Re: [PEN-L] london bombings

in which 20 thousand children die each day, each of whom has a weeping mother. Blair says something acceptable about that too, but not quite so loud. Even in this crisis he remains the most acceptable face of international finance capital. IMHO Chris Burford - Original Message - From

[PEN-L] Blair ascendant over Chirac

. President of Europe Chris Burford

Re: [PEN-L] PK on China Challenge

for the moral ideological high ground over Africa and the environment, These issues are the ideological drapery for the enthronement of some sort of new world government. But who will have control of the money? Chris Burford PS CARTOON The accompanying cartoon in the IHT was particularly apposite

[PEN-L] patronising Africa

for a perspective influenced by Marxist thinking about the uneven accumulation of exchange value as capital, all talk of cancelling debts, and ensuring fair trade will reproduce this patronising outlook. Chris Burford London most of whose forebears left Africa 3,000 generations ago.

[PEN-L] traffic control

rises. Chris Burford

Re: [PEN-L] is the EU on a path towards monetary disintegration?

forms. Chris Burford London - Original Message - From: Charles Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PEN-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 2:53 PM Subject: [PEN-L] is the EU on a path towards monetary disintegration? http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,5673,1498334,00.html

[PEN-L] multitudes against Empire

% of the world's available savings. The whole pattern looks very unstable. Organising pop conferences to give charity to Africa, may only give a moral cover to what looks like a chaotically fragile global and economic political system. Chris Burford

Re: [PEN-L] Galloway - BBC

network of media. A world concept of justice is being forged in battle. Chris Burford London - Original Message - From: Carl Remick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PEN-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 12:40 AM Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Galloway The BBC World News tonight led with story

[PEN-L] Christian Fascists

suspect however it is a mistake to regard Roman Catholics as in this group. Chris Burford - Original Message - From: Michael Hoover [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PEN-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 8:00 PM Subject: [PEN-L] Avakian vs Terry: Loser Leave Town Outside the Florida hospice

Re: [PEN-L] moral framing, vision

as an economic and a political perspective. Chris Burford London - Original Message - From: Michael Hoover [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PEN-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2005 12:02 AM Subject: Re: [PEN-L] moral framing, vision [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/25/05 2:12 PM Michael H's response

[PEN-L] capital lost clout?

very eyes, and add a little class struggle. Chris Burford London economic autodidact.

[PEN-L] working class revolution in Kyrgyzstan

interrogation methods with which the Putin regime probably has no difference of principle.] Contradictions. Contradictions. How to put a lid on them? Chris Burford London

[PEN-L] corporate seismic shift

socialised in form, that it just needs political struggle to start tipping it over into socialism. A bit of class struggle might help the political battle too. IMHO Chris Burford London

[PEN-L] truly terrifying appointment

World Development Movement blames European governments for Wolfowitz nomination http://www.wdm.org.uk/news/presrel/current/wolfowitz.htm

[PEN-L] why a global matrix exists now

. Chris Burford London - Original Message - From: Doyle Saylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PEN-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 3:39 PM Subject: Re: [PEN-L] why a Matrix couldn't be realized in real life Greetings Economists, The matrix is a fantasy about creating versimultudenous

[PEN-L] why a Matrix couldn't be realized in real life

remains the eve of the world socialist revolution. Thus a matrix (but not a Matrix) is indeed being realized in real life in front of our very eyes. It is just that it is invisible to our eyeballs. Regards to Charles and Ravi Chris Burford - Original Message - From: Charles Brown [EMAIL

[PEN-L] Leowontin reviews Steven Rose's latest book on the brain

From the Lancet March 12 2005 The 21st-Century Brain: Explaining, Mending and Manipulating the Mind Steven Rose. Jonathan Cape, 2005. Pp 344. £20·00. ISBN 0-224-06254-9. In their attempts to make the mysterious

Re: [PEN-L] slime mold socialism

starkly counterposed to capitalism, and communism was assumed to be a distant utopia? It might just not be Chris Burford - Original Message - From: Devine, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PEN-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 4:34 PM Subject: [PEN-L] slime mold socialism

[PEN-L] 8 million children die each year within the first month

From the editor of the Lancet (UK medical journal) - Original Message - From: Lancet [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 7:37 PM Subject: The Lancet - Neonatal Survival Series Eight million children are either stillborn or die each year within the first

Re: [PEN-L] Fwd: White Paper on Regional Autonomy for Ethnic Minorities in China

* decline by comparison with the economic epicentres? Chris Burford - Original Message - From: Louis Proyect [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PEN-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 8:58 PM Subject: [PEN-L] Fwd: White Paper on Regional Autonomy for Ethnic Minorities in China Hi Louis

[PEN-L] CEO's as gilded intelligentsia

? Probably not as the dominant mode of capitalist production. Chris Burford London

[PEN-L] crumbling NATO - growing Empire?

. Chris Burford London

[PEN-L] Intifada in Lebanon

Intelligence Bulletin jointly published by the United States Committee for a Free Lebanon and the Middle East Forum:- http://www.meib.org/articles/0004_l1.htm Some apples take long to ripen. Chris Burford

[PEN-L] Significant legal victory against transnationals from European Court

campaigners for social accountability and responsibility. Food is becoming a front line. Chris Burford London

Re: [PEN-L] Arthur Miller, Playwright, Is Dead at 89

will remain a challenge even under socialism, and communism. Chris Burford - Original Message - From: Devine, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PEN-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 3:54 PM Subject: [PEN-L] FW: News Alert: Arthur Miller, Playwright, Is Dead at 89 Arthur Miller

Re: [PEN-L] Thinking for Ourselves: What do we mean by democracy?

of the balance of forces. At least something along these lines. Chris Burford - Original Message - From: Charles Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PEN-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 5:06 PM Subject: [PEN-L] Thinking for Ourselves: What do we mean by democracy? Thinking for Ourselves

[PEN-L] Collapse of anti-communism

and know how to play the game on their own terms. Chris Burford London

Re: [PEN-L] Collapse of anti-communism

, and capital. And Capital. Chris Burford Lodnon - Original Message - From: Chris Burford [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PEN-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 7:35 PM Subject: [PEN-L] Collapse of anti-communism It is little consolation to socialists but alongside the collapse

[PEN-L] Make Poverty History

http://www.cafod.org.uk/policy_and_analysis/policy_papers/make_poverty_history/mph_briefing christian liberal rubbish? skirmishing between aid voluntary organisations for profile - eg who can get Nelson Mandela to endorse a news story? Or utopian socialism on a world scale? Chris Burford PS I

[PEN-L] Ghana water privatisation

that is extremely valid but a bit artificial as far as the consciousness of the local people is concerned. On the other hand I could well imagine that the very opposite is the case ... Any comments please? http://www.wdm.org.uk/biwater/index.htm Chris Burford London

[PEN-L] Auschwitz and the Logic of Destruction

This is the subtitle of Architects of Annihilation by Goetz Aly and Susanne Heim. p 294 Our study has shown that the modern praxis-oriented social sciences and the reception of their findings in the seats of political power played a significant part in the decisions that led to systematic mass

[PEN-L] Heterodox Economics

Does anyone know any of the organisations in this Association? and have a recommendation? http://hetecon.com/ Chris Burford London

Re: [PEN-L] all quiet on the Leftern front

. This is total Empire. In the name of freedom the bourgeois rights of finance capitalism will rule in every corner of the world. Nothing to be quiet about, but the strategy and the tactics of resisting this and turning it against itself into global socialism will be highly complex. Chris Burford PS

[PEN-L] The Historicising of Auschwitz

act of historicisation that should be contested, for the sake not just of people of Jewish cultural descent, nor just of ordinary German people, like my deaf old friend who is both, but for the sake of the ordinary people of the world. Chris Burford London

Re: [PEN-L] British exceptionalism

There have been many factors, which in my opinion are broadly in conformity with a framework of historical materialism, but it should also be said that the English have been lucky. Randomness is part of a pattern of probability. Chris Burford Quoting Louis Proyect [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Leandro

[PEN-L] WSJ finds caring role?

for international technical and managerial planning will start to alter the nature of global capitalism, and address the massive contradiction between the price of labour power in different parts of the world, which is the mirror image of the uneven accumulation of capital on a world scale. Chris

[PEN-L] Lisbon Earthquake 1755

Candide. The civil society that will be united by this latest earthquake however is global and not merely European, and that has something to do with the development of the means of production. Chris Burford

Re: [PEN-L] economics and class struggle - UN Declaration of Human Rights

the same social protection. in reply to: --- To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: economics and class struggle behind legal victory. From: Chris Burford Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 --- snip

Re: [PEN-L] economics and class struggle behind legal victory

concessions. It allows us to participate in a Gramscian struggle of global dimensions, although each individual contribution may appear petty. Thanks for sharing. Chris Burford

Re: [PEN-L] economics and class struggle behind legal victory

personally think I am lugubrious enough already, but as Michael discourages characterisations I will not invite corrections at this point. Seasons greetings! Chris Burford - Original Message - From: Patrick Bond [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PEN-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2004 5:44 AM

[PEN-L] economics and class struggle behind legal victory.

orking class and self-employed workers on the land - a more radical agenda of human rights is to their advantage, but there is a downside in that it ultimately tends to emphasise atomised individualised rights, despite Lord Hoffman's praise for the "social organism". My take on the dialectics, behind this victory. Chris Burford London

[PEN-L] Stunning legal victory on the real threat to the life of the nation

the application of the eccentric Spanish judge Baltazar Garzon, against Pinochet 6 years ago. http://www.wsws.org/news/1998/nov1998/pin-n28.shtml These struggles are part of the Gramscian struggle for ideological hegemony, in Britain, in Chile, in Europe and in the world. They will succeed. Chris

Re: [PEN-L] online source on German left affairs

Thanks. Perhaps you would draw attention to a particular article from time to time and briefly say why. I see Bisky advises caution about PDS prospects in 2006, despite the successes earlier this year. Chris Burford - Original Message - From: g kohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED

[PEN-L] Marx seems clearly to have gotten wrong

. That will most persuasively emerge in the course of struggle. I suggest Chris Burford

Re: [PEN-L] Decline of the dollar

a qualitative change in the mode of world-wide capitalist organisation? Can this be happening? Now?? And what are the future implications for class struggle? Chris Burford London - Original Message - From: Louis Proyect [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 27, 2004 3

[PEN-L] class struggle in the Ukraine

suggest. Chris Burford London

Re: [PEN-L] Impact of dollar decline?

almighty military as a pre-eminent chip in international power politics. In the long term this is foolish but it might be the best strategy for keeping the Republicans in power for the next ten years. Chris Burford London. - Original Message - From: Eugene Coyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: [PEN-L] Growing Chinese economic influence

corporation in the world. Probably with a smoother life expectancy than the Murdoch corporation over the next ten years, and proven ability to outmanouevre someone like George Soros. Chris Burford - Original Message - From: Louis Proyect [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday

Re: [PEN-L] Growing Chinese economic influence

will pass wholly into Chinese hands. No I do not think they are money grubbing about this. I think they are operating in a world in which they know the rules are ones of control by large blocks of finance capitalism over workers, resources and markets. Chris Burford - Original Message - From

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

with any public policy comment. Whether it ultimately provides conditions for a more socialist world and the overthrow of the power of capital as dead labour, will be highly contested territory. Chris Burford London - Original Message - From: Max B. Sawicky [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: [PEN-L] on the subject of China

stakeholding over a decade or two. How could the USA object to this pleasant offer below that the poor Chinese will generously help tourism and rail travel in Argentina? Chris Burford London - Original Message - From: Anthony D'Costa [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 17

Re: [PEN-L] Sam Smith on bad times

is in office. Chris Burford - Original Message - From: Carl Remick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 3:46 PM Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Sam Smith on bad times I remember how bleak the world looked at the time of Nixon's second inaugural, when the prospect