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286 Behind Voter Apathy, A Silent Revolution -- rank: 1000

This article explains some of what I have tried to argue about the New Labour government having an approach of total social management towards the British economy and society. What the article lacks is a materialist understanding of the influence of finance capital behind these changes. Behind Voter Apathy, A Silent Revolution Philip Allott International Herald Tribune Wednesday, June 6, 2001 The gloom generated by the dreadful general election campaign in Britain has produced secondary gloom ab ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Wed Jun 6 15:46:23 PDT 2001

287 Fw:Trotskyists and WWII -- rank: 1000

At 05/06/01 13:20 -0700, Michael Pugliese wrote: >[PEN-L:5715] Trotskyists and WWII >http://csf.colorado.edu/pen-l/apr99/msg01041.html > > > >http://www.google.com/search?q=Fred+Halstead+SWP+%22bring+us+home%22&btnG=Go >ogle+Search&hl=en&lr=&safe=off What is the context in which you have brought this up? I am checking myself whether I have misunderstood Louis Proyect's position, or whether as I suspect he is not being rigorous in his analysis, and is being ev ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Tue Jun 5 22:50:10 PDT 2001

288 Times endorsement of Labour -- rank: 1000

I see Johannes got to this before I did, not helped by losing my internet connection for a day. I would not see this article as a main reason for not voting Labour. I am not in favour of either tailing behind a particular party or of casting a vote just as a protest. As we do not have proportional representation in Britain for our main elections, unlike Germany, the question is more complicated. However up to 40% of the electorate say they would consider voting tactically, and most of them are L ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Tue Jun 5 13:07:38 PDT 2001

289 Times and FT back Labour -- rank: 1000

On the day a former Conservative finance minister Anthony Nelson defected to Labour, the Times and the FT have publically endorsed a Labour win. I have not been able to track down the Times editorial yet, but the highly qualified FT editorial is below. Above all this is a sign of the depth of the division within British capitalism about alignment with Europe. Chris Burford London Editorial comment: A second term for Blair - Jun 05 2001 00:00:00 On Thursday, Tony Blair's UK government seeks a sec ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Mon Jun 4 16:15:13 PDT 2001

290 British Election -- rank: 1000

At 03/06/01 22:38 -0300, you wrote: >I agree with you >that voting Labour or Lib Dem is the best strategy to defeat the >conservatives, >however, there are some arguments against it: >1-It seems (to me, maybe I´m wrong) that New Labour politics are not very >different from conservative ones. The major issue of this election is whether the Conservatives will win with a platform of further tax cuts, or Labour with a platform of supporting health and education. This is an importan ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Sun Jun 3 23:21:19 PDT 2001

291 RES: British Election [was Question to Chris ] -- rank: 1000

At 02/06/01 22:48 -0300, Alexandre wrote: first quoting me: >I personally am in favour of pluralist democracy and not being tied to any >one political party. > >I agree with your friend that the Liberal Democrats are to the left of >Labour. More important than making voting gestures which feel morally good >is using votes to change things. IMO the most important reason for >supporting the LibDems is their commitment to proportional representation >constitutionally and pol ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Sun Jun 3 13:36:32 PDT 2001

292 British Election [was Question to Chris ] -- rank: 1000

At 02/06/01 09:55 -0300, you wrote: >Chris Burford wrote. > > > >No. A major internal success of the government has been to roll back the > >Conservative government's fiction that the NHS can be run with an "internal > >market". It has also largely socialised the independent providers of health > >care, the general practitioners, in "primary care trusts" Although they are > >threatening to resign en masse if they do not get better terms ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Sat Jun 2 08:50:28 PDT 2001

293 Question to Chris Burford -- rank: 1000

At 31/05/01 22:39 -0300, you wrote: >Socialist Appeal on the elections >--The British General Election and the perspectives for the Labour Party >By Alan Woods >Tony Blair, the new leader of the Labour Party >promised a new and "radical" policy to build a "better Britain". But once >installed in Number Ten Downing Street he has followed a policy tailored >exclusively to the interests of Big Business. I would say that the New Labour government has had its ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Fri Jun 1 23:55:33 PDT 2001

294 Business for Kyoto -- rank: 1000

emission55 http://www.solarworld.de/E-Mission-55/main.htm 55 countries which represent 55% of the industrialized countries emissions, must ratify the protocol

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Fri Jul 27 11:23:40 PDT 2001

295 Economic benefits of smoking! -- rank: 1000

BBC 17.7.01 Philip Morris makes 80% of Czech cigarettes Anti-smoking campaigners have reacted with fury to a report delivered to the Czech Government, which argues that there are economic benefits to smoking. The report, drawn up for tobacco giant Philip Morris, found that the Czech Republic saved about $147m in 1997 as a result of the deaths of smokers who would not live to use healthcare or housing for the elderly. "Following that logic, the best recommendation to governments would be to ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Tue Jul 17 14:07:43 PDT 2001

296 Gap widens in UK between rich and poor -- rank: 1000

Figures from the Office for National Statistics released today show that the average income in Britain grew by 12% between 1994/5 and 1999/0 before housing costs are taken into account. But the rate of growth was 13% for the richest 10% and only 10% for the poorest tenth. Chris Burford London

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Fri Jul 13 14:19:42 PDT 2001

297 Evening Standard on Conservative Party -- rank: 1000

13.7.01 "Most of the county is watching this undignified contest with the same detachment that they might view a struggle for power in Indonesia. If the system for selecting this Tory leader goes down in history as Mr Willam Hague's bequest to Conservatism, next time round they might do better to recruit an Indonesian to run the whole thing. It would be over sooner, with less embarassment for everybody." The Evening Standard is what aspiring middle class Lonon commuters read on their j ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Fri Jul 13 14:05:11 PDT 2001

298 Djindjic thesis -- rank: 1000

At 09/07/01 18:42 -0700, you wrote: > Chris, send your post to Raimondo. >Justin Raimondo <Justin at antiwar.com> Justin Raimondo I doubt he would listen. But on closer inspection it appears that both Raimondo and the British Helskinki Human Rights Monitoring Group were using "October 5th – a 24 hour coup" by Dragan Bujošovic and Ivan Radovanovic, Media Centre, Belgrade, 2000. The British Helsinki Human Rights Group has surprisingly produced nothing on Serbia since the e ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Mon Jul 9 23:00:12 PDT 2001

299 Djindjic thesis -- rank: 1000

At 08/07/01 23:39 -0700, Michaelm Pugliese wrote: > Heh, scroll halfway down...In the last few hours, www.antiwar.com put up >the column for the 9th of Raimondo. >http://www.antiwar.com/justin/j070601.html >A THEORY OF CRISIS >Before entering the realm of politics, Djindjic was involved with another >sort of gangsterism: he was a Marxist ideologue, a devotee of the Frankfurt >School of Theodor Adorno, and left Yugoslavia to study under Jurgen Habermas >in Germany. Ther ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Mon Jul 9 14:56:36 PDT 2001

300 Cloning=Bad -- rank: 1000

A major blow to the reductionist capitalist myths around genetic science: that there are simple deterministic relations between genetic structure and phenotype of individuals, and that the field is ripe for commodification and the creation of new capitalist markets. On the contrary, as research develops, it becomes increasingly clear that one process interacts with another and another. A system of production that can take advantage of these new possibilities without doing violence to the quality ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Fri Jul 6 15:57:34 PDT 2001