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My spouse recently closed the used bookstore she had operated for 30 years as a result of a developer buying the block and evicting everybody. Among the stuff that was hiding itself therein are several typewritten manuscripts from 1969-70, apparently written for a master's class on SE Asia with a Marxist perspective. The author, Jonathan Fast, appears to be the same individual who wrote a number of books on the Philippines in the 70s and 80s and who had an article published in New Left Review in 1972. I've tried searching for him on the Internet with negative results. If any knows of his whereabouts or those of his heirs if he's passed on, please let me know so that we can return these items to him or his family. Included among this material is a confidential report about a right wing business seminar on "investment opportunities" in the Philippines he was mistakenly invited to in London in 1973 as an "economic expert" on the subject. His unflattering and astute 'fly on the wall' description of this event and its participants is amusing, but the author asked that it not be published for security reasons, noting that not even a representative of the UK Philippine Embassy was allowed to attend. 40 years later perhaps those concerns have been vitiated. ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
