http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?news_6_2852
Janitors, supporters crash country club breakfast
By Steve Share
18 January 2007
GOLDEN VALLEY - About 40 members and supporters of the Twin Cities janitors
union crashed a breakfast meeting of building owners Thursday morning at the
Golden
A clip from an interview I did recently and published on Counterpunch with
Jerry Lembcke on the relevance of the myth of spat on Vietnam Vets to the
antiwar movement today and the obsession with 'supporting the troops' as an
'anti-war' strategy...
http://counterpunch.org/philion10132006.html
My response to Robert Weil on China's Working Class is now at ZNet:
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=103&ItemID=12366
Stephen Philion
Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
St. Cloud State University
http://stephenphilion.efoliomn2.com/
Black and whit
http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/stories/20070518001709100.htm
China's dilemma
C.P. CHANDRASEKHAR
CHINA'S economic predicament today is unenviable. Its problem is not that it is
experiencing slow growth or is faced with recession, but that it has grown too
fast for too long. Its difficulty is
http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/stories/20070518001709100.htm
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China's dilemma
C.P. CHANDRASEKHAR
CHINA'S economic predicament today is unenviable. Its problem is not that it is
experiencing slow growth or is faced with recession, but that it has grown too
fast for too long. Its dif
I've published an article in the journal Socialism and Democracy on the topic
"Workers' Democracy versus Privatization in China". If you would like a copy, I
can send you one, just lemme know offlist,
The abstract:
This article focuses on the role of ‘workers’ democracy’ in stateowned
enterpris
Han Deqiang is a prolific economist at the Economics
and Management School, Beijing University
of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and one of a
growing number of Chinese scholars critical of
the country’s neoliberal development strategy. Han, however,
did not just arrive at this stance. He has been cr
Forgot to mention, that interview is from this month's Dollars and Sense (
www.dollarsandsense.org )
If you'd like a PDF of the whole interview, email me offlist,
Steve
Stephen Philion
Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
St. Cloud State University
St. Cloud, MN
http:/
Anthropology
St. Cloud State University
St. Cloud, MN
http://stephenphilion.efoliomn2.com/
- Original Message -
From: Stephen E Philion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, May 17, 2007 1:22 pm
Subject: China's Dilemma
To: pen-l@sus.csuchico.edu
> http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline
Max wrote:
I think it's more general. It's the floating, meaningless reference point.
You thought X was bad because it had a level of some number Y.
But you should really redefine X as something else, and the latter
has a level less than Y, so X is really not as bad as you thought,
hence not so ba
Interesting article in today's NYT about China's growing influence
elsewhere in Asia - some new cross-border class network that's a
potential rival to US linkages. I wonder if & when the US bourgeoisie
will begin worrying about China as a serious rival.
Doug
--I've argued for awhile now that the
Jim Devine wrote:
Obviously, these are important indicia, but it's up to the people
involved (the Mainlanders, the Taiwanese) to decide how distinct they
are, in a democratic way. One thing that should be noted is that Taiwan
has a "Formosan" (non-Han) population that the PRC lacks. The history
sin
Jim D asked:
To what extent are the coal mines of the PRC privatized (see below)? If
they aren't, why is "privatization" an issue?
Jim Devine
--Jim, I said, I'm pretty sure, pace of privatization, not
privatization, is at issue.
Steve
Can anyone come up with a rational explanation
of Schwartzanager's conduct (or US courts' behaviour) that can explain
such inexplicible behaviour except some primeval hate/revenge syndrom?
Paul P
--political calculation in terms of votes in future elections. Police unions
have been angry at Ahn
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