Re: M-TH: (Fwd) LM NEWS: The end of LM magazine

2000-03-30 Thread russell p
> >From the I.S. to the RCG to the RCT to the RCP to LM and now finally >to RIP. The old Revolutionary Communist Party after its demise as a >political party has finally taken The Last Step and ceased to be >Living at all. > >Their consistent idiosyncrasies will be sorely missed, as will their >

M-TH: Gay magazine censored by NetBenef

2000-03-30 Thread J.WALKER
I thought this may be of interest to any Left group which has a web page hosted by a commercial company. John Walker --- Forwarded Message Follows --- To:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 14:38:22 +0100 From:

Re: M-TH: Re: Market socialism & the 90s

2000-03-30 Thread Charles Brown
>>> Michael Pugliese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 03/29/00 11:16AM >>> Can't say I'm a very happy left social democrat, but in the absence, of a mass, radical democratic left, I'll take working in the less reality impaired precincts of the social democratic swamp. At least they have read and thought and

M-TH: From China

2000-03-30 Thread Charles Brown
SCMP Thursday, March 30, 2000 Army pushes Jiang's party unity dictum WILLY WO-LAP LAM President Jiang Zemin is pushing ideological education in the face of rising pro-independence sentiments in Taiwan.

Re: M-TH: From China

2000-03-30 Thread Chris Burford
I agree this sort of news from China is important. I also agree that it is silly to take a routinely positive or a routinely negative attitude to developments in China. But why did you choose this item? What conclusions do you draw from it? Chris Burford (absent recently owing to leave and

Re: M-TH: From China

2000-03-30 Thread Charles Brown
>>> Chris Burford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 03/30/00 06:09PM >>> But why did you choose this item? What conclusions do you draw from it? _ CB: Just my routine commie news service function. Also, one of "facts" in trying to decide what is going on in China is that the Party still claims to

Re: M-TH: Re: Market socialism & the 90s

2000-03-30 Thread Rob Schaap
G'day Chas, Sez you: "It is not clear that this is factually true. Left social democrats don't have too many successful organizings that I can see, except by becoming right "social democrats". Where there were successes, it is not clear that communists didn't play as big or bigger role than the