Last night around 12:33am, I began surfing through the stations on my table
radio as I often do when I wake up in the middle of the night. Since the
radio has a TV band, I checked out what was on channel 13--the local PBS
station. To my pleasant surprise, I heard Michael Yates being interviewed
by
We have a larger middle class, many more millionaires and a few billionaires, however, the overall condition of our people is worse. We have more entrepreneurs, more college graduates, more persons holding political office, more Black mayors, city councilors, aldermen, state representatives,
On 5/3/05, michael a. lebowitz wrote:
I don't remember the experience in Algeria, though, and am away
from my books. Can you (or anyone else) expand on that point?
it's been a long time since I read this material, so I can't add
anything beyond that what initially seemed like a good thing on the
it's been a long time since I read this material, so I can't add
anything beyond that what initially seemed like a good thing on the
micro level (workers' control) turned out to divide the Algerian
working class.
--
Jim Devine
I think there were bigger problems than that.
Jim wrote:
it's been a long time since I read this material, so I can't add
anything beyond that what initially seemed like a good thing on the
micro level (workers' control) turned out to divide the Algerian
working class.
Can you give references? On the socialism list we are
collecting
I agree with your analysis (and wasn't trying to propose anything as
complete a picture). One thing behind the technocratic/capitalist tilt
of the Algerian revolution was that the French strategy and tactics in
the war for independence led to a decimation of the grass roots of the
a lot of my references appear in my review of _The Emergence of
Classes in Algeria: A Study of Colonialism and Socio-Political Change_
(Westview Press, 1976), by Marnia Lazreg, that appeared in the _Review
of Radical Political Economics_, volume 12(1), Spring 1980: pp. 64-67.
On 5/4/05, Hans G.
At 10 am this morning, about 500 to 700 people, mostly of Chinese descent
met at the Chinese cultural center in Vancouver, BC to march to the
Japanese consulate to protest cover-ups and revisionism in Japanese
textbooks, to demand that Japan not be seated as a permanent member of the
UN Security
(A few years ago, Jim took the side of some Canadian Indians who were in a
dispute with a self-anointed savior over testimony they gave about abuse in
residential schools to a UN-sponsored hearing. This guy is named Kevin
Annett and has been slandering Jim ever since--accusing him of being a cop,
Greetings Economists,
Various statements have been made,
Doug Henwood,
Did you ever read Hamermesh's stuff on beauty the labor market?
There was surprising agreement among a panel of raters on who was
attractive and who wasn't. Apparently there's less variation among
beholders than we'd like to
Greetings Economists,
This article is supplemental my essay on ugliness,
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storycid=96e=19u=/space/scientistss
ayeveryonecanreadminds
Ker Than
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Wed Apr 27,10:24 AM ET
Empathy allows us to feel the emotions of others, to
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,1476751,00.html
EU offer may unlock stalled trade round
Mandelson makes concession on agricultural tariffs
Ashley Seager in Paris
Thursday May 5, 2005
Guardian
Hopes of a global trade deal received a major boost last night after
Peter Mandelson
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