Date: Wed; 1 Apr 1998 16:40:59 +1000 (GMT+1000)
From: Green Left Weekly ( greenleft@peg.apc.org )
Subject: (MARX) Green Left #312
Green Left Weekly Issue #311 March 25 1998 http://www.peg.apc.org/~greenleft Green Left Weekly provides news information opinion and debate from an environmental and left perspective. Featured this week: Stop Jabiluka The Howard government is doing everything in its power to ensure unlimited access to Aboriginal traditional lands by uranium (and other) mining companies while simultaneously planning a national radioactive waste dump in South Australia's Billa Kalina region the home of a number of Aboriginal groups. COVER STORY Government plans radioactive waste dump Stop Jabiluka! FEATURES Why abortion is a woman's right Indonesian students lead battle for democracy NEWS TAFE action against cuts New report threatens public sector jobs Greens issue urgent Wik warning Students fight to save their course Port Botany picketers demand a fair go Sydney Uni president sacked Bus drivers strike against council attacks Hospitality workers win on penalty rates Sydney University Resistance club takes off Jabiluka blockade launched Reactor campaigners boycott government process Tax office seeks non-union agreement Danger of compromise in WA abortion fight Pro-choice campaign grows 3000 rally against 10-point plan Thousands mobilise to defend sub-alpine wilderness 500 staff and students rally at ANU Green left and international Housing lobby demands no more cuts Crisis in recycling Miners protest for payment ISSUES Opposing fees means opposing HECS What strategy for the student movement? Student activists condemn Indonesian repression The Wik bill: land rights for mining companies Two health care systems The irrationality of uranium mining Killing and revolution && Correction INTERNATIONAL NEWS A free trade nightmare in Mexico && A catastrophe waiting to happen && Support the Indonesian underground Pentagon continues training Indonesia's armed forces The forest fires burn on in Indonesia US aims for `Latin Americanisation' of Africa Russia: new government no threat to neo-liberalism Cipinang Prison football team Cuba conference delivers blow to US blockade && CULTURAL DISSENT Keeping the green bans story alive Passion aplenty in Inti-Illimani album Have play/will travel 10-point plan && Not a bed of roses Sri Lankan warmth PARTiZANS magazine takes on Rio Tinto A tradition that lives and breathes Melbourne Comedy Festival Economy outside the market REGULAR FEATURES Chris Kelly cartoon && Loose cannons Action updates ... and ain't i a woman?: Feminist revisionism Looking out: Painful times Life of Riley: Men don't On the box Editorial: Transport madness Write on: Letters to the editor
Date: Wed; 15 Apr 98 20:07:04 EDT
From: walter daum ( WGDCC@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU )
Subject: (MARX) new issue of Proletarian Revolution
Proletarian Revolution No. 56 (Spring 1998) Asian Crisis Jolts World Capitalism Correspondence on the Epoch of Capitalist Decay Chicago: Fighting Police Brutality Government Out of the Teamsters! White House Scandals Imperialist Crimes Rough Ride Ahead for NYC Transit Workers Workfare March Bows to Bureaucrats Propaganda and Agitation in Building the Revolutionary Party For a sample issue send $1.00 to: League for the Revolutionary Party P.O. Box 3573 New York NY 10008 USA
From: "Dave Riley" ( dhell@ozemail.com.au )
Date: Wed; 22 Apr 1998 11:30:34 +0000
Subject: (MARX) Green Left Weekly #314
>Green Left Weekly Issue #314 April 22 1998 Green Left Weekly provides news information opinion and debate from an environmental and left perspective. >Featured this week: Stakes high for all workers in wharf dispute Resistance to the efforts of Patrick Stevedores the Howard government and the National Farmers Federation to break the Maritime Union of Australia is growing. The strong union and community support for the maritime workers shows that many people understand that the future of trade unionism is at stake in this dispute. >COVER STORY Stakes high for all workers in wharf dispute How you can support the wharfies Thousands join Melbourne picket lines Brisbane unionists discuss MUA solidarity MUA winning in Newcastle Fremantle wharfies' picket stays strong On the picket line Wharfies find solidarity in Burnie Immediate response to wharfies' sackings >FEATURES Indonesia: Students defy death squads Strength in solidarity >NEWS Historic conference begins new era in left cooperation Solidarity with MUA! Solidarity with Indonesian students urgently needed Asia Pacific Women's Solidarity Network launched International solidarity with the wharfies More cuts to child-care funding Tax workers reject non-union agreement Election watch Protests greet Howard and Reith Victorians to stop work on May 6 West Review recommends vouchers Opposition to Jabiluka uranium mine grows >ISSUES Frogs alligators and pesticides && Are the Democrats doomed? && Environmental disaster: just add water NFF to reform higher education >INTERNATIONAL NEWS Palestine assassination reveals ongoing divide Italian initiative for Australian stolen generations Russian wages crash Suharto steps up repression in East Timor Malaysia Indonesia massacre Aceh refugees Mexican government on political offensive against Zapatistas && Ireland: Peace agreement legitimises partition Land rights and autonomy in Nicaragua >CULTURAL DISSENT Exposing journalism's secret agendas Poem: The Two Bums The Last Battle: Archangel -- 1918 Defying the `barbarism of Stalinism' Song: Blue-eyed Bonking Bill >REGULAR FEATURES Loose cannons Action updates ... and ain't i a woman?: Their struggle is our struggle Looking out: Not there yet Life of Riley: It has come! On the box Editorial: Beware of soft cops Write on: Letters to the editor Introductory subscription (Australia); $10 fo 10 issues E:mail: greenleft@peg.apc.org Web: http://www.peg.apc.org/~greenleft dhell@ozemail.com.au
Subject: (MARX) Interview with Afghan socialists
Date: Wed; 22 Apr 98 12:51:16 +0000
From: ( socappeal@easynet.co.uk )
What's New at Socialist Appeal's "In Defence of Marxism" web site April 22nd 1998 http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~socappeal/IDOM.html Afghanistan: Socialism or barbarism http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~socappeal/afghanistan.html Marx explained that in the long run capitalist society would either be replaced by Socialism or it would degenerate into Barbarism. The situation in Afghanistan is a living example of what Barbarism means. In this interview held on March 22 1998 Afghan socialists explain the situation in their country after the victory of the Taliban. The article is also available by email on request. Yours in solidarity Jordi Martorell Socialist Appeal's "In Defence of Marxism" web site socappeal@easynet.co.uk http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~socappeal/IDOM.html PO Box 2626 London N1 7SQ Britain
From: "Dave Riley" ( dhell@ozemail.com.au )
Date: Thu; 23 Apr 1998 08:38:55 +0000
Subject: (MARX) LINKS -- International Journal of Socialist Renewal
>Contents of LINKS #10 March-June 1998 *The relevance of the communist manifesto today -by John Percy *Behind the Asian economic crisis -by Chow Wei Cheng *The Bolsheviks and the October Revolution -by Randhir Singh *What political economy for socialism? -interview with Makoto Itoh *Fixing up the world? GATT and the World Trade Organisation -by Alan Freeman *Capitalism and the environment -by Allen Myers *Land occupations in Brazil -The landless workers movement -by James Petras *Socialism at the beginning of the twenty-first century -by Andre Brie *Behind the jailing of the Herri Batasuna leadership -by Sabin del Bado *DEBATES: The transition in South Africa by Carl T.Brecker Socialist strategy the SACP and the realities of the South African transition: a response to Brecker by Dale T.McKinley The NICS: a reply to Chow Wei Cheng by Jomo K.Sundaraman >Where to get it Copies of the latest LINKS are availabe from Resistance Bookshops nationally for $6.50 or by contacting: Phone: 61 2 9690 1230 Fax: 61 2 9690 1381 E-mail: links@peg.apc.org Post: Po Box 515 Broadway NSW 2007 Australia >LINKS - History & Objectives LINKS is a new international discussion magazine. It is a magazine for the post Cold War left a magazine that rejects the Stalinist distortion of the socialist project a magazine that takes into account ecological questions a magazine that is taking steps to unify and bring together the forces for socialism in the world today a magzine that aspires to unite Marxists from different political traditions because it discusses openly and constructively. It is determinedly socialist anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist a response to the collapse of the Soviet Union and a recognition of the continuing and urgent need for a socialist solution to the crimes and contradictions of rampaging capitalism. LINKS ist be oriented to academic Marxists as many existing theoretical magazines are although it will have academics among its contributors. Its main contributors and readers will be active socialists those involved in the day-to-day struggles especially those involved in the vital tasks of building organisations and parties. The Magazine doesl not present a single line. It is pluralist open and very much a discussion forum. There is a regular editorial but there are certain parameters. LINKS will be developing and marking out the space for genuine socialism. LINKS hopes to not only bring together active socialists from different countries and different continents but to unite socialists coming from different traditions-the tradition of the pro-Moscow communist parties Trotskyists parties Maoism the left wing of national movements left forces breaking with social democracy and activists from social movements who have come to realise the need for a party. We all come from different backgrounds and often still have different viewpoints but are united in: our socialist convictions of the need for fundamental social change; the need for a democratic non-authoritarian socialism; and the need for a socialism that's green feminist and anti-racist. LINKS carries discussion and debate pieces from around the world. It solicits original articles from contributing editors and supporting parties and from anyone who wishes to make a useful contribution to the debate. It will reprint documents and discussion pieces from different parties as well as relevant articles from other magazines. Being an English-language magazine English-speaking countries will be the primary focus both for distribution and editorial content. But we also need input from other countries so that the magazine will be able to reflect and participate in the debates taking place amongst left forces around the world. We want the magazine to develop a genuine political dialogue. Part of its task will be to arrange translations of key documents and articles from the socialist press in non-English speaking countries. We invite debate-in the form of comments articles and letters. We need your ideas contributions and support if LINKS is to succeed as a real forum of discussion for the renewal of the socialist project around the world. >LINKS Distribution & Subscriptions LINKS already boasts subscribers in dozens of countries around the world. We are gradually developing international distribution points to keep up with demand. In the mean time to find out the best way to receive a copy of the latest issue of LINKS email links@peg.apc.org. Of course the best way to ensure that you receive a regular copy of LINKS is to take out a subscription. Contact us for subscription details orvisit the LINKS web pages at: http://www.peg.apc.org/~stan/links dhell@ozemail.com.au
From: "Partido Obrero" ( webmaster@po.org.ar )
Date: Sat; 25 Apr 1998 20:47:26 +0000
Subject: (MARX) Prensa Obrera 581
Estimado colistero Ya esta en linea el numero 581 del semanario Prensa Obrera http://po.org.ar Saludos Raymond Po Administrador del Web del Partido Obrero webmaster@po.org.ar http://www.po.org.ar
From: "Dave Riley" ( dhell@ozemail.com.au )
Date: Tue; 28 Apr 1998 16:55:15 +0000
Subject: (MARX) Green Left Weekly #315 [April 29
1998] >Green Left Weekly Issue #315 April 29 1998 Green Left Weekly provides news information opinion and debate from an environmental and left perspective. >Featured this week: After the wharfies who's next? The Howard government's attempts to "reform " the waterfront in collaboration with the employers is part of a larger scheme to raise profits by undermining wages and conditions for all workers. But growing opposition indicates the attack can be turned back. >COVER STORY Who are Reith's next targets? MUA's court victories a setback for Howard Courts governments attack right to protest >FEATURES Stop Jabiluka mine: the next stage Victory for sensationalism >NEWS Destruction of native forests continues Rally supports abortion rights New workers' embassy in Fremantle Newcastle: MUA morale high despite threats Police monitor Western Sydney solidarity Child-care for the rich More MUA solidarity action planned Hunger strike shines light on prison problems Union official fights political charges Industrial action debated on South Coast Jobs for all sacked wharfies is key demand Police violence at Indonesia solidarity protest Just do it Nike! Students defy police ban Sustainable Universities Month Union supporters arrested Philippines workers support wharfies Truck drivers support wharfies Queensland conservation conference begins May 1 >ISSUES Imperialism and the Asian crisis Out of the kitchens and onto the picket lines The legacy of 1968 Waterfront `reform': in whose interests? Police: allies of the working class? World's best practice Oceans without fish && >INTERNATIONAL NEWS More than 50 Indonesian activists disappeared Andi Arief in police custody Pakistan trade union offices attacked Last bastion of free speech under threat Britain lets Indonesia off the hook 40 000 strike in Fiji Kazak leader on hunger strike Activist slams `recolonisation' of Pacific PNG plans privatisation spree Progressive party planned in South Korea Iraqi Communists assassinated Sweeping privatisation -- where is it taking China? >CULTURAL DISSENT A film of mesmerising power Left on-line Why bother with Brecht? Prompting visions of glory A new direction for trade unionism >REGULAR FEATURES Chris Kelly cartoon Loose cannons News briefs Action updates ... and ain't i a woman?: Backlash not harmony Looking out: Experience not rhetoric Life of Riley: Who's for waterfront reform? On the box Editorial: The uses of racism Write on: letters to the editor greenleft@peg.apc.org ________________________________________________ GREEN LEFT WEEKLY Australia's leading alternative newsweekly Break the media monopoly: read it buy it write for it sell it. http://www.peg.apc.org/~greenleft greenleft@peg.apc.org
Subject: (MARX) Ted Grant's "Unbroken Thread" now on-line
Date: Wed; 29 Apr 98 21:21:00 +0000
From: ( socappeal@easynet.co.uk )
What's New at Socialist Appeal's "In Defence of Marxism" web site April 29th 1998 http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~socappeal/IDOM.html THE UNBROKEN THREAD http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~socappeal/TUT/ FOR OVER 60 years TED GRANT has been the foremost figure of Trotskyism in Britain and internationally. In the post-war period the effects of world boom the policies of right wing Labour Party reformism and the degeneracy of Stalinism combined to make a massive onslaught against the ideas of Marxism. While Grant's contemporaries now stand on the right of the movement in dusty academic circles or have sunk into obscurity the articles in this collection show the clarity of Grant's understanding and his ability to deepen and expand the ideas of Leon Trotsky. No one involved in the struggle to change society and end the rule of capitalism and Stalinism can afford to be without this book. Nor can any serious student of the past 60 years or of current affairs afford to ignore its contents. CONTENTS (Articles marked* are major extracts from the original document.) Section One - The War Years Introduction Lessons of Spain (1938) A Reply to the RSL - Chauvinism and Revolutionary Defeatism* (June 1943) Preparing for Power* (June 1942) The Rise and Fall of the Communist International* (June 1943) Why Hitler Came to Power (December 1944) Section Two - Western Europe after the War Introduction The Changed Relation of Forces in Europe and the Role of the Fourth International (March 1945) Democracy or Bonapartism in Europe - A Reply to Pierre Frank (August 1946) National Democratic Revolution or Proletarian Revolution: The Tasks in Germany* (January 1947) Socialism and German Rearmament* (1953) The Rise of De Gaulle and the Class Struggle in France* (May 1958) Section Three - Eastern Europe Czechoslovakia - The Issues Involved (April 1948) Against the Theory of State Capitalism (1949) Stalinism in the Post War World (June 1951) Section Four - The Colonial Revolution and Proletarian Bonapartism The Chinese Revolution (January 1949) Reply to David James* (Spring 1949) The Colonial Revolution and the Sino-Soviet Split* (August 1964) The Colonial Revolution and the Deformed Workers' States* (July 1978) Section Five - The Post War Boom: Origins Effects and Decline Economic Perspectives 1946 (April 1946) Marxism versus New Fabianism - Part One (November 1952) Will There be a Slump? (1960) World Perspectives* (1977) World Perspectives* (1979) Section Six - The Special Crisis of British Captitalism Perspectives in Britain* (July 1946) The Menace of Fascism - What it is and how to fight it* (1948) Britain in Crisis* (September 1977) Section Seven - The Method of Marxism Marxism versus New Fabianism - Part Two (May 1953) A Reply to Comrade Clifford* (1966) Appeal against Expulsion Labour Party Conference (September 1983) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you would like to be informed by email of new additions to the In Defence of Marxism web site send us an email to new@socappeal.easynet.co.uk with "subscribe What's new" as the message body. If you want to be removed from this list send a message to the same address with "unsuscribe" as the body of the message. ---------------------------------------------------- Yours in solidarity Socialist Appeal's "In Defence of Marxism" web site socappeal@easynet.co.uk http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~socappeal/IDOM.html PO Box 2626 London N1 7SQ Britain
From: " buster@interact.net.au
Subject: (MARX) Viento Sur n37/abril 1998/Estado espannol
Date: Fri; 1 May 1998 08:23:57 +-900
Viento Sur por una izquierda alternativa El numero de abril de VS esta dedicado a la lucha por las 35 horas que puede ser el eje sobre el que se recomponga la izquierda en el estado espannol con articulos sobre este tema de Francia Belgica Alemania y Espanna asi como informacion sobre el movimiento de los parados en Francia otro de los ejes de trabajo que se ha fijado la izquierda en Espanna. La seccion internacional aborda la Crisis del Golfo de 1998 la situacion y los debates en el zapatismo y la campanna por la libertad inmediata de Toni Negri en Italia. Tambien se pueden leer articulos de Fredic Jameson sobre las caracteristicas del marxismo actualmente existente y de Michael Foucoult sobre la justicia popular. En relacion con Espanna se analiza la V Asamblea Federal de Izquierda Unida la salida de CCOO de Euskadi de la corriente "izquierda sindical" los problemas de la recomposicion de la izquierda en Galicia y la increible ola de maltrato y violencia contra las mujeres que esta sacudiendo en los ultimos annos al pais. La mayoria de estos articulos se pueden consultar en la web de Viento Sur: http://www.nodo50.ix.apc.org/viento_sur/