From: ( cds@cvtci.com.ar )
Subject: (MARX) Sumario Cuadernos del Sur 26
Date: Wed; 6 May 1998 22:18:21 -0300
CUADERNOS DEL SUR Nro.26 SUMARIO Dossier: "150 annos del Manifiesto Comunista" - "el horizonte insuperable de nuestra epoca"- Articulos de U.Eco/E.Gruner/B.Kagarlitsky/M.Bellucci/M.Lowy/A.Dabat/A.Shaik/J.Holloway/A. Bonnet/E.M.Wood/W.Bonefeld Ana Dinerstein: Argentina: desocupados en lucha contradiccion en movimiento. Diana Hoshraich: Asia: Crisis bancarias y conmociones monetarias: Una vulnerabilidad generalizada? George Labica: El marxismo entre ciencia y utopia. Denis bergewr: Internacionalismo e internacional(es) artista plastico invitado: Oscar Smoje.
From: "Dave Riley" ( dhell@ozemail.com.au )
Date: Tue; 5 May 1998 19:01:39 +0000
Subject: (MARX) Green Left Weekly #316
>Green Left Weekly Issue #316 May 6 1998 Green Left Weekly provides news information opinion and debate from an environmental and left perspective. Featured this week: Howard Reith must go! Resistance by the Maritime Union and other workers and unexpected legal setbacks have put the Howard government on the ropes. The time seems ripe to smash once and for all the Coalition's conspiracy against jobs wages and working conditions. >COVER STORY Howard Reith must go! >FEATURES Boycott Burma! Help us get around >ASIA PACIFIC SOLIDARITY CONFERENCE Asia Pacific Solidarity Conference: continuing the struggle Philippines: a new approach to student and youth campaigns Participants representing overseas and indigenous people's struggles New institute to promote democracy and development Solidarity with Australian waterside workers South Asia conference planned for December Regional coordination Counter-APEC conference in 1999 Freedom for East Timor Democracy for Indonesia PRD: Regional coordination is key The people of Indonesia and East Timor need your support Indonesia solidarity magazine launched Statement by the Pacific delegates Sri Lanka -- Tamil Eelam Burma East Timor will be free! Anti-APEC conference scheduled for New Zealand Asia Pacific women link up >NEWS NSW unionists rally for the MUA Dump decision outrages Werribee residents Community meeting for the wharfies Police brutality at community picket UNSW staff and students support wharfies `Bloody Friday' in Villawood detention centre Chipping away at Harris Daishowa Union activist speaks on campus Miners spurn Rio Tinto offer Anti-choice march thwarted Railway workers strike for jobs ALP addresses pro-choice forum New EIS for Jabiluka demanded Historic domestic violence appeal Residents target CityLink Sandinista activist speaks Blow to Hinchinbrook legal fight Raid on TWU a `payback' Bigger May Day marches support MUA >ISSUES `Increased productivity': they really mean exploitation Education and the free market Kemp threatens student unions Time for unions to take the offensive >INTERNATIONAL NEWS Students radicalising in Russia International solidarity with the MUA US to build thousands of new nuclear weapons International briefs Nike sued in Asia Nigerian dictatorship takes Clinton's hint Zimbabwe cops shoot student Progressives campaign in Philippines elections Russian anti-nuclear protesters gassed Indonesian student demonstrations still spreading Activists describe kidnapping torture Far right electoral success in Germany Ireland: loyalist violence continues >CULTURAL DISSENT Ironic treatment of Bosnian terror Poem: MUA vs NFF && Poem: Those Whales of Wharfies && Poem: A Resourceful Minister && From ignorance to understanding Song: The slimy Patrick's scab && Koori Radio live and deadly For all who need a laugh >REGULAR FEATURES Loose cannons Action updates ... and ain't i a woman?: Equality of outcome Looking out: Daffodils Life of Riley: The bit what's left On the box Editorial: Dancing on Arab graves 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) Northern Ireland
Greece May 68 Mexico Japan ...Date: Fri; 8 May 98 16:29:44 +0000
From: ( socappeal@easynet.co.uk )
What's New at Socialist Appeal's "In Defence of Marxism" web site May 8 1998 http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~socappeal/IDOM.html - Vonk http://users.skynet.be/vonk New web site for the Belgium marxist magazine - Explosion in Greece as Simitis tows the Blair line http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~socappeal/greece.html Events in Greece are especially relevant to the British Labour Movement because right wing PASOK (Socialist Party) leader Simitis is pursuing similar policies to those of Tony Blair and so-called "New Labour." This has led to an explosion of anger not only on the streets but in the trade unions and in PASOK itself. The PASOK union leaders were pro-Simitis one year ago but now they have been forced into semi-opposition. Under pressure from below they called a one-day general strike on April the 8th.. Alan Woods reports. May 1998 - Northern Ireland peace agreement: can the deal work? http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~socappeal/nireland.html The proposals that have emerged from the Northern Ireland peace process have been hailed as an historic breakthrough. Tony Blair has been lauded with praise for his 'peacemaking' role. Characters like David Trimble who led the Orangemen at Drumcree have received praise upon praise for their bravery. But what does any of this mean for the working class people of Ireland who have been subjected to decades of sectarian rule violence intimidation and ruined lives? Can it really bring peace? May 1998 - Mexico: regime resorts to repression http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~socappeal/mexico98.html On the surface it would seem that the Mexican economy has fully recovered > from the currency collapse of 1994/95 and some international analysts are even saying Mexico is the example the Asian economies should use to get out of their recession as quick as possible. Reality however is slightly different. And the regime is increasingly using repression to try and keep people quiet. May 1998. - Japan's economic crisis http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~socappeal/japan.html Flat on its back for years and showing few signs of life, Japan's economy was nonetheless still in the world of the living. When we last checked, that is. Reports of its imminent demise are now coming thick and fast. A world that had grown bored with the 'Japan isn't growing' story is suddenly paying attention to the new 'Japan will collapse and take the rest of us with it' story. The Economist 11/4/98. Phil Mitchinson analyses the reasons behind. - May 68: France's month of revolution http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~socappeal/1968/may68.html On Friday 3rd May a meeting was called in Paris's Sorbonne University to protest against the closure of Nanterre University the day before. The Sorbonne meeting had been attended by only about three hundred student activists. But by evening a pitched battle raged up and down the Boulevard St Michel and by the end of it 72 policemen and untold number of young people had been injured 600 had been arrested and what has now gone down in history as France's May events had begun. Millions of workers were to occupy the factories in what became a revolution. Part of the series "1968 year of revolution" ( http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~socappeal/1968 ) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: "Dave Riley" ( dhell@ozemail.com.au )
Date: Fri; 15 May 1998 21:22:45 +0000
Subject: (MARX) Green Left Weekly Update
Green Left Weekly Issue #317 May 13 1998 Green Left Weekly provides news information opinion and debate from an environmental and left perspective. Featured this week: Indonesia in revolt The demonstrations for democracy initiated by Indonesian students are spreading throughout the country drawing in workers and other layers of the population. Even while increasing repression the military has begun promising ``reform''. Now more than ever Suharto counts on Australian and other foreign support to survive. COVER STORY Indonesia in revolt People suffer from IMF `medicine' FEATURES Keep the lines open John Pilger on South Africa: has the ANC sold out? && NEWS Struggle continues as wharfies return to work `A small group of loafers' 100 000 rally against Workplace Relations Act Building workers to strike Conservation Council's funding cut Biggest Labour Day in 25 years Maritime union campaign briefs Flinders Uni elections North coast solidarity with the MUA Abortion reform falls short of repeal Liberals waver on One Nation preferences Battle to save Kimberley Fitzroy River Australia belatedly aids West Papua Reith is `past his Dubai date' Meeting opposes `Ocean wart' Labor-Democrats debate a non-event NSW: 26 deaths in custody in 10 months Patrick attempts to thwart High Court decision `Stop the rot!' Activists discuss why Russia needs another revolution ISSUES Solidarity with Indonesia The president the right prefers Second national day of action called Racism in sentencing confirmed Mum Shirl: fighter for Aboriginal rights && One-eyed coverage of waterfront dispute Dangers in environment law review 'A fundamental turning point for Australian workers' Biotech crops disappointing && Children's cancer and pesticides && Wide activities for `Sorry Day' NSW stolen children activities launched INTERNATIONAL NEWS Communist Party's vision to change Japan && `We can run the country without employers' East Timorese convention a success Burmese dictatorship targets students Letter from the US: Strike leader to challenge Hoffa Jr in Teamster election && Maori march against MAI PLUS Cultural Dissent and regular columns. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Date: Tue; 19 May 1998 16:40:20 +0000
From: Robert Maxwell Young ( robert@rmy1.demon.co.uk )
Subject: (MARX) _Science as Culture_ vol. 7 No. 1 has appeared: contents
_Science as Culture_ Vol. 7 Part 1 has now appeared. The editors hope that members of this forum will subscribe to the journal which has a unique point of view in a world where most commentators on science technology medicine and other forms of expertise suffer from a remarkable timidity. They also invite submissions on any aspect of the cultural dimensions of science and of the history and philosophy of science and other forms of expertise. CONTENTS NATURAL SELECTION: A Heavy Hand in Biological and Social Thought by Peter Taylor BIOCOLONIALISM AND THE COMMODIFICATION OF KNOWLEDGE by Laurie Anne Whitt BIOMEDICAL CONTROL AND DIABETES CARE by Matthew R. Davis WHEN HARRY MET SANDRA: An Alternative Engagement after the Science Wars by Mark Elam and Oskar Juhlin REVIEWS The Gendered Politics of Disembodied Space _Wired Women: Gender and New Realities in Cyberspace_ edited by Lynn Cherny and Elizabeth R Weise reviewed by Tiziana Terranova Provincial History of Science _Colonial Technology: Science and the Transfer of Innovation to Australia_ by Jan Todd reviewed by David Mercer Scientific Learnings _Minds for the Making: The Role of Science in American Education 1750-1990_ by Scott L. Montgomery reviewed by Daniel Dunlap During 1988 _Science as Culture_ will publish two special issues: _Strategising Counter-Expertise guest editors Kim Fortun and Todd Cherkasky (7/2) _Natural Contradictions_ guest editors Yrjo Haila and Peter Taylor (7/4) _Science as Culture_ is published quarterly for Process Press Ltd. by Carfax Publications Ltd. For information about subscriptions and a list of back issues go to: http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/projects/gpp/process.html#science Subscription information is also at http://www.carfax.co.uk/sac-ad.htm A web site associated with the journal and forum holds articles from back issues of the journal as well as other materials which forum members may wish to discuss: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/rmy/sac.html The web site now includes Barbara Heyl's classic article 'The Harvard Pareto Circle ' which discusses the ideological origins of the concepts of social system and social equilibrium involving the influence of L. J. Henderson on the social science writings of Talcott Parsons Charles Homans and Crane Brinton in which Henderson drew on the ultra-conservative theories of Vilfedo Pareto to combat radical and Marxist ideas in American social science. This essay is of considerable interest for the understandng of systems thinking in the human sciences and in the functionalist tradition. Editor Robert M. Young robert@rmy1.demon.co.uk Managing Editor Les Levidow l.levidow@open.ac.uk __________________________________________ In making a personal reply please put in Subject line: Message for Bob Young Robert Maxwell Young: robert@rmy1.demon.co.uk or r.m.young@sheffield.ac.uk 26 Freegrove Rd. London N7 9RQ Eng. tel.+44 171 607 8306 fax.+44 171 609 4837. Professor of Psychotherapy and Psychoanalytic Studies Centre for Psychotherapeutic Studies University of Sheffield. Home page and writings: http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/academic/N-Q/psysc/staff/rmyoung/index.html Process Press publications: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/process_press/ 'One must imagine Sisyphus happy.' - Camus
From: "Dave Riley" ( dhell@ozemail.com.au )
Date: Wed; 20 May 1998 11:40:07 +0000
Subject: (MARX) Green Left Weekly Update: GLW#318
Green Left Weekly Issue #318 May 20 1998 Green Left Weekly provides news information opinion and debate from an environmental and left perspective. Featured this week: End ties with Indonesian dictatorship! Growing demonstrations demanding democracy have brought dictator Suharto to the brink. COVER STORY Suharto on the brink Stop supporting dictator Suharto! People's Democratic Party calls for an end to New Order regime Chronology of a crisis FEATURES Is any job safe? Beat the winter blues NEWS Join the campaign against the Indonesian dictatorship! Pilger launches new book The budget: an indigenous `time bomb' WA prisons in crisis ANU axes arts faculty staff Protesters condemn Turkish government TWU court victory Federal budget no answer to health crisis Unions to boycott Werribee toxic dump WA nurses announce 48-hour strike An election budget in Queensland Setback for tax office management Carr pushes for more police powers Abortion law reform debated 50 years of Palestinian catastrophe News briefs Dance ride and rally to stop Jabiluka Police beat teenagers Campaign to oppose library closure Budget continues education devastation Rockhampton activists meet Construction workers to rally MUA struggle continues Green Left free speech campaign ISSUES The rule of law Nationalise the wharves! A shorter working week: lessons from recent history Web wars: Micro$oft and the price of the internet He earns how much? `Workers First is not about to disappear' Australian socialists demand: `End support for Indonesian dictatorship!' Arief Budiman backs IMF in Indonesia INTERNATIONAL NEWS `Why didn't they arrest him 20 years ago?' Philippines Communist Party splits again Government prepares further attacks on Zapatista municipalities && South African anti-homosexual laws struck down Indian nuclear tests threaten stepped-up arms race UN ignored Rwanda genocide warnings Danes reluctantly return to work Lively May Day in Lisbon Travels in East Timor && US suspends military training with Indonesia Sinn F=E9in says `Yes' Pakistani working class begins to stir CULTURAL DISSENT A tale in two cities Pete Seeger: fighting back with music Portraying the stolen generations Pacey production of an Australian classic Compelling outcasts Celtic rock: from the extraordinary to the pedestrian REGULAR FEATURES Loose cannons International news briefs Action updates ... and ain't i a woman?: Biology as ideology Looking out: Musings Life of Riley: That's the point On the box Write on: Letters to the editor ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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) Indonesia: the Asian revolution has started
Date: Fri; 22 May 98 16:48:12 +0000
From: ( socappeal@easynet.co.uk )
What's New at Socialist Appeal's "In Defence of Marxism" web site January 20th 1998 http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~socappeal/IDOM.html - Indonesia: the Asian revolution has started http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~socappeal/indonesia.html The news of Suharto's resignation hit the world like a bombshell. For thirty-two years this bloody tyrant ruled Indonesia with a rod of iron having come to power over the corpses of over a million people. Now he has been blown away like a dead leaf in the wind. The magnificent mass movement of the students and workers has won a great victory. To the very last minute Suharto clung to power threatening a bloodbath if the masses continued to defy him. But in the moment of truth the whole edifice of repression collapsed like a house of cards in the face of a popular uprising. This is the beginning of a revolution. It is like 1931 when the Spanish monarchy was deposed and the Republic proclaimed. This opened the flood-gates of revolution. Indonesia has now entered the same road. Ted Grant and Alan Woods provide a Marxist analysis of the situation and outline the way forward. May 22nd 1998 This 12 000 word article is also available by email on request (some 80k) just let us know. - Appeal for solidarity Socialist Appeal has received an appeal for solidarity from a group of socialists in Indonesia. They are asking for solidarity messages from workers and students all over the world which they would then circulate. You can send them to socappeal@easynet.co.uk and we will forward them. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 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: Chris Bertram ( C.Bertram@bristol.ac.uk )
Subject: (MARX) Imprints new issue out!
Date: Mon; 25 May 1998 10:01:35 +0100 (BST)
The latest issue of Imprints: a journal of analytical socialism is now out containing an interview with Michael Rosen author of On Voluntary Servitude (Polity 1997) articles by Kai Nielsen Vittorio Bufacchi and Alex Coram and reviews by Keith Graham and Judith Squires. We are keen to receive articles and reviews in the fields of politics political philosophy and theory social theory feminism Marxism etc. > from within a broadly analytical egalitarian and democratic perspective. Those interested in contributing should contract the editor at C.Bertram@bris.ac.uk Full subscription details can be obtained from our website: http://info.bris.ac.uk/~plcdib/imprints.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contents of vol. 2 no. 3 (March 1998) NOW OUT! An interview with Michael Rosen Kai Nielsen 'Socialism and Nationalism' Vittorio Bufacchi 'Reasonable Agreement' Alex Coram 'Socialist Distribution' Keith Graham reviews Pettit on Republicanism Judith Squires reviews Lister on Citizenship Iain Gault reviews Diamond on History -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contents of vol. 2 no. 2(October 1997) An interview with Erik Olin Wright Steven R. Smith and Mike O'Neill '"Equality of What?" and the Disability Rights Movement' Alex Coram 'Social Choice Theory and Welfare' Alan Carling reviews Skyrms on Evolution and Contractarianism Libby Miller reviews Folbre on Paying for Childcare -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contents of vol. 2 no. 1 (June 1997) An interview with Thomas McCarthy Alex Callinicos 'History Exploitation and Oppression' John Baker 'Studying Equality' Christopher Bertram 'Theories of Public Reason' Paul Dixon 'Public Opinion and the Northern Ireland Peace Process' -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Christopher Bertram Department of Philosophy University of Bristol UK. Editor of Imprints: ( http://info.bris.ac.uk/~plcdib/imprints.html ) email: C.Bertram@bris.ac.uk http://info.bris.ac.uk/~plcdib
Date: Mon; 25 May 1998 13:40:43 -0400
From: International Viewpoint ( 100666.1443@compuserve.com )
Subject: (MARX) International Viewpoint June (#301)
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