> Good news from Japan is as rare as fresh and cheap toro in the
> American Midwest, at least from the point of view of an activist on
> the left. Here's an exception. Japan's upper house of Parliament
> unexpectedly turned down Koizumi's key piece of neoliberal
> legislation: the privatization of Japan's post office. See John
> Mage's "Koizumi Goes Postal," on the homepage of mrzine.org today:
> <http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/mage140805.html>. The world's last
> anti-communist Keynesian state, saddled as it is with "by far the
> largest [government debt] in proportion to GDP of any advanced
> industrial nation" (Mage, <http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/
> mage140805.html>), lives to see another day. Mage has some kind
> words for the JCP for its feisty fight against postal privatization.
>
> Yoshie Furuhashi
It's good to see John's still hanging out with the "hippies" and "rabble".
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/JohnMage144.jpg
unrepentantly yours, Leigh www.leighm.net
