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32176 zionism -- rank: 1000

Forstater, Mathew wrote: >the 'analogy' (or general category, really) for political zionism is not >'third world' nationalism (of which modern Pan-Arab nationalism is one >manifestation), but colonialism. third world nationalism was a reaction >against colonialism, while pol. zionism was colonialism itself. Well not exactly. Jews were subject to horrible persecutions in Europe, including a rather large-scale attempt to exterminate them. Of course, Israel later became a local imperial ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 12 11:52:04 PDT 2001

32177 Teamsters, Hoffa Jr. and Rank Opportunism On The Left -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: >That's great, but how can you defend trade agreements like NAFTA that outlaw >industrial policy, outlaw performance requirements on investment, outlaw >patent licensing, outlaw environmental regulations? Who's defending NAFTA? IP restrictions are criminal and repulsive. But seven years after the thing took effect, I think it must be admitted that all the disasters that people predicted would occur haven't really happened. There was no giant sucking sound in either ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 12 11:46:20 PDT 2001

32178 Teamsters, Hoffa Jr. and Rank Opportunism On The Left -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >Besides laying an egg re: the IBT article, When I get back from Australia, I'm going to interview some rank & file Teamsters. If I'm wrong about the message behind the truck issue, I'll kiss the Teamster of your choice. Meanwhile, look at the cover of that magazine, and tell me it's not appealing to xenophobia. >you still haven't answered my q. about Marx, >free trade, and 'the worse the better'. Not the worse the better, but the better the potential for working ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 12 11:05:07 PDT 2001

32179 zionism -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Israel is the product of a whole set of historical acts, decisions and >persons made in this century, not the only possible realization of the >wideranging set of aspirations that came under the term Zionism, or that >come under the term "nationalism" in any context. > >All forms of nationalism have an exclusionary element by their very nature >that in state form may be realized, but that is true for almost every >nation, including Arab nat ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 12 10:29:04 PDT 2001

32180 zionism -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >To single out the migration ideology of the Jews as uniquely racist is not >anti-Israel but anti-Jewish. It is the specific end-product of that >migration, the Israeli state that deserves the criticism, so casual attacks >on "Zionism" rather than the Israeli state just melds anti-semitism into the >criticism. Kind of a fine distinction, no? The "migration ideology" assumes that because the putative ancestors of the Jews lived in that reg ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 12 09:43:08 PDT 2001

32181 global warming: disastrously worse -- rank: 1000

Independent (London) - July 12, 2001 Global warming much worse than predicted, say scientists By Michael McCarthy, Steve Connor, Richard Lloyd Parry and Stephen Castle Global warming is happening now, caused by human actions, and threatens the Earth with disaster, the world's leading atmospheric scientists insisted yesterday as politicians struggled to repair the Kyoto treaty on climate change which the United States torpedoed in March. A 2,000-page UN report on the science and potential impacts ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 12 08:35:19 PDT 2001

32182 Fwd: Fraud Charges Against Australia's One Nation Party -- rank: 1000

[So, Australians, what's up with her & her party? And how much have mainstream politicians adopted her message?] Charges Against One Nation Leader By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 4:58 a.m. ET CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- The One Nation Party, which has shaken Australia with its attacks on immigrants and Aborigines, is fighting for its life with its firebrand leader facing electoral fraud charges that could land her behind bars. Pauline Hanson is to appear July 31 on charges of electoral frau ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 12 08:21:50 PDT 2001

32183 zionism -- rank: 1000

Zak McGregor wrote: >Funny, I had just joined this list to find out (amongst other things) >why it seemed to be so quiet with respects to the genocide happening in >Palestine. > >Any ideas as to why there is so little discussion of the Palestinian >issue on the list then? Not by my preference or editorial direction, but it probably has something to do with the reluctance of the U.S. left to talk about it, esp the part of the U.S. left that is loyal to the Democrats. Fire away. ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 12 06:52:47 PDT 2001

32184 Teamsters, Hoffa Jr. and Rank Opportunism On The Left -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >Show me a quote where the IBT and/or Junior >"demonize" Mexican *truck drivers* (emphasis >added), as opposed to demonizing unregulated >trucks & trucking and/or low-wage labor. Well, there was this lovely passage from Teamster magazine, Nov 99. Check out the cover pic - "The NAFTA Trucker" <http://www.teamster.org/comm/newsletters/1199.htm>. The piece and especially the presentation draw on the whole Buchananite discourse about the s ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 12 06:38:48 PDT 2001

32185 Teamsters, Hoffa Jr. and Rank Opportunism On The Left -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >mbs: I did say, 'compared to', and there wasn't much >else he could have done from a pragmatic standpoint. >In light of the dependence of the Dems on the AFL, >the lack of ability (will?) to exercise leverage by >the latter over the former is striking. I don't think you can underestimate the influence the Dems have on the union leadership: what Bob Fitch calls the get out of jail free card. Dems in office, no indictments. Dems out, indictments. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jul 12 06:30:17 PDT 2001

32186 AFL-CIO in Cambodia -- rank: 1000

[This is a rather different and more complicated picture from what Rakesh used to go on about - U.S. unions putting Cambodians out of work.] New York Times - July 12, 2001 The A.F.L.-C.I.O. Organizes in Cambodia By WAYNE ARNOLD PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - The black clouds of an early monsoon were piling up outside as Jason Judd of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. paced before a classroom of local union leaders and labor organizers, lecturing on what it takes to force garment factory managers to the negotiating tabl ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 12 06:25:51 PDT 2001

32187 Democrats: scumbags -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - July 11, 2001 US AND CANADA: Democrats free way for bankruptcy law US LEGISLATION DASCHLE ALLOWS TOUGHER LINE ON DEBTS: By DEBORAH MCGREGOR In a move sure to please the banking and credit card industries, Senate Democrats are preparing to break the logjam on a sweeping overhaul of bankruptcy law. For months the bankruptcy overhaul has been stuck in a procedural swamp, after passing both the House and Senate earlier this year. The legislation, the most ambitious reform in 20 yea ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 11 19:51:16 PDT 2001

32188 Teamsters, Hoffa Jr. and Rank Opportunism On The Left -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >The IBT has been aggressive on trade as well. >These postures don't sit well with Dem liberals >and free-trade marxists, respectively, but it is >in the tradition of populist U.S. labor. Unfortunately, yes. Demonizing Mexican truck drivers is right in line with Gompers going on about those evil Chinese immigrants. Yours in free-trade Marxism, Doug

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Date:	Wed Jul 11 14:43:59 PDT 2001

32189 Teamsters, Hoffa Jr. and Rank Opportunism On The Left -- rank: 1000

Speaking of opportunism, Leo, what do you make of Hillary Clinton endorsing Rudy's position on abolishing the NYC Board of Ed, and putting the schools under mayoral control? What's the union's position on this? Doug

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Date:	Wed Jul 11 13:55:32 PDT 2001

32190 Teamsters, Hoffa Jr. and Rank Opportunism On The Left -- rank: 1000

LeoCasey at aol.com wrote: >The report forwarded on the Teamsters was written by Greg Tarpinian of the >Labor Research Association, a group which has been a primary front group of >the Communist Party with regard to its labor movement work. It continues a >pro-Hoffa perspective that the LRA and the CPUSA has held since prior to the >election of Hoffa. > >Why would the CPUSA take a position so contrary to the rank-and-file movement >in the Teamsters Union? Leaving aside th ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 11 13:54:39 PDT 2001