect a 400,000 increase in union membership, so
that union density did not actually fall. Of course, there has been no
breakthrough as of yet.
I look forward to reading Mic
What are the figures? There's been a lot of Jap and Asian and US
(even German) FDI.
But I don't believe anything any more. The State Department has
1995 Japanese GDP at $41k pc, the CIA at $21k ppp pc...
Mark
PS my real quation is still about the fate of Japan.
Brian Green wrote:
> However, with Robert Saute, I would add that it is not possible, nor
> desirable, to ignore the human rights issues
Meaning, we must take the PCP at your evaluation rather than it's own. Fine, if
you also permit us reciprocally to question the totality of your own
commitment
On Tue, 31 Mar 1998, PJM0930 wrote:
> The Wehrmacht might have long delayed the
> Russian advance and perhaps ground it to a halt except for the fact that
> Hilter made it a point of involving
> himself with tactial and operational doctrine to the point it
> tremendously weakened the Germans def
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