Date: Wed, 2 Oct 96 01:11:45 UT
Subject: RE: M2 List


Vvpiercy,
If you can access the world wide web, here are some sites for
some of the periodicals Kevin recommended to you, where you 
can hopefully get a taste before having to buy.  I gave you 
e-mail addresses if I couldn't find their web sites, since I'm 
sure they will at the least send an interested reader a brochure, 
if not a free issue.

> 3.  Finally, THE NATION is the only "paper" on the Left that I'm
> subscribed to, and it's difficult to find any other analysis that's as
> good.  I want to check out the Left Business Observer--someone want to
> send me a copy?  But, what other daily or weekly papers or online
> magazines are people plugging into for current analysis of the media,
> politics, culture and the economy?  Some of the magazines or newspapers> 
I've seen from the Greens, or from Unions or from socialists or communists> 
are hard to obtain and seem poorly written and reported.  The problem I> 
suppose is that it's hard to get good bourgeois journalism professionals> to 
write in underfunded and understaffed communist and socialist
> newspapers. 

	The best source out there is still the Monthly Review for Marxist
analysis of politics. It was the leading Maoist magazine in the 50s and
60s with Magdoff and Sweezy at the helm, but has now somewhat strayed from its 
Maoist roots yet it is still revolutionary and interesting. Its based in
New York City, and also has an exception press outlet, the Monthly Review 
Press, that I recommend reading also. The Monthly Review can be found on the 
newstands and microfiche indexes at nearly every public library, and 
especially large universities like IU. 

Email:  mreview-AT-igc.apc.org

	Against the Current is still a great magazine also. It's published
by the group Solidarity, but is in touch with the current of Monthly
Review and the revolutionary, yet non-cult oriented, left. Former editors
of this mag include Noam Chomsky, and Ernest Mandel. 

www.labornet.org/solidarity/solid.html

	
	As for Left Business Observer I highly recommend it as a source
for news. Though its more of a newsletter than anything its of exceptional
quality, and worth the small price that Henwood asks for a yearly
subscription. Mail him at dhenwood-AT-panix.com ..

Doug has a web site with I think "sample" articles from 
his newsletter at 
http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/LBO-home.html

You might also want to check out:

Z Magazine, http://www.lbbs.org
New Politics, email newpol-AT-igc.apc.org
Multinational Monitor email monitor-AT-essential.or
Covert Action Quarterly http://www.worldmedia.com/caq
Extra!, http://www.fair.org/fair

Happy reading!
                                Ang


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