Subject: (MARX) German student's strike
Date: Fri; 5 Dec 97 15:39:13 +0000
From: ( socappeal@easynet.co.uk )
The German Marxist paper Funke has just opened its web page at present only in German and will carry regular updates on the present student's struggle. You can visit their site at: http://home.t-online.de/home/dermole/derfunke.htm
Date: Tue; 9 Dec 1997 08:27:02 -0500
From: International Viewpoint ( 100666.1443@compuserve.com )
Subject: (MARX) Grenzeloos (Holland) no. 41
Contents of Grenzeloos (newspaper of the Dutch Socialist Workers Party) no. 41 Nov./Dec. 1997 All articles are in Dutch; those marked with an asterisk (*) were written for Grenzeloos. Page Author Title 1/3 John Cozijn Stop poverty and the dual society * 2 Editorial Iraq * 4 Seros & Ron Blom Bahman [Iranian refugee comrade] is free! * 4 Alex de Meijer Full speed ahead in the wrong direction (Mainport psychosis part IV) * 5 Ailco van der Veen The fight for the [Amsterdam] harbour * 5 Job Pool and Youth Job Plan: for a good contract!* 6 Barend de Voogd The SAP will not take part in the [1998] parliamentary elections: Against the purple polder consensus * 6-7 (Interview) Elections in Beverwijk: Judith Romke: "It's not buzzing yet" * 7 A Different Amsterdam [SAP-Greens local election alliance] * 8 Lotti Schenk Towards a feminist Europe! * 8-9 Saskia Boumans Globalization: MAI-DAY! MAI-DAY! * 9 Robert Went The barbarous face of casino capitalism * 10 Barend de Voogd SAP meeting: 80 years since October * 10 Erik van Rijn Che Guevara [Rebel tour in Leiden] * 11 James Balowski Indonesia burns ... and Suharto looks on 11 Harry Otten Fire out of control * 12 Paris on December 20: Youth for a different Europe/European Youth Charter
Date: Tue; 9 Dec 1997 12:16:15 -0500
From: International Viewpoint ( 100666.1443@compuserve.com )
Subject: (MARX) Mexico/Convergencia socialista #2
YA APARECIO EL SEGUNDO NUMERO DE CONVERGENCIA SOCIALISTA Convergencia Socialista es una revista bimestral que se publica en Mexico hermanada con "Cuadernos Feministas" (trimestral) y con "Desde los cuatro puntos" (correo de prensa internacional mensual). Las tres revistas son editadas por Convergencia Socialista APN. Los directores de la revista "Convergencia Socialista" son Hector Diaz Polanco y Edgard Sanchez Ramirez. Hector Diaz Polanco es Profesor-Investigador del Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropologia Social (CIESAS) y asesor del EZLN durante la primera mesa del dialogo de San Andres. Edgard Sanchez Ramirez es dirigente nacional del Partido Revolucionario de los Trabajadores (PRT) y fue diputado federal de 1994 a 1997 producto de la alianza del PRT con el Partido de la Revolucion Democratica (PRD). Convergencia Socialista se propone analizar problemas politicos de actualidad de Mexico y el mundo siendo un punto de encuentro de militantes e intelectuales socialistas de origenes partidarios o no partidarios distintos pero coincidentes en reivindicar el enfoque marxista y la propuesta socialista. El primer numero de "Convergencia Socialista" correspondiente a septiembre-octubre tiene el siguiente contenido: ?Y despues del 6 de julio? por Edgard Sanchez. La educacion contra el neoliberalismo por Michael Lowy. Estado e identidades etnicas en la globalizacion por Consuelo Sanchez. Perfiles de la autonomia en Mexico por Hector Diaz Polanco. Patria Jimenez: primera diputada lesbiana . ?Por que Convergencia Socialista? El Che Guevara: los sesenta y los noventa por Fernando Martinez Heredia. En la seccion de Documentos se publican todos los textos de los Acuerdos de San Andres entre el EZLN y el gobierno federal. En la seccion de "Varia" Laura Patricia Romero resena el libro "La rebelion zapatista y la autonomia". El contenido del numero dos de "Convergencia Socialista" correspondiente a septiembre y octubre es el siguiente: La formacion de conceptos en los pueblos indios (el caso de Chiapas) por Pablo Gonzalez Casanova. Progresa: los reditos del hambre" por Miguel Garcia Ramirez. Retos del nuevo gobierno del DF Alain Krivine entrevista a Cuauhtemoc Cardenas. Mil veces mas verde que el gris de la teoria. Notas a la 'Rebelion zapatista y la autonomia' de H. Diaz Polanco por Luis Hernandez Navarro La realidad es mas que una inmensa estepa verde.(Siete precisiones necesarias) por Hector Diaz Polanco. Discurso de Fidel Castro en las honras funebres del Che Guevara" Che Guevara: producto de una Revolucion conversacion de Michael Lowy con Fernando Martinez Heredia. La nueva izquierda posmarxista (una critica) por Octavio Rodriguez Araujo. La izquierda mexicana: crisis, repunte y redefiniciones por Edgard Sanchez Ramirez. 1917-1997: tres debates sobre la Revolucion de Octubre por Daniel Bensaid. Marxismo y Feminismo por Frederique Vinteuil. Convergencia Socialista se puede conseguir en sus oficinas de la Ciudad de Mexico ubicadas en Xola 181 Colonia Alamos C.P. 03400. El telefono y fax es el (5) 590 07 08. el E-mail es csapn@laneta.apc.org El precio de la revista es de $15.00 (quince pesos). La suscripcion de promocion a nivel nacional cuesta $80.00 (ochenta pesos) por cuatro numeros. El dinero de la suscripcion se puede enviar por giro u orden de pago bancaria al domicilio senalado antes enviando copia por fax al 590 07 08. Tambien puede depositarse en la cuenta Invermatico de Banamex numero 8548971153433598. Tanto para esta cuenta bancaria como ordenes de pago deben enviarse a nombre de Edgard Sanchez Ramirez. En cualquier caso junto con la copia del deposito hay que enviar un cupon de suscripcion conteniendo el nombre domicilio ciudad y estado al que hay que enviar la revista. Para suscripciones fuera de Mexico consultar en el domicilio postal antes senalado por fax o por E-mail
Date: Wed; 10 Dec 1997 04:03:31 -0500
From: International Viewpoint ( 100666.1443@compuserve.com )
Subject: (MARX) International Viewpoint#295 Contents
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Date: Wed; 10 Dec 1997 14:32:31 ARG
From: "Alberto Daniel Teszkiewicz " ( marxjour@dia.edu.ar )
Subject: (MARX) Where are we from
The current memebers of the list are from: UnitedStates 121 Argentina 93 Canada 23 UnitedKingdom 15 Brazil 11 Peru 11 Spain 11 Sweden 8 Italy 7 Australia 6 France 6 Germany 6 Mexico 6 Colombia 4 Portugal 4 Chile 2 Denmark 2 Ireland 2 Japan 2 NewZealand 2 Norway 2 SouthAfrica 2 Austria 1 CostaRica 1 Ecuador 1 Greece 1 HongKong 1 Hungary 1 Israel 1 Korea(South) 1 Netherlands 1 Paraguay 1 Switzerland 1 Taiwan 1 Uruguay 1 359 --- Alberto Daniel Teszkiewicz Marxjour List - Moderator marxjour@dia.edu.ar ------------------------- Marxjour List e-mail address: marxjour@ccc.uba.ar _________________________ http://www.oocities.org/CapitolHill/3061
Date: Sun; 14 Dec 1997 18:55:29 -0800 (PST)
From: "E. Heroux" ( heroux@darkwing.uoregon.edu )
Subject: (MARX) UNDERCURRENT #5: Abstracts
UNDERCURRENT #5 is finally available online after an extraordinary series of delays. Issue #6 is also in the works and should be out by the end of this winter. Below is the introductory overview of the new issue. The full hypertext of every article is available for free online at this web address: http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~heroux/uc5/5-content.html UNDERCURRENT #5 Fall '97 Introductory Abstracts The fifth issue continues to braid together several thematic strands taken up in prior articles. Most obvious of these is the second part of Virtual Battlefields by Warren Sproule continued from the last issue. In this conclusion to Sproule's argument for a sociology that can account for the effects of real warfare in an era distracted by postmodernist virtuality we find a canny critique of the theorists of war. The author concludes with a call for a "greater concentration on 'cracks' within and shards of 'reality' glimpsed through the constructed images of globally-dominant states increasingly given over to violent armed intervention bolstered by forms of social theorising which passively deny or actively support such activity." As though to answer this call yet with at least two surprises of its own is Floyd Rudmin's study of the history of war-planning against Canada by the American military: "Questions of U.S Hostility Toward Canada: A Cognitive History of Blind-Eye Perception". To be more exact Rudmin's object is not so much this collection of war plans exercises and spying in itself (although those are represented in impressive detail) but rather the cognitive avoidance of such facts by the press the public and by prior scholars of this very history. Rudmin's case study of this systematic avoidance of unpleasant implications is also an exemplary instance of an interdisciplinary approach he calls "cognitive history." a method that combines social history and cognitive psychology in particular the work of Icheiser. Cognitive historiography may well become an adjunct to studies of social memory ideology and the sociology of everyday knowledge. But we are blind about much more than international relations according to "The Spectacle of Information" by William Brown. Everyday life has been colonized by an inward turn of capitalist expansion in its historic invention of consumerism. This intimate invasion of consciousness has been greatly assisted by forms of mass entertainment most recently of digital networks. Everything has already been packaged commodified and distributed: "Wars riots law enforcement criminal justice elections political scandals investigative journalism expert opinion of all stripes predictions and forecasts and news traffic and weather reports (to name just a few) are produced distributed and consumed as entertainment products. Even commercial advertisements for products are produced to be consumed as entertainment as integrated 'info-tainment.'" As it reaches the schools this has become edu-tainment. Brown updates Guy Debord's critique of the society of the spectacle for the advent of the Information Age by analyzing how information becomes a commodity and how data mystifies this process. Speaking of computerization in a sequence of vignettes about her experiences with computers as a male domain Sharon Jansen reflects on the old question Why do fools fall in love? Her witty essay on "Men & Microchips" comes up with a couple of new answers to the old question: " Yet it's not simply the illusion of engagement that is so dangerous here. Nor is it that these machines--so dutiful so obedient so available so prompt--are after all so absolutely controlled and manipulated by the men who use them. It's something more. It's the flattering picture that these machines offer to the men who love them for through their computers these men are free to engage themselves to create themselves to be who and what they will--effortlessly. At no time since the Renaissance has male self-fashioning been so seductive or so easy: 'O supreme generosity of God the Father O highest and most marvelous felicity of man! To him it is granted to have whatever he chooses to be whatever he wills.' Giovanni Pico della Mirandola would have loved to spin on the Web. Finally in an essay that addresses a hotbutton issue in the culture wars Alan Sikes analyzes the implications of "Social Protest and the Performance of Gay Identity" in a manner that transcends existing polemics. After reporting about his participation at the big 1993 March on Washington for Lesbian Gay and Bisexual Equal Rights and Liberation Sikes explores how the latest theories of identity and subjectivity speak to a set of dilemmas and paradoxes found in gay discourse. Sikes points out a discursive instability there between notions of "difference" and sameness . Essentialist assumptions about identity seem to sprout up from within the rhetoric of difference even within its newer "performative" versions which parody heterosexual subjectivity. The "difference" highlighted by such campy performativity falls back into an "essentialist trap" in which homosexual identity is assumed to be unproblematized. Sikes closes with the recognition "that one must live with a sense of 'doubled' consciousness--aware of the contingency and instability of one's own identity position yet cognizant of the powerful way in which this position organizes and even enables our existence." Please feel free to browse and/or download each article from our website. -------------------- Erick Heroux Editor UNDERCURRENT http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~heroux/home.html
From: "Sean Jacobs" ( sean@idasact.org.za )
Subject: Re: (MARX) Where are we from
Date: Tue; 16 Dec 1997 13:16:02 +0200
I am proud to announce that I am one of the two South Africans! Sean Jacobs Political Information and Monitoring Service Idasa Cape Town Democracy Centre Box 1739 Cape Town 8000 South Africa Ph +27-21-4612559 Fax +27-21-4625261 E-Mail: sean@idasact.org.za
Date: Tue; 16 Dec 1997 14:18:24 -0500
From: Peter Moore ( PeteM@uic.edu )
Subject: (MARX) Bookmarks bookshop (London)
International Socialism Journal and ----------- Socialist Workers Party Publications WWW site ---------------- The Socialist Workers Party Publications WWW site which includes International Socialism Journal Socialist Review and Bookmarks (London) has now moved to a new server which will be much faster and less likely to crash. The new addresses are: 'Home page' http://www.internationalsocialist.org/pubs/is.html International Socialism Journal http://www.internationalsocialist.org/pubs/isj.html Socialist Review http://www.internationalsocialist.org/pubs/sr.html Bookmarks http://www.internationalsocialist.org/pubs/bookmarx.html ---------------- Bookmarks (London) new address --------------------- Bookmarks London's leading socialist bookshop and official bookseller to the TUC has moved to new premises in central London. Our new address is: 1 Bloomsbury Street London WC1B 3QE Our numbers are: phone 0171 637 1848 fax 0171 637 3416 Our e-mail address is as before bookmarks_bookshop@compuserve.com Our latest mailing of new and recommended books is now available. E-mail us for a copy or send us your address if you'd like a copy posted to you. Our 1998 Books for Socialists catalogue will be available soon - if you'd like a copy posted to you send us your address.
From: "Nadal" ( h19823@satlink.com )
Subject: Re: (MARX) Where are we from
Date: Wed; 17 Dec 97 22:50:26 PST
Im one of the argentinian Marxist.. My name is Hernan Nadal and my email is h19823@satlink.com If anyone wants to know something of my country email me.. Bye
Date: Tue; 23 Dec 1997 03:57:28 -0500
From: International Viewpoint ( 100666.1443@compuserve.com )
Subject: (MARX) Int.Viewpoint#296 January CONTENTS
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From: "Partido Obrero" ( webmaster@po.org.ar )
Date: Tue; 23 Dec 1997 19:53:03 +0000
Subject: (MARX) New address
Hola La nueva direccion de Prensa Obrera el seminario del Partido Obrero de Argentina es http://po.org.ar/po La nueva direccion de En defensa del Marxismo la revista teorica del Partido Obrero de Argentina es http://po.org.ar/edm La entrada principal del sitio del Partido Obrero es http://po.org.ar Cordialmente Raymond Po Administrador del Web del Partido Obrero webmaster@po.org.ar http://www.po.org.ar
Date: Wed; 24 Dec 1997 13:04:06 +1000 (EST)
From: Jasper Goss ( j.goss@sct.gu.edu.au )
Subject: (MARX) australian
i'm one of the australian 'readers'--i'm doing a PhD on the social and political consequences of rural change in thailand and i have an interest in (and particiaption in!) social movements more generally. regards jasper
Date: Thu; 25 Dec 1997 03:01:43 +0000
From: Historical Materialism ( hm@lse.ac.uk )
Subject: (MARX) Historical Materialism issue 1
New from London! The first issue of Historical Materialism is now available. Issue 1 contains Ellen Meiksins Wood: 'The non-history of capitalism' Colin Barker: 'Some reflections on two books by Ellen Wood' Esther Leslie: 'On making-up and breaking-up: woman and ware craving and corpse in Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project' John Weeks: 'The law of value and the analysis of underdevelopment' Tony Smith: 'The neoclassical and Marxian theories of technology: a comparison and critical assessment' Michael A Lebowitz: 'The silences of Capital' John Holloway: 'A note on alienation' Peter Burnham: 'Globalisation: states markets and class relations' Fred Moseley: The rate of profit and economic stagnation in the United States economy' plus Matthew Beaumont on Ernst Bloch Peter Linebaugh on Robin Blackburn Benno Teschke on Guy Bois Forthcoming issues will include articles by Geoffrey de Ste Croix on Democracy and Ancient Greece Roy Bhaskar on Critical Realism and Dialectics Nigel Harris on the State Chris Arthur on the New Dialectics Andrew Chitty on Interconstitutivity Recht and Social Relations Les Levidow on Biotechnology Simon Clarke on Lenin John Roberts on Adorno. Subscription rate for issues 1 and 2: Individuals: UK GBP10 Overseas (surface) GBP13 or US$20 Overseas (airmail) GBP16 or US$25 Institutions: UK GBP30 Overseas (surface) GBP38 or US$60 Overseas (airmail) GBP41 or US$65 Cheques Eurocheques or bank drafts should be made payable to 'Historical Materialism' and drawn in pounds sterling. Please send to The Editors Historical Materialism London School of Economics Houghton Street London WC2A 2AE email: hm@lse.ac.uk NB existing subscribers: issue 1 is being mailed in the last week of December - thank you for your continuing support. -- The Editors Historical Materialism London School of Economics Houghton Street London WC2A 2AE email: hm@lse.ac.uk
Date: Sat; 27 Dec 1997 09:47:44 -0300
From: HECTORSP@TURING.UNICAMP.BR
Subject: (MARX) Presentacion
Fui argentino y me naturalize brasileiro. Realice mestrado sobre Max Weber (*Max Weber: entre a paixao e razao* ed. Unicamp Campinas 1991) y doutorado en Filosofia Politica sobre "Fundamentos teoricos da guerra revolucionaria". Estoy investigando la lucha armada como instrumento politico de nuestro tiempo "Formas da violencia politica na era do 'globalismo'". Preparao un viaje a Mexico para estudiar el fenomeno zapatista qualquier indicacion o sugestion al respecto sera importante. Cordialemnte hector
Date: Wed; 31 Dec 1997 14:31:35 ARG
From: "Alberto Daniel Teszkiewicz " ( marxjour@dia.edu.ar )
Subject: (MARX) ADMIN: Out of the city
I will be out of the city until January 19. Maybe the list will have some problems. I will fix them when I will be back. Best regards --- Alberto Daniel Teszkiewicz Marxjour List - Moderator marxjour@dia.edu.ar ------------------------- Marxjour List e-mail address: marxjour@ccc.uba.ar _________________________ http://www.oocities.org/CapitolHill/3061