[PEN-L] Janitors crash MPLS Country Club

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

[PEN-L] Spit and today's antiwar movement strategies

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

[PEN-L] Me in ZNET on Working Class in China

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

[PEN-L] China's Dilemma

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

[PEN-L] China's Dilemma

http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/stories/20070518001709100.htm COLUMN 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

[PEN-L] Workers' Democracy versus Privatization in China

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

[PEN-L] Interview with Han Deqiang on Social Costs of Neoliberalism in China

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

[PEN-L] Whole interview with Han available in PDF

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:/

[PEN-L] Alex Cockburn on Naomi Klein's Shock Doctrine

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

Re: [PEN-L] apologia

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

Re: [PEN-L] in hock to the Chinese

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

Re: [PEN-L] Jim Craven on Taiwan

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

Re: [PEN-L] Jim Craven on Taiwan,

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

Re: [PEN-L] No Clemency from Arnold

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