Arthur Scargill is due to resign today after 20 years as the leader of the
(British) National Union of Mine Workers.
Despite great courage he was beaten by Mrs Thatcher's attack on the miners.
The Union, which was said to have 250,000 members in 1981, is now said to
have only 5,000.
In 1996
This issue was also carried on page 4 on the Financial Times on Friday
which may have been based on the Treasury sources that Michael White
mentions in his Guardian article below.
It is an interesting conflict about the mechanics of market socialism. The
government has just published
At 31/07/02 11:56 +, Se c/o Natasha Potter wrote:
To top this off, the loss of national control over interest rates will
also have an impact - particularly given the EU limitations on Debt and
Governmental Spending. Effectively, Governments will be forced to choose
between increasing tax
At 31/07/02 08:50 -0400, Louis Proyect quoted from his article on
Zimmerwald in response to my comment:
Chris Burford:
Most relevantly on this particular debae, I think Lenin was wrong at
Zimmerwald, and I appreciate Louis Proyect highlighting this issue some
years ago and arguing that Lenin
[comments?}
Sala-i-Martin is a good lad; he's a Catalonian Nationalist and thus familiar
to me from my short Welsh Nash period as a writer of tracts on the economic
viability of small European nations. But the obvious point is that this is
a piece of doublespeak from the Economist; the trick
Subject: PRIVATISATION IN HEALTH CARE:_CANADA
ORIGINAL NOTE:
Among others, I think the folks at the Canadian Centre for Policy
Alternatives have been producing stuff on this, but I didn't find a
specific title in my quick search at
http://www.policyalternatives.ca/bc/index.html. The BC
1) By some strange coincidence, recently, I had occasion to cite a lengthy critique of
Indian eco-feminists on another list, to which no response was noted. But I see that
Shiva has surfaced here. I will post that critique done I should say to Ulhas by
Marxist-Leninists at:
PURE GREEN, AND
Yes there will be that tendency [loss of monetary freedoms forcing
capitalist austerity] but I guess it will not be as undiluted.
Assuming Stoiber wins in September in Germany he will certainly go in this
direction but how far? Social/christian democratic assumptions run deep in
Germany. Note
[anyone know what they mean in the last
sentence, reduced supply of what? wider spreads with between corp bonds
and treasuries? I just read today that spreads had tightened. I assume this
announcement means the 30-yr will
be back pretty soon.]
Turning to the current state of financial
Michael Perelman wrote:
Is this discussion or the elitism thread going anywhere?
Not really, but does any thread ever go anywhere?
Doug
Michael Perelman wrote:
Is this discussion or the elitism thread going anywhere?
Not really, but does any thread ever go anywhere?
Doug
I know this is an onerous burden to place on pen-l'ers, but you should
search for ways to impart some kind of concrete information whenever you
post. In
Doug Henwood wrote:
Michael Perelman wrote:
Is this discussion or the elitism thread going anywhere?
Not really, but does any thread ever go anywhere?
It's the journey, dudes, not the destination.
Right now, I think liberalism'd be a lovely idea. I'm sure we'd've got
there years
Lou expressed my thought better than I did. I would only add that in
these debates nobody seems to learn anything from anybody else -- at
least, you can pretty well predict what the few participants in such
debates will write.
On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 10:25:32AM -0400, Louis Proyect wrote:
In
Although, on the up side - or at least what sounds like an upside from the
other side of the puddle - there was quite an upset in the Amicus election
(Sir Ken Jackson, with the boot). Can you tell us anything about this Derek
Simpson fellah, Chris? The press have been just describing him as a
Today on my radio show (WBAI, 99.5 FM New York and
http://www.wbai.org, 5-6 PM eastern US time):
* Ruy Teixeira of The Century Fund, talking about public opinion on
the corporate scandals
* Michael Hardt, co-author with Antonio Negri of Empire, talking
about the reaction to the book, any
Published on Thursday, August 1, 2002 in the Baltimore Sun
Bush-Connected Company Set Up Offshore Subsidiary
Congress continues work to limit such maneuvers for dodging U.S. taxes
by David L. Greene
WASHINGTON - The White House acknowledged yesterday that while President
Bush was serving on
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Subject: [PEN-L:28988] RE: convergence?
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Sala-i-Martin is a good lad; he's a Catalonian Nationalist and thus
familiar
to me from my
G'day Doug,
* Ruy Teixeira of The Century Fund, talking about public opinion on
the corporate scandals
Ask him if it's true Cisco aren't about to sign off on their statements,
and that some of ther head-suits might be opting for more time with the
families. Dark rumours are a material force,
Well pardon me for being a political philosopher. Personally, I learn a lot
about possible misunderstanduings, objections, responses, at least from a
certain viewpoint. I also find internet discussion groups a poor venue for
fact intensive empirical research, but what do I know. I do wish
Rob Schaap wrote:
Doug Henwood wrote:
Michael Perelman wrote:
Is this discussion or the elitism thread going anywhere?
Not really, but does any thread ever go anywhere?
It's the journey, dudes, not the destination.
How about, Is this discussion becoming or going?
Tom Walker
Michael writes:
I would only add that in
these debates nobody seems to learn anything from anybody else -- at
least, you can pretty well predict what the few participants in such
debates will write.
To be sure, most postings in most PEN-L debates appear as predictable
rehearsals of existing
Jack A. Smith is a propaganda genius. Here is an article with enough historical data to clarify the doctrine and art of the class struggle.
WHO'S GOING TO STOP BUSH?
By Jack A. Smith
Since Sept. 11, the U.S. left has been warning that the Bush
administration was exploiting the tragedy to
Title: RE: [PEN-L:28995] Re: Re: Re: : liberalism
the best any thread on pen-l (and lbo-talk?) seems to be able to do is to clarify differences.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
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From: Doug Henwood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Title: RE: [PEN-L:28996] Re: Re: Re: Re: : liberalism
Louis writes:
I know this is an onerous burden to place on pen-l'ers, but
you should search for ways to impart some kind of concrete information
whenever you post.
That's good, but I like a weaker standard, since not all
Title: RE: [PEN-L:29002] Re: RE: convergence?
Also, with these time series studies, we should adjust any numbers for the disappearance of non-market sources of livelihood, a process that is part and parcel of marketization. This hits those with the smallest incomes most.
Jim Devine [EMAIL
I would disagree. It seems to me that maillists are primarily
conversational, and attempts to make them replace printed journals are
mostly wishful thinking. I my only rarely either read or write posts
much longer than 4 or 5 screens. Moreover, issues that really do depend
on large amounts of
Thursday August 1, 12:14 pm Eastern Time
Reuters Business Report
Manufacturing Growth Nearly Halts in July
By Ross Finley
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. manufacturing growth nearly ground to a halt in
July, a report said on Thursday, showing the economy has cooled
significantly from earlier this year
Title: RE: [PEN-L:28981] The last of liberalism
This is my last post on this thread -- and my last of the day. Work calls. (I have also cut the message down to one part, the one in which Justin makes a false accusation. I am sorry that it's so abstract.)
I wrote:
I don't identify democracy
the best any thread on pen-l (and lbo-talk?) seems to be able to do is to clarify
differences.
Jim Devine
'perceptual fault lines' run through apparently stable communities that appear to have
agreed on basic institutions and structures and on general governing rules.
Thanks Lou,
Your contributions are inestimable. We are at another juncture, which you
grasp and expresses in your contributions.
Thanks!
You have singularly altered my perception of what I thought was the
Trotskyite movement and individuals. I hope that an old Stalinist dog such
as I have
[Please sign this petition at:
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and forward]
Stop Bush's 'Wag the Dog' Invasion of Iraq
To: George W. Bush, Congress, and the Media
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[from a friend]
i was aware that domestic violence is much higher in the military and
often covered up, but I would have thought the military would have become
more proactive in addressing these issues rather than continuing to
dismiss or hide them. yet, i feel part of the problem is that even
WSJ, Aug. 1, 2002
Economic Growth Slows
Far More Than Expected
By GREG IP
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
WASHINGTON -- The nation's economic recovery is weaker than previously
believed and last year's recession was deeper, raising the chances that the
still-fragile recovery could
Washington Post, Thursday, August 1, 2002; Page A01
Economic Crisis Swells in S. America
By Anthony Faiola
Washington Post Foreign Service
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, July 31 -- Several additional South American countries
have been swept up in what is becoming the region's worst economic crisis
in
[This 23 year old United Nations treaty, already approved by 170 countries,
that promotes women's rights worldwide is still unratified by the United
States...but now it has finally reached the Senate floor...in your face
Jesse Helms!]
UN Treaty to Move to Senate Floor for First Time in US
(The following article I translated from Internationale Samenwerking (May
2002, p.31-33), a monthly published free by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign
Affairs. For the benefit of my anti-Dutch Marxmail critics I should perhaps
point out that I mail this because I think it's interesting.
Louis Proyect wrote...
A related position is Giovanni Arrighi's peculiar 'geometry' of world
processes under capitalism. Arrighi is an admitted Kantian, and he believes
that the basic forces determining the historical trajectory of the modern
world are ultimately spatial, in an absolutist,
The Hindu
Tuesday, Jul 30, 2002
Jordan opposes action against Iraq
By Hasan Suroor
LONDON JULY 29. King Abdullah of Jordan, who met the British Prime Minister,
Tony Blair, here on Monday, rejected speculation that his country would back
any U.S. military action in Iraq and accused the
(From the late Jim Blaut's regrettably out-of-print The National
Question. Sharp readers will notice a strong affinity between
Wallerstein's world systems perspective and the one put forward by
Hardt-Negri in Empire)
A second national-states-are-out-of-date position is associated with
joanna bujes :
Yeah, I read the Wallerstein piece that was posted earlier today and I was
profoundly underwhelmed. It made me think that one cure for neo-marxism
would be some kind of grunt job for at least a year (in lieu of a
sabbatical). Beyond that, Hardt/Negri/Wallerstein/etc interest
The Hindu
Tuesday, Jul 30, 2002
Jordan opposes action against Iraq
snip
[King Abdullah] warned that the hawks in the Bush administration,
pressing for an attack on Iraq, posed a threat to American strategic
interests'' in West Asia.
I saw the Middle East referred to as West Asia once
[The Guardian]
Real crisis of confidence
Thursday August 1, 2002
Six months after Argentina's economy went into meltdown, the shockwaves are finally
reaching its neighbours, including Brazil, writes Mark Tran
Uruguay, long regarded as the Switzerland of Latin America because of its solid
ATTN; Sir,
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Sierra Leonean and son of late DR PHILLIP COLMAN .
Before
the death of my father he disclosed to me about the
total sum of
Sustainable Agriculture: Do GMOs Imperil Biosafety?
Lakshman D. Guruswamy*
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
9 Ind. J. Global Legal Stud. 461
http://ijgls.indiana.edu/archive/09/02/guruswamy.shtml
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