15 Rutherford: "the devil quotes scripture".
Reuben C. Rutherford's only book, Henry George versus Henry George, is fascinating for several reasons. (1) First, it is a full-length, 326-page critique of Progress and Poverty. Second, each of the major elements of George's system of political economy--labor and wages, capital and interest, population, property rights, human nature...

Capitalists, unite! Closing the little red book. (Citings).
"THE WORLD is changing;" Chinese President Jiang Zemin told the 16th Communist Party Congress in November. "We must adapt ourselves." Jiang's adaptation, offered as his legacy on officially leaving office, was finally to junk Karl Marx, thus "free[ing] our minds...from the erroneous and dogmatic interpretations of Marxism." ...

Krebill receives Adams Scholarship.
Jennifer M. Krebill, a senior in agricultural and biosystems engineering at Iowa State University (1SU), was selected as the recipient of the William J. Adams Jr. and Marijane E. Adams Scholarship for 2003. Krebill will be presented the $1,000 scholarship during the September ASAE Iowa Section meeting....

Science for the people. (Asia).
95 activists from 13 countries met in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in September to--as participants put it--"ensure that science and technology serves the interests and needs of the people." The First International Peasant-Scientist Conference included representatives from peasants' movements in the Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, and Nepal, scientists from Australia, the...

Salsa music rivalries and battles.
It was the Spring of 1935. The movie had just ended in the Campoamor Theatre on 5th Avenue and 116th Street when suddenly the people in the theatre were startled by a message that flashed across the screen in Spanish: "FLASH! FLASH! FLASH!" and then: WAR! WAR! WAR! BETWEEN...

Jobs for the boys: the countries of the Gulf are under increasing pressure to provide their own nationals with jobs but although there have been moves in the right direction, there is still a long way to go.
The Gulf economies have long relied on foreign labour to provide a vast array of services, from cleaning and construction to engineering and nursing. Highly paid British and US oil sector workers helped build the economies of regional oil producers, while many less well paid positions were filled by...

Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South.
Edited by William H. Chafe, Raymond Gavins, Robert Korstad, and others. (New York: The New Press, in association with Lyndhurst Books of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, c. 2001. Pp. [xxxviii], 346, and two audio compact discs. $55.00, ISBN 1-56584-697-4.) Inspired by the insights...

Family farmers unite.
Jose Luis Alcocer de Leon is a family farmer from the state of Hidalgo, Mexico, and a dealer of the Independent Center of Farm Workers and Farmers. Emilio Lopez Gamez is a member of the group's national executive committee. The U.S.-based National Family Farm Coalition invited them to visit...

Victor Jara: bullets of song.
Drawing on the long tradition of the guitar-wielding troubadour, Chilean folksinger Victor Jara saw the 'guitar as gun', firing-off 'bullets of song' at oppressive military regimes and in support of popular struggles. Jara would play his songs about the plight of landless peasants and factory workers in shanty towns,...

Helen Barr, Socioliterary Practice in Late Medieval England.
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), vii + 229 pp. ISBN 0-19-811242-4. 32.00 [pounds sterling]. By redefining Middle English literary writings as social discourses, Helen Barr connects a variety of late-medieval texts within a social environment newly energized by working-class ambitions and Wycliffite challenges. The consequences of demographic...