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826 Left and Right converge on Economic Nationalism -- rank: 1000

At 11:23 20/06/99 -0400, you wrote: >While the fundamental conflict between the global radical left and the >American extremely right has not blurred, there seems to be increasing >convengence in tactics. Economic nationalism is embraced by politicians >of opposing ideology all over the world. Having attended a good debate about Britain and the euro on Sunday, I agree. We need some trancending perspective that recognises the contradictions may play out with different results in diff ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Mon Jun 21 23:45:49 PDT 1999

827 debt relief -- rank: 1000

At 13:25 19/06/99 -0400, you wrote: >Inter Press Service - June 18, 1999 > >ECONOMY: G-7 DEBT REDUCATION PLANS DISAPPOINT > >By Abid Aslam > >WASHINGTON, Jun. 18 -- Leaders of the "Group of Seven" (G-7) industrial >powers have yet to finalize plans to ease the burdens of their poorest >debtors -- which has cast a shadow over their summit with Russia this >weekend. This is a valuable article which supports the extensive struggle for the reform of debt relie ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Sat Jun 19 06:27:33 PDT 1999

828 Against Capitalism June 18 -- rank: 1000

This has turned out to look very significant. It was much more than a riot in London, as the reports of action elsewhere show. It sounds as if at least 5000 took part in London. City firms shut up early, advised their staff not to weak suits or posted notices in the windows about how much they support the third world. The report I gave yesterday morning was based on the campaign by the churches with the support of social democrats. The answer to Doug's question is yes: >>>>>>&g ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Fri Jun 18 18:14:51 PDT 1999

829 against "the evils of capitalism" -- rank: 1000

Coalitions of Christians and other activists have issued press releases claiming that thousands will be demonstrating in the City of London, and in other European financial centres today against "the evils of capitalism". This phrase is now apparently not one that has to be censored out of news reports, and the demonstrators are not yet being denounced as communists. Gordon Brown, whose Financial Services Authority is criticised strongly in the Daily Telegraph today for the extensive p ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Thu Jun 17 01:43:09 PDT 1999

830 "social production controlled by social foresight" -- rank: 1000

At 10:42 17/06/99 +0100, Lew wrote: >>Did Marx sell out his revolutionary principles when he celebrated the >>victory of the 10 hour bill? > >The difference was, Marx did not campaign for the reform. It is one >thing to welcome a reform which was the result if in-fighting between >sections of the ruling class (the 10 Hour Act and many others), it is >another thing entirely to campaign for those reforms in the belief you >can make the slaughterhouse work in the inter ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Wed Jun 16 17:55:17 PDT 1999

831 Tobacco advertising to end in UK -- rank: 1000

The UK government is to issue regulations today which will end tobacco advertising on hoardings and in magazines by the end of the year. This is 2 years earlier than the EU deadline. There are embarrassments for Blair in this, because there will be extensions for certain sports including motor racing. Ecclestone, a racing capitalist, gave New Labour 1 million pounds. But hypocrisy is hypocrisy, and cannot be eliminated from politics, only made bare. What do we expect? The good news is that this ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Wed Jun 16 02:08:05 PDT 1999

832 Unemployment 4.2% -- rank: 1000

US unemployment figures of 4.2% are being waved at European leftists and centrists, as both a carrot and a stick. The lesson is deregulate in order to boost employment. Today the UK government announces the lowest unemployment figures since 1980. Should we be pleased? Or worried? Chris Burford London

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Tue Jun 15 18:37:42 PDT 1999

833 Democratic Left: after the war -- rank: 1000

At 11:26 16/06/99 -0400, Wojtek wrote: >They forget to add feel-good psychological counseling to treat the effects >of hangover resulting from selling out one's principles. Is reform, selling out your principles? Did Marx sell out his revolutionary principles when he celebrated the victory of the 10 hour bill? Chris Burford

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Tue Jun 15 18:17:01 PDT 1999

834 Spanish Fighter Pilots' Admissions -- rank: 1000

At 19:08 15/06/99 -0400, Seth wrote: > Maybe we should start thinking of how we can "democratize" NATO. >Get input from relevant NGO's, etc. That will make things run more >smoothly on the next humanitarian bombing run. We need to expand discussion in civil society about conflict management. And expect governments and military to be increasingly accountable to such forums. But Seth I fear is stuck in revolutionary cynicism. Has he a better way? Chris Burford London

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Date:	Tue Jun 15 18:21:07 PDT 1999

835 Will NATO bomb in future? (cf Tompson's Defeating Com. Insur) -- rank: 1000

At 12:21 15/06/99 -0400, Greg Nowell wrote: >Well, I meant to imply, though I guess I didn't state, that >extermination/exodus/exile is the only way for the central power to respond to >"people's war" (even if carried out only by a minority of the population). The >Serb operation has resemblances to Operation Phoenix (driving Vietnamese to camps >and urban areas, where not killed) and the French camps in Algeria. Also the >British camps for the Boers in S. Africa at ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Mon Jun 14 18:19:32 PDT 1999

836 Spanish Fighter Pilots' Admissions -- rank: 1000

At 13:15 15/06/99 -0400, Charles Brown wrote: > > > >Spanish Fighter Pilots Admit NATO Purposely Attacks Civilian Targets > >June 14, 1999 >Articulo 20 (Spain-weekly) >By Jose Luis Morales (?) The true history of this war will be the arena for a very important struggle. This is a bitter piece, and may be valid on a number of counts. The fact that the US pulled virtually all the strings, (except when Blair tried a bit of nibble handwork) is clear. The other countries had a ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Mon Jun 14 18:33:30 PDT 1999

837 Democratic Left: after the war -- rank: 1000

At 10:34 15/06/99 -0400, Max wrote: >I'd say the problem is not that it's too reformist, but it's too unfocused. Yes I think that is a relevant criticism. This resolution was a legitimate emergency (late) resolution because DL's conference took place only days after the first statement of apparent agreement on peace. But as it openly states, opinion was divided in DL about the war, and its comments about the aftermath are unfocussed. >Rather than argue about what should have been done and ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Mon Jun 14 17:23:20 PDT 1999

838 Democratic Left: after the war -- rank: 1000

This resolution concentrates on reforms. Some will consider it reformist, but the range of reforms proposed is extensive. Even if it seems weak to people who put a lot of energy into opposing the war, it is important now to debate what could possibly be done, now that the war is over, rather than to sink into revolutionary cynicism. Chris Burford London ------------------------------------------------------------- The following emergency resolution was passed at Democratic Left's National Confer ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Mon Jun 14 23:45:47 PDT 1999

839 Opening the graves -- rank: 1000

They are not open yet. But they will be opened. Chris Burford London

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Mon Jun 14 15:58:08 PDT 1999

840 Will NATO bomb in future? (cf Tompson's Defeating Com. Insur) -- rank: 1000

At 16:35 14/06/99 -0400, Greg wrote: >Chris-- > >Thompson's Defeating Communist Insurgency (1965) is an intelligent book, written >as a response to Mao's equally or even more intelligent guide to subversion of a >central power. > By those same >criteria Milosovich also had a losing cause against the KLA: >B) Therefore he couldn't isolate the guerillas from contact with the Kosvar >population. They were the "fish that swam in the sea of the people"--which &g ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 14 15:57:05 PDT 1999