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Macdonald Stainsby | 1 Apr 2005 01:06
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Northerners calling on PM to block patronage appointment...

Introductory rant by Macdonald Stainsby

Some of these names are already infamous to indigenous and indigenous 
solidarity activists. For example, Burlingame first got involved in the 
Mackenzie "pave it, pump and steal it now" projects by former Indian Affairs 
minister Bob Nault, the same Nault who was MP for the Kenora region and 
helped streamline the continued assaults on Grassy Narrows, both as MP and 
as Indian Affairs Minister. Burlingame, a major player in the promotion of 
gas and petroleum and other "development" corporations' interests in the 
Valley, was appointed only last month without the proceedure laid out in the 
guidelines. Previously, as the article lets on, this southerner who has 
never lived in the north was spending time as government rep for the 
environmental review panel of the same pipeline project.

His patronage appointment was made by Andy Scott, the same current Indian 
and Northern Affairs minister who believes that the solution to poverty on 
reservations is the nationwide introduction of private property. Andy Scott 
is widely seen as one of the most "pro business" DIAND ministers appointed 
in decades. What with the "need" to use natural gas taken from Dene and 
Inuit lands to the north of Alberta to blast massive strip mines to "help" 
pump the ecologically disastrous tar sand oil, Scott seems to believe there 
is no time to waste messing around listening to Indian concerns. Yet at the 
same time, he trumpets the benefits of "a new northern strategy" as a part 
of global warming raising ocean levels and wiping out wentire ice shelves-- 
while producing room for a northwest passage shipping lane. If they believe 
there is no time to waste, we have to make clear that we understand that as 
well, and waste none either.

Though there are some who will be doing so for their own reasons, stopping 
Burlingame from being allowed to be shoved down the collective throats of
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Carlos A. Rivera | 1 Apr 2005 01:55
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IWW etc (was Re: Lund, Sheppard and Miah call on workers to leave AFL-CIO


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lance Murdoch" <lancemurdoch <at> gmail.com>

> I think the policies of the old IWW (which are the same as the current
> one, although the organization is moribund) are the right way to go.

Actually, the IWW *was* moribund.

As of late has been rebounding, with new locals, a technology workers 
section (Communications Workers IU560), and a dynamic leadership.

Plus they are the only union actually trying, and having moderate success, 
at organizing service and retail sector employees, which the AFL-CIO ignores 
simply because the ROI on fees for an organizing drive would be minimal even 
if salaries go up because of the union and the left ignores because they 
love Starbucks or Starclones cafes.

The IWW  is less worried about fees and more worried about workers rights, 
and gives exactly two shits if you think the latest barista doesn't mix your 
latte how you like it, sir.

Additionaly they are quite un-popular amond liberals, including labor 
liberals, for organizing non-profit workers in "progressive" organizations, 
which tend to super-exploit workers because of the ideological affinity they 
have with the organizations.

Rather than moribund, I would describe the IWW as the fastest growing union 
in the USA today.
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Dbachmozart | 1 Apr 2005 02:14
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The best revenge


Living will is the best revenge
By ROBERT FRIEDMAN,  Perspective Editor
Published March 27,  2005
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Like  many of you, I have been compelled by recent events to prepare a
more  detailed advance directive dealing with end-of-life issues. Here's
what mine  says:

* In the event I lapse into a persistent vegetative state, I  want
medical authorities to resort to extraordinary means to prolong  my
hellish semiexistence. Fifteen years wouldn't be long enough for  me.

* I want my wife and my parents to compound their misery by engaging  in
a bitter and protracted feud that depletes their emotions and their  bank
accounts.

* I want my wife to ruin the rest of her life by  maintaining an
interminable vigil at my bedside. I'd be really jealous if she  waited
less than a decade to start dating again or otherwise rebuilding  a
semblance of a normal life.

* I want my case to be turned into a  circus by losers and crackpots from
around the country who hope to bring  meaning to their empty lives by
investing the same transient emotion in me  that they once reserved for
Laci Peterson, Chandra Levy and that little girl  who got stuck in a
well.

* I want those crackpots to spread vicious  lies about my wife.
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Fred Feldman | 1 Apr 2005 03:19

Comment by Stuart Munckton from GreenLeft list on Sheppard book

Barry Sheppard's book is the first of two volumes. It deals witht he
period up until the peroid that Mark says internal tendencies ceased
to be represented. His second book will look at the degeneration of
the SWP, and he will offer his opinions and analysis's of what went
wrong and why. What he is trying to do is show that there *was* a
degernation* and that the internal methids of operation in the SWP by
the late '70s early 80's were not the same as during the 60s.

So the period talked about by Mark, in regards to the anti-Nazi
demonstration and the alleged attitude/comments of Sheppard are not
covered in his book or his statement that the 60's early 70's were
democratic inside the SWP. 

So what will Sheppard say in his second volume? We will have to wait,
but in regards to his onw role - I was at the launch of Sheppard's
book at the Asia Pacific Internationl Solidarity Conference in Sydney
over the last weekend where Sheppard spoke and can let people know
what he said: He repudiated his role in that period in no uncertain
terms. He said he was wrong. What he did was wrong. I don't know if
Barry made the comments he is alleged to have, but he is not defending
his role in driving out oppositions. In terms of how it was he ended
up playing what he acknoledges was a disgraceful role inside the SWP,
we will have to wait for his second volume for his opinions on that.
(At his workshop he said he realised his own head was not far from the
chopping block and thought he could save himself by turning all all
other oppositions or dissidents or indepedent thinkers and therefore
try and save himself by proving his loyalty. He now thinks this was
shameful, but resulted from a psycological attachment to the party
because of all the years he had put into building it so he couldn't
face breaking with that.)
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M. Junaid Alam | 1 Apr 2005 03:20

What the Hell is Going On With Bukharin at the MIA -marxists.org?

At marxists.org (http://www.marxists.org/archive/bukharin/index.htm) 
there is at bottom of the N.K. Bukharin section a series of 
"confessions" made to the mafia-like Soviet power structure during 
interrogations. There is not one mention of the outstanding fact that 
this was all contrived and forced out of Bukharin so that his family 
would not be murdered. Anyone who reads this will get the impression 
Bukharin is simply sitting there nodding his head in all honesty 
admitting to  committing "treason" against the socialist revolution. 
This is an insane slander against an outstanding Marxist thinker for the 
MIA not to preface this whole thing with an explanatory note.

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glparramatta | 1 Apr 2005 03:55
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Re: Lund, Sheppard and Miah call on workers to leave AFL-CIO

Perhaps comrades should try to get hold of the latest Links and read 
Lund's article directly rather than going on the say-so of Gould, who 
see everything written through the prism of defence of the social 
democrats' monopoly of ``labour movement'' politics.

Email info <at> resistancebooks.com for ordering details.

Norm.

acpollack2 <at> juno.com wrote:

>On balance he certainly would not have supported the broad-brush independent approach Lund et al. are
supposedly advocating. 
>
>  
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Louis Proyect | 1 Apr 2005 04:08
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Will Miller

(Will Miller has been a subscriber to the Marxism list since 1998.)

Hi Louis,
Ron Jacobs here.Will Miller died today.Jay Moore and I were wondering if 
you could post the following to obits/tirbutes to the list?

  For our friend and comrade, Will Miller

Willard M. "Will" Miller

Willard M. "Will" Miller, Professor of Philosophy at the University of 
Vermont in Burlington and a revolutionary who dedicated his life to the 
struggle for social justice, passed away on Thursday, March 31 at 11:01am 
due to complications from cancer. Will tirelessly fought for academic and 
political freedom, rights of the poor, working class and all inhabitants of 
the earth who suffer under economic inequities and prejudices.

Will was born in Chicago on August 29, 1940. He was the first child of Lois 
Nadine Henderson and Willard Marshall Miller. After attending Chicago 
public schools he joined the U. S. Army Security Agency on his 17th 
birthday. He worked as a signal analyst with a Top Secret/Code Word 
Security Clearance to carry out electronic surveillance missions directed 
at the Soviet, East German and Czechoslovakian forces in Eastern Europe 
from 1958-1961. This period provided him the significant beginnings of a 
political education that was not in the foreign policy curriculum in the 
schools at home. He entered the University of Illinois at Navy Pier based 
on high school and 1st year of college GED’s, only to be recalled on the 
first day of classes to active duty for the Berlin Wall Crisis.

After this second tour of duty he returned to the University of Illinois
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davidquarter | 1 Apr 2005 04:46
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Re: Kyrgyzstan 'Regime Change' Masterminded By West


On 31 Mar 2005 at 12:26, Louis Proyect wrote:

> At 01:27 AM 3/31/2005, David Quarter wrote:
> >  Lou,
> >
> >there is novel idea that says, you can support a state militarily in the 
> >face of attack
> >without necessarily agreeing with its politics..if I were to follow your 
> >rationale I would
> >have abondoned China, Cuba and perhaps even Chavez's Venezuela ages ago...
> 
> Your biggest problem (and Rozoff, Yarker et al) is that you rely too 
> heavily on crosspostings from the bourgeois press. >>>

 Where I come from it's not cross posting when you *are not asked* to post on someone's behalf... I'm posting 
articles on a subject, which I feel, would be of value to list members and giving 
credit  to Rick cause
 he's the one who located the article. I wouldn't feel right taking credit for posting an article that I
hadn't found myself, 
...Rick use to previous most of the articles posted to ANTINATO  with analyses.
 The archive is available for anyone,
so you check for yourself...  He has since ceased with this practice, and I'm sure he 
has his reasons why, but that's not to say that he not capable of providing excellent 
analysis when he wants...
Certaintly better than your  haphazard "marxist" take on the caucasuses...

Another reasons for not posting my own analyses is that I'm perpetually short on 
time (for example, I'm wasting precious time bothering with this reply), so it's simply 
easier to "cross post" articles as it's means a few clicks of my mouse rather than
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Yoshie Furuhashi | 1 Apr 2005 04:50
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Notes on Rhetoric

What can you add to Mark Kaplan's notes <http://notesonrhetoric.blogspot.com/>?
-- 
Yoshie

* Critical Montages: <http://montages.blogspot.com/>
* Greens for Nader: <http://greensfornader.net/>
* Bring Them Home Now! <http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/>
* OSU-GESO: <http://www.osu-geso.org/>
* Calendars of Events in Columbus: 
<http://sif.org.ohio-state.edu/calendar.html>, 
<http://www.freepress.org/calendar.php>, & <http://www.cpanews.org/>
* Student International Forum: <http://sif.org.ohio-state.edu/>
* Committee for Justice in Palestine: <http://www.osudivest.org/>
* Al-Awda-Ohio: <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Al-Awda-Ohio>
* Solidarity: <http://www.solidarity-us.org/>

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Louis Proyect | 1 Apr 2005 05:59
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Re: Kyrgyzstan 'Regime Change' Masterminded By West

David O:
>  The archive is available for anyone,
>so you check for yourself...  He has since ceased with this practice, and 
>I'm sure he
>has his reasons why, but that's not to say that he not capable of 
>providing excellent
>analysis when he wants...
>Certaintly better than your  haphazard "marxist" take on the caucasuses...

Actually, Rozoff was on the a-list for a month or so, but stormed off in a 
huff when I challenged him. And that's a list that is much more friendly to 
his point of view than my own.

>Another reasons for not posting my own analyses is that I'm perpetually 
>short on
>time (for example, I'm wasting precious time bothering with this reply), 
>so it's simply
>easier to "cross post" articles as it's means a few clicks of my mouse 
>rather than
>typing in an entirely new subject heading, and then previewing it with my own
>analysis.

I don't mind it when you post something that is uncontroversial. I only 
object to crosspostings that contain an implicit defense of Putin's foreign 
policy. What attitude to take toward the the Caucasus is extremely 
important. It would be useful for somebody like Rozoff to actually spell 
out a Marxist approach, but I am afraid that neither you, nor Rozoff, nor 
Yarker seems capable of stringing together a 500 word Marxist analysis on 
the topic. If crossposting items from the bourgeois press or the Kremlin 
Ministry of Truth is supposed to be substitute for this, then I am not sure
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