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Here is the index:

Articles

Theodore W. Allen

"On Roediger's Wages of Whiteness

Bill V. Mullen

"Notes on Black Marxism"

Ahmet Öncü and Ahmet Hasim Köse

"Re-Considering the Meaning of 'Scientific Management' from a Marxist
Perspective"

Nicholas J. Smith

"Why Hardcore Goes Soft:
Adorno, Japanese Noise, and the Extirpation of Dissonance"

Susanne Soederberg

"Deconstructing the Neo-liberal Promise of Prosperity and Stability:
Who Gains from the Maquiladorization of Mexican Society?"

Sam Coombes

"Sartre's Concept of Bad Faith in Relation to the Marxist Notion of False
Consciousness:
Inauthenticity and Ideology Re-Examined"

Interviews

"Living History: Talking with Tito"

An Interview with John Gerassi by Tony Monchinski

"Big Apple Redux"

An Interview with Marshall Berman by Tony Monchinski

Reviews

E. O. Wilson's Consilience

Reviewed by Lucas MacKenzie

Paula L. M. Moya and Michael Hames-Garcia, eds.,
Reclaiming Identity: Realist Theory and the Predicament of Postmodernism

Reviewed by Barbara Foley

Satya P. Mohanty's Literary Theory and the Claims of History:
Postmodernism, Objectivity, Multicultural Politics

and

Paula L. M. Moya and Michael Hames-Garcia, eds.,
Reclaiming Identity: Realist Theory and the Predicament of Postmodernism

Reviewed by Carol J. Moeller

Alan Gilbert, Must Global Politics Constrain Democracy?
Great-Power Realism, Democratic Peace, and Democratic Internationalism

Reviewed by Alan Spector

Poetry

Puja Ahluwalia

"Dorcelina Falador"

Sean Thomas Dougherty

"American Sonnet #1" and Other Poems

Dee Rimbaud

"A New Clean American Dream"

Best wishes,

David Siar, co-editor

Introducing the International Simultaneous Policy Organization

zeroworkaholic writes Noam Chomsky has indicated his interest in the International Simultaneous Policy project, British in origin, about which, read on:

"The principal barrier to the implementation of any significant measure to improve today’s economic, environmental or social problems, be they in advanced, developing or non-industrialised countries, is competition. Global de-regulated capital flows and corporations know no national boundaries and by their ability or threat to move elsewhere, force nations to compete with one another for capital, jobs (and therefore votes) and ever scarcer natural resources.

Transmissions: Globalization, Technology, Media

Thursday, April 25, 2002 - Saturday, April 27, 2002

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, The Hefter Center

Below is a plain text version of the schedule. Please go to the site for a
more reader-friendly version tech conf

CONFERENCE DESCRIPTION

The contemporary characters of technology, communication networks, and the arts have all been affected by world-wide trends, now often designated by the short-hand, "globalization." Against this background, the conference aims to expand on recent scholarship and suggest new ways of thinking about
the interaction among media forms and technologies (both broadly defined) in the global contexts and corresponding notions of transmission, flows, journeys, passage-ways and currents. The conference gathers approaches that push the definitions of media technology and globalization, considering
these terms theoretically, historically, or as fodder for invention, art, and fabulation.

AFI-Anarchist Federation Ireland

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Hi all

MFR is an anarchist internet radio station run
by w@g (Walthamstow Anarchist Group in London) people
and others. The site is live and can be found at
Middle Finger Radio

Right now it includes a policy statement and explains
how the site will work. There is also a big archive of
spoken word by various interesting people. The station
'programs' will contain anarchist only stuff (tho' the
archive is a bit broader) and will consist of
anarchist music and poetry as well as articles on
what's going on of interest politically in Britain and
Ireland.

We want a variety of formats (reports,interviews,
discussions, rants, etc) so if you are involved
in anything locally why not make a recording for
us?

So far we have lined up, amongst other things: A
debate between an Anarchist and a Marxist, an
interview with the Wombles, a talk on the Anarchist
Youth network, some French anarchist songs, an
article on Anarchism in Northern Ireland... get the
idea?

We'll consider anything and everything. Unfortunately
we don't have the technology (or rather the money to
get the technology) to broadcast live, so the station
will consist of downloadable recordings.

Hope you can contribute in some way to help get this
project up and running.

Solidarity

w@g