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Using this forum (Announcement)

Posted by keza at 2004-10-28 08:31 PM

After registering you can participate in the discussion by writing replies to messages. However, in order to launch a completely new topic (rath ...

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Forum archive (Announcement)

Posted by keza at 2006-05-20 04:58 AM

____________________(Intended to be) a complete set of links to all forum threads which saves having to click from page 1 to page 2, to page 3 e ...

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What is the pseudo left?

Posted by youngmarxist at 2006-07-04 09:29 AM

“The pseudo-Left opposes
modernity, development, globalisation, technology and progress.It embraces obscurantism,
relativism, romanticism and even n ...

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Last reply: Re: What is the pseudo left?

Posted by Cyberman at 2007-06-18 11:51 PM

Comrade Youngmarxist,
Sorry if I didn't answer you at the time. I wasn't intending to avoid any questions.
1) What reforms would make the worki ...

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The Rules of Engagement here

Posted by keza at 2007-10-10 11:02 PM

The purpose of this forum is as a place for serious, high-level
discussion about what it means to be progressive and left-wing in the
21st cen ...

Last reply: Re: The Rules of Engagement here

Posted by kerrb at 2008-04-25 05:54 PM

cyberman comment in "ice age alarmism thread" moved to junkgratuitous, condescending or patronising comments - adds nothing new to discussioncan ...

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Global Warming

Posted by DavidMc at 2006-10-09 06:36 AM

Things
are “hotting up” on global warming. Gore is just the tip of the iceberg, so to
speak. Demonizing of climate skeptics has reached new heights ...

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Last reply: Re: Global Warming

Posted by Cyberman at 2008-05-08 06:13 PM

Yes of course it is a great pity that the Stalinist regime of the USSR, which no doubt many ex- CPA members ( maybe including you?) spe ...

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strength and democracy

Posted by kerrb at 2007-10-06 04:33 PM

owenss wrote (in iraq: the good oil thread):Take democracy, the USA tends to promote democracy when it feels
strong and to promote dictatorship when ...

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Posted by owenss at 2008-05-08 04:56 AM

Dalek my comment about apples and oranges is an attempt to argue that its nonsensical to compare the growth rates of a mature economy with an economy ...

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May 1968

Posted by keza at 2008-05-04 05:17 AM

Well, the 40th anniversary of May 1968 is here. The events in France were probably the most spectacular, but the whole of 1968 was a watershed y ...

Last reply: Re: May 1968

Posted by youngmarxist at 2008-05-06 10:44 PM

Cyberman says:If you are going to cuddle up to the Institute of Public Affiars and
other ring wing elements in society, there is all the more reason ...

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"Fraud. Cheating. Dirty Tricks. Absurdity. And other election news…from Election Journal"

Posted by youngmarxist at 2008-05-06 05:14 AM

Election Journal is a fascinating look at what can be done to keep elections honest.As I write, primary elections are going on in the state of Indiana ...

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Blame the pseudo left for high house prices

Posted by DavidMc at 2008-04-20 09:50 PM

Near the top of the list of the many crimes of the pseudo left we would have to place their success in sending housing prices through the roof. ...

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Posted by DavidMc at 2008-05-01 04:55 PM

Dalek wrote:I see "urban strangulation" as an imperative to build new cities. It's
geometric thing. A large number of smaller diameter cities ha ...

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ice age alarmism

Posted by kerrb at 2008-04-24 05:40 PM

"I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken."This
is an interesting contrary viewpoint. Human caused increase in C ...

Last reply: Re: ice age alarmism

Posted by dalek at 2008-04-30 11:17 PM

Bill, It could well be that the delay of the phenomena that causes sunspots is holding back the global warming trend by reducing the solar f ...

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Review of Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine - The Rise of Disaster Capitalism" By Doug Henwood in Left Business Observer

Posted by youngmarxist at 2008-04-29 03:12 AM

Left Business Observer has a critical review of Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine - The Rise of Disaster Capitalism" by Doug Henwood:Naomi Klein made ...

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Posted by DavidMc at 2008-04-29 06:24 PM

Here is a useful link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shock_DoctrineI think it is important for a genuine left to give critical support to neo ...

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"Egypt's corrupt bread policies leave a bitter taste" - by Daanish Faruqi in Egypt's Daily Star

Posted by youngmarxist at 2008-04-29 03:03 AM

Interesting article called Egypt's corrupt bread policies leave a bitter taste which says that food problems in Egypt have a lot to do with corruption ...

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Stop Me Before I Vote Again - The Book (well, about a third of a book)

Posted by youngmarxist at 2008-04-29 02:46 AM

Stop Me Before I Vote Again is a website dedicated to stopping the Left in the USA voting for the Democratic Party. While I disagree with their defini ...

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pamela bone

Posted by kerrb at 2005-12-18 10:39 PM

Sad to see that Pamela Bone is battling cancer and will no longer be
writing for The Age. Her final Age article describes her feelings about
her bat ...

Last reply: pamela bone has died

Posted by kerrb at 2008-04-28 11:48 PM

Very sad to hear of the death on Saturday of journalist Pamela Bone. There are many fine tributes to her courage and convictions from these farewells ...

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one laptop per child

Posted by kerrb at 2006-12-31 11:07 PM

The one laptop per child project (OLPC) aims to distribute millions of cheap laptops to children in third world countries over the next few yearsManuf ...

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Last reply: the battle for Sugar

Posted by kerrb at 2008-04-26 10:01 PM

OLPC no longer a disruptive force ...Walter Bender clarifies his reasons for leaving OLPC:What’s
next for OLPC? I would rather OLPC answer for themse ...

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The Decline of the Democratic Party

Posted by youngmarxist at 2008-04-26 03:50 AM

The World Socialist Web Site (published by the Trotskyist International Committee of the Fourth International) has an interesting article on the crisi ...

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Fun with Flashmobs

Posted by youngmarxist at 2008-04-26 01:18 AM

A flashmob is "a large group of people who assemble suddenly in a public place, perform an unusual action for a brief time, then quickly dispers ...

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Interesting political blog - The Piping Shrike

Posted by youngmarxist at 2008-03-09 06:15 PM

I've been reading the (presumably)* South Australian political blog The Piping Shrike for a few months now. It's far more interesting than the usual r ...

Last reply: the death of political parties?

Posted by kerrb at 2008-04-21 05:50 AM

Piping Shrike: Funeral Oration for the political classKevin Rudd:... what
we are looking for is also new insights into how we can govern
Australia, ...

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The Economics of Collective Ownership

Posted by DavidMc at 2007-05-31 12:54 PM

Here is a short piece on my primary area of interest. I
think readers unfamiliar with the terminology should still get the general
drift.

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Last reply: Re: The Economics of Collective Ownership

Posted by DavidMc at 2008-04-20 07:51 PM

Here's the paper I've been working on for the last 6 months or so.It is called The Economics of Social Ownership and this is how I sum up:

"My posi ...

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Five Years Later...

Posted by keza at 2008-03-26 06:37 AM

It’s worth reading Slate’s recent series of articles by a number of “liberal hawks” most of whom now believe that they were wrong (or at least ...

Last reply: removed to junk forum

Posted by Cyberman at 2008-04-16 07:22 AM

This post has been sent to our junk forum because it was irrelevant to this thread. It can be read herekeza ...

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