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526 Garzon asks to question Pinocher -- rank: 1000

A torturing fascist Chilean dictator has been held in a gilded cage in London for over a year, as a result of unprecedented developments of international law. Even if he is dementing and now escapes prosecution, the precedent has been created which for ever lifts the international immunity of fascists. When this story first broke, the nameless moderator of a Marxism Mailing list dismissed my welcome of the developments, essentially for sewing illusions in the process of reforms, and referred to ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Sun Jan 16 05:26:51 PST 2000

527 Luxemburg Liebknecht March success -- rank: 1000

>the present cooperation between the PDS leadership and the >state 'securities' forces is seen as an precedent of driving the left out of >the party. However, according to German tv tonight, the demonstration in Berlin on the revised date of this Saturday 15th, was successful, with 80,000 demonstrators and 2,000 police. This would appear to vindicate the PDS leadership's line of having dialogue with the police about the earlier ban, but going ahead this Saturday, (in fact the exact 81st ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Sat Jan 15 13:34:53 PST 2000

528 UN prosecutor to review Nato's bombing of Yugoslavia -- rank: 1000

Whether the UN war crimes tribunal is officially investigating or merely unofficially reviewing the evidence, Carla Del Ponte has not rejected in principle the charge that NATO violated international law last year in its imperialist bombing of Yugoslavia. I lost this report which first appeared Thursday, but is worth writing into the archives. Whether this tribunal would also consider an application that the Russian government is violating international law in its attack on Chechnya, is another ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Sat Jan 15 10:36:20 PST 2000

529 Valid Conspiracy Theory -- rank: 1000

At 18:42 13/01/00 -0600, you wrote: >Wojtek: > ><<<My only problem with the conspiract theory is why would right wingers want >to eliminate JFK? >>> > >Scott says: > >You're kidding right? We all agree, I think, that there are sharp, even >antagonistic, conflict of interests in the capitalist class. Some folks >were pretty pissed off that the Bay of Pigs failed. Some were pretty pissed >off that JFK even dared hint that he might reduce efforts i ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Thu Jan 13 23:20:51 PST 2000

530 Luxemburg Liebknecht March Ban -- rank: 1000

Allegedly on security grounds, this years Luxemburg Liebknecht march in Berlin has been banned. Traditionally held on the second Sunday in January, the PDS has now called for another attempt to be made this Saturday, which happens to be the exact anniversay, January 15, of the day in 1919 when Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht were murdered. It was a traditional march in the GDR, and after the fall of the wall many other leftists supported it. The failure of the authorities to protect it allege ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Tue Jan 11 14:09:46 PST 2000

531 Running Dogs Take Note: In praise of Mao's PE -- rank: 1000

At 00:58 11/01/00 -0600, you wrote: >Matt, > >I apologize. A stupid flame on my part. Sometimes a joke is just a joke, >and regardless I over-reacted. I would defend the MZ period though, >warts and all, and all the more so against the received wisdom on things PRC. > > >------------------------------------------------------ >Daniel F. Vukovich >Dept. of English; The Unit for Criticism >University of Illinois >Urbana, IL 61801 >------------------------ ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Mon Jan 10 23:38:40 PST 2000

532 Civil Society Marches Toward Global Governance -- rank: 1000

At 17:31 10/01/00 -0500, Doug wrote: >The civil society >people are all about neat conversation and the "reasoned" >mystification of social conflict. Soft Gramscians also talk about civil society in rather bland terms. I personally believe it is an important concept, but for Marx it was much more problematical. It is an arena in which bourgeois right is fought out, always at best limited as a social right, and treated in an idealised way but in reality in the pay of the bourge ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Mon Jan 10 15:07:36 PST 2000

533 Chinese central bank gets with the program -- rank: 1000

At 02:18 06/01/00 -0500, Doug wrote: >Financial Times - January 6, 2000 > >CHINESE CENTRAL BANK SHIFTS TRADING STANCE >By James Kynge in Beijing > >China's central bank open market operations have become a "main tool" >of monetary policy, a top official said on Wednesday, in a further >sign that Beijing is speeding up the modernisation of its financial >system. > ... >His statement confirms a broad trend in the reform of the People's >Bank toward slo ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Thu Jan 6 16:01:20 PST 2000

534 New book critiquing Goldhagen/new issue of Covert Action Quarterly -- rank: 1000

At 12:31 06/01/00 -0800, Michael Pugliese wrote: >Just saw this new book, at my local, independent bookseller, "Nazi Terror: >The Gestapo, Jews, and Ordinary Germans >Eric A. Johnson, Basic Books. Billed as comprehensive critique of >Goldhagen's work, looks like a useful supplement to Norman Finkelstein's NLR >piece, later published in paper. Before lunchtime hunger took me away, >glanced at chapter headings- examination of >KPD and SPD for example, with biographical v ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Thu Jan 6 15:36:07 PST 2000

535 Tudjman's party loses -- rank: 1000

No bereavement vote for Tudjman's party, the HDZ, which has already conceded defeat in the Croatian parliamentary elections to a "left-centre" opposition said to be more sympathetic to the west. A defeat for the party that supervised the cleansing of Kraijina should be welcome to all subscribers, but I suggest some thought is needed. In many ways it was the mirror image of Milosevic's Socialist Party in Serbia. Both structures led by former communists who had abjured communism, but kep ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Mon Jan 3 23:48:45 PST 2000

536 Chechnya and Kosovo: Alliances with Islam and the collapseofRussian Influence -- rank: 1000

Although my position is not identical with Nathan's, I certainly share a vigilance about anti-islam prejudice. I was rather shocked by Wojtek's first reply which seemed ready to see islam as a threat to "our" democracy. The alien threat. I frankly find islamic culture unfamiliar and a bit threatening. That is why I consider it a touchstone of an internationalist approach consciously to guard against that. The record is that christendom has treated islam far worse than the other way rou ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Mon Jan 3 15:45:41 PST 2000

537 More Kosovo recriminations -- rank: 1000

Last month leaked recriminations over the Apache debacle emerged in the USA. Almost half a billion dollars was spent in moving the Apache assault helicopters to the vicinity of Kosovo, allegedly to stop the Yugoslav army from massacring and certainly expelling the Albanian ethnic population. However none of them were allowed to go into action for fear of casualties. As a result NATO and the US had to step up their bombing of the whole of Yugoslavia or admit defeat. The idea of a ground operatio ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Mon Jan 3 06:22:41 PST 2000

538 David Schweickart's interesting chapter -- rank: 1000

At 20:15 02/01/00 -0600, Scott wrote: re Seattle >I would say that by and large the dominant theme expressed by the unions >was internationalist. Some, especially my union the steelworkers go even >farther. George Becker, the president of the USWA, basically told us at a >pre-WTO protest meeting, that he doesn't see anyway to fix the WTO because >it is the tool of the banks and the transnational corporations to divide >and exploit the world. The USWA also called a conference on ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Sun Jan 2 23:43:05 PST 2000

539 David Schweickart's interesting chapter -- rank: 1000

At 21:30 01/01/00 -0600, you wrote: >Haven't posted to one of these lists in a long time, but recognize some old >die-hard-listers who have been at it from the beginning of the internet. >Bear with me while I get my feet wet again. > >Greetings all for a new century - I think it will be socialism's century. Very good to hear from you again. People are never really far away on a network! >I found David Schweickart's chapter 1 from his new book to be interesting. >Much to stud ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Sun Jan 2 07:21:45 PST 2000

540 Reforming the WTO - Seattle hangover -- rank: 1000

Seattle was about the only major city to miss out on the celebrations. It seems the global constitution is the dominance of finance capital modified only by the fear of terrorism. I note however some interesting stuff on the Christian-aid website. http://www.christian-aid.org.uk/main.htm Christian Aid is one of the most politically conscious of the international charities based in Britain. A. CAPITALIST DOMINATION OF THE WTO:- ------------------------------------- >>>>> Links betw ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Sat Jan 1 08:10:12 PST 2000