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1741 Robin D.G.Kelley on the Abraham Lincoln Brigade -- rank: 1000

In message <p05001906b6e5e6e62bcc@[140.254.115.75]>, Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> writes > >Robin D.G. Kelley on the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Looks really good. There is good stuff on the origins of the International Brigades in East London Communist Joe Jacobs' book Out of the Ghetto. He describes how three tailors from Stepney first went to fight in Spain, much to the disapproval of the Communist Party. Later the CP got behind the International Brigades (costing t ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Tue Mar 27 01:11:05 PST 2001

1742 F&M, US Oil -- rank: 1000

The WEEK ending 25 March 2001 Foot and Mouth A SHARED NATIONAL EXPERIENCE? Farming creates one seventy-seventh of new value in the British economy, and just 500 000 of the 27 million-strong workforce are on farms, but the foot and mouth epidemic has become the focal point of British life, as well as the collective excuse for inaction and delay. The opposition Conservative Party, along with the right-wing press is campaigning to suspend the mooted May General Election. It is hardly surprising tha ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Mar 25 06:56:03 PST 2001

1743 Free Speech -- rank: 1000

I take your point, but somehow, my faith in the libertarian instincts of the British judiciary have been undermined by their ... very existence. As to whether the anti-terrorism law could be used against the Communist Party in the UK. Well it could except that the Communist Party of Great Britain (I kid you not) has been committed to constitutional action for many years now, and has in the last ten, dissolved itself, mostly to join the ruling Labour party. Several government advisors have Commun ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Tue Mar 20 09:14:29 PST 2001

1744 Free Speech -- rank: 1000

In message <F148MIOGCvqQ7SzE2NS000030ca at hotmail.com>, Justin Schwartz <jkschw at hotmail.com> writes >Jim, > >The state of free speech in England is becoming alarming. First, the new >terrorism law, now this harassment theory. Probably I could be liable in >England for something for saying this. For all the manifold defects of >American constitutionalism, it makes me want to go out and give the First >Amendment a great big hug. Is there any protection from the ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Tue Mar 20 00:31:23 PST 2001

1745 Free Speech -- rank: 1000

The WEEK ending 18 March 2001 Notes of the WEEK British Prime Minister Tony Blair looked forward to an era of full employment, announcing another fall in the UK unemployment figures - Britain though is not exempt from the gloom that has swept stock markets in Tokyo, Washington and London alike. Rather the falling value of technology stocks and rising numbers in work are both symptomatic of the labour intensive growth that has characterised the market system since the defeat of organised labour. ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Fri Mar 16 08:09:09 PST 2001

1746 I'm sure you've seen this but... -- rank: 1000

Julian Borger in Washington Tuesday March 13, 2001 The Guardian Six people were killed and 10 wounded yesterday when a US Navy plane missed its target in a training exercise in Kuwait and dropped a bomb on parked cars near the Iraqi border, according to Pentagon officials. At least four of the dead were Americans and one was a New Zealander. There were also five Americans and two Kuwaitis among the injured as a result of the the accident during a joint US-British-Kuwaiti exercise at the Udairi b ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Tue Mar 13 01:20:07 PST 2001

1747 The Internot -- rank: 1000

The WEEK ending 11 March 2001 The Internot Amazon founder and chief executive Jeff Bezos is being investigated by the New York Securities and Exchange Commission for allegedly selling off 800 000 shares in his own company on the eve of the publication of a critical report by Lehman brothers into the internet book store. Amazon's problems have mounted as the supposedly model dot.com business failed to make profits. Amazon joins another internet pioneer, the search engine Yahoo!, whose chief execu ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Mar 11 07:11:28 PST 2001

1748 Turkey to go falco? -- rank: 1000

thanks to Daniel for this advance intelligence In message <20001130113812.19646.qmail at web5504.mail.yahoo.com>, Daniel Davies <d_squared_2002 at yahoo.co.uk> writes >Not seen anything about this on the list, but the >market is veritably abuzz with it. Turkey's got U$24bn >of reserves, which it appears to be burning at a rate >of $8bn/week, and $24bn of short term debt to roll >over in the next month. It's probably too good a >pupil of the IMF to actually default, ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Mon Mar 5 07:30:19 PST 2001

1749 Simple question on sanctions -- rank: 1000

No, I think that the key ingredient is whether one thinks that Western imperialism is a force for good or not. Tending to be a little sceptical of that proposition, I do not think that sanctions imposed by Western governments should play any part in the resources of the left. Incidentally, there is no shortage of Western stooges to front-up demands for sanctions against Iraq. Furthermore, Saddam's regime is without doubt a disaster for the Iraqi people. That said, I see no positive role for thos ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Mon Mar 5 07:35:31 PST 2001

1750 Horowitz/Reparations for slavery -- rank: 1000

Reparations sounds like a disastrous political strategy to me, whatever its legal merits. The message of it is that discrimination is a hangover from the past, not something that is recreated here in the present. Furthermore, the struggle would become legalised, with lawyers seeking to prove descent, pursuing no-win, no-fee strategies that would further reduce the children of former slaves into front-men for lawyers' campaigns latch onto the government tit. The struggle against racism in the her ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Mon Mar 5 01:54:57 PST 2001

1751 Healyites & Bhaskar? -- rank: 1000

In my view the former members of the Workers Revolutionary Party (UK) were mostly used up by the experience. Just as they tended to lionise Healy when he was alive, they tended to demonise him after he was dead, loading all their own errors onto Healy as they had previously imbued him with near mystical powers. There was some good theoretical work done in the forerunner of the WRP, the SLL on Marxist theory, though most of this was of a formal nature. Examples would be Tom Kemp and Geoff Pilling ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Mar 4 12:03:12 PST 2001

1752 Foot'n'mouth, Straws laws, Parasite Britain -- rank: 1000

The WEEK ending 4 March 2001 Agricultural luddites Prime Minister Tony Blair added to the clamour of criticism of British supermarkets for holding down food prices - which he suggests is the reason for the foot and mouth outbreak. In fact it was increased productivity in agriculture that transformed the quality of life in the UK. In 1950 spending on food represented nearly 30 per cent of the household budget; by 1995 that was down to just over ten per cent. Increased consumer spending on leisure ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Mar 4 03:52:49 PST 2001

1753 Hinduja Scandal, Holocaust Day, Internet Twins -- rank: 1000

The WEEK ending 28 January 2001 HINDUJA SCANDAL The transformation of the British Labour Party in the mid-nineties from unelectable trade union lobby to the face of New Britain was based on the theory of 'triangulation'. Clinton pollster Dick Morris advised Blair's team that they would have to run against their own record as well as fighting the Conservatives, mapping out a 'third way'. Spin doctor Peter Mandelson developed the twin-track strategy of making the party a friend of business on the ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Jan 28 03:19:44 PST 2001

1754 Fuck 'em -- rank: 1000

>--- Carl Remick <carlremick at hotmail.com> wrote: > > >> >> Fuck 'em. In message <20010126162738.16085.qmail at web5504.mail.yahoo.com>, Daniel Davies <d_squared_2002 at yahoo.co.uk> writes >Agreed. I've been biding my time for about two years >to have a really good punch-up with Jim Heartfield before adding shame-faced >(christ, that sounds vindictive; I mean I've just sort >of made a mental note that it was the sort of thing I >wanted ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Fri Jan 26 10:06:23 PST 2001

1755 AIDS: Africa, Polio Vaccine, Kaposi Sarcoma -- rank: 1000

In message <20010126112806.25579.qmail at web5501.mail.yahoo.com>, Daniel Davies <d_squared_2002 at yahoo.co.uk> writes >I don't see "African men" in the post above. It was in the title: >> >REgarding AIDS and Africa: >Men, in >general, visit prostitutes when they are displaced >from their usual sources of sexual intercourse. >Africa has far more men on the move than most other >places, and therefore, presumably, is a bigger >prostitution marke ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Fri Jan 26 06:39:36 PST 2001