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2056 Culture, sexwars, Lukacs -- rank: 1000

ending 18 June 2000 CULTURE OVERLOAD London's new footbridge over the Thames suffered the curse of all millennium projects when it had to be closed within hours as it swayed alarmingly. The bridge is only the latest millennium project to go badly, following the late erection of the 'London Eye' and the loss- making Millennium Dome. Across the country millennium projects have reported difficulties as art centres and museums fail to attract the support hoped for. A new report from the Design Agend ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sun Jun 18 03:41:12 PDT 2000

2057 query -- rank: 1000

In message <39457314.E90E305E at pitt.edu>, Michael Yates <mikey+ at pitt.edu> writes >Can anyone give me references to articles about the current state of the >British labor movement and left politics in Great Britain? Thanks. > >Michael Yates The best source on statistics of union membership, density and combativity is the government monthly Labour Market Statistics based on the Labour force Survey. They do an annual assessment, sometime around May I think. You can pho ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Tue Jun 13 04:14:24 PDT 2000

2058 Class war, Assad, Nailbomber, Brig. Saunders -- rank: 1000

The WEEK ending 11 June 2000 CLASS WAR? Since the local elections in May, the British Labour government has been preoccupied with its 'core support', who are supposed to be 'alienated'. The truth is that New Labour does not have any core support. The New Labour project was defined by its opposition to old Labour's creaky party machinery and the old trade union bosses. The party membership was always a middle class clique, but their numbers are getting smaller every month. Even Blair's counter-pi ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sun Jun 11 03:00:38 PDT 2000

2059 The Week ending 4 June 2000 -- rank: 1000

The WEEK ending 4 June 2000 BODY POLITICS The British government and media spent the week obsessing on the body. It started with the tendentious announcement that fashion magazines and skinny models were responsible for eating disorders - following last month's Downing Street summit when editors were brought in for a wigging from the Prime Minister. A more likely contributor to such disorders is the increasing preoccupation with 'healthy eating', that make diet a problem in young people's minds. ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sun Jun 4 10:15:52 PDT 2000

2060 SA, Sex Crimes -- rank: 1000

In message <20000731035718.5C56C82B8 at faramir.sangonet.org.za>, Patrick Bond <pbond at wn.apc.org> writes quoting me >>... The 'crisis' of late 1997 turned out to be episodic rather than >> systemic. > >What does that mean? The SACP were, actually, right about global (and >local, were they brave enough to say it) "overaccumulation," >having just read the May-June 1998 NLR. I suppose I meant that the crisis of late 1997 turned out not to be the worl ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Mon Jul 31 02:03:36 PDT 2000

2061 SA, Sex Crimes -- rank: 1000

THE WEEK ending 30 July 2000 SOUTH AFRICAN IMPERIALISM A new report by Simeka Management Consultants shows that South Africa has emerged as a major economic player in Africa, becoming the largest single investor in the continent. For years, the Apartheid regime developed an economic powerhouse on the basis of the aggressive subordination of the black working class. Economic sanctions against Pretoria had the effect of protecting frontline states from the superior competitiveness of apartheid goo ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sun Jul 30 07:44:20 PDT 2000

2062 "One Market Under God, and Heaven Help Us All" -- rank: 1000

I agree with Yoshie that the fifties are not much to write home about, either in the US or in Britain. In both cases the social contract meant consolidating the core of the indigenous male working class into respectability and loyalty. This was the resolution of the pre-war class conflict - incorporation of the core, with the resultant emphasis on the exclusion of the periphery. (Those who assert the common cause of organised labour with the oppressed have to deal with the actual history of disc ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Thu Jul 27 01:56:22 PDT 2000

2063 Krugman quality control worsens -- rank: 1000

In message <p04310113b5a36da9f58a@[216.254.77.128]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes >Daniel Davies wrote: > >>Maybe the US is going to become a net oil >>exporter or something weird like that? > >Snake oil, maybe. We produce vast quantities of it, though the >domestic demand seems insatiable. Wasn't it US oil producers who initially kicked off the seventies price hikes that were later blamed on the Opec Arabs? -- James Heartfield Great Expectat ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Tue Jul 25 10:59:18 PDT 2000

2064 Soviet science: Guardian series, 1 -- rank: 1000

In message <p04310101b5a220b6f5bd@[216.254.77.128]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes >[from Johnson's Russia List] > >The Guardian (UK) >24 July 2000 >[for personal use only] >Town where a Soviet dream turned sour >Its scientists were the envy of the world. Now some of the top brains are >manual workers. Our three-part series on the decline and rebirth of Russian >science begins in Siberia One of the peculiarities of science in the less develope ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Mon Jul 24 10:57:50 PDT 2000

2065 GM for AA -- rank: 1000

In message <p04310103b5a1fb5b63a5@[166.84.250.86]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes >Are Eastern Europeans racialized? Or is something else going on? Does >culture take the place of biology as the defining characteristics of >difference? They're good questions, but this is all too recent to tell. So far I would say that these are people who are marked out by their cultural characteristics (and it is surprising to hear Russian talked on the underground these days) ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Mon Jul 24 10:52:03 PDT 2000

2066 GM for AA -- rank: 1000

In message <p04310103b59b5d5b734f@[166.84.250.86]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes >[What does this do to the theory that racism is essential to US capitalism?] > >Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - July 19, 2000 > >General Motors Files Court Brief Defending Affirmative Action at U. of Michigan I think it calls into question the theory that race discrimination is essential to capitalism. For many years I campaigned against South Africa's colour ba ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Mon Jul 24 01:35:57 PDT 2000

2067 G8, Mondeo Man, Aids, Diamonds, Sinn Fein, Judges -- rank: 1000

The WEEK ending 23 July 2000 RADICAL CHIC AT THE G8 Outside the Tokyo summit delegates flown in by wealth Non-Governmental Organisations protested at the minimal progress in debt-relief for poorer nations. Inside journalists and politicians enjoyed expensive freebies while listening to British Prime Minister Tony Blair insist that more must be done to help the poorer nations of the world. Under President James Wolfensohn the World Bank has reinvented itself as a friend of the world poor. Wolfens ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sun Jul 23 06:26:11 PDT 2000

2068 Britain's Annual Report/Postal Strike -- rank: 1000

The Week ending 16 July 2000 IT'S NOT THE ECONOMY, STUPID British Prime Minister Tony Blair told the House of Commons that Britain had been 'chronically under-invested' on Thursday, as he unveiled the government's Annual Report. Government spending under New Labour has been held at a much lower rate than under the previous Tory government, famous for its spending cuts. Between 1997 and March 2000 annual public sector investment fell from four to just over two billion pounds sterling, where the C ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sun Jul 16 10:40:08 PDT 2000

2069 Blair/Unionism -- rank: 1000

CHURCH GOSSIP British Prime Minister Tony Blair had a bad week. On Sunday former Labour Party fundraiser and novelist Ken Follet attacked a government that ruled by malicious gossip and off-the-record briefings against its own ministers. On Monday Blair's off-the-cuff proposal of spot fines for drunken hooligans was shot down by police chiefs who said it was impractical. On Wednesday the Prime Minister's Freudian slip that his was a government of 'spin over substance' spoke volumes. And that day ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sun Jul 9 06:38:18 PDT 2000

2070 RES: Korea's blessing -- rank: 1000

In message <a04310101b5858987e6e9@[128.32.105.161]>, Brad De Long <delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU> writes >How can you tell which governments are legitimate? It's pretty easy. >Legitimate governments: > >(a) derive their just powers from the consent of the governed... on arriving in Korea, US commander John Hodge was met by representatives of the already constituted all-Korean republic. That government was supported by popular committees of peasants and released prisoners of ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Mon Jul 3 07:10:28 PDT 2000