well read A very incomplete review of the radical press
NetWorkin Fame at last? • Between March 15 and May 15 about 1,700 visits were made to the new International Viewpoint website. The site was visited from 32 countries on all five continents, and 30% of visitors came from the USA • A slightly higher number of visitors was recorded by the Against the Current (USA) website. Weekly "hits" ranged from 270 to 281. This increased to 310 after the site was reviewed in the "Gender Politics" section of The Web, a relatively new magazine. The review reads: "Further evidence of the broad spectrum of feminist thought, Solidarity, a socialist/feminist organization, argues that capitalism is to blame for the social and economic oppression of women. While that broadbrush theory may make even riot grris wince, this site offers a refreshing alternative to the tired rhetoric of mainstream women's groups, throwing a little class warfare into the mix."
Ratings (on a five point scale): Content 4, Design 5, Links 3, Overall 4 http://www.webmagazine.com/. • During the same period, about 3,500 people visited the homepage of the Swedish weekly Internationalen. Only half (52%) were from Sweden itself. In the previous two months only 190 people had visited the site. Red Flanders
Rood, the Dutch-language newspaper of the Belgian section of the Fourth International now has its own website, with links to other Fl sites.
http://titan.glo.be/geudens/rood Cancel the debt!
The Campaign to Cancel III world debt has changed address, and 36 International Viewpoint
Russian Labour Review
Publication has been definitively suspended. It has been two years since the last issue appeared.
As an English-language journal published in Russia, RLR always depended on the ability of a small pool of expatriate supporters. This narrow base made RLR a highly unstable operation.
Nevertheless, those of us who volunteered our ideas and energies believe that producing the journal was a correct initiative, and that our contributions were not wasted.
It is ironic that the closure of RLR comes at a time when labour disputes in Russia are experiencing an important upsurge. Workers who have gone unpaid for many months are now recreating the traditions of solidarity and struggle that were developed in Russia many decades ago. updated its website with materials on the new situation in CongoZaire
>> [email protected] http://users.skynet.be/sky74032 Malcolm-X list
For addition information send an email message to:
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New homepage for the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)
http://burn.ucsd.edu/~farc-ep Ernest Mandel
This new website includes Mandel's last article about the world situation, "The relevance of Marxism."
http://titan.glo.be/geudens International Viewpoint
Our own website now includes 50+ pages: articles from last month's special issue on Europe • Three articles on the new Congo • The Fourth International Youthcamp • Fourth International statements on Peru and Albania • More than 30 other articles from previous issues.
We also present the International Institutee for Research and Education in Amsterdam, and its Notebook publication series.
www.internationalen.se/sp/ivp.htm
Our English listserv provides the full contents of this magazine, and articles from our associated publications. [email protected]
Reports and commentary on these new battles are still available! Articles are posted on the Internet conference <labr.cis>, available in many countries from Association for Progressive Communications affiliates such as Peacenet in the U.S., and Pegasus in Australia.
Rentrey Clarke (Moscow-editorial) and Alex Chis (Berkeley-distribution). Red Orange Robert Cymbala writes "This is a new journal devoted to Marxist critical and theoretical inquiry into everyday life. It offers the reader a coherently integrated knowledge of seemingly disparate contemporary practices by locating these within the context of the dynamic, structured concrete global capitalist social totality in which these practices make sense and from which it becomes possible to conceive of and work towards substantial progress in the struggle for emancipation, justice & equality. PO Box 1055, Tempe, AZ 85280-1055 web.syr.edu/rcymbala/ro.html Viento Sur #32 In Spanish. Dossier on the public education system in Spain • Orlando Núñez (FLN) on the left in Nicaragua • labour market reform • economics and ecology Apartado de Correos 50.522, 28080 Madid <[email protected] Le Monde Diplomatique In French. The June issue(#519) includes "The Arab world: orphan of democracy" by Gilbert Achcar • debate on globalisation with Financial Times journalists • Islam in the media • Lourdes behind the facade 21bis rue Claude-Bernard, 75242 Paris cedex 05 Murros In Finnish. Issue 2/97 of Finland's Communist Youth magazine includes: A strict no to EMU and NATO • German opposition to nuclear waste transport was wider than in previous years. • Opposition to conscription and alternative civil service. • Which firms support the Burmese dictatorship? • Boycott Shell! • Who was Lev Trotsky? • Early 20th Century Finnish working class culture • Vladimir Majakovsky • Spring meeting of Communist Youth Published by: Kommunistinuoret - Communist Youth of Finland, PL 288, 00171 Helsinki, Finland. Tel: 09-278 2244, Fax: 09-278 2244. E-mail: [email protected] Internet: www.dic.fi/-komnuor/ Grenzeloos #39 In Dutch. The June/July issue includes: Treaty of Amsterdam: technocrats in power • Robert Went: Seven steps towards full employment in Europe • European steel industry: job loss and resistance • Countersummit: first steps in the Europe debate • Manure lake and piglet murder: the EU's failing agricultural policy • Student movement and transport cards: on the right track? •What is the Socialist Workers Party? Published by the Socialist Workers Party, Dutch section of the Fourth International. Inprekorr #308 In German. The June issue of our German sistermagazine includes most of the Europe dossier published in International Viewpoint. Other articles include "Zypern im Würgegriff der Nationalismen" by Andreas Kloke and a theoretical supplement on "the capitalist restoration in Eastern Europe" by Catherine Samary. This text is also available in, French from our Paris office. Contact: Verlag Neuer Kurs, Dasselstr. 75-77, D-50674 Koln. Price: 5 DM (trial sub. 3 months for 10 DM. One year 50 DM. E-Mail:[email protected]. Articles are also available through CL-Datennetz: /CL/MAGAZINE/INPREKORR. Socialistisk Information In Danish. The July 1997 issue (#109) includes: Danish semi-skilled workers' federation hosts "global trade union summit" • Turkey: USA gives the green light for stepping up repression (by Kenneth Haar, International Commission of the Unity List - Red/Greens) • Mentally handicapped people face unequal justice • After Amsterdam: Interview with three activists "for a different Europe" • Fourth International fund drive (6,000 DKK collected so far) In Danish. Monthly magazine of the Socialistisk Arbejderparti (SAP), Danish section of the Fourth International. Contact: Box547, DK-2200, Copenhagen N, Denmark. eMail <[email protected]› eMail <[email protected]>